Hey, Yang — Where’s My $1,000? February 10, 2026February 14, 2026 OPRT This strikes me as very good news. Continued steady progress. They’re using the cash they generate to pay down debt — which should leave them more cash quarter after quarter. It’s not hard to make the case that OPRT ($5.50 as I type) could triple over the next year . . . and keep growing from there. If I didn’t already have so much, I’d buy more . . . though only with money I can truly afford to lose. “TRUMP-RX HAS A FUNDAMENTAL FLAW” Whom does TrumpRx actually benefit? (Hint: Big Pharma.) MARK CUBAN’S COST PLUS DRUGS . . . . . . has no fundamental flaw. I am a sensationally happy long-time customer. ANDREW YANG HAS A FEW IDEAS OF HIS OWN Not surprisingly, as I learned listening to his latest book . . . Hey Yang, Where’s My Thousand Bucks? . . . he and Cuban are pals. The ideas Andrew first explored in The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future — published in 2018 — grow more relevant with each passing year. (You can skim the first two-thirds about how technology will do away with most jobs. It’s the third-third, about how to turn those lemons into lemonade, that spark the imagination.) We’re going to have a slew of great candidates in 2028. Cuban and Yang would both add excitement to the field. UNRELATED BONUS The algorithm served this up out of the blue — Street Kid Playing Dylan’s Song with Broken Guitar—Dylan Stopped Walking and Did THIS — and I found myself watching all 16 minutes.
The Epstein Class That’s Running Our Country February 10, 2026 But first . . . IS ICE AN AGGRESSIVE IMMIGRATION AGENCY OR A PARAMILITARY FORCE? Two and a half minutes from The Economist. Recruiting neo-Nazis with $50,000 signing bonuses, incentive pay for captures — and impunity. Why are we invading our own cities and massively disturbing their peace and tranquility? To save their pets from being eaten? Show me one Minneapolis pet owner who supports this federal invasion. Watch the Economist interview. AMAZING NEWS OUT OF MISSISSIPPI Nick Kristoff: What We Can Learn From Southern Red States About Education Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana — who woulda thunk it. This strikes me as a big deal that everyone on both sides of the aisle should be aware of and act on. It’s not just that Democrats are skeptical that there’s anything significant to learn from red states. It’s also that Republican leaders themselves seem strangely indifferent. Indeed, instead of trumpeting the gains in three red states and doubling down on successful policies, Republicans even in these states are pushing hard for more vouchers (which have a mixed record at best) so that children can flee the improving public school systems — thus threatening the very progress they should be proud of. Rather than trying to scale Mississippi’s gains, national Republicans have an education agenda that focuses on trans children and school bathrooms, demolition of the federal Department of Education and erasure of ugly bits of history. There are many culture war arguments about what books are in the school library, but not enough talk about how to help children read what’s on the shelf. . . . We liberals need to wake up to the reality that we are being outperformed on education, opportunity and racial equity — supposedly our issues. As recently as 2019, blue states had better average test scores than red states, after adjusting for demographics; now, red states are mostly ahead. We used to say that education was the civil rights issue of the 21st century, and if so, we should be ashamed that by that metric, Mississippi Republicans are ahead of California Democrats. If we care about kids, we must be relentlessly empirical, and that must mean a willingness to learn from red states. Kane said something you don’t expect to hear from a Harvard professor: “I hope that there are lots of governors that are looking at Mississippi and saying, ‘Look, I want us to be next.’” Worth reading in full. And now . . . AMAZING SPEECH OUT OF GEORGIA You’ve likely heard about Senator Jon Ossoff’s speech. Take a two-minute taste . . . or in case you have time, watch the whole thing, in which he decries “the Epstein class” that is running our country. BONUS Ricky Gervais on racist pedophiles (three minutes). He names no names. If he had any in mind, they have been redacted.
