wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

Trump just placed a tariff on most of the EU of 10% that will increase to 25% in June unless they agree to sell him Greenland. This is mad king shit.

I think we're going to win for a variety of reasons, but making it a reality starts with elevating leaders who are not Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. They are actively harming the opposition and helping the administration tighten its grip on the country.

When Democrats folded in the last government shutdown—rescuing the GOP majority from itself and helping them pass a budget, giving validation to the Trump administration’s lawbreaking—the savvy politics knowers explained that folding was clearly worth it because it got the Epstein Files released.

Tomorrow morning Trump officials will explain how this 6 month old is a threat to national security who should have just complied

The details are horrific. “He was just lifeless, like he had foam around his mouth... He had tears coming out of his eyes. I was giving him mouth-to-mouth, and I remember stopping, and I said, ‘I will give you all my breath ‘til you get yours back.’”

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

Yeah people don’t understand how insane the surge here is. The insane videos you see are examples of stuff happening dozens or hundreds of times daily. (Although, again, there are signs they are departing for outstate after being roundly rejected by the community).

“Trump invaded Venezuela, kidnapped its president, stole a bunch of its oil, sold it, and stashed the money in banks in Qatar” is a stone-cold CLASSIC of this genre

Yet another example where the Left was mocked as shrill and alarmist at the time but was correct all along. And soon to be another example of centrist pundits who were wrong changing their minds without facing any accountability or doing any reflecting on why they were wrong.

Ratcheting up DHS while killing PEPFAR. Gonna have to paint a lot of dogs about this.

I find it relatively heartening, though, how they came in with “We can kill you at our whim” and have been forced to pivot to “Our widdle agents are so scared :( they’re bleeding internally :( this is just self-defense” Like say what you will about the Gestapo but they didn’t whine like this

If Democrats in Congress have any chance at reining in how ICE is operating under Trump, it’s right now. Even if it's not by very much. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

i wrote about laughing at ICE and that one margaret atwood quote about men being afraid of women laughing at them www.patreon.com/posts/148398...

whataboutism from j6 (what about pelosi, the dc mayor etc) has become the default successful lie. they used it immediately with the ICE shooting (“she was trying to kill him”) knowing media will frame it as a dispute: “diverging views on video”; “at ye olde pickle factory voters say she deserved it”

New video of the second ICE shooting shows officers firing into a house where children were present. DHS says in a statement they were firing tear gas canisters at the family, not bullets minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/v...

The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. These will all go to 2026 referendums.

"Worse than Bush after Katrina" is a polling benchmark that I thought that partisan polarization had made impossible

a college mock trial forum called Perjuries

Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:

Pollster: Would you support the American military indiscriminately killing brown people in— Republicans: Let me stop you right there, yes. Absolutely, yes.

yeah i'll vote for gavin newsom under extreme circumstances. like say we're on a life raft and need to decide who to eat first. or our plane crashes in the andes and we're figuring out who to barbecue for dinner. or if we're wagon-bound and stranded in a frozen pass over the sierra nevada mountains,

Baaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha get rekt

The double pardon really gives away the game. Adriana Camberos started her second round of fraud just weeks after her first pardon. She was charged, convicted, imprisoned…and pardoned again. Trump supporters are permitted unlimited crimes, while the rest of us can get beaten by the secret police.

yes I also have a meeting with a long weekend this afternoon

They are canceling youth sports across the city in Minneapolis this weekend because lawless masked armed federal paramilitaries are targeting the children and families.

Repeating my mantra that the average person out there has *no idea* how much of a fiasco the student loan program is right now and that 90% of it has to do with politicking (going back decades) and nothing to do with the borrower.

Look at this absolute queen

phrasing every bit of news from the pov of "how do trump supporters feel about it" is an active choice and the msm does it consistently without fail. the rest of us can pound sand as far as theyre concerned.

big strong savvy gavin newsom apparently doesn’t even have the wherewithal to stand up to ben “i have never satisfied a woman in my life” shapiro

I read this is the clearest sign yet that Gov Jared Polis (D) will grant clemency to Tina Peters. Well done by @ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social, asking a new question about deeply-covered topic.

This post is very real. And what's even creepier is he's a big Gavin Newsom stan, for those of you ready to anoint Newsom the savior of the Democratic Party. His feed is filled with pro Newsom videos. He loves the fucking guy.

The Nazis still haven't quite clocked that doxxing them worked *because they are Nazis and people hate them* Doxxing people for being heroes doesn't work quite the same way

"these stay-at-home moms are a menace, we're going to make them national heroes and try to get them fired" Lol okay bud thank you for threatening everyone with a good time

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

never underestimate Dean's ability to throw a haymaker

If someone does end up signing a pecorino and it jacks up the cost of Locatelli that may be my final straw tbh

just want to point out that the surest sign of a dumb person who thinks they are smart is when they say "utilizing" instead of "using"

Identity politics is bad (unless you're using it to criticize a progressive politician)

The "wrap it up" hand gesture at the end would be talked about for the next 20 years on Fox if Trump were a Democrat

And loads of us lost our jobs because of it.

“Can I go check a pulse?” a bystander said after Good was shot, his hands in the air. “No! Back up!” an ICE agent told him. “I’m a physician!” “I don’t care!” the agent replied, before another came up and said they had their own EMS on the way. trib.al/0QT1gBF

"we're not doing that, but if we did, she deserved it"

Publishing the names of protesters and contacting their employers to have them fired for exercising their rights is a tactic straight out of the White Citizens Councils.

“Did the ice agents check her pulse” seems like an important question whose answer is incredibly damning either way.

Good luck, there’s hundreds of thousand of us out in the streets trying to keep our neighbors safe. That Homan would think this scares us shows how weak they really are. Many of us have steeled ourselves already that we may be killed by our own government and we are still out there every day.