It’s obscene to have this draft dodger whose children *never* served and whose father never served and whose grandfather was kicked out of Germany for dodging service, wheezing platitudes about the unnecessary deaths he caused to other people’s children who did serve their country.

It looks like DC is selling out Nats Park for the Bruce Springsteen “No Kings” tour finale. (Except for the irrationally priced “platinum tickets.”) He did not sell it out last time he was here. This is gonna be good.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

House Speaker Mike Johnson denied a request for the late Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol. “Mike Johnson will defend a president who wants to unlawfully nationalize elections but won’t authorize a civil rights legend to lie in honor,” said NAACP President Derrick Johnson.

Scoop: "Judge" Jeanine has empanelled a grand jury in DC to indict Supreme Court Justices. Charges to be determined later.

Hello, I’m from the government, and I’d like to see what it’s going to take to get you and your community into one of our lovely new ICE immigrant detention facilities! www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

an in kind donation from Brendan Carr to @jamestalarico.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

A warrant “every time”? So unfair! So, uh, legally required.

Friends, please track down and watch “The Apostle,” a film Duvall worked for many years to get made and will truly blow you away.

I want to weep for Ilia Malinin. Seems like such a good kid. Just wasn’t his day. Man that was tough to watch. #quadgod #2030olympics

Feel obligated to report that I am in The Epstein Files. A reference in someone’s resume to a story I wrote in 2017 about sex trafficking and Backpage. My career is now complete.

A live look at the Turning Point All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show...

With the cuts at the Post, had to talk w legendary @tomjackmanwp.bsky.social about the importance of covering local crime and courts. I chased his stories for years — nobody did it better. wtop.com/local/2026/0...

Democracy dies of heatstroke. What a tool Bezos is--imagining having that kind of money and still being afraid of Dear Leader. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Jeff Bezos said this in Feb. 2019, when his words often gave us reassurance that he had everyone's back, even after several years of Trump I. What happened?

What an atrocious, disgusting act by Bezos, Will Lewis and Matt Murray. Crushed for all my friends and colleagues wrongly laid off today, sad for all Post readers who lose so much quality journalism.

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

It's excruciating to watch Jeff Bezos dangle massive layoffs over the immensely talented Local and Sports staffs of the @washingtonpost. The Local staff has been steadily reduced for years, despite constantly great reporting, and Sports is the reason I buy the paper. #SavethePost

In case you’re wondering why Trump & his lackeys always lie about numbers, there is a perverse and effective logic behind it. Lying works for them. Watch Angela Lansbury explain it in my favorite scene from The Manchurian Candidate. Her resemblance to Susie Wiles makes it even better.

Breaking news: Top Justice Department officials have stripped Ed Martin of most of his expansive responsibilities, sidelining the staunch Trump ally from many of the controversial investigations he has championed.

More like Jelly Cracker amirite? #GRAMMYs

Just lie. If the truth doesn’t reflect well on you, just lie. A strategy that has spread widely in this administration.

If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss

The few interesting things about Melania—like why she knew Jeffrey Epstein before Donald, what her “modeling” career really entailed, her "arrangement" with Donald, what she thinks about Donald’s constant cheating, and if she really hates Ivanka and Christmas—are omitted from the film.

NEW: Howard Lutnick, the billionaire who serves as President Trump’s commerce secretary, planned a visit to Epstein’s island in 2012. Lutnick previously claimed that he was so revolted by Epstein that he had cut ties with him years earlier. 1/6 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

This appears to be a very friendly email from Melania to Ghislaine Maxwell:

Brutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp: www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

Oh boy, the DOJ's civil rights division is going to investigate the Alex Pretti killing. Who cares? There is no chance that this will be a fair or thoughtful investigation. and we all know the outcome. They don't do the job, regardless of the administration, and haven't for years.

Statement from Don Lemon's attorney: "This unprecedented attack on the 1st Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand. Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court"

Man, the liberal DOGE in 2029 is gonna be wild. (If the country still exists.)

HUGE news! This is about a Trump admin effort to arrest thousands of screened and vetted refugees in Minnesota and fly them to Texas to be jailed and then interrogated. After the interrogation is over, people are being dumped on the street and told to find their own way back.

An extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

Just a great timely social commentary from Springsteen: youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

#savethepost The Post sports section has been so great for so long…

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.

Yet again, Elon Musk is pushing the insanely racist Great Replacement Theory that has directly inspired several mass murders from his fellow white supremacists. The richest man in the world who controls a massive media platform is *repeatedly* pushing this garbage and it should be a global scandal.

RIP Bobby. The heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own.

A grieving wife's statement shows the truth about a truly good human whose light was snuffed out by our government. A person government officials have done nothing but viciously and dishonestly defame. Trump has unleashed an epidemic of cruelty. I posit the best way to honor Renee is to find a cure.

This is some of the most closely held data because anyone with any functioning braincells knows that it moves markets. The efforts that are normally gone through to make sure it is kept secret are legendary. And Trump just tweeted it out. Absolutely insane.

Anyone who watched the Park Police killing of Bijan Ghaisar as he slowly drove away from them in Va. knows how the ICE killing of Renee Good is going to end with the DOJ. Very similar shootings. Video in thread.

We are now in that time of year where college students have two weeks with nothing to do, because of their absurdly long breaks, and so they flop around in pajama pants and uggs and take up all the good spots in the coffee houses.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Looking forward to seeing how much Maduro is charged for his pardon. Should be higher than the Honduran president, but who knows.

Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ok how much did the military lose. The USPS is not a business

What if Mar-a-Lago was the real Comet Pizza basement all along?