If there was a Davos meeting after Hitler took over Poland and but before he invaded Denmark, and they asked about the car market and didn’t mention his threats or invasions. Yeah. That. #Davos

COLLINS: Did it stand out to you that he said Iceland multiple times when he was talking about Greenland? NEWSOM: And that every time a windmill turns it costs $1,000. A lot of stuff stands out. None of this is normal. There's a deviancy of consciousness. He's graded off the curve.

Kari Lake 2.0, right on schedule. 🫩

I've said it before and I'll say it again: with the end of the Advisory Groups, we as a field need to reassess what about them worked, what new ways planetary scientists can use to meaningfully advocate for ourselves, and what is it we want to advocate for.

Sorry, that was Kagan. Gorsuch follows up: Basically, you only get to mandamus if the President announces "I am doing the illegal thing"? Sauer: Maybe. Probably. But maybe even then it would be unreviewable

Signs that you might live in a police state, albeit one where civil society is still strong

The Republican attempt to repeal Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law appears likely to fail to qualify for the ballot at this rate

FIFA on alert after 17,000 fans cancel World Cup tickets in one night www.msn.com/en-xl/news/o...

Mike Johnson: "The president will use every option on the table and we'll see what develops. I don't -- wait a minute -- I don't know any specifics about that, so asking me about it is a futile exercise."

On the surface it looks like the federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia tackled the Lindsey Halligan problem head on. But if you look a little closer, the judges went out of their way to avoid a direct confrontation with the White House. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress approve of what the President is doing.

Newsom: "It was remarkably boring. It was remarkably insignificant. He was never going invade Greenland. It was never real."

Vaguely recall Republicans absolutely losing their shit over the (misleading to false) claim that the IRS in the Obama era targeted conservative non-profits for audits based on their ideology. I'm sure every one of those people is speaking out in support of Mischief Toy Store or...?

One of the earliest and most underreported warning signs of certain forms of dementia is not memory loss. It is disinhibition — a deterioration of impulse control, judgment, and social restraint that often manifests as reckless behavior, inappropriate speech, and diminished concern for consequences.

Bus Thread is a load-bearing pillar of the site now, I’m sorry

KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?” @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

And— literally, no shit, not a joke— *Everybody Clapped*. On THE VIEW. One of the normiest, most Pulse Of The Nation daytime TV shows there is. Holy shit.

“At least six career staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were suspended with pay this summer after organizing a polygraph test that the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, failed.” 12/21/25 www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."

Cops need to start arresting ICE and CBP agents and I don't want to hear any whining about how "we can't because we're just widdle powice officers and we're outgunned!" Come on. I watched police departments stock up on GWOT surplus for 20 years. Where'd all these guys go? They disappear?

POLICE CHIEF: “If it’s happening to our officers, it pains me to think how many of our community members are falling victim to this every day.” ICE is even racially profiling off-duty Black & Brown cops— including pulling guns on one and knocking her phone out of her hand.

4 years ago, I wrote a post on @justsecurity.org & @Verfassungsblog.de on recognizing soldiers who refuse to participate in aggressive war as refugees www.justsecurity.org/80419/the-le... verfassungsblog.de/the-legal-ob... French practice: www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar... amp.dw.com/en/fleeing-u...

Have seen many variations of this & broadly agree—but the part that struck me in the moment wasn’t “this is a microcosm for how America sucks” — it was “this is a microcosm for trying to behave democratically & respectfully of one another in a complex, evolving situation with things we can't know.”

It’s worth reading every word of PM Carney’s speech to see that we live in a new world. www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

wow just woke up from a nap, turns out the pilot of this plane says we're going to The Hague. some of my fellow passengers are screaming at him to turn around.

CNN has added scare quotes to the minor electrical issue (which, it should have had from the beginning)

This MS NOW documentary from Houston shows 1.) federal officers appearing to ram an immigrant’s van with their vehicle, 2.) officers placing a high school student in a chokehold and 3.) confiscating the 16-year-old’s phone (which was later found to have been sold at a tech-for-cash pawn shop kiosk)

Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

Finally for now, and just to include it in the thread, here was the original pool report info about the turnaround:

Pool report timed 11:53pm: “Pool didn’t see POTUS board replacement AF1, which is the smaller aircraft (757). Sending now as cell coverage poor inside this plane. We will be wheels up for Zurich at some point soon.”

New pool report: “Pool left AF1 and was in position for President Trump to walk off. But then we were directed back on the same plane and now holding. Two replacement planes are on tarmac.”

Pool report: "AF1 landed at JBA at 11:07 p.m."

I'm not even that mad about the Astros. Cheating is as old as the game. But it's just a bummer the the greatest players of my formative years as a baseball fan aren't in.

Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones are headed to Cooperstown! 🏆 Beltrán's stats: www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/be... Jones's stats: www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jo...

By Rfield, the fielding component of WAR, Andruw Jones had the best defensive career by an OF in our database. 🤯 See the full list here: www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin...

From @theathletic.com: Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, while Manny Ramírez fell short in his final year on the ballot.

In case this was misinterpreted: I think Barry Bonds should be in the Hall of Fame and it’s ridiculous that he isn’t. He is the best hitter I ever saw play baseball live. Shohei best all-around (hit, run, pitch, obviously).

The Republican majority forced through a bad bill on data centers and refused to livestream the debate or allow the public to record. Transparency matters. The best I could do was record the audio from the speaker in my office. Here’s my speech explaining why I voted no.

and so the Murder Bots for K-12 Schools Act passes with bipartisan support 402-5 the Emergency Funds for Starving Americans Act did not pass, falling 112-295

Justice Jackson is singing my anti-originalism song rn! Originalism ties laws constitutionality to history Gorsuch said Ok you can't use that history though, that history is fucked up And KBJ is like...that don't strike you as a problem with the test?? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

disappointed but not surprised maybe 36% of MLBers are left of Dems 🤷‍♂️😭

30 minutes into Shorewood Hills Board meeting: one trustee (Falk) has already said he isn't running again because the public is uncivil and focused on conspiracy theories; a very white public speaker invoked MLK in her quest to prevent someone from building a single-family home on an empty lot.

Most of this meeting is just discussion of the boring real issues they have like what capital projects to fund. Probably can't sit through ALL of that.

Shorewood Hills is facing serious problems of aging facilities with a stagnant tax base, and staff churn. And they are losing competent people in government, because a few members of the public are just plain mean and there aren't enough people willing to stand up to them.

The trustee who was almost arrested for harassing staff has some opinions about performance reviews of staff.

Lotfi is trying to amend the meeting minutes for the meeting where she was admonished or yelling at staff. No one would second her motion. They are moving on and revisiting the issue later, but the staff doing the minutes is quitting in 2 days, so staff warn there might not be much time...