Four Simple Words February 9, 2026 “THE RULE OF LAW” It’s different from “law and order.” Everyone’s for that — the notion that we should feel safe. Indeed, they have that in Putin’s Russia and any other dictatorship you can name. The rule of law is different. It’s not that most people have to obey the law. It’s that everyone has to obey the law. No one is above the law. Europe has that. The U.K., Australia, Japan, Costa Rica and others have it. We had it until this year. November is about getting it back. HOW WE’RE DOING We are climbing on the “Autocracy Index.” TAKE HEART! Democrat wins Louisiana state House special seat Saturday by 24 points in a district Trump won by 13 — a swing of 37. If we all lean in, we will win the House and Senate and pull democracy back from the brink. “STRONG FLOOR, NO CEILING” Another four words. They’re catching on. Polling in Michigan and Georgia shows a majority of voters like them. If I had to sum up in a single word what Democrats stand for, it would be: fairness. There are so many things most Americans would agree are unfair — everything from giving billionaires a tax break while taking food from the poor . . . to disparaging whole classes of people as “scum” and “vermin” . . . to shooting a VA nurse ten times in the back. But given four words: Strong Floor, No Ceiling. A strong social safety net (especially for innocent children); unlimited opportunity (paired with a fair tax code). For more, click here. And/or read the book. This cartoon made the front page of Le Monde: Have a great week.
Handing the Mic to David Corn February 8, 2026February 7, 2026 But first . . . The DNC has just launched Local Listeners, a program to engage infrequent voters — who voted in 2020 but not 2024 — in key battleground districts early in the cycle using a listening-first approach. The goal is to contact more than a million in Q1. Already, more than 2,000 volunteers have signed up to participate and 500+ joined the first session in January. Become a Local Listener! Sign up for the Volunteer Training Series HERE. And just for fun . . . Prescient Little Marco (90 seconds). Never gets old. And now . . . David Corn: When I traveled in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, I was struck by how many Russians blithely accepted that they were living in a truthless society in which propaganda was oxygen. But after decades of Five-Year Plans and a never-ending stream of glorious-revolution bullshit, it was hard to blame them. A saying that’s been attributed to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn—which he likely never uttered or wrote—captured this attitude: << We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying. >> I wonder if the United States is slipping into such a fog. The Donald Trump regime, of course, is predicated on lies. His 2024 campaign was a crusade of disinformation. Haitian immigrants are eating cats and dogs; criminal immigrant gangs have taken over entire cities; public schools were performing gender affirmation procedures; Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were purposefully allowing fentanyl to be smuggled into the United States. And Trump, as you might recall, was clocked by the Washington Post during his first term as spewing more than 30,000 falsehoods and lies. It’s no news flash that he’s prevaricating non-stop. But what’s most worrisome is how brazen he and the fellow fibbers in his gang are—as if there were absolutely no concern about being caught or found out. And not just regarding lying. They’re also brazen when it comes to racism, abuse of power, and corruption. In the quaint days before Trump, lying presidents and lying elected officials tried to make it seem they were not lying. Corrupt presidents and corrupt elected officials tried to make it seem they were not corrupt. With Trump and his banditos, there are no such games of pretend. It leads to a disturbing dynamic, in which Trump and his lieutenants display their atrociousness to such an extent that it can lead to inurement. We know their actions are outrageous, they know their actions are outrageous, we know they know, they know we know they know—and this circle swallows itself. Nothing changes. Trump denies he’s vengefully weaponizing the Justice Department to take down his enemies. Yet we see this clearly happening in multiple instances, with the prosecutions of James Comey, Letitia James, and Adam Schiff and the criminal investigations of others, including former special counsel Jack Smith and former CIA director John Brennan. These cases have been mounted over the objections of professional prosecutors and handled by political hacks—a true sign they are flagrant abuses of power. Yet Trump and his lackeys insist this is merely the Justice Department doing its job by the book. There has never been a more obvious perversion of the DOJ. They know we know. Trump denies he’s a racist. Yet he has a long history of racist statements and acts. I don’t need to run though all that again. But a few days ago, when he was on Dan Bongino’s podcast—to which the former FBI deputy director has returned to resume his conspiracy-mongering career—Trump said, “Minnesota is a mess. There’s something