here is the video version of this post, with a few other thoughts as well. youtu.be/wBS13rx-M7s

Tom Morello live in Minneapolis

New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car. Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX. /1

I’m really just here for the “Ch!nga el fascismo” sign in the background

WATCH: “If President Newsom had Nick Shirley arrested for going inside a day care, how would the Megyn Kellys react. They’d be pissed. And I would be too.” @samsteindc.bsky.social points out the raging hypocrisy behind the right-wing glee in Trump arresting Don Lemon (From @thebulwark.com )

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Chaya Raichik, who runs the social media account Libs of TikTok, has spent the days following Alex Pretti’s killing doxxing ordinary working people — teachers, nurses, school board members — for speaking out against federal immigration officials or expressing sympathy for Pretti.

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

While I believe the proper sentiment is “Get the fuck out of Minneapolis” and I disagree that Walz did anything wrong bc it never was wrong or illegal to follow or film ICE and no amount of rhetoric or hyperbole changes that, it’s good to see the WSJ agrees that they need to leave.

“At times, Minneapolis reminded me of what I saw during the Arab Spring in 2011, a series of street clashes between protesters and police that quickly swelled into a much larger struggle against autocracy.”

This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this. Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.

Fuck off Pam Bondi.

“President Trump is using all the instruments: the reported quotas for ICE arrests; the paramilitary force made up of thugs drunk on their own brutality; the spectacle of random violence, particularly in city streets; the postmortem vilification of the victims…”

The government had better shut down next week. I’m sorry for government employees, but our government is killing our citizens and lying about what’s happening. We can all see what happened. There has to be a response.

Gift article: "The agent removes the weapon, which matches the profile of a gun D.H.S. says belonged to Mr. Pretti, from the scene. Then, while Mr. Pretti is on his knees and restrained, the agent standing directly above him appears to fire one shot at Mr. Pretti at close range."

For those keeping score at home, this means that the first bullet did not immediately kill her, either the second or third did, the ones fired from the side through the driver side window, when murderer Jonathan Ross was in ZERO danger. Jonathan Ross had no reason to fire those two shots.

Ötzi, the 5,000-something-year-old man found frozen in the Alps, did not have an easy go of it. But at least he had sex. defector.com/let-the-reco...

"This isn't my FBI. I don't recognize this FBI." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Curious to know how many closed. If it is even remotely close to a general strike, if even 5% of businesses closed, that would be crazy.

AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.

#BREAKING: Federal jury finds Chicago man NOT GUILTY of offering $10K for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino. The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:

Insane. Bars can’t ban guns now, what could go wrong. Historically, you so very much could ban guns, I saw it in the film Tombstone.

I just want everyone to know that I am settling a huge case on the exact day it happens. So I’ll be celebrating for that reason, & will be sure to preface my celebration with that. I anticipate someone on Facebook will message me that it’s in bad taste, and I’ll post a shot for shot video of this;

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Trump suggesting ICE made a "mistake" in killing Renee Good: "Okay, if you're saying ICE made a mistake when they shot and killed Renee Good, why didn't you have an investigation? Why don't you release the evidence so we can actually investigate?"

at this point if you haven't gotten illegally denied entry to a detention center as a D congressperson you really got to get that on the schedule

Weber State with a "WTF did I just watch? (Complimentary)" to win the partner stunt competition at nats www.instagram.com/reel/DTmAnJx...

Like do these people have expect us to fund them if we take the House? Pay their pensions? Under no circumstances should that ever happen. This isn’t immigration enforcement or even policing.

Haven’t libs lost their jobs at newsrooms for less than this?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

A second, more comprehensive NYT video analysis of the moments surrounding the killing of Renee Good. 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

Renee Good was found with an irregular pulse by paramedics. Had people been able to administer first aid, could she have been saved? We’ll never know.

This was the plan

joe rogan is a very dumb guy, that very dumb guys are realizing that ICE is evil is good.

the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.

I wrote all of this up (including how we got to this point doctrinally) in a recent issue of my newsletter. Here's the non-paywalled version: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-182-...

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

And, the word of the day is now "perfidy." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

👇🎯 Once again, the two parties are not remotely the same, & yet they are covered in our most prominent media outlets in exactly opposite proportions to the actual degree of scandal, lawbreaking, authoritarianism, etc. This has reached new levels of farce & obscenity since Trump.

Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images.

Q: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?" Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."

Auchincloss: "When you have a badge & gun and you are interacting with a citizen who has committed no crime, the onus of responsibility is on you to exercise good judgment. Nobody watching that video will buy the argument that he had no other resort other than to shoot her in the face 3 times."

FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face