"Certain of our Demagogues seem to regard Checks and Ballances as inconvenient obstacles." - John Jay

Trade. Foreign reserves. Now energy. Europe is diversifying on everything. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

literally Trump is not the President. his TV calls the shots

💔 😡 🤬 'A man, a helper, shows up to help... carrying a gun... legally... He never once sought to use it...he sought to... Help the woman near him who was pepper sprayed and knocked over. And he got murdered for it. Every bit of it is obscene.' - @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2026/01/26/a...

BREAKING: Judge Tostrud -- a Trump appointee — has quickly granted a restraining order, barring the administration from "destroying or altering evidence" taken from today's shooting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It was an execution.

Kids, read history books, or you might find yourself in front of a national audience saying something this stupid.

🚨 Breaking from the US Senator for Connecticut. 👇 There you have it. ICE has never been about immigration enforcement. It's a weapon used to brutalize Americans and stoke enough fear so that Trump can rig the elections and usher in dictatorship.

Breaking MS NOW: Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement. "I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish. Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature. Minneapolis, MN

Giveon playing in Walgreens is the small win I needed today.

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2

Have you noticed ICE is consistently using suppressors (silencers) on their rifles? Why are ICE agents using suppressors and battering rams to arrest old men and nonviolent people in broad daylight? This is for maximum effect imo.

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.

WELKER: What is the national emergency that justifies this new slate of tariffs? BESSENT: The national emergency is avoiding a national emergency

The US government denied her a lawyer, threw her in an ICE cell, and deported her in defiance of a court order. It is doing nothing so far to bring her back. www.boston.com/news/local-n... #ICE

These powerful pics are really, really good reminders of why it makes sense for those opposing Trump to reclaim ownership of the American flag. If your audience is the giant lower-info middle of the electorate--and it should be--this seems like a really good way to get to them.

A Liberian man is back in custody in Minnesota, a day after a judge ordered him released because agents broke down his door to arrest him without a judicial warrant.

I wonder what happens when you subsidize demand

This is important and, also, not not new. There were reports of this in LA, Portland, and Chicago, at least, as well.

Breaking news: An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner said it is likely to classify the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center as a homicide. A detainee says he witnessed Campos being choked to death by guards.

“Noem: U.S. Citizens Should Be Prepared To Show Proof.” Did you vote for a “Show Me Your Papers” society?

@tailscale.com 1.92.3 Android is absolutely murdering my battery.

Anyway, if we were going to fix everything with just the people who already are in our movements, it would have happened by now. Everyone is late for something, including you. Ready the welcoming committee.

I don't know how you can watch this video, understand that it's the culmination of what millions of people believe, and not come away thinking that mental illness is so much more prevalent than anyone wants to admit.

The day after Renee Nicole Good’s death, Kristi Noem quietly ordered new restrictions on congressional visits to immigration detention facilities. That order, revealed in court late Saturday, forces lawmakers to seek a week's advance notice before conducting oversight visits to ICE facilities.

More from the party of federalism: "the states are merely an agent for the federal government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the federal government, as represented by the president of the United States, tells them, for the good of the country, to do."

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

They're trying to escalate. They're trying to start something so they can put it down violently. Why else would she say stuff like this?

"I couldn't sit at home any more. I had to face the enemy eye to eye."

NEW: House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena journalist Seth Harp for identifying a person he claims is the Delta Force commander who oversaw the operation in Venezuela. Press freedom watchers say the action flouts the First Amendment. w/ @kadiagoba.bsky.social

He uses the phrase "to my eyes" as though it's some sort of preliminary exonerative subjectification of the facts. That kind of anticipatory shielding betrays what he really knows to be true.

"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

Renee Nicole Good was an avid writer, a proud mother and a hobby guitarist who won a poetry prize in 2020, according to online records and an interview with her father. Here’s more of what we know about her life: https://wapo.st/4bjKzxW

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Few things wreck social trust quite like the men with the guns telling me I shouldn't believe my own lying eyes.

Ongoing and obvious reminder that firing chemical weapons directly at people's heads like this *is* deadly force.

Um, you're not allowed to go door-to-door hoping to randomly find someone violating the law. You need a warrant. That's is basic Constitutional shit.

Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations

Paternalistic nonsense. Disappointed in my home state. 'Virginia’s new law limiting how much time children under 16 can spend on social media apps took effect on Jan. 1...one hour of social media time per day on each platform' www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h... @enbrown.bsky.social @frashure.org

POTUSes went to Congress for a declaration before a war. Then mere authorization. Then notification. Trump didn't bother even w/ that. This has led to what Founders feared most: "A madman able to plunge the country into war on a whim," @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net tinyurl.com/4dy79cbv

Katie Miller, wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, posted an image of Greenland covered with an American flag and the caption “SOON.”

It's not even like Rubio being a Venezuela hawk is some new development. It's been one of his signature obsessions for many years. Every Democratic senator who voted to confirm him, which is all of them, has no excuse to now pretend it's a surprise.

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.

Not good

Lol. Bondi deleted that post crediting the Trump admin for ending overdose deaths after @tedlieu.bsky.social pointed out that the chart's data ended during the Biden admin, showing the decrease was under Biden.

'“On a daily basis I’m worrying that federal cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection may be backsliding,”' - @malwarejake.bsky.social tells @lhn.bsky.social in @wired.com. Me too, brother. Me too. www.wired.com/story/expire... @gate15.bsky.social @fergdawg.bsky.social #cybersecurity