in the water up there…I won the three times but I got no credit for it…It’s a rigged state. Really rigged badly with the Somalians, and the Somalians and the theft…These are people that don’t work…We gotta get ’em out, most of them. And it’s most of them. Ninety-two percent don’t work…Many of them drive Mercedes-Benzes.” In December, he exclaimed, Somalis “are garbage” and “contribute nothing. I don’t want ’em in our country…We don’t want ’em in our country…Let ’em go back to where they came from.” Pure, unadulterated racism. On Thursday night, Trump put up on his money-losing social media site a meme depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes—which was later removed, though the White House defended it. And the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Labor have been routinely posting memes and messages that promote images and slogans used by white supremacists. In modern times there has never been such undisguised and explicit racism purposefully propagated by an administration. They know we know. Trump engages in the most overt corruption. His wife accepted a $40 million payment from billionaire Jeff Bezos and Amazon for a mediocre (at best) film—a way-above-market-value licensing fee—while Bezos and Amazon have multiple interests before the government that Trump controls. (Amazon Web Services depend on billions of dollars in contract with the NSA, the CIA, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the Pentagon.) It was recently revealed that an investment firm tied to the government of the United Arab Emirates invested $500 million in Trump’s crypto company and pocketed a 49 percent stake in the firm. This is just one sleazy deal of many within Trump’s wonderful world of graft and grift. (To get a fuller picture of Trump’s supersize swamp, check out this graphic.) Out in the open, Trump has turned the presidency into a cash-generating business for him, his family, and his cronies, creating a mess of conflicts of interests that previously would never have been tolerated. They know we know. And back to the lies—just the recent ones. Acquiring Greenland is a “national emergency.” The economic numbers are “spectacular” and “inflation has stopped.” Vladimir Putin wants a peace deal. Housing costs “are way down.” ICE is mainly rounding up criminals. Trump has ended eight wars. The 2020 election was “rigged.” The January 6 rioters were “patriotic” Americans entrapped by the FBI. Renée Good was a domestic terrorist. Alex Pretti was an “assassin.” All bullshit. They know we know. In fact, the Trump mob, so used to skating by, figured it could say whatever it wanted about Good and Pretti to vilify them and justify their murders by out-of-control federal agents. Yet, finally, there was a burst of blowback, with popular opposition to the smearing of American citizens killed by Trump’s secret police force. The revulsion triggered by the efforts to demonize Pretti and Good showed that Trump’s factotums—Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance—could not pull off over-the-top, Trump-style lying as well as the grandmaster, but it has not caused Trump and his crew to ratchet back on the prevaricating. And they’re sticking with the audacity of awfulness. The racism, abuses of power, corruption, and lies are not ebbing. Trump has learned the lesson that while one outrage may stand out and cause political trouble, a flood of outrages can be numbing. Excess has always been the key to Trump’s success, and that includes excessive wrongdoing, from the petty (placing his name on the Kennedy Center) to the grand (pocketing billions in shady deals). The question is whether his tsunami of transgressions will continue to spur shrugs among many Americans or come to trigger more widespread disgust. Trump and his band of racists, profiteers, scoundrels, and flunkies seem high on their shamelessness. They defiantly flaunt their brazenness. They revel in their exploitation of power and their embrace of violence, dishonesty, intimidation, and brutality. Look what we can get away with. This has always been a favorite fix for Trump: conning the suckers. In despotic and corrupt societies, rulers and their favored elites rely upon popular acquiescence and apathy—people becoming accustomed to all the lies and corruption. Trump and his stooges are counting on the same occurring in the United States so they can turn this nation into an authoritarian kleptocracy. They know that’s the plan. Do we? Join Indivisible! Support the opposition! Become a “local listener!” Enjoy Bad Bunny!
Take Heart – 3 February 6, 2026 We have a real shot in Texas (11 minutes). The Houston Chronicle has endorsed James Talarico, writing in part: . . . at a time when the American people have learned that the president and the wealthiest man in the world were palling around with Jeffrey Epstein, we could use a friendly lecture on morality. No one delivers that friendly lecture better than Talarico. Here he is this week on The View (9 minutes). But he is hardly alone. Pastor Cody Deese: The same people who taught me integrity and honor now cheer what they once condemned (2 minutes) — so worth sharing with Republican friends. The tide is turning.
