Good to see that more Democratic members of Congress are getting it. Right actin and right message.

... about how outmatched ICE is on the streets. They just don't know what they're doing and too often turn to firearms when they get “frustrated." Their tactics are some combo of pee-wee wrestling and a kids “run-to-the-ball” soccer game. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

This is an incredibly interesting and damning post about all the different ways that ICE is rampaging in the US right now — and how that led to the death of Renee Good. It is, in some ways, a perfect microcosm case study of the piece I wrote this week.... www.lawfaremedia.org/article/befo...

"ICE has lost the public, which means taking a hard line against it, deeming it irremediable as an institution, has become a source of power." Agree with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on how to talk about dismantling of ICE: www.offmessage.net/p/abolish-ic...

Solid plan if you ask me

My favorite part of Judge Novak's ruling on Lindsey Halligan is that basically she's too dumb to disbar.

This is some wild shit but, will probably save the Fed. Because the Fed is the only independent agency the Republican Justices care about

NEW: It appears that the Trump administration expects to lose the Tariff case. According to an anonymous source at CBP who sent me the below email, they’re already having meetings on how to refund the tariffs they’ve collected from importers - many American. 1/

This is the message. We need to hear this from every Democrat.

lol

"hold up, let her, Cook," the majority opinion reads, "keep her job."

The Social Security Administration (SSA) revealed that DOGE staffers engaged in unauthorized communications with a political advocacy group on election denial efforts, and admitted the agreement bypassed internal safeguards preventing the misuse of government data.

Our elected officials must rein in ICE's abuses to our communities. Demand that Congress oppose any bill that would add to ICE's already massive budget at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks-

Welcome to the party pal

I was asked to do an interview helping to understand how and why we are seeing mainstream news and Democrats respond so poorly and so dangerously to ICE’s fascism. www.salon.com/2026/01/20/m...

hearing that while sitting on the toilet of Air Force One, the President created an "airlock" that pulled the insides out of his body like that one "Itchy & Scratchy" episode. He's fine, but in a great deal of discomfort, as doctors try to stuff him back inside.

Trump is fragile. Disrespect him and tell him that he is a dumb hog.

Becuase it wasn’t undone by one man. The denial that still exists is wild. Come to grips folks…the Republican Party made this happen with 50+ years of effort. They had a plan and they implemented it incrementally decade after decade. That’s how it was undone. Not by a dolt scam artist.

The IRS even looked at more progressive groups than Tea Party groups. It didn't matter for the media or the fascists.

Amazing story.

NEW: Trump loyalist Lindsey Halligan stepped down as the top federal prosecutor in eastern Virginia. The move follows a series of rebukes from federal judges over her continued claim to the U.S. attorney title nearly a month after her disqualification.

Trump is the first pro-measles administration this country has ever had.

We need it to happen.

Trump getting taken to Hell

I want to emphasize that at this time the unconfirmed reports that President Trump has both arms stuck "elbow deep" in the airplane toilet are just that. We will be monitoring this story. Please be responsible about spreading news that both his arms are "as far as they can go" into the toilet hole.

I'm still thinking of the fact that Zohran Mamdani went on The View, said "abolish ICE" and then got a round of applause

This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index

if I'm running, I'm promising to dish out prison time to Elon and his little creep army like it's candy

what's wild is this will somehow get 10% of the news coverage of any one of Trump's baseless election theft claims

Sam Altman's latest brain fart will see more headlines because our consolidated corporate press (generally) no longer functions in the public interest

"Musk and Trump chuds steal social security data to try and illegally modify elections" 14 stories "Sam Altman says hospitals are no longer needed because your phone can conduct open heart surgery" 3,217 stories

“Yet even with all this bluster and rancor, it was the rage at a small African nation and the unabashed racism that was truly extraordinary. After speaking for over an hour, Trump took questions from the White House press corps. None of them pressed him on the comments about Somalia or its people”

The multi-year NIH funding of grants tagged to 2025 allows Russell Vought to reduce the number of grants funded this year because he insists that a 5 years of $$$ has to be committed. This is bad. We could see a cut in actual grants by 1/3 or more. Spread the word. www.statnews.com/2026/01/16/n...

For a lot of people, voting for anti-welfarist politics is an assertion that the welfare they depend upon *isn't really welfare*. They're not doing it despite their dependence on welfare but because of it.

This is Minneapolis: I’m at a major healthcare clinic (just here for a friend) and overheard the front desk staff mention they’ve had 97 missed appointments today. People aren’t getting medical care bc they’re afraid to leave home.

They bounce from their baby cradle to a private school cradle to an ivy league school cradle and land in a cushy job. This is not a process that creates intelligent and mature people.

I've said it before. Never assume they're all evil geniuses in on the plot. Most of the time the journalist really is just that stupid.

LFG @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

This week, the House votes on DHS funding. I will not vote to give ICE a single cent. No more blank checks for a rogue agency that operates above the law, escalates violence, and erodes our most basic freedoms.

"European countries now reliant on US liquified natural gas shipments, creating risk of higher bills amid recent tensions" We in the climate space have been warning against this for years now. The Adults In The Room all kept insisting we had to switch gas providers for "energy security". Well, look

The Supreme Court narrowed Bivens to its facts and the Trump administration said hold my beer

“nobody is insider trading off his death so it almost certainly didn’t happen” really sums up the state of the world in 2026 huh

"Colorado ... Democrats introduced a bill backed by data center industry groups. If approved, it would give data center developers a 20-year exemption from paying state sales and use taxes — if they meet a series of economic and environmental requirements." www.cpr.org/2026/01/20/c...

The thing about organizing against data centers is that it's not merely a land use fight. It's manifesting as one, and maybe all fights are land use fights, but it's about whether or not we get to decide the future of computer tech democratically or by fiat of Silicon Valley oligarchs.

Highway billboards are the original pop-up ads.

I wish more states would ban billboards like Vermont does. I have never heard anyone say they miss them when they go there.

I heard he destroyed the plumbing on Air Force One. You don't want the grisly details. It involves buckets of KFC.

Air force one has reported code diaper doo doo I repeat diaper doo doo please stand by on the runway ready to deploy the presidential power washer

As I remind my students every year, *even taking Bush v. Gore as given*, we'd be in that world if Palm Beach County had a competent graphic designer working on its ballot layout.

I’ve criticized Ilan for not doing source criticism. Now, he’s endorsing the Trump Administration’s bad historical methods. Not only are they just throwing random people’s opinions at the wall— long after the ratification of the 14th Amendment— but they’re citing white supremicist segregationists!