🚨BREAKING: Federal prosecutors tell federal judge they need an additional MONTH to review Ghislaine Maxwell's routine motion to throw out her conviction because she attached 148 documents that need to be reviewed. Trump's DOJ has released .6% of the records required by law to be public by Dec. 19.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

All of this going down during the 250th anniversary year of America is a degree of cringey writing that would be roundly mocked were it a novel published in an alternative timeline.

Exactly.

NEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Reports are that the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good, Jonathan Ross, has been put “into hiding”.

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Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

My monthly post about the jobs report… It's just bad. I normally link data and articles from major news outlets—but they're capitulating to Trump, rather than call it what it is they're talking about how great it's going to be... So l made a chart instead—comparing his 1st year to Biden’s last.

A poem by Amanda Gorman For Renee Nicole Good Killed by ICE on January 7th, 2026

A privilege no longer afforded to Renee Nicole Good's family🕯 Photo h/t @elo-cin.bsky.social

Rep Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) with no fucks to give‼️’You’re sitting here redefining shower heads while millions of Americans are losing health insurance, can’t afford food…and while the president is illegally invading foreign countries.’ Brava💥🔥💥#StopTrumpsHealthCareCuts

Feels like an FBI cover up. www.inforum.com/news/minneso...

This probably should be posted everyday, but it feels especially necessary today.

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

Make it viral.

This past year ICE arrested and put zip ties on children Shot *priests* in the head with nonlethal rounds Raided an entire apartment building (which led to zero arrests) And today, proved Tim Walz right by shooting and killing a woman-a citizen-in Minneapolis Republicans When does it end

I just left the Venezuela briefing. It's worse than you thought. Oil company executives seem to know more about Trump's secret plan to "run" Venezuela than the American people. We need public Senate hearings NOW.

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

Do not believe what DHS has to say about this when they put out an official statement. They have been provable liars in similar situations.

I stand with Tim Walz.

Free kids TV programs may end after the #GOP #DJT Posse killed #PublicBroadcasting today. That radical #SesameStreet Gang will no longer teach kids bad leftist behaviors like spelling, reading & mathing for free. Parents will now need to pay #Netflix to continue their kids liberal training.🤦🏼😡 #Greed

Never forget.

Every single statement is fact. Critical Thinking skills cease to exist, more importantly where is the common sense America? Is your life better than it was 12 months ago? #Project2026 #MidTerms

1. The military raid on Venezuela and ouster of Maduro will create a financial windfall for a Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer. Follow this thread for details. 🧵 popular.info/p/venezuela-...

Well, based on the news I woke up to* that may be official later today, now seems like a good time to remind folks about precinct caucuses. Sounds like they will get a lot more interesting soon. * Walz may be ending his Governor campaign. dfl.org/caucus/

Venezuela is mentioned in Project 2025 18 times...

Fiona Hill Warned Us In 2019

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We’re old enough to remember when Congress existed

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

Chevron donated to Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration fund. Chevron’s CEO publicly praised trump’s energy agenda. Chevron donations: 94% Republican, 6% Democrat. Chevron is the ONLY foreign oil company allowed to operate in Venezuela. Follow the money.

So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago

Nothing about this is okay. The President of the United States is on Fox News right now gabbing about the U.S. attack on Venezuela before addressing the American people. So the new order of information is: Truth Social → Fox News → the public → Congress, maybe?

News: Gang of Eight in Congress were only notified about Trump's Venezuela operation after it began, source familiar tells me. That means the heads of the Intelligence Committees in Senate and House were *not* consulted. Just crazy.

The irony I see is that Maduro’s real crime was a coup. Like Jan 6th.

“No, I didn’t hear anything about Venezuela. I can’t comment on something I know nothing about. Excuse me, that’s my Covenant app’s alarm going off.” — Trump’s Johnson

So many strikes. So little time.

For the umpteenth time: This is what America looks like without a Legislative Branch.

What the United States did in Venezuela is prohibited under international law, which bars the use of force as an instrument of national policy.

I'm losing track of how many countries a man livid he wasn't given the Nobel Peace Prize has illegally bombed. Iran. Venezuela. Nigeria. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Pakistan. Somalia. Syria. Yemen. Not to mention threatening to annex Greenland and Canada and invade Panama.

While the Senate is asking Trump why they started a war to kidnap a foreign leader perhaps they might also ask why Trump freed a former foreign leader convicted of the same kind of crimes.

Any PBS NewsHour viewers take in the Richard Grenell interview tonight? Thoughts?

Detroit swore in its first Black woman as Mayor today and there was no national or global coverage of it.

There seem to be a lot of people under the impression that if Trump is impeached and removed for treason, that the VP and his whole cabinet go with him. That’s not correct. You have to impeach and remove one at a time. Art II Section 4 simply lists all the offices eligible for impeachment.

✨Happy New Year!✨

Good times . . . 🎉🤪✨️

Happy New Year! Wishing everyone a fresh start! Counting on 2026 to be the year America reminds itself and the world that we are dedicated to democracy and freedom, not despotism.