There will be people who are understandably desperate to hear this, but it's important to be clear-eyed about Rubio himself and what the Trump administration is doing. 🧵

OK everyone who is making fun of Kristi Noem over the blanket thing has OBVIOUSLY never had a toddler who was elevated to a Cabinet position

“The closure of the Washington Post’s Ukraine bureau is a major blow to coverage of Europe’s largest war since WWII.” Business Ukraine editor Peter Dickinson joined Kyiv’s Телеканал Київ24 as the Washington Post dramatically reduces its international correspondent network

New START ended in a very Trump way: 1. Expiry deadline passed with nothing from the White House, everyone assumed it was over. 2. Anonymous sources claiming that Kushner and Witkoff were cooking up a stopgap "handshake" deal in Abu Dhabi. 3. Trump Truth Social post confirming(?) it's over.

Every American needs to watch this:

The world factbook was an invaluable resource in asylum petitions—a place where the federal government acknowledged in writing that, for example, Tibetans face systematic repression in China. I don’t like to have it vanish.

I heavily pushed @vermontgmg.bsky.social's testimony on CBP's long-term criminality. Here, he lists 6 ways to fix DHS: 1) Basic Uniform and Identification Standards 2) Use of Force 3) Enforcement Standards and Restrictions 4) Restore DHS’s “Sensitive Locations” Restrictions 1/2

Amazing (From @atrupar.com )

It is surprisingly inexpensive and relatively easy to rewild cities and to restore soft, permeable surfaces. Facilitating “sponge city” strategies is a key approach to mitigating the urban heat island effect and adapting to climate change. Japan's shrinking cities would be an ideal testing ground.

The transcript of the MN hearing where an AUSA said “This job sucks” is remarkable for more reasons than that. It’s a searing portrait of a crisis perpetrated by depraved & oblivious high-level officials. Read it all. ... 1/7 www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Y’all didn’t realize they were using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a mission statement, not a salutary motto

Don't agree with Cato Inst on much. But: Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

They’re going to come after Pro Publica and its journalists now

The Judge: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency," the judge wrote. “And the rule of law be damned.”

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

Since I'm pretty sure this administration doesn't realize this document exists, it would be worth downloading the 2020 Intelligence Community Assessment on foreign threats to the U.S. elections before it disappears, which includes the following finding: www.dni.gov/index.php/ne...

This is really big news and is the result of years of careful, steady work. We will soon have over 80 Radnote solar powered cellular wireless radiation sensors in place in Ukraine, forming the largest independent monitoring network of its kind. Huge thanks to all of our supporters worldwide!

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

So my connect the dots here is that there will be some allegation that there was foreign interference in the voting — Hugo Chavez, Italian satellites, etc. — (hence why DNI is involved), making it a nat sec issue that they will use to justify doing something crazy/illegal in Nov

Some people are questioning whether this is AI. One way to be certain is to geolocate the video, as AI still struggles to accurately recreate really world locations with enough fidelity to be successfully geolocated. The first question is what's the best information about where this was filmed?

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

We need more veterans to stand up like him.

Okay, so this is an authoritarian playbook trick, once the evidence is overwhelming say everyone needs to wait for the official investigation then either fix it or attack it when its completed. Same shit Russian pulled with MH17 and chemical attacks in Syria, very predictable.

Exactly right, and therefore important not to give credit for an investigation of an obvious atrocity. Appropriate responses are apologies, resignations, firings, impeachments. The individuals who killed people should be tried before a judge and jury.

Glad to hear it.

There's so much good in people.

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

social media is awful but dr. starbird always has a great and rigorous explanation as to how it works and how disinformation takes root

I saw this during the hk protests too, it is reflexive and weird

This is absurd to put all of those CBP agents involved in the murder of Alex Pretti back onto the streets already. They pose a very real, proven danger to the community.

Keep this thread handy.

I'm seeing people mistakenly claim the gun photo was posted before today, but its just how Google sometimes dates images based on the original date of the thread its posted in, not when it was posted. The photo was posted an hour ago in this 5 day old thread www.reddit.com/r/fivethirty...

"Pretti was a U.S. citizen, born in Illinois. Like Good, court records showed he had no criminal record and his family said he had never had any interactions with law enforcement beyond a couple of traffic tickets." {gift link} wapo.st/3LxWTQV

Things that last: My father purchased this drafting set when he was in college in the late 1940s. He gave it to me when I began studying architecture in college in the 1970s. I've used it ever since, most recently this week. It has an unparalleled solidity and feel and perfect weight.

Things that last: My mother knitted these socks for me when I was in college, sometime in the late 1970's. That means they're about 50 years old. I still wear them, but only during holiday season. They're the embodiment of maternal care and skill.

re: carney's speech, the bright side for europe is that they've already got a union, a currency, a parliament--all the mechanisms of cooperation other than the shooty kind

I wrote an article about Japan's traditional farmhouses -- minka -- and why they're important. The Wisdom of Wood: Why Japan’s Old Farmhouses Matter More Than Ever allabout-japan.com/en/article/1...

This is an excellent explainer. 👀 quote: “In rough terms, the workforce of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents commit crimes at an equal or even greater rate PER CAPITA than the population of undocumented immigrants do in the United States.”

Tone here is very much me explaining to my toddler that the fish fingers can't be put back together once I've cut them up.

Facial recognition failure: Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said the app's results are a “definitive” determination of someone's immigration status. www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

A source confirms to me that this disturbing letter from Trump to the Norwegian PM is real.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

The administration needs to be asked directly how many J6ers, and anyone convicted of seditious conspiracy, are now ICE agents with a badge and a gun.

"The veteran said he saw volunteering as an ICE observer as another way of serving his country. 'It’s the most American thing to do: not to be scared of people trying to scare you... This is a pivotal moment we’ll be asked about by our kids, "Where were you?" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Population decline in Japan: 560,000 men and 530,000 women reached adulthood as of Jan. 1 since a year earlier, the second-lowest on record after crashing to 1.06 million in 2024. The data includes foreign residents living in the country for over 3 months www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01...

A beautiful short video about the environment-healing culture of Edo-period Japan.