White House with image of a Black man and an emoji of chains. And the chosen image is of Don Lemon doing journalism.

I've wound up on the same airplane a few times in the many years I've been logging my flights. Last night's flight from FL to NYC was interesting though, as it's the first time I've been in the exact same seat on the exact same airplane on two different dates (the other being NYC to FL on Tues.)

Really sad to see Joe Biden deteriorate mentally like this

It is literally impossible to dox federal workers for the same reason it's not doxxing when McDonalds management asks workers to wear name tags Every single person in the United States government works for us. We are management and we need to know who our employees are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Wanna hear something crazy? The federal budget allocates three times the funding for ICE than for the United States Marine Corps.

Thank you forever Bluesky for the ultrablock feature!

And actually a gd rental car, it’s covered by collision insurance ffs

The Fulton County search warrant & its implications for the 2026 & future elections is critically important news & not getting the coverage it merits. Read my most recent piece to get the download & understand why this is such a significant development. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump take

I love that we're told we should be happy with whatever scraps Dems get at the table and Lindsey Graham can hold up everything with a "I should be allowed to cash a multi-million dollar check from the taxpayers for my trouble"

He is a fucking drooling dementia patient.

people prob gonna get worked up about other stuff here but please understand: this is what hotel rooms were supposed to look like. we have lost our way

It’s Leap Dave Williams’s Wario

i haven’t been paying attention to meghan mccain at all but apparently she has lost her mind?

I like my Old-Fashioneds at 39,000 feet.

the feds saying theyll end their campaign of terror against an american city if their demands are met is the biggest domestic scandal of my lifetime

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Federal agents cornered Marimar Martinez, shot her several times, boasted about it, arrested her, lied about her to the public and in the police report, and falsely charged her with assaulting them. Now the government wants to keep evidence of their lies secret to protect these agents' "privacy."

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

An important reveal in this story. ICE is being pulled out of Maine after starting its "enhanced" operations over a week ago. Maine is also a swing state in the Senate elections this year. Internal Republican polling about the impact of ICE must be gruesome. mainemorningstar.com/2026/01/29/s...

🇺🇸🇩🇰 The US embassy in Copenhagen has removed 44 flags in honour of Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan, - DW The flags were removed after Donald Trump criticised the NATO allies' military contribution, saying they were "second line" behind the Americans during the war in Afghanistan...

This is the CDC map for homicide rates by state for the most recent year on their website. Gov. Landry, who leads one of the states in the nation with the highest murder rate, is on television chiding Minnesota, one of the states with the lowest murder rates.

I'm glad the NYT published this piece, this grotesque coded trolling/dog-whistling has been central to the communications approach of the administration since Trump's first run — & it's great that they caught them playing the song in that Instagram www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Interesting look at the dysfunction at DHS. (My favorite detail is that they use leaks about office renovations against each other knowing that’s a subject that catches Trump’s eye.)

With widespread layoffs expected at The Washington Post, reporters are sending letters to Jeff Bezos, urging him to reverse course. The newest letter is from the Post's White House reporters, who are defending the desks that are facing major cuts... www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/m...

The winners of a recent safe streets hack-a-thon have put together an easy-to-use tool to sort through data on New York State's worst recidivist speeders.

There’s a reason prison guards aren’t supposed to be used on the streets for law enforcement. They’re not trained for this.

maybe I’ve missed it but are National Guard in DC doing anything to help chip us out of the snow?

Here he is looking devastated on the night of the Melania premiere, the day Alex was murdered. Wow!!

New York, call Schumer at (202) 224-6542 and tell him that better rules and training will not fix this. ICE must be completely dismantled. And if you don't live in New York, call your senator and tell them that the only sensible position is to abolish ICE and replace Schumer as minority leader.

This is worse than Watergate imho

bullying—and i cannot stress this enough—works

The delicate little snowflakes can always dish it out and never ever take it.

I cannot stress how completely bizarre & unheard of it is for the DNI to be personally present for a search warrant execution, never mind this one.

Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

“We are a Minneapolis 2nd grade Brownie Troop of 12 including trans and neurodiverse youth and 75% BIPOC kids. We want to go to summer camp and try horseback riding! During the current ICE occupation we need your support more than ever...” And that’s how I ordered 4 boxes of thin mints.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

Trump just reposted a tweet calling Alex Pretti a "domestic terrorist"

It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.

“It’s our blood and bones And these whistles and phones Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies”

Trump hangs picture of himself and Vladimir Putin in latest White House redecoration

RFK looking at his trunk

Jan. 28, 1926: Los Angeles stuntman and aerial barnstormer Chief White Eagle dangles by his ultra-strong hair. He “attributes his hirsute strength to exposure to the elements and keeping away from shear-wielding Delilahs,” the L.A. Times reports.

This is pretty fucked up. I know everything is, but this is especially.

Genuinely fascinating profile of pre-Minneapolis Bovino, by Dan Mihalopoulos and Lauren FitzPatrick in Chicago Sun-Times. Well reported; 100% worth reading. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Parker is right, of course. What's extra weird to me is that so many journos have no problem posting shit that makes them look stone stupid. Like you can't say you're plugged in or that readers should trust you if you're actively showing the world you have the mental capacity of a bowl of soup

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