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Yes, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Wednesday: 'You know Social Security is wrong. You know Medicaid and Medicare are wrong. So he [Elon Musk] is going to cut a trillion . . .' Maybe it's hard for a person with $2 billion to understand what those programs do.

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Canadians will support the Economic Blackout on February 28 by making no purchases from US-owned retailers that do business in the country.

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Economic Blackout, Feb. 28th. Don’t Spend Money!

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I hope you'll join us on February 28. We plan to show the GOP that, as consumers, we can unplug things in a way Elon Musk and his minions can only dream of.

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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

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'Two excellent new biographies describe the life and work of the poet who died in the Valmont sanatorium near Montreux at the age of 51. They tell the story of someone who was inwardly torn apart.' Neue Zürcher Zeitung #Rilke

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How will Russia find its way out of darkness?

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Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings

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These roses made this dark week a little brighter.

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He nails it.

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Si les « Lettres à une jeune poétesse » présentent un certain nombre de points communs avec les « Lettres à un jeune poète », la correspondance entre Rilke et Anita Forrer mérite assurément d’être considérée comme une œuvre à part entière, peut-être encore plus riche et troublante que l’autre.

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In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

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Went to see this show at The Met the other day. It was so crowded we decided to come back another time. And we will. #painting

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The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily kept on the job the head of the federal agency that protects government whistleblowers, in its first word on the many legal fights over President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda.

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Even the standard, formerly "legal" forms of resistance on the liberal left will now have their institutional legitimacy stripped from them. There is no benefit to playing by the rules of politics because they have stripped all accountability. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

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When due process is dispensed with, injustice often follows.

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The National Park Service fired many of its park rangers as part of a reduction in the federal work force. Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about the cuts and share their love of the Park Service. “It’s scary, but it was the right thing to do.”

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One of the first pieces of classical music I ever heard: Beethoven's Serenade, Op. 25 for flute, viola, and violin. The sheer élan of the young Beethoven may surprise you:

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How could Germany, of all places, allow a neo-Nazi party to rise up in 2025? Jan Böhmermann may have the answer:

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In many nations, people are avoiding the news. Could it be because capitalism and its strangle-hold on governance have convinced them that they themselves no longer have a voice in their nations' affairs? Why worry about what's happening, if there's nothing you can do to affect it?

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Scholars and instructors at the Kennedy School look at the month that turned our national government upside down.

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The Israelis have brought their Gaza tactics to the occupied West Bank, destroying Palestinian homes and forcing thousands of civilians to flee. Who will stop them?

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I hope James Mangold's film about the young Bob Dylan encourages people to discover (or revisit) some of the other musicians of that era. Two of my favorites are Mimi and Richard Fariña: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Lb...

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How could Germany, of all places, allow a neo-Nazi party to rise up in 2025? Jan Böhmermann may have the answer:

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A selection of Emily Dickinson's poems in French, translated by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau: 'the first edition that does not adopt a heteronormative stance in the translation of Emily Dickinson's queer voice.'

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King Trump: the view from Paris (in English translation):

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Though only a fragment of a longer poem, they are among the most famous lines of poetry from the ancient world. The lines have been translated often. I wondered how they would look if they were brought into English in their original meter.

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On Sunday Germany will hold one of its most important elections of the postwar era. You can follow the election on Deutsche Welle (German public broadcasting) -- in English and many other languages: www.dw.com/en/german-el...

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When newspapers die, history dies. Fascinating story of how Preservation Chicago rescued Chicago Tribune archives slated to be abandoned when Alden sold off Freedom Center to the casino guys. www.preservationchicago.org/win-preserva...

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A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.

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A selection of Emily Dickinson's poems in French, translated by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau: 'the first edition that does not adopt a heteronormative stance in the translation of Emily Dickinson's queer voice.'

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The White House thinks Ukraine is a dictatorship. They're wrong. So is their willingness to work with the dictatorship next door. Look what happens when Russians express an opinion that differs from Putin's:

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If you need a pick-me-up this morning, go listen to what IL Gov. Pritzker said yesterday. Glad he’s not bending the knee. youtu.be/hS66O1C7Gp4

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The first Trump presidency put enough far-right justices on the Supreme Court to cancel reproductive rights. That made it harder for women who suffer a miscarriage to get the medical care they need. That's not a pro-life outcome.

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On Sunday Germany will hold one of its most important elections of the postwar era. You can follow the election on Deutsche Welle (German public broadcasting) -- in English and many other languages: www.dw.com/en/german-el...

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This is what we should be hearing -- and seeing -- from every elected official. Thank you, Governor Pritzker!

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It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

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'Reading by a Lamp.' (1912) Carl Holsøe frequently used his wife Emilie as a model, often depicted as though she is being observed unaware. It is her presence which gives this work its tension, making the viewer feel as though we are intruding on a personal meditative moment.

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“The party that once prided itself on standing up to Moscow,” Jonathan Lemire writes, “has bowed to a president who himself is bowing to an adversary.”

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European Parliament member 👇🏽

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Avdotya Smirovna's excellent four-part TV adaptation of Turgenev's 'Fathers and Children' is now on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSXI...

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One in five Americans has health insurance through Medicaid. The GOP wants to trim the program in order to pay for tax cuts for corporations and billionaires.

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