The very dutiful transcription of the fact that DOJ is launching an investigation into Walz and Frey doesn't exhibit the least critical thinking about what the crime was. CBS at least names it but ... think about this, folks. Felony saying mean things? www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

Discount Goebbels has unilaterally withdrawn the US from NATO, I guess.

Trying to protect everything from everyone all the time is a good way to drive yourself crazy. This is why we threat model. Here is EFF's Surveillance Self Defense guide to putting together your security plan, also known as threat modeling: ssd.eff.org/module/your-...

NYT treating "escalation" as the news hook again. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

Michael Cohen seems to be trying to kill the NYC case against Trump, and subscribe to his SubStack. 😠 substack.com/home/post/p-...

🤔 In 2021, Kip Mock of Moscow ID accidentally set his pal, Elijah Froh, on fire by pouring diesel on a fire. Mock & Froh were later were hired by Valar Atomics—founded by their pal, Isaiah Taylor, a high school dropout from Moscow, ID who somehow landed a DOE contract to build a nuclear reactor. 1/

I've seen some folks giving into doomerism by citing the US's history of paramilitary violence shutting down fair elections in the South, and I want to add some historical context to support Jamelle here (as an historian of Reconstruction paramilitary violence)

It REALLY frustrates me that everyone always forgets LaMonica McIver.

BREAKING: Judge enters TRO blocking feds from interfering with or arresting peaceful protesters in Minnesota. Judge Kate Menendez, Biden appointee. Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

I think @ag.state.mn.us is too kind here. DHS ALWAYS lies first, then investigates. This may be the first time they've been ashamed enough to take shit down--normally it takes court orders. But the MO is exactly the same. Every. Single. Time. They lie immediately, then check their own lies.

3 hours ago, The Taoiseach posted photos on X of school children from a visit he made to Gorey. How is that not a severe safeguarding issue, given what can be done with any photo on X now? #IrishPol

I can't count how many times I've written that Donald Trump has picked his political martyrs poorly. Thus far I have not been wrong. Holy hell this time last Friday DOJ was subpoenaing Jerome Powell and thus far all that did was save us from Kevin Hassett.

The expert witness for accused pipe bomber Brian Cole says they weren't viable pipe bombs: He didn't mix his black powder ingredients sufficiently. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Honestly I'll be mildly surprised if we DON'T eventually learn that JD Vance exfiltrated him on AFII.

So Supreme Court is going to hear a challenge to Google GeoFences. That could seriously fuck up the Pipe Bomber case. While the geofences used to ID him were obtained weeks after Jan6, the WARRANT relying on them was obtained after some Jan6 precedents. www.emptywheel.net/2022/12/01/m...

On the one hand, Trump is threatening to invade Greenland. On the other hand, the Italians are insisting that only Prosciutto de Parma is Prosciutto de Parma. Now let's talk about Irish Bourbon™

I beg of you, somebody. I am not competent to write the retort to this, but it really invites a response. And yes, I would love if @georgetakei.bsky.social schooled him.

NEW: "Rep. Julia Letlow Discloses Over 200 Stock Trades After Deadline As Ban Debate Grows In Congress" #whoops me, for @forbes www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

I'm seeing more people use the phrase "American carnage" for Stephen Miller's invasions and I think that's a really great hijacking of his term. He keeps trying to claim the chaos in MN is designed to prevent MSP from turning into Mogadishu but ... it's beginning to look like Mogadishu.

Help me out here. Hasn't Star Trek always had "aliens" and non-traditional women? I mean, sure, Uhuru was sexualized, but she was a smart-as-shit officer BEFORE women were admitted to West Point and non-white; she's the kind of person Stephen Miller is trying to denaturalize.

He did say Apple & Google should remove it from app stores. He also said the Govt wouldn’t give “kneejerk” response by immediately coming off X, saying other platforms have issues too. I interjected to say those other platforms don’t generate CSAM. He accepts that but said other issues exist.

"Epstein Is Dead:" Pam Bondi Is Neglecting Live Sex Trafficking Prosecutions to Criminalize Democrats www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/16/e...

Trump's advisors are finally worrying about all the Butt Crack and Beer Belly spectacle that Stephen Miller's invasions create. And they've got private polling showing what @gelliottmorris.com keeps pointing out: Trump is losing on immigration and ICE. www.axios.com/2026/01/16/t...

