At the risk of sounding like the oldest member of Gen X ever, I really want that time and the role of editors back. It would solve so many problems.

Oh. So, it’s bad bad. Beyond the bad.* And the other bad.** * = The firings. ** = The opinion pages.

Oh.

Epstein crimes across the pond. 🇬🇧 “The world is run by disgusting, despicable criminal men.”

If only Donald's icy, withholding parents had loved him, none of this embarrassingly needy bullshit would be happening. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Over 73,000 people are currently in ICE custody, the most ever... But that's not the only shocking number: - There has been a 2,450% increase in the number of people with no criminal record being held in ICE detention on any given day.

The people whose names literally show up thousands of times in the Epstein files want you to think a 5-year-old refugee and star kindergarten student is the problem with this country rather than the white pedophiles in charge of it who keep stealing American money and assaulting American children

Who could this be? Hmm…

Fact-check your fact-check. Fact: Donald Trump is ALWAYS lying.

Your suspicion was right. Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations. He’s betting we forget in two years. In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.

ICE are not the police,They are not the FBI, They are not US Marshals , they are not DEA, they are border enforcement agents tasked to protect our border & to uphold our immigration laws- the are not empowered to do anything else or to defy or break our laws doing it- apnews.com/article/immi...

Here are Ramsey County's mug shots for Jake Lang.

Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began. Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.

AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

New Quinnipiac poll: 63% of voters disapprove of ICE 60% want ICE out of Minneapolis 58% want Kristi Noem removed from office

WARNOCK: Trump said 'we're going to have a manufacturing boom.' Yes or no, have we had one? BESSENT: There's the beginnings of a manufacturing boom. We have intentions -- factory groundbreakings WARNOCK: Do you know how many manufacturing jobs have been lost since 'liberation day'? 72,000

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I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

"My fellow non-MAGA Americans, keep an eye on your iconic monuments and performance spaces. Because when it comes to Trump, what happens in D.C. doesn’t always stay in D.C."

MEMPHIS: “Memphis Safe Task Force” (U.S. marshal) caught KICKING A PUPPY 😳 as they arrested a guy for on a drug warrant “He was harmless. There’s no reason he should’ve done that.” @GovBillLee this is what we’re paying $1 Million a day for?🤔 Full: wreg.com/news/video-u...

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

"Zombie mortgages" are debts that homeowners thought were forgiven or satisfied long ago, only to learn that they still exist and could cost them their homes. https://to.pbs.org/4tgrofb

I don't think I could better parody the state of the Washington Post opinions page than an essay from a crypto guy and the legal academy's worst amateur epidemiologist that earnestly argues that "stolen land" rhetoric is misguided because of statutes of limitations on lawsuits to recover property

His already minimal filter is completely gone. Let him talk as much as possible, as often as possible. He will eventually dig a finally undeniable grave.

wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."

WARREN: This should be an easy one. Can you commit that Trump's Fed nominee will not be sued or investigated by the DOJ if he does not cut interest rates like Trump wants? BESSENT: That's up to the president W: You can't say he won't be criminally investigated? That's supposed to be the soft ball!

KENNEDY: If Canada came to the US and said, 'We're going to 0 tariffs on the US, all of them are off,' would you and the president go to 0 tariffs and let Canadian companies and American companies compete on a level playing field? BESSENT: Absolutely not

BESSENT, to investors, in January 2024: “.. . The tariff gun will always be loaded and on the table but rarely discharged. .. Tariffs are inflationary ..” 🤡 assets.realclear.com/files/2024/0...

Guy who owns 20 homes doesn't do his own grocery shopping

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

This is all one big mockery of faith.

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The patron saint of torture.

I just read the declaration that Kira Kelley asked J. Blackwell to consider. This immigrant describes being -unlawfully arrested -taken from one overcrowded & filthy prison to another over 19 days -held incommunicado & ICE never telling him a court ordered his release He describes an American gulag

LONDON — 🇬🇧 people put Elon’s email to Epstein up at a bus stop 👀 This is who we’re letting poison Memphis and drill a hole in Nashville? 🤔

I am running out of ways to convey how disconnected from reality Trump's judicial nominees are. They can't say that Trump lost the 2020 election, they won't say that the January 6 insurrection happened, they don't acknowledge any fact about anything if Trump hasn't authorized them to believe it

It gets even better if you can believe it

This is NOT The Onion or SNL. What an utter disgrace.

NEW: The Justice Department unit responsible for pursuing potential wrongdoing by law enforcement, including during the crackdown in Minneapolis, has lost two-thirds of its prosecutors and is under orders to scale back its investigations of excessive force. www.reuters.com/world/justic...

"Since 9/11, the culture of ICE and CBP has meant that the agencies have been what you might call a fascist-secret-police-in-waiting, troubled agencies simply waiting for an ambitious would-be authoritarian."

The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.

* US Companies Announce Most Job Cuts for Any January Since 2009 @bloomberg.com

My post on that. emptywheel.net/the-minnesot...

This NYT piece never mentions the most important detail of the hearing. THESE PEOPLE ARE UNLAWFULLY being held--and many are unlawfully being snatched in the first place. The reason there's such a caseload is bc ICE is kidnapping people illegally.

For today's bonus issue of "One First," I wrote about Monday's @nytimes.com scoop regarding Chief Justice Roberts having clerks and other employees sign non-disclosure agreements, and why #SCOTUS's transparency problems run far deeper and wider than just NDAs: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-207-...

What if Trump got his face added to Mt. Rushmore or his name added to the Hollywood Bowl? This time it's personal for DC and me. Next time it could be you and your town. My piece on the Kennedy Center: bad politics, economics, precedent, and taste. @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-kenn...

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... large majorities of Americans share the views of more progressive Democrats, such as Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), while recoiling against MAGA’s anti-immigrant venom.

Alex Pretti's killers are now known: Jesus Ochoa & Raymundo Gutierrez. This is thanks to ProPublica. It's a travesty and intolerable that Homeland Security & the Justice Dept have hidden these federal agents' identities. @markjacob.bsky.social & I discuss. www.americaamerica.news/p/unmasking-...

I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.