“agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon was “laying down in handcuffs when he attempted to flee, and then, for unknown reasons, purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.’” sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...

WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city. www.wired.com/story/how-ic...

I'm still thinking of the fact that Zohran Mamdani went on The View, said "abolish ICE" and then got a round of applause

This is why calling them weird creeps was so effective, not just to damage the leadership psychologically, but to make it extremely socially embarrassing to be a known supporter of them in the general public. The point is to make society at large view them as they are, not the force they wish to be.

For the first time in history, the archbishop responsible for U.S. service members said officers may be morally obligated to disobey a sitting president’s orders. Broglio said a Trump-ordered invasion of Greenland would violate Catholic teaching and that Catholic troops could refuse to comply.

This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index

Marisa is an absolute G.

Nick Fuentes urging Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota: "Bro, do it. Do something. Just stop chickening out. I'm just tired of the idle threats... Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. Please just kill them." www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...

A thing that I want to express is that it seems like it might be fairly easy to keep your head down and just go with the flow if you’re a privileged (white) person here, and not a single person I know has done this, despite fully knowing the risks. All are enraged by this ethnic cleansing campaign.

I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.

No evidence immigrants - including undocumented – associated with crime (on the contrary).  This isn't said enough. It is a foundational LIE used to support a host of horrible policies. Immigration = LESS crime. EG www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

A stunningly racist paradox: claim that Somalis have stolen $19 billion through fraud and simultaneously that they’re too “low IQ” to accomplish this themselves. “a lot of very low IQ people. They don’t do it. Other people work it out and they get them money and they go out and buy Mercedes...”

So far, I am only seeing TPM, Mediaite, and Daily Beast focusing on this. We live in a world where the president calling an ethnic group "very low IQ" and "bad for our country" while insisting they "ought to get the hell out of here" barely makes headlines. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...

Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

The Cheers oral history in Vanity Fair (I believe) had it as the last TV series written by people who didn't grow up watching television. I've never forgotten that.

This is why they can't believe older people rely on Medicaid. "Have you tried liquidating some of your assets first" yeah okay

My god…this story by @merylkornfield.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Well I’m not a senator, so my powers of calling it into question are pretty much limited to writing and protest. But you could make an issue of it on the US Senate floor every legislative day.

Astonishingly racist comments in this rant, barely remarked upon, as far as I can tell, by the major newsrooms.

they gotta be trolling me

Hey hey South Seattle watch out

Please enjoy this local news: “Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel said he is evicting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit from a county-owned building where it has occupied an office for about three years but never paid rent… “We’re going to deport ICE,” Pinsley said at the news conference”

Borders are just as much for keeping people in as they are for keeping people out. On top of that, the fash are obsessed with making the US as "investor friendly" as possible, and that includes gathering as much data as they can for Peter Thiel's panopticon.

At this point, I honestly think ICE is collecting face data for Palantir 😡

The gov stopped buying flight data from the airlines because they were always just going to do this bullshit.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Congress (both parties, with few individual exceptions), big corporations, and elite universities are afraid of standing up to that guy we all watched blather about a binder clip and water? How utterly embarrassing. This could all be over if ppl cared about the populous over personal agenda.

The perfect marriage of stupidity and bigotry generating a Trump vote in the wild

friendly neighborhood barred attorney telling you to never put your ID on your phone

5-foot-nothing teen girl grabbed a bullhorn, screamed about ICE and oppression for 2 uninterrupted minutes, then slipped on the ice and did a James Brown-worthy collapse into the snow. Couldn't make out what she said but the passion was undeniable.

Dozens of students walked out here at Collingswood High School in New Jersey, before the principal BLOCKED THE DOOR.

ICE convention at corner of Chapel and Kings Hwy in Cherry Hill NJ. Be alert! @miketanier.bsky.social @njindivisible.bsky.social

Not sure I've ever seen anything quite like this.

💥Viktor Orbán’s foreign minister Péter Szijjártó says Hungary is BLOCKING a joint EU statement on Greenland. After years acting as a Trojan horse for Russia and China, Budapest now does the same for Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Orbán ally Andrej Babiš’s Czech government also refuses to back Denmark...

"I only wanted the weapon I built to go after the LGBTQ community, not after ME!"

If they come for LGTBQ they come for you.

kelty comic this week about to make the onion store a zillion dollars

On the anniversary of Trump's inauguration, Wall Street is throwing him some party

DOGE likely perpetrated the most serious, far-reaching data breaches in human history, and we will be dealing with the consequences for years. Many DOGErs should have been, and still could be, prosecuted for these crimes.

"According to the lawsuit, agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon was 'laying down in handcuffs when he attempted to flee, and then, for unknown reasons, purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'"

Reminiscent of Teddy Roosevelt's fear that with nowhere further west to expand on the American continent that masculinity would be in danger (and part of this was the motivation to create more national parks where men could remain "real men")

This is actually an understatement—the response was totally unhinged—but I'm glad Judge Novak is highlighting the Justice Department's venomous rhetoric.

we should not be surprised sigh 😔 🍍

Chicken shit on the way out the door www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

you have to be *severely concussed* to follow this logic and believe it

I'm not an aviation expert, but efficiency aside, companies or governments that make themselves dependent on Musk are handing control of their fates to a mercurial and spiteful conspiracy nut www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Some folks worry that ICE’s use of Medicaid data will cause widespread fear among immigrant families, keeping them from seeking the health care that states have said they’re eligible to receive. My latest:

you think you’ve seen victim blaming but have you seen victim blaming when a trillion dollars evaporates from the economy and entire institutions overindexed on this shit go poof

the media cycle blaming us plebeians for the bubble bursting because we “didn’t adopt AI widely enough” is going to be SOMETHING it’s already starting