Tonight we are overwhelmed by sadness. And thinking of these words passed down through centuries of grief. Goodnight 💚

I don’t care if you are MAGA, if you are a decent human being, if you have any decency, you should be outraged and nauseated by the thuggery and murder of Americans perpetrated by Trump, Vance, Noem, their disgraceful lies, and attempts to slime the murder victim. Utterly immoral.

Don’t look now but the Democrats’ shut down strategy produced results. Not final victory - yet - but this is remarkable. apple.news/AqOWgchcDSAy...

Hello editors, our leaders lying to our face is a big story to write multiple articles about.

Six states have already implemented new congressional maps this year.

JUST IN: Reps. Massie and Khanna say "DOJ cannot be trusted" to release all of the Epstein files, urge a federal judge to appoint an independent overseer to make it happen. khanna.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

“If there were a big button that said, “Push this & somebody else will handle all the hard, technical stuff, & in exchange you will pay a % of your income…And all the time you save will be your own!” I would absolutely push that button.” @petridishes.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

FLASH: Sen Thom Tillis (R-NC) is on Senate floor and he's about to make a motion for "unanimous consent" to expedite the hanging of the January 6th plaque at the Capitol To honor the police heroes

A federal agent killed a U.S. citizen in a state that never asked for federal involvement — and now the federal government is blocking that state from investigating the killing. That isn’t federalism. That isn’t public safety. That is occupation.

This is not the law.

Moskowitz on Noem: "Is she hiding her face like her ICE agents now? By the way - is this what the $800b went to? Every day we see her after some new tragedy, she's wearing a different outfit with a different hat. She looks ridiculous. She deserves to be removed from her job, & if not impeached."

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" Billions for ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich... "That's just how it is."

GOV. WALZ: “Now that Minnesota has been taken out of the investigation, it feels very difficult that we will get a fair outcome. And I say that only because people in positions of power have already passed judgment. They have stood and told you things that are verifiably false.”

Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."

The killing in Minnesota and the lies that followed. www.pbump.net/o/the-killin...

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

BREAKING: Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and the FBI won't work jointly on probe. Follow for live updates.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com

1.5 TRILLION. That's the military budget they want for 2027. We already spend more than the next 20 countries put together. So in the past week we've invaded a sovereign nation and murdered a woman in cold blood on the streets of Minnesota, and now they want 50% more money for weapons. Fuck.

January 7, 2026

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

This comes from the NYT's analysis of all the available video. Put aside whatever you think of NYT; this is extremely valuable, careful, and absolutely damning analysis that literally step by step debunks every lie fascism may manufacture about this murder. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Cartoon by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

NIH funding supports thousands of jobs in Massachusetts — and our cures and treatments save countless lives. When the Trump Administration plays politics with people’s health, we fight back and win. Grateful to @massago.bsky.social and her team.

Even the oil companies are like, cutting those GHG programs is going too far bro. By @jack-cavanaugh.bsky.social & @pavan.bsky.social www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

whichever candidate runs on prosecuting every single ice agent fuck to the fullest extent of the law has my vote

@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.”

As some of the scientists still at CDC fighting the good fight with all we have left, we appreciate when journalists use precise language in their headlines. It matters.💚 Career scientists weren't involved in this sham, & would not propose change based upon political ideology & vibes G'night all 😴

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

So, this happened today. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

Walz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."

NEW: MAYOR FREY: “ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

It's a really scary time. Our president is rattling sabers across the globe. Government thugs are shooting people in the streets. This is a good week to go to a meeting in your community, in person if possible. Be with others and remember: YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Before Trump's latest coup, I wrote this post abt things we can do politically to undercut Trump's power in 2026. The underlying premise is rather than exacerbating polarization, we use the conspiracism and grievance Trump relies on against him. www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/02/w...

“Defunded by Congress & fearing Trump might pervert the org to further undermine free media, board members agreed better to salt the earth than leave behind a place for Trump to plant his poisonous, choking weeds.” Congrats on Killing Big Bird, y’all! www.publicnotice.co/p/corporatio...

Guys! Guys! This is SO cool. This is a time lapse from the Chandra X-ray Observatory of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant over 25 years!

Quick Thought experiment / thread: 1. Think of something that was really popular in 2007 that has lost most of it's market share to competition. Blackberry phones. Cable TV. MySpace. I'm sure you can think of more.

Because broadcast / stream media via major production studios is controlled by white men (largely) steeped only in traditional storytelling aimed at straight white men. They have no idea that fanfic culture exists and surely would never think to ask a woman what she might find hot.

If any one person saved our republic during the 21st century it was Eugene Goodman and I am sure that he hasn’t been thanked enough.

If you're writing 1800 words about how we failed to account for January 6 and DON'T mention SCOTUS (particularly if you're comparing with Brazil) or impeachment, you're simply doing propaganda for the GOP.

1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

Five years ago, Donald Trump instigated a violent insurrection in the Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election. The fact that the GOP coddled him, protected him, renominated him, and now support him in office, is a stain that will never be erased.

Never forget. 🇺🇸

Congress set to reject Trump’s major budget cuts to NSF, NASA, and energy science. Story by @policyhound.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Remember when a guy lost an election and then spent months making wild, baseless claims that it was stolen, leveraging the personality cult he’d built to try to get people to reject the results? And then thousands of his supporters rioted, injuring hundreds of cops? Whatever happened to that guy?

Published on January 7, 2021: "There is no way to overstate the significance of this moment, no way to ignore the power of the message that these events send to both the friends and the enemies of democracy, everywhere." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...