I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

January 20, 2026 World leaders are gathered at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which is taking place from January 19 to January 23.

January 20, 2026

Black background with turquoise text that reads: “Reminder: Teach Indigenous brilliance and success as much as you teach Indigenous suffering and trauma.”

Our stories aren’t only about survival, they’re about brilliance, innovation, and strength that’s lasted for millennia.

Teach the pain, yes, but teach the power too.

We are more than what was done to us. We are still here.
✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻

I was briefed on the intelligence last week.

Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

Take note.

It should stop calling itself the paper of record.

This.
A fine kind of test.

Millions marched yesterday.

How are your news sources reporting on it? (ARE they reporting on it?)

How are they reporting on DJT’s parade?

no kings rally all the way out in emmonak!

ha, his sign says “ice is good for fish… not people”

I agree. I went to look at the front page out of curiosity. Eeeewww.

We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously

But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state

Keep that same energy of support for her

With DOGE embedded across agencies, the government has access to any information you’ve shared. Support one another. Stand with your community. That’s what America was truly founded on.

We’re deeply disappointed in much of the U.S. media. Grateful, however, to international journalists who are telling the truth.

Trump is trying to sell his domestic policy bill with lies. Let’s break them down.

Trump said, “We’re not doing any cutting of anything meaningful. The only thing we’re cutting is waste, fraud and abuse.” False.

NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”

Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

Writing to your local newspaper gets their attention. Two dozen folks wrote to @columbian.com asking why they didn't cover the Hands Off protest. Here is their answer, which includes the economic realities of being an independent, local newspaper. www.facebook.com/share/18GfVc...

Politics Chat, April 8, 2025 YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

As I get ready for a new week, I'm listening to wise/fact checked folks on how I can best make what I'm for heard. @hcrichardson.bsky.social's politics chat was an excellent way to clear my head. I'm going to continue to share what I'm for in social media.
www.youtube.com/live/SFLjHDA...

Measles in the US, update
—712 cases, 11% hospitalized, 3 deaths, 97% cases are unvaccinated
—Now in 24 states
—Actual cases must be multiple thousand to align with the number of hospitalizations and deaths reported
www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
www.cbsnews.com/news/measles...

The nasal microbiome influences the risk of a Covid infection
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Thanks for sharing this.

An interesting thing about coups that I remember @naunihal.bsky.social telling me years ago:

Coup plotters never say “we are taking control of the government”.

They say “we are ALREADY IN CONTROL of the government”.

It’s a crucial lie.

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hello! just putting this here. please share in your signal groups and slacks.

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I highly recommend signing up for this series. Today's talk by Christianna Figures was rich and actionable.

Hi!

What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has an answer Modelling study based on almost 250,000 positive COVID-19 tests in the United Kingdom shows that universal masking could have cut transmission markedly.

What would have happened if everyone in the United Kingdom had worn high-grade masks during the COVID-19 pandemic? A modelling study1 has estimated just how sharply transmission might have dropped. Determining the effect of masks on viral transmission is difficult, and most studies so far have been affected by limitations such as small sample sizes. To overcome this issue, Richard Sear at the University of Surrey, UK, developed a model of transmission using data from the UK National Health Service COVID-19 app. The app, which ran on mobile phones between 2020 and 2023, logged information about infections and the length of time users came into contact with each other. Sear built on a previously published analysis2 of 240,000 positive COVID-19 tests and 7 million contacts — instances in which app users were notified that they had been exposed to the virus. He estimated that if everyone in the United Kingdom had worn N95 or FFP2 masks — both highly effective at filtering particles — the rate of COVID-19 transmission would have dropped by a factor of 9.

New modeling study finds that if everyone in the United Kingdom had worn N95 or FFP2 masks from the start of the pandemic, the rate of COVID-19 transmission would have been 9 times lower.

Re-reposting @scottehensley.bsky.social post, since this is the same mutation identified in the recent paper in Science from my colleagues at @scripps.edu.

As always, nature gets there first. The more chances we give the virus, the more chances it'll hit goal...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It is bad news. But good to get the data circulating.