Lisa

So. . . are people just gonna roll over again, or. . . ?

Chicago, the tough Midwest city that famously puts up with bullshit and enjoys people coming from elsewhere to tell us what to do.

MIT’s huge loss…and an example of the long-term damage Trump et al. have already done to US intellectual life.

This is a terrible sign. We’re losing not just individual excellence but reserves of research virtuosity across disciplines.

Trump & the GOP: making the US dumber, weaker, & poorer.

Lol, maybe next year buddy

We Keep Us Safe: On Antifa This past Saturday, Donald Trump announced that his administration would be deploying federal troops to Portland, OR, authorizing the military to use “full...

in case you want some non bullshit about antifa here is something i wrote

buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Trump ICE Raids Take Unnerving Turn as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning With Trump’s occupation of Chicago worsening, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker shares new details about what’s happening—and tells us the time is now for Americans to rise up against authoritarianism bef...

Appalling: JB Pritzker tells me he hasn't been able to get a single conversation with Kristi Noem or any other top Trump officials to even discuss their Chicago operations. Pritzker just wants a heads up for logistical purposes. Nada.

Pritzker opens up on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

the comparative dearth of reporting on NSPM-7 is in part, speaking generously, due I think to how a lot of elite media looks at it like a rant. They are accustomed to things like that being serious legal documents for them to have impact, and in a saner environment, that would be the case. But…

Trump, a vocal war crimes enthusiast for more than a decade, is mad he didn’t get the nobel so his aides are gonna spend all day humiliating themselves in competition over who can kiss his ass better

You actually don’t have to hand it to Donald Trump. You don’t have to give him credit for anything. He’s a horrible human being who has never known a day of suffering in his life. Nor does he care an ounce about the suffering of anybody else. Hope that helps.

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

This is really useful if you want to understand how trumped up the charges against Tish James are

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

Everybody who pushed Democrats to be more aggressive after the insurrection was right. Listen to them next time (if there is a next time).

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

The thing that most people don't realize is that the deportation machine was already operating at capacity. No one, ever, was just allowing millions of undocumented immigrants into the country willy-nilly. That was mythology. The process to get legal status in this country is already a very high bar

They want to create the (false) perception that autism is preventable and curable, because that allows them to: 1) cut accommodations, services, and support for autistic kids and their families, and 2) blame mothers for autism in ways that make (1) seem justified.

bsky.app/profile/jess...

Trump’s Orwellian Militarization of American Cities By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan By the end of “1984,” Winston is brutalized into accepting the lies. This need not be our fate. Trump’s attempt to send troops into American cities can and must be resi...

The Trump administration is aggressively attempting to use every legal artifice it can to exert authoritarian control.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

Thread: I might add that this fits within the intergroup conflict narrative (Us vs. Them) this administration pushes for just about everything, as well. Making unauthorized migrants as the "scary other" helps cover a lot of the things this administration is doing.

This is called policy-based evidence making (the antipode of evidence-based policymaking, a thing we should all want)

FAA reports staffing issues at airports as government shutdown continues No air traffic controllers were expected at the tower at Hollywood Burbank Airport in the Los Angeles area, and the Denver and Newark airports were experiencing delays due to shortages.

Air traffic controllers and TSA workers are being asked to go to work without guaranteed pay.

Meanwhile, President Trump and Republicans are failing to do their jobs and wasting time by refusing to negotiate with Democrats to protect health care and reopen the government.

Ah, it's a new frontier in Republican lawfare: buying off noisome plaintiffs. :

Trump Admin Acted on 80 Percent of Industry’s Regulatory Requests in 8 Months Researchers and watchdog groups say the level of industry influence in this administration is unprecedented.

US manufacturers who asked the incoming Trump administration for a “regulatory reset” have seen roughly 80% of their specific requests acted on in just the first eight months of Trump taking office. The industry asks included loosening air pollution regulations and pausing rulemaking around PFAS.

To be clear, they will 'make the proof' that Tylenol causes autism by controlling who does the studies and who reports the results.

They have built a mechanism to 'make the proof' for whatever they want so say. About protestors, about elections, about immigrants.

We have to keep speaking truth.

Both? I think? (They're making crap up so fast it's impossible to keep up.)

Colombia's president says boat struck by US was carrying Colombians The White House calls the allegation "baseless" as the US Senate rejected a measure to bar Trump from using force against the boats.

By having the power to constrain Donald Trump's violations of international law and his murder of civilians, and by failing to exercise that power, 51 US senators are now complicit in the administration's perpetration of war crimes.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just two things I’m posting together…