When Trump testified in deposition on his NY fraud case, he estimated his net worth at $3.2B, which was wildly inflated. That was after a lifetime in business. Trump has now made $4.05B just in the past year - most of it from foreign entities. archive.ph/2026.01.31-1...

I'd love to know what's running through Texas Gov. Abbott's mind as he realizes that a Democrat just won a special election in deep-red District 9, a seat that has voted Republican for three decades.

Pam Bondi should take her money and run off to Qatar. Soon it'll be too late.

Holy shit, Democratic candidate Taylor Rehmet has won a special election in Texas for state senate in a reliably red district that the orange felon won by 17 points and has been represented by a fascist republican since 1991. This is a major flip. Something’s happening. 💙👊

I’m loving this new Texas Blue Tsunami 🌊

In her latest presser, Kristi Noem is hanging tough. Only 2 Republican Senators have signed on to impeach. Are we just going to let them get away with this? "Reining in" ICE, mandating body cams & no masking r not enough. They need 2 charge the killers of Good & Pretti. What cowards Republicans are.

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

The president of the United States had his DOJ raid the Fulton County election office and seized ballots. This is clearly a dry run for 2026. Yet, this is treated by too many in legacy media as normal. I founded Democracy Docket in 2020 because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

NEWS: Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. A thunderous rebuke against ICE’s violent campaign in Minnesota. Read the order below. Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#amlistening to Tim Walz on npr: This is an ordinary man who recognized the challenge and rose to meet it (in contrast, the GOP has to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing). His decency is all. All love to Tim Walz, Jacob Frey, and the people of Minnesota. ❤️❤️❤️

😂😂 Lindsey melting down. Blames Mike Johnson for a UNANIMOUS House vote to strip out the provision allowing Lindsey to sue the taxpayers because DOJ got his phone records and vows revenge.

To London by Train: Austerlitz, pp. 36 – 37 As usual when I go down to London on my own, a kind of dull despair stirred within me on that December morning . . . I imagined that out there in the gathering dusk I could see the districts of the city of London crisscrossed by innumerable streets and…

DOJ circulating a photo supposedly of Alex Pretti kicking the tire of an ICE car at a protest, 11 days before his killing. They should just STOP. Kicking the tire of an ICE car put a target on his back? R they trying 2 say that because he kicked the tire of an ICE car, he was seen as dangerous?

2nd #austerlitz #sentenceoftheday #amreading #literaryfiction "As usual when I go down to London on my own . . . a kind of dull despair stirred within me in that December morning." (This translation of Austerlitz is by Anthea Bell.) #wgsebald #booksky #Londoninbooks

Am Switching Out My Current Read Sebald, with your architectural prose, be my guide through the next few weeks!

#sentenceoftheday #amreading #wgsebald #austerlitz From the Introduction: "Though clearly a refugee, for many years Austerlitz was unable to discover the precise nature and contour of his exile until experiencing a visionary moment, in the late 1980s ... in Liverpool Street Station." #booksky

The president of the United States had his Justice Dept. raid an election office and seize ballots in order to cast doubt on an election he lost. Yet, this is treated by legacy media as just another normal day. I founded Democracy Docket because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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.”

Current Read, 28 January 2026 In terms of reading, 2026 has gotten off to a good start: this is my fourth book so far 2026. An elderly widow is forced to move to a "senior hotel." From the window she could see -- could see only -- a white brick wall down which dirty rain slithered, and a cast-iron…

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

Today the Senate votes on the DHS funding bill. I hope it doesn't pass.

This.

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

I did a quick scroll through the subreddit. There is one (1) post about how realistic #ThePitt is. Every other top post is about Pretti in one way or another.

Name one single good show that will be left on cbs after Colbert leaves.

Why is legacy media acting like they're on the back foot? They've just received the gift that is Minnesota and should be doing full court press. #adviceforDemocrats

Tomorrow, there should not be a single Democratic vote in favor of funding DHS. If you need to, bombard your senators with phone calls.

"The amount of drugs coming in by boat is miniscule." -- Don Winslow on Waj Ali's podcast, The Left Hook

"Since he wants his name on everything, attach his name to the killings." -- Don Winslow on Wajahat Ali's podcast, The Left Hook.

Hopeful Headline, NBC: "First Republicans Join Democrats in Pushing for Noem Impeachment" Then you read how many: TWO (Tillis and Murkowski) Not even Rand Paul???

nbc: "First Republicans Join Democrats in Pushing for Noem Impeachment" I am enthusiastic until I read there are precisely TWO. Just two? You have GOT to be kidding me.

It's beyond shocking that even in this time of deep national trauma, Republican in Congress are still playing the "own the libs" game.

Watched 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple. I was shocked that I was shocked by the level of gore. I thought I'd been de-sensitized by recent events, but I guess not. It was wild to see Ralph Fiennes prancing around to Iron Maiden. Also, Jack O'Connell: who knew this guy would shine at playing villains.

"He still thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. If that delusion doesn't trigger the 25th amendment, then WHAT POSSIBLY WILL? I'm old enough to remember a time when we thought Sarah Palin was crazy." -- Jimmy Kimmel, who has been ON FIRE since his return

Since, even after the murder of Alex Pretti, no member of the GOP is confronting Kristi Noem, then, sorry to say, it is abundantly clear that there are NO decent people in the GOP.

this is disgusting beyond what i or anyone should be able to stomach and shows what we already know: that ICE is completely unreformable and needs to be abolished. that is the moderate position

Democrats just won a special election in St. Paul by 91%. That's basically impossible and also a 20% improvement over Harris's showing in the seat. Also, it shows that deploying ICE as a voter suppression tactic probably only works against their own voters.

We will not allow this administration to turn our nation into an authoritarian regime. My response to ICE and their unconstitutional actions, and how we're preparing.

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.

"These are criminals!" Kristi Noem emphasizes. "Criminals!" Does that mean she's finally coming around? Oops, she's referring to illegal aliens. And the protesters. "ICE is here to protect Minnesota!" Uh, what.

Ironic that 3000 ICE agents were sent to Minnesota to take out dangerous criminals and deport them, but the only people they've shot so far are American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights to protest.

Greetings from Kyiv. Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I want to send a hug to everyone whose families suffered. Let’s do what we can to ensure such horrors never happen again. Let’s think of others, and care for them. 🫂

All I know is: I had to pick up two prescriptions from the pharmacy today, and the very same prescriptions that cost me $1 last year now cost $11 and $13 respectively.

. The people that currently constitute the Democrat Party are incapable of action this harsh. Witness Garland's reluctance, if not refusal to deal with trump and Biden's silence on the subject - all that counts are their lack of results! .

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NBC: "Republicans bginning 2 show concern ..." R U KIDDING ME. Why did Alex Pettrie have 2 die b4 GOP did some soul-searching. Great job, Republicans, helping Trump w/ his private militia that seems 2 b made up of dangerously unstable gun-wielding thugs. This isn't abt immigration, it's abt power.

To solve the problem (of his negative poll numbers; he doesn't give a fig about Minnesota), he sends in that shining example of truth and integrity, Tom Homan.

My wish is that the Republican Party will lose so big in the next elections that there won't even BE a Republican Party.

First of all, the fact that Kristi Noem defied and is still defying a court injunction to preserve the evidence around the Alex Pretti killing makes her a criminal, as much of a criminal as the men in that El Salvador prison that she used for a photo op.

Oh wow: AFGE (federal govt employee union) calls for the ouster of Noem and Miller. www.afge.org/publication/...