It is important to acknowledge who is standing up and who is just trying to get by. Every day Americans are standing up while the powerful are mostly standing by. Why aren't law firms standing up and sending lawyers to Minneapolis. Why aren't the corporations speaking out? Why isn't the media?

So basically today was the day the United States jumped the shark

I love it when we all stay up late having fun together in our jammies with our little snacks

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social: Trump publicly threatens Greenland to hide from questions about Epstein youtu.be/u5vNDVGs0Vg?...

Jones to Hannity: Shame on you. Your children will be ashamed of where you stand. I’m going to pray for you. Tell Trump to put down the pardon pen and pick up a mirror if he wants to go after criminals.

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Wheels up. It was fun while it lasted

Sending this out again for local folks since it's been a while. Have you seen ICE agents around Pittsburgh & SWPA? Do you work for the federal gov't? Are you a researcher, healthcare worker, social worker? Has your ACA insurance skyrocketed? Do you have a story? Here's my contact info:

Rapid response training teaches volunteer community members how to ethically observe & document detentions by immigration agents, provide basic support for legal rights, connect with aid groups, and get information to family of detainees.

Absolutely massive turnout at the ICE Rapid Response training in Pittsburgh tonight, hosted by Frontline Dignity. Over 500 people showed up, including dozens from out of county & out of state.

China has begun delivering 30,000 tons of rice to Cuba as part of a new emergency aid program, amid severe food and fuel shortages. The first shipment arrived Monday, with a second reaching the Port of Santiago de Cuba today; additional shipments are expected to depart from China shortly.

Update: Pool left AF1 and was in position for President Trump to walk off. But then we were directed back on the same plane and now holding. Two replacement planes are on tarmac.

Update by the WH pool Pool didn’t see POTUS board replacement AF1, which is the smaller aircraft (757). 

Sending now as cell coverage poor inside this plane. We will be wheels up for Zurich at some point soon.

The excitement/hopefulness on Bluesky upon the initial reports of Air Force One turning around was probably nothing compared to what they felt in Davos.

they shut off the pool camera? what is happening

Spox: The President is headed back to Andrews Air Force Base due to a minor electrical issue in Air Force One, and will be switching planes to the Lolita Express, financier Jeffrey Epstein's private Gulfstream, to continue onto Davos.

News that Air Force One had to return to base due to a “minor electrical problem” sounds invented. I suspect someone isn’t firing on all cylinders or he doesn’t want to face the others in Davos. medium.com/@kamrunmajid...

He actually did it. The pilot of Air Force One told Donald Trump if he didn’t shut the fuck up, he turned the plane around and go home. Probably 🤷🏻‍♂️

With “The Testament of Ann Lee,” Amanda Seyfried wants the founder of the American Shaker movement to be “put back into the fabric of history.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

By Gary Markstein.

Trump on the Insurrection Act: "It does make life a lot easier. You don't through the court system. It's just a much easier thing to do."

Not that this is a surprise to anyone, but the rule of law means nothing to Donald Trump

Trump: “Prices are way down—gasoline now $1.99 in a lot of places—and frankly, nobody’s seen anything like this." “This will be an interesting trip. I have no idea what's gonna to happen, but you are well represented.”

Trump: “So I'm going to Davos. I believe it will be very successful, the trip, the country never done better. We have $18 trillion-plus coming in. We’ve never had anything like it, and no other country has had anything like it."

Air Force One is returning to Joint Base Andrews due to "a minor electrical issue," the White House said

I really don't like having to write pieces about people I personally know. But Andy Naselli's prayer for ICE to break the teeth of the wicked in Minneapolis was simply too awful to ignore. So here's my latest piece. baptistnews.com/article/calv...

He's the Acting Field Office Director! His name is a matter of public record!

"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”

A Minnesota man received a life-threatening injury while in ICE custody. It's not clear how he got injured because his memory and ability to communicate are so severely impaired. Agents said "he got his shit rocked." Wild story from @katrinapross.bsky.social sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...

It's strange for the President of the United States to be litigating in his personal capacity against the Justice Department he runs — but he's seeking an order barring "current, former and future" DOJ officials from releasing Jack Smith's second volume. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Moulton: I have an idea for ICE funding: zero. That’s what ICE needs.

Homan: "Let's make it clear: ICE can detain a US citizen if they have probable cause that this person may have committed a crime. A short detainment and questioning, all you need is reasonable suspicion."

AG Ellison: "If you're not gonna do an investigation, and you won't rely on other authorities to do an investigation, it sounds like you're trying to do a coverup."

These numbers are a shitshow. The GOP knows they’re not sustainable, but they’re too afraid to actually do anything about it. That’s why you’re seeing so many of them resign. They understand what’s coming in the midterms.

Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

For the first time in history, the archbishop responsible for U.S. service members said officers may be morally obligated to disobey a sitting president’s orders. Broglio said a Trump-ordered invasion of Greenland would violate Catholic teaching and that Catholic troops could refuse to comply.

Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."

Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin. This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.

folks, this is some really weird shit. the president is not well.

The end of American hegemony presents an opportunity for the “Tech Bros” to step in to “help” and thereby achieve the state-level power they have long craved. Thread. 1/

This regime has kicked America right off a cliff and we remain in free fall. It's infuriating to watch our neighbors & Allies recoil from us. Once ground is met, we will have decades and decades of rebuilding before regaining some kind of respect & trust.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

It’s hard to overstate how damaging this will be to public health and medicine. About a quarter of medical residents are from other countries and America has a physician workforce shortage.

I'll be very interested to watch #residency #matchday in March, especially #internalmedicine, ~50% IMG "Fischer’s internal medicine department employs 135 international medical graduates, almost all his doctors “what do you do if you miss 80-90% of your doctors? You’re done. We couldn’t go a year”

Gov Tim Walz's office has now received a subpoena from DOJ, his office just confirmed. Absolutely vile. The only people facing federal investigation of any kind right now for the killing of Renee Good are Minnesota officials who drew attention to it.

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."