Graham is digging in his heels to try to get millions of dollars of taxpayer money. Corruption in plain sight. Right now, the provision only applies to eight senators. Graham is offering to change the provision to also apply to the House & others — but he won’t accept not getting money for himself.

Nothing in the videos from that church show anything worse than disorderly conduct, at the absolute most maybe misdemeanor trespassing. State offenses, and here well within reasonable prosecutorial discretion. There is no federal crime here even for the actual protestors, much less reporters present

Will someone please think of the white people!

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Harmeet RTs Mike Davis calling Don Lemon a klansman.

This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

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.

Just to be clear: We’ve reached the arresting journalists stage of constitutional crisis.

Jesus Christ. The "pivot" lasted about 15 minutes. Arresting a black journalist under the Ku Klux Klan Act for covering a pro-immigration protest at a Christian nationalist church led by an ICE officer is the perfect encapsulation of this administration's authoritarianism, racism, and trolling.

Federal prosecutors in Minnesota are quitting rather than helping Trump cover up these deadly ICE shootings. The DOJ has become a joke. State prosecutors are now the last line of defense for any real accountability. Trump can’t pardon state crimes. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Don Lemon’s arrest is a disgraceful attack on the First Amendment. Government arresting a journalist for reporting on public controversies is a five alarm fire for our constitutional rights with endless and enormous consequences.

The vice president's tall tale about besieged ICE agents gets demolished by the restaurant owner who was actually there, exposing the regime's pathetic reliance on manufactured drama to justify its occupation. 1/2

Heads up--this is happening today. Noem, Bondi, & Gabbard are delivering a message to Secretaries of State. The people who run our elections. Why? What is Noem, fresh off smearing ICE victims, Bondi, who tried to shake down voter data from MN, and Gabbard, who just raided Fulton, going to say?

Three members of the cabinet will descend on the winter gathering of the National Assoc. of Secretaries of State, forcing the group to reconfigure its agenda The 11th-hour additions come as Trump pushes for more voter data from states and hunts for evidence to back up discredited voter fraud claims

Think about that

cover of The Economist this week

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

The Pew poll, conducted Jan. 20-26, found majorities of all religious groups except white evangelicals disapprove of Trump. White evangelicals give him a net 69% approval, which is about the same as in 2019.

Pew has Trump's approval at 37%. And: "Only about a quarter of Americans today (27%) say they support all or most of Trump’s policies and plans, down from 35% when he returned to office last year. That change has come entirely among Republicans." www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

This is so unhinged

Homan’s use of “in theater” confirms DHS views this as a war in which they’re occupying hostile territory.

Homan is remorseless. Hasn’t learned a thing. Blames the victim. Is an administration stooge. Is proving he is part of the problem not of the solution. Just a miserable showing. But precisely what was to be expected.

I cannot stress how completely bizarre & unheard of it is for the DNI to be personally present for a search warrant execution, never mind this one.

As an aside, Schlitz was a two-time clerk for Scalia. www.fedbar.org/wp-content/u...

Trump envoy showed ‘troubling lack of knowledge at Ukraine peace talks

It's not often, if ever, that the U.S. Director of National Intelligence goes for an FBI ride-along on a raid to a state election office. Are they getting ready for a foreign interference play for this year's midterm? 🤔

U.S. intelligence reports have raised doubts about whether interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez will cooperate with the Trump administration by formally cutting ties with U.S. adversaries, four people familiar with the reports said in recent days. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Agreed. This is where he was in the first term.

Castro said Liam asked about his bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack. Which must mean these bastards took them from this 5-year-old. 🤬

🚨BREAKING: Outrage and grave concern about the midterm elections followed in the wake of the FBI’s court-authorized raid of the Fulton County, Georgia elections office Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Personally I think this is too much money to give to Donald trumps poorly trained but heavily armed Militia

Tom Morello will protest fascism with ‘Solidarity & Resistance’ benefit concert in Minnesota Tom Morello, Rise Against, Al Di Meola, Ike Reilly, and more guests will perform on Jan. 30 with proceeds benefiting the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, who were killed by ICE agents

1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document. Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

An extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

Fuck ICE. They are kidnappers.👇

ICE has violated judicial orders 96 times in Minnesota alone: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

1. The most extreme anti-trans bill ever proposed is currently rocketing through the Kansas legislature. It would empower bounty hunters to search for trans people in bathrooms, even in private businesses, and sue them for large sums of money. The House is voting on it today.

Pam Bondi is not the nation’s attorney general – she’s Trump’s fascist enforcer. A federal judge called out Bondi for posting photos of protesters on social media and calling them “rioters.” There’s no presumption of innocence or sense of justice in the Trump dictatorship.

HUGE news! This is about a Trump admin effort to arrest thousands of screened and vetted refugees in Minnesota and fly them to Texas to be jailed and then interrogated. After the interrogation is over, people are being dumped on the street and told to find their own way back.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

🚨 I've obtained a list of secret watchlists the Department of Homeland Security uses to keep tabs on American citizens www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

“Adapting”

I don't even know where to start with the illegal...The Executive does not have the constitutional power to raise revenue. The Executive does not have the constitutional power to make decisions about expenditures. The Executive does not have the power to privatize the functions of the US Treasury...

Bari Weiss: For multiple reasons I am a doubter. But I haven't quite explained it to myself. I don't doubt that big boss David Ellison wants to weaken CBS News so that it's more friendly to Trump, but I am not sure she fully understands this. She may believe her own rhetoric— and Tony Dokoupil's.

Bellingcat has further analysed videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents. The footage shows an agent wearing a black beanie step behind Pretti. His right arm then appears to recoil at the same time the first shot is heard.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free