Well, there’s your mistake. Trump is not your friend, and deals with Trump are meaningless because he will tear them up or ignore them whenever it suits him. Kinda like he does with our laws and Constitution.

ChongLy "Scott" Thao lives in St. Paul and is a U.S. citizen. He's 56, just a couple of years older than me. It was around 0 degrees Fahrenheit in St. Paul yesterday. His neighbors fixed his door after ICE broke it down.

We wish a very Happy Birthday to actor Tom Baker, born on this day in 1934. Best known for his turn as the fourth incarnation of The Doctor in the BBC's Doctor Who, Baker has also taken a turn through the worlds of Star Wars, Sherlock Holmes, Dungeons & Dragons, and more.

While the world is engaged in heated debates — both on and offline — about the legality of Donald Trump’s January 3 military airstrikes in Venezuela, relatives and friends are fighting for the full release of loved ones from unjust imprisonment in the South American country.

“Trump is the first president not to issue an official proclamation recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day since President Reagan made it a holiday.”

Christ, Dems, now is NOT THE TIME to fundraise for your own damn campaigns. Use your profile and power to amplify calls for mutual aid, or to boost the efforts of the organizations on the ground. Your communities need you so show us that you know how to show up. For US. Not for yourselves.

A person‘s attractiveness increases by a minimum of 58% when they support their local bookstore, café, theatre, bakery, and library.

MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Remember this.

No one — certainly not the ICE agents themselves — is even really bothering with the pretext that they’re here to make the city safer. This is Donald Trump’s revenge campaign, and they’re the foot soldiers. www.theverge.com/policy/86419...

If you're one of the 188 Republicans and 153 Democrats who voted last week to send $3.3B more in military and bombs to Netanyahu as he commits genocide, do not be quoting Dr. MLK this week, who specifically condemned the triple evils of racism, poverty, and militarism. Reprehensible hypocrisy.

"Minnesota is under siege. It is an occupation designed to punish and terrorize anyone who dares defy this incursion and, by extension, Donald Trump’s power to wield limitless force against any enemy he wishes."

Here is a current view of the Matterhorn in Switzerland with bright red aurora and green proton aurora spots. Solar wind data are turning a bit sour for extreme low-latitude aurora for the U.S., but the system is still pumped up enough for Europe! go.theauroraguy.com/webcams

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

Look at these evil bastards

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.

“protesters” are not “clashing” with law enforcement. violent federal agents have waged war on minneapolis and regular people are telling them to get the fuck out. and last time i checked being in a group chat doesn’t mean you’re in a professional organization. it means you have friends.

Disabled people don’t survive without community care. So for us to be considered worth surviving, that’s building a world where we all survive by supporting each other.

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

Appeasing Trump always produces the opposite result the appeasers are hoping to achieve. There are thousands of examples over decades, but somehow people still don’t get it. Bill Cassidy and Europe found out yesterday. Someone else will find out today, then another tomorrow.

I know it’s hard to have optimism right now, but if there’s one thing that is genuinely giving me hope it is seeing communities — hell, neighborhoods, even portions of cities — stand up in unison against tyranny in a way that is active, capable, savvy. It’s really powerful.

I don't know about you folks, but as the world tips further into geopolitical chaos, violence and lawlessness, I'm finding it REAL hard to feel like work matters these days. This piece by @mashagessen.bsky.social is a clear-eyed no bullshit take on where we are and what we do. Gift link:

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

Nothing to see here folks, just a sitting president investing in two companies whose merger he claims sole authority to approve or reject. Totally normal! 🙃

What really scares me is that, in spite of everything Trump has done, somewhere between 25% and 40% of our wonderful fellow citizens still like his policies. In a while--with luck, rsn--they'll all pretend they hated him from the git-go.

if you vote for another cent for this you are a collaborator. this is a litmus test for every politician for the rest of my life

MAN: you're terrorizing your own fucking people just cause they're brown. leave them the fuck alone ICE agent: we don't take orders from you MAN: you only take fucking orders from a pedophile rapist

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

DELETED After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — US judge rules federal officers in Minneapolis-area immigration operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters.

Stephen Miller is upset about Star Trek, one of the most socially progressive franchises in TV history

The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.

After being an audible user for over 15 years, I've just cancelled my membership after finding out about @libro.fm, a B corp which also supports local book shops (I picked @proud-geek.co.uk) for my purchases, and cut more Amazon out of my life! Now if only I could live without Bond films or Fallout!

The first sale of Venezuelan oil went to a guy who donated $6 million to Trump. The proceeds are now in a bank in Qatar.

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Trump’s America. 😕🇺🇸

Do any Republicans in Congress care about Trump grabbing oil from Venezuela, handing it off to his megadonors to sell on the international market to whoever, depositing the proceeds in foreign bank accounts, then spending the money however he sees fit with no input from Congress?

NEW: As the chaotic scenes from Minnesota play out around the clock, Axios has learned that some Trump advisers quietly are talking about "recalibrating" the White House's approach. Trump's team recently reviewed private GOP polling that showed support for his immigration policies falling.

Been googling a lot of simple facts for a piece I’m writing — re religious and demographic breakdown of countries, and of course google comes back with the AI generated response up top and it’s really wild how often it’s flat out wrong or misleading. On facts!

Perfect— Tennessee/Nashville gives MAGA billionaire Larry Ellison millions of our tax dollars to land Oracle’s HQ… and he recruits people from outside TN for jobs he’s “creating” 🤔 @GovBillLee (in MEMPHIS Elon’s xAI is also recruiting from outside TN) fortune.com/2026/01/15/o...

Palantir, which Wes Streeting is giving your health care records to, and which Labour has given a contract for military analytics to, is working with ICE in the United States to work out who to raid. www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Longtime conservative commentator says "Nothing to see here!"

Now that she folded like wet cardboard, the next step is to start needling and hounding the Nobel Prize committee. It'll begin with off comments suggesting that the rule that an award can't be reassigned is 'weird': why shouldn't it be possible? That'll be the start.

Last night, The Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 signed on to the call for a Jan 23 shutdown. That brings total labor support to: the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28, and the MFE 59

“You’re a left-wing hack. You’re not a reporter. You’re posing as a journalist. You shouldn’t even be sitting in that seat.” Karolie attacks @niallstanage.bsky.social for acknowledging reality and saying Renée Good was “unjustifiably” killed

Tell Congress to pass a the Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act, which would require the government to get a warrant before it can access our personal location data.

The federal government shouldn't be allowed to buy our personal information from shadowy surveillance companies without a warrant.

Maybe someone should be testing the outflow pipes from the hotels where ICE is staying and report on the levels of PCP, crystal meth, ketamine, etc. Because every single one of the videos I've seen shows guys with bugged eyes, clenched teeth and pop-veined necks. Drugs? Yes. For sure drugs.