BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

ICE Agents Still in Hospital After Being Shot Repeatedly by iPhones: tinyurl.com/36ud2nxf

These two images from Minneapolis. One a local man angry over an invasion of violent thugs. The other a coward, trucked in with little training, given arms and told to stomp on the local populace. The world sees this. And they know which of these men is on the right side of history.

Previously on Thomas Friedman: Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are not imperial Later on Thomas Friedman: Why the people of Afghanistan needed the US Now on Thomas Friedman: What is the imperial boomerang? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...

Judge: peaceful protest does not warrant crowd control measures. Another judge: Bovino lied to us. Another judge: Don't care. They can do whatever they want. Bovino: you're loud. Suck gas.

Without the US these countries combined make up about 4% of the global economy. Roughly 0.26 European Unions.

Just summarizing. Things Americans can buy per Trump: ✅ Greenland Things they can't afford to buy ❎ healthcare ❎ groceries ❎ housing ❎ appreciating assets

World: what's he gonna do about ludicrous invasion threats? Trump: lemme ramble about made up gas prices and how stupid windmills are

Thank you @jayapal.house.gov. Always honored to vote for you.

Or y'know, not. thewarhorse.org/military-fam...

From Davos we have the Belgian PM and then we have Scott Bessent. For a nation proclaiming its strength as its raison d’être, the US sure comes off as whiny and weak in the face of mild, thoughtful pushback.

"The worst thing countries can do [to the US] is escalate against the United States." Most countries that have called our bluff on tariffs/trade seems to have come out the better for it.

Paraphrase @michael-feinberg.bsky.social/@lawfaremedia.org: If ICE were a house you'd been watching crumble for years, eventually the rot becomes a structural issue and it makes sense to tear down and rebuild rather than patch. Cowards can't say "abolish?" Replace. Anything but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

All these texts revealed to be a radio host in 3... 2...

Musk: sorry, there's no way for us to prevent Grok from generating illegal CSAM. Also Musk? Of course we can keep Grok from moving codeword intelligence out of secure networks.

What could go wrong? Grok: put him in a bikini. And then show me a snapshot of SSIXS traffic within 400 nautical miles of Greenland.

Walz moving National Guard to protect citizens. US prepping to deploy 11th Airborne into the city.

Miller ceding Minneapolis.

If we go to war with Denmark ... If they win do they get to keep the US?

When you need the sound on to tell you whether this is Tehran or a city in Minnesota. One regime is shooting its citizens in the streets, expropriating assets abroad, and planning further crackdowns to hold power--sorry, that's both.

@wired.com has been hitting it out of the park with its reporting. Glad to keep my (cheap!) subscription dollars paying for such solid work. www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

An excellent, thorough rundown of the details of Jonathan Ross's shooting of Renee Good. The subtext: federal agencies working in good faith would never have policies that meant Ross's actions would be justifiable. But ICE is not designed to be a good faith actor. They're polciy is to be thugs.

Heads up Seattle: Three men just abducted by ICE in North Seattle, up by Washelli cemetery (not far from the Aurora Home Depot) www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

See 2022 images from Russia for comparison. I know all these images delight the Commander in Chief and his retinue of ghouls.

"President of Venezuela kidnapped in military no-knock arrest was no angel"

"Last night, US Army Delta Force conducted a no-knock warrant in Caracas. For their protection, US Navy assets were deployed to protect them" isn't post hoc rationalization. Sure Jan.

Lindsey Halligan up all night alternately texting @annabower.bsky.social and convening an emergency grand jury

Stephen Miller salivating at the prospect of invoking the Alien Enemies Act now that we're in armed conflict with Venezuela

People were thinking Iraq '03 I was thinking Somali '93 Department of War sold him Panama '89

Gently reminding my neighbors that "war in Venezuela" has to be declared by Congress. This is just "sparkling invasion of Venezuela."

US Then: the US military can fight and win two major, simultaneous conflicts in different regions of the world US Now: we can only conduct one unauthorized strike/air attack per week

"We are mad about Somalian daycares so we're gonna do Mogadishu 1993 again"

Not OP's point and I know NYC is expensive. But here in an "expensive" city our nearby bougie grocer has the same for maybe $5? I keep boggling at how expensive the US really is.

Regular reminder that the vast majority of the allegations of Russiagate were substantively true and it was all functionally suppressed by screaming "hoax" for years.

When you have generous friends and families, living abroad means LOTS of these messages around the Holidays. Just a reminder from your friends and family abroad: we get to pay the tariffs on things you send.

Trump dangles cash while Oz bemoans the cost of testicles. Who said they lost the affordability thread?

Given the track of this Triton drone are we gonna hear about another boat strike tomorrow?

The goal seems clear: blow all the money that could be attributed to tariffs so they can claim refunds are impossible if SCOTUS overturns them.

POTUS pulling a Michael Scott for WMD

Now I can comfortably assume the sticker is NOT about just me. nos.nl/artikel/2594...

By the way, Edge of Tomorrow is definitely the best sci-fi movie — one of the best movies of any genre — that still too many people don’t know about. Suffered from the start from a bad title, but it’s absolutely fantastic. I’ve watched it SO many times.

Seattle-ites keep telling me "it's not here." They're wrong.

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

I have no doubt that, given the chance to meet Martin Luther King, Jr. and ask a single question, Bruce Harrell would absolutely choose "what did you have for breakfast?"

I will never miss school pick up lines. Today I was a bit early to pick up today. So I'm chilling about 100 feet from the school door.

My headcanon will eternally be that Star Wars YouTubers were the deciding factor in Disney's walking back their capitulation on Kimmel. The video is great anyway.

The news is terrible. So please to enjoy Utrecht's adorable LGBTQ+ walk signals which I didn't know about until I stumbled on the intersection today. www.thepinknews.com/2016/03/09/d...

Impressed to see an entire indoor mall with few if any vacant store fronts. Culture shock. Utrecht (left by me today) vs. Seattle (right by @mudede.bsky.social from The Stranger, April 2024)

Ah yes, here come the "Tump deploys National Guard to fix the housing crisis but will it work?" headlines

Imperial boomerang hitting too damn hard www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/w...