Jesse Eisinger

We have reached peak Douthat, folks.

THIS.

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

The key to understanding Trump is that he’s the Penny Stock President.

You always need to be changing the story.

Trump might start a war with Iran. Can anyone stop him? Trump might start a war with Iran. Can anyone stop him? Congress, public opinion, and administration insiders aren’t reliable constraints on Trump’s foreign policy decisions.

Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/

Free your mind and your arsenal will follow

This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟

This should be a front-page scandal.

Ana Kasparian: "Hey, bitch, the goyim are waking the fuck up. Deal with it."

Here's what's happening on Twitter right now.

As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.

Citing my reporting for @propublica.org, 4 House Dems have formally asked the head of the federal prison system to explain how the agency will fix severe staffing shortages affecting safety and operations.

My latest:

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

On the other hand, this could Make Opera Great Again

Judge: IRS broke law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency and federal immigration authorities.

Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

NEW from ProPublica:

Guards at Trump's family detention camp are grabbing kids' writing, artwork, and crayons.

They've even taken one kid's drawing of Bratz dolls.

www.propublica.org/article/dill...

by @mckenziefunk.com and @micarosenberg.bsky.social

My Trade Secrets today. The Trump tariff refunds saga is blackly comic. About 20% of tariffs levied on Chinese exporters are paid directly by those exporters. So they get a refund windfall, having largely passed the tariff costs on to US co.s & consumers. I know, right?

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Today’s order didn’t go far enough.

Judge Porter should have required all of Natanson’s materials seized pursuant to the deceptive warrant application to be returned to her.

And he shouldn't have credited the admin’s claims that any of seized materials posed a natsec threat.

Our full statement:

Undiplomatic US Envoys Are Riling Their Hosts Charles Kushner failed to appear when summoned by the French Foreign Ministry.

All of these vulgar & insulting diplomats should be made persona non grata by their host countries. Especially the criminal Kushner.

Countries should stop pussyfooting around the U.S.

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"Unfair Share," a forthcoming book from Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel, is a popular history of our 250 year fight to tax the rich.

I wish our book were out yesterday:

Almost every deformity of our politics, economy and culture are downstream of this essential problem.

A key element of our great elite impunity problem is that the ultrawealthy avoid taxation, in simple and legal fashion. (Because we have the wrong definition of income in our obsolete tax code.)

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

YouTube video by More Perfect Union Why Bitcoin Could Hit $0

Some thoughts on the most recent crypto crash with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

CBO: Pell Grant Facing $11.5B Shortfall If Congress doesn’t add money to the Federal Student Aid account by Sept. 30, students could face dramatic grant cuts or eligibility restrictions.

Pell Grant Facing $11.5B Shortfall, CBO Says

If Congress doesn’t add money to the Federal Student Aid account by Sept. 30, students could face dramatic grant cuts or eligibility restrictions.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

US ocean regulator faces criticism over changes to right whale protection rule The U.S.’s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing whales.

The U.S.'s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing whales.

Credit: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Brazil's Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, center, winner of an alpine ski, men's giant slalom race, jumps in celebration on the podium flanked by second placed Switzerland's Marco Odermatt, left, and third placed Switzerland's Loic Meillard, at the 2026 Winter Olympics.(AP)

What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

Denmark scores unreal, must-see goal from mid-ice against USA hockey | Sporting News Canada I've never seen a goal like this in my life.

This is so absurd I have to think it’s divine vengeance for the Greenland stuff www.sportingnews.com/ca/olympics/...

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

Widespread Errors: An expanded federal tool for identifying noncitizens on voter rolls is making persistent mistakes, particularly in assessing citizenship for people born outside the U.S. by @jenafifield.bsky.social @zachdespart.bsky.social w/ @texastribune.org

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time