When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

ICE keeps abducting babies. www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

Seeing how children everywhere are being affected by ICE is heartbreaking. You have kids being kidnapped and living in fear of that but also their friends living in fear of who won’t be at school the next day and why. People who support ICE don’t care about traumatizing kids en masse at all

two years old.

Families dig through garbage in Gaza for things to burn to keep warm

The White House posted an edited photo of the activist involved in the Minneapolis church protest, made to look like she was crying.

I think Axis of the Weasels works well for this bunch.

Ynet: Arab party leaders agree to work to re-establish the Joint List

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Authorities in Jordan appear to be using an Israeli digital tool to extract information from the mobile phones of activists and protesters who have been critical of Israel and spoken out in support of Gaza, according to a new report by the Citizen Lab.

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

Medical examiner rules ICE detainee’s death at Texas facility a homicide

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant to arrest someone with a final order of removal, a move that advocates say collides with Fourth Amendment protections and upends years of advice given to immigrant communities.

First-degree arson of a place of worship is punishable by a sentence of five to 30 years. The hate-crime enhancement could double that penalty to up to 60 years, Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens noted. buff.ly/ZhYHbK7

Beverly Geiger Bonnheim was 17 when the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Beth Israel Congregation in 1967. This weekend, at 75, she watched it burn again. “It was horrifying and disbelieving to see it again,” Geiger Bonnheim said. “Does history change?” buff.ly/L8xxHPU

FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move

The United States will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, authorities said.

Video from the scene of the Minnesota ICE shooting contradicts DHS’s narrative that locals were rioting and threatening agents' lives.

A U.S. immigration agent shot and killed a driver in Minneapolis on Wednesday

An Al Jazeera investigative programme has obtained hours of leaked audio recordings of prominent military officers in the regime of the ousted Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, discussing plans and efforts to destabilise Syria, and suggesting coordination with Israel.

EXCLUSIVE: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. Read @willsommer.bsky.social's latest:

Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate

Israel is suspicious of President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a longtime Islamist militant, and has provided weapons, intelligence and cash to militiamen at odds with his rule.

The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax. Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Recent satellite imagery from @planet.com taken on December 23 2025 shows that the eastern half of the Ma'an Cemetery south of Khan Yunis has been completely destroyed and converted into part of an IDF outpost. The cemetery was previously damaged in late 2023/early 2024: bsky.app/profile/godi...

Palestinians in Gaza face an impossible choice this winter. With more than 400,000 homes destroyed in the war, Gazans are being forced to choose between living in tents exposed to the elements or run the risk of living inside the ruins of buildings that could collapse any minute.

Two men were found guilty on Tuesday of plotting to kill hundreds in an Islamic State-inspired gun rampage against the Jewish community in England, a planned attack investigators say demonstrates the resurgent risk posed by the militant group.

The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 ambassadors and other senior career diplomats to ensure embassies reflect its “America First” priorities

Alexa Koenig’s research on human rights violations at CECOT was to be featured on “60 Minutes." She says it was "incredibly disappointing" to learn that her and her students' work for the show would be shelved when CBS News pulled the segment.

A former close aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that immediately following the October 2023 Hamas attack that triggered Israel’s two-year war in Gaza, the Israeli leader instructed him to figure out how the premier could evade responsibility for the security breach.

Journalists posting screenshots of the Epstein docs should not crop out the control number in the bottom right corner. These docs are not an "exclusive," you don't have to make it harder for people to find and validate the original information.

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

doj accidentally leaked new epstein files

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.

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

What’s happening at CBS News is a five alarm fire and portent of what’s to come, a nuclear assault on the very heart and soul of America. This is not hyperbole.

The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband

You might question her methods, but credit to Bari Weiss: her leadership has pushed 60 Minutes into new formats and attracted a bunch of new viewership outside the normal broadcast audience.

“Bashar lives his life fully, like nothing happened,” the former colleague said. “He humiliated us when he was here, and he screwed us when he left.”

Inside CECOT | 60 Minutes

watching the CECOT 60 Minutes segment that CBS suppressed, it’s striking that Weiss specifically called out as unnecessary some of the most rigorous investigative work in the segment, including an explanation of how it was done (by human rights researchers)

imagine the kind of person you would have to be to watch that 60 Minutes segment and think "I must do everything I can to defend the people in charge of this process of sending people to be tortured."

A Times investigation into the whereabouts of top Syrian officials who fled after the regime’s fall shows many remain free — shielded by wealth and accommodating host nations.

German prosecutors have charged a suspected former member of Syrian intelligence with crimes against humanity and the torture and murder of dozens of prisoners held in a Damascus prison under Bashar al-Assad, a statement said on Monday.

Prisons and lockups that jailed tens of thousands of people during Assad’s rule are now crowded with Syrians detained by President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s security forces and held without formal charges, a Reuters investigation has found.