As I noted, David Ellison went to the Democratic Attorney General Association last week; he knows this is a vulnerability, and Bonta wasn't the only one questioning him. That's why Ellison and his minion Makan Delrahim are trying to speed up closing the deal before anyone can challenge it.

Whoever made this, it’s BRILLIANT. Trump’s “Board of Peace.”

I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy. So let me say a few things. 🧵1/

From me: Kalshi's banning of a Mr. Beast employee for insider trading may undermine the many legal cases where prediction markets claim they are just neutral platforms for futures contracts and not casinos that can determine the outcome of the bets. prospect.org/2026/02/26/p...

In California, the top two vote getters regardless of party advance to the general. Hilton and Blanco are Republicans. We are in mortal danger of a Rep-Rep runoff unless some Dems drop out to consolidate the Dem vote. Villaraigosa, Becerra, Thurmond and Yee must leave the race immediately.

How the chaos and idiocy will play out at this point.

The snow is back. But New York is ready. Here's everything you should know about tomorrow's blizzard. Stay safe, stay warm, and sign up for real-time updates by texting NotifyNYC to 692-692.

congrats to DC on achieving statehood

Mike Davis, Arthur Schwartz, Brian Ballard, and Kellyanne Conway control the Justice Dept through their "sock puppets of Bondi, ...Todd Blanche, and ...Chad Mizelle." What do they want? "sweetheart settlements and merger green lights" - and that's what they get. There is no Antitrust Division rn.

The barbarians are inside the gates. “[W]e live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.” — Stephen Miller digbysblog.net/2026/02/14/s...

ICE goons trying to eat at local MN Mexican restaurant. GTFOH!

Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Among the other painful but delicious details in this Fred Biery opinion ordering Liam Ramos be freed is this subtweet of Stephen Miller. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Reminder: It was never about "immigrants." It is entirely about race. These are fascists.

Everybody should watch Andor. The end teaches lessons about resistance that should be learned now.

Holy shit.

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...

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The people carrying out Trump’s illegal orders think they’re untouchable. They’re not. Trump won’t be in power forever to protect them. Accountability is coming. We will bring them to justice. That’s a promise.

After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol. John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign. Pay-to-play imperialism.

This breaks my heart to see.

guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.

Cowards. None of these guys have basic functioning moral compasses & they think that they personally will never experience the harm their constituents (and voting base) are experience. And lack of courage comes from their feckless leaders at top. Just a complete disgrace.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney: "This bargain no longer works." It was a fantasy we all accepted because it served our mutual interests. digbysblog.net/2026/01/21/w...

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

A must-read.

The other day I bitched that people always forget LaMonica McIver in their list of politicized prosecutions. The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Former head of Norway's armed forces says U.S. is now a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms.” Maybe the Democratic leadership could take a hint from him. www.dn.no/politikk/tid...

"Democracy, multilateralism and accountability once defined the postwar order. ..... We need to ask ourselves, on both sides of the Atlantic, if we want to live in a world where democracy is recast as weakness, truth as opinion and justice as an option."

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

Maine alert: ICE is expanding its presence. Know the signs, alert neighbors, document safely, and stay nonviolent—but don’t stay silent. Community awareness saves lives. Save this graphic. Share widely. Credit: Indivisible Maine

And they both think they are acting to please a god.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

I just donated to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. The link below provides multiple ways to fund critical organizing in MN.

How can we stop the violent maraudings of our 21st-century Klan? Harold Meyerson has some thoughts. prospect.org/2026/01/13/h...

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

Goons and thugs.

“To those who think that the promises of a campaign cannot survive once confronted with the realities of government, today is your answer,” Mamdani said.

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Were these "professionals" trained over Zoom or over the weekend? x.com/CalltoActivi...

Ok, I couldn't stop thinking about this. Apologies to the literally dozens of people I've lifted from... I want to do a fully credited version, but I'm sitting here sobbing and, well, maybe you'll feel some release, too.

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER: “.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish .. “.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

Think about the mindset, and the expectation of immunity, of someone who texts this to friends.

The Mayor of Minneapolis knows how to communicate.

A Republican House member endorsing the open murder of an American on the streets of Minneapolis.

ICYMI, yesterday I ran down several examples of federal officers who violated state laws being prosecuted. Yes it would likely be removed to federal court. Yes there would be claims that the officer was discharging his duties. So what. If you don't prosecute now you've given ICE practical immunity.