TAPAS!

Great piece by my Cato colleague. “Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle. The same playbook is used each time: the agent says they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them. Juries should decide, but we tie their hands.

The behavioral explanation is that this is all a bunch of unresolved childhood and adolescent trauma about women. But the institutional and political economy explanation is that people whose politics are based in unresolved childhood and adolescent trauma about women shouldn't have guns or authority

they’ll push the “outside agitator” line and then interview the most Minnesotan guy you’ve ever seen

When Vance insists, contra the videos, that Good threatened the ICE agent and "had it coming", what he means is that he, like Ross, feels threatened by any woman who has the audacity to use her voice in the public sphere. This deeply misogynist worldview is core to MAGA.

More from the party of federalism: "the states are merely an agent for the federal government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the federal government, as represented by the president of the United States, tells them, for the good of the country, to do."

“The president also complained that the person’s horrified screams had made it difficult for him to watch the video of the killing on television.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Well this makes UW's national championship game loss look much less humiliating

America’s worst Democratic governor proposes shooting another massive brick www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/amer...

Literally the same edit Fox News made!

My message to the people who fell for Sohrab Ahmari’s latest iteration: populism.

amy chua has so much to apologize for

the ICE officer calling a woman he just murdered a “fucking bitch” is visceral, but imo the most material new information in the latest video is that she very clearly turns the wheel away from the officer right before it happens

“I’m not mad at you”

Fox News claims to be airing the "entire video" -- but they're cutting off before the officer says, "fucking bitch."

One of the more surreal patterns in Trump's insane claims is that he loves insisting some catastrophic outcome will occur unless we immediately do X, without explaining why nothing bad happened for 250 years when we weren't doing X.

I would add to this (obviously correct) thread that this jurisdiction successfully prosecuted this century’s most famous police homicide, they’re entitled to a presumption that they know what they’re doing

So an officer has his phone out recording obviously distracted, shoots a woman and calls her a “f’ing Bitch” and they think that HELPS the case?!?

At Status_ @oliverdarcy.bsky.social has learned that Bari Weiss, CBS News' Trump-approved minder, has held up another “60 Minutes” report: An Anderson Cooper investigation of Trump’s acceptance of white S. African refugees, which is “guaranteed to provoke Trump and inflame his MAGA base.”

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

Hey, maybe people should take this as a long overdue hint to stop trying to rehabilitate this guy when he makes some vague, politically irrelevant gesture to “economic populism” that will never have any follow-up

It’s very convenient: No matter what she did, you can claim she was disobeying police orders. Which in the minds of a depressing number of people with a taste for boot leather, merits summary execution.

It’s tempting to think that “things were always this bad,” and there’s even some truth to it, but less than 20 years ago a GOP candidate could have his political career *in Missouri* ended by a very bad comment that would be like the 5th most offensive thing JD Vance says on a typical podcast

Think about the mindset, and the expectation of immunity, of someone who texts this to friends.

In addition to the explicit misogyny, the new video is also another reminder that it's very fortunate that more people weren't injured or killed because of Ross's actions. He fired multiple shots wildly and caused a massive three-row SUV to careen down a very crowded street with nobody to steer

JD Vance is one of the most despicable figures in the history of American politics

Get a load of Elmer Gantry here.

The digital editor of the National Catholic Reporter has written the most cogent and hard-hitting critique of JD Vance I've ever read, worth a thousand couch jokes www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...

Find an employer who will judge you by this bar

It is the position of the Trump Administration that its agents can come into any state and city in America (let alone other countries) and kill people and that state and city have no jurisdiction to inquire about it. Treat any Trump official accordingly.

if trump thought he had a winning hand here he would be the first person in front of the press. they know it’s bad so they send their little pig man out to gobble up the slop

They don't like Vance. They don't want him succeed. Vance is dumb and arrogant enough to think any time on camera for any reason helps him.

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story I’ve been working on for the last few months where I tried to single-handedly take on every government function myself is now online! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Every word @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social said: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/vanc...

It's time to state clearly that if MAGA and Republicans can't condemn any part of this shooting, continue to blame the victim for it, and even hint that it's a just outcome that others "deserve," that's a crossing of the line that the rest of us won't ever be able to forget.

Vance: you will be summarily executed by state agents you pose no danger to and like it www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/vanc...

what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.

📈 Our key finding: the rural–urban divide didn’t grow gradually. It *jumped* in 2016. Support for Republicans became much more strongly associated with living in rural areas in 2016—and this pattern then remained stable in 2020.

Sometimes it’s who you most expect

I think Dave Weigel was the one who called Batya the JV Bari Weiss and she is.

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

A 6-year-old just lost his mother. A woman was shot in the face in front of her wife. The swift, lockstep attempt to dehumanize and villainize Renee Nicole Good might be the most depraved thing we've seen yet from these ghouls and their supporters. These people are utterly fucking dead inside.

Linked YouGov also has Venezeula numbers, and as someone who has studied public opinion on uses of force for 30 years.... these are TERRIBLE numbers for a President immediately after a surprise tactical success with strong claims of direct US interests from President. Not just no rally, TERRIBLE

Excellent, clarifying piece on the (real) legal pathway that Minnesota has to prosecute the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman today. No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.

This is what people on Fox are like. People watch Fox because they like this.

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.