A massive pipe rupture has sent sewage spilling into the Potomac River. The spill of about 40 million gallons of sewage a day is turning part of the river gray upriver of Washington, D.C.

Bondi is defending Trump’s effort to keep from the public files on his alleged mishandling of classified documents.

It isn’t healthy to be this angry all the time. But it also isn’t healthy if this doesn’t make you angry.

there are so many gutting stories, but this one is hitting me extra hard. just imagining wael tarabishi slowly dying without his dad there to care for him because he was jailed by ICE makes me…i don’t have words. this country is disgusting.

not often that i can point at a photograph worthy scene and shout “i’ve been there!”

yasssssss

A 2-year old. This is a baby. newrepublic.com/post/205638/...

the hell?

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

We've updated our running catalogue of Trump 2.0's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes. The total now stands at 637 since he returned to office.

This is an excellent article showcasing the similarity between Nazi tropes and methods with current White House/trump tactics 🧵

glad this can make the rounds again. we can not forget that the white house supports these misogynistic traffickers and abusers.

Sadly for everyone in this administration, pretending history doesn’t happen doesn’t mean it didn’t. We *will* remember.

Scenes from occupied Minneapolis (Warning: video is disturbing)

Jack Smith testifies there was "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" that Trump committed crimes

Harrowing NY Times expose of the FBI, with some operational details of Minneapolis investigations & comments from ex-agents on the current federal occupation. The FBI is more fucked than you expect, which makes them less effective AND more dangerous. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... (gift link)

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

Welcome, friends, to the DHS Office of Intelligence & Analysis. I&A targeted racial justice protestors, gave junk intel about Stop Cop City to Georgia police, acquired bad gang data for the feds... Now it may be scrutinizing poverty as a driver of terrorism amid the NSPM-7 crackdown on "antifa."

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

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."

Turns out the early tells were right: DOGE was doing exactly what the people involved signaled all along…while assuring everyone it wasn’t.

I've been saying to friends for a few months that the more I study authoritarianism in other countries, the more concerned I become that the CBS story is the sleeping giant here. The process has been a simmer (people inside the network have spoken out in real-time) but don't mistake slow for safe.

I just learned that Yahoo and AOL still exist.

The brutal Minnesota occupation—the Global War on Terror transplanted from Kabul or Baghdad to US soil—has a lot of people asking basic q's about ICE and CBP, so I wanted to explain the agencies' problems and what changed to bring this war to our streets. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows

January 20, 2026

"At least six career staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were suspended with pay this summer after organizing a polygraph test that the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, failed." lol

Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."

yes, i just finished reading this elsewhere. it is very good. (and a shoutout to prez of finland, too!) www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee...

“Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to ‘overturn election results in certain states.’” (reporting by @kyledcheney.bsky.social) www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

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...

you all must take a moment to appreciate how confusing the past week has been for me. my exotic dancing stage name is ‘Greenland’.

<hypersonic noise> squeeeeeee! look at the shmexy!!!

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić (referring to Trump, Greenland, tariffs..): “I’ve been attending Davos for a long time, and I’ve never seen people so worried. No one is smiling. Because no one knows what tomorrow will bring.”

"Stephanie found bulletproof backpacks for her kids; they might make cute diaper bags for self-defense. Milk is soothing after pepper spray. Breast milk even better? Save post-meeting pump-and-dump?"

here's local news on it. This is an area that my son and his family live. www.fox17online.com/news/local-n...

Look, this is batshit and awful on every level. But as a historian, I do feel compelled to note this is the first occasion a US president has publicly declared "it's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago" is not a legitimate basis for territorial claims.

at “home” they live in concentration camp conditions. the hmong have been emigrating to the US for their safety for decades now. wtf is wrong with ICE?!!?

i can’t believe i am honestly asking this again, but, WHAT THE UTTER FUCK

They're all psychopaths. Frantically and frothingly insane psychopaths

“Ms. Goodwin was one of several legal scholars &criminal justice experts who said the conduct of ICE agents during Operation Metro Surge, the government’s name for its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, evoked the attacks by police officers in Birmingham, Ala., on civil rights protesters in 1963”

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump: "NATO has been telling Denmark, for 20 years, that “you have to get the Russian threat away from Greenland.” Unfortunately, Denmark has been unable to do anything about it. Now it is time, and it will be done!!! President Donald J. Trump"

No words. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ice-error-meant-recruits-sent-field-offices-proper-training-sources-sa-rcna254054

Today, Virginia is the only U.S. state where someone convicted of any felony loses their right to vote for life, unless it is personally restored by the governor. On Friday, lawmakers advanced a constitutional amendment to repeal that rule.

From Terry Pratchett's 'Guard's Guards' when the guild leaders have to accept the demands of the dragon:

ICE seems to get completely flummoxed when they’re being yelled at by white men over 35. They kind of put their heads down and shuffle their feet. It’s like their kryptonite.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.