Barbara Ehrenreich

Now will certain people on the left stop calling me a “McCarthyite” for worrying about Russian meddling? Yes, the US spent decades “meddling” in other countries’ elections and I opposed that too.

Melania: Were you expecting fidelity from this creep?

Nikolas Cruz doesn’t seem to have been a white supremacist but he was definitely a member of ROTC. Did premature militarization have anything to do with this?

I’m going to see Black Panther because I like movies about people who don’t look like me.

Trump scolds the public for failing to notice that the Parkland shooter was “mentally disturbed,” not to mention heavily armed, adding that we must report people like him “to authorities again and again.” We’ll, I’ve got one in mind. Where do I send my report?

Out of respect for the Me-too movement, could we cancel Valentine’s Day tomorrow? Not that true love has been discredited, but the day may just be a trigger event for a whole lot of people.

Steve Bannon gets it right: Me-too is an “anti-patriarchy movement.” His mistake is to conflate patriarchy with civilization, or “10,000 years of recorded history.” One of the lessons of the me-too movement is that we haven’t even tried civilization yet.

Hope Hicks dated Corey Lewandowski, who attacked a female reporter at a Trump rally, and then moved on to date serial batterer Rob Porter. What are you doing, girl, auditioning for the next installment of Fifty Shades?

Ted Cruz says it’s ok if wages go up because the boss just got a huge tax cut, but not ok if wages go up because the min wage is raised. Meaning that any increase in wages must first pass through the sticky hands of the rich?https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/961994145542868994 …

My physical therapist told me I’m doing very well. Let me correct that. She said I’m doing very very well, better than anyone in history. Everyone in the clinic applauded and throngs poured in from the streets, making the largest crowd in the world and probably the universe!

WH chief of staff John Kelly, apparently not noticing who does so much of the heavy lifting in America — from construction to cleaning — has suggested that many immigrants were just “too lazy to get off their asses” and apply for DACA in time. No, John, they were too busy.

To the extent that the stock market crash was caused by investors’ dismay over a slight increase in wages — well, that tells you all you need to know about capitalism.

From the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a look at the perpetual surveillance of residents in a Brooklyn housing project http://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2018/01/omnipresence …

The doomsday clock set by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists now puts us at 2 mins from nuclear apocalypse. Are we going to spend the time remaining to us analyzing the Nunes memo?

The NYT editorial board is worried that the Nunez memo will “undermine the credibility of the law enforcement community.” It’s a little late for that concern. Remember Rodney King, the Branch Davidians, Michael Brown. The list goes on, and on.

A train full of Republican congressmen heading for a retreat at a 5-star resort hits a garbage truck, killing one of its occupants. Tell me this isn’t a metaphor.

Trump said his policy “protects the nuclear family by ending chain migration.” Whose nuclear family? Have, say, Latino immigrants been begging him to stop the influx of annoying mother-in-laws?

If the evangelical right can shrug off Trump’s adultery, then the way is clear for Stormy Daniels to become the head of the RNC or perhaps the Heritage Foundation. “Family values” are so 1995.