Another Reason He’s Skipping The Super Bowl February 5, 2026 BEZOS I don’t much care about the Washington Post sports or metro sections. Neither is a national trust. But sapping the strength of its national and international news desks? That just sucks. And why would Bezos do it? As Peter Baker noted: Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5 BILLIONS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acknowledged that if Trump won his lawsuit against the IRS, $10 billion would be transferred from the pockets of American taxpayers straight into his. He’s fine with that. Americans struggle to make ends meet while the Trump family has raked in an estimated $2.25 billion since his re-election. Not counting the crypto stuff. NAME CHANGE Bill D.: “Let’s stop calling them the #EpsteinFiles and start calling them the #PedoFiles.” → Yes! The PedoFiles — in which Trump’s name appears more than 38,000 times. Plus whatever may have been redacted or withheld. COLBERT Wednesday’s monologue killed. If you can’t spare the full 12 minutes, start here as he and Pope Leo take on House Speaker Mike Johnson and put “Romans 13” into historical context. ANOTHER REASON HE’S NOT GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL From StarLife Documented Donald Trump basically destroyed an entire football league because he was desperate to get into the NFL’s exclusive club. In September 1983, when Trump was 37 years old, he bought the New Jersey Generals of the brand new United States Football League for a few million bucks after the team’s original owner from Oklahoma got tired of flying back and forth to New York every week. The USFL was designed to play spring football to avoid competing with the NFL, and honestly it was working pretty well with decent TV ratings and growing enthusiasm after its first season. But Trump immediately started pushing his fellow owners to move the entire league’s season to the fall so they’d go head to head against the NFL, famously saying if God wanted football in the spring he wouldn’t have created baseball. Trump’s real plan wasn’t to build a successful spring league, it was to force the NFL to merge with the USFL so he could finally own an NFL franchise, something he’d been trying to do for years but kept getting rejected. He convinced the other owners to file a massive 1.7 billion dollar antitrust lawsuit against the NFL in 1984, claiming the NFL had monopolized television contracts and blocked competition. The trial happened in 1986 and Trump testified personally, but the NFL’s lawyers were brilliant because they made the whole case about Trump instead of monopoly issues, painting him as an arrogant real estate developer who just wanted to bully his way into their club. The jury actually agreed the NFL was technically a monopoly, but then awarded the USFL exactly one dollar in damages, which got tripled to three bucks under antitrust laws. The USFL collapsed immediately after that verdict and never played another game, with Trump’s push for fall football and his disastrous lawsuit widely blamed for killing the whole thing. One juror later said Trump was extremely arrogant and obviously just trying to play a game to get an NFL franchise, and she didn’t believe anything he said on the witness stand. The league ended up $160 million in debt, and hundreds of players and employees lost their jobs because Trump convinced everyone to bet it all on a lawsuit that won them literally three dollars. OK, that’s probably not the reason. He just doesn’t want to be booed. Though it does remind us that, as one Republican strategist has explained, Everything He Touches Dies. Join Indivisible. Support the opposition. Enjoy the game.
Take Heart! (Part 2) February 5, 2026February 5, 2026 We have a great chance of winning both the House and Senate. And flipping governorships and state legislative chambers. A famous Democratic strategist at a closed-press thing I attended last week saw a path to 56 senators. His on-stage counterpart, a famous journalist long associated with a Republican-leaning publication, saw 54. Needless to say, even 51 would change everything. It will take an enormous effort . . . that — take heart! — is underway. You’ve seen the Texas state senate seat we won last week by 14 points in a district Trump won by 17. Results in low-turn-out special elections exaggerate the results we can expect in November, but we don’t need anywhere close to a 31-point swing to produce a big blue wave . . . and we have remarkable people stepping up to ride that wave. A small sampling: > Democrat David Jolly, whose speech I highlighted last week (7 minutes), will be the next governor of Florida. > Democrat Alexander Vindman (2 minutes) will flip the Senate seat currently occupied by Marco Rubio’s appointed replacement whom neither you nor 95% of Floridians can name. I couldn’t either until I looked it up. > Democrat Rob Sand will be the next governor of Iowa. He’s already been elected statewide and saved the state a ton of money; become a little famous (The Winning Ticket: Uncovering America’s Biggest Lottery Scam); and rocked this episode of the wildly popular MeatEater podcast (2 hours) describing something that makes me cringe (I “lean vegetarian”) but that measured 209 inches from antler to wherever hunters measure these things. > The hugely personable Scott Colom, district attorney, will be the next senator from the potentially great state of Mississippi. > The radiant Mary Peltola is going to be the next senator from the great state of Alaska! > Roy Cooper will win in North Carolina! > Either Janet Mills or Graham Platner has a real chance to beat Susan Collins in Maine! > Either James Talarico or the equally amazing Jasmine Crockett could be the next junior senator from Texas. Both have blown me away up close; the reason I hope Talarico wins the nomination is that his message — there’s nothing “Christian” about