The president -Is occupying a major city with armed paramilitiaries -Is blackmailing treaty allies to hand over their sovereign territory -Is trying to set himself up as chairman for life of a UN rival with $1B fees for permanent membership -Is talking about canceling elections

So many horrible things are happening that it's easy for a single incident or a single night to get lost in the shuffle. When people talk about ICE having shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis, remember that this night of terror was the context in which that violence occurred.

When the racist meme becomes national policy

It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions. Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.

This YouTube channel is faking stories from elderly people. An actual line from a video is "Subscribe because I won't be around much longer." Meanwhile, it's all AI generated.

What Europe could do is threaten to boycott the World Cup. It won't. But that might actually work. Trump wants his big show.

I just want people to know that there is no active insurrection, no regular protests, no rioting or whatever. The only time people are in the streets is when masked armed ICE thugs descend on one of our neighbors to disappear them as part of a federal government-led ethnic cleansing campaign.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Cannot say enough that AI chatbots are nothing more than predictive text extruders. They do not and cannot fact check. They can’t think. They are designed to produce a median that “sounds right” and because of this, they fabricate false information. They don’t even work as a calculator.

knock me over with a feather

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

"ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval w ppl loudly expressing their disapproval. The noise has the added benefit of drawing large crowds of bystanders who can quickly outnumber the ICE agents, who then have to decide if they want to escalate a situation or perhaps abandon" it.

Imagine how bad of a pedophile you’ve got to be to tear down the entire rule of law rather than let anyone find out details

No federal judge has the power or authority to make DOJ comply with the mandatory provisions of the Epstein Act, says Pam Bondi. It's unenforceable and meaningless. Essentially, DOJ is a lawless if not criminal enterprise, not a law enforcement agency, at this point.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Trump just placed a tariff on most of the EU of 10% that will increase to 25% in June unless they agree to sell him Greenland. This is mad king shit.

It is hard for me not to regard the failure to recognize that the AI boom is inextricable from totalitarian creep as willful ignorance, as either the delusions of those who believe they are immune or an endorsement that doesn’t require a vulgar red cap. But AI boosterism is Trumpism now. Full stop.

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

It's truly difficult to think of a more pathetic picture than this in American presidential history.

Numerous US citizens have done exactly that only to have ICE claim the proof is fake. Can you guess what all of those citizens have in common?

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

Legend

🚨 ILLEGAL DEPORTATIONS The ACLU letter alleges: masked officers have instructed detainees to cross the border by “jumping” into Mexico. In some instances, these officers have beaten detainees who have refused to cross into Mexico or threatened them with criminal charges and long-term imprisonment.

These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country

International inappropriate touching of exactly the kind parents warn their toddlers against. (I've always thought that rape was violent invasion of sovereign bodies at the human scale; maybe invasion is rape of sovereign bodies at the nation-state scale.)

It’s 2026 and we’re somehow still doing “hand over half your lunch to the bully and maybe he’ll stop”

"The agents pressed his face against the pool of blood and did not immediately call paramedics. 'The other officers were mocking him, saying, ‘You’re going to lose your eye.'"

U.S. billionaires got $1.5 trillion richer during Trump's first year in office. americansfortaxfairness.org/billionaires...

Mask off

Brown shirts. Klan. Whatever these men are, they are not there to protect and serve Americans.

This is why they mask. It isn’t about safety. It’s because they know that if decent people learn what they do, they’ll be social outcasts.

This is an astounding story, including Flock's typical reaction of blaming everyone else and refusing to take responsibility.

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

This INCLUDES INDEPENDENTS AND REPUBLICANS. Among Democrats, the number is SEVENTY SEVEN PERCENT. Any Democrat who isn't saying abolish ICE is serving someone other than you and me.

Could American protesters get some words of encouragement from the Ayatollah or something

Irony was dead: to begin with.

Newsom’s pro-billionaire, anti-trans, cozies up to the alt-right, and calls people childish names on social media. Why would you support someone who’s exactly like the guy you’re trying to get rid of?

I see Nigel Farage has gone from “the accusations I’m a Nazi are lies and I’ll sue you” to “I don’t remember, it was probably only banter” all the way to “all right so I’m a Nazi and I’m rebranding my party with an Iron Cross”

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

100%. If you want an alternative slogan you can go with "Abolish ICE before they kill again."

I keep seeing people asking why the police aren't arresting ICE or protecting people from ICE and I desperately need you to understand that the police aren't protecting you from ICE because protecting YOU is not and never has been their function and that's why we need to defund them.

Seems fitting for our current culture that, even in business, headlines are about "pasty rich dude who *will* get what he wants, he doesn't care if you've turned down his advances" www.screendaily.com/news/paramou...

There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good. This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it. A thread on how to do that 🧵

Patty, a woman observer in Minneapolis, was abducted from a car by federal agents today. She was released and talked about her experience in custody. An agent said, "You guys gotta stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead." 🙏🏼 @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

In another part of the interview, she says an agent who was driving her to Whipple stopped and pulled her out of the car to beat her again. She says she told the agent she would be at his trial at Nuremberg. “They’re enjoying it,” she told @statuscoupnews.bsky.social.

In this clip from a longer interview, she says while she was in detention, agents called Renee Good a “lesbian b*tch.” This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to. 2/2

Incredible @statuscoupnews.bsky.social interview with Skye, who says she’s a Marine Corps vet and appears to have just been released from Whipple. She says she was trapped by ICE, yanked out of her car and stomped on. 1/2

After the 2020 election, Larry Ellison joined a call to strategize on overturning the vote for Trump and donated to election deniers. Now he controls CBS and wants CNN’s parent, raising new questions this week as his influence grows. My latest in @status.news www.status.news/p/larry-elli...