If it’s Sunday, it’s:

NOEM IS LYING. I have seen people get taken! It was the same each time: armed men racing out of a blacked-out SUV, seizing a screaming or fleeing pedestrian, and pulling them into the car without any attempt to even learn their identity. Always a person alone on the street. Always a person of color.

"Upon meeting him, she hadn’t found the German Übermensch (Superman or Overman) that she had been told to expect from Hitler’s propaganda. Instead, she found him “inconsequent and voluble, ill-poised, [and] insecure—“a man whose countenance is a caricature.” open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

He’s gonna take (acquire) your wife, Ted.

How it started/how it's going

Trump said help was on the way. Now, he’s taking notes.

Nightmare. Iran mowing down rank after rank of young protesters

The best of these so far. 10/10

The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.

FENCES and NEIGHBOURS

Tonight's Big Brown comedy show in NYC is not just a stand up show. It's a celebration of immigrants given the show features comedians who are immigrants or children of immigrants. It's also a form of resistance. I hope you join us out bc we all need some laughs www.eventbrite.com/e/the-big-br...

Gallego: "I think ICE needs to be totally torn down. People want immigration enforcement that goes after criminals and focuses on criminals, not the goon squad that has come from Stephen Miller and Donald Trump."

January 17, 2026

Yes, they could. And it could be a huge test.

This is - without exaggeration - absolutely batshit crazy nonsense.

Holy shit, this moment is exactly what I've been talking about.

*record scratch* Ok, maybe in retrospect the seig heils were a bad choice...

When you lose Piers Morgan.

Running Nazis out of town and then whimsical cardboard sleds at Powderhorn - you just have to love Minneapolis.

As a lawyer, I will fight for free and fair elections in court. Just as importantly, I started Democracy Docket in 2020 to keep you informed about everything that is happening to democracy. No corporate overlords, no compromises, never bending a knee. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

The Broncos have to call Phillip Rivers

WOWWWWWWW

Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...

I’m not going to tell you to watch this, but its a good answer to the pessimism that will consume this Whole. Fucking. Year.

She is an expert on authoritarian regimes, in case you're wondering whether peaceful protests matter.

Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.

We need Democratic leaders who don’t dodge questions about whether an agency that teargasses babies and kills innocent people should keep having a bigger budget than most countries’ militaries. Please pitch in if you can to support our primary campaign and help us build a better Democratic Party.

Trading Ahead of Confidential Outcomes.

excellent work by @theonion.com this month

It’s been one blunder after another during the early days of the Tony Dokoupil era at ‘CBS Evening News.’ From night one, the broadcast has been marred by technical mess-ups, bizarre attempts to suck up to the Trump administration, and low-key humiliation by President Trump.

What the last days of the Roman emperor Caligula can teach us about the second Trump administration open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

Today in Greenland Their Historic Protest All to tell Trump People of Greenland and Denmark From all the sane people of America... WE STAND WITH YOU

📣 In which the WSJ Editorial Board does EXACTLY what I predicted they'd do 3 weeks ago: (spoiler: they flat-out lie about ACA enrollment data) acasignups.net/26/01/17/whi...

Virgin Nazis - 0 Chad protestors - 3

Ask how much they’re getting paid? They must be desperate if they have to ship them in from Florida.

🤣🤣

The ratio is impressive. Reminds me of the gays v. MAGA guy at a Kathy Griffin concert I attended.

Ran into Hotel Indigo. Frozen soundtrack still playing.

This ICE agent and the man he’s accusing of not being a US citizen have the same damn accent. If this were a movie, this scene would be on the cutting room floor.

Given the timing, we consider this to be targeted harassment as punishment for exercising our First Amendment rights. We're still handing out free whistles. And we just got in hundreds of new yard signs. Keep resisting, Minnesota. We love you.

Hello, SCOTUS? Anyone home? Might want to pull a Saturday shift.

Except if you’re a Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator….

By the time it’s all said and done, Trump is going to have a life story that rivals George Santos’ life story.

“That’s slavery.” Civil Rights lawyer @oliverma2026.bsky.social (running for CA Lt. Gov.) reminds us ICE detainees work in for-profit prisons for $1/day just to pay for phone calls to their families. Cruelty is big business. P.S. @CoreCivic’s new CEO’s last name is “Swindle” — beyond parody

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Big shift from a "alright, the party's over freaks" to a "this place rules!" theory of mayoring

Thomas Massie calls out Pam Bondi over the Epstein Files

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.