Because Americans don’t like and respect each other enough to vote for policies that improve things for *everyone*

They’re willing to suffer if the people they hate suffer more

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

God bless Mayor Pete

Things My Mother Couldn’t Teach Me When I was fourteen months old, I spoke my first words.

rebalancetheworld.substack.com/p/things-my-...

Image of young boy holding a woman’s hand

40% of us are walking around with insecure attachment, and it shows — in our politics, our online behavior, and the midlife crises of people we thought we knew

New piece up on how attachment theory explains our cultural moment, and why Marc Andreessen is wrong

A quote card by Scott Galloway that says: "Americans are fed up, not just with the depravity of some people in the Epstein class, but also with the massive wealth they continue to accumulate while the working class struggles."

We don’t need a revolution,,, We need a functioning IRS, capital gains taxed as income, and the death of the carried-interest loophole. bit.ly/4blFkfo

She’s such a ghoul

When Netanyahu wants you to vote for a specific candidate- you vote for the other

So, ya should've voted for Harris

And if ya didn't

Fuck you.

Tell Congress: Demand AG Bondi release ALL of the Epstein files now Contact Congress today!

The Epstein cover-up is starting to crack, but Pam Bondi is still stonewalling. This is the biggest scandal in modern history, and it's being buried.

Congress: Do your job. Demand the full release NOW.

Who's with us? Tell your reps:

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

Warnock: "Jesus is a victim of identity theft in American politics and culture"

Hint: by “right voters,” she’s not referring to you

Excising the Cancer in Our Institutions We need to start thinking about how we are going to separate the sheep from the wolves in sheep's clothing.

Some thoughts on what de-magafication of our institutions might look like when this nightmare is over (free post) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

"MAGAts have mouths full of Scripture and hearts full of hate!"

- Minnesota resident protesting ICE

These two are the same age... 👇

Ah. Pobrecito

The Trump Bubble Is Impregnable for Now—but Boy, Is It Going to Burst The president is on a collision course with an accountability moment. Either he or our democracy will prevail.

"Trump has created for himself a world in which he never hears a negative word about himself...he thinks himself answerable only to those who...think he can do no wrong...the rest of the country...doesn’t exist."

Great @mjtoma.bsky.social read of the moment:
newrepublic.com/article/2063...

The strangest part of the whole Super Bowl halftime kerfuffle is that it’s an awesome party *everyone* is invited to

MAGA put themselves alone on their sad little island

This doesn’t seem like great PR

Today Fulton County, Tomorrow??? On Wednesday, the FBI executed a search warrant on the Fulton County, Georgia, Elections Operation Center.

The Fulton County search warrant & its implications for the 2026 & future elections is critically important news & not getting the coverage it merits. Read my most recent piece to get the download & understand why this is such a significant development. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Little Liam Ramos stood facing an ICE vehicle with his cartoon blue wooly hat. A state-sponsored terrorist ICE agent is holding him by his rucksack.

A reminder that Liam Ramos, the son of legal residents in Minnesota, is still being held in a Texas prison.

A five year old little boy - and America’s global reputation - now scarred for life.

(📸 Ali Daniel’s/AP)

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

God help us all if this is true

This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this.

Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.

I appreciate those out there protesting at great risk to their lives however i think the nation needs to grind this economy to a dead stop.
It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities.
I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.

Exactly. My family only watches Fox News, and think everything is hunky dory

@timmiller.bsky.social @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social — I asked Prof G for his take and he ignored it. One of you have a take?

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

@profgalloway.com Given Trump’s assaults on various fronts (dismantling DOJ independence, gutting renewable energy & funding for cancer research, messing with Fed independence), I’d love to hear your pessimist/baseline/optimist take on how long it might take to repair some of these harms