“Noem: U.S. Citizens Should Be Prepared To Show Proof.” Did you vote for a “Show Me Your Papers” society?

And the grim irony is that carrying your papers isn't enough either. Multiple reports have confirmed the ICE practice of rounding up people in groups and ignoring their offers to show their papers on the spot, then holding them for hours or days or even transporting them to distant places. /2

This man's lips are moving.

"The record in this case convinces me that these high officials, and I include the president of the United States, have a fearful view of 'freedom'."

got almost the whole crew in a selfie today

Looking NNW(ish) from near the top of Capulin Volcano National Monument Location: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raton-C...

They are calling it the most phoned-in manufactured pretext for the Insurrection Act ever

Small peeve: Punditry (or GOP boosterism) that pretends Greenland would be the 51st state. Of course it wouldn't. We bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark a century ago. More than 2x the population of Greenland. It's a territory, and its citizens don't have voting DC reps. Neither would Greenland.

and frequently in the past when such charges have been filed they've been later dismissed because they were made up bsky.app/profile/step...

IIRC, it's la Capillita de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Used to visit it a lot when I was living in town.

A Northern Flicker (lower left), a bird who likes ants, was following around a Pileated Woodpecker, who was hammering out holes in tree while looking for ants. After the Pileated would leave a spot, the Flicker would check it out to see if there were any ants leftover.

He said it. Heed him.

I really don't mind - but the same people who said Mayor Frey was offensive don't seem to have an issue with the president dropping an f-bomb and flipping the bird.

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

Trump is not popular, and institutions should stop pretending like he is.

"You can't quit, you're fired" is the trademark Pettiness Play of this administration.

A sitting U.S. Senator just suggested that dropping a baseless criminal investigation could be exchanged for the resignation of the Fed Chair. The independence of the Federal Reserve exists precisely to prevent political intimidation like this. #holdfast

Rep Robin Kelly (D-IL) is introducing articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem

New: I got body camera footage from a case in which a cop used Flock to wrongfully accuse an innocent woman of stealing a package: "Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it" www.404media.co/cop-used-flo...

We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation.

"We are definitely looking at severe loss of front-line capacity," said Andrew Kessler, head of Slingshot Solutions, a consultancy firm that works with mental health and addiction groups nationwide. "[Programs] may have to shut their doors tomorrow." www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

USGOV: We're fighting the scourge of drugs in our country! ALSO USGOV: We're cancelling 2 billion dollars of substance abuse services.

The WaPo reporter whose house was raided and phone was seized by DOJ had developed well over a thousand confidential sources inside a variety of government agencies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEWS: Democrat Chris Dzadovsky wins Fort Pierce City Commission District 2 runoff by just 31 votes, FLIPPING the commission to Democratic control. Dzadovsky defeated Republican Jaimebeth Galinis 50.60%–49.40% in the tight race.

Remember when I posted about the nightmare scenario where 2 cops give you conflicting orders & you know you're about to die? Multiple ICE agents were pointing where they wanted her to go. When she started moving that way, they broke out her window & dragged her out of her car. Arrested her.

So, if I'm reading this right: 4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer, and 6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow. (HT @benjaminkabak.com)

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"In a dictatorship...once this process begins, it is hard to stop. If they don't like strongman rule, they think, they can just elect someone else the next time. This misses the point. If you help a strongman come to power, you are eliminating democracy. You burn that bridge behind you. 1/2

Hey Friends, I've created a separate account with No Bad News in it. I can't guarantee that POTUS won't be mentioned, BTW, but you'll see stories of people fighting the good fight and stymieing him. Also fun stuff. Follow him/me! "The Upbeat" @theupbeat.bsky.social

My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars: / Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform. / Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks. / Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.

Imbecile.

This is what you get when a fascist designs his own uniform.

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AOC: Vance believes fundamentally that what happened to Renee Good is acceptable and what should be ok in America every day and so as far as what a person like that believes, you have to start right there with the person that you're dealing with

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

TIL one cannot have two BSky browser tabs open on two different accounts at the same time [Windows].

JUST IN: Judge Mehta rules that Trump/Russ Vought's termination of environmental grants during the shutdown — targeted solely at states that voted for Kamala Harris — violated the 5th Amendment's Equal Protection clause and orders them restored. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Mark Kelly Sues Pete Hegseth in Federal Court for Vengefully Going After His Rank talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kelly-s...

I also must say that it's a bit rich that Trump and his DOJ think it's a good idea to gin up a bullshit investigation about supposed illegalities in ... {checks notes} … renovating a federal building

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“Americans now must understand that if ICE agents who kill Americans in cold blood get nothing but praise from Trump and his minions, then no one is safe.”

Trump administration to send ‘hundreds more’ federal agents to Minneapolis www.ms.now/news/trump-a...

And even if he signed it into law, Congress can't trust him to follow through with faithfully executing it. People really gotta understand that their president is a criminal.

Remember that "door-to-door" quote I posted from Vance the other day? It's happening.