Immigration is just a convenient excuse for Trump to create his Gestapo. He picked an issue that would excite the haters, but the issue itself is immaterial to him. Only money and power matter.

Here’s a gift link. If you need another one, send me a DM You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire. Lisa Cook’s job at the Federal Reserve looks safe economist.com/united-state...

NEWS: No one filed to challenge two conservative/Republican justices on the Nevada supreme court who are up for reelection this year. The deadline was a few days ago. They will run for new terms unopposed.

Wrote about how John Roberts and Donald Trump have turned the Department of Justice into a corrupt mobbed up law firm whose only purpose is to enable Trump’s persecution of his enemies and protection of his allies www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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I've helped with legitimate news outlet turnarounds. What's happening at CBS News is anything but. The Ellison's have gift wrapped the news network for Trump. The fake 'internal injuries' story was just the start of the MAGA makeover. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

This is one of those "I would read 2,000 more words about this" stories. Anyway, here's a free link to what the FT has so far giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is accepting that you’ve already won. If you like this, share it. jasonherbert.substack.com/p/the-decision

ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published Nov. 2025)

Using public voter files, Peter Lutz takes a first-of-its-kind look at partisan registration among pro athletes by league.

"For more than 75 years, the fondest dream of Russian strategy has been to divide Western Europe from the U.S. and break the NATO alliance. "That is now a possibility as President Trump presses his campaign to capture Greenland." -- The WSJ editorial page. 🎁 link www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

I follow and learn from both of you.

Its been really great to see the development Miranda's book, which (unfortunately) becomes more relevant all the time. If anyone is interested in teaching Administrative Burden, here is my syllabus: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Read this please.

Please read and repost. Trump is a madman who will destroy this country. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“I sometimes wonder why journalists are so nice to the people who want to destroy them.” My free Stop the Presses newsletter.

10. More details, including exclusive data on the gap in medical care at ICE detention centers in today's Popular Information.

Thanks to @kairyssdal.bsky.social for having me on Marketplace to talk the Lisa Cook case that SCOTUS is hearing tomorrow! www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

Everyone who normalized it his guys propaganda owns this.

"Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off." Anders Vistisen Danish Member of the European Parliament

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

President Trump is asking a federal judge in Florida to "permanently prohibit the release" of the portion of the special counsel report about his retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Classic fascist tactics.

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

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It's not too late for the news media to get their heads out of their asses and warn the not-paying-attention crowd that a dictatorship is descending. And to use the word "dictatorship," which is what it is. It's not too late for the media to do this, but almost.

🚨The US 30-yr yield is starting to fly this morning. No-one in America is getting a cheaper mortgage any time soon. Congress may lack the backbone to stop the madman. But markets are not servile, they have no loyalty and will never bend the knee. Global crash anyone?

NOTUS spoke to potential 2028 contenders about how the next Democratic president should wield their power. Many expressed a willingness to use the new tools Trump has carved out, saying that if Republicans can do it, Democrats can, too. www.notus.org/democrats/tr...

Yet another example of the idiocy of the Supreme Court’s immunity opinion: If Trump invades Greenland, even for the most insane reason (like not winning the Nobel Peace Prize) and against our obvious national interest, it’s an “official act” that can never be held legally accountable

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Incredible. The Border Patrol recruiter literally filled in every part of the resume for her, including having AI write the resume.

"One of my teachers reportedly said at the open house that she is “in love with Nearpod.” Perhaps this is better than being in a relationship with a chatbot, but I’m really not sure." Future tech writer 😎👍

“The nurses told me that if I walk out I’m not going to be able to come back and find her,” said Shelly (the detained woman’s daughter). “Because I’ll look for her name, I’ll ask for her name, and she will not be in the system and they’ll tell me she’s not here.”

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Senator Grassley, SCAATY 🙄

This is a thread I originally wrote for Twitter a few years ago about the history of MLK Day and how it got implemented nationwide. It's a fascinating, multi-decade saga about resistance, activism, compromise and Stevie Wonder! >

Someone on here suggested that the last part of this 1942 film would be of interest ... OMG 😳 Okay, not the best executed piece of cinema, but ... www.imdb.com/title/tt0034...

This week, Historians At The Movies gets to talk about the South, Jim Crow, the Klan, music, and motherlovin’ VAMPIRES. Join us on Prime Video this Sunday, January 18th at 8pm eastern for SINNERS. Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!

"Justice Department leadership ordered prosecutors about to start a major bribery trial to reach a more lenient deal with Puerto Rico’s former governor -- who had endorsed President Donald Trump -- and a billionaire represented by Trump’s personal lawyer..." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

They're investigating the victim's wife, the victim's friends, the mayor and the governor too, but no, they're not even going to glance in the direction of the murderer.

Gift link, but not a gift as much as a call to action for America and democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

"Claim all the room there still is for speaking, writing, publishing, protesting, voting. It’s what the people of Minnesota appear to be doing, and it’s something each of us needs to do — right now, while we still can..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Last July, ProPublica documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts and former ICE insiders say was rarely used before President Trump began his second term:

This CECOT report on 60 Minutes will be broadcast as the Bears and Rams compete in the NFL playoffs, ... 🙄

I'll simply note again that the way these GOP policies are being covered, compared to the hyperventilating about "overheating" & the "least responsible economic policy in 40 years" & policy "failure" when Joe Biden did major fiscal stimulus <during a raging global pandemic> is not remotely the same.