As I was saying... Here was have an ICE agent, again, calling a woman a terrorist for exercising her free speech rights. She has every right to record and recording IS resistance. www.mediaite.com/media/news/i...

It’s like some weird fucking experiment to see how obvious you can make it before Americans have an “Are we the baddies?” moment, and a third of the population just cannot get there.

Nobody will forget nor forgive this.

A political protester in Minneapolis was captured by ICE. They removed her bra and cut off her wedding ring. They never returned her clothes to her. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

nine years old

Literally starting to run the Putin playbook for territorial expansion

They know their audience has an insatiable appetite for seeing black women humiliated for exceeding their station, so when it didn’t happen they used AI to complete the fantasy bsky.app/profile/nyti...

This is not materially different from Josef Mengele. The concept is to deliberately expose people to serious harm so you can gather more data on what you already know will hurt them. It's not some big coincidence the Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits everything resembling this kind of "science."

Jack London-ass temperatures

"There are lists of immigrants, lists of people with developmental disabilities, lists of dissidents—and lately, even lists of Jews. All ostensibly in the name of public safety." Hmm. The latest edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4qDPZc0

For the past year, the Trump admin has abused federal statistics and confidential records, mostly through deletions and censorship. But some of the most disturbing developments don’t involve data the administration is suppressing, but rather data it’s *collecting* www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-chil...

They’re sending these people back to be jailed, tortured, and executed, but simultaneously, *at this very moment,* Trump has ordered an armada of battleships to head for the region, presumably as a threat. Why??? This is reprehensible *and* it doesn’t make sense.

If U.S. pressure over Greenland escalates, Europe is already discussing a potential boycott of the 2026 World Cup. As Politico notes, the tournament is a major soft-power asset for Trump — and a European pullout would be a serious political and reputational blow.

Not the point I know, but it’s insane that the braindead right still thinks this is a gotcha on climate change. It’s exactly akin to how Creationists will go, “Oh yeah? Well if evolution is real, why are there still monkeys? Checkmate, atheists!” They really don’t realize how dumb they sound.

Another day, another outrage; ICE under Trump is going to deport dozens of people to Iran, including two gay men previously arrested by the regime who face the death penalty for their orientation, and despite the ongoing crackdowns which have killed thousands. An administration of total inhumanity.

My org @immcouncil.org represents those two gay men. They had been arrested on charges of sodomy by Iranian moral police, and fled the country seeking asylum. They face the death penalty if returned, yet the Trump admin denied their asylum claims in a kangaroo court process. They are terrified.

This is the same Donald Trump who has repeatedly threatened he will order strikes on Iran if the regime doesn’t stop killing protesters. So all that “the United States supports the Iranian people” stuff is just talk. And it’s particularly heinous talk when the admin is doing this.

“Trump has been taking on more of the behaviors that define a fascist. He has seized authorities from Congress, ordered prosecutions of critics, built a paramilitary force. In Davos, he suggested he wasn’t a dictator. But he added, ‘Sometimes you need a dictator.’” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-davo...

this would quite literally be prison on a vast scale, shutdowns on a vast scale, bans and blocks, servers hauled off, doors kicked in, under any other circumstance

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Here's one of the panels that Trump just removed from the President's House site in Philadelphia. (I took this picture of it last March. A couple of weeks later I led a walking tour that included the site.) Does this information "disparage" the United States?

DHS this is your communications director speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting about how everyone hates you.

“Dear Superman, I no longer want you to join my Legion of Doom. You are a mean man and you hurt my feelings. “

Carney: "In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".

This is legitimately deranged. There really is no bottom to his vileness.

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

Man, it really got under his skin. This is a real “Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is” moment. I rewatched that speech last night. It really is really fantastic. Carney is really meeting the moment. It’s reassuring to see an actual sober adult.

Again, this is literally the scenario the right wing militia types describe to justify why they need compounds and military-grade arsenals to defend themselves from tyranny, and then the day push finally comes to shove *for real*, they run right to the side of the tyrannical government to join in.

My ex gf/still close friend has an adopted son who looks very similar to this and it’s all I can think of every time I keep seeing this image. She’s in NC so I’m really hoping Trump doesn’t target it. But I’m still really worried. I don’t know her son’s biological parents’ status.

This family did every single thing they’ve been asked to in order to seek asylum here. Yet in less than 24 hours, this kid and his Dad were nabbed off our streets and sent to Texas, using tactics that can only be described as pure evil.

Man who is LITERALLY SELLING PARDONS AND SEATS ON HIS BOARD OF PEACE—not to mention all the crypto scams, and the cell phones that still haven’t materialized—chimes in about making money off one’s office. I know he always accuses others of the exact crimes he’s committing but it’s still insane!

Big week for the "seriously, not literally" crowd.

NEW: Holy cow—remember the man dragged half-naked out of his home by ICE into the snowy Minneapolis cold? And did you catch how DHS then said that raid was conducted in search of two sex offenders? Well guess where one of those two sex offenders already was: www.thebulwark.com/p/target-of-...

Thomas Massie is a stronger ally than some actual Democrats. Unreal.

This is insane. It is completely insane. The supposed opposition party cannot even get it together to vote no on funding a lawless secret police thug gang

Whoa!

Not great Bob.

We have been rightly afraid of the threat of bad actors using AI to create disinformation. It's appalling that one of the first of those bad actors is in the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington, DC. Just look for the big white house, you can’t miss it.

Jack Smith is clearly stating facts that should have ended Trump's nomination and land him behind bars for years. None of this matters to the post-truth cult, of course. But this is necessary and will feature prominently in historical record. Documentation is important for our collective future.

It has not been lost on me that the two preeminent contemporary uses of LLMs is the infinite generation of 1) CSAM and 2) media that serves no purpose other to publicly denigrate, humiliate, and dominate women and minorities.

My hot take is I think banks should be allowed to reject as customers people who are serial commuters of bank fraud, embezzlement, and money laundering. I feel like that is a reasonable position to take from both a business and ethical perspective. Weird, right?

This is astounding. Literally all she did was exist. And she’s forced to put out an apology stating she’s very sorry she offended people by existing. What the hell is wrong with society?

This country hates women so much. ca.news.yahoo.com/ex-porn-star...

Especially when the captain has already steered it directly into the iceberg at full speed and is now busy drilling holes in all the lifeboats while the ship sinks.

Wow, so the claims circulating yesterday were true: the “deal” Trump claims to have negotiated is the same agreement that’s always been in place, he’s just so stupid and narcissistic that they simply “gave” him what was in already in place for 80 years and let him take credit.

These people are morally sick beyond repair.

Republicans publicly excoriating Jack Smith and insisting that January 6th was fake and made up and Trump had a constitutional right to violently overturn election results anyway is beyond vile. Darrel Issa says this doesn’t make republicans evil. Yes it does. Cynically lying like this is evil.

He looks like Matt Murdoch.