“Political masculinity shows disdain for social norms that ask men to participate actively in building a more equal society. It is a masculinity of rugged individualism and is, therefore, deeply American.”

Catesby Holmes@catesby.bsky.social · yesterday

Max Miller & Graham Platner are edgelords, writes @queenmab.bsky.social -- and the Dems don't need to echo the GOP's embrace of toxic masculinity. After all, the left has its own election-winning brand of masculinity: the "Mamdani man." Another 🔥 take on the dumpster fire that is modern politics

reading a report and learning things

no amnesty

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 3d ago

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

✨ New Essay! ✨ Against Councilmember Robert Kettle’s recent call for budget austerity, @greenbackbetter.bsky.social shows how the Seattle Loop enlarges the city's fiscal capacity while reorganizing the relationships among public commitments, institutions, & constituencies. Please read & share! 👩‍💻 🙌

Prototyping Democratic Public Finance With the Seattle Loop

By Will Beaman Seattle is once again being told that a projected budget deficit requires difficult choices about which public commitments the city can continue to honor. Councilmember Robert Kettle…

moneyontheleft.org

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community

While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.

newrepublic.com

Massive coverage loss in SNAP, and even more massive losses in Medicaid, will be among the *eligible*. Congress designed a dystopian set of administrative requirements that, by design, will make it practically impossible for eligible individuals to access coverage.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 6d ago

“Experts worry that the litany of unanswered questions surrounding medical frailty will lead to more vulnerable people getting kicked out of the program. Preliminary estimates from the Congressional Budget Office suggest over 7 million people will lose coverage in coming years.”

Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.

not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

dannykatch.substack.com

When I wrote that "organizations are racial structures," some prominent sociologists disagreed. It remains striking to me that the Trump administration clearly recognizes this fact and is using organizational levers to further entrench a white supremacist agenda.

Opinion | MAGA-fueled EEOC votes to end collection of corporate data on race and gender

As Trump and the EEOC push propaganda about white men facing discrimination, the agency want to kneecap efforts to fight racism and sexism.

ms.now

“I am weary of the oft-made claim that what ICE and CBP are doing is not ‘immigration enforcement,’ as if that would be a good reason to have armed troops descending upon cities, suburbs, highways, and places of business…“ thank you @jesspish.bsky.social

We Are All Criminals

The "good immigrant/ bad immigrant" narrative puts all of us in danger

sheriffs.substack.com

🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

uh...yes?

gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Texas Republicans doing recruitment for us.

“If this one-man imperial boomerang killed someone in broad daylight in a quiet town in Maine, what did he do in Afghanistan?”

The War on Terror Approaches Its Final Form

ICE executes the nonwhite while the White House and State Department look to declare the U.S. left a Foreign Terrorist Organization. We've been heading here since 9/11

forever-wars.com

I’m interested in any political imagination for accountability. It has to be proactive & retroactive. It has to be spectacular. And, ideally, it would leave so many of them broke that it actually becomes a deterrent. Being poor is truly all they care about not because they don’t care about prison.

Okay okay okay let’s go

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.

Some principles for euthanizing the rentier in a renewed democracy. 🧵 Rather than asking how to protect democracy from finance, we must ask how to redesign finance so that democratic commitments become the highest-priority promises in the system.

the extent to which Callais is a green light for Jim Crow just cannot be overstated

Misogyny. This specific political tendency is called misogyny.

Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · 4w ago

I don't know what to call the specific political tendency represented by Ryan Grim, Ken Klippenstein, Matt Stoller, Michael Tracey, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and Zaid Jilani, mostly because words sort of fail, but it isn't "the Left."

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

Me Too did not go far enough.

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.

thebulwark.com

Jim Crow, but make it national.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 4w ago

BREAKING: The Trump administration will send election monitors to 15 jurisdictions in six states—four of which are deep blue, with the remaining being swing states. Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Virginia. trib.al/IYU9axJ

The military is shooting people in the American cities they’re occupying.

Chattanooga Times Free Press@timesfreepress.bsky.social · last mo.

Local leaders in these cities have said they do not believe the federal intervention is necessary, and some have challenged the deployments in court.

"Speculative finance does not directly cause landlords to charge higher rents, but it leads them to create business plans that can only succeed if rents rise faster than current tenants can sustain." rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Rent Regulation as Financial Regulation

Housing affordability is often framed as a supply problem. This brief examines the role of speculative finance in rental housing and argues that rent regulation is a powerful tool for promoting financ...

rooseveltinstitute.org

This is a creditor view of the world. Public commitments should be recognized as PRIOR to relative financial commitments. Promises to keep people housed, educated, safe, and enfranchised should govern how financial claims are managed—not be deferred to satisfy repayment for Wall Street. 4/

This is an unusually serious document that rightly recognizes that democracy doesn’t reproduce itself without an institutional surround. There’s a lot to commend. In the area of public finance, though, the document stops at the threshold of de-centering a market ontology, and we can do better. 🧵 1/

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · last mo.

The Reconstruction Papers provides an ambitious but achievable path forward beyond the Trump era, but also beyond the decades of institutional decay that preceded it. Buy a print copy or download the PDF (or both) today www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport

the question isn't "do you have faith in the democrats" the question is "do you have faith in the ability of people to work collectively to impose their will on the political system?"

More evidence for @adamserwer.bsky.social's thesis that the current Supreme Court hates the Reconstruction Amendments and seeks to recreate the antebellum Constitution.

Leah Litman@leahlitman.bsky.social · last mo.

OMFG. I cannot begin to describe my gasp at how Roberts & co decided to go all in on LOST CAUSE theory & insist that the Reconstruction Congress did Confederate sympathizer President Andrew Johnson wrong by attempting to keep him from destroying Reconstruction www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...