So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.

If voting didn't matter, they wouldn't be deploying a secret paramilitary police force to prevent you from doing it www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Don Lemon is going to be the flashpoint, I think. Obviously Trump knows he's not going to get convicted - if nothing else, he's rich and famous with good lawyers. The goal was to intimidate the press. That's either going to work, or the media will channel their inner Minnesotan and it will backfire

This is Georgia Fort as she’s being arrested by federal agents. Apparently, they had a grand jury indictment in hand. She was arrested for being an independent journalist who filmed the Cities Church protest.

A truly unacceptable assault on the First Amendment.

great reporting of an under acknowledged threat. ICE participation in the surveillance industrial complex violates fundamental human rights. see 👇

Holy fucking shit

I'm just so fucking disgusted with all of it

Paramount Pictures and director Josh Ruben are said to be working on HEART EYES 2, a sequel to last year’s Valentine’s Day slasher.

A man claiming to be an ICE agent burst into a family's home and tried to rob them after demanding to see their papers:

I'm very concerned that if we ban pepper balls these maniacs will just use their guns. They are, clearly, terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought when they are out on the streets, and even though they misuse nonlethals by shooting people point blank in the face, it's better than guns.

Oh so it was first degree murder actually

This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.

I mean this really sums it all up. I’ve struggled to square the circle with all of the excitement for her and those huge rallies only for her to lose. Right at the blue peak, instead of carrying the momentum, the campaign pivoted.

This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for “illegals trying to vote.”

Yeah. An abundance of unsold inventory. Hey-ooooooooo 🙏

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

And yet, who you are and what you have said are matters of public record for which you are accountable, and also you are alive and well.

Every accusation is an admission. It’s proof of where his mind goes to fill in the blank when explaining why something happened and he constantly chooses the things he understands.

This is a great way to stop people, everyone hates being on TV and actively avoids doing anything that might make them famous.

ARMSTRONG: Many of the conservatives who warned me my entire life about the coming of the "jackbooted thugs" now stand on the sidelines and cheer as federal agents murder citizens in cold blood in the streets of America. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/01/many...

Do you have any idea what a pathetic loser you look like that Maryland has a Democratic governor, 2 Democratic senators, 7/8 Democratic House members, and Baltimore a Democratic Mayor, with a concentration camp in their front yard while shrugging "nothing to do but tweet angrily I guess"

I know I say this every time one of these feckless dems pulls this same stunt but: if your kidnapped child was in this building, you simply would not take "no" for an answer. You go with news crews, you force your way in. Make them arrest you or shoot you. But you don't stop.

Seems pretty clear that the rule is that guns are fine to own as long as it's not liberals that own them. All this time we thought that gun regulation would come if enough schools got shot up but it turns out liberals had the key the whole time: just buy some guns.

Yeah. You won't. BTW your guy KNEW you wouldn't. That's why the bonus has to be paid back in full if you don't complete the commitment of FIVE YEARS. Not 3, not 4, 5. In other words, after he's out of office. Ya'll got played. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

We don't talk enough about how a CEO got shot in the back of the head and then Elon Musk spent the next 3 months walking everywhere with one of his kids strapped to the back of his head.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

If you don't stop calling it "gestapo" or "kidnapping" I'll have my Gestapo kidnap you.

Unpopular hot take: good. All of these journalists and editors and experienced news folks should form a journalism co-op and build something better.

the thing this says to me is that I and every other dude who lives with a melanin deficiency need to be front and center at these things because literally no one with any authority will care unless something happens to us

Bovino retreating from Minnesota per CNN's Priscilla Alvarez

Democratic strategy seems to still be "wait until republicans come to their senses" A majority already hates this. Get them motivated to vote, make it easy for them to vote. In the mean time, actually do everything you can to make change to show what putting/keeping you in power will look like.

We need everyone we can get in this fight against a fascist takeover. If your first instinct to someone being politically mobilized by all this is to give them a sneering "well, what took you so long?" you don't actually care about our winning this; you just want to be able to say you were right.

Source: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Last year, I reported on a problematic NYPD unit led by a particularly problematic commander. The commander once pointed a gun at a motorcyclist and threatened to kill him. Well, that commander, Kaz Daughtry, has a new job. He now works for Trump's DHS. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/n...

They never cared. They only want to be able to overthrow the government if it's run by liberals. The goal has always been to carry guns they can use against anyone they consider "other" I used to run in these libertarian/2a crowds and I thought it was all genuine and principled. It never was.

Minnesota Republican Chris Madel drops his bid to be governor, explaining he can’t support "the national Republicans' stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.” www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/vi...

Paid for a personal Cursor license for a month to get moving on a side-project I've been delaying and it got it done in a couple days, now I'm binging my personal project todo list like someone paying for one month of Disney+ and watching everything as quick as possible before the month is up.

Figuring out what the GOP even thinks it stands for based on what they say is revealing. Every single position from gun rights to child trafficking to bodily autonomy has been tested and they folded. The only consistent value seems to be “make libtards unhappy”

I ran a forum for a long time, and it had a bunch of rules that could get you kicked and banned if broken. But every so often a troll would show up and know juuuuuust how to not-quite cross the line of the rules. And so they'd skate by, and keep posting. They'd get warnings, but no ban.

Minneapolis, MN - Very developing situation here. FPS agents ran into the hotel. Tear gas deployed. Hotel patrons forced to put their hands up. One agent’s nose bloodied.

We call for a deescalation of tensions from both sides, the murderers and the people being murdered

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Honestly all those icy conditions on the field really cost the Broncos the game. I wish there was some way we could just abolish ice.

Evidence destruction. Interfering with an investigation. Criminals.

LOL the field is so snowy the computer is struggling to draw the lines

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

A reminder that The Trace has been tracking shootings connected to Trump's immigration crackdowns — Renee Good and Alex Pretti, unfortunately, are not alone: www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.