'Four days before Trump’s '25 inauguration, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their cryptocurrency venture for half a billion dollars.... The buyers would pay half up front, steering $187 million to Trump family entities.'

He's looting the U.S. Treasury, people. Most crooked dictators find covert ways to get rich. Trump intends to simply order his government to transfer money into his bank account.

This is tear gassing protesters just for protesting. There is no threat, and the only danger presented is ICE behaving recklessly. There is no provocation; this is just straight up assault.

"for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."

Yesterday she was deported back to El Salvador. Without her four children.

something the research on genocide, ethnic cleansing, & communal violence shows us is that the processes tend to stop where local officials & local people refuse to participate in them. there may be obstacles to refusal—being threatened, being overpowered—but violence isn’t inevitable once it starts

It must have taken a dozen people or more to abduct Liam Ramos and send him to Texas. At any one point, someone could have disrupted the process. That they didn’t is horrifying. That they *could* is important. They have agency and they’re making choices.

when we say complex processes of repression & violence are highly contingent & dynamic, we mean they depend on active choices people make—nothing is inevitable. we know from lots of research that people can interrupt violent processes by making choices that reflect their values. this is an example.

DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.

“It is my Honor to deliver for the Great State of Alaska, which I won BIG in 2016, 2020, and 2024 — ALASKA, I WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!” Trump wrote immediately after the disaster. #akleg #Alaska

This would seem to effectively expand the category of people ICE can arrest without a warrant to “people not currently under arrest”

some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...

1/x On Lemon arrest/church protest: 1) People who thought it would be good idea to invade church & disrupt worship service to protest ICE affiliation of pastor shld have heads examined. 2) Invading someone's church offends most basic notions of communal decency. That intruders supposed it to be...

Court packing: it’s ok if you’re republican

I beg of you not to share screenshots of accusations sent to an anonymous tip line.

It’s the same thing with VAERS: anyone can submit an “adverse reaction” and the antivaxxers love to use the data to attack vaccines.

Looks like every DOJ lawyer who signed the Don Lemon indictment is a political appointee.

Here is the now fully unsealed indictment against two journalists — Don Lemon and Georgia Fort — and seven others in connection with the Cities Church protest: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Republican Senator Thom Tillis says Stephen Miller is like Grima Wormtongue from Lord of the Rings and Kristi Noem is like Delores Umbridge from Harry Potter.

Trump has pardoned 1,500+ people. Some of whom, in one way or another, gave him money beforehand. There is no justice system at the federal level right now.

Breaking: The special agent in charge of the FBI's Atlanta field office was forced out this month after questioning the Trump Justice Department's renewed push to probe Fulton County's role in the 2020 election, two people familiar with the matter told MS NOW. www.ms.now/news/atlanta...

Trump's brain is mush. The UFC fight at the White House is scheduled for June 14, 2026. A stadium that holds over 100,000 people (like The Big House at Michigan) takes years to build and has a footprint too big for the White House lawn.

This. They are turning the wealth the American people have created over generations into cash for their own dirty pockets. It’s obscene.

Translation: “I intend to cheat” bsky.app/profile/atru...

reminder that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could end this madness today

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Biggest potential gains for water conservation are in agriculture in the Bear River Basin.

Some VERY interesting data on where water is being used in the Great Salt Lake Basin. This is from a presentation by the Great Salt Lake Commissioner's Office to the legislature. #utpol #Utah

The administration story is that Liam Ramos mother refused to take her son. In actuality she was inside with another child. If she opened the door they would all be detained. She literally had to make Sofie’s choice. I can’t. www.telemundo.com/noticias/not...

The constitutional prohibition on using federal law to abridge the freedom of the press is unusually explicit and really does mean what it says.

24 hours later: Trump has two journalists arrested

DOJ is corrupt. Its leadership is rotten. It sucks for the good career folks, but we are beyond the point when resignations should have occurred. Stop being complicit by being part of an organization leading the assault on the rule of law and taking us into authoritarianism. Mass resignation time.

My American colleagues and friends dislike it when I liken the course their country is on to what happened in Russia in the early 2000s. It’s a comparison that’s getting harder and harder to avoid…

A truly unacceptable assault on the First Amendment.

Trump's 2024 campaign saw some voter angst, in its data, about him getting elected and being obsessed with revenge. He used a Fox town hall, programmed against the final GOP primary debate to say he would be "too busy" for revenge. (He also got the Q in advance.) www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/u...

The charges against Don Lemon are ridiculous. He’s a target because he’s black, because he’s media, and because he’s a Trump critic, and because Trump and his minions cannot accept any dissent. It’s deeply pathetic, unamerican, and lawless.

This is a direct assault on the First Amendment by the Trump administration www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

If Lindsey Graham is willing to hold the entire body hostage for his personal payday, and everyone shrugs and accepts this is how things work, someone should be willing to hold the entire body hostage to force a vote on expelling him. Put it in the Congressional record what a working Senate would do

no fan of jeffries, but holy shit is this article misleading. in the press briefing he calls for "a prohibition that DHS cannot *detain* or deport American citizens", and his focus throughout the briefing is on the detainment part

Putting aside the outrageous corruption of it all, it’s profoundly insane that a sitting president is allowed to sue an executive branch agency that he currently controls

As with his suit against the FBI, the DOJ, whose entire leadership consists of people who at one time worked as one of Trump’s personal attorneys, will represent “the people,” and have the power to approve the terms of any settlement. Trump controls both sides of these lawsuits.

Some paid signature gatherers working to place a repeal of Proposition 4 on the ballot have misled or withheld info from voters about what the initiative would do, a KSL investigation shows. https://ow.ly/s77X50Y5Jyz

Idaho still hasn’t forgiven Utah for spilling Lake Bonneville all over it accidentally

"Americans express the least amount of confidence in Trump to act ethically in office. Just 21% are extremely or very confident he does this, while 60% express little or no confidence."

Sorry I cannot alt-text this one. Here's the link. Pretty remarkable. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

A post shared by President Trump that's going viral misinterprets key aspects of how Wisconsin retains voter records. It conflates active voters and the voter database, and baselessly says the current maintenance standard is conducive to fraud www.votebeat.org/wisconsin/20...

NEW: Six senators accused Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche of a “glaring” conflict of interest, citing ProPublica reporting that found he held at least $159,000 in related investments when he shut down crypto investigations at the DOJ.

“It’s worse than people think,” said attorney Eric Lee, who tried to visit clients at Dilley on Saturday. “The water is putrid. They have to mix baby formula with water that nobody wants to even smell. The food has bugs in it. The food has dirt in it.”

Quite literally, there are about a dozen scandals under Trump II that are worse than the worst scandals in all of 🇺🇸 political history. Add in the ongoing familial/personal monetization of the presidency, the violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations with 🇨🇦 & 🇬🇱/🇩🇰, & the murder on the high seas.