Christian nationalism — would be heard nationwide, which could help guide thousands of voters back onto the path of kindness and decency. > I’ve told you about the son of two Baptist ministers Chris Jones, with his two advanced degrees in physics and rocketry from MIT, who will flip an Arkansas seat blue . . . and my pal retired Space Force Colonel Bree Framm who will be winning a seat in Virginia . . . and my firefighter/JFK air traffic controller/Black Hawk helicopter pal Chris Gallant, who can flip a seat on Long Island. There are dozens more. With much of the country roused to help sweep them to victory! Join today’s 3pm weekly Indivisible call! Block out March 28 to join next entirely peaceful NO KINGS protest! (I never protested before either, but the three I’ve attended have been fun! So c’mon. Grab a friend or two and have at it!) BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! Supreme Court lets California use congressional map that favors Dems. Take heart! They may not always bend the knee to Trump. New York Times Added 1.4 Million Digital Subscribers in 2025. Take heart! More and more people are paying attention. Conservatives are stepping up. Take heart! Liz Cheney was the first and bravest, but there are more and more. “Resisting tyranny used to mean something in this country,” says this one (2 minutes you will want to share). The Epstein files just won’t go away. More than 38,000 references to Trump in more than 5,300 separate files. Watch him say they prove he’s innocent . . . just as he had the largest inauguration crowd in history . . . won 2020 by a landslide (“everybody knows” it) . . . just as the 30,000 lies and misstatements in his first term weren’t lies and misstatements . . . and E. Jean Carroll was “not his type” so he couldn’t have raped her as the jury found he did) . . . it’s just one hoax after another. No president in history has been so badly treated. And anyone who disagrees is either a deranged lunatic (“low IQ,” to boot, if not white) and/or a paid radical domestic terrorist. Just look at Alex Pretti. Congressmen Ted Lieu begs to differ. Watch him call Trump out for those 38,000 Epstein file references (2 minutes). Take heart! The fever is breaking! The wave is building! Spread those clips and, if you can, help fund the infrastructure that will boost all our Democratic candidates — now, when few do and we need it most. You can rent lots of buses in the last weeks of a campaign; but you have to start now if you want to build the bridges they’ll need to ride over.
Take Heart! February 2, 2026 I attended a thing last week that confirmed my high hopes. Democrats have a terrific “bench” for 2028 and — in the crucial meantime — a really good shot at taking back the House and Senate. Tomorrow, I hope to get into some specifics, but while I pull that together . . . WHAT PRESIDENTS SHOULD BE LIKE Remember civility? Comity? Comedy? Barack Obama and John McCain modeled the kind of behavior we’d want our kids — and the world — to see (2½ minutes). It’s going to take a while, but we’re gonna get back to that. TAKE HEART! “They want us to lose hope, but we won’t,” argues Ben Meiselas, citing everything from our big Texas win Saturday . . . picking up a deep-red Senate seat by 14 points in a district Trump won by 17 — a 31-point swing (in a race of which Trump claimed to be totally unaware, despite having endorsed the loser three times) . . . to the effective shutdown of the Kennedy Center for “at least two years after his attempt to co-opt it completely failed. Performers canceled. Staff quit. Audiences stopped showing up. Authoritarianism doesn’t mix well with culture, and that failure matters.” Read it and be buoyed. SO ORDERED Marie B.: “Have you read this? It should be read out loud in every classroom in America.” It should indeed: Before the Court is the petition of asylum seeker Adrian Conejo Arias and his five-year-old son for protection of the Great Writ of habeas corpus. They seek nothing more than some modicum of due process and the rule of law. The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children. This Court and others regularly send undocumented people to prison and orders them deported but do so by proper legal procedures. Apparent also is the government’s ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence. Thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson enumerated grievances against a would-be authoritarian king over our nascent nation. Among others were: “He has sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People.” “He has excited domestic Insurrection among us.” “For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us.” “He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our Legislatures.” “We the people” are hearing echoes of that history. And then there is that pesky inconvenience called the Fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and persons or things to be seized. Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer. Accordingly, the Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this administration’s detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED pursuant to the attached Judgment. Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned. Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: “Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?” “A republic, if you can keep it.” With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of January, 2026. Fred Biery UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FINALLY . . . . . . On the off chance you haven’t seen these 6 minutes from Saturday Night Live, have fun! Here’s to all our Trump friends, in the hope that we can find “off ramps” for every single one of them; or at least the large majority (I believe), like Carl, who are fine folks . . . just reluctant to see the Trump family, Stephen Miller, et al, for who they really are.
