New?

Yes. Important in the context of the release of the NIH budget bill today. NIH has been dismantled this year, and it’s NOT because of a Congressional budget cut. It’s b/c of Project 2025/Russell Vought reaching into NIH in an unprecedented way and screwing up how it’s run. The budget bill does…

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Reasonable suspicion = not white

ICE and CBP officials like Todd Lyons here are hitting TV this afternoon to spread the message that yes, ICE is arresting US citizens

Must read @nytimes.com oped by @levmenand.bsky.social about the stakes of the Cook case tomorrow. Reminds us that this is not just about central bank independence or the reach of the removal power. At stake is the fundamental principle that the president does not have the power of the purse.

“Mobile Fortify and ELITE function as one-way systems. Data is captured, retained, and reused, while the costs of error are borne entirely by the individuals subjected to enforcement.”

Every time a Democrat says they understand why parents are concerned about pronouns or trans girls playing sports or whatever the fuck, they are campaigning for the party that will deliver on the affirmed “good“ that is transphobia

The implications of mass facial recognition systems being used *everywhere* ... The harms, the mistakes, the control over daily lives, the silencing effect it would have over speech, change, democracy, and the peaceful transfer of power. This behavior isn't random. It's a signal.

Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask. (Published Sept. 2025)

BREAKING: Federal court in Virginia—noting DOJ's filing "falls far beneath the level of advocacy expected from litigants in this Court, particularly the Department of Justice"—rules that Lindsey Halligan cannot hold herself out as "United States Attorney," striking that language from case filings.

Not only does Trump play a lot of golf after criticizing Obama for playing, he's played more golf in five years than Obama did in eight. He's on pace to play more than Obama did during his second term alone. And all while helping his private business make money.

Strong statement from Rep Jayapal rejecting DHS funding deal:

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Just think about all the things prosecutors could be doing better with their time than helping smear a murder victim.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I don't know who negotiated this stipulation in the states lawsuit to stop enforcement but they failed badly. HHS general counsel is tweeting about referring a new hospitals every other day. Five days after this tweet Lurie stopped providing care. This was 9 days after the agreement.

I called it. Despite stipulating that HHS would not enforce cutting off hospitals from medicaid funding, it did not stop investigations and this hospitals would continue stopping provision of care. The latest is Lurie Children's hospital. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/20/l...

Congrats to the guy who helped Russia invade Ukraine. A real feather in the cap.

WTAF

Please enjoy this local news: “Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel said he is evicting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit from a county-owned building where it has occupied an office for about three years but never paid rent… “We’re going to deport ICE,” Pinsley said at the news conference”

jfc

It's strange for the President of the United States to be litigating in his personal capacity against the Justice Department he runs — but he's seeking an order barring "current, former and future" DOJ officials from releasing Jack Smith's second volume. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Immigration officers are caught on video violating policy, training, and settled law pretty much every day. The administration just cheers them on. What makes anyone think they're going to implement any of these "guardrails?" They think de-escalation is woke. This is just giving them more money.

Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/

OH MY GOD Minnesota police chiefs say federal agents are pulling over cops and demanding papers www.alternet.org/minnesota-ice/

Making an exception to my don't-boost-Substack-links policy, because fuck yeah we could all use some good news. PS. You can support @erininthemorning.com's work without subscribing on Substack. Also, @assignedmedia.org is running a fundraiser you should throw down for. Support trans journalists!

Cassidy, a medical doctor, used his momentary but immense power to entrust an infamous anti-vaxxer with America’s health talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

so in other words, a lie

Bigotry for thee but not for me.

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

This was extremely predictable, and a good criticism of US AI policy has been an overly strong focus on large models, rather than specific uses / applications where value is clearly demonstrated and real competition is happening already.

Another death in an ICE detention facility. A growing, unsurprising, tragic epidemic.

Trump's anniversary press conference was an extraordinary display of eugenics and rage inside the White House. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...

Trump is a rapist and an abuser. Everything he does should be viewed through that psychological lens. The institutional misogyny at @nytimes.com won't let them do that.

A normal attorney who was the subject of this memorandum would walk into the ocean and never come back

Trump just amplified a post calling Russia and China “boogeymen” and the UN and NATO as the “real threat” to the U.S. Whoever in Congress is not calling for the 25th amendment at this point is either irresponsible or complicit. #HOLDFAST

We are, of course, stuck with presidentialism in my or your lifetime. But when democrats take power back from the fascists, the platform needs to be institutional reform. There are lots of things to be done, with normal legislation, to fix our broken system. They better be ready to go. Immediately.

Every CNN.com headline right now paints Trump as in control, strong, sharp, energetic Our oligarch-owned media is only interested in propping up the head oligarch

Excellent framing from @markjacob.bsky.social on mainstream media: "They want to make their news truthful enough to keep an audience that’s attractive to advertisers while preventing it from being so truthful that it ticks off center-right customers and gains the negative attention of Trump..."

Alito absolutely just jumped over Jackson, who started speaking before him.

Gun lawyer pretty much saying guns have as much of a right to go into places of public accommodation as Black people, and KBJ ain't having it

Exactly. There's must-pass funding legislation going through Congress right now. If Tillis et al. aren't willing to put a Greenland condition on that bill, this is all cheap talk. (And Dems need to be pushing Republicans by insisting on conditions to stop Minnesota-type abuses.)

In February, a Texas Observer investigation revealed the identity of James Rodden, an ICE attorney who operates an openly white supremacist account on X. Last week, @stevanzetti.bsky.social proved he's back in court trying immigration cases:

Brooke Rollins is still at it! "We had run almost 1,000 simulations, and between $3 and $4 is a fair number if you can have access to that food. I just saw new numbers that were run: a full day, meaning 3 full square meals and a snack, is about $15.64."

it really is just this stupid

The brutal Minnesota occupation—the Global War on Terror transplanted from Kabul or Baghdad to US soil—has a lot of people asking basic q's about ICE and CBP, so I wanted to explain the agencies' problems and what changed to bring this war to our streets. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

fascinating to compare how Wall Street reacts to the possibility that a socialist might have some power somewhere versus how it reacts to the concrete reality of a literal madman tearing down the American-led post-WWII global order

This is an excellent explainer. 👀 quote: “In rough terms, the workforce of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents commit crimes at an equal or even greater rate PER CAPITA than the population of undocumented immigrants do in the United States.”