Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

Oh look, all the same Dems that voted for criminal bans on gender affirming care and medicaid coverage bans voted for the ICE gestapo funding.

Highlighting: That's not the MN State flag anymore. A major reason for the change was specifically blatant racist, anti-Indigenous imagery. It is a specific choice to use this flag. Minority extremists use the old flag as a dog whistle. The Vice President is prominently dog whistling.

Wrote about how John Roberts and Donald Trump have turned the Department of Justice into a corrupt mobbed up law firm whose only purpose is to enable Trump’s persecution of his enemies and protection of his allies www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.

In which I explain that the Third Amendment—the one nobody ever talks about—allows hotels to refuse to house Kristi Noem’s ICE goons.

Anyone who is celebrating this bill either hasn’t read it or hasn’t put two and two together. Early career researchers will be wiped out, budding lines of science will be snuffed, and RFK Jr. and Podcast Jay will select pseudoscience bullshit “studies” to be funded for years.

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

Chuckling at the people in the U.S. who consistently shit on people who live in "red" states... Well according to others in the world, the entire US is now a "red" state. Not so easy to overthrow authoritarians, is it?

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

This beautiful child, an American citizen just like his parents, is being bullied because Donald Trump is a racist piece of shit and white supremacy feels emboldened to act without shame. This hatred is taught and it is wrong.

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

New polling data shows that it's getting increasingly embarrassing to identify as a Republican, and some Trump voters are slinking away and pretending it never happened. www.salon.com/2026/01/19/s...

One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

Copenhagen witnessed a huge gathering today as protesters voiced opposition to Trump's plan for the U.S. to obtain Greenland from Denmark… 🇩🇰

This thread is now an op-ed:

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Hey peeps. Just recorded a few thoughts regarding what the escalation of violence suggests: the regime knows that they are losing.

ICE AGENT: “I love my job. I can’t believe they pay me to do this. I’d do it for free. I only went to high school and I make $200,000.”

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban. And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:

i am really happy to see this statement from the ED of the most important professional organization of international lawyers/academics in the united states. very proud to be associated with it and i hope it gets wide attention, b/c there is no question: the attack on venezuela violates int'l law.

This is a very helpful look into Venezuela, their oil and their politics. There are two parts due to the video being >3 minutes so scroll down for part 2. Worth watching.

"Venezuela's oil is heavy & dense, and requires special refineries. Burning any type of oil contributes to climate change, but Venezuela's oil is "among the dirtiest oils in the world to produce when it comes to global warming," says Paasha Mahdavi, at UC Santa Barbara." www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

Sorry for limited skeets; frozen fingers! Large Chicago crowd has hit the streets in protest of the U.S. bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro.

Anti-war march in NYC, organized overnight. Happening right now, 8th Ave. People care.

Speaking to a solid source. Keep your eyes on Maduro’s Minister of Justice, Diosdado Cabello as the new power supporter in VZ supported by Trump. Source added, “if Cabello’s in charge it will be worse than Maduro”. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diosdad...

Notably, this is all about cocaine trafficking, no mention of fentanyl. Sharp-eyed observers will note the shift from the Trump administration's justification for blowing up boats in the Caribbean...

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

My post from the past week contains a link to a NYT article on a wargame from Trump's first administration on invading Venezuela. Yes, he wanted to do it then! Anyhow, the wargame came out about as you might expect - internal conflict and instability in Venezuela. Here we go.

It is very important that your federal electeds hear not only from you on social media, but through direct contact as well. Tag them and then Call and email. Do both. Tell them to move to immediately impeach and remove for an unconstitutional war of aggression.

New Year’s hangover? Holiday season festive food overload? There’s only one thing that good for everything that ails you…a bowl of authentic French onion soup. It’s a tradition that works. jamieschler.substack.com/p/authentic-...

A recent large-scale study of 28 million adults in the French National Health Data System found those who received an mRNA COVID vaccine had a 25% lower risk of ALL-CAUSE mortality over a 4 year period compared to unvaccinated individuals. Smoke that, RFK Jr. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mrn....

"They found the coats on Thursday morning. Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary.No note. No explanation. Just coats zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies. Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen"

When Trump leaves office, we can crowbar his name off everything and throw it all into a big, raging fire. Call it “The Bonfire of the Vanities.”

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if you’re gonna demand that Democrats don’t accept money from billionaires or corporate PACs, then guess what? SOMEONE has to fund them. That “someone” has to be you & me. The price of saving democracy is a lot of annoying texts/emails. I try to at least spare you those. Blue26.org

"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”

When you donate to Dems via a Blue26.org page, 96% goes directly to the candidate, 4% goes to cc processing fees, & 0% goes ANYWHERE else. You can also opt out of sharing your email/phone w/the campaigns. The best Christmas gift you can give in 2025 is saving democracy in 2026. Donate today.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

The NY Times headline reads “Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry." This is false. He took a side: that of neo-Nazis and other assorted bigots and nuts. I think he thinks it's strategic. An analysis. www.salon.com/2025/12/23/j...

"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"