There's something that is so Congress-brained that they're going to claim a win on a law that says ICE has to follow the law, a thing which I am sure they already had to do

49% strong disapprove is a wild number. That’s gotta be at or near a historic peak.

Reminder of the pattern: when the real trump falters, he is removed from the news and replaced my in headlines by a fake, imaginary trump who is instead doing reasonable and popular things.

I feel like I’m losing my mind. Obviously they were doing something illegal, which is why they were hiding from legal authorities. What is legal can also be immoral and shameful.

"Non-violent tactics that waste a company’s time or money are really effective. For Enterprise, we’ve made and cancelled car reservations, saying the roads are too icy. At Home Depot... people [lined] up to buy ice scrapers and then getting in line to return them, in a way that clogs the lines."

Unions shouldn't have to spend their time helping their members eat while they're in hiding from armed, masked federal agents, but alas, here we are, and Minnesota's UNITE HERE Local 17 is doing it with grace and pluck.

BREAKING: Minnesota's chief federal judge has demanded the acting head of ICE personally appear in court Friday to explain what the judge described as repeated failures to comply with dozens of court orders amid its enforcement efforts in the state.

Side note but Josh Vlasto, leader of the Leading the Future PAC (AI, conservative veneer) is also spokesperson for: • Think Big PAC (AI, progressive) • Fairshake PAC (crypto) • Defend American Jobs PAC (crypto, conservative) 1/2

Thief of $90M in seized U​.S.-controlled crypto alleged to be government crypto contractor's son January 23, 2026 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=lick-theft

Assembly Member Alex Bores worked at Palantir for a few years right out of college, but says he quit in protest of their work with ICE. Now a Palantir co-founder is helping fund ads attacking Bores for working with an ICE contractor (i.e. Palantir):

It’s common and sort of understandable to see Miller as this evil genius. Important to remember he’s actually a complete fucking moron who, when he got a chance, immediately engineered a PR disaster that shitcanned Trump’s best-polling issue. Always the way with these types.

Yeah, body cameras don't matter a damn unless you have Jonathan Ross and Alex Pretti's murderers sitting in front of a jury visibly shaking in fear of a life sentence. Right now, ICE is just gonna destroy that footage if mildly inconvenient.

Kristi Noem facts: She was in Congress from 2011–2018. 1 piece of legislation she introduced was signed into law (the Black Hills Cemetery Act). She introduced 85 bills, and the modal number of cosponsors was 0. With then-Congressman Tim Walz, she introduced the Protect Our Prairies Act.

Hard to believe that a company named after an item that corrupts its users could be put to evil purposes.

Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.” Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity. So pathetic and weak.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

It is wild how much aesthetically and substantively RI democratic statewide candidates worry about moderate Dems, who are tops 30-35% of dem primary voters, while offering little to nothing for left, a much bigger constituency in a year like ‘26, maybe 40-45% of electorate.

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

Chris Madel: "The president posted something on Truth Social saying it was a time of reckoning and retribution on the citizens of my state, and I've seen that happen and I cannot be a part of it, and I can't be a part of a party that's a part of that"

A lot of people listen to the centrist strategists and “analysts” who wrongly argued Democrats shouldn’t talk about immigration because it would help Trump or some shit. You do have to wonder how that shaped Dem behavior in Congress, & how things could’ve been different w/ different info streams

Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino has not been relieved of his duties, DHS says From CNN's Aditi Sangal

Worst consequence any MAGA chud can imagine, I'm sure.

"what if the next administration will be democratic and they cut all the contracts with us?" maybe a something all these corporations that decided to throw themselves whole-hog into trumpism should have thought about!

The sense of accomplishment for having cleared my 4,000-mile long driveway by hand only mildly mitigated by the additional snow that covered the results just as I finished up.

The articles you don't think your local newspaper is going to have to publish about your town.

ICYMI this week's all-timer newsletter looks at why the claim that New Orleans is the most dangerous city in America is bunk.

we talk a lot about how this administration is Very Online and one of the things that comes with that is a complete inability to understand their opposition - who they are, what they're motivated by, and how they might respond to the administration's actions it's why they're failing

Oh my god she admit it

Apologies for yet another Irish Revolution comparison: the Irish population was very much opposed to the Easter Rising in 1916 because downtown Dublin was destroyed for, seemingly, no purpose. Until the British executed James Connolly as he was dying of gangrene. He was strapped to a chair and shot.

So, I've spent most of my professional life on what Bluesky would surely consider "the right," and I think what's going on here is that so much of the action there is top-down and ultimately donor-driven that some of these folks genuinely can't wrap their heads around...

RI AFL-CIO calls on ICE to leave Minneapolis and for the Rhode Island congressional delegation to vote against funding for ICE, DHS, and Border Patrol agencies “What we are seeing in Minneapolis is un-American and unacceptable,” said Patrick Crowley, President of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO.

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

I’m in a committed monogamous marriage, but AFAIK, isn’t polygamy famously done with the knowledge and consent of everyone involved? If we’re going to come up with a cutesy name for holding two jobs at once, shouldn’t it be “job cheating” or “secret second job” or something?

Once you've been through enough cycles, it becomes easier to see the candidate elites are trying to make happen vs. ones that have genuine popular appeal.

Man, someone sounds really mad that a bunch of Minneapolis soccer moms can manage op-sec while the Secretary of Defense texts his battle plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic.

they've already made the peaceful exercise of second amendment rights into pretext for summary execution, now they're doing the same with first amendment rights

They're squirming.

This is why you hear Buttigieg and Shapiro - even now! - still talking about "overreaction to COVID." It's a dogwhistle for anti-woke and based on a complete and total misreading of public opinion that the mod group chats convinced themselves of.

John Roberts struck down the ACA’s Medicaid expansion as a 10A violation because the law was, as he called it, a “gun to the head” of the states who did not want to help their residents. Now Trump’s putting *literal* guns to the heads of Minnesota’s residents to force their gov’t to betray them.

Rep. Tom Suozzi(D-NY), getting raked over the coals for his vote for more ICE funding, says in a campaign email that he didn’t understand what he was doing

You could do a lot without any legal change. I oversaw civil forfeiture for DOJ Criminal Division, which did huge cases including against banks. Spent most of my career trying to get people to go after bigger targets.

pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

The political press very clearly understands “truth” as a social agreement, a compromise position between everyone important enough to have an opinion. It did not reflect on how this would allow dedicated liars to go all-in on lies again and again and dramatically shift the position.

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis