The guy in the White House just posted that he's the acting president of Venezuela. Insane.

Across the U.S., aging wastewater systems send untreated sewage into homes, especially in low-income communities. An AP investigation shows how federal funding cuts are making these problems harder to fix. Tammy Webber, Michael Phillis, & M.K. Wildeman for @apnews.com: apnews.com/article/trum...

Across the country and under Stephen Miller’s maniacal agenda, Donald Trump's masked agents are terrorizing communities, violently and recklessly conducting arrests, and lying about their actions. This isn't about safety or the law, it's about absolute power and control.

Viewpoint discrimination appears to be official WH policy, even though it violates the First Amendment.

The suit contends that the administration’s actions amount to retaliation and violate the First Amendment, as well as Kelly’s constitutional protections as a sitting senator under the Speech or Debate Clause.

Senator Mark Kelly has filed a lawsuit against Pete Hegseth, asking a federal court to stop the Trump administration from downgrading his retirement rank and reducing his military pension.

As a former advocate for survivors of domestic violence, I cannot describe how much it pains me to hear the Vice President say we owe a debt of gratitude to man who shot a woman in the face and then called her a fucking bitch.

Nationwide outcry over the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent spilled into the streets of cities across the US, with protesters demanding the removal of federal immigration authorities from their communities and justice for the slain Renee Good. https://cnn.it/4sAhJj5

Deportations to Add Almost $1 Trillion in Costs to the “Big Beautiful Bill” We are spending 175 billion dollars on ICE to brutalize communities and traumatize children for life. This is being done in your name, with your tax dollars, on our watch. Don’t look away. www.cato.org/blog/deporta...

Ignorance isn't bliss.

Sums it up pretty well, doesn't it?

The response to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good is not what the White House was expecting. Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.

Perhaps a half mile of mourners with candles slowly circling our small Vermont town tonight in memory of Rene Good

Found these crocheted flowers tied up in random spots around town. They have messages of solidarity, local ice watch info, and general kind words attached. #FlowersOverFascism @hcrichardson.bsky.social @indivisible.org @maindivisible.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @mass50501.bsky.social

San Francisco’s Ocean Beach!

While I continue to call on the Administration to reverse its senseless tariff policy that hurts our growers and producers in the long run, I’ll still fight to secure federal funding that will help them today. buff.ly/U1XhkI7

Did my patriotic duty today--went down to the busy intersection in our little mountain town for an hour and held a sign for folks that read: "We NEED Healthcare, NOT Greenland." That one is hard to argue with and I got a LOT of thumbs up and honks. Four other folks were out there with me.

WTF?!? It appears a new trend is starting. On Thursday, January 8, 2026, federal immigration agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shot a married couple in Portland, Oregon during a vehicle stop.

Tell me one good thing in your life today.

January 7, 2026

NEW: President Donald Trump’s EPA said it’s reconsidering whether the agency has the legal authority to update air pollution rules based on new scientific knowledge.

After Jan. 6, 2021, we sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there. Revisit our full archive, five years later:

This is blatantly illegal. A president can’t go into the oil business and then decide where to spend the money. We are completely untethered from our founding document with a lawless president and a Republican Congress which has abdicated all Constitutional authority.

Attorneys at the Education Department’s civil rights office describe working in a “dismissal factory.” Most discrimination complaints filed by students’ families have been dismissed without ever being investigated, records show. (Published December 2025)

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

Kelly: This letter or anything that Hegseth says or does to me is in no way going to affect the way I do my job. His option is he can continue with this kind of bullshit or he can go take a hike. That's his options.

Good morning to everyone who doesn’t want to annex Canada, Columbia, Cuba, Greenland, Mexico, or Panama, and just wants universal healthcare.

Weekend marches won’t fix this. Sealed #Epsteinfiles. #ICE deaths. Vanishing healthcare. Imperial threats abroad. Today’s roundup argues it’s time for peaceful, lawful disruption during business hours until Congress does its job. #uspolitics #authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Thought of the day. Why was Maduro wife in handcuffs? She's not charged with any crimes.

Now that Trump is trying to hand Venezuela to US oil companies, that incentivizes execs to give big donations to his PAC and WH ballroom in a "vicious circle" of corruption, @normeisen.bsky.social says. MTG gets how this betrays MAGA. On the pod Norm lays it all out: newrepublic.com/article/2048...

The oil companies are a co-equal branch of government. So are the tech bros. Congress isn't.

Actually, it's clear that there is no plan

A malignant narcissist is never satisfied. Tearing apart rule of law in America is not enough. Now he’s bent on destroying the world order that has provided relative peace & stability since WWII. No one has ever made him stop. Not John Roberts, not the voters. www.americaamerica.news/p/this-is-wh...

As of this week, millions of Americans are now paying thousands more for health insurance. If the President and Congressional GOP think Washington has the capacity to "run" Venezuela right now, why won't they fix the insurance cost crisis they've created here at home?

The media need to stop beating their chests about how powerful our military is. It's a point of pride when your country has a strong military that keeps the peace. It's a source of shame when politicians turn your strong military into an international armed robbery gang.

The impact was swift: DHS and the FBI ramped up their presence in the state, and federal funding for child care in the entire state was frozen. But a week later, state officials said the child care centers accused of fraud were all operating as expected. https://cnn.it/4jqkIGt

The list of this administration's non-compliance/law-breaking of court orders and any rule of law should be posted and reposted every day, so we can't forget. A chart that shows the growth in criminal actions should appear in the corner of every newscast, substack, YouTube, etc. Every day.

Yesterday was the deadline to provide Congress with a full explanation of the Epstein Files redactions... The DOJ failed to comply with the law, again.

Denmark’s PM, Mette Frederiksen responds to Trump: “The US has no right to annex any of the three nations in the Danish kingdom…I would therefore strongly urge the US to stop the threats against a historically close ally…and another people who have said very clearly that they are not for sale.”

Kidnap a head of state, threaten his successor, choke the country’s oil exports, post a perp walk, and call it democracy later. #uspolitics #warcrimes #madurro #kakistocracy #authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

Cancelling research into preventing breast cancer is classic Trump and classic insanity. www.facebook.com/reel/4354173...

Trump claims it "won't cost us anything" to run Venezuela. He also said Mexico would pay for the wall.

When you elect a criminal, your country will do criminal things. It's not complicated.

Isn't it odd that the United States has enough money to suddenly run Venezuela, but not enough to run our own country? There is always cash in the piggy bank for bombs to kill people, but never for healthcare to keep them alive.

Swalwell: Putin has an arrest warrant out for his conduct in Ukraine, and Donald Trump certainly is not going and arresting Vladimir Putin and invading that country and saying that we're going to run it without a plan.

I'm ready for a regime change back home.