I came to Congress to do the job: to work for people and protect them. Now I’m facing 17 years in prison for standing up to this administration and to ICE. But if they think I’ll back down, they are wrong. Read more:

“We renounce war as an instrument for narrow national interests and proclaim that military action must be seen only as a last resort in extreme situations, not a normal instrument of national policy...” www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

U.S. defense officials are saying 1,500 active-duty soldiers are on standby in Alaska for possible deployment to Minneapolis. That’s on top of the 3,000+ ICE agents already in the area. We don’t really believe this is about undocumented immigrant crime in Minneapolis, do we?

"In the immediate aftermath of the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis... an FBI agent in Minnesota conducted an initial review of the shooting and determined that sufficient grounds existed to open a probe into the actions of the officer who shot Good..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

ICYMI — In negative degrees weather they took a LEGAL naturalized citizen out in his underwear, after trashing his house. They released him an hour later. The cruelty is the point. (From @thejfreakinc.bsky.social )

The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally. Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...

I know she hasn’t passed the bar yet but based on this I feel confident that Kim Kardashian knows more about the 4th Amendment than the [*checks notes*] United States Department of Homeland Security

There’s a company called We Are Music that reportedly specializes in making bogus claims of copyright infringement. Yesterday they came after me claiming copyright on … my conversation with Claudia Sahm. A joke for me, but probably ugly for many.

"No U.S. citizens have been deported." Right...

The South Carolina measles outbreak is growing at an astounding speed More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states

“That’s slavery.” Civil Rights lawyer @oliverma2026.bsky.social (running for CA Lt. Gov.) reminds us ICE detainees work in for-profit prisons for $1/day just to pay for phone calls to their families. Cruelty is big business. P.S. @CoreCivic’s new CEO’s last name is “Swindle” — beyond parody

Investigate and prosecute political opponents, sell pardons to your rich friends so they can commit crimes with impunity. Authoritarianism isn’t coming, it’s here, whether people realize it or not.

A CBS staffer told me this re: this Tony Dokoupil segment: "What a self absorbed loser. Telling factory workers his job isn’t as easy as it looks. You’re a grown man who wears makeup on live TV from a teleprompter filled with words people write for you. His self absorption is just astounding."

While important to remember, this is not new. @nytimes.com headlines are for shit.

Periodically, throughout our history, the first amendment has been abused. But never like it is now. In fact, the freedom of expression we once took for granted is, for the moment at least, gone. It's future depends on us. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/rip-the-firs...

Weird right? He used to support the first amendment

“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”

Free speech US style: Australian journalists banned from Trump UK press conference after one had angered him in the USA with his questions bit.ly/4n9a3kL ‘logistical reasons’ cited but clearly either US or UK organisers decided to ban them.

Let’s be clear: This is government censorship. The government is telling, through pressure, private corporations what they can and cannot say and air. It is incredibly dangerous and is the beginning of the end of free speech in America.

Not to continue to do this Cassandra bullshit, but here is a clip from two years ago that outlines exactly the playbook in this moment: a government and private law enforcement army run entirely on grievance, culture war slop, and weaponizable data points, deployed against boogeymen, absent facts.

As news was breaking of Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show being suspended, guests booked on Wednesday's episode were already on their way to the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood where "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" is recorded, sources told CNN. https://cnn.it/4guEX4n

"In liberal democratic societies, converting power to wealth was like cold fusion: In theory it should work; in practice it was impossible to achieve. One of Donald Trump’s great innovations is that he cracked this code."

BREAKING: ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air indefinitely following comments he made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. Trump’s FCC chair earlier appeared on MAGA propagandist Benny Johnson’s show and threatened to revoke ABC’s broadcast license if they didn’t take action against him.

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

America is now the home of government censorship. If you thought this only happened someplace else like North Korea, Russia or Iran, you’d be wrong. Trump has put the USA right alongside the most repressive governments in the world.

Very much looking forward to Elon Musk’s spirited defense of Jimmy Kimmel’s free speech.

The blacklist capitulation by movie studios in response to the Joe McCarthy witch-hunt proves that there is NO history of corporations prioritizing values or free speech over profits. #JimmyKimmel

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It's important to realize what precipitated this was Nexstar announcing they pulled showing Kimmel on their affiliates. They're currently waiting for the FCC to loosen restrictions to enable their massive merger. This was as much pay to play by a corporation as it was censorship.

"What is coming next is a crackdown on Democratic Party fundraising. President Trump said we are going to go after those who raise funds for causes we don’t like." www.mediaite.com/media/tv/the...

We've reached the point where CDC medical experts are declining to speak publicly about vaccine safety because they’re afraid of being violently targeted by anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists. www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-ex...

Disney and ABC need to feel serious consequences for their collaboration with Trump and MAGA in censoring Kimmel. Economic consequences. Same with the owners of CBS and other organizations that capitulate. The only thing they understand or care about are their own bottom lines.

Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.

After five months of digging, investigators have yet to produce a shred of evidence to support the charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James. trib.al/NgJZICI

Pam Bondi’s pledge that the Trump administration will “absolutely target” people who use “hate speech” has prompted criticism from prominent conservatives.

we need young earth creationists in every biology department, antivax cranks in every medical school program, and climate deniers in every chemistry department

Monarez starts hearing by stating clearly: RFK Jr. directed me to pre-approve vaccine recommendations, regardless of scientific evidence www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIlW...

This should not be necessary, and should go without saying. But grateful that @mayorofchicago.bsky.social issued direct, unequivocal orders for police to proactively safeguard First Amendment rights—especially when other govt elements are actively threatening them. abcnews.go.com/US/chicago-m...

Dozens of Russian deportees have been loaded twice onto mass deportation flights, a new phenomenon during the Trump administration. The Department of Homeland Security said it was saving taxpayer dollars by “efficiently flying illegal aliens to their home country on large flights.”

bruh John Yoo drafted the memos to give the Bush administration legal cover for torturing people John Yoo said the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to "terrorists" and even he is like 'yikes Trump is crossing a line'

Outbreaks of dengue are killing thousands in South America each year and is getting worse. Brazil hopes to turn the tide with a vaccine and an army of mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria. These lower the odds mosquitoes can transmit the virus to humans. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

The New York Times is reporting that Trump shook down the UEA for billions, to go personally to Trump, in exchange for advanced computer chips that compromised our nation's security. Trump will sell out the United States for personal profit. In any rational time, this would be impeachable.

The world according to Todd Blanche: Conspiring to overturn the results of a presidential election = not RICO Yelling in the vicinity of the president while he dines at Joe’s Stone Crab = RICO Ok, got it! 👌