NEW: As he released 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, Judge Biery warned of vast lawlessness and inhumanity in the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts. He said courts amounted to “a judicial finger in the dike.” www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Great quote: “the only thing that can eventually stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a camera.” Americans are not buying Kristi Noem’s lies, thank goodness for those videos: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

How many more will die until ICE brutality stops? Yet another murder. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Undertaking a sweeping investigation of almost all federal funding to 14 states & D.C. – all but one led by a Democrat – is a harmful & shameful escalation of the Admin’s corrupt politicization of basic governance & suggests funding freezes may be coming. www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/p...

This follows a clear pattern. The Admin is already trying to freeze funds for low-income people in 5 Dem-led states, has based disaster relief decisions on a state’s politics, & has threatened states that include localities that won’t agree to partner w/ the admin on immigration.

A 5-year-old preschool student was taken with his father by federal immigration agents shortly after arriving home from school, Columbia Heights school leaders said Jan. 21.

NEW: "Mitchell and EIN are hoping to change the dynamic of the 2026 midterms by pressuring state and local election officials to only allow voting to take place in small neighborhood precincts, rather than the vote centers." www.democracydocket.com/analysis/vot...

This is how inept ICE agents are now . They had an address that was two years outdated . Not one week, not one month, 2 years. And did not care to check the name of the person before driving him around and harassing him for hours www.startribune.com/st-paul-mayo...

Interesting analysis in the FT today, which rings true: www.ft.com/content/dede...

🗣️ "The US is not interested in freedom or democracy, it is interested in our oil." Venezuelans gathered in Caracas to express their solidarity with Nicolas Maduro, who was captured by the United States following a series of airstrikes. Latest updates: trib.al/tP8daTX

Well stated NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

BREAKING: We just won a court order blocking the Trump-Vance admin's harmful attempt to restrict federal funds for proven solutions to homelessness. This victory helps to keep hundreds of thousands of veterans, seniors, people with disabilities, and vulnerable families housed and out of the cold.

Authoritarianism is here. Secret police arresting US citizens for speaking out.

Rabbiatu is a nurse who worked during COVID, had been in the U.S. 30 years. A judge ordered that she could not be sent back to Sierra Leone for her safety, for fear of torture (!). So our evil regime sent her to Ghana (in shackles), and Ghana dragged her back to Sierra Leone.

This is what happens when secrecy and cruelty meet incompetence. Pretty much our federal government in a nutshell right now . And families pay the price. www.wfae.org/race-equity/...

Hey by the way #PatHarrigan - if you are going to talk about CMPD get the name right - they are NOT the Charlotte Metropolitan Police Dept. They are the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department. Are you sure you’re from around here ?

Love wins! But we need to stay vigilant, as you never know with this court how issues can come back up.... #LoveWins

Maine voters are projected to reject a ballot measure that would have added voter ID requirements and adjusted absentee voting rules, according to the Associated Press.

Zohran Mamdani, whose triumphant campaign was built on progressive ideas and a relentless focus on affordability, will become the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century. Along the way, he energized South Asian and Muslim communities that rarely receive sustained attention from politicians.

Elizabeth neighborhood Pumpkin Wall is up! This is its 21st year- I remember when it first started!

Yup It’s still a man’s world. But that’s changing. Women’s sports will continue to rise. Stay strong.

Get ready for a peaceful Oct 18 “No Kings” rally. This will be global. It will be creative . No tyrants. No kings. We want democracy #NoKings

A federal judge on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from deploying hundreds of National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, even as President Trump turned to the Texas guard in a widening hunt for military forces to send to Democratic cities. Follow live: nyti.ms/3KCr5t4

This Wednesday (Oct. 1) at noon, join us for a "Lunch & Learn" with Tim Heaphy on: Defending Democracy: Confronting Political Violence in the 21st Century Register at: catawba-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Love math nerds. Well done Rivka! She’s proven what voting rights advocates have been saying all along : www.forbes.com/sites/kevina...

Showing this weekend in Charlotte.

Free speech scholars say ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely represents "jawboning," when government officials pressure private companies to suppress speech.

Liberal democracy is “dependent on the existence of nonpolitical institutions,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social tells @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. “It has to be the case that when you win an election, you don’t get to control everything.” Watch more from #TAF25: bit.ly/46lDaLT

Today we are all Jimmy Kimmel.

At least 40 Palestinians were killed in Gaza City as residents described nonstop Israeli attacks, from drones and jets to explosive robots used to destroy neighbourhoods, medical sources and witnesses told Al Jazeera aje.io/mespwe

The decision to suspend one of American television’s best-known hosts reflects pressure from within the company’s commercial orbit and the US media regulator’s looming presence on.ft.com/4mIfh69

In what amounts to his furthest-reaching threat to media freedoms, President Donald Trump said U.S. broadcast networks should face scrutiny over their licenses if they’re too critical of him.

The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town has overwhelmingly won an election, four years after White residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve. https://cnn.it/4p0fkwn

Pete Hegseth’s move to reinstall a Confederate statue is, at worst, a move to show that “he and the Trump administration are making common cause with apologists who believe that the wrong side won the Civil War,” Mike Nelson argues.

This is because we no longer have leaders who care about intelligence - or who exhibit any.

Great piece! Good to see that it is posted on a right leaning site - the George W. Bush Institute. Good to know that both right and left leaning voices are tired of the growing polarization in our country and are trying to find a way to co-exist again. Can we ? www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/pro...

Oh yeah great accomplishment . Let’s bring back memorials to the enslavers and revere those who fought to secede from the country so they could keep owning other humans.

The Brennan Center has a stark warning about unconstitutional federal interference in state - run elections : www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Sure seems like the President of the United States is going to pardon a convicted sex trafficker and serial abuser who ran a pedophilia ring with his best friend in the whole wide world.

I wish building a concentration camp and selling merch was attacked as much as suggesting taxing billionaires 2% more to pay for free childcare and buses for everyone.

Demonstrators formed human chain for 'Rage Against the Regime' rally in Raleigh's Halifax Mall #NoKings www.wral.com/news/local/r...

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Inmates would rather die of starvation than continue to live in this facility. That tells you everything. The Trump Administration is reaching new heights of cruelty.

Congress has given up its power, leaving America and the world subject to the whims of a madman.

And the misogyny continues, empowered by those in leadership who openly degrade women.

Good points. Cancel the LA Olympics : www.laprogressive.com/los-angeles-...

Any of you National Park supporters, this is outrageous. The Trump administration wants to rewrite history so it’s only about white people. Call your federal reps today: www.sfgate.com/california-p...