8th circuit gives ICE go ahead to use force against peaceful demonstrators, a decision which will immediately lead to injury.

This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.

Kasky to Jennings: I understand that your job is predicated on just getting increasingly more demented every single week

Munger seems almost sad at the thought. #RIP

A presidential letter that will go down in infamy, with an equally infamous US electorate, dumbed down to the point of amoeba, voted in a Kremlin-backed stooge to paralyze western democracy.

As it faces the rising costs of mass incarceration, North Carolina’s prison system is squeezing more revenue from incarcerated people and their loved ones by increasing its markup on canteen products.

(NYT) - President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a message he sent to Norway’s prime minister over the weekend. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...

what a legend lmao

Now we begin the familiar ritual where 95% of the Republicans in Congress claim they are completely unaware of Trump’s deranged letter to the PM of Norway so they are unable to comment on it.

oh.

This is an amazing interview. We have the tools, we have the technology. Now we need the will.

Appeasing Trump always produces the opposite result the appeasers are hoping to achieve. There are thousands of examples over decades, but somehow people still don’t get it. Bill Cassidy and Europe found out yesterday. Someone else will find out today, then another tomorrow.

Reporter: Francisco Longoria was stopped in his car with his son in the passenger seat. One of the Border Patrol agents smashes the glass, and then Longoria drives away. It's very clear that there were no federal agents in front of Longoria's vehicle, yet the agent discharged his firearm at him

I saw this take on TikTok a few days ago and wanted to share it here. I had to truncate it because it's a bit longer than 3 minutes. Her central argument is the US govt has a problem in that decades of stochastic terrorism from gun culture has made us less scared of guns.

“the pro-Israel accusation against false "global silence" on Iran, coming from people who would never consider demonstrating to save Gaza's children, reflects cognitive, and moral, dissonance.”

“A federal judge on Friday barred federal agents in Minneapolis from arresting peaceful protesters, or using nonlethal munitions and crowd control tools against them.” www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Federal judge in Minneapolis just blocked federal agents (ICE, DHS etc.) from arresting peaceful protesters or using pepper spray, tear gas & other crowd control weapons against them. First Amendment win after weeks of clashes & the killing of Renee Goode by an ICE agent. ✊🇺🇸

This week, I spoke with a St. Paul woman who told me ICE came to her door and asked her to report on her "Asian neighbors." The Hmong community, the large majority of whom are in this country legally for decades now, is in hiding.

On Tuesday, a coalition of local unions and community organizations in Minneapolis, Minnesota called a walkout for Friday, 1/23, framed as a one‑day general strike and statewide economic shutdown to oppose the rampage by Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

In this week’s newsletter, I discuss my own despair at the political fecklessness of the opposition party, but take solace in the fact that the people are leading. In @thenation.com

NEWSMAX host Carl Higbie: “This 6 month old who unfortunately got tear gassed by ICE… That sucks 🤷🏼 , but why was a 6 month old near tear gas in the first place?” The live there Carl, you soulless puppet

big participation trophy vibes embarrassing for all involved

Some decent percentage of Americans will naturally view ICE’s behavior with revulsion. Another decent percentage can be persuaded eventually of ICE’s indecency. The remainder is irredeemable but hopefully can be curb-stomped electorally.

This is the story of the day. Share it. We are all being called to be our highest selves. The cavalier treatment of the Nobel Prize is a disgrace. It represents another way to destroy and defile that which should be precious and revered. We can all make choices to be better.

Jimmy Kimmel offers to let Trump have one of his trophies if he will pull ICE out of Minneapolis.

This is the kind of shit the bad cop does in a movie and the hero cop calls him out on it. There are no hero cops here.

Perfect— Tennessee/Nashville gives MAGA billionaire Larry Ellison millions of our tax dollars to land Oracle’s HQ… and he recruits people from outside TN for jobs he’s “creating” 🤔 @GovBillLee (in MEMPHIS Elon’s xAI is also recruiting from outside TN) fortune.com/2026/01/15/o...

Stephen Miller's invasions are utterly atrocious but they're also renewing civil society in every city he invades.

A 21-year-old college student in Santa Ana CA has been permanently blinded in one eye by ICE agents.

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🧵Trump got the idea to annex Greenland from cosmetics billionaire Ron Lauder who has interests there. "As Trump has ratcheted up his threats to seize Greenland, Lauder has acquired commercial holdings there.Lauder is also part of the consortium whose desire to access Ukrainian minerals ...

Here are some of the Lauder brands

Here's another company to not support.

Not to be too hyperbolic but I feel like price discrimination at this granular a level, if done at scale, kinda takes a sledgehammer to some of the fundamentals of microeconomics. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people are grooming them to be Nazis.

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

It's extraordinarily rare for a political event to break through to such a widespread degree as this. Dems should seize on it! This is resonating big time in exactly the info spaces that Dems struggle to reach, as I try to argue in this piece:

I'm not the first person to note this, but authoritarian crackdowns are much more difficult in cities, where's there's public space & people can gather & find solidarity. That's partly why reactionary governments everywhere prefer suburbanization -- it disperses, dilutes, & atomizes the public.

BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each. If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.

ICE is now ramming civilian cars through red lights in Minnesota. — they are tax payer agitators ‼️

This is a wonderful illustration of the many ways we rely upon a functioning, competent government every day. We might miss it when its gone.

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

Grew up with shop keepers, teachers etc asking my dad, generally friendlily, where you from? He’d answer sweetly as if he couldn’t imagine why they asked: Connecticut. But where, most persisted, did you learn English? Same answer: Connecticut. Then, when we were alone: none of their damn business.

MAGA doesn't just want "remigration." It also wants "recolonization" and "rechristianization." Clarifying @aselrod.bsky.social piece on MAGA's "theocratic" worldview blending "new age fascism and manosphere toxicity masquerading as a return to ancient wisdom." www.liberalcurrents.com/remigration-...

This is well worth a watch, not just because you can see someone who was on the sidelines quickly become involved and engaged, but because it's another reminder that no one wants these fucking goons in their community.