A tanker meandering in the Caribbean near Venezuela underscores the steep hurdles to ramping up the country’s oil production following the US capture of President Nicolás Maduro

NEWS --> Reps Eric Swalwell and Dan Goldman are introducing a new bill to strip ICE officers of qualified immunity, making lawsuits and prosecutions easier. They also say agent who killed Renee Good should be prosecuted in Minnesota. They break this news on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2051...

ALERT: Jack Smith will testify PUBLICLY before the House Judiciary Committee as early as this month Smith has been pressing to do so... in a public setting

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Friday he is discussing a potential free-trade agreement with the US as part of a broader prosperity package aimed at propelling the country’s recovery after the war. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes

Ah. So if you don’t count all the jobs lost, the jobs numbers look pretty good.

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something

Dow never misses. ⛽️

This kind of thing is a fairly routine occurrence at Assisted Living Facilities.

The same stupid trump tactic they are using.

The Trump administration has not yet ruled out the use of military force to take over the semi-autonomous territory of Greenland, which is partially controlled by fellow NATO member Denmark.

It is deeply counter to the whole very basic concept of this nation that its citizens can be taxed and then have funding withheld punitively because the person exercising the power of the presidency decides on a whim to do so.

Please understand what it means when journalists are evacuating their family members out of town. In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory

I was on an open rapid response line earlier when someone got pulled for tailing an ICE car and it was a very frightening moment. “Oh we’re going to get got, there are many of them surrounding us” and then a lot of angry shouting. They really do not like being followed. Keep following them.

We’ve been kind of half joking about the incandescent rage of the wine moms since this all started, and apparently the administration’s response to it is, “They’re not quite ready enough to drink our blood from our skulls yet.”

The week has concluded without release of Epstein Files

I am so, so tired of this schtick Crime rates are at or near historic lows Armed men in masks are killing us Stop it with this horseshit

Minneapolis, after the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

Amy Klobuchar: "There are now more ICE agents in Minnesota than there are police officers combined in Minneapolis and St. Paul. So they are outnumbering our own local police officers out on the streets."

We're at the scene of a protest in downtown Minneapolis outside the Canopy by Hilton hotel, where ICE agents are believed to be staying. Photographer Alex Kormann estimates at least 1,000 people are in attendance.

The federal government seceding from the union is a new one

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

These documents reveal some of the latest and craftiest ways major AI labs are sucking up data to improve their AI models. Legal experts say AI labs and contractors seem to be putting themselves at great risk, but the companies may have just decided it's worth it.

In files we obtained, OpenAI and its data partner, Handshake, tell contractors to remove confidential and personally information in these docs. OpenAI even directs people towards a public GPT someone made called "Superstar Scrubber" to help erase data. chatgpt.com/g/g-68e84188...

NEW: OpenAI is asking third-party contractors to upload *real work* they've done at current or past jobs to evaluate their AI models. OpenAI leaves it up to contractors to remove any confidential info. scoop w/ @willknight.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

Read more in WIRED: www.wired.com/story/openai...

NEWS President Trump’s Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer under investigation for ‘inappropriate’ relationship with employee Full Story: bit.ly/49NkciH

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.

This is the ICE agent removing the personal computer of Jonathan Ross, the killer of Renee Good, from Good's home earlier today. Next, video of the same agent on Dec 8 (not Jan 8, sorry) after dangerously boxing in a MnIceWatch volunteer with his truck & saying "I'll dedicate my next arrest to you"

Or who really knows what these guys are taking out of the killer's house? Anyway this thread here goes on forever, major content warning, I stopped counting after like 25 posts

🚨🧵🧵🧵🚨 The administration has launched a new initiative targeting Somali refugees in MN, but will likely expand to other refugees here as well. They’re calling it “Operation Post-Admission Refugee Re-Verification and Integrity Strengthening” (PARRIS). www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...

Rep. Luna, who once accused Twitter of "censorship" because no one on her staff explained what Jira is to her, is now asking the DOJ to prosecute a journalist for sharing a link to a university bio page on X (X immediately complied and locked the journalist's account until he deleted the link).

The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.

Klobuchar voted for the Secretary of Agriculture.

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

SO much chaos right now - don’t let this be forgotten. (Call your reps) NASA is closing its largest library this Friday with many important historical docs just being thrown out. (⁉️) 🎁🔗👇 and 🧵 from @denisedwheeler.bsky.social with more background below that)

This is when Wall Street dresses him down like Howard Beale and puts him in his place.😂

#HistoricPreservationAlert He *is* demolishing the entire White House—but in phases. At the time of the East Wing demolition, it was asserted that the East Colonnade had to go—b/c it couldn't support a 2nd story. You can be sure Trump will make the same claim about the historic West Colonnade.

I don't think their policy of murdering innocent mothers in the street is having the intended effect.

Yes because if oil company execs in a ballroom isn't what America is all about, then what are we even doing?

we need the illegal ballroom to strong arm private businesses into doing corrupt and unprofitable deals so we can justify the illegal seizure of another country’s national resources

Homeland Security likes to post Fox videos. Because Fox Is state media, pushing state lies about state terror.

This is so profoundly horrifying on so many levels. I don't even know what to think or to say about the agent not even devoting his full attention or both hands to threatening to shoot and then actually shooting this woman in the face.

Trump Announces Another Weekend in Palm Beach Trump flees to Mar-a-Lago after defending ICE’s murder of an American woman meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...

He murdered her

Billionaires added $2.2 TRILLION in wealth in 2025. Elon Musk grew his wealth by $187 billion. Jeff Bezos grew his wealth by $14.6 billion. Mark Zuckerberg grew his wealth by $26 billion. The Trump era has been good to Trump’s billionaire donors, & terrible for the rest of us.