"he’s a thoroughly despicable, dishonest toady for Donald Trump, and he’s doing it wonderfully." Joe Walsh www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trophy Drop-Off. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500

Best one yet. 🤣

How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."

So, Trump just announced his “Great Health Care Plan,” which, as he basically admits here, will do nothing to substantively bring down health care costs. It is also unlikely to meaningfully lower drug prices. But let’s spend 6B paying Greenlanders to join America. Good stuff. 🙄

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

Corruption, much?

The story of the rotten heart of the GOP in a nutshell "Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., is leading a congressional subcommittee reinvestigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Trump administration has promoted a distorted and whitewashed history of that day's events."

M&M, viral sugars, and neutralizing antibodies An inspiring story of a struggle to save lives.

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

U.S. citizen, Aliya Rahman was on her way to a doctor's appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when she was brutalized by #ICE on Tuesday. "Masked agents dragged me from my car and bound me like an animal, even after I told them that I was disabled," she said. Read what happened next. ⬇️

“I would just say to people watching: don’t pay any attention whatsoever to what Donald Trump says about medicine,” Wes Streeting, UK Health Secretary www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The FBI raided the home of a Washington Post reporter. This is a blatant attack on press freedom — yet Jeff Bezos has so far been silent. Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.

"Our industry has lost many professionals in recent years. Many more would flee if Tina Peters is pardoned. The harm wouldn’t stop there."

Important work here from the NYT. Ross wasn’t run over. He dropped his cell phone, which he had shifted to his left hand to draw his weapon. And then he shot and killed a person with the gun in his right hand. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

"15m illnesses, 180,000 hospitalizations and 7,400 deaths from the flu, the CDC estimated in its weekly update on 9 January – with deaths including at least 17 children" "Early data from the UK [...] shows that the vaccine is still effective at preventing hospitalizations"

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

Good news

In America now there's no fine.

The proper response to this is "Did you not learn from Nuremburg?"

WATCH: Under Trump, the Education Department is encouraging an exodus from public schools and rolling back civil rights protections. What will our democracy look like if public schools are diminished? ProPublica reporters spent months investigating:

Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted. One officer who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter got a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast. (Published July 2025)

18 years ago, we started ProPublica to do hard-hitting, rigorous journalism that exposes wrongdoing and injustice. If you have a tip related to the Trump administration, we want to hear it. Here's how to contact our reporters securely: www.propublica.org/tips/

When @robinkelly.house.gov files articles to impeach, this needs to be in the evidence. WSJ on ICE now: Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings archive.md/BOWfU The longer video @rgoodlaw.bsky.social 🧵2 is well is worth 8 minutes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=izon...

What do Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. 1/

"Swalwell and Goldman will introduce a new bill called the ICE OUT Act, which will end qualified immunity for ICE agents."

NEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

I want to tell you about what's happening here in Minnesota.

Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."

“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.” what the fuck have we tried turning the country off and back on again

It's that time again “our being Christian today will be limited to two things: prayer and righteous action.” Bonhoeffer

More neo-Nazi content by DHS. I said white supremacist talking points would go mainstream by 2025, and I hoped I was wrong. Here we are.

2 articles on the confluence of influence and self interest in the MAGA Administration 1/2 🧵 "Shirley’s latest video was the culmination of a years-long, peripatetic effort by the mother-and-son pairing to entrench themselves at the head of a burgeoning milieu of Maga-verse content creators."

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

"A chronic, devastating cancer in American society is prominent Democrats outright refusing to share their constituents' urgency and horror in the face of what is being done to society by Republicans..."

"The antidote to despair is action"

"Studying nationalism means understanding the ways in which far-right nationalist parties’ fundamental pitches to voters play on deep-seated questions of identity, and the interplay between how someone views themself and how they fit within a broader group."

Rejoin!

People die in darkness. "Last month, a federal judge said that the Trump administration cannot bar members of Congress from making visits to immigrant detention facilities"

NEW EPISODE: The Trump administration is exploiting a tragic ICE killing in Minnesota to spread lies and smear a victim. Even worse, JD Vance suggested an alarming crackdown on independent media and free speech is on the horizon. youtu.be/lr42GHtipTI?...

"it neglects the more significant cost of removing immigrants who would have paid more in taxes than they received in benefits. Properly considered, the actual cost of H.R. 1’s immigration enforcement spending is nearly $1 trillion more than the CBO estimates."

Once again the absolute dumbest people you and I know will be downright gleeful about this. Disgraceful.

Also, its illegal to discuss gender in some American universities now.

Meanwhile... "“The mission of government can’t occur absent federal employees to carry out those missions,” “And so they’ve figured out a way to undermine the ability of agencies to carry out their missions.” Jacqueline Simon, policy director for the American Federation of Government Employees.

If you agree its time to impeach and remove Kristi Noem, heres how you can make your voice heard: