What's becoming clearer to everyone - even though Miller never hid it - is they consider 5 year old Liam and every other immigrant in this country, no matter their status, among the "worst of the worst" Their mass deportation is really ethnic cleansing

Ashley Padilla has, for me, been this season's SNL standout performer. I can see her becoming one of the greats

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social is one of the few mainstream columnists or journalists I've seen raising the alarm about the threat Trump et al pose to free and fair elections in November. We should all read and internalise this column. These are perilous times www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

One effect of the gendered split in the US political imagination, in which liberals are feminized and conservatives are masculinized, is that liberals’ opposition to the right is cast as disavowed sexual desire. Liberals secretly want fascism, in this view, the same way women secretly want rape.

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching neighbours inform on neighbours from our apartment above.

Very interesting. Big moment.

HOW IS IT UNCLEAR WHEN PAM BONDI SAID AS MUCH

Judge Kate Menendez - a Biden appointee - today decided that actually, the federal government does have a right to murder its citizens in the streets. When the time comes for justice, she must be removed from the bench www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

This is the epistemic cliff that American normie shitlibs are all peering over this morning. It appears to be literally true that our entire political discourse for the last 15 years is just rich sex monsters who are also 4chan edgelords. It is all posting. It’s posting all the way down.

I did wake up today to a WhatsApp message saying “you’re in the Epstein files”, but I’m not embarrassed about why: (There’s about four other emails I sent during reporting that story that aren’t online yet so I suspect it’s still missing *quite a lot*)

Don Lemon speaks on his unjust, un-American arrest www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wBV...

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

I am glad. My 85-year-old grandfather watched AI slop about Elvis every night, but I haven't the heart to tell him. This will help my nerves immensely

Why does Pam Bondi hate Georgia Fort? "Georgia Fort is a three-time Midwest Emmy award-winning journalist who was one of two journalists in the courtroom for the sentencing of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering George Floyd." www.startribune.com/who-is-georg...

What is rarely acknowledged is that these people are just fundamentally dull human beings. Obsessed with money, status and fashion but utterly devoid of charm or intellect or even a sense of humour. A Zoolander 2 White House.

When I resigned as co-chair of the National Association of Black Journalists convention after their decision to platform Trump, I took a lot of heat for it. I was told “Black journalists are going to expose his racism and save America” Today, the Trump regime is arresting Black journalists.

I minored in women's studies. I've seen the power of feminist thought and analysis in real time. Scales fall from eyes like leaves from an autumn oak. It is dangerous to patriarchy, which is why they're banning it

the answer is that jennings performance of smug dishonesty reliably generates viral clips, so they continue to have him on even though he is a shameless liar

This story is not getting the level of coverage it deserves. Someone needs to piece this together with Bondi’s demands in MN to draw a coherent picture of what’s happening: A concerted effort by the Trump regime to interfere in the next election

Catherine O'Hara was a light. The world is dimmer without her

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

Lemon being fired from CNN a few years back and now being a YouTuber is precisely why Trump cares. Lemon is still a big fish, but he lacks the institutional backing and protection a broadcast journalist enjoys. DOJ went after Lemon because he's vulnerable, thus easier to make an example of

The government’s arrests of journalists @donlemonofficial.bsky.social and @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social are attacks on freedom of the press. Two federal courts flatly rejected prosecuting Lemon, but instead of accepting that humiliating defeat, the government has now doubled down. Read our statement:

Statement from CNN on the Don Lemon arrest:

Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were arrested by "federal agents." Federal agents from where? What federal agency is arresting journalists? Not seeing this in the news stories or announcements.

⚡️ HAPPENING NOW — KNOXVILLE students shake off discipline warnings and walk out to protest ICE… We’re told 1000+ are there 👀 💪🏽 www.knoxnews.com/story/news/p...

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

The white house used a chains emoji to (jim) crow about Lemon's arrest. A chained Black man is not a subtle dog whistle, it's a very clear nod to this countries slave owning beginnings, which ideologically this administration either seeks to deny or rewrite to say "slaves were happy."

Trump, Vance, and many of their loudest supporters campaigned on racist scapegoating and ethnic cleansing state violence. The thing splitting MAGA is getting what they voted for. The thing bothering the American people is what many of them didn’t bother to vote against. Touch-the-stove in action.

feds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember www.jlundyforsd65.com

Trump's raid on Fulton County, Georgia's election offices is an ominous sign of things to come. Mainstream US media is not covering it with the level of alarm and bluntness it requires. Thankful @newsagents.bsky.social is bucking that trend. This is a must-watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlQQ...

Solidarity with Don Lemon. His arrest is an attack on the free press and the First Amendment. It is un-American, and every journalist in these United States has a responsibility to speak out on his behalf

Don Lemon was arrested after the DOJ twice sought charges against him and was twice denied in federal courts. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Yes, Rep. Everyone knows I'm trans. Now what about the policy? Are we going to work together to bring accountability to those empowered to use force on our neighbors, or not?

WHAT

I'm not ready to pile on Schumer and the Democrats yet, but perhaps it's just because to do so will lead me to a bottomless pit of despair

Trump is a danger to the Republic. Rural voters have a patriotic duty to call their GOP Congressmen and Senators, especially those retiring, and demand they immediately begin caucusing with Democrats to provide a check on this out of control executive. My latest: dailyyonder.com/commentary-r...

It's a war and the American people are the enemy. Can't do the fake "no they're just after the bad guys" after you shot two people for no good reason. bsky.app/profile/ndre...

Feds have been ramming people with their cars. No one has murdered them in response. If the suggestion here is that these officers killed Pretti because of this previous incident, that’s worse. Kicking a tail light is not a capital crime. And we don’t do delayed, extrajudicial executions here.

Here’s the video. Before these videos were taken ICE had abducted someone - I followed the convoy back to Whipple and then returned and they were still, for some reason, deployed up and down Park Ave causing chaos. Impossible to overstate how much ICE’s goal seemed to be open incitement.

Destruction of property is not a capital offence. It is that straightforward Whether Pretti should've been charged with a crime for this action or not is irrelevant to his killing. Anyone arguing otherwise is arguing in bad faith And yes, I'm repeating what Yashar says. But it bears repeating

Okay so I was actually at this encounter, filmed the aftermath, and am briefly visible in this video, and I would point out that what he does here is briefly kick a car twice. ICE beats him up, shoots pepper balls into the crowd, and launches tear gas at everyone else before leaving.

Trump is a danger to the Republic. Rural voters have a patriotic duty to call their GOP Congressmen and Senators, especially those retiring, and demand they immediately begin caucusing with Democrats to provide a check on this out of control executive. My latest: dailyyonder.com/commentary-r...

Is Trump trying to retroactively steal the 2020 election and rig the next election? Because... that's what this looks like

one of the worst things about right-wingers retreating into their own media bubble is that they genuinely believe that everyone is, at root, a racist Nazi just like them and they find it inconceivable that city-dwellers are not in a constant state of panic and rage about their immigrant neighbors.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free