Terrorism is the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to induce fear, intending to coerce governments or societies to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals. It often targets civilians and critical infrastructure to disrupt safety and advance specific agendas.

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries. This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

Impeach and remove

Q: What goals do you have for '26 in Congress for your agenda? TRUMP: I have great executive orders. Like, water coming out of a sink. The water wouldn't come out. They had all sorts of restrictions. I took them off. Straws. They don't have to be paper anymore. I'd like to have all that confirmed.

Surprise! Mike Johnson says he hasn't seen any of Trump's (bonkers) speech in Davos

Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."

Image of the week: First images from Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1 www.eumetsat.int/image-week-f... From its position 36,000km above the equator, the satellite monitors the full Earth disc, covering Europe, Africa, and the surrounding atmosphere.

Hollyhock Seedpod #photography #flowers #art #macro

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Watch Women's March ED Rachel O'Leary Carmona talk about how women are on the frontline building an ecosystem against fascism in this teaser from The Apocalyptic Optimist Podcast. Full episode out soon! @womensmarch.com @piqueaction.bsky.social

Within half an hour of when Deputy AG Blanche told reporters that DOJ "complied with the statute...we did not protect President Trump," DOJ deleted multiple documents from the database with damning information about Trump. Among those deleted were first-person accounts of Trump raping kids.

It's all projection Every afternoon accusation, a confession Highly overrated Never liked himself Not talented Pushy obnoxious JERK Mentally incompetent FOOL Worst ever president Destroying our country But also - First Amendment? - It's somehow always personal? - Who cares who you liked?

Yep, the bait and switch. It's about States Rights until they get the key states to make it Federal, and vice versa. By any means that serve, hook or crook. Lucy and football. The entire time. No integrity but to get what they want.

They went from deriding safe spaces and demanding fierce debate to insisting the entire academy be their safe space from hearing anything about race and gender

A sign that we need to abolish the two party system The absolute verbal gymnastics used to describe differences along dozens of dimensions and topics as "where do they land on a single line"

Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really. Genuinely bizarre.

They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

My fav genre of reply is when someone gets mad at me for something someone else wrote. Getting mad at me is not going to change that person’s opinion

Portland, Maine www.pressherald.com/2026/01/30/l...

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I won’t stop reporting the truth. The First Amendment is the bedrock of our democracy, and I’ll continue to fight to protect it 🤝🏾🇺🇸

It's not in the news cycle...

Finished @naomialderman.bsky.social "Don’t Burn Anyone At The Stake Today" which is a short, but meaningful book about the information crisis we find ourselves living in. "Never talk about a culture-war topic with anyone who only wants to talk to you about that topic." Words to live by, esp online.

News cycles are being manipulated to make people think a problem has been solved when it hasn’t. Bovino removed didn’t change anything but people have been tricked into thinking it did, so they move on. Same as it was. Know this. The situation in MN is as bad as it’s always been. Don’t forget them.

Anyone else want to know more about all the videos referenced in these Epstein documents? #releaseallthefiles

The arrest of Don Lemon is yet another alarming attack by the Trump administration on Americans’ First Amendment rights. A free press is fundamental to democracy. This is unacceptable & we will continue to fight back. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yes.

If the president cannot be sued while in office, then the president should not be able to file suit while in office. Fair is fair.

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

Kimmel to Kermit on The Muppet Show's return: "Your show has been off the air... were you guys suspended?"

Some more #GraphicTruth for you today. MAGAts can spew lies all they want but we know who's been inciting violence from Day One.

More than 1 million residents of Kyiv's left bank continue facing the most adverse conditions in the city, with many living without electricity or heating during the toughest weeks of the year. With radiators gone cold for weeks, Ukrainians are forced to get creative to stay warm in their homes.

A quick point. If you had a friend that whined and complained and was always playing “victim” as much as Donald does, I’d be willing to bet you wouldn’t be his friend for long. Such a whiney belly aching baby. Also Epstein

Maybe DOJ should focus on the law it’s violating, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, instead of speculating a crime might have been committed (despite multiple ballot recounts) in Fulton County or declining to investigate two homicides in Minneapolis?

I’m not totally sure how to address this but apparently I’m getting kicked out of ICE rapid response for the moment because I’m allowing press ridealongs, with an extremely strict condition that no other observer be identified. Lots of observers have allowed ridealongs and they benefit us.

I don't think people understand that if you shut down the government, ICE and CBP do NOT shut down. They're funded by supplemental money from the BBB. That's why dems are separating the DHS funding bill and asking for restrictions. I want them to demand a rescission of that funding or shut DHS down

We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

Frey: "In Mpls, we heard them say they'll end this siege when we hand over voter rolls. The DOJ is being used as a weapon. They're investigating me and several other local elected officials not because we've done something wrong because we speak on behalf of our constituents.

Minnesotans are the true patriots! 🙌🏻

📹 NEW from KSDK News: hundreds of people in St. Louis marched to Enterprise Center on Wednesday and dropped a banner to demand Enterprise end *every* contract it has with ICE!

Liam is in ICE custody and his health is deteriorating. Joaquin Castro says Liam is depressed, lethargic, sleeping excessively and barely eating, repeatedly asking about his mom, and when he can go home. He’s withdrawn and not the bright preschooler he was just days ago. LIAM NEEDS A DOCTOR 1/2

I just voted NO on the spending package because it still includes DHS funding. NO blank check for ICE to continue lawless killings. Let’s get real changes made.

Yesssss. Separate out DHS and shut it down.

When my oldest was in high school she told me about a moment in class where a lesbian classmate snapped on gay classmate and yelled "people don't not like you because you're gay, they don't like you because you're fucking annoying" and this has lived rent-free in my head for four years now.

SENATOR WARREN: “I am a hell no.”

Counterpoint 📷 Jiri Ruzek #monochrome #bnwphoto #noiretblanc #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhitephoto #BWPhotography #blackandwhitephotography #fineartstreetphotography #streetphotography #conceptual

Hard to believe that this is coming up in the news again. Trump wants to disrupt the midterms because he knows he’s going to lose. There was nothing to find then and nothing today. Trump has unraveled. He is unstable. He is unfit. Miller is pulling the strings.