🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

The most consistent them in Trump's second term has been that every time he leans into his tariff agenda, markets tank, and every time he backs off, they rise. And here's the latest round of uppy-downy to prove the point. Markets clearly believe that Trump's tariff agenda hurts American businesses.

“The uncomfortable truth is that the president of the United States is a man with the mind of a spoiled child. His debilitating solipsism is a threat to the stability of the entire world. A functional Congress would impeach and remove him.” [nytimes.com]

The TACO cycle: Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank. So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

Scenes from occupied Minneapolis: "3 SUVs ICE officers driving down 21st to 42nd street. The ice officer rolled down his window and took a photo of me and said 'I got you motherfucker'. I am just a home owner going outside to see what was going on."

Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin. This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.

For the first time in history, the archbishop responsible for U.S. service members said officers may be morally obligated to disobey a sitting president’s orders. Broglio said a Trump-ordered invasion of Greenland would violate Catholic teaching and that Catholic troops could refuse to comply.

This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies. At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

it seems too obvious to even keep pointing it out but if you have ever had experience with an elder relative sliding into dementia you are familiar with the ways they repeat the same nonsensical anecdotes

Getting what they voted for.

Breaking News: The S&P 500 dropped over 2% as investors reacted to President Trump’s standoff with Europe over Greenland. It's a sign that investors were embracing a “sell America” trade and moving away from U.S. assets altogether.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The Trump administration has turned legions of ICE agents into a violent and unaccountable domestic police force, empowered by claims of immunity to exercise force against American citizens and immigrants alike,” Thomas Edsall writes.

Two federal judges issued court orders to replace Lindsey Halligan at the helm of a key U.S. attorney’s office and threatened disciplinary sanctions for any government lawyer who continues to refer to her as U.S. attorney in legal filings.

Minnesota police chiefs calling for an end to "Kavanaugh Stops" now that it's affecting their own off-duty officers.

We have an entire class of Democratic "leadership" that has been told that it's dangerous and extreme to say this, and that does not understand that what Democrats want is for their leaders to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. That should not be as big an ask as it apparently is.

Numbers don’t lie: Wisconsin families are paying $1,600 more per year in the first year of Trump’s second term, and American consumers absorbed 96% of the costs of tariffs.

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Invoke the 25th Amendment.

A massive replica of a birthday note signed with the typed name Donald J. Trump that was part of a book for Jeffrey Epstein was placed on the National Mall, the latest installation of artwork by the group “The Secret Handshake.”

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

When I saw Trump's text to Norway's leader circulating last night, I honestly - despite a decade of covering this lunatic - thought it was fake. Oops. While it's concerning that he wrote it, it's more concerning that he's surrounded by people who allowed him to send it. This is all quite bad.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

some real talk from the Danes

Once again, he tells you exactly who he is. This time, it's an impeachable offense. Here's why. open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...

it’s so funny when the media is like “why are libs cutting Trump voters out of their lives? clearly it’s the intolerant left!” when in reality we are just fed up by the dumbest most evil people we know speedrunning the destruction of our country in slavish devotion to the cult of a mad king

This is not only a gross violation of the federal immigration laws ICE is putatively charged with enforcing, but also emblematic of the assault on city and state government Trumpers are engaged in. They kidnapped a snowplow driver in the middle of winter, for goodness sake.

“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.

On this, the day on which the Rev M.L. King, Jr, was born in 1929, let us recall that the Interior Department has dropped Dr King’s birthday from its list of “patriotic fee-free days,” thereby making room to replace it with a “patriotic fee-free day” honoring “Flag Day / President Trump’s birthday.”

"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2

DOJ Abandons Probe of Fatal ICE Shooting of Renee Good talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

I will be thinking a lot about this passage in King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail today, the one about white moderates who are more devoted to "order" than justice, who prefer the absence of tension to the presence of justice. See www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen... (deep link)

Just saw two sun pillars this morning! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_p...

if someone punches your neighbor and you go to protect them, that does not make you a protester. that makes you someone who protects your neighbor.

Danish MP targets Trump Deputy Cheif of Staff Stephan Miller, with jaw-dropping attack, "that is the mentality of a rapist..."

it's more or less impossible to find issues that poll this badly and he's decided to make it a major, public priority www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...

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.

Her father faced bribery charges. She donated $2.5M to a pro-Trump Super PAC. Trump's Justice Department gave her father a lenient deal, overruling prosecutors. She gave another $1M. Now Trump has pardoned her dad. @kenvogel.bsky.social @susannecraignyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

The Feds are NOT investigating AND are NOT cooperating with local and state officials who ARE trying to investigate. (Worth remembering that Todd Blanche was formerly Trump’s defense attorney .)

Who could've predicted that in just 3 short years Twitter would be the world's foremost website for both antisemites AND AI child porn

I don’t know how long any lessons learned from stove touching will last (not very long I fear) but it’s quite clear that the only way a lot of voters will learn anything at all is touching the stove while it’s red hot

Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.

The idea that there aren’t 10 Republicans in this entire country who will stand up to Trump should forever lay waste to the notion that somehow Republicans are more patriotic Americans, and deserving of a century of ridicule for them and their progeny.