i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate*

they literally want to destroy our "way of life" - the basic notions of voting in your leaders, deliberation over policy choices, schools for your children, home ownership - they cannot abide it any longer. even the sitting vice president is expressly anti american and wants the experiment ended now

This is what I meant when I wrote that "we can overthrow them with a union of care."

They have no job other than to terrorize citizens and now murder them. It isn't a real job. Other departments already did the "job" they're supposedly doing. And they are purposefully choosing untrained violent people because this is the job! Abolish is median position. Has to be. It's a layup!

"i am sorry for what i have done in the past and don't yet know how to fix it, but don't want to make it worse" is legitimately about the level best you can hope for someone like this to say, and it should be strongly encouraged anywhere we see it

The same old sentence wrapped in different words: look what you made me do. You pushed me. You deserved it. This is your fault. It’s the logic of abuse, a kind of moral alchemy that turns cruelty into consequence and makes a woman responsible for her own pain. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Donald Trump has done everything in 10 years to weaken the United States domestically and globally and to strengthen China and Russia. Blowing up NATO, the trade wars, unleashing ICE on US communities, and inciting an insurrection. This makes America worse. All for white power and greed.

There are many ways of course Congress could limit or regulate ICE. For example, a law could require approval of the mayor or local authorities for any deployment of ICE or CBP to any community.

Heads up, Twin Cities— CBP agent Timothy Donahue was photographed outside the Whipple building yesterday. In Chicago, he was documented aggressively detaining bystanders; also involved in at least one car crash. Most importantly, he also brandished his gun at a crowd in Evanston on 10/31.

HAPPENING NOW: Tens of thousands have filled 5th Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday (Jan 11) in a massive anti-ICE protest. New York showed up! 👏👏 (🎥Hands Off NYC)

"Short Stack" lol. "Oh you're a little guy too" 😭

The anti government militias were never anti government, they just hate Black people.

I mean, to be fair, the sort of subnormal droogs who infest ICE now do very much experience a woman laughing at them as being like murder, and murder triggers a right to self defense. It was probably going to be either Renee Good or some girl at a bar with these thug scum.

Outside the Whipple building in Minneapolis— Feds just emerged and unleashed pepper spray on demonstrators for approaching the driveway, sprayed one man directly in the face repeatedly. Pepper balls. Air is toxic, there were children out here in strollers. Reporters caught unprepared.

Note that the sudden rise in "nudification" is not an advance in the tech itself, it's a design choice by Musk / xAI. LMMs trained with nude images have been able to do this for years; Grok is the first time a major company has chosen to enhance this functionality for users rather than restrict it.

ISTM the public must now assume that any individual or organization that chooses to remain in Xitter agrees with Musk and endorses his odious and hateful views.

Kristi Noem is on my list of Trump cabinet officials whose impeachment and removal I will fight for if elected including Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Noem, Pam Bondi, RFK Jr., Linda McMahon, and John Radcliffe.

We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

The Plot to Enslave America. This slowdown in the labor market was precisely the outcome that the oligarchs who brought trump back into power were trying to engineer. The thing they hated about the Biden economy wasn't $50 burrito taxis, but 3% unemployment

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

If a federal agent tries to assault you, just scream "JOE BIDEN STOLE THE 2020 ELECTION" It's apparently like an Uno Reverse card. Now *you* get to assault the cops without any penalty. Beat them with a flagpole, use mace or bear spray on them, whatever. I'm sure the lawyers here will back me up.

This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

More than 5,000 people here in Powderhorn Park protesting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis. #FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump

Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

Seeing people do "here's the savvy take on how and why the US should acquire Greenland" and just feeling so *embarrassed* for them. Have some dignity. You don't need to be an apologist for the world's dumbest autocrat, you're not somehow sophisticated for seeing The Smart Play on imperial vainglory.

It is impossible to overstate the degree to which the entire national political media's coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, especially once Harris won the nomination, was deeply, fundamentally, shamefully unserious about the stakes & the candidates.

we need to communicate to our general staff that in the event that they go to war with Denmark over Greenland, we will extradite anyone who participates to anywhere which will hang them until dead

And senior Republican leaders who are not impeaching him now. The unprovoked invasion of our NATO allies is as cut-and-dried "impeach & remove immediately" as anything since WWII, aside from "incite an insurrection at the Capitol to steal an election." Total failure of Article I of the Constitution

He did it. He actually did it.

I keep repeating it because its insane to me but the idea of invading or acquiring Greenland for missile defense is insane because we already have access to it for our missile defense

i will never get over this rebecca tiffany quote: the goal of yimbyism is a world where "every trans eighteen-year-old who is stuck living with unsupportive family [is] able to afford an apartment in a vibrant urban space with transit on a minimum wage job." www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit...

ICE just reported its fourth in-custody death of 2026. It’s only January 10.

The UK, Canada and Australia are considering banning X. And yet, the progressive movement and Democratic Party still haven’t figured out how to boycott it.

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

If you're a young person you have no idea how long we've all been listening to Small Government and Liberty stuff from the right. Nobody at all believed any of it lol

I have some congresspeople who follow me, so I'll just throw this out there: As a taxpayer, I would actually prefer that you *not* continue to fund the fascist military machine that is being used to kill and kidnap people from our communities.

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

People need jobs and I’m not usually casting aspersions on those choices but if you are a part of ICE you’re a piece of shit. You decided on a career in body snatching!

The Democratic Party is at an inflection point and members of the old-guard who refuse to retire as well as their hand-picked successors need to step aside and make room for leaders who will actually fight for their constituents and for American democracy.

Intersections with the red light cameras have reduced T-bone crashes by 65% and rear-end collisions by 49%.

The Minneapolis shooting shares characteristics with others the Journal reviewed: Agents box in a vehicle, try to remove an individual, block attempts to flee, then fire. Most law-enforcement organizations reserve boxing in a vehicle for high-risk felony stops. www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV. The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence. This is not protection. This is occupation.

There’s so much room for bus lanes and bike lanes if you take street parking off arterials.

I think that a lot of respectable, middle-class white people are wondering if their local cops are going to stop ICE from doing to them what ICE did to Renee Nicole Good, and I would suggest to them that they have their answer here. If I'm wrong, well, the FOP can explain why.

What this administration is doing is accelerating and building on what already existed. This is disorienting, I know. We have to do what we can to protect each other locally while we also seriously address the foundational issues. This country has to disempower policing. I hope people understand now

Honestly, so much of the anger (not all but much of it) directed at the NYT should go to the editorial side who direct the coverage, the placement, the attention, and the terrible headlines. Yet they get to hide while they put the reporters out front to get yelled at.

I’m begging Democratic leaders to understand that outlining and forcefully articulating their vision for accountability now is an electoral strategy.

Decent people resist Gestapo.