Here are my top 10 dogs and their grandparents!

Trump, Miller, Noem, ICE, etc. declare total dominance because, as @amandamarcotte.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social point out, they don't have it, and hope bluster can cower enough people. The regime will escalate as it falters. But faltering in the face of resistance is what's happening.

Reminder that these kind of door-to-door “general warrants” are both explicitly illegal and also a major trigger for the American Revolution.

Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.

Consistent with the tenor of his video, Fed Chair Jerome Powell has hired the law firm of Williams & Connolly, per @wsj.com—which suggests that he is not going to go quietly. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

Banana republic stuff.

"One was an open paramilitary wing of an openly fascist political party, the other is an unaccountable government force operating without clear uniforms, identification, or transparency... for an openly fascist political party."

It was a hard week, but journalists rose to the challenge in many different ways. Many orgs had prepared to resist any attempt to lie about what happened on 1/6/21, and were ready when the WH did so: apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/

"You think you’re watching a woman drive away with an ICE agent following, then shooting her four times in the face, but what you’re really watching is an ICE agent in fear of his life and acting in self-defense."

"The legal team said they submitted her US birth certificate along with additional documents they say establish her citizenship – but those materials were still insufficient to secure her release from ICE custody." 25 days. TWENTY-FIVE DAYS they kept this woman after kidnapping her.

Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

An ICE officer fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis is not the first time federal agents involved in immigration have shot a person this year. Here are two shootings, including another fatal one, during the recent Chicago blitz.

ICE has already been caught lying that a person they shot was trying to run them over when the car was stopped or was moving in the other direction. It was in Brighton Park, Chicago. ICE tried to sell the lie by charging the driver with a crime, but it was such a lie it didn't even make it to court.

Minnesota law enforcement have video from multiple angles of an unjustified deadly shooting in Minneapolis. Therefore, they should arrest and prosecute the shooter for murder. The fact that the killer is a federal agent should not alter that basic logic. If anything, charging is even more important.

Another angle of the video captures the ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the shooting in Minnesota was an act of domestic terrorism.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Laws and norms don’t matter unless there’s someone willing to enforce them,” writes our columnist Michelle Goldberg. “America once acted like the world’s policeman. Now it’s a mafia.”

President Trump's changing messaging, Congress' unprecedented demands and the Justice Department's piecemeal release of information haven't quieted the questions. Here's what we know — and don't. n.pr/3LsZQSz

Trump 2.0’s second year may be even worse than the first. So, what can you do? Here are the 10 most important actions you can take in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

If only we had an amendment to the Constitution that protected speech . . .

Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.

Yashar Ali has the spiked 60 Minutes segment on his Substack. See the story Canadian viewers watched that was withheld from US viewers. loom.ly/6Ab3IMo

CBS’s decision to hold back a “60 Minutes” report shows that Donald Trump’s “plan to corrupt the media is starting to work,” @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues:

Trying to imagine what it’d be like for an experienced 60 Minutes producer or reporter, who’d spent many weeks preparing a detailed investigation of a notorious El Salvador prison, to be getting input from Bari Weiss or one of acolytes, just hours before airtime.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Genuine LOL at this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

I am furious that DOJ ignored the new federal law requiring release of the Epstein Files. I am equally angry that so many in legacy media seem not to care. My latest for Democracy Docket lays out the case. Sign up now to access this and all premium content. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor. Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

Remember when Presidents did national speeches for emergencies or times where a nation needs to hear from their leader? This angry old man is literally screaming and clearly panicking

Dear the media, When the US president claims he brokered a peace deal in a place with active combat—eg Rwanda and Congo—the story is (1) fighting rages on, and (2) US president lies. The story is not “president touts historic peace deal.” A peace deal involves peace. Sincerely, Factual reality

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released. “And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry

The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Obama: "The economy has been really good for some of Trump's billionaire friends. It's been good for some finance bros and well-connected corporations who have seen their tax bill go down. But for ordinary families, costs have not gone down, they've gone up."

The president can order the “Department of War” to conduct acts of war wherever he feels like—in this case, the Caribbean—under inherent Article II war powers, and maybe under the old Congressional authorization for the War on Terror, but it’s not a war so the War Powers Act doesn’t apply. Gotcha!

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Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias issued a stern warning to ICE agents after a video on social media went viral. “Swapping out license plates or tampering with them to avoid or conceal detection is illegal, unsafe and will not be tolerated...." youtube.com/shorts/dmQoy...

Another dangerous step towards state-run media www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

Another dangerous step towards state-run media www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

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Scenes from the No Kings protest in Urbana Illinois

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Scenes from the No Kings protest in Urbana Illinois