Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country.

Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high.

Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record.

Noticing a pattern?

Man! That’s a satisfying read- sure captures my rage

If you want to know what it’s been like in Minneapolis, read this vivid dispatch from my colleague @julialurie.bsky.social, who returned to her hometown shortly before the killing of Alex Pretti www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Sherrilyn Ifill has two back-to-back columns on Substack that go into an analysis of the problems with HOW the continuing resolution/shutdown impasse was ended. And on the path forward. Well worth a read- Ifill is a the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund

Simon Rosenberg lays out the particulars against Trump.

Worth repeating these OVER and OVER and OVER as far as as widely as possible.

substack.com/inbox/post/1...

In his decades-long pantheon of bone-chilling statements, this one’s hard to top.

Senator Chris Van Hollen’s press conference following his meeting with the Vice President of El Salvador this afternoon.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZP...

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests.

So, best we share all the footage we can here!

This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu.

🇹🇷 #Turkey

I have ZERO idea of what I’m doing.

I’m mostly an old fart here to read.