Tootfinder

The thing is,
if it’s them today,
it’s us tomorrow,
so we have to keep going.
We have to keep this up
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/30/new-york-city-ice-trump-protest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Trump’s post-truth agenda beaten back as Americans refuse to accept ICE lies
Effort to manipulate killing of Alex Pretti collapsed after footage torpedoed ‘domestic terrorist’ claim
– could this be a turning point?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-…

US private payrolls unexpectedly declined in November, the ADP employment report showed on Wednesday.
Private employment decreased by 32,000 jobs last month
after an upwardly revised 47,000 increase in October.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast private employment rising by 10,000 jobs after a previously reported 42,000 rebound in October.

“In western democracies, ageing and dying seem to have been reclassified as soluble problems,” clinical psychologist Frank Tallis in writes.
This is delusional – “a retreat from reality, and narcissistic”.
Climate-crisis denial, he suggests, in a striking formulation, can be seen as “the denial of death on an apocalyptic scale”.

Trump has effectively turned the White House into a slush fund,
running the federal government like a personal ATM.
Public money, political favors and government power are funneled to his friends and family businesses,
while regulatory agencies and enforcement mechanisms are hollowed out or weaponized for profit.
His oligarch allies, from big tech executives to big oil barons, are already seeing massive returns on their political investments.
This is not demo…

Gavin Newsom accused the Trump administration official
Dr Mehmet Oz
of discrimination in a civil rights complaint filed with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, recently visited Los Angeles
and filmed a video alleging that members of the city’s Armenian community orchestrated large-scale healthcare fraud.
The post set off a days-long public quarrel that culminated in the Ca…

The mayor of Portland, Oregon, demanded US Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave his city
after federal agents launched teargas at a crowd of demonstrators
– including young children
– outside an ICE facility
during a weekend protest that he and others characterized as peaceful.
Witnesses said agents deployed teargas, pepper balls and rubber bullets
as thousands of marchers arrived at the South Waterfront facility on Saturday.
Erin Hoover Barnet…

It’s just hard to catch your breath, because every day there’s a new, outrageous thing happening with the administration
Abortion has been replaced as a top issue by affordability and the economy.
That seems to be first and foremost for everyone.
But it’s also, for Democrats,
the state of democracy writ large.
We consistently find that Democrats are more concerned about the health of democracy.

Pope Leo has stressed the importance of Europe’s involvement in US efforts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, while suggesting that Italy specifically could play the role of mediator.
Russia and the US failed to make progress towards a peace deal for Ukraine during talks on Tuesday, with Vladimir Putin accusing Europe of “preventing the US administration from achieving peace on Ukraine”.

After Missouri residents voted to repeal their state’s near-total abortion ban
and enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution,
Conservative advocates quickly got to work.
In a lawsuit filed the day after the 2024 election,
abortion providers challenged not only the constitutionality of the state’s ban,
⚠️but also a slew of other restrictions that, they said,
made their jobs so arduous as to be impossible.
More than a year later, they are…