Now we learn from Reps of both parties who saw the unredacted Epstein files today that Trump, Bondi, & Blanche are covering up the absolute worst things in the Epstein files to protect the wealthy, powerful and politically connected. DOJ is being run by criminal co-conspirators.

These are letters submitted to ProPublica from children detained in an #ICE facility in Texas. Susej is 9 and has been detained for 50 days. Gaby is 14 and has been detained for 20 days. Their accounts are heartbreaking. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

This was too much! Yes!!

McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.

"As sad as it is to admit, the Washington Post is beyond help. The only thing left to us to is build new institutions to take its place. That’s what we’re doing here."

She’s a disgrace.

More people need to know. More media outlets need to be reporting on this @ms.now @nicollewallace.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @meidastouch.com @nytimes.com

Colorado lawmakers call for further investigation into ‘death cards’ left in arrested immigrants’ cars trib.al/JwiHfMO

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

An open letter Jeff Bezos and Washington Post leadership:

WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.

One of the best judge’s orders ever!

This is corruption at a whole new level. America is not for sale, yet Trump is making deals with foreign leaders and giving them unprecedented influence and access. We should all be concerned about the conflicts of interest here.

The South Carolina measles outbreak is now bigger than last year's Texas outbreak and is happening as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status. n.pr/46gC8jB

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

"The U.S. Supreme Court has made it harder for lower federal courts to hold the federal government accountable to the Constitution." Thousands of real people are paying the price, right now. @kimwehle.bsky.social on the war between the courts: lnk.thebulwark.com/4am1or0

So this administration has charged an independent Black journalist reporting in Minnesota but not two white agents who murdered two citizens

Trump is the kind of guy who tries to steal elections. He’s now presiding over a Justice Department that seems primed to help him try. We cannot permit any scandal of the moment to drive this fundamental reality from our minds.

The 11:30amET Senate procedural vote on a funding package FAILED 45-55. All Dems voted No. 🚨 The negotiations are ongoing. Another vote could happen as soon as this afternoon (1/29). If you haven't called your Senators yet, there's still time. #DefundICE

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

The operation in Washington, D.C. alone is projected to cost upwards of $660 million if it runs through the end of this year as expected, according to new data released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. n.pr/45FbxN0

These words demand attention. “In a real sense this is holy ground, consecrated by blood spilled here. The cost is high, and so I had to be here to stand in the very place where this tragedy unfurled… I think we’re at a defining moment for our country…” ~ Rev Warnock Take a moment, so much more…

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

Greg Bovino getting pulled out of Minnesota to terrorize another community is not accountability. At all.

Target in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job. “I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

Stephen Miller called the victim, an ICU nurse at the VA filming ICE, a “domestic terrorist who tried to assassinate federal law enforcement.” Greg Bovino said he “wanted to massacre law enforcement.” You saw the videos. How can any Republican not call for their resignations?

And, making the decision to bring in our military in a charged environment with citizens should never be taken lightly. He is dealing with hell, being measured, and respecting our men and women in uniform, unlike Trump and Hegseth.

Cheap gasoline, yes. Drill, baby, drill? Not so much. And electricity bills are going up, not down.

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

Of course they escalated. They are using chemical weapons on people they hold down on the ground after throwing them down.

ENOUGH. For families who have a loved one buried at Normandy, in Arlington, with a name etched in the Vietnam Memorial, or buried elsewhere due the sacrifice of life - something must be done. Anything else is disgraceful and disrespectful.

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

Noem's claim is FALSE. Here is ICE's own data on the detention population among those arrested by ICE: - 43% no criminal record (up from 6% at the start of the year), - 29% at least one prior conviction* - 28% at least one pending charge *most common are traffic and immigration offenses.

Trump, under the guise of patriotism, will attempt to tell private broadcasters and sports teams when they can play games. This is what dictators do.

Chatting with my 79 year old dad. He has lived a long, good life. Hits me when he says he never thought he would live in an America where fatigued, masked, armed to the hilt government “officials” would be walking our streets demanding people show their papers. Dear God. What have we become?

This video is the perfect encapsulation of the illegal, thuggish, unprovoked, violent conduct of ICE. Rep. @benniethompson.bsky.social, I trust that you and the House Homeland Security Committee will have interest in this.

So many things about this are wrong, including what is pointed out in this post. I just can’t understand why there are so many men with what look like weapons of war pointed at a door to make an arrest of one man that is questionable in the first place. 🙏🏻

Chris Murphy: "Let's talk about what's at stake here. The president is spending every single day thinking about invading Greenland, managing the Venezuelan economy, building a ballroom. He's not thinking about the American people at all."

Shapiro: J.D. Vance is profoundly and pathetically a weak human being, and he does whatever he thinks his boss wants him to do. What we need right now is not idiotic gaslighting from the sitting VP He should be ashamed of himself—and he’s not. I think that speaks to the weakness of his character.

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Trump is gaslighting us. This isn’t about drug trafficking. War on “Drug trafficking” is the excuse, not the reason. This is about stealing Venezuela‘s oil.

Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.

Survivors of the Eaton and Palisades Fires find healing and community working on a Rose Parade float to honor the lives and communities lost in last year's wildfires. n.pr/4sqizyY

What will it take? Really? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The far right would like you to think that Norman Rockwell was a sort of friendly neighborhood white nationalist. The thing is, he was nothing of the sort.