Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

Abolish ICE. Really.

Part 37 in our ongoing series "There Are No Good Billionaires": businessinsider.com/larry-page-leave…

The sky is blue. Trump said it's green. We're about to find out if national U.S. news media can still tell the truth or if even a cold-blooded murder caught on video gets the "both sides" treatment.

ICE and CBP have a habit of turning themselves into victims in cases where they're the ones wielding violence

Good, direct, unequivocal messaging here. Also: to Trumpists, lying is a patriotic sacrament. Trumpists lie because they believe, as a tenet of Trumpism, that the people they hate deserve to be lied to and that it’s for the best for the few people they don’t hate today.

Denny is completely correct here. I'll even go a step further and say that strictly from a craven political ambition standpoint, if you're the person who stands up to this murder and takes ICE to task and doesn't back down, you become the 2028 Dem frontrunner overnight. People yearn for a leader

Escalation to watch for: civil and criminal threats against people calling the ICE murder a murder, especially state and local officials and members of Congress. The regime must constantly escalate.

Good thread on benefits for America of USAID

The Trump administration’s lawless attack on Senator Mark Kelly is part of a much broader project to turn the US military into a partisan militia and silence veterans who might speak out against that by threatening their pensions www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

another word for this is "state capture"

According to the German news magazine Der Spiegel & repeated here by Le Monde, the Trump administration has threatened to impose sanctions on the French judges handling the domestic criminal case against Marine Le Pen. I’m not outraged; I’m enjoying imagining EU sanctions on Sam Alito.

This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.

So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

This is a direct response to the European statements. It’s an attempt at a palliative. It’s still the worst act the United States has pondered since the Mexican War and it think there’s an least a 50% chance it happens. NATO is basically over unless Senate Rs like Senator Kennedy build a barrier.

Not just disappointed. Very disappointed.

So Trump successfully bullied a good man and his family. Because winning over Harris Walz wasn’t enough. Trump wanted to destroy him. Walz is making the right decision for his family. But the success of Trump’s grotesque bullying campaign is yet another frightening step in our national descent.

The number of ways this is unconstitutional lunacy is…a lot

trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.

the nominee, Keith Bass, was fired by the CIA in 2021 for basically gross mismanagement. He also seems to have run a pill mill out of the white house medical unit.

Important question for @indivisible.org: will the org set a red line in congressional primaries that no support will go to candidates that back upcoming CR vote without accountability on foreign adventures (including high-seas murders)?

The technical term, in international law for this is "a smash and grab"

Remember when Dems folded and got nothing and everyone was so happy and patting themselves on the back about getting the Epstein Files released and they just blacked everything out and started deleting shit and now they're bombing Venezuela because we re-opened the government. Anyway

*Unless Congress and the Supreme Court don't oppose him

Absolutely true, and somehow not-discussed point: The US **ALREADY** has all the strategic advantages it could gain by "owning" Greenland. Through treaties and (until now) close NATO cooperation w Denmark The US has a naval base & 'space force' base there. You see USAF planes at Grndlnd airports

Is this what Trump meant when he said we are "running" Venezuela?

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

So the US taxpayer will spend billions of dollars to make the Venezuelan regime even more repressive so that it can protect American oil companies who won’t actually do anything except themselves receive billions more dollars of taxpayer subsidies. MAGA

If any one person saved our republic during the 21st century it was Eugene Goodman and I am sure that he hasn’t been thanked enough.

Dems have to decide *this week* that they will not agree to a CR unless the admin stops Venezuela actions, foreswear other invasions, and stop murdering on the high seas. This can be a rider to the healthcare stuff, with joined-up message of "nobody voted for this".

Here is the Trump Doctrine, as articulated by Stephen Miller in his truly frightening interview with Jake Tapper this afternoon. It is very much like the doctrine of the dictators we fought and defeated in World War II and of Putin today. It is un-American at its very core.

Fucking lol. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

If this is real, it's Russian shit: www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...

@dieworkwear.bsky.social: hope-punk menswear question: what sizes of prison jumpsuit should Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio request, and why?

Cosigned (source: I'm nominally a PM). Also, if your PMs aren't testing on Android, they are not doing their jobs. Pass it on.

That’s right!

Americans on the left of fascism need to internalize that [ gestures expansively] is why staying out of tue ICC and international law with teeth is terrible for the US. These people would not be doing this shit if they truly feared consequences.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

I want to remind everyone that the US has sanctioned members of the International Criminal Court for going through a formal legal process to identify international leaders who engaged in war crimes, making them vulnerable to arrest.

Ironic that our celebration of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence will be led by a mad king.

OWA has been singularly effective in winning letter-of-the-law chamge, and the action now lies with regulators. They meed reasons to believe *enforcing* the law is worth the effort, and your voice can make a difference. Read @open-web-advocacy.org's roundup to learn about the fights that matter:

2025 is the year I've been most involved with OWA, and the pace of global progress recently has been amazing. With 3 regulators now on-board and another 2 coming up, 2026 is shaping up to be an exciting year for the Web!

People asking me "Well what are the Democrats SUPPOSED to do in opposition?" They can try opposition. For a start.

Every member of Congress not calling for impeachment and removal is failing their own oaths of office.

We are officially in 'Weekend at Bernie's" territory. Look at the photo of Trump, while Rubio is talking, at yesterday's press conference. fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...

Good lord

There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

I remember when they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty.