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.

Sr. VP, Moderna: Studies “illustrate mRNA’s potential in cancer care,” noting they've Phase 2 & 3 trials going for mRNA vaxxs against a variety of cancers, including skin, lung, bladder, kidney. Sr. VP, Merck: The 5-year follow-up data, “meaningful milestone,” “encouraging.”

What's up.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

lol is the “deal” that the United States gets what it currently gets, but everyone gives Trump a shiny object so that he’ll be distracted?

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

The 60 Minutes segment on CECOT prison aired tonight, four weeks after it was pulled by CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss for not being ready. deadline.com/2026/01/60-minut...

Alabama has no OBGYNs in many of their counties, so they're doing something pretty cool. They're not bringing OBGYNs to those counties. Jesus, look at Trump's & RFK Jr.'s faces while Oz blabs. Their brains are approaching process shutdown. I mean, if we're talking robot substitutions...

Even with the world falling to shit I find the time to complain about entertainment.

NEWS: The U.S. Department of Justice has formally moved to block the appointment of an independent monitor or special master to oversee the release of Epstein-related records

I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.

ROOM TEMP PICKLE CHATS WITH WATER doesn't quite warrant an alert?

Expect his numbers to be lower once current ICE activities are factored. When he makes his move on Greenland, worse. When he impedes the midterms, worse still.

You'd think they'd be better at lying just by sheer volume experience.

Good thread. Read up.

21-year-old activist injured by ICE: I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.

...to attempt to kneecap or eliminate the midterm elections. Let's not forget that objective (to which we all as democratic citizens must object).

Inflicted on citizens and minors.

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.

Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.

People need to stop pretending the U.S. government isn’t actively rebranding as a white supremacist movement. 🚨 The Trump administration has rolled out a coordinated campaign across departments, using imagery and messaging straight from right-wing and white nationalist circles. This isn’t subtle.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

I've run this simulation, too. Buy a six-piece McNugget pack for the week, tear off a 1/3 piece of said nug, procure one Frito, one floret, and -- can the other thing be tap water? SCIENCE!!!

What's up? What's up, you ask?

For those following --

This is America.

I used to be a no-dancing-on-the-grave kind of guy. Who says I'm too old to change?

This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.

California is prioritizing data, science, and facts!

Some pushback. Keep it coming.

A Minnesota state representative said two Richfield Target employees detained by U.S. Border Patrol on Jan. 8 were U.S. citizens and were both injured in the incident.

Trump admin EPA to no longer count value of human health when regulating ozone & pollution, as per NYT. Policy change comes as data centers increasingly reliant on dirtier sources of electricity -- i.e., Elon Musk’s xAI and unpermitted natural gas turbine to power Colossus data center.

My take on him as well. His "fuckin' bitch" walkaway underlines it.

"Here are harsh truths for you to see and hear. But also, my emails. Both sides, both sides, both sides, and both sides. Also, not my place, but totes feelz and good night."

What he said.

The seeds of fascism and authoritarianism have always been present in America, and they are sprouting. But we also still have rights that people in 1930s Germany (or contemporary Russia or China) would have died for. It’s time to use them.

✊ DC!

Trump: “I've found healthcare sort of like...not of tremendous interest.” America: ‘Ummm…we know.’ #RadioFreeAmerica

Come on. The guy is simple-brained. He hasn't reasoned through a new thought since early 2000s. Trump generally lies about what he has done. Trump generally tells the truth about what he intends to do. He's no chess player.

"BALLSHIT?"

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

This is what's up.

This is how the White House “history” of Jan. 6 should be understood. It is, as always, an effort to get people to look for wrong-doers everywhere except for where the wrong was done: by Donald Trump himself.

Ultimate Florida Man. That's a kind of flex. CBS Evening News, taking over the position of America's punchline. I'm laughing.

Keep track.

No amount of gaslighting will convince sane and rational Americans that we didn’t see what we saw on January 6, 2021. Let’s cut through some of the bullshit and lies…

This'll put a stop to all that Venezuelan coke and fentanyl. Begone narcoterrorists and whatnot! So, I guess we just steal oil and sell what we don't want? That's cool.

This is what's up.

This is where we are. Read this joint statement by France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Denmark on Greenland: "Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland."