New Pentagon budget reports show Pete Hegseth spent $93 billion in one month, making it the highest monthly expense since 2008. This budget report included spending $2 million on Alaskan King Crab.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

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The United States gave Netanyahu over $24 billion in taxpayer dollars to fund his horrific war in Gaza. That wasn't enough. Netanyahu wanted war with Iran. Trump gave him one. The American people — not Netanyahu’s right-wing government — should determine U.S. foreign policy.

Remember that Donald Trump, Jr. is involved with both Polymarket & Kalshi — and the Trumps’ social media company is launching its own prediction market. Meanwhile, Trump’s regulators have announced they will fight any state that attempts to regulate prediction markets. Always follow the money.

Seems to be the pattern…

DMT is best known as one if the psychedelic components of ayahuasca, an hours long ritual experience with Amazonian origins that often involves vomiting. A fast acting, synthetic form of DMT now shows promise as a treatment for depression according to phase ii trial results. My latest.

The first stars in the Universe formed out of gas composed only of hydrogen and helium, making them fundamentally different from all of the stars around us (e.g. they should be very massive). Can we see these “Population III” stars with JWST? The hunt is on and @rboyle31.bsky.social has the story. 🧪

Let's start w/ Gold Medalist, Alyssa Liu. Alyssa already stands out with her punky striped hair & her sunshine smile! Speaking of sunshine, her gold costume she wore for the Individual Free Skate glittered like sunshine on ice - & was maybe some foreshadowing of her gold medal win.

From @marisakabas.bsky.social For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-concen...

Pam Bondi is an evil bitch. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Jasmine Crockett rips Pam Bondi a new one... www.tiktok.com/@staytunedwi...

Lori Ann Burd, our #EnvironmentalHealth program director, said the admin. has a particularly strong alliance with industry interests. As an example, she pointed to the #EPA proposal to allow the broad use of the weed killer #Dicamba on soybeans and cotton. Get the rest ➡️ bit.ly/3NWVcgu

FREE Robby Roadsteamer 🗣️ He’s locked up in Hennepin County 😡

DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range. And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.

Congress is not powerless. Democrats must unify around an actual agenda. 1. Vote no on DHS funding bill. 2. Repeal the multi-year $75 billion funding for ICE. 3. End qualified immunity for ICE agents. 4. Investigate and prosecute every single ICE agent who broke the law.

I can't believe shit like this needs saying, but, no, white men do not face discrimination in the US.

Trump Proposes Opening Over 1 Million Acres of California Public Lands to Drilling, Fracking

In the car with the Minneapolis community patrols working to disrupt ICE operations arkansasadvocate.com/2026/01/13/r...

The more we see of Chinese EV's the more we realise just how shit and out-of-date Tesla really is. "Ignore that! Look over there! Fake robots and a Mars mission which will never happen! Please believe me, don't tank my fraud!"

"It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the administration that spending the last several months going scorched earth on the rest of the world might make other countries the tiniest bit disinclined to deal with us."

This is what happens when slogans outrun spreadsheets; an economy governed by talking points, cheerleaders, and numbers that sound impressive until someone asks to verify them. Subscribe. Read. Comment. Share! therealmichaelcohen.substack.com/p/trumps-ari...

The crimes described on “Forensic Files” keep most people up at night. But for a subset of fans, the show is the only thing that puts them to sleep.

I dumped Facebook back in 2015. It was discovered that "META" provided Russia election rich data via Cambridge Analytics. Russians used that data to target voters and get Trump elected. Fancy Bear a Russian hacker group hacked the DNC emails in 2015. FCK FACEBOOK www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Chump and GOP can’t afford to continue the healthcare subsidies for billions of reasons 👎👎👎👎

The stealthy startup plans to use a network of satellites to harvest sunlight and send it to Earth using infrared lasers.

Read the rest of our investigation with @opb.org ⤵️ DHS declined an interview request. FEMA denied holding back homeland security grants, pointing to money it made available in September if states agreed to help with immigration enforcement.

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty. “They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

Politicians SNAP Benefits $79.00 per day Citizen SNAP Benefits $6.00 per day

Trump adds a new sign for ‘The Oval Office’ ... right outside the Oval Office

Our analysis of EPA air monitoring data shows that companies have far underestimated the pollution caused by their facilities. At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions. @lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social

On September 23, Adelita Grijalva won a special election to represent Arizona in the House of Representatives in a landslide, collecting 69% of the vote. Forty-three days later, House Speaker Mike Johnson has not sworn in Grijalva.

President Donald Trump said in an interview that he did not know the person whom he pardoned late last month. 🧵

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Trump OWNS the Shutdown and Said it himself like a brat 2 year old www.tiktok.com/@viper.vet/v...

The U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter's average procurement cost is about $37.3 million

Trump wants to use the Navy to build $10B worth of migrant detention camps. Let me get this straight: we "can't afford" to invest in public programs that make housing or healthcare more affordable — but we have endless funds to detain migrants and enrich defense contractors?

Navy helicopter & fighter jet go down in South China Sea. While Trump is in Asia. This is the 4th or 5th Naval mishap since Hegseth has been at the helm. This is unbelievable. Navy helicopter, fighter jet both go down in South China Sea: Navy - ABC News share.google/vGc5oexNkfbs...

Remember: One day, Trump will be gone

House Speaker Mike Johnson: extremely extra busy, and knows nothing about anything! www.tiktok.com/@motherjones... 📼 by @annayeo.bsky.social

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.

relieved that oriana korol has been released but her 3-day detainment in another state is unacceptable and the charges against her defy explanation. katu.com/news/local/p...

The Trump administration is offering $60K in student loan forgiveness as a recruitment tool for ICE, which just proves fighting Biden on student loan relief was never about the loans or “paying your own debt.” It was about who was offering it and who it would’ve helped.