At Law Dork, I covered today's SCOTUS Voting Rights Act ruling and temporary protect status arguments. One of the few reporters in the courtroom this morning, watching Justice Kagan announcing her dissent from the bench is a moment I will not soon forget. I wrote a lot about today. Read on ...

Remember when Rep. Greg Gianforte, now the GOP governor of the state, body slammed a reporter into a table? We probably need to shut down the Montana Republican Party entirely until we can figure out where all this violent rage is coming from.

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

This is amazing.

Kristi Noem remains laser-focused on the things American taxpayers want: (1) Kidnapping innocent people off their streets; (2) Using their money for private planes with elaborate bedrooms for her fornications, and (3) bespoke garments taxpayers could never afford for civil servants.

Can I be honest? It actually makes my teeth itch that SCOTUS is willing to step in when on this one occasion it serves their personal interests, but in matters of life and death for ordinary people they barely break a sweat telling us their hands are tied.

I swear to god, it is time for Me Too: The Two-ening. Me Too & The Rest of the Sex Pest Crew. Me Too: Fuck You. Whatever. When I think of how the media responded ten years ago, steam comes whistling out of my years.

Pure evil

I thought I was beyond being shocked at this point but...fuck. I don't know what else to say. And, of course, beyond every known story there are countless others still untold. Every family in the headlines is an example, not an exception.

"So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity," UN experts said. www.reuters.com/world/allega...

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill. open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...

Jeremy Carl has rightly gotten a lot of attention this week as an assistant SOS nominee who built a career as an outspoken racist & xenophobe. In addition to being unfit for the job and utterly reprehensible, he's also A Guy In Montana and Montanans are NOT HAVING IT. www.reddit.com/r/Bozeman/co...

don’t underestimate the good people in red states and how angry they are at this regime. i learned about caring for my neighbors growing up in Montana; often you’re the only folks for miles who can help each other. it prepared me well for these last 7 years in Minnesota.

Roses are red but that's implicit fight back against fascism or else you're complicit

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

This is the energy I want from every Democrat.

I hope Dems understand that the flip side of the "affordability" message is corruption. Trump is not bringing down costs, he's stealing your tax money to enrich himself & his family. You're forced to save & cut back; he's living like fucking Caligula.

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

hey there, would you like some SUPER BOWL SNACK HISTORY? yes, you would. this one gets very nerdy so buckle up snackstack.net/2026/02/08/s...

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

One thing I’ve learned that is that arguments in favor of something that does measurable harm to your community — using genAI, skipping vaccines, not wearing masks — are generally not reasoned or based in science or even deeply held beliefs. The actor simply does not want to *have to do something.*

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

I didn’t realize the Naval Academy had a Constitutional Law degree option

This is incredibly powerful testimony. Ms. Rahman is very tough and clear and was treated horribly. Warning: I can't watch it without tears of rage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcW...

Montanans deserve to know if their private information is being shared to the federal government on their dime without consent. Secretary Jacobsen, a word to the wise: read the damn Constitution of the state you govern. #mtpol

This is horrific. Horrific. War crimes trials NOW

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Losing Diane Keaton and Rob Reiner and Catherine O'Hara in quick succession is a pretty big blow for people who enjoy elementary things such as "laughter" and "joy"

Neighbors woke up at 3 a.m. and drove 800 miles to show support for Roberto Orozco-Ramirez at a court hearing Wednesday. “The community responded more than I ever thought,” his son said.

A friend shared with me a girl scout cookie link from a group that's having a hard time selling in Minneapolis right now. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...

Until Miller’s gone these are just gestural purges to sanitize and consolidate his reign of terror.

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Please share. 💔

218 people voted to fund the child kidnapping ring and masked death squads.

I'm sorry, abolishing ICE is now off the table as the centrist compromise. The floor is now The Hague.

While 130 Americans die from gun violence every day, Governor Gianforte is partying with the gun industry at the SHOT Show. His continued inaction on gun violence is abhorrant in a state with some of the highest rates of youth and veteran suicide in the country. #Enough @momsdemandaction.org #MTPol

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

“may your grandkids race to change their names” is actually an incredible curse we should all start adding to our repertoire it’s gonna be true of a lot of these people

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

It’s so fucking infantilizing to be told over and over about ignoring bait, like we’re all chomping at the bit for a fight or something What I wouldn’t give for just a single elected to have our back instead of this shit that implies we are some unruly mob in need of constant checking

ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid. And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.

Honestly, I think a desire to punish Walz for offering an alternate model of masculinity is driving a nonzero percentage of this atrocity.