By Lying about Alex Pretti's Murder, Kristi Noem Makes Herself a Co-Conspirator In It www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/25/b...

INBOX: DURBIN TO VOTE AGAINST DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FUNDING BILL

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DHS/ice/border patrol are completely without credibility. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/22/t...

@gregsargent.bsky.social, no Daily Blast today?

Another proud day for America.

He doesn’t get the irony of a guy who avoided military service with a fake medical excuse, insulting our allies by minimizing their contributions to winning the Second World War —— DearWorld, We’re very sorry. Sincerely, The 70% of Americans who are not in a cult #25thAmendmentNow.

If you’re missing this Trump speech to world leaders in Switzerland, you are very lucky. And nobody knows that better than the world leaders who have to sit there and listen to this insane claptrap

Great to hear. Now, can we get back to the release of the Epstein Files?

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Never forget that New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn downplayed the threat to democracy in 2024. @nytimes.com

The New York Times‘ Peter Baker writes today that “Trump has changed the definition of normal.” For a decade, Baker and his newsroom helped him do it.

can they do that thing they did with late Salazar in Portugal and create a fake government for Trump to run instead of *points at all of this* www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Not AI. Posted by Trump. #25thAmendmentNow

Why is ownership important instead of just fortifying Greenland? “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success.” Psychologically important for himself or psychologically important for the country? “Psychologically important for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

Not The Onion: “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.” www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...

At a deep theoretical level, Stephen Miller and JD Vance think their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity is widely shared. But what's now happening is MAGA is driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants. Now Miller is trying to break that up w/coercion and violence.

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

This isn’t inevitable. A few Republicans in Congress could still stop a reckless annexation or attack on Greenland — right now. Silence is a choice.

Americans strongly oppose Trump's plan to take Greenland. Trump's announced tariffs on countries opposed to his Greenland plan. Tariffs are taxes paid by Americans. Americans will be punished by their president until he gets what they don't want. #25thAmendmentNow thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Now that we’re all about “complying with the law” re Minnesota, does that extend to complying with the law re Epstein files?

Does Trump not know how much of a baby he looks like accepting than Nobel peace prize?

lol

Grinning like a 5-year old getting his participation trophy at the post-season T-ball pizza party.

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RIP Scott Adams. Sure, in recent years he went MAGA-crazy, which sadly speeded his early death (he took ivermectin for prostate cancer and realized his mistake too late), but once upon a time Dilbert was a really funny strip that captured office work perfectly.

Early Dilbert could be incredibly on point at times, and it's important to acknowledge that rather than pretend it was always terrible. Scott Adams getting high on his own hype, emerging from his hate chrysalis, then doubling down on it, was very odd. He poisoned his own legacy well before death.

Q: How low can the Trump administration go? A: Lower. Always lower. There is no bottom www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

"A dictatorship, if he can keep it." www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Whomever is in charge of supplying fake laughter on the #GoldenGlobes broadcast is really working hard tonight.

One big game Two Chicago newspapers One game story

We lost David Bowie ten years ago. A great artist and a pretty funny fellow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4d8...

oh hey, I just checked and everything is still terrible

The UK-based Guardian is doing the job of honestly covering U.S. politics that American legacy media have largely failed to do. The content is free, but they need your donations to keep up the vital work. I've given them my $$. @theguardian.com

You would think a 79 year old man would know the difference between receiving an award that is deserved and taking an award by extortion. The latter is the opposite of "an honor."

"The character who stole Pee-wee Herman's bike in the 1985 movie Pee-wee's Big Adventure is named Francis Buxton...Pee-wee's spoiled, selfish, and wealthy rival. Francis is obsessed with obtaining Pee-wee's Nobel Peace Prize. When Pee-wee refuses to sell it, Francis hires someone to steal it..."

He's rich and controls the world's most powerful military force. Yet, he's obsessed with acquiring something of no tangible value, that he didn't win and doesn't deserve. Absurdly, he thinks it will mean he is great and respected. He has a hole in his soul that can never be filled.

The shooting of Renee Good by ICE: An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire. From the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

If you needed proof that Trump's Venezuelan adventure is a terrible idea and bad for America, look no further: Paul Vallas (and whomever ghosted this for him) approves: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/06/o...

This story, as the kids say (said?), Is “lit” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/s...

Stephen Miller: “Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” “We live in a world, in the real world...that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

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We've heard the Trump explanation for Venezuela. Is it more believable than Colombian President Petro's? “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

"...the president declared the “Donroe Doctrine,” another moment that will stand for ages as an embarrassment to the US and raises the question yet again of whether the commander in chief is cognitively stable enough to be ordering the invasion of other nations." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

CBS is holding off on coverage of the Venezuela strikes and Maduro kidnapping until they can get comment from the White House. Until then, don't you dare accuse them of loving America too much!