Hessy Levinsons Taft, Jewish Baby on Cover of Nazi Magazine, Dies at 91 Without her parents’ knowledge, her portrait was entered as a prank in a contest in 1935 to represent the ideal Aryan infant — and she won. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

Sen. Tina Smith: "I don't know how I could vote for a funding bill for ICE and DHS when so much of what they are doing is illegal, is lawless."

So hey, the federal government can't withhold benefits from certain states as punishment. Much like many other things this admin does, it is illegal. Unfortunately, the families that rely on that funding don't have years to wait for the legal battle to shake out. Call your reps now.

Good on the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social for clearly standing up for trans rights.

Amazing how many people were fired over Kirk for 1/10th of what all these people are saying

jonathan ross “feared for his life” yet calmly filmed the entire interaction & never set his phone down, even when murdering renee good

Note from a veteran police reporter: NAMING law officers who use lethal force under any and every circumstance IS NOT doxxing. It is journalism. Officers who invoke lethal force are ID'd publicly as a standard -- or were when we were a republic. Asdress, no. Name, rank, posting, etc. -- yes.

This video report is less detailed but a) shows something I had not seen before: Good's vehicle was not actually blocking ICE vehicles - plenty of them drove past her. b) shows that the shooter walked away with no obvious harm. bsky.app/profile/cweb...

Good’s last words to the ICE agent: “That’s fine. I’m not mad at you.” His to her, after shooting her in the face: “Fuckin’ bitch.”

The rage that has to exist in the average Minnesotan to watch someone stuck on an icy hill and STAND BY AND TAUNT THEM

"Sens. Ron Wyden of OR, Ed Markey of MA and Ben Ray Luján of NM asked the companies to “enforce” terms of service that appear to ban the activity that was surging on X and is still possible on Grok." High five, @wyden.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov and @lujan.senate.gov. This is the way.

In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼 www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

At least one person was knocked down by a vehicle and several were pepper-sprayed after two vehicles drove out of a federal building’s parking garage and into a crowd during a vigil for Renee Good in Hartford on Thursday evening. via @ctmirror.org www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fede...

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.

I know there are a lot of big stories. And I have long ago learned not to over-react to crazy things Trump says. But him telling the NYT that the only limitation on his power is his own conscience is profoundly disturbing. Because that is dictator territory. And because he has no conscience.

Where’s the lie

Multnomah Country, Oregon, has posted warnings to residents that ICE agents are impersonating utility workers. You read that right. ICE is now impersonating utility workers in order to gain access to people's homes and businesses without a warrant. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Stephen Miller’s cousin 👇🏽

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.” No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true. This is journalism. Well done, @people.com

It’s important for ICE officers to wear masks to stop people like … [checks note] … the DHS secretary from doxxing them.

Three year extension of ACA subsidies passes in the House

Thing is, it is ABNORMAL to have a armed/masked stranger yell @ u & try to force their way into your car/home/job & steal you or your family members, & we are all programmed from an early age to identify that as A DANGEROUS CRIME So more casualties bound to happen; ICE/CBP are BEHAVING CRIMINALLY

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."

The no-angeling is already in full swing.

“God damn them all.”

I am so tired of debating “progressives” who say they appreciate how RFK Jr is going after food dyes 🤯 And his new diet guidelines telling people to eat more red meat & fat & dairy? Harmful. Plus half the guideline ‘experts’ who wrote them have financial ties to the dairy & livestock industry 😳

It will never be enough for the unholy trinity: Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and Donald Trump. After murdering a woman in her car, their next move was to storm a public high school and terrorize kids and staff. These kids will never forget this for the rest of their lives.

"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

Right after Renée Good’s disgusting murder, a ICE goon was filmed kicking her memorial candles. Absolutely vile.

"George Floyd was a drug user." "Renee Good had pronouns in her bio." They always have an excuse why someone shouldn't be alive.

A thing I wish I saw more officials in opposition to this saying, as clearly as the regime, is “this could be you, the point is that this could be you, they will absolutely murder you on a whim without hesitation and with impunity, do not imagine for one moment that you are safe”

They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal

Remember when they told us they were only interested in removing (ie censoring) books that are “obscene” and “harmful” to children? They lied. 😑

there are four states, each with Republican-controlled legislatures, that protect drivers who run over protestors

BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

Tim Walz isn’t asking Donald Trump, “Have you no decency?” because he suddenly expects Trump to develop a sense of decency. He’s asking because his own sense of decency has been so deeply offended. This is something we want in our leadership. In fact, in times like these, it is vital.

Federal agents blocked a man identifying himself as a doctor from reaching the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis, video shared with HuffPost shows www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

My buddy and bat scientist @arummel.bsky.social is studying how bat wings move in flight. Scientists often look at the 2d shapes of bat wings but her work shows it’s critical to consider the 3d shape while in flight. #SICB2026

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training. This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One. I think they know this is bad. Really bad.

The more I read about the purges of senior leadership at #NIH & elsewhere, the more I am reminded of the “Scouring of the Shire” chapter in JRR Tolkien’s book _Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.” That’s the task that we will have to pursue in 2027 and beyond: washing away the stench of Saruman.