Layoffs just hit their highest start-of-year total since January 2009 — the height of the Great Recession — according to data tracking firm Challenger.
Meanwhile, CEO pay and corporate profits continue to hit record highs.
Does anyone still believe that trickle-down tax cuts create jobs?
Do they all get deported now? Is that how this works?
Here is the link for all of the Epstein files released today from the Justice Department. tRump is mentioned at least 5,034 times. This is the reason tRump is spiraling out of control quicker than usual.
www.justice.gov/epstein
Trump WANTS violence. He always has. He doesn’t care that Alex Pretti & Renee Good were killed. In fact, he’s glad they were. Because he thinks those killings will incite the American people to get violent. And that’s what he wants. And btw, yes, Trump is evil. Watch.👇 youtube.com/shorts/rAgMV...
The arrest of Don Lemon is textbook fascism—a brazen attempt to silence reporting on a criminal regime. Stand up for Don, because our rights stand and fall with those of courageous journalists throughout this country.
Summer Boismier, a high school English teacher in Oklahoma, lost her teaching license after she protested a book ban. Now she is fighting to return to the classroom. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
Nick Shirley and others like him are reminiscent of yellow journalism of the 19th century, updated and turbocharged by social media algorithms.
Read more: www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today:
Active Voting Rights Cases: 163
Active Redistricting Cases: 46
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 87
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 72
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 25
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This new file released appears to show Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick discussing visiting Epstein's island in 2012.
Lutnick previously claimed that he cut off ties around 2005 with Epstein after being revolted by him.
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"The largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in the US are expecting an epic payout this year: for every $1 that they donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private companies stand to reap more than $11,000 in increased annual revenue."
Trump turned his power into a racial crusade a long time ago. Calling that out isn’t stirring division. This is telling the truth.
Anderson Cooper played side-by-side video of Noem and Bovino smearing the victim of Saturday's shooting, then said, "If either of these public officials had an ounce of decency, they would call up Alex Pretti's parents and apologize."
Does this mean Texas gets invaded now? Or is that only after intrepid reporter Nick Shirley gets a scoop?
www.fox4news.com/news/48-texa...
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Monday that Mark Carney was "very aggressively walking back" some of the remarks to Trump—
Carney said on Tuesday: “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president — I meant what I said in Davos"
"I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend."
Read more from @kristenradtke.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
In the middle of a Depression he would be saying how great everything is and how much we should thank him.
Nine DAs are coalescing to work on prosecuting federal agents for 'overreach':
—L. Krasner in Philly
—J. Creuzot in Dallas
—M. Moriarty in Minneapolis
—L. Conover in Tucson
—S. Descano in Fairfax (VA)
—R. Fatehi in Norfolk (VA)
—S. Morales in Portsmouth (VA)
—P. Dehghani-Tafti in Arlington (VA)
Chief Justice John Roberts turns 71 today.
Two decades ago, I warned the Senate that confirming Roberts to the Supreme Court would be a disaster for working people.
I'm sad to say I was proven right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir5kmPdRJLw
Abolish. ice. 💔
Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.
“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
Watch, learn and share.
If this doesn’t tug at your heart, make you well up with sadness, you are not human.
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
The cruelty is the point.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
McGovern: Well, he said a lot of crazy shit today. I think it’s time to take the keys away from grandpa. He doesn’t seem like he’s all there.
“My precious…”
