They’re trying to deport witnesses to a murder by ICE guards

People like to think of judicial decisions as occurring in a vacuum, but history shows us they don’t. This decision isn’t separate from the organizing happening on the ground—it’s a result of it. Who knows how long it will stand, but for now it’s a win for the people. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

Can we start calling these Roberts Investigations?

Since the rise of right-wing media Republicans have been able to fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time. MAGA are the fools of the former group, and now think it can fool all of the people all of the time. We will win.

Three generations of law professors making history up is enough. Scholars spend decades researching and writing history with nuance and care. American law professors will take a couple of months to relearn all of science to explain why the world is, in fact, flat.

So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away. Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.

Donald Trump is terrorizing Minneapolis because he’s trying to extinguish Lady Liberty’s flame. But he will lose. Liberty lives in the hearts of us all. And everything Trump and his enablers do only makes that torch in her hand burn brighter. We will win.

There are more of us than there are of them. We will win.

Invert the judicial pyramid

truly the grift that keeps on giving there's so much going on all the time but the corruption really is staggering

Do you know why you've heard of the Boston Massacre? Because in 1768, when the British military began occupying Boston, Bostonians syndicated a "Journal of Occurrences" in newspapers around the country to help Americans understand what abuse of power looks like. By the 1770s, readers understood.

18 impeachable offenses a day, and this is the least of them

Seriously: Chase Iron Eyes should at this very moment be filing a habeas petition directly with Neil Gorsuch, who will grant it and demand ICE find and free the three Sioux members after declaring unconstitutional every statutory limit on his power to do so.

Psychopaths.

As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods

Kavanaugh Stop, meet Gorsuch Go

Homan is certainly lucky his own employer doesn’t care what he’s caught doing on video.

A homicide in a camp where members of politically disfavored ethnic groups are concentrated.

They’re totally that boorish drunk guy at the concert who spills his beer on you then when you say “dude you spilled your beer on me” tries and fails to punch you in the face with a wild swing that has the oaf losing his balance and falling on his face in the same puddle of beer he spilled on you

They thought they could take over our major cities and a national network and be greeted as liberators from oppressive “liberal bias,” as if their ideologically-constructed bubble would not burst upon contact with the rest of us in the real world that value decency and honesty.

Donald Trump is terrorizing Minneapolis because he’s trying to extinguish Lady Liberty’s flame. But he will lose. Liberty lives in the hearts of us all. And everything Trump and his enablers do only makes that torch in her hand burn brighter. We will win.

ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid. And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.

One thing to note in my chart below is that I have Congress in the center, because, as usual, all the powers the President in this arena has are statutorily granted. They could fix it *today* if they wanted to, just like with tariffs, immigration, qualified immunity, etc., etc.

Your regular reminder that there is no legal path from martial law to suspending elections in this country. That doesn't mean there is no path. It just means that we need to reject the framing that the federal government has any legal authority to cease elections.

PAY ATTENTION

Cheaters

Did you know that 3 out of 8 of Minnesota's Congressional districts are competitive? And of those 3, two districts are currently Republican, MN-1 (Brad Finstad, R-inc) and MN-8 (Pete Stauber, R-inc).

Taps sign

An insurrectionist invoking the Insurrection Act is pretty much everything the Second Founders were trying to save us from with the 14th Amendment.

Just googled JAG posse comitatus and all that came up was the 2003 episode of JAG titled Posse Comitatus. I suspect, however, that these JAGs will know better than I do or Google does whether their…deployment?…into the US Attorneys Office violates Posse Comitatus.

No Kings

The mantra for Fox O&O reporters when people see the logo: “Sports and Simpsons, not lies and propaganda. The local, not the national.”

looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit

Fascist

Peace has no king

One of the best things about being a competitive air guitarist is that We Have Friends Everywhere, and our mission is world peace. I checked in on my friend and Minneapolis Air Guitar Legend Airisol and she’s such a badass mom and neighbor.

Purple district, went for Harris in 2024 and a Republican for Congress. Sound familiar, NY-17? We will win.

Good thread from the Matt Cameron who was very much not Soundgarden's drummer, even through this past year.

CA5’s going en banc to strike down the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act after all

Now we'll see if Alito keeps his word from the Texas case that California can do whatever it wants, too...or if he, like Trump Judge Lee in dissent here, says nahhh Dems are the real racists

Yes

telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

Incidentally, KBJ just sniped at Kavanaugh over his Kavanaugh Stops opinion in a footnote today joined by Sotomayor. She isn't letting this one go. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

ICE abducted and injured (bruised cheek) a 1-year old who is the daughter of a US citizen detained as part of a Kavanaugh Stop.

Inspired by Trump's 2020 delegitimization campaign, Republicans challenged several state laws permitting the counting of mail ballots sent by Election Day but arriving shortly thereafter. Courts divided on challengers' standing. This resolves that, but SCOTUS is getting to merits this term anyway.

18 impeachable offenses a day

this, driving a person to suicide because they had the temerity to want to work in public service, is what russ vought hoped to accomplish

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