Fantastic interview with the great, indispensable George Saunders www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/m...

Vivek Ramaswamy. The charisma of Pierre Poilievre, blended with the fast-talking sophistry of Charlie Kirk.

If a Democratic president had done something like this, Fox and the GOP would have turned Adriana Camberos into a household name à la Willie Horton or, yes, Hunter Biden. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

I seriously thought it was a skit on the Colbert show.

UPDATE: “A US regulator ruled Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power huge datacenters in MEMPHIS.” As the people told @mayorpaulyoung @MemphisChamber — who allowed it to happen. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Tribes have been here longer than any of us, they are quite literally the opposite of immigrants.

Ought we be really be calling it the Oaful Office?

Just scrambling with alarm upon the USA Titanic, thanks for asking!

NEWS: The U.S. Department of Justice has formally moved to block the appointment of an independent monitor or special master to oversee the release of Epstein-related records

Governor Polis: If you pardon Tina Peters, then Trump will learn that he can flatten federalism if he finds the right leverage.

He's gonna use that stolen oil to fund more private militias to terrorize American cities, isn't he?

So to reiterate now they are attacking an orphaned child

MAGA: "Démodé Puppeteers' Revenge"

Speaking out against ICE is not a crime, but DOJ has reportedly opened an investigation of Gov Walz and Mayor Frey for doing so. I’ll discuss at 10 pm ET on @msnownews.bsky.social.

The Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey — both Democrats — marking a striking escalation in an already volatile standoff between the state and federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump’s career: standing next to winners and calling it leadership.

Ukraine’s Energy Minister Shmyhal: There is not a single intact power plant left in Ukraine.

A spokesperson for U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said the agents could not be prosecuted because no one was struck by the shots. D.C. police have referred their findings to Homeland Security’s Office of Professional Responsibility. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

BREAKING: A federal judge in Minnesota barred immigration agents from retaliating against people peacefully protesting. He ordered agents not use pepper spray or other crowd control tools in response to protected speech, and not stop or detain protesters in vehicles. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

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This is interesting, but it’s unclear to me how it will be enforced, unless state law enforcement is going to start arresting members of ICE.

NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force. w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Klein: Were Medicare and Medicaid mistakes? Ramaswamy: I believe they were. With the benefit of retrospect, particularly Medicaid.

If you keep bending the knee to a fascist, they will keep bullying you. They see weakness as opportunity, complicity as agreement. The fact Schumer is still willing to fund DHS should OUTRAGE all of you.

Hyperinflation is going to be what "saves" us, isn't it??

A zero increase is just a start.

Yeah folks should be wearing that face recognition disruptive makeup.

A federal judge asked the Trump administration to consider issuing a visa to Any Lucia López Belloza, a freshman at Babson College in Massachusetts, who was deported to Honduras in November in what the judge called a “a tragic (and preventable) mistake.”

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

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Demonstrators protested at the site of a rumored new immigration detention facility in Salt Lake City while federal officials kept largely mum on the possibility. https://ow.ly/bQB650XYeY0

"The [Waterfront] project is one of many Seattle has rolled out in recent years, helping propel the Emerald City from a City Ratings score of 42 in 2019 to 66 in 2025, making it the third-highest-scoring large U.S. city after Brooklyn and Minneapolis." www.peopleforbikes.org/news/best-ne...

apnews.com/article/star...  Defense Department says military newspaper Stars and Stripes must eliminate 'woke distractions' and publish only right wing propaganda

JUST IN: The Virginia Senate has approved a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights. The Virginia House already did this on Wednesday. It's official: there'll be a referendum later this year on the issue.

BREAKING: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today sent xAI a cease-and-desist letter, demanding the company take immediate action to "stop the creation and distribution of deepfake, nonconsensual, intimate images and child sexual abuse material (CSAM)." - statement

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It's time. Hell. It's WAAAAY PAST DUE. Zelensky needs to tell trump, Thanks. But no thanks. And EUROPE and the UK need to start putting boots on the ground in Ukraine. After all, russia won't be advancing toward the US after this....their eyes are on Poland. Better wake up in a hurry.

If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News: "A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it." www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...

You're paying for this. Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs. Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.

"Band of Bothers"

During 1st Trump term insiders kept writing 'Jared and Ivanka privately appalled" stories which never had any bearing on policies but were pushed by Javanka to convince their social circles that they had nothing to do with those particular horrors and should still be invited to things. This is that.

Martha Graham Dance Company the oldest dance troupe in the United States decided not to perform at the Kennedy Center www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/a...

There are so many influencer channels that post nonsense, disinformation, and outright lies. Here are ways to help curb their reach on platforms such as YouTube, IG and tiktok: "Not interested” “Don’t recommend channel” Skipping videos quickly (low watch time) Reporting account

A powerful Atlantic piece on federal workers fired or forced out over the past year. Federal employees spend their careers serving communities, protecting public health and safety, and keeping essential government functions running, often without recognition. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

That @cbsnews.com had the temerity to run that dogshit about the guy and his fake internal injuries gonna make it real hard for anyone to ever take them seriously again. Even after this shit is over and Bari is long gone. Imagine tanking that entire brand built up over decades for an aging pedo