Kristi Noem: "I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the security blanket of the very freedom that I travel with and then questions the manner in which I travel with it."

I gotta say things are not looking good for white culture if we’ve got this guy out here as our spokesperson

Don Bacon the Burkean

IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE: SCIENCE IS REAL AND BLS DATA IS NOT ACCURATE (UNLESS IT TELLS US WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR)

When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

Some of the points the editorial makes aren’t bad — a neverending cycle of tit for tat gerrymandering is bad for everybody — but it’s hard to credibly make that point when you dismissed it as a nothing burger until the other party started retaliating.

If the government won't bail out my crypto losses, I'm going to become an even bigger libertarian.

Just remember, in a polarized era even the worst candidate is just a few lucky breaks from the presidency bsky.app/profile/g--0...

"no human is illegal on stolen land" is a stupid slogan because of the stolen land part. indigenous peoples, whatever that means, also don't have a right to deny the legal protections of citizenship to foreigners

I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.

Christopher Nolan has cast a Genovian as Penelope and a Bostonian as Odysseus. And they will be speaking English, a language that did not exist in antiquity. This whole production is pure chaos.

Quick note on Kevin Warsh's views on the Fed balance sheet. To the degree the balance sheet ever created major distortions in markets, economy or fiscal path - and I'm not persuaded it has - then those effects have radically diminished. Balance sheet relative to all Federal debt at post-GFC lows.

DOJ is Trump's personal law firm that we pay for. Free for him to use its unlimited resources to harass people like Lemon, Lisa Cook or Comey. We collectively pay the price both in our taxes and in losing a nonpartisan legal system. The individual victims must pay ruinous financial costs and stress.

Excited for Professor Wurman's new brief, "Why the Original Meaning of the First Amendment Does Not Include Black Journalists"

He's got the best political instincts of anyone in the Senate right now

A battle over consent erupts between Jeffrey Epstein and fifteen-year-old child.

"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse." theatln.tc/wVq7MFaa

Spanberger dismissing Youngkin's education appointees was an important move. It will require actions that look partisan and political to restore nonpartisanship, competency and merit to government. (MAGA must be purged.) newrepublic.com/article/2054...

The next Attorney General.

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Moderna curbing investments in vaccine trials due to US backlash, CEO tells Bloomberg TV reut.rs/3NBzBtS

Border security cannot be untangled from immigration while "cost of living" cannot be untangled from economy and the gaps are much wider there. This is before getting to party trust polling where Republicans maintain a pretty big immigration advantage.

i feel that the failure to impose any consequences on Trump for January 6 is the root cause of everything bad that is happening now

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

That Five-Year-Old Was No Angel

The justices keep returning to the hypo of a Fed governor posting pro-Nazi videos to ask whether that would meet the bar for for-cause removal. The idea that this kind of content would obviously cross the line seems a bit farcical given some of the material that DHS regularly posts on social media

no greenlander ever called me a libtard

This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.

The sort of people who support ICE and the Trump Administration are fine with this because she’s black, because she’s a woman, because she‘s Somali-American, and because THEY are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture.

👇🎯 They don’t understand the first thing about American power, hegemony, prosperity, or national security. Malevolently incompetent authoritarians & their rich, unserious, complicit lackeys like Bessent.

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

"Trump allowed the richest man in the world, who has increasingly embraced a white nationalist worldview, to condemn potentially millions of mostly non-white people to death. Its that simple. The elimination of USAID is the greatest moral atrocity of the Trump admin to date, and one driven by DOGE."

The total NSF budget was 9 billion. I doubt they spend 89% of it on quail.

This man was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison for attacking the federal government before Trump pardoned him. Now he works for the federal government.

DOKOUPIL: No you don't get it, we're not pro-Trump, we're anti-anti-Trump. We think both sides have their issues TRUMP: Listen you stupid little piggie you'd be doing the weather in Cedar Rapids if it weren't for me

JPOW literally said

Ah yes, the Kavanaugh stop. A brief law enforcement encounter that lasts a mere *checks notes* 25 days.

My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”

The media need to stop beating their chests about how powerful our military is. It's a point of pride when your country has a strong military that keeps the peace. It's a source of shame when politicians turn your strong military into an international armed robbery gang.

Members of the corrupt regime we overthrew will be corrupt for us

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?

The level of comfort now accorded racist, xenophobes quite willing to display their ignorance publicly is, perhaps, the most telling indicator of how far the ethos and integrity of this republic has fallen in these times. They just let it fly as if anyone with a soul can't see the hate.

People on here are so obsessed with @mattyglesias.bsky.social, and why he's the worst. It is completely insane. Progressives need to find enemies that don't like Democrats.

Like, I read this article a couple of times to make sure I did not miss anything. They are telling a US permanent resident, who lives in the United States, that he cannot travel to the United States. For no alleged crime, merely for factual speech.

bring back shame

Until the end of my days I will harbor a burning rage toward anyone who entertained the slightest inkling of defunding American aid programs

The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?