Somebody wants me to get up☕️

Impeachment should be the beginning Criminal accountability should be the end.

"This is the most shamelessly, brazenly, openly corrupt and compromised government in modern American history and, astonishingly, the person who sits at the center of much of that corruption and compromise isn’t even a member of the government: It’s Jared Cory Kushner, First Son-in-Law." - me

"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE

Love this!

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Remember all the anger against the 9/11 hijackers for "using our freedoms against us?" Where is that anger for the Broligarchs, like Thiel & Musk, who also used our freedoms to destroy the US--immigrating here, getting rich on tax $ (esp fed contracts), then blowing up democracy from the inside?

A good thing happened today: Haitians in Springfield, Ohio and elsewhere are (for now) safe from the planned ethnic cleansing operation. This happened because people came together — organizers, reporters, and those who care — and made it happen. Let’s take the win and continue the work.

The Nation has nominated the people of Minneapolis for a Nobel Peace Price. Help out below: https://bit.ly/4q9datK

A little schadenfreude to start the weekend, and I’m feeling a bit satisfied😌

This President’s whole authoritarian project is in service to one goal: Moving wealth from the bottom to the top.

My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/department...

Good. Next should be Aileen Cannon.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Just leaving this here from @joanwalsh.bsky.social on the Pretti execution in case you have the heart to read. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Our new proposals for a dramatic overhaul of ethics laws: bit.ly/3YSLqyf

Dems should introduce lots of such legislation, demand hearings and debate, make a huge fuss, use paid media to call out GOP members who are blocking their consideration--and make clear this GOP Congress is enabling the madness.

But this was okay…

The rest of the sane world needs to name Trump, Stephen Miller, et al as terrorists and war criminals and make it clear they will be arrested if they enter their countries. Force Miller to never leave that military base he's hiding out in on our dime.

Also reminder that 7 House Dems are responsible for it passing the House😡

Dear media, As you report on another inexcusable act of violence by ICE against the American people, remember: HOMELAND SECURITY LIES ROUTINELY AS A MATTER OF POLICY. If you feel compelled to include the Trump regime's version of events, you must include that context. Thank you.

Trump knows Carney spanked him at Davos and is now having a predictable petty despotic meltdown. But what he will never understand is that in doing so he is proving the points Carney made in his landmark speech.

Watch this reporting from @anamariecox.bsky.social of the organizing/advocacy happening in MN. Powerful stuff.

NEW: A watchdog group is seeking an inspector general investigation into Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche after ProPublica reported that he had ordered changes to crypto prosecutions while owning more than $150,000 in digital assets.

NEW: I'm releasing tomorrow's show tonight. It's too important. An internal DHS memo instructs ICE to kick your door in without a proper warrant. Please share widely: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsZY...

Good! But they’ll put her stupidity to work elsewhere. She should be disbarred.

I travel to Europe often. The euro is stronger than the dollar. Think about what this means amid all this noise coming from Trump et al…

"Americans have been misled by pundits who proclaim the US a 'nation of laws.' It makes no difference if the US is a nation of laws when courts are selective in their application. Autocracies are nations of laws, too." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-shining-...

It's truly stunning (though unsurprising) how little attention national media give Gov. Walz's speeches and news conferences. He's out there declaring his state under siege, and it's not in headlines outside of MN. They'll cover Trump's lies about him endlessly-- but not his actions.

I just saw a weird dude Viagra commercial and then cut to Rachel Maddow on MSNOW and I’m wondering if my brain is okay🙃🤯

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

San Francisco’s Ocean Beach!

I know there are a lot of big stories. And I have long ago learned not to over-react to crazy things Trump says. But him telling the NYT that the only limitation on his power is his own conscience is profoundly disturbing. Because that is dictator territory. And because he has no conscience.

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

I put it up on IG. Share before it gets taken down for my egregious copyright violations! www.instagram.com/reel/DTRoKmF...

What really sticks with me: Her son is just 6 years old, and he already lost his father in 2023. Now, not even 3 years later, his mother has been killed. The boy is now an orphan. At 6 years old. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

Make it viral.

Murder is the intentional killing of another human being without legal justification.

The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood. Scum.

The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state | Jan-Werner Müller

Danish guy gets it

Wow!!!! What an honorable and decorated man! We are so lucky to have him representing all of us during these unprecedented times. I’m a Californian but I’d vote for him for President over Gavin.

In a polarized Congress, discharge petitions and the Seven Member Rule preserve a limited but vital role for the minority, writes Greg Dotson: www.justsecurity.org/128047/epste...

It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.

This is the best inauguration I have ever seen!!! 🫶🏼🙏🏼🎆🫱🏼‍🫲🏽

Yep. That’s your dog

The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas. In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station." Read the declarations here: www.aclu.org/documents/fo...

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

Amazing.

Ghislaine Maxwell: as she is doing time already, Congress shd immunize her which would force her to have to testify (she is currently objecting based on the 5th A). She can be prosecuted if she lies or refuses to testify. And it would make it that much more outlandish for Trump to later pardon her.