Three right-wing talking points whose logic contradicts each other: 1. No voter ID means illegal immigrants are voting. 2. You need an ID to fly on a plane so you should need one to vote. 3. We need to send ICE to airports to arrest all the illegal immigrants flying on planes.

New from me: by the end of the week, the war in Iran will likely have cost $25 billion, with Trump poised to ask for $200 billion more Below is a writeup, but the meat of it is this table, which shows what an equal amount of funding could cover domestically www.americanprogress.org/article/by-t...

Newsmax host: “The Strait of Hormuz is not in great shape, as the president claimed”

She is just about 12 years old and has never, not once, caught a ball (or anything) her entire life. Desperately wants to, zero skill but total determination.

hah she has no idea!!!!

Never thought my old job of watching and writing about Fox News would come in handy so often, and yet

hey gen z welcome to republican governance

The people leading the U.S. war on Iran are a former “Fox & Friends” guest and a former “Fox & Friends” host.

Fox News serving up propaganda that would make North Korean media blushed.

"Their president Biden was a warmonger. This man [Trump] is a peace monger. This is the greatest peace movement in modern American history. This is a peace mission. The fact that we have to use weapons is because the other side wants to build nuclear weapons to blow us off the face of the earth."

There’s been no effort by the administration to sell this war to the base.

This is fucking chilling, and I believe it 100%.

Hegseth has a long history of not only calling for war with Iran, but for thirsting over destroying cultural heritage sites. He sees the US military as a flaming sword for Jesus…and now he’s in charge of it. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

that top DOD officials spent the entire day feuding with a tech company and the boy scouts before launching a war in the middle of the night should probably inform your opinion about how well planned and executed this will be

never look at your phone when you get up to take a leak. someone might have started an idiot war

Huh. He literally did the speech.

How i feel too.

Nick Shirley is rebooting old James O'Keefe myths about voter fraud and serving them up to a new audience. Did either of them find fraud? No. But did they come close? Also no. But what if you simply imagined the fraud? Well, now we're talking!

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

I think my argument based on this is that what's unique in America is not the divide but the propaganda and the efficiency with which it's delivered.

was glad to see @goangelo.bsky.social observe with @nicollewallace.bsky.social that trump is actually claiming more power than King George formally possessed in 1776. I make this point in my new book and also in a piece I wrote recently for @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-is-u...

"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..." www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

The massive right-wing media and associated fever swamps, I think, play a bit part in why authoritarianism is able to blossom here faster than benchmarks. Emerging authoritarian regimes need to build out media and propaganda. We already had one for decades pickling people in grievance and deceit.

lol. Fox News cutting away from cabinet meeting.

I cannot stress how completely bizarre & unheard of it is for the DNI to be personally present for a search warrant execution, never mind this one.

NEW: A federal judge in Minnesota orders Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear IN PERSON this Friday and explain why he shouldn't be held in contempt. "The court's patience is at an end," writes Bush-appointed Judge Patrick J Schiltz, who clerked for Scalia. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

Seems like a bad sign for the general competency level of federal law enforcement that the FBI director spends his time scouring the feeds of random MAGA influencers and launching investigations based on their posts. www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnso...

Roughly an hour after Brian Kilmeade said that "I would love to see Tom Homan just be asked to go" to Minneapolis, Trump says he's sending him there. Left, Fox & Friends, 7:17 a.m. Right, Trump, 8:31 a.m. Do they have CAVA in Minnesota?

1/ I’ve been going back and watching rwm in initial hour after the murder shooting, before more videos came out In this Bannon clip, Guest assumes a gun musta been was pulled: a) you don’t shoot unarmed people; b) there were multiple agents so lethal force wouldnt be needed unless extreme situation

Editorial board of Murdoch’s WSJ also urging Trump to back down. www.wsj.com/opinion/time...

1) Melugin slips in here something Fox has repeatedly contradicted on-air: Pretti never drew his gun. 2) Melugin is on Homan’s side of his ongoing schism with Noem/Bovino over enforcement tactics, trying to preserve the mass deportation project.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social here’s another example

Timeline palette cleanse. Keyo, who is now an old lady, appreciating the snow after initial skepticism of snow gear.

ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.

They got Edina Moms excoriating the Administration and signing off with a a land acknowledgement. They are so fucked lol

Flashback to earlier this week:

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

The success of this caption may unfortunately prove that this site is all aging millennials (I’m fine with that)

Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account

all i have to say is that certainly the mind behind dhs' social posts, and the mindset of a lot of people in this admin, the online nazi mindset, is "there is a plague on this country we must eliminate and anyone who stands against us is a brainwashed race traitor," and theyre acting accordingly

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

I really do feel like we don’t talk about this enough. Literally civil. It’s the equivalent of heavily arming traffic cops and having them go around beating and killing people that parked somewhere they shouldn’t have 5 years ago and also doing it to the people around them for good measure.

Also, ICE shouldn't have firearms at all in this context! They are a civil/regulatory enforcement agency. When they are doing domestic immigration enforcement, they don't even enforce criminal law!