JUST IN: Fed judge in Seattle strikes down several provisions in Trump executive order on election integrity. Judge John Chun (Biden) says the Constitution assigns the president no role in election administration. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump admin's bid to halt $10B in childcare funding to Democrat-led states. TRO by Subramanian in SDNY (Biden) following hearing this aftn. Suit by states is assigned to Broderick (Obama). more via @rachelhbluth www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

I thought about this sentiment when I had my piano bar gig Wednesday just after seeing the news out of Minneapolis. I tried to focus on creating space for joy and resilience, and I was glad I did.

If the week hasn't been dreadful enough, it's a SCOTUS decision day.

lol you fucks just go join ICE because that’s what you really want: nothing holding you back from your violent petty fantasies of enacting harm on urban areas.

Holy fuck they actually did it

Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.” No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true. This is journalism. Well done, @people.com

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.

I just watched two women get kidnapped right in front of me in Northeast Minneapolis. ICE is still terrorizing our city.

Amy Klobuchar voted for one of Trump's nominees the day after a woman in her state was murdered by ICE.

Short answer: no. Longer answer: hell no. Longer-still answer: helllllllll no. Longest answer: noooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

No "friends across the aisle." No "bipartisanship." Frankly, no "business as usual." Anyone who thinks there's a benefit of the doubt left to give is wrong and needs to be called out for that wrongness.

If Minneapolis is being terrorized, it sure isn't by immigrants.

So in order to be "safer" from immigrants, we have to be literally less safe from our own government? That's a pretty shit deal. I believe Ben Franklin had something to say about people who support such dealmaking between freedom and safety.

This is quite a sequence: —Trump asks aide for video of ICE shooting to convince NYT interviewers that driver tried to "run over" agent —They watch together —Interviewers note it shows nothing of the sort —Trump says "well . . . it's a terrible scene" GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

Ah well. Can't disagree here really. Americans did vote for masked agents of the state to kill innocent people, whether they understood that at the time or not. Too bad they didn't listen to anyone who tried to explain it to them bsky.app/profile/atru...

I would say "the cover up begins," but we already saw so much lying and gaslighting yesterday.

Once I had a big fight with a young reporter who insisted the details of a shooting differed from my reporting which was based on videos of the incident. I illustrated how his reporting could not be true & he yelled back I’M A REAL REPORTER WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT SOURCES anyway that was wes lowery

im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons

Her partner in her previous marriage is dead. She didn't get divorced after stalking her intern like you did.

There's honestly been some pretty good news coverage tonight on TV regarding today's events. It's not a coincidence. Like half a dozen prominent Democrats finally came out this afternoon and said ICE is terrorist trash led by a secretary who should be impeached and it flipped the whole narrative.

'Marco Rubio, we salute you': Revamped CBS Evening News goes full MAGA www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

Free today. We're all getting secondary trauma right now. Here are some tools from journalists and therapists that will help: www.patreon.com/posts/digita...

They only care about themselves. That's this regime in a nutshell.

use your eyes www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

There were people in 1970 who thought the student protesters at Kent State deserved it when they were shot to death. I’m reminding myself of that so I don’t fall into denial and imagine the sadistic glee I’m seeing on X about the ICE shooting is new. It’s not. It’s a strand in our cultural fabric.

Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

She was a queer woman peacefully exercising her First Amendment right. Every person with a sound conscience should be furious.

There were many people who said it was only a matter of time before ICE straight up murdered a person in cold blood for doing nothing and now it's happened.

if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...

The most courageous thing you can do is admit when you've made a mistake. I'm not holding my breath for a lot of these Democratic leaders.

"grandmothers and others," "albeit unauthorized," and "entered the Capitol, took photos, and explored the building," all doing EXCESSIVE work to rewrite history here...

If you're writing 1800 words about how we failed to account for January 6 and DON'T mention SCOTUS (particularly if you're comparing with Brazil) or impeachment, you're simply doing propaganda for the GOP.

fuck outta here

If folks can't remember five years ago better than this bullshit, we're in serious trouble.

Hey, you know what's fun? Good news. I like good news. apnews.com/article/abor...

Love it when I get to make a post into an essay xtramagazine.com/culture/tv-f...

It is not believable because this is complete bullshit.

They won't even use the term transgender regarding their coverage in this statement, they use the term gender identity. I think the Times might be making a shift towards an editorial stance that pathologizes trans people.

Our dinner group had to wonder if we were under attack.

Consultants focus on what they *wish* people were talking about. They follow polling to middling centrist positions as the right's unchecked propaganda drags everyone ever-rightward. You have to call out the bullshit and convince people it's wrong, but consultants' salaries depend upon being "safe."

Quote tweeted with alt text and also want to note that everything he's written is a lie. Colonization stole wealth from those countries and in the years since those countries ended formal ties neo colonization found new ways of continuing to mine those countries for their wealth

So long as there is consistent. high-standard moderation for things like transphobia and misinformation. That's why the "chasing off" happens: to make sure the same kind of dangerous intolerance can't take hold here. I don't care to make it the least bit more friendly for that kind of content.

Elon Musk is using Grok to fill the internet with child pornography. Some liberals object.

It's less the sentiment than the way Schumer states it. He sounds like a teacher who has lost control of his classroom.

Sharing this old gem from me and @jackjenkins.me: archive.thinkprogress.org/atheist-chri...

hes not right at all. the republicans are part of the crew looting the bank. the response is not to say "the looters must stop looting." he should be saying "theyre all a bunch of looters, elect us to stop looting, we are the anti-looting party" but that would be effective and schumer is not.

Look, everyone. This is the freedom we want to export to Venezuela.