ICE is a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanish in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer means anything. The knock on the door is the sentence.

On this day, here are some lesser shared MLK Jr quotes to consider, a thread 🧵: “The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn”- Dr Martin Luther King Jr (1/3)

This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model. ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.

Trump definitely doesn’t want you to put the pieces together: phreddi.com/2026/01/17/f...

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

🤔 In 2021, Kip Mock of Moscow ID accidentally set his pal, Elijah Froh, on fire by pouring diesel on a fire. Mock & Froh were later were hired by Valar Atomics—founded by their pal, Isaiah Taylor, a high school dropout from Moscow, ID who somehow landed a DOE contract to build a nuclear reactor. 1/

An underrated factor in "why don't people in wealthy societies have more kids" is changing societal norms that now expect even older kids to be chaperoned by an adult any time they are in public, and to be chauffeured by a parent as their only means of transportation

I find it amazing that the President of the USA tells Iran not to employ military on the protesters in Iran. On the same day he threatens to employ the military on Protesters in the USA. Hypocrisy is not lost on me.

I don't understand US peeps going on about the Epstein files. You all know he's guilty already. He's got secret police kidnapping, attacking and killing people already. He's effectively resigned you from NATO and is threatening a war against the rest of us. It's not distraction.

I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes: these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.

Mussolini had his Blackshirts, Hitler had his SS, and Trump has ICE—an army of ideologically motivated chuds whose new members owe their employment not to the state (being unqualified for legitimate positions) but rather to Trump’s personal patronage. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/abolishing...

At least 2 Senators have said "All Powell has to do is talk to Pirro and tell her he's going to resign and Trump will drop the charges." So here we have 2 sitting US Senators admitting the President is illegally extorting the chairman of The Fed. Admitting crimes out loud, on TV. WTAF.

And another terrific article from @drjudystone.bsky.social on how we can protect ourselves in the face of respiratory diseases flying left and right!

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

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

There is already an explicit statute prohibiting use of any funds “to support, directly or indirectly, any decision on the part of any United States Government official to suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty….”

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

The de facto position of the Trump administration is that it's occupying forces are allowed to mock and belittle American citizens, and also allowed to kill citizens who mock and belittle them.

it is 2016. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf

PROFOLUS: The next leap in AI comes with a massive resource bill. Cornell scientists mapped the U.S. energy and water footprint of AI data centers and found a future defined by heavy carbon, stressed water systems, and uneven regional impacts.

The average American gets more protein than they need because we are a country of meat eaters and meat is delicious. We do not need more protein. We need fiber. We're literally in a colorectal cancer crisis and while the reason is not fully understood what IS understood is fiber cuts your risk

Trump’s line is that disrespect to law enforcement is punishable by death. Impeach and remove. This is not tolerable.

Read the Constitution sometime.

We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

The essay has only proven to be more accurate with time: “Simply put, Trump’s ingrained and extreme behavioral characteristics make it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.” This should be the lede of every story.

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

I am really getting frustrated by many journalists reporting stuff produced through the Grok LLM as if it is statements made by a sentient person, or that it represents some official position of X. It's just text strings generated in response to prompts. There is no conscious content.

Privatization of vital public services is touted as key to more efficient, better service. But it’s really just a scheme for greedy middlemen and equity firms to suck a fat profit margin from an already underbudgeted necessity. Result: costs soar as quality of service plummets.

The Greenland fixation feels like a personal insult to anyone who's spent more than about five minutes thinking about national security. "Hey, let's demolish our most valuable alliance so we can get get access to arctic territory we already have access to!"

British police have killed fewer people in the last 100 years than American police kill in an average month. Policing in America is an ongoing tragedy.

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.

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

This is the thing. If he feels like he's in danger, all he has to do is step out from in front of the car--but safety isn't his concern. What he wants is for the people in front of him to obey or die.

Have we really become so woke that we’re no longer comfortable with ICE shooting unarmed women and yelling “fuck you bitch” as they die?

Charles Haywood loves Franco. His Foundation recently donated to The Claremont Institute, which helped propel Vance’s career American Reformer, whose director is Chris Buskirk, who co-founded the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network w/ Vance American Moment whose advisory board has included Vance. 1/

Hard video to watch, but about as close as you can get to conclusively disproving the Trump admin's claims that she deliberately attempted to run down the officer. She even talks nicely with him moments before! Note also that the officer is focused more on filming her than on anything else.

very disappointing. There is a code of conduct for Royal Society fellows - it's not a value judgement to say that Musk has contravened it! see relevant bits of code and the Royal Society stated values below.

This is also why I find it so maddening when reactionary centrists spend their time debating what trans people "did" to draw the ire of the right. It's completely backwards from reality. The right latched onto the issue because it's a gateway drug to every other form of bigotry!

Another day, another billionaire oil magnate and Trump mega-donor who stands to profit big-time from the Venezuela operation. The corruption is bad enough, but when you remember they put American troops in harm's way to do it, it's sickening. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

an amendment that would've banned this activity specifically passed the House unanimously a few years ago and then mysteriously vanished during backroom talks between Dem & Rep leaders

I remember Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama sleeping through the Hortmans, to both give heartfelt condemnation of violence in regards to Charlie Kirk mere hours after he died. and Look! The dumbfuck twins back fast asleep when its not a fascist being murdered.

This is why governors *NEED* to have their police, backed by the national guard, *immediately* take into custody all ICE personnel involved when a murder or attempted murder occurs. To do otherwise at this point is willful negligence.

Some thoughts on the dietary guidance that just dropped from HHS and the USDA. USDA is responsible for both promoting US agricultural products and for nutritional guidance. You can see the problem. This may be why products from two struggling industries—cattle and dairy—appear at the top.

Really important for the left - and our donors - to understand the machinery they are building.

Really looking forward to this and having my smoke and ash loops be part of the evening

Why are people arguing about that ICE agent killing a civilian? There’s no argument to be had!! Agents of the government has killed one of their own citizens. The government has killed one of their own citizens. whether you agree or disagree, it’s still the truth.