Evening Roundup, February 6
Super Bowl Edition! Featuring a halftime history lesson, our valiant librarians, a super cute Pet of the Week, delicious dinner ideas, and The Pod
The Librarians, Our Unlikely Heroes
When Americans of the future look back on this disgraceful period in our national history — assuming the republic survives — they will need artifacts from our time to help them understand the villains and the unlikely heroes who resisted the slide into fascism.
The Contrarian Covers the Democracy Movement
Every day (Monday-Friday), we’ll update this space with protests, signs, and other public demonstrations against the actions of the administration. Keep checking to see how Americans all across the country are protecting and defending democracy. Get help organizing from
Contrarian Pet of the Week
We told you we wanted to have fun, and we take fun seriously at The Contrarian. Each week we will share The Contrarian pet(s) of the week. (The pet need not be contrarian.) Subscribers are invited to submit their furry friend!
Oven-Baked Parmesan Panko Crusted Chicken
“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.” ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Rep. Jeffries on Reforming ICE. Georgia Fort's Disgraceful Arrest
Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) joins Jen Rubin to discuss all of the ways House Democrats are rising up and pushing back against Trump’s autocratic attempt to manipulate the 2026 midterms.
"Have you no sense of decency?" posed to Senator Joseph McCarthy by attorney Joseph Welch on June 9, 1954, rebuking McCarthy's cruelty. Trump is genetically deficient in this area and never had any training in even being able to PRETEND to have a modicum decency.
I hope there is a team working on the deportation of little Liam. The cruelty