We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

Please do not refer to this "Board of Peace" as a UN-like entity. It is a Mar-a-Lago Club / Rose Garden Club inspired membership with ONE person collecting fees, ONE person being in charge with neither citizens nor leaders having ANY say about anything. Let's keep our heads on a swivel. Please.

NEWS: Survivor Lisa Phillips backs request by Reps. Khanna and Massie for judge to appoint a special master to release the Epstein files. "I have no confidence that the Department of Justice, already 30 days late in complying with the Act with no end in sight."

"In the immediate aftermath of the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis... an FBI agent in Minnesota conducted an initial review of the shooting and determined that sufficient grounds existed to open a probe into the actions of the officer who shot Good..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

ALL OF THIS!

Van Hollen: "I am not going to cast a vote -- not one dime -- to support this lawless, brutal Trump ICE operation"

Fury. Such small, marginal men.

We are now 30 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files

"To characterize the document the White House produced as a health care 'plan' is overly generous. The entirety of the proposal — literally, from start to finish — is 386 words. For context, this blog post is roughly 650 words..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Now that we’re all about “complying with the law” re Minnesota, does that extend to complying with the law re Epstein files?

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

'The damage from removing vaccine recommendations in the United States could linger for a long time even if guidelines are reinstated.' Such a preventable tragedy.

Investigate and prosecute political opponents, sell pardons to your rich friends so they can commit crimes with impunity. Authoritarianism isn’t coming, it’s here, whether people realize it or not.

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

"Argentina's done it. Russia's done it. Turkey's done it. Venezuela's done it. And Zimbabwe's done it. It's a thing that tin pot dictators do... right before starting a hyperinflation and destroying their own economies."

WAR. CRIME.

whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

RFK Jr. has said previous dietary guidelines were untrustworthy because advisers had ties to food-industry groups. But so do several advisers on his dietary guidelines — just different parts of the industry, including red meat and dairy.

Oh.

It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something

16-year LOW…

After Ferguson & other incidents of police excessive force/shootings, DOJ brought its highly effective Community Relations Service, “the peacemakers” into communities to answer questions & resolve tensions. That can’t happen now because Trump shut down CRS. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.

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.

Make the GOPers you know say out loud that they think it should be legal to publicly execute women if they displease a white man in any way.

Ukraine gives Hunter Biden--oops, I mean Ronald Lauder--a big lithium contract. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/w...

Ovarian cancer is just evil.

Such marginal white male energy. Just so lame.

Yup. “Bottom line up front: this is not part of a coherent foreign policy strategy shift. It's bullshit, off-the-cuff diplomacy in which goals change both on a whim and the general mood of Donald Trump.”

Walz is out of Fs: "Not a single Republican supported this, so every Minnesotan from here on, whoever uses this program, there is no bit of thanks that would go to the R legislators who did all they could to stop this ... our schools have money to pay their teachers? I'll take credit for that too."

Trump “pardoned convicted defendants who already had extensive criminal records for serious offenses including child sexual assault, rape, domestic violence, conspiracy to murder federal agents, reckless homicide, illegal possession of weapons, burglary, and possession of child pornography.”

Logical, substantiated, so helpful. Mahalo. “No territorial acquisition resulting from the threat or use of force shall be recognized as legal,” the International Court of Justice reiterated in a 2024 advisory opinion…”

Ugh…you are right…but I don’t want you to be. ‘you can’t unsee the incentives lining up. And politics…real politics…is nothing but incentives wearing costumes.’

When oil and tech CEOs are in the loop about his plans to invade a sovereign nation and Congress isn’t, that’s all you need to know about the legitimacy of his actions.

The smallest man in the largest office

It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro just went after Trump: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

The indictment doesn’t mention oil or fentanyl. Just cocaine. (After he just pardoned the president of Honduras)

If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up. But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.

It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.

Dog ain’t gonna wag itself.

Helpful discussion here. Thanks.

So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago

All of this—HUMANS apologize.