I am pretty certain Trump's approval would go into freefall if this ends up happening. It's going to be very hard to manufacture consent for this.

jfc

Why the hell were so many people so comfortable talking about pedo parties with their Gmail accounts?

Another topic for the Harper's letter signatories to stay quiet about:

yikes

You know this is all content because doing this actually makes it far harder to secure any type of indictment.

Really as you keep counting the number keeps changing. I am v suspicious of change.

He is getting more and more angry that he can't seem to get anywhere with affecting elections and it's getting pretty clear that he's starting to fixate on it.

like i'm not trying to be mean to op here but Isaac is literally a good interviewer who can use subtext and knows what he's trying to get at. This is the baseline competency I'd expect most access reporters to be at in a normal universe. But we don't live in that.

the important and miserable thing here is none of it has to do with immigrants, it has everything to do with the fact that there is shit gobs of liability in these private facilities if they ship measles patients and contractors get sick.

Compare this kind of hot-headed idiocy with the incredible heroism of random (unarmed) older women who observe ICE and keep their calm and their wits about them while being dragged out of their at gunpoint. Ask yourself who has done more to stop the feds.

Bellingcat founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and Cornell University’s @cward1e.bsky.social unpack how disinformation evolved, why trust in institutions is collapsing, and what tools we all need to stay sharp in a world of misinformation. Listen back to last week's Stage Talk: rss.com/podcasts/bel...

POTUS job approval down to 34% for independents civiqs.com/results/appr...

Anyways I think people are fine being like "don't take this too much for granted" or w/e, but the thing that strikes me is the type of GOP that exists in Tarrant county that just voted in a democrat. It's like chud grand central + religious right. This is supposed to be the overwhelming base.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

“Ochoa is a Border Patrol agent who joined CBP in 2018. Gutierrez joined in 2014 and works for CBP’s Office of Field Operations. He is assigned to a special response team, which conducts high-risk operations like those of police SWAT units. Records show both men are from South Texas.”

They are running out of lawyers.

I love MN

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I’ve harped on this for years but the reason there’s a seemingly (or at least relatively) “low” amount of corruption in US politics is because we’ve legalized all of it.

Full story here www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/a...

"Frankly, I inherited a mess, Rossus. My late rival, 'Sleepy Stilicho' I call him, what a low-energy loser, left a hell of a mess. Our borders were completely out of control. Criminal huns, looters, the worst anyone has every seen. But now we are the hottest empire anywhere in the world."

It's 410 CE, and I'm your podcast host, Rossus Douthaticus. I'm here with Alaric the Visigoth, who recently sacked the Eternal City. Alaric, why do you think people have lost faith in Rome? Is it a crisis of liberalism? Is it because of the feminization of the workplace?

As @legal-alien-nyc.bsky.social said: More people have seen the Epstein Files than Melania.

I'm only mildly joking when I say that if America were already a fascist state, the theaters would be full coast-to-coast for the opening of MELANIA. Because they'd have to be.

For example, if your approach is "Trump hates immigrants, so the party should be about open borders and never enforcing immigration laws," you're playing Trump's game. Don't let Trump bait you into defending things that most voters wouldn't defend. That's part of the strategy. /6

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

All so that Acting Director Lyons doesn’t have to appear in person before Chief Judge Schiltz on Friday…

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law. The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

A small but good step

This is normal procedure in a shooting. Until today, DHS had them all still out on duty - which is not normal. Take these incremental advances.

The administration that spent the first half of 2025 telling us there was nothing wrong with coordinating literally classified war plans on Signal now is saying that it believes it’s a crime to post publicly available information on Signal.

People of Maine, how can the rest of the country help you stand up the way MN successfully did?

Me either. Thank you.

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New at The Watch: I dug into archival witness accounts of the British siege of Boston prior to the American Revolution. They are remarkably similar to what we're seeing in Minneapolis. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

In evaluating the whining about “doxxing” — by which they mean identifying federal employees who killed someone under color of law - remember this administration cooperates with a large cadre of obedient bootlicker Right media that leaps to the tasks of viciously lying about anyone they kill.

Can't say too many times: Bolts and @taniel.bsky.social are really the best thing to happen to political reporting in the last decade at least. This stuff matters so much and gets so little attention.

CNN reports that Bovino is leaving Minnesota

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

You don't have to know anything about what the Supreme Court says to understand that the federal government has no legal warrant extort through violence what it is not legally entitled to under constitution and law.

Starting next week, CBS News will begin its twelve-part series on the crimes committed by Palestinian children.

If I sent a letter saying I would continue to inflict violence and murder on a community unless that community made legal concessions to me, I would go to prison. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Every American veteran and every employee of the VA should rest assured that if their government murders them, Doug Collins will only blame them implicitly, not explicitly, because Doug Collins is a coward.

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

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💔 As someone whose ICU rotation was made 1000% safer for the patients because of the gentle guidance of seasoned ICU nurses, this stings extra hard. RIP.