Brian Calderón Tabatabai

The Atlantic today

Wonderful article! Just ordered your book ✊🏽

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.

Someone just called me a believer in "purity tests" because I think the Democrats who just voted to fund the president's unaccountable masked goon squad deserve to be primaried.

If your definition of "purity" is that basic, you're beyond helping

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“That’s fine dude. I’m not mad at you.” #abolishice

Area Family Likes Car So Much They Live In It

Area Family Likes Car So Much They Live In It https://theonion.com/area-family-likes-car-so-much-they-live-in-it-1819568254/

SGVoices for Change stands with Minneapolis. We call for ICE to get the fuck OUT of our communities. NOW. @brianctabatabai.bsky.social @drbri4covina.bsky.social

Our Statement ✊🏽 @sgvoicesforchange.bsky.social

ICE agents are committing some of the most chilling and grotesque crimes in American history and the name of this murderer should be as enduringly reviled as those of serial killers.

This is just the beginning.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

My law firm is representing clients intervening to fight all 22 of DOJ's lawsuits seeking sensitive voter data. So far we've been granted intervention in nine of them:

California
Hawaii
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
New Mexico
New Hampshire
Oregon
Rhode Island

.@PabloReports: What do you make of the White House blaming the police for what happened on January 6th?

Lieu: The White House’s statement is batshit crazy.

Dems should RIGHT NOW be writing and circulating articles of impeachment with a litany of all the crimes he has committed. They should circulate that list, written for a broad public, to every city, state, and local news outlet in communities across the country.

No other time in my life have some of the unknowns of life been revealed so clearly. Folks no longer need to wonder how so many ended up on that side of history. It’s never been more clear. @sgvoicesforchange.bsky.social

Trump says the U.S. took out a 'big facility' in Venezuela amid strikes on alleged drug boats The president did not provide details about the apparent strike, which NBC News has not independently confirmed.

I’m extremely concerned by reports the Trump administration destroyed a facility during a covert action in Venezuela.

If this was done without Gang of Eight oversight, it’s a serious violation of federal law and a dangerous escalation that pushes us closer to war: www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Two weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.

Buy, Borrow, Die
The rich don’t sell assets, they borrow against them.
Loans aren’t income=no tax.
They live on the loan.
Then they die.
Assets get a step-up in basis, gains vanish, the estate pays off the loan with little or no capital-gains tax.

Wages are taxed.
Wealth isn’t.
Tax AssetBasedLoans

Buy, Borrow, Die
The rich don’t sell assets, they borrow against them.
Loans aren’t income=no tax.
They live on the loan.
Then they die.
Assets get a step-up in basis, gains vanish, the estate pays off the loan with little or no capital-gains tax.

Wages are taxed.
Wealth isn’t.
Tax ABLs ✊🏽

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...

Wondering why no one has asked Jacob Savage, why Black men still have an unemployment rate more than twice as high as the Lost Generation of white men 🤷🏽‍♂️

For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.

Before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, @propublica.org @texastribune.org & a team of Venezuelan journalists compiled a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador.

Read their stories here:

projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months

I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

Video: How ‘Turn and Burn’ Immigration Operations Unleash Chaos — and Sweep up U.S. Citizens A video analysis of one early morning raid in Los Angeles revealed the vast web of consequences brought by new aggressive Border Patrol tactics.

A must watch and an indictment on the masked terrorists abducting our neighbors “How ‘Turn and Burn’ Immigration Operations Unleash Chaos — and Sweep up U.S. Citizens” www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Press Release | Democracy Defenders Action Congresswoman Joyce Beatty today sued President Trump and others to stop the unlawful renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of the Congressw...

BREAKING: We are suing Trump & his cronies to restore the Kennedy Center’s lawful name

We @democracydefendersaction.org are proud to represent Kennedy Center Trustee @repbeatty.bsky.social w/ our friends at Washington Litigation Group

Congress named the Kennedy Center & only they can change it

The capture of the media has been swift. In 8 months the administration has nearly taken over our entire media ecosystem. Folks do not understand how much worse it can get.