The first time I noticed it was last month, when he asked for a hug. “I could use a HUGE MAGA hug!” he wrote. “I love you. Do you STILL love me?” The love note was adorned with little hearts—and a request that I send money.
I didn’t respond. Two hours later, another email. “Did you block me?”
The great thing about the @postopinions.bsky.social new "free market" outlook is that there are so many "free market" think tanks out there ready to give them Astroturf content, probably for free! wapo.st/4bNCVw6
13.02.2026 15:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Another hero in Minneapolis—this US postal worker.
"They’re shooting tear gas...And I’m like: “Yeah, I know, but I gotta keep doing my job. I may have medicine. I don’t know what I have in my packages.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“As of Wednesday, 42,264 [DC] residents had already filed their local tax returns.”
12.02.2026 22:37 — 👍 25 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
Excellent critique by Brian Beutler
Be "a bit more resilient to subversion by returning to a first principle: that the purpose of journalism as a vocation isn’t to produce reportage that appeals to every sliver of the political spectrum. It’s to best inform the citizens who wish to be informed."
She probably has a future in the Trump administration
11.02.2026 21:40 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Today is a great day to review the Phylogeny of all the Birds of the World!
birdsoftheworld.org/bow/phylogeny
A Day, and a Nation, at the Kennedy Center (and cameos from my friends "Robert" and "Rachel"!) open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
11.02.2026 21:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It is Wednesday, February 11. The Super Bowl was three days ago. The sun will die in approximately five billion years. Death comes inexorably for us all. And large portions of MAGA and the Trump administration are still talking about Bad Bunny's halftime show: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
11.02.2026 20:33 — 👍 299 🔁 41 💬 15 📌 4The WH sidelined America250, the congressionally-formed group charged with organizing a bipartisan celebration of the country's anniversary, in favor of Trump's sketchy Freedom250, as we detailed recently. And AP reports here that the admin is starving America250 of $. wtop.com/animals-pets...
11.02.2026 17:50 — 👍 49 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 3
Somehow, in the attention to Howard Lutnick's lies about Epstein and his general toadying, attention has drifted away from his buying a house in DC for $25 million. In cash. From ... Brett Baier of Trump state media, aka Fox.
(We walk past its gates frequently)
washingtonian.com/2024/12/20/b...
"What is the healthiest color of playdoh" is an excellent question.
10.02.2026 23:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Olsen lobbied DOJ to file lawsuit attempting to overturn 2020 election with Supreme Court & was later sanctioned by federal judge for making “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” when Kari Lake challenged election results in AZ in 2022
10.02.2026 20:31 — 👍 58 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 0
I spent some time in Southwest Virginia, talking to people in a county that gave Trump his biggest primary victory in 2016 but which is now getting crushed by his 2nd administration. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
08.02.2026 01:56 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 2
New from me and @ariberman.bsky.social:
Trump wants control “over the voting in at least 15 places.” There's actually a mechanism for him to get that control in Fulton County, Georgia. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years. @erikwemple.bsky.social on one of the Post's true gems. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
05.02.2026 17:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How to get away with anything: Trump's sordid year of pardons www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
04.02.2026 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
How to get away with anything: Trump's sordid year of pardons www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
04.02.2026 15:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bad Bunny, billionaires, and the business of sports www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
04.02.2026 15:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Inside Donald Trump's crypto-fueled war on America history www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
03.02.2026 21:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0CNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: “the Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."
02.02.2026 19:45 — 👍 5705 🔁 1588 💬 232 📌 258
ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers
ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers https://theonion.com/ice-opens-new-supermax-detention-center-for-most-harden-1827838332/
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For the Sake of Our Money, Scott Bessent Needs to Shut Up newrepublic.com/article/2057... via @newrepublic.com
30.01.2026 17:37 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The Washington Post is reportedly going to lay off most of its brave international reporters, some who've risked their lives to tell important stories. But the now-rightwing opinion section apparently has plenty of money to hire another social media editor to polish up its tweets.
30.01.2026 16:30 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Washington Post Plans Cuts to Reshape Newsroom www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/b...
30.01.2026 16:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If you want to know more about this guy, who at least did not kill any puppies: www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
30.01.2026 16:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Former NuSkin flack and BYU kicker in the running to replace Noem? utahpolitics.news/former-utah-...
30.01.2026 16:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 3
ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
30.01.2026 14:49 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The Washington Post’s suicide-by-1,000-cuts business plan is going swimmingly. defector.com/jeff-bezos-i...
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