Blue lives (& states' rights) only matter *sometimes* & the feds now get to decide when.

A friend with Project HOME in Maine is asking for urgent help. With ICE descending on neighborhoods, people are afraid to go to work—cutting off income and putting families at immediate risk of eviction. This is a solidarity fund: 100% of donations go straight to rent.

AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed? CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed

Zelenskyy on russian fleet near Greenland: "If Russian warships are sailing freely around Greenland, Ukraine can help. We have the expertise and weapons to ensure not one of those ships remains. They can SINK near Greenland, just as they do near Crimea."

The shamelessness...

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

“Look: Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”

We can build walls or we can be more ambitious — and build something better, stronger, and more just.

Or....Canada lives because they have publicly funded healthcare.

i made standwithminnesota.com just for this reason. DM me if you wanna know about anything specific

Ukraine denies they were testing the US for leaks. I hope they have long known who can & can't be trusted in Trumplandia... www.kyivpost.com/post/68368

Heroes www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Floridumb.

Well, I never...!

Mr. Rogers said "look for the helpers," we all know this, but I would push that further - ALMOST EVERYONE wants to be a helper. People with training and/or proximity show up, and people sitting at home feel helpless wondering what they can do. In our experience, most people just need to know how.

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Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

On Trump's potential invocation of the Insurrection Act in Minnesota. Important: President Trump's own Solicitor General in a recent letter to the U.S. Supreme Court explained the dangers of sending in active military forces, and how it could make matters much worse. Let's discuss.

WCK’s Hadeel is checking in from Al-Aqsa Hospital in southern Gaza, where our teams are distributing Kaak & Maamoul. These traditional sweets, often filled with dates or nuts, are usually eaten at celebrations & holidays, so they brought a moment of joy to patients and their families. #ChefsForGaza

Super illuminating conversation with the great @stevevladeck.bsky.social about what's holding Trump back from invoking the Insurrection Act and what happens if he pulls the trigger: slate.com/news-and-pol...

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

ICE agents love to wave around paper that looks official. Most of it is a scam — administrative forms signed by ICE supervisors, not real judicial warrants signed by judges. Let's go through what that scam paper looks like versus a real judicial warrant.

@repjamesclyburn.bsky.social I'm in your district & would like you to vote for this!

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

This just shows how absurd the whole "armed conflict" framing is. The men on the boats weren't members of an organized armed force, and therefore the question of "perfidy" is inapposite. The problem is that they were civilians who were murdered. @justsecurity.org www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

#VenezuelaCrisis #Greenland 😂

This revolting behavior should have Americans revolting in the streets.

broke: great man theory of history woke: great idiot theory of history

Not on my Bingo card, but a pleasant surprise...

lmao Mad Magazine has still got it

The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.

Every time there is unrest in Iran, the revolutionary guard says it's all America's fault. Not sure anyone believed that tired refrain until Trump this week...

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Steve Kerr on the murder of Renee Good: "It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying."

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

/12 If you think it is obvious that the videos prove murder and nobody can say otherwise, your view is based on how you want the system to be, not how it is. It will be brutally hard, fighting inch by inch against what America is, to convict Jonathan Ross. Your feelings don’t enter into it.

That photo....😬

The scene tonight in DC, where after a couple of speakers, the current chant is, “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here.

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

Do not use anything other than water for exposure to tear gas and/or pepper spray. In a Minnesota winter, consider the potential for injury due to water in cold weather. Water can cause fatal hypothermia whereas tear gas/pepper spray on skin and eyes is a matter of discomfort.

sure do

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

This is why the 'Trump's taking over Venezuela for their oil reserves' narrative has been bothering me. U.S. oil companies *already* had their assets in Venezuela nationalized...do they really want to try this again? Did they ask Trump for this invasion, or did he just assume they wanted this?

Way to 'Back the Blue'...🙄

Three queries: Maduro's gone, but his government remains. Is it really régime change if they just remove one guy? Also...is Trumplandia planning to starve Cuba of Venezuelan oil so they can go after Cuba next? Also...how are Vought & Miller scheming to use "war-time" powers against USians?

Statement on Trump’s military actions in Venezuela.

The US justice system now has de facto jurisdiction over every head of state on earth except our own. Madness.