EXCLUSIVE: Members of Congress went on a five-day junket ostensibly about curbing China’s influence. The itinerary included helping Nayib Bukele launch his country’s own National Prayer Breakfast … and private meetings with U.S. prayer breakfast organizers. Rep. Jared Huffman is calling it out…

Yesterday, part of our legal team joined in on oral arguments with our coalition partners in two cases at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. These cases are challenging state laws in Louisiana and Texas that require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom.

Well I’m not a senator, so my powers of calling it into question are pretty much limited to writing and protest. But you could make an issue of it on the US Senate floor every legislative day.

Democrats and Republicans negotiated bills to keep funding ICE, the rest of Homeland Security, the State Department, Defense, and more. Democratic Party appropriators said today they've gotta vote yes because their no votes wouldn't do anything.

Huh. Wall Street’s freaking out about Trump detonating global stability in pursuit of Greenland. Turns out fascism IS an affordability issue.

If only he’d had better training he might not have got caught.

Does anyone watching the violent culture of ICE agents in MLPS, or reading their fascist recruitment ads, think the issue is lack of training? So why are Dems ready to keep funding this monster, with a few "reforms"? Can an opposition meet the moment? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Schumer and Jeffries are ill-equipped to lead in the 21st century; it’s time for the party to find leaders who can.

The vast majority of congressional Democrats voted to fund this.

Good news for Democratic Party leaders insisting on focusing on affordability…

this is pretty much the only 1950s aesthetic i’d like to bring back

it is -10 here today. I was supposed to go do a volunteer shift standing outside loading groceries into people’s cars to deliver to families stuck at home. just got a call not to come in because they have too many volunteers already. if you were wondering if the cold would stop us.

This shit is why I ignore Dem fundraising emails now.

Holy shit, when are the Oscars?!?

Imagine thinking that Chuck Schumer’s credibility as a leader rests on what happens on Election Day rather than every day until then.

The Bulwark seems to think that the Senate Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate has no power.

Minneapolis 01/18/26- Anti ICE protestors gather in 10 degree weather outside the Whipple building. Barricades have been added overnight, which the sheriffs dept say is for protesters safety.

Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives

A third immigrant held at Camp East Montana has died, reportedly by suicide. Victor Manuel Díaz was detained in Minnesota. He is the sixth migrant to die since Jan. 1 in ICE detention. My story: www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

As @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social and I recently discussed, this is the problem of other minds. Because cognition is done through hidden states and language is an only a very partial extrusion of thought, we can't know for sure that other minds are as real as ours.

THIS is Minneapolis. Despite the awful two weeks we've had, we still had an art sled rally at Powderhorn Park. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wavj...

Spot the difference

Democratic reluctance to use the greatest leverage point they have -- the power of the purse -- extends far beyond ICE...

and “more more people are raising their hands, asking to help out, resist the ICE raids” — all “despite the fact that it’s clearly a dangerous behavior.”" www.salon.com/2026/01/14/r... @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social

"In other words, if you’re just near someplace where #ICE is taking out a targeted baby or other suspected domestic terrorist, they’re entitled to ask you to prove who you are. “Validate” your identity. @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social

Hard agree. I'm increasingly just zero sympathy for the cowardly chauvinists who can't handle places where lots of different people get along together.

Museveni’s Militarised Elections: A Gen Z Reckoning #Uganda #UgandaElection Paula Cristina Roque africanarguments.org/2026/01/muse...

I have no idea how @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social writes TFN week in, week out without losing his mind, but I’m glad he does. You will be, too, as it means you can just read one source of unimaginable horror without needing to scan the rest of them … open.substack.com/pub/thefucki...

if you vote for another cent for this you are a collaborator. this is a litmus test for every politician for the rest of my life

The Bucks County Sheriff's Office is no longer assisting ICE's cruel agenda thanks to Bucks County community members coming together to demand better from their elected officials. Together, we are powerful.

My wife left her bag on the MTA yesterday and today… it was at lost and found! Somebody actually went through the trouble. Given how absolute shit things are, this was an unexpected kindness. I credit the good feelings engendered by the Mamdani administration. :) Also the good people at the MTA.

In like six months or so we’re gonna have some wild undercover investigative pieces from journalists who got jobs as ICE agents huh

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

"Not only is removing paywalls for public-records-based reporting not financial suicide, it’s good business," @johncusack.bsky.social tells @columjournreview.bsky.social. Read more about the importance of dropping paywalls:

Kelly posts this literally the same day he and just a handful of Democrats voted to fund the work of AG Pam Bondi's Justice Department: Epstein coverup Legal defenses of Trump actions Legal rationales for Trump's Venezuela attacks Prosecutions of Adam Schiff, Letitia James, and Jim Comey

my memories of 2020 are watching police start riots with my own eyes and then going home and watching every member of the city government call them violent radicals and lie about very specific details that i had witnessed

Every over-the-top statement from Miller, Homan, etc. should be heard as "this was supposed to be easy, I imagined everyone cowing in fear, it's very frustrating that they're not." Minnesota protestors aren't just helping their community, they're bogging down the regime, protecting other cities too.

Trump Eases Up on Iran, Venezuela; Not So Much on Minnesota, Greenland open.substack.com/pub/thefucki... @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social #DelcyRodriguez. "Her security chief, Diosdado Cabello, who’s under indictment here 4 drug-running of cocaine (not fentanyl), suggested...the regime won’t work

Some Rs were worried about this if Trump pardoned every J6er, and even some (Hawley recently) will wince and say the violent criminals shouldn't have gotten pardoned. But they were, so nobody takes Stephen Miller very seriously when he says citizens are being mean and unfair to ICE.

No reason not to now that the U.S. takes no prisoners.

I have a piece coming tomorrow at @liberalcurrents.com about how it’s time for major accounts to get off X. Major celebrity, governmental, and news accounts are keeping each other there by justifying one another’s presence.

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LOL … ICE wants more video of their raids… …and the GOP is treating money for it as a concession.

ICE was a mistake. No one else should have to pay for it.