This man should still be alive. His death is a tragic reminder that the problem at CBP and ICE isn't a lack of training. It's the brutality built into the system. Impeach Kristi Noem and demand full accountability at DHS from top to bottom.

The singling out of a state for political punishment, by selectively denying it access to federal funds, violates every principle of the Union.

This may be the best SOTU response in...ever? Nailing all the right points: affordability, ICE abuses, corruption, Epstein. Not sure it matters, but Spanberger is providing Dems a good template for assailing Trump and offering alternative values and policies.

Whenever I see these kinds of poll results, I'm always amazed that 35 percent of the American people support Trump's failed economic policies.

“Citizens are neither stopping nor impeding the government’s work. They are merely documenting it. And for this affront, the government treats them as adversaries to be controlled, intimidated, arrested, beaten, and occasionally killed.” www.thebulwark.com/p/what-i-saw...

There are many heartbreaking things about Epstein but one of the worst is how much the abuse was made possible by preying on young women who needed help paying for their educations. Speaking as a scholarship student.

The life sentencing of South Korea's former president and the arrest of former Prince Andrew in Britain are essential reminders that no one - especially the powerful - is above the law in a constitutional democracy. Time for the United States to get back on track.

On news that the President of South Korea was sentenced to life in prison for insurrection, a good time to remember that real democracies do not hand their leaders immunity for actions in office. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/strongman-...

It's a life prison sentence for ex-South Korean president Yoon, found guilty of leading an insurrection against the constitution when he declared martial law in 2024. Prosecutors had sought the death penalty, but the court spared him. Yoon's ex-defense minister is also sentenced to 30 years in jail.

Any democracy must look honestly and thoroughly at its history. Two important lawsuits filed this week in US federal courts aim to stop Trump from presenting distorted accounts of history and science at national parks - on issues such as civil rights, slavery, indigenous peoples and climate science.

Wake up, Democrats. Trump is about to effectively control TikTok, Twitter, CBS, Comedy Central and most likely CNN, HBO and two major movie studios. Where is our leadership to warn these media companies about consequences once we regain the WH? open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

Nominating someone who has attacked Black Americans, demeaned Jewish communities, and pushed white‑grievance mythology to a global diplomatic role doesn’t just test our standards. It exposes them. And it tells the world, with perfect clarity, exactly who we are willing to empower.

The last thing Europeans should want: an ICE of their own. And the way Europe's neo-Nazi parties now wish to emulate Trump's America brings a sad reminder of how far the United States has fallen in its 250th anniversary year.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

It's not a remarkable rebuke, it's a remarkable level of utter incompetence and lawlessness by the DOJ and its unqualified political hack prosecutors to even think it would work.

“There is no doubt that the regime is working overtime to hide the full scope of the terror campaign spreading across our country. The Prospect launched this tracker to do our part to stop them from getting away with it.”

You can take this "no ice" comment from K-pop idol Chanelle Moon any way you'd like it.

NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country. Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

“Around 3,500 detainees, more than half of them minors, have cycled through the center… There were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide… Moms told me that their kids had lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food…”

The extent to which this administration personally targets and continues the assault on people who embarrass and shame it is particularly despicable.

Legendary WaPo editor Ben Bradlee once said: "Good editors are made in the first instance by good owners.” If only Jeff Bezos had trusted and invested in his staff to keep producing first-rate, fearless journalism and commentary - not trying to appease Trump - the Post would still be flying high.

Jeff Bezos could have spun off the Washington Post into an independent nonprofit with a few billion dollars for an endowment and been a hero by spending what, for him, is pocket change.

Don't agree with Cato Inst on much. But: Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.

ICYMI this great piece from over the weekend by Moe Tkacik on how Stephen Miller is running the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department, the FBI, the remnants of the Department of Education, most of the Pentagon, and whatever's left of DOGE. prospect.org/2026/01/31/t...

Something is upside down in a country where hardworking immigrants get kidnapped and deported; citizens standing up for them get prosecuted, hit by grenades or shot and killed; while the world's richest corporate titans pay millions in bribes ostensibly to sponsor the president's vanity projects.

From historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social on the growing danger of an ethnic purge targeting the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, and how "ethnic cleansing itself is a step away from democracy and towards minority rule by a police state served by those willing to wear the mask."

Un-freaking-believable. I was at this rally and it was a planned and permitted rally and march organized by unions, accompanied by PPB, and full of kids, dogs and elderly. Why the hell is ICE gassing kids?!!

Rather than de-escalation, ICE is now easing the way to make more arrests without warrants. It appears DHS and ICE are still being driven by Trump's and Miller's arrest quotas, at the cost of violating human rights and ignoring due process by ripping people away from their families and communities.

They tried intimidation. Minnesota answered with people.

So it's ok for ICE to enter church services and violently take people who are worshipping but a black journalist can't peacefully film a protest. #DonLemon

No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.

“What was Tulsi doing at an election center in Georgia?” TRUMP: “She's working very hard on trying to keep the election safe, they got into the votes, you’re going to see some interesting things” Translation: he’ll say 2020 was stolen and use it as an excuse to steal 2026

College money well spent and needed. Rice students created an interactive map exposing ICE raids across the country as they're unfolding. Soon it will be a map of ICE raids and ICE murders. Keep reminding Schumer and Dems.

This judge says: - refugees must be released in the next 5 days - Returned to Minnesota. Not released onto the streets of Texas, which is what's been happening. - ICE must alert the refugees' lawyers so they aren't released into dangerous cold without someone to meet them

For months I've been telling my students ICE raids would get so ugly and unpopular that Miller, as the policy's architect, might have to leave the White House before the end of Trump's presidency (which itself should end early). Same applies to Noem. Now it could happen, and not a moment too soon.

Very much agree democracy and the rule of law will prevail, despite this bleak phase in US & world politics. "Trump and Trump alone is the principal, pressing problem. And Trump is a made-in-America monster. It’s up to Americans to un-make him and set things straight - which they surely will."

TikTok has been under new leadership for like a day and I made a slideshow with posts from the ICE rally today and it immediately got out under review and is not being published. Incredible.

Now AG Pam Bondi is using ICE as leverage to extort MN Gov Tim Walz. This is Trump’s tried and true formula: inflict pain and then demand payment to make it stop. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

America simply cannot go on as a country where thugs hired by the federal govt occupy and terrorize communities - attacking, abducting and killing civilians - and the govt then lies about the atrocities, defends the killers and vilifies the citizenry. Impeach and remove the entire Trump regime now.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

I am doing my best to respond to this without a string of expletives. But let's be very clear. What just happened in Minnesota was cold blooded murder of a civilian by out of control federal agents, aided and abetted by the entire Trump administration and their fascist enablers.

"The primary purpose of this occupation is the selective use of government power to establish federal dominance over blue states or cities that President Trump dislikes... There is no serious case that this is about the number of immigrants, or some level of violent crime not seen elsewhere."

Another day, another outrage; ICE under Trump is going to deport dozens of people to Iran, including two gay men previously arrested by the regime who face the death penalty for their orientation, and despite the ongoing crackdowns which have killed thousands. An administration of total inhumanity.

Handing control of the US TikTok algorithm to Trump-allied billionaire Larry Ellison is poison for our democracy. We have to care about media ownership. It is going to take big change when we have the chance. Throw all the tools at it, from competition law to public media.

Trump's Board of Peace is a fascinating lesson in IR theory. Half the signatories so far are wolves, the other half sheep, and all are scoundrels driven by self-interest with no regard for collective goods. Realists will smile and nod their heads knowingly. But the hold-outs are significant too.

Terrible that Trump has sent ICE to Maine, possibly as retribution for how its Democratic governor, Janet Mills, confronted him at the White House last year. Refugee communities have enriched Maine greatly, from restaurants to soccer. The book "One Goal" by @bassab1.bsky.social tells the story well.

So now we have the receipts for a documented policy in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. Where's the impeachment? This entire administration must come down, or the United States of America is doomed.

The South Korean judiciary continues to stand up for the rule of law: a court in Seoul has now ruled that ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law decree in 2024 was an insurrection - a rebellion against the constitution. The former prime minister is now in prison; Yoon's sentence is due next month.

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.