Trump employing literal smoke (and mirrors) to blame the violence on protestors.

With the news that DOJ added another 80 AUSAs (from CRM) to the Epstein review team, I believe 10% of DOJ's AUSAs (or pretty damn close) are reviewing Epstein files. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Stephen Miller's invasions are utterly atrocious but they're also renewing civil society in every city he invades.

U.S. billionaires made record-breaking extreme wealth gains last year. But "Average taxpayers like you and I," says IPS @inequality.org researcher @ocampomar.bsky.social in @truthout.org, "still pay income tax at triple the rate of the wealthiest Americans."

Before Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, we need to make it very clear this -- as well as shooting protestors -- was all premeditated.

Remember when Trump demanded the petroleum industry give $1B to his campaign fund? You'll never guess how that worked out. www.ft.com/content/da74...

This is typical of this government - issue an outraged, personally affronted denial of the ascribed motivation, but don't actually explain what your motivation is The Minister does not seem, of course, to realise that the ascribed motivation he's denying is actually the kinder explanation

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

You can’t fight antisemitism while validating Holocaust deniers, gutting civil‑rights enforcement, and excusing open hatred inside your own movement. My new piece traces how the Trump administration is mainstreaming hate — not by accident, but by design.

The people of Minneapolis are highly engaged in defending our community from the federal occupation. A meeting in the Whittier neighborhood last night required three overflow rooms, with speakers having to go room to room to make sure everyone heard them. 838 people at Whittier Elementary.

President Trump is once again threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, this time in Minneapolis. That would be a flagrant and particularly dangerous abuse of the Act—one that would threaten the rule of law and public safety alike. 1/13

I do not believe that Mobile Fortify was "internally developed". The model MAGA people have consistently followed is to buy some third party thing and slap their name on it. If my guess is right, there are critical national security issues in play.

Right: MN had everything: 1) MN-Gov and an open Sen, plus House races, and he believes he needs Gov to win in 2028 2) Somalis who could be demonized AND DENATURALIZED, a key goal for Miller 3) The ability to claim Dems engage in fraud more than the Fraudster in Chief, w/parallel prosecution route

I started throwing together background research to share with folks who wanted more details on the U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana oil triangle I wrote about in @drilledmedia.bsky.social last week, and then figured I should make it public. Hope it helps! drilled.media/news/venezue...

I wrote about how videos of DHS Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies have created negative spectacle that neutralizes the fascist porn that Kristi Noem is trying to disseminate back in September. It holds up... www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/b...

This Pete looks like he could beat the shit out of our Pete.

I realize I'm not a defense attorney, much less a really amazing one like James Wyda, but for the life of me I keep wishing people accused of the same crimes as Donald Trump would note that HE had pretrial release w/far more damning evidence against him. [Note, so did two analogues at the time.]

The import of this ruling: Foreign citizens in the United States—including green card holders—can be arrested for political speech and imprisoned for months or even years before being given a meaningful opportunity to challenge the constitutionality of their arrest and imprisonment.

Quoting @wyden.senate.gov: "It makes a mockery of the idea that ICE is trying to make our country safer. Rather, agents are reportedly picking people to deport from our country the same way you'd choose a nearby coffee shop."

The Trump admin, which says it was investigating fraud in Democratic-led states, quietly shelved a massive welfare fraud investigation in Mississippi involving public funds funneled to Brett Favre and others

I was fed up with Krysten Sinema's Senate career by the end but her pivot to taking ibogaine and breaking up marriages has me thinking more highly of her www.law360.com/articles/243...

Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google’s one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers. www.wired.com/story/google...

I've lived in Ireland >5 years now (and been a citizen for 20). The number of Americans fleeing the US I meet has gone up sharply in the last six months.

In the morning, FBI seized the phone of a journalist who had contact with hundreds of regime dissidents. In the afternoon, incompetent ICE goons abandoned cars with stacks of intelligence on their invasion.

This was excellent! It's long, and it's really well done.

Over 20 years, Iran has been the No1 country of origin for asylum seekers in the UK. Those who campaign to slash the rights of refugees, but today decry the savagery of the Iranian regime, need to have a little think. There is no safe route to the UK for Iranian asylum seekers.