Two men in ICE detention say they saw guards kill a fellow detainee. Now the Trump administration is trying to deport the witnesses. This looks a lot like a cover-up. We need an independent investigation NOW. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This is not unusual and it is horrific. This is why we did our #ywmlp fundraiser. Support @theyoungcenter.bsky.social to get these kids support. act.theyoungcenter.org/a/donate-you...

January 19, 2026

Apologies for the emotion, but my grandparents have been married for 72 years today. Their marriage has lasted a war, flight from 3 countries, and dementia, but my grandfather (100) cannot take his daily walk because it's not safe to be outside looking like an elderly immigrant in Chicago.

Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.

We just saw this, and it’s a good idea for businesses to post. Private businesses are allowed to set dress and conduct rules. Requiring no full face coverings has long been standard for safety and loss prevention reasons, and it is within a business’s rights to refuse entry or service.

The spiritual leadership of Trump's youth movement assembles in Miami.

It’s time for the Supreme Court to finally issue a ruling on tariffs. The Court has already recognized that tariffs function as a tax on the American people. A president cannot unilaterally impose new taxes on American citizens that power belongs to Congress alone.

Congress isn't the problem. Republicans in Congress are. We all know what would happen if Democrats controlled Congress. (Yes, there are some weak/bad/traitor Democrats in congress, but that's another issue.)

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

Stop saying Trump is threatening tariffs on European countries. He’s threatening tariffs on European *products* – but American companies and people will pay the Trump tax.

Mitch "Turtle" McConnell Deserves Most Of The Blame......

Save the turtles. Keep your single-use plastic under your bed. brevitymag.com/current-issu...

It will become increasingly important for people to take video and protect and save that video so that when there is finally an accounting for what’s happening, there will be evidence.

Today's Politics Chat with @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/vGKyWUI...

somewhere in the history of video games it became the prevailing belief that regardless of genre, people really want to read dialogue in little text boxes where the text appears letter by letter -- often as early as possible, before you actually do whatever the game's about

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Conservatives generally trusted Snopes when I was a kid. Maybe some of them will be persuaded by this now? www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...

This is a good question. Let's talk about it! Why do civil servants resign in protest? Couldn't they have done more good on the inside? 🧵

What #boycotts or #protests have "worked" in the last year or so? Spotify just capitulated. I feel there were others, but can't recall. It'd be encouraging to see a year-in-review of the people's power at work in whatever ways. #nokings @hcrichardson.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social @skiles.blue

Whenever I see a review mark an arcade game down for being short and built to be replayed, I immediately question every opinion that writer has ever held. It's like complaining that there's too many moving pictures in a film, or that a drink is too wet.

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

ICE agents are stalking the streets of Minneapolis demanding that random brown people provide proof of citizenship. We good with that, America? I thought we learned this lesson back in World War II, but I guess not.

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FYI, @hcrhq.bsky.social is where my team pulls together all the interviews and stuff I do.

My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars: / Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform. / Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks. / Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.

I don’t see how this country survives until 2029 unless Trump is impeached and removed. This level of lawless malice is not sustainable. What fresh horrors await us this week?

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” Margaret Atwood

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

January 9, 2026

It was very clear at the time that Homeland Security's purpose was to investigate and harass Brown people.

I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

in how many "law enforcement operations" are damn near 100 people killed?

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

Unironically tho gamers gotta take some of that energy about artists compromising on sexuality and direct it towards criticizing mechanical compromises & homogeneity. Right now you have massive herds of gamers calling for artistic compromises by demanding devs to remove tank controls and so on

Gamers will hear you made something slightly less sexy and will scream about compromising your art to external pressures, but no one would defend me if I made a game where you had to double tap to dash :(

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

I’m shocked any time someone eats a Filet-o-Fish.