Immigrants in the US consumed about 24% fewer welfare and entitlement benefits per capita than native-born Americans in 2023, new Cato Institute research finds. Learn more from Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo: https://ow.ly/2w4Z50Y4Bsj

Excellent by Adam Serwer. I’d add: How many pseudo-deep commentators, typically MAGA-excusing, go on about liberalism’s lack of community, character, and moral virtue? Then MN features a truly striking demonstration of just these qualities by modern liberals. Reaction: crickets.

English translation of statement from Ecuadorian Consulate regarding ICE’s attempt to enter their building in Minneapolis today:

Megyn Kelly after hearing Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks” for the one millionth time in 2006

I genuinely hope her son is safe from her stupid, stupid choices

New: DHS now says that two weeks of missing surveillance footage from ICE's Broadview Detention center isn't "missing," it was never recorded in the first place and thus can't be produced in an abuse lawsuit. An utter shitshow: www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

Only took a few days to go from invincible fascist dictatorship to "I was just following orders"

oh they are going to rip each other to shreds as it becomes clear that the country has decisively turned against them

New on MS NOW: Leader Jeffries says Democrats will begin impeachment proceedings against Kristi Noem if she is "not fired immediately."

Last night I cleared my head by driving through rush hour traffic hell with hot babes from Los Angeles to Santa Ana to get to @thefridacinema.org to watch John Woo's HARD BOILED which always makes me powerful enough to lift a car with my bare hands. Thanks, Frida. I love you.

To put it another way: Courageous jurists on the lower courts have held back Trump from inflicting even more damage on civil rights and liberties. This timeline sucks, but the one in which the judiciary doesn't even try to push back is FAR worse. We insult these judges when we dismiss their impact.

kayfabe

[stares directly into the camera]

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

gee whiz it would be really great if the opposition party smelled blood in the water right now and went on a full offensive to harness this spark of momentum

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

lol he gave sworn testimony that he doesn’t run it

All of this happened with basically no help from elected officials of the opposition party. This was entirely the people.

america: behave well and submit immediately™

Long before The Frida, its founder Logan Crow hosted Mondo Midnights at The Art Theater where movies would be accompanied by stuff like costume contests, musical performances, and Q&A’s. I was the official photographer and here are some shots from our Carrie prom in 2009!

2026 marks the 100th anniversary of Miles Davis' birth & we have some special releases coming to celebrate the legendary trumpeter's centennial! Miles recorded for Blue Note early in his storied career, Vol. 1 & 2 available now in our Classic Vinyl Series: store.bluenote.com/collections/...

trump has probably destroyed the minnesota republican party for the duration

ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...

The DDDW (Danny Devito Death Whistle) prints with breakaway supports, which as a bonus means it comes out of the printer looking like a Cenobite. 11/10.

I thank my lucky stars every day that the autocrats we are dealing with in this country are very impatient, and not very bright.

Can’t help but notice a lot of social media reports of Tik Tok censoring anti-ICE content in its first weekend under Trump-directed US management, and no mainstream news coverage thus far.

Police Repeatedly Shoot Tim Cook After Mistaking iPhone For Gun https://theonion.com/police-repeatedly-shoot-tim-cook-after-mistaking-iphone-1824184361/

They call it "pulling a Vatican"

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Stephen Miller Reminds Picky-Eater Son That There Starving Kids In Basement

Once again thinking of the Langston Hughes poem, Tired. Abolishing ICE would be a good starting point, don’t you think?

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act

Anyone else see Paramount using Twin Peaks to promote UFC? Did I miss the episode about Bobby’s love of MMA @markfrost.bsky.social?

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

man the stuff i am seeing on IG from the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different

There goes my respect for Ellen von Unwerth.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country. The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.

Stephen Miller is a very sick person, more so, IMO, than the president. And he is calling the shots. I remember when Terry Moran dared to make this observation and got fired from ABC for it.

A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.

They put Geraldo Lunas Campos in a chokehold and compressed his chest until he stopped breathing. And then they lied through their Nazi teeth. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

there we go

I REPEAT: YOU DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, FUND THE GESTAPO!

Tyranny isn't extrajudicial executions by state-sanctioned militants who break into homes without warrants and routinely abduct children. Tyranny is, uhhhh, when I have to pay taxes and gay people can get married and racially ambiguous children appear in Cheerio commercials.

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.