“Oh grow up, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Vote for the lesser of 2 evils, so *they* can vote for the greater evil on your behalf.”

Funding for $10 billion for ICE passed the House by a vote of 220-207. Seven Democrats sided with Republicans: Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Don Davis (N.C.), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.) and Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)

Sad truth is at the end of the day, the Democratic Party is as ugly and nasty as the other guys.

Russian flag cargo vessels of interest transit Bosphorus to/from the Black Sea: MYS Zhelaniya enters the Black Sea after delivering weapons to Tobruk, Libya. Severniy Proekt loaded non-agricultural cargo at berth 20 of Aval in occupied Sevastopol and transited Bosphorus towards Med.

NEWS: While Hakeem Jeffries has announced he's opposing the DHS/ICE funding bill tomorrow, his team is not whipping the vote. Several frontliners are expected to vote yes. There's a difference in leadership between personal vote decisions & unifying the caucus. From me: prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...

To quote one source: “They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.” prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...

The only bright side of this national catastrophe is that we are dealing with morons.

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Inaugural members of Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace”: Six monarchs, three ex-Soviet apparatchiks, two military-backed regimes and a leader sought by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes. www.ft.com/content/a500...

Trump links Greenland pursuit to failure to win Nobel Prize ft.trib.al/ZfbSDmt

as.ft.com/r/383d1a4a-d... Donald Trump links Greenland pursuit to failure to win Nobel Prize

No yellowcake: After all the drama, Matros Shevchenko transits Bosphorus empty en route from Lomé to the Black Sea

lotta Dems should be taking notes from Van Hollen on how to respond to the moment we're in

Trump posts that he’s “Acting President of Venezuela”

Powell: “Public service requires standing firm against threats”. Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

It’s not about this specific agent:

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

When just showing the video isn’t enough: Minneapolis shooting puts news organizations to the test www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/when...

Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three living in Minnesota, was shot dead in her car by a federal agent in Minneapolis, setting off protests and sharp debate. Here’s what we know about the poet from Colorado, who studied in Virginia reut.rs/4qHRJQS

Au Niger, comment le stock d’uranium convoité par la Russie s’est retrouvé dans une impasse avec @benjaminroger.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

“Oil has already been produced and put in the barrels. The majority of it is currently on boats and will now go to US facilities in the Gulf to be refined.”:…No two ways about it. These are the dumbest people in America. They think crude is transported in barrels. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

ICE thugs, murderous and out of control.

A US immigration agent shot and killed a driver in Minneapolis amid an immigration enforcement surge. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey blamed the Trump administration in a post on X for heightening tensions around immigration enforcement reut.rs/4svyhsw

The Netherlands has pulled out of U.S.-led counter-drug missions in the Caribbean, a reaction to the rising death toll from American military attacks on vessels suspected of being used to smuggle narcotics.

The odds could tilt in China's favor if the US becomes absorbed in Venezuela (via Bloomberg Opinion)

Bushels & barrels: Russia pays a steep price for its bases in Syria. Sanctioned TK Nord's bulker Siberia transited Bosphorus carrying stolen agricultural commodities from occupied Feodosia to Syria while sanctioned bulker Matros Koshka returns to Black Sea after delivering stolen wheat to Tartus. #T

The song is literally about Trump !!!

Trump: "All the way back it dated to the Monroe Doctrines. And the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal. But we've superseded it by a lot. By a real lot. They now call it the Donroe Document. I don't know. It's Monroe Doctrine. We sort of forgot about it."

Also, when reporters start talking about the chatbots this way, it is imperative to remind them they are basically asking a toaster for comment. They should be a lot more embarrassed about this than they currently are. “Grok told CNN…” no it didn’t. You typed stuff into an unreliable calculator.

It’s also time to start wondering if some of these reporters are a little cooked by the bots themselves. Reporters aren’t inured to chatbot psychosis. In fact, some of them may have drank too much of the kool aid from sources selling them stuff. We’re in a new world of stupid. Adjust your credulity.

Protesters in the city of Shiraz chant "freedom, freedom, freedom" on Maliabad Boulevard, in northern suburbs of the city. Location: maps.app.goo.gl/Tqvp2VpP3h1p...

My old pal @eniiler.bsky.social with a killer story. What we save defines us as a culture—the archive is our memory and our future. And we’re throwing it away? Madness. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

"Beforehand, according to an American official present, Mr. Hegseth dabbed his nose with powder from a small compact. 'Look commanding,' he told one aide. The handshake with the Ukrainian might be shown on Fox; the president might be watching." (Gift link)

Saudi Arabia may lower February crude prices to Asia for a third month reut.rs/49dJmWq

Russian flagged bulker Irtysh delivered stolen grain from occupied Sevastopol, for the second time, to Houthi controlled Al-Salif. Irtysh returned from Houthi controlled port of Yemen, transited Bosphorus and returned to the Black Sea. #T

Russian flagged bulker Irtysh delivered stolen grain for the second time from occupied Sevastopol to Houthi controlled Al-Salif. Irtysh returned from Houthi controlled Yemen, transited Bosphorus and returned to the Black Sea.

Donald Trump has been accused of holding a party for prostitutes at his Mar-a-Lago resort in yet another FBI file relating to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Signs of new regional realities in Caucasus: Turkish, the airline flying to the most countries internationally, is introducing Yerevan as its next new destination. (There was service on this route by low-cost, but no flagship carrier to Zvartnots due to political issues.)

White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller has spent years weaponizing hatred to become the mastermind of Trump’s crackdown on marginalized groups. Zeteo traces his most hateful, strange, and downright cringey moments along the way.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them — theonion.com/democratic-l...

Epstein to Larry Nassar in 2019: "Our president [Trump] also shares our love of young nubile girls"

Russia fired more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles at Ukraine in a large-scale attack that began during the night and stretched into daylight hours Tuesday, officials said. At least three people were killed, including a 4-year-old child. https://to.pbs.org/4s6SXXH

It's time to leave your lucrative office job and go work at a factory, where the robots have taken all of the jobs

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

How a remote airstrip in Libya reshaped Sudan’s civil war - www.reuters.com/world/how-re...

Turkish F16s shot down an unidentified unmanned aerial vehicle that had been observed violating NATO airspace over the Black Sea.