The worst politicians in America are about to quote Martin Luther King Jr. You can’t quote “I have a dream” on MLK Day then legislate against that dream every other day of the year.

“When Europe insists on sovereignty and accountability, it is not posturing. It is defending what makes both America and Europe strong.” Well said 🇺🇸 🤝🇪🇺

This is where we are at. For what? For nothing. For stupidity. For ego. For an old, demented malignant narcissist who expects the world to jump at his every whim. Well, when you follow international news you can see that the world has pretty much had enough of his bullshit.

Just saw it noted that 100% of the world’s Ozempic supply comes from Denmark, as does a somewhat smaller percentage of the world’s insulin. Almost as if it’s really quite a small world!

Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.

Two people you should never trust; A religious leader who tells you how to vote, and a polition who tells you how to pray.

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Now more than ever, we're a two timing, back stabbing, and disloyal nation without integrity.

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” – Frederick Douglass

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

PSA: If Bill Kristol can say this dems should be able to say it

Nicola Jennings on #Greenland #Trump and #Tariffs @Guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

The president -Is occupying a major city with armed paramilitiaries -Is blackmailing treaty allies to hand over their sovereign territory -Is trying to set himself up as chairman for life of a UN rival with $1B fees for permanent membership -Is talking about canceling elections

we all keep finding various ways to make the same point: the US right’s preoccupation with liberty was never intended or imagined to conflict with the domination, oppression, or extermination of a subaltern racialized and gendered Other

Genny Harrison’s insights are so on-point. Would love to see her words here and somewhere other than Facebook.

Echos of The Church™️ in this. Genny Harrison on Facebook. Love how her writing on Tolkien names power and complexity.

This mystifies many, many Americans, too. The issue is that too many Americans aren’t paying attention, and won’t until it’s knocking down their door.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

January 15, 2026

In an oligarchy, business costs outweigh human costs.

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

Epstein-Barr Virus #EBV was linked to #MultipleSclerosis - now a plausible cause has been found, misidentification by longterm memory T-cells that pick on the wrong protein, ANO2, instead of the EBV-antigen. Massive inflection towards the elimination of MS!!! 🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

People need to stop pretending the U.S. government isn’t actively rebranding as a white supremacist movement. 🚨 The Trump administration has rolled out a coordinated campaign across departments, using imagery and messaging straight from right-wing and white nationalist circles. This isn’t subtle.

"The Justice Department’s decision to send FBI agents to raid a Washington Post reporter’s home Wednesday was an aggressive attack on the press freedom of all journalists," the Editorial Board writes. https://wapo.st/4aUiKfw

This demonstrates that the reasoning in Federalist #51 was not entirely sufficient to protect democracy. “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place” The Senate just said: “Not my problem.”

What I hate (beyond this being stupid and harmful to lots of people including those who can’t afford the alternatives easily) is that the way fluoride strengthens teeth is so goddamned cool. And we’re throwing away cool science with real-world benefits for nothing.

looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit

We’re not just going there, we’ve arrived. 😥

Looking at today's events and saying "fascism is coming" is like issuing a flood warning when your house is already underwater. In addition, anyone thinking "bOtH sIdEz aRe FaScIsT!: can fuck right off.

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I wrote about impeachment newrepublic.com/post/205118/...

This is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you

Jen Psaki highlighted reports (including information from The New York Times) that the shooter & several other agents got into their vehicles and left the scene! She described this act as leaving an active crime scene! ICE agent 'prevented medical help' from being given to Renee Good! Thread 1/4🧵

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

The press release is a masterclass in gaslighting. It frames the reduction of life saving medicine as "common sense reform." It proudly declares that America will no longer require "72 jabs" and will instead recommend vaccinations for only "11 of the most serious" diseases.

Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.

On the DARVO abuse false reality ‘othering’ *system, schadenfreude in group/out group dynamics. See it in climate change global warming denial, child sex trafficking denial and more. Also used to cast false blame ‘collective punishment’ against out-group(s) to stop peaceful protests

Renee Good was a U.S. citizen. A mother of three. She was likely afraid of being shot. ICE murdered her. No one should have to live in fear of being shot by rogue, trigger-happy immigration enforcement agents. But what happened yesterday shows this can happen to anyone.

New JAMA Peds: food insecurity increases pediatric long COVID risk by 2.4x. Discrimination and low social support also major factors. Study tracked 4,584 kids across 52 US sites. The connection between social adversity and prolonged illness is undeniable. #PediatricLongCOVID

New: Read the translated KGB training manual on how the Soviets categorized white Westerners they looked to recruit, according to four basic personality types. Some unintentionally hilarious stuff in here, all analyzed by Mike Miller, a recent retiree from the CIA and a cognitive psychologist.

and there it is