Jane Mayer

I recommend Minnesota Public Radio live. I’m learning a lot I’m not getting elsewhere.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

Jack Smith: "Donald Trump was not looking for honest answers about whether there was fraud in the election. He was looking for ways to stay in power. And when people told him things that conflicted with him staying in power, he rejected them."

The elites and institutions have folded but regular people haven’t

Thank you!

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.

Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

Have you listened to the podcast?

Opinion | One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.

ICYMI: One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

Justice Department weighs rollback of gun regulations The Justice Department is considering loosening a slate of gun regulations as it seeks to bolster support from ardent Second Amendment advocates.

👀https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/19/trump-justice-department-gun-regulations-atf/

incredible stuff

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/w...

YouTube video by MarcGlenRock Promised Land - for Renee Good, Bruce Springsteen, Light of Day, 1/17/26, Count Basie Theater

Springsteen nails it, as usual
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kozx...

Bruce Springsteen Dedicates ‘Promised Land’ to Renee Good, Decries ‘Gestapo Tactics’ Leading to Citizens Being ‘Murdered’: ‘ICE Should Get the F— Out of Minneapolis’ Bruce Springsteen dedicated 'The Promised Land' to Renee Good, decried 'Gestapo tactics' and said 'ICE should get the f--- out of Minneapolis.'

In an unbilled performance Saturday night at the Light of Day festival in New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen took solemn time out during an otherwise celebratory 75-minute set to dedicate “The Promised Land” to the memory of slain Minneapolis woman Renee Good,

Please listen to the podcast - the guest’s point is that Trump has shown no willingness to yield power. Just the opposite.

Opinion | Trump Unmasked

Fascinating: Experts on megalomania describe serious pathology, even dopamine driven addiction: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...

Opinion | Local Newspapers Are Closing. Local News Is Surviving.

Local Newspapers Are Closing. Local (nonprofit) News Is Surviving. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

Ron Brownstein’s been suggesting a general strike. Sounds similar?

I thought his point that people should act as they do when their property taxes are raised -eg raise hell- was useful in saying it’s not mysterious: act up! But of course that’s a simplification.

Great to hear from you- please add more re. Concrete steps.

Supposedly about clueless reporters who know something is happening here, but they don’t know what it is…

A Stark Warning About the 2026 Election, with Robert Kagan Can American democracy come back from the brink?

Sorry to say, the 2026 election may not happen, our guest warns: www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

Marty- belated congratulations on your front page New York Times fame. Well-deserved!

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane

This just shows how absurd the whole "armed conflict" framing is. The men on the boats weren't members of an organized armed force, and therefore the question of "perfidy" is inapposite. The problem is that they were civilians who were murdered.

@justsecurity.org

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.

If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

Corporate and foreign interests that used to rely primarily on paid lobbyists to pitch their case to lawmakers and administration officials are instead pouring money into trying to get their cause promoted by a group of influencers known to be close to Trump’s staff.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

Is Donald Trump Creating the Conditions for Another World War? “What you’re seeing both abroad and at home are completely optional conflicts created by the character of the President,” Jane Mayer says.

I can't remember the last time that a political conversation hit me harder than this week's roundtable on Venezuela, Minneapolis, and the blaring alarms of history. With my amazing colleagues @janemayer.bsky.social and @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

Thank you. And Nobody is a Nobody.

Sen. Van Hollen: "It's my view that the Trump administration has been lying to the American people. This has never been about stopping drugs…This from the beginning has been about getting rid of Maduro, grabbing Venezuela's oil for American oil companies and Trump's billionaire buddies."