Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

We finally know what happened to DOJ's (frivolous) misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg: It was transferred by Chief Justice Roberts from the D.C. Circuit to Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeff Sutton, and Sutton dismissed it in a ... direct ... memorandum and order just two weeks later:

Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors

They went from deriding safe spaces and demanding fierce debate to insisting the entire academy be their safe space from hearing anything about race and gender

Look at these three masked thugs, each one aiming their guns directly at a woman in a car. I can't imagine actual policing protocols would permit such a thing but ICE is aiming guns at literally everyone now.

"The governors of Florida and Texas both recently announced plans to block public educational institutions from hiring workers on H-1Bs. This will be disastrous for some of these states’ strongest and most prestigious institutions."

Arrests by DHS are almost uniformly found to be bogus and unwarranted. Minnesota judges have rejected nearly all the feds push to detain immigrants they seized there. Feds lost 60 of 61 cases reviewed by MSNOW, with govt accused of trying to remove people lawfully in US. www.ms.now/news/minneso...

very fun to think that there are at least four votes for "the president can unilaterally rewrite a constitutional amendment"

i am happy to fight for freedom with the libertarians but also, we don’t really need to *talk*

The Trump admin already failed to get an arrest warrant on him—magistrate judge refused so DOJ went to appeals court, prompting that letter from the chief district judge torching the DOJ, and appeals court denied too—so God knows what this new one is, or if they even bothered to get a warrant.

This is a cover up of a murder, led by our own federal government.

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

“You can’t have guns,” he says.. after they murdered a nurse in the street. They never say that after school shootings.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Warnock: "You can't ask me to be an accomplice to the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. It's to make a butchery of my conscience."

RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war? RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!

States are not required to enforce federal law under the “anti-commandeering doctrine” of the Tenth Amendment. trib.al/ggW0YbO “Trump could not have designed a better statement to convince Judge Menendez that Operation Metro Surge is meant to coerce policy changes."

Rep. Veronica Escobar on a homicide in a Texas immigrant detention facility: "I've learned nothing else from DHS, and I think what's also very telling is DHS tried to deport the witnesses to this homicide"

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

here's a video from this afternoon in Eden Prairie MN of ICE agents camping out as a bus stop. Again, this is terrorism.

A google search pulled up this from CNN: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

An investigation by DHS underlings of the secretary who already said the officers did nothing wrong is not credible, period. www.ms.now/news/no-civi...

we’re right about ai too

It was an execution.

And I genuinely, truly and non-trollingly, understand concerns about threats to officers in question, but in every single other law enforcement shooting I've covered, authorities name the individual(s) involved. This is just the baseline of public accountability.

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

It would be really difficult for them to do it. @dominicervolina.com glued together the three videos here. When done that way it would be really obvious is one was not like the others.

DHS is reviewing body cam footage of Alex Pretti shooting. If only we could trust that video, but the administration already proved it's willing to doctor images. #AlexPretti #bodycameras #ICE #BorderPatrol www.jezebel.com/alex-pretti-...

Keep saying "it could have been you." Yes it could have. You don't have to carry a firearm or be fighting law enforcement officers, you don't have to actively resist arrest to take an ass-whoopin', and then get shot. So, yes... it could have been you. Shut up.

wait they removed Bovino? maximum respect to the people of Minneapolis: you did this. power to the people forever

ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

On CNN, Anderson Cooper using the sentence "That was a lie" over and over tonight regarding the words of Noem, Miller and Bovino.

So simply naming someone is doxxing, but taking photos and license plate numbers to create a database of the opposition for government stalking and harassment purposes is not? Naming someone is not doxxing them, and moving them to another city to kill more is conspiracy against rights.

Someone on here was calling for a National day of mourning for those k1lled by ice and those k1lled in ice concentration camps, and I think that's a good idea.

Internationally, Aaron. People in the EU know their names. They know their stories. Alex and Renee, Keith, and all of those hurt and killed by ICE. THIS is the shot heard around the world.

JUDGE: “It concerns me that Attorney General Bondi’s letter cites three things that are the subject of pending litigation before this court,” referring to the District of Minnesota. "Is the executive trying to achieve a goal through force that it can't achieve through the Courts?"

to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”

Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly

any pundit or politician who ever unironically said “the woke mind virus” is a) real and b) a problem, should be yeeted. we do not need your opinion anymore. you had a chance, you showed us youre a moron and now its time for you to slink away

This is actually one of the most troubling ICE stories I’ve seen recently — an eye-popping sign of how corrupt, broken, and racist the internal culture is:

Wrote about him in TNR, prior to Renee Good. Remarkably similar incident. He’d just dropped off his kid. They rushed his car. He tried to flee. Cops then claimed he tried to run them over, despite video evidence to the contrary. Should’ve been a warning.

Local authorities in Minnesota say they have been impeded from investigating how federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen. It is the second time in three weeks that the Department of Homeland Security has blocked local investigators from reviewing evidence.

In Minneapolis, federal agents attempting to stop U.S. citizens from monitoring them have broken observers’ car windows, doused them with pepper spray, and shoved protesters to the ground. Now, a second civilian has been killed. www.newyorker.com/news/dispatc...

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945