New trailer for the forthcoming Muppet Show special. I'm gently encouraged by this. Looks like a lot of love's gone into it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPTV...

Jesse Walker of San Diego, CA: DHS/CBP agent, a former Navy SEAL who travels with Greg Bovino as one of two personal bodyguards. Last seen in Minneapolis guarding a Target bathroom while his boss Bovino was pooping. Patches include "GTAC", "SC2005", "CASC-2005". Tattoo on his left outer triceps.

New, from me: Defenders of police abuses will sometimes talk about “bad apples” spoiling the barrel. This is the wrong metaphor for ICE and CBP. The barrel itself is rotten. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved the deportation of five student activists last year after receiving memos describing their participation in pro-Palestinian protests and their writings about the war in Gaza, according to government documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday.

Pam Bondi's Slop www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/23/p...

Trump's son in law reveals that the destruction of Gaza is all designed to create a platform for a massive real estate deal—in which the Gazans will have no role and no home. www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...

Microsoft is handing over Bitlocker keys to law enforcement. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

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.

Hakeem Jeffries deserves to be unemployed.

You’re arresting terrified children and using them as bait. Arresting kids getting treatment at doctors’ offices. Blinding protesters. Illegally raiding homes. Making people terrified to leave their homes. You want to pee in peace? Quit your fucking job.

This DHS memorandum says that the DHS General Counsel's office has adopted a new position that the Fourth Amendment allows entry into the home to make an arrest just based on an administrative warrant. I would like to see that argument. documentcloud.org/documents/26...

ICE must be abolished and everyone responsible for this decision making process, as well as those who carried out the orders, charged and prosecuted with severe jail time. This is a CLEARCUT violation of the Fourth Amendment, and shows a complete contempt for our Constitution and the rule of law

Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.

seen at 38th & Hiawatha this morning

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Yay I wrote that!

Irish commando raid on Washington, DC now being prepared. (Sorry, them's the rules now.)

Washington state has two hearings tomorrow on regulating #Flock and other ALPRs (license plate readers) If you're a Washington state resident, @wa-privacy.net has instructions on how you can "sign in" to the hearings to note your position -- and provide written testimony if you want. #waleg

DHS wants your face in their database. No warrant. No consent. No accountability. This is what authoritarianism looks like in the digital age. It’s time to shut it down.

DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.

For years, officials claimed chemist Annie Dookhan was the sole bad actor at the Hinton crime lab, but lawyers say evidence points to widespread wrongdoing. In March, hearings will begin at Middlesex Superior Court that could result in hundreds of thousands more drug convictions being thrown out.

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

I need to apologize for something I did. The @bostonherald.com is right, there is no place for profanities in politics.

"Now, apparently, the company has adopted the attitude that, in essence, if you are concerned at all about mass surveillance and limiting the power of law enforcement, you support criminals. It is a simplistic, juvenile, and ultimately authoritarian stance." #deflock #surveillance #alpr #flock 🚫

SJPD, one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the state, is the latest agency caught sharing #Flock #ALPR scans with federal agencies. www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/01/15/s...

NEW from @lisalsong.bsky.social and me: The Trump administration is now asking USDA workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

I would like to live in a country where statements like "people are vermin" & "we should attack our NATO allies" & "we shouldn't have elections" immediately ended presidencies.

Where are all the big Dem donors who wanted to change things they still looking for a left Joe Rogan and humane AI

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Wait a minute. The grandson of the UK’s most notorious fascist works for Palantir? That’s a bit too on the nose.

"ICE violence is enabled by ICE surveillance… “, @fightforthefuture.org Director @evangreer.bsky.social speaks to @wired.com about concrete steps local leaders can and should take to protect their communities from ICE gestapo tactics. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

NEW: The Bureau of Prisons won't explain why Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a cushy facility after she met with Deputy AG Todd Blanche. So we filed a FOIA request for documents on this—and now we're suing (thanks to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—@rcfp.org).

The DOJ under President Trump has repeatedly targeted his perceived enemies, such as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, in ways that have eroded longstanding barriers between politics and policing. Subscribe to The Afternoon Docket: reut.rs/4aVlZjE

Zero percent chance this is true.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

Victory in Santa Cruz, CA! 🏆 "Tuesday’s 6-1 vote – with Councilmember Sonja Brunner voting against – allows the city to terminate the agreement with 30 days’ notice, which means the end of the contract could be Feb. 12 at the earliest." Nice work! 👍 #deflock #santacruz #surveillance #alpr

The federal government is openly embracing white nationalist online content — including in a recruitment post after Jonathan Ross killed Renee Good.

Not the key part of this story, obviously... but they *sold* his phone? WTF?

Your Data Will Be Used Against You. www.texasobserver.org/texas-police...

New: Police have released info about millions of surveillance targets nationwide from thousands of different police departments because of a public records redaction error in Flock data. Reveals active police investigations, border patrol & ICE targets, lots more: www.404media.co/police-unmas...

Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll: 46% support abolishing ICE 43% oppose abolishing ICE This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support

BREAKING: We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing People have had seizures. They passed out. “I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished www.propublica.org/article/vide...