Unfinished. #LiamRamos

ProPublica identifies Pretti's killers

🎁 Article. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

The Kavanaugh Crisis in Minnesota is deliberate. By the best estimates, Minnesota has a relatively modest undocumented population. If deportations were the goal, ICE/CBP would be elsewhere. This is about: • Targeting Somalis out of racism & politics • Traumatizing political-dissident communities

Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.   Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.   They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.

Portland, OR., Mayor Keith Wilson: "To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame." www.portland.gov/mayor/keith-...

Corruption, plain and simple. Steve Witkoff, David Sacks, and Howard Lutnick must testify in front of Congress. And Congress needs to grow a spine and put a stop to Trump’s crypto corruption.

The Roberts Court has made it nearly impossible to prove a bribe. But this sure looks like an emolument, which is some quite different and definitely not OK.

The right way to get into the Epstein files.

I'm using my subscription to gift @crampell.bsky.social's guest column in the @nytopinion.nytimes.com Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization. This is no different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...

This is happening a lot to female journalists. So here is a modest proposal for the White House press corps: Stand together. No one should ask another question until the President answers the question that was ignored.

Order to release Adrian and Liam Arias is a real barn burner storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

you know when the last time republicans won the senate popular vote was? 1998

If you had said to me two days ago “Bari Weiss is in the Epstein files,” I would’ve politely smiled before backing away.

Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.

The nexus between pedophilia and right wing authoritarianism seems to be based on the idea that there is a ruling class that gets to do what they want with no consequences.

I wrote yesterday about Kevin Warsh, saying what everyone who really follows monetary debates knows: he's a bullshitter who uses big words to make incoherent arguments that always amount to stimulus for Republicans, austerity for Dems 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-bad-heir...

I’m old and have a lot less at stake than many people. If I get arrested, I won’t lose my pension. If I get shot, I’ll lose 10-20 years of arthritis getting worse and worse. I have no reason not to rouse a little rabble.

Gift Article! Anyone else remember when Trump promised, then failed, to release his Tax returns as all modern Presidents save done. I will never understand how his non-wealthy, and non white Christian Nationalist supporters can stick by him. wapo.st/4bsCzLk

I read you the review, to save you from the torpor of watching the movie. Not that there are that many masochists out there in the first place. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Journalism = violence

Protesters carried a giant rendition of the U.S. Constitution through downtown Minneapolis on Friday, chanting "ICE out now." 📷️: Kyeland Jackson

As promised, here is more on Omni's ICE flights, including: how to help Melissa Tran and the other recently deported people in my Mother Jones story, and which blue state public funds are invested with Omni's private equity owner, Stonepeak. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/more-on-omni...

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

Now this is a movie review www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

They're seizing ballots. Raiding homes without warrants. Gunning down protestors in the streets. And now, arresting journalists. They’re coming for our freedoms. America, stand up while you still can.

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

As the White House announces a “fraud czar,” remember: the prosecutor won’t look into things such as - Trump’s fraudulent “university” - Trump’s fraudulent charitable foundation - the Trump Organization, which engaged in systemic fraud They mean fraud from *other* people. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

wapo.st/3NMJViO Gift article. Trump is destroying us.

By the way, where are the Epstein files

And ’a speak any thing against me, I’ll take him down

Every president and major party nominee over the last half-century has voluntarily released their tax returns, except for the most singularly corrupt president in US history, who not only used taxpayer resources to fight their release, but now he wants us to give him billions bc they were leaked

More images of this agent “NS-919,” one of two who shot Pretti and a main instigator of the Pretti incident— from January 21. NS-919 pushed the woman that started the Pretti violence on January 24.

Looking at the mug shots Bondi posted of folks who allegedly impeded ICE officers... I'm reminded me of some of the iconic 1960s images of 'criminals' from counter sitins and freedom rides

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.

As always: Republicans in Congress could end this today. They could decide they’re done with murdering civilians, kidnapping five-year-olds, arresting journalists, threatening global allies, and naked corruption (or any combination of those things).

The Trump Adm is arresting Don Lemon and overcharging disruptive protesters at Cities Church to posture as if it’s protecting Christians. It’s not. DHS is staging disruptive ops at other churches, at least one of which has had to go online. ... 1/4

time to dismantle the surveillance state

Trump to US: give me your lunch money

NEW: Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche of a “glaring” conflict of interest, citing ProPublica reporting that found he held at least $159,000 in related investments when he shut down crypto investigations at the DOJ.

MUST WATCH: A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign, by @g-dvalle.bsky.social

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

Tommy Tuberville says he placed his assets in a blind trust. There’s no record that he did www.al.com/politics/202...

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

"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