Klobuchar is posting about the Minnesota Ag Expo instead of the brutal fascist takeover of her state's largest city because she believes the Minnesota Ag Expo is more important than the brutal fascist takeover of her state's largest city.

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

Tyler O'Ryan Gramlin, 32, of Borden, IN is a Border Patrol Agent who has traveled from state to state committing extreme violence. On Jan 21, 2026 Gramlin emptied a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a prone protester at point-blank range in Minneapolis #MPLS #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE

The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.

A decade ago if someone from the future came to tell me that at the 2026 WEF in Davos *China* would be leading the charge on climate, and the US would be bolstering fossil fuels and stymying green energy development, I would have not believed them. Yet here we are... [from Bloomberg]

Rare to see discusson of the point @jamellebouie.net makes here. "Most coverage of Trump treats him as president in a functional way, even if he doesn’t perform the civic duties of the office." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o... Rather than designing coverage for a cateory of one — the mad king...1/

I know the Constitution doesn’t mean much to some people but it does to me and so many others. If you allow this to stand and don’t fight against it, you will be complicit when it’s used against you.

Senator Manka Dhingra's "RECOURSE" bill is🔥. It withholds state payments to the federal government equal to any federal funds illegally withheld from us. Love this. lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/202...

The fundamental problem here is not one of bad apples. This is what the agency is designed to do. The barrel is bad to start with.

.@PabloReports: What do you make of Trump’s cognitive decline? Crockett: I honestly don’t think he was equipped to be sworn into office in the first place.

it doesn't matter if you don't want to have this fight, it doesn't even matter if it's not politically optimal to have this fight the fight is here and sitting it out is not an option if you can't see that get out of the way

I do not understand why every Democrat isn’t hammering away at the clear mental decline of the president. He couldn’t even get right the name of the country he’s trying to seize today on the biggest stage in the world. Everyone else is talking about it. Why isn’t the US?

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

It'd be nice if "Trump Says Sometimes You Need a Dictator" was the headline that the US news organizations were running with right now, instead of "Trump won't use force in Greenland." Yet here we are.

Terrorizing families (From @thejfreakinc.bsky.social )

China has the largest: - Installed capacity of wind power (absolute) - Output of wind farms (absolute) - Annual additions of wind capacity + the same %'age share of wind as the US, NZ, Norway, Italy despite being.....extremely large Wind generated 18% more than solar did in China, in 2024

We really need a fed law that makes it nearly impossible for federal law enforcement officers to dress like this. Not just the masks, all of it. And those who do cannot be dispatched absent some sort of statutorily-defined exigent circumstances, set at a high bar. No routine work like this. Ever.

The really telling thing is - if you wanted to belittle and disempower Trump, mentioning wind power, dismissing fossil fuels as shitty and outdated and weak, talking about the benefits of climate action etc all work brilliantly Trump mentioned specifically clean energy more than Carney did!

For more than a decade now, a significant proportion of Congressional reporting has been catching Republicans in the halls so they can say things like, "I actually have never seen or heard anything before. I was born two seconds ago. Who are you? Who am I? Where are we?"

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

Or more broadly, telling your most committed constituents that they are an anchor, a liability, a problem for you -- that, by caring about anything more than what a non-college middle-PA swing voter cares about, they are fucking everything up for you. That's the constant message.

NYC Local Law 97 is a major success so far: ✅ lower utility bills ✅ good jobs ✅ less pollution Via energy efficiency. Way over 90% of buildings are following the law as of now. Yet the real estate lobby hates it 🙄That’s almost a *good* sign tho, lol. Mamdani should fully implement it! Read:

How it started How it's going

Justice for Renee Good means salting the earth below and all around anyone and anything associated with ICE for the next thousand years.

3/x The Shor/Yglesias centrist bubble thinking that dominated Democratic leadership strategy after 2020 blamed subsequent election results on the Dem base breaking away from the LEO-supporting general public, and since then, Dem leadership has lived in fear and loathing of its own base.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

House and Senate Democrats: Look (LOOK!) at this ICE agent torturing someone and try explaining to yourselves, let alone your constituents, how you can support a single penny of ICE funding. #StopICE @democrats.org @schumer.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social

New in PN: Kristi Noem's assault on the Fourth Amendment "The Department of Homeland Security deliberately confuses reasonable suspicion and probable cause in hopes that no one will notice that ICE and CBP are making illegal arrests as standard operating procedure."

Note: it’s an open question whether or not @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social will whip votes against ICE funding - as Dem Leader, if he merely personally opposes ICE funding but refuses to rally his caucus against it, he’s still complicit. Still better than @schumer.senate.gov, though

It is with great regret (mostly because I’m not naive to their value) I must say the Democratic leadership in the Congress shows no sign they understand the current situation nor are capable of dealing with it. They bring a wiffle ball bat to a professional baseball game. How dare approve budget!

Well said as always. “Most of the speech was standard fare — false claims of credit sprinkled between personal grievances and outright lies.” newsletters.democracydocket.com/donald-trump...

Climate Change is objectively the highest priority and it’s funny that China’s solar exports coupled with the US being so alienating as to force other countries closer to them out of spite might be the closest thing we have to putting a dent in it.

Trump: "NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything." Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.

Trump is in a free fall. Naturally @nytimes.com decided to fawn all over his one year anniversary without noting how massive majority of this country disapprove of him and hate all of his policies. No mention anywhere in NYT coverage of how freaking unpopular he is. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/b...

NATO was created after WWII to block Russian aggression in Europe. Every Russian leader in the past 75 years has tried to destroy NATO. Putin is finally succeeding by making Trump his bitch. As a bonus Trump is bankrupting America. Putin is laughing his ass off.

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

Recently I've been spending some time with pro-democracy leaders from other countries organizing against national strongmen. Their stories of organizing against authoritarians are eerily familiar. Among the many clear takeaways: stand up to bullies and go on offense because defense doesn’t win.

Mamdani: I am in support of abolishing ICE… I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life.

Even Lutnick is comparing the U.S. attempt to steal Greenland to the Russian attempt to steal Ukraine.

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

Trump is an apophastic stochastic terrorist with dark triad sociopathic pathology. Plus he is a geriatric demented megalomaniacal traitor. #25th #impeach #remove I dont really care just #gethimoutnow

“Legally, the only time U.S. citizens must show proof of citizenship is when they are entering the country or when they are applying for certain jobs for which it is a requirement” “Noem urges Americans to carry proof of citizenship as ICE raids intensify” www.nbclosangeles.com/news/nationa...

“Donald Trump is a pathological liar, a bully and an offensive boor. He proved it once again in Davos today. In the process, he strongly made the case for why Europe and the world can no longer count on America as a credible or reliable partner.” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

Russia is invading Europe and the president of the United States is ranting about the danger that "windmills" pose to the Western World.

Am I the only one who didn’t like Mark Carney’s speech? Its whole premise was that we need “stop pretending,” to “name realities,” yet somehow he doesn’t mention climate change even once. And worse than that… 1/4

If you’re a sitting member of Congress and not reacting to this speech by calling for immediate impeachment, removal and conviction, why are we paying you?

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.