The president’s response to intense national backlash over ICE: post through it.

There's plenty in this document to fire every ICE employee in Minneapolis. From the guy who showed his ass to protesters in the hotel window to the guy who murdered Renée Good.

Just absolute clownery on the part of Senate Democrats. They are demanding that ICE "create a code of conduct and enforce it." The catch? ICE ALREADY HAS A CODE OF CONDUCT. This means Democrats just got played. 🧵

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

Why would *checks notes* the Italian space pasta satellites do this

just choked on my beverage

Trump: "Coal doesn't mind very cold weather, right? You're not allowed to say the word 'coal' with preceding by saying 'clean, beautiful coal.' It's not affected by bad weather. The windmills are are frozen. You know that, right? They don't turn. The windmills aren't turning."

It appears several clergy were just arrested as they staged an anti-ICE protest in the Russell Rotunda in the U.S. Senate office building. A number of faith leaders, who were in town urging Senators to vote against additional ICE funding, were led away by police: www.facebook.com/FIAnational/...

Former FBI official: Tulsi Gabbard should have nothing to do with law enforcement operations whatsoever. She was in a truck with boxes of what are apparently ballots. She is gonna need to be on the chain of custody for those ballots and explain why she was with them and what she was doing.

NASA: Western U.S. snow cover is tracking at record-low levels for January, based on satellite observations dating back to 2001. science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

Environmental advocates say the proposal would take too much water out of the Delta, threatening fish from the finger-sized smelt to the giant white sturgeon. "What we are witnessing can only accurately be described as ecosystem collapse." www.latimes.com/environment/...

The Newsom administration is backing an approach that gives water agencies more leeway in how they comply with water rules. The Assn. of CA Water Agencies says this would “improve habitat conditions and ensure adequate flow to protect and support native species.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

The long-running debate over how to protect fish and the environment in California’s largest estuary is intensifying as state regulators consider a new plan that will determine how much water can be pumped out of the Delta for the state’s farms and cities. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Not to sound like an aul wan™️ but government should be regulating vehicle size / litre size given the climate crisis, obvious carnage on roads and the lack of space in towns and roads given everyone's car is getting bigger

We’ve said it before, and here we are again. Mass detention + privatized cost controls + infectious disease = a public health nightmare--one that harms detainees and puts us all at risk.

... or she is once again demonstrating her utter lack of fitness for the office that she holds by injecting the nonpartisan intelligence community she is supposed to be leading into a domestic political stunt designed to legitimize conspiracy theories that undermine our democracy.

Either Director Gabbard believes there was a legitimate foreign intelligence nexus – in which case she is in clear violation of her obligation under the law to keep the intelligence committees ‘fully and currently informed’ of relevant national security concerns...

There are only two explanations for why the Director of National Intelligence would show up at a federal raid tied to Donald Trump’s obsession with losing the 2020 election.

Why is Tulsi Gabbard at an FBI raid on an elections office in Fulton County?

FBI raiding election offices in Georgia This feels really, really ominous for the prospect of free and fair elections in US Been blindingly obvious since Nov 2024 that Trump will go this way. Does American democracy have any defences left?

The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

GEORGIA — @ossoff.senate.gov : “This is a SEISMIC event. This should have people across 🇺🇸 absolutely shook. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office… this is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections.” (H/T @atrupar.com )

“You can’t have data extracted from a phone that you don’t have on you,” EFF’s Bill Budington told Fast Company. “Bringing a secondary device, one that can capture footage in high quality, for instance, is a good suggestion.” www.fastcompany.com/91481220/yo...

Trump's Board of Peace, "politicises peace-making & undermines decades of global efforts to ensure such processes remain multilateral & impartial. Peace without respect for human rights & freedom of expression can only ever be an illusion." www.article19.org/resources/in...

So, incredibly, the White House has chosen to escalate in blue Minnesota and retreat in Maine to protect a vulnerable GOP Senator. It's confirmation that Trump-Vance-Miller view ICE as a partisan govt-backed militia to attack blue America while propping up their regime. 1/

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

Health Speculations Swirl After Trump Spotted Wearing Glove Over Head

Then Trump should rescind the order!

Anyone who has kids knows how they feel about their favorite article of clothing or whatever. Just unimaginable, petty cruelty for no reason.

Eight paragraphs until the first, dim hint that this is batshit crazy? And dangerous?

Incredible. Incredible. "The most important thing we have right now is a national sense of immediacy and urgency, and the thing we need to do with it is piss it away."

"I think it's completely inappropriate to have someone from the Trump administration speaking directly to our children." Fairfield Public Schools announces, then abruptly cancels, school visit by Linda McMahon

Instead of renting a hotel room for 2 hours I hear amorous couples are booking tickets to see MELANIA for complete privacy

Fascinating: "We identify a risk of collapses in service availability as specific elements of fossil infrastructures reach what we term 'minimum viable scale,' a level of throughput past which existing physical, financial, & managerial infrastructures can no longer effectively operate as expected."

"As demand for fossil fuels stagnates or declines, these economies of scale will invert, leaving shrinking user bases to carry growing liabilities, and infrastructure designed for expansion to instead weather contraction."

Source: ICE to begin using empty Melania theaters as temporary detention facilities.

Just got a notification from hell aka X saying that the owner of the account "Col. Fraulein SS Deportwaffe" which posts pro-Nazi AI slop hasn't broken any of its hate policies. 👍

Also Biden has never once publicly apologized for his racist comments about the death toll.

Anyone who paid attention knew that there was no doubt about the official number from the GHM being an undercount due to its historically conservative approach and due to inability to keep pace with the actual death rate. IDF now admits, like it did in 2021 and 2014, that it has an accurate record.

Could Dems at least add a “and this funding only lasts two months” clause to whatever insufficient set of demands they’re making, so that if and when Trump predictably violates the deal, they’re not totally out of moves?

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

Even if it were a domestic slush fund it would still be an unconstitutional. The Constitution specifically states that no money can be withdrawn from the U.S. Treasury except by appropriation of Congress. This looks like an attempt to get around that limit.

So ... a foreign slush fund

If you're interested in "slush funds" and Congress's power of the purse, which is of course timely as hell, but want an analysis that goes beyond [waves around at all this], see my new piece on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman