Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them: 1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens 2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar 3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia

I really can’t get over this. The corruption is not hidden in the least. Just unbelievable.

This is gutting.

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Was that before or after he attended the screening of the vanity doc at the White House?

Looks like Dem leadership found some spark today.

The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.

Thoughts and prayers to Greg Bovino from this Chicago mom with a whistle.

The "he's just one guy" contingent clearly didn't have this *specific* guy terrorize your community. So shut the fuck up if those of us that did are perhaps elated to see him actually take a fall.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

My statement after speaking with President Trump this afternoon:

God bless the bard of Barking… #BillyBragg

Star Tribune: “Republican Chris Madel made a stunning exit from the Minnesota governor’s race on Jan. 26, saying he cannot support the national GOP’s ‘stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.’”

CHICAGO LOCALS: I have a young friend (20s) looking to move to Chicago and find a roommate to share expenses. In my day, you might use the Reader to find that, but where do folks go to find possible roommates these days?

Oh.

I keep thinking about how angry and irritated and annoyed Melania Trump must have felt (is probably still feeling today), that her big, fancy White House propaganda doc premier was stained by the murder/execution of an American citizen at the hands of border patrol.

It’s another day in America. Godspeed.

Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

I spent the last year writing a book about the ridiculous demands of what it means to be masculine. But a guy who takes care of people who served our country, asks a woman “are you ok?” When she is in distress and looks out for his vulnerable neighbors seems like a pretty good role model for a man.

Vile and disheartening.

Toni Preckwinkle has called for the abolition of ICE.

Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

White Americans have long been able to safely assume that their whiteness would shield them from the most violent and arbitrary uses of state power. But history also shows us that white people who stand up for their fellow humans who aren't white can inspire murderous rage. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Oh.

Am at the Baltimore airport and the voices (English and Spanish) over the loudspeakers are those of a kind sounding grandmother. It is very comforting.

Oh.

Tell me your pet’s name with a GIF.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

This is great news.

I occasionally have to interview Canadians for my writing and, after the questions are asked and we feel comfortable together, I have made a point of apologizing as an American for this dangerous nonsense Trump engages in. Every single time it has been met with kindness and appreciation.

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

Adult and three kids taken by ICE (or maybe CBP?) in Chicago today near 64th & Champlain per Kenwood/Hyde Park/Woodlawn Rapid Response. Focus is rightly on Minneapolis *and* it's still happening here.

I legit can’t believe Hamnet did not get nominated for best cinematography. That film was shot so beautifully.

CPS closed tomorrow? My high school kid says it was announced already.

Good God.

My kid is seeing his first show at Subterranean tonight. Grateful for every bit of joy kids get these days.

This is Liam Ramos. The five year old that ICE took from a Minneapolis school and sent BY HIMSELF WITHOUT HIS FAMILY to a detention facility in Texas. There are monsters among us and they are wearing masks, carrying guns, and work for the US government.

Snapped this is Wynwood Walls Museum in Miami, 2024. This moment we’re in gives it context.

Anders Vistisen, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Denmark, to Donald Trump on his threats to steal Greenland: ”Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off.”

This.

We’re fine.

So shameful, on so many levels.

The Norwegian government is staying fairly quiet for now, but as a sign of the shifting vibe here the former head of Norway’s armed forces has come out and called the US a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms”. www.dn.no/politikk/tid...

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In a country with an actual free press, the photo of that poor old man would be the cover of every single paper with a headline that reads ENOUGH.

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