NEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

my husband says he would join the pluribus hivemind :/

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

ICE agent was not in the vehicle’s path when he fired at driver, video shows

called to confirm my wisdom tooth surgery and they asked if I wanted to be "put to sleep"

The New York Times states it plainly in display type: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago. The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

For some reason I'm reminded of this. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out."

Plato went Woke. Now he’s about to go Broke, Let’s make this guy famous !

Thankful today for resources like @justsecurity.org's J6 clearinghouse, which serve to document and inform about the insurrection. www.justsecurity.org/77022/januar...

I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.

four days into the new year, haven't bought any books. maybe I've changed for the better. maybe I'm a new person.

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

figures in the election denial space have been urging Trump for months to engage in military action, citing extremely convoluted and unfounded claims of election rigging in 2020 by Venezuela. www.latintimes.com/trump-resurf...

NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed. futurism.com/future-socie...

Fascinating paper by Hood, McKee & Pittman demonstrating that election deniers were less likely to vote in the 2021 Georgia Senate runoff election. If fewer GA Republicans believed the big lie, both GA Senate seats might still be in Republican control. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

really insightful thread

The Trump administration is freezing federal child care funding to all states, not just Minnesota. abcnews.go.com/US/hhs-freezin...

The share of counties where 95% or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles has dropped from 50% before the pandemic to 28%, according to our analysis of public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia. At least 19,000 schools are now more vulnerable to outbreaks.

We have so much good evidence for cash transfers but so many just refuse to accept that those in poverty can make good decisions.

Very sad to say it seems Mike Fossey, aka Mike F. has died. Truly one of the funniest posters of all time and a talented artisan. Had been friends online for many years, but I got to hang out a couple times at shows in Boston and he was funny and sweet in real life too.

waiting on tarmac, look over and my husband is intently reading the Wikipedia page for Turkey

I went to Texas to write about the sudden end of one of America's most successful experiments: the six decades of welcoming India's most educated and ambitious citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page: Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

‘It brings you closer to the natural world’: the rise of the Merlin birdsong identifying app

Conflating adoption with citizenship would have been bizarre gibberish to the Romans. But if you really want to draw an analogy, the famously unique thing about Roman citizenship is how they were (relatively, in fits and starts) so much more liberal in granting its expansion than competing powers.

this christmas don't forget to let your family know about the new discourse about Matthew Yglesias articles

guy with stovepipe hat at airport security completely bewildered me until I remembered there were a bunch of Lincoln impersonators in town for a funeral for the penny last weekend. #DC

Pardon-seekers have offered success fees of as much as $6 million to lobbyists close to Trump if they can secure clemency. @rebeccaballhaus.bsky.social, Josh Dawsey & @cryanbarber.bsky.social on the Trump Pardon Industrial Complex.

I'd be delighted to have a hairstylist or a youth soccer coach visit for a night

New: We obtained thousands of internal chat messages from the ICE team creating viral videos of raids and "EPIC takedowns." A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us. "It's a war!" wapo.st/4s6YnC5

Since the Internet Archive has popped back into relevance tonight, just an FYI: It's one of a handful of tech nonprofits that have low-key become super important *in general* over the years, and perhaps especially this year.

BREAKING: The Trump administration is suing D.C. over its ban on semi-automatic (AR-15) weapons. DOJ's Civil Rights Division under Harmeet Dhillon is seeking a court ruling that D.C.'s law "prohibiting registration of the AR-15 by law-abiding citizens violates the Second Amendment."

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.

tonight the government killed a story on cbs about the slave labor camp in a foreign country theyre illegally sending people to

Wow— “Government silence is a statement…If the standard for airing a story becomes ‘the government must agree to be interviewed,’ then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.”

This WaPo piece weaves together an incredibly powerful story about the way Trump has devastated government and the dedicated people who wake up every day to serve the public. wapo.st/4b14KAy

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

My favorite social app is still MyChart. Love messaging with my care team and seeing raw test results before they’ve been explained to me.

Thinking, again and always, about racial resentment as a driver of election denialism

The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

FOIAball is my new fave publication. Really clever FOIA work done to expose the highs, the lows, the absurdities of college football (including balloon budgets!)

NEW: Pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars. www.reuters.com/investigatio...