Sunday Tidbits February 1, 2026 They ‘Had Done Everything Right.’ ICE Detained Them Anyway. “Dozens of refugees with valid status were sent from Minnesota to Texas to be re-vetted, prompting a lawsuit. Those released had to pay their way back.” What it’s like to be Mexican-American these days. Heartbreaking to think this is Carl’s America. He keeps telling me that Biden let “millions” of murderers and rapists into the country. Well, they’re not doing a very good job of murdering. These days, Americans should be more afraid of being murdered or raped by masked government agents (Joe Rogan likens them to the Gestapo) than by asylum seekers. Yes, Trump has hung a photo of him and Putin in the White House. In the war for freedom and democracy, Trump has switched sides. The Hartmann Report: Trump’s New Grift: A $10 Billion Demand for “Reputational Harm” After his Income Tax Avoidance Was Exposed. Seriously. A man is now serving a 5-year prison sentence for leaking Trump’s tax returns to the press in 2018, and he wasn’t even a federal employee; he worked for a contractor. But Trump still thinks his embarrassment when we learned he’s been a tax cheat most of his life is, Trump says, so severe that the American government must give him and his two oldest boys a massive pile of cash. This family never saw a grift it couldn’t embrace… Fareed Zakaria: Why unchecked state power — not immigration — threatens the West The Trump administration has declared war on civil society — media, universities, nongovernmental institutions, law firms and even private businesses. The Justice Department’s plans to investigate organizations like George Soros’s Open Society Foundations — with the president describing it as racketeering — signals something dark: the criminalization of disfavored groups. It is the logic of Hungary and Russia imported into American politics: You do not rebut critics; you investigate them. So worth reading in full. Join Indivisible! Support the opposition! Tomorrow (or soon): Take Heart!
Minnesota: Fort Sumter In Reverse January 31, 2026 But first . . . WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE INCOMING FED CHAIR Paul Krugman: Ronald Lauder’s son-in-law is a political animal unqualified for the job; but fortunately, he will not control a majority of the votes. Read it here. 12 SECONDS OF FUN In hot pursuit of a provocative office chair. 12 MORE Anti-immigrationists. WAS TRUMP SENT BY GOD? Yes, he has a different style than the last guy. One said: “turn the other cheek”; the other: “I’d like to punch him in the face.” One loved the poor; the other, billionaires and the poorly educated. But some people sincerely think so. (No need to watch in full.) THEY JAILED MY FRIEND . . . . . . for his coverage of a loud-but-peaceful protest. Plus, he’s black, so he was already on thin ICE. You can determine for yourself — Don Lemon arrest sparks First Amendment debate after Minnesota church protest — whether he’s worth your tax dollars to arrest and prosecute (not an inexpensive undertaking), even though three judges refused to issue an arrest warrant. Anything to distract from the Epstein files, only 200,000 of which are being withheld. But seriously: it’s OK to storm the Capitol and attack police — that warrants a presidential pardon. But reporting on a peaceful protest is a bridge too far? This is America? And now . . . STEPHEN MILLER, ET AL, DECLARE WAR You may find this over-the-top — but, boy, is it a perspective worth considering: Minneapolis Is Fort Sumter In Reverse.