As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

When a whistleblower’s lawyer gives you a deadline and cites the statute, that is not posturing. That is the last stop before Congress. And they just pulled the trigger.

Suddenly, the Second Amendment is an optional thing for the Republican Party.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.

Our partner @evidentmedia.org has also published a short video on our analysis here: www.youtube.com/shorts/ETSQd...

Just hours after Renee Good was shot, one member of Customs and Border Patrol’s elite tactical team on an adjacent street fired a less-lethal weapon five times in less than five minutes, with four shots aimed at the faces of protestors. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

At this point, these are just thoughts.. but Trump gave them all the reasons to have these

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

There is a larger question here about how people view and relate to their country and how this impacts people's perception of the state over a longer time horizon. Not to be melodramatic, but this is literally not the country I thought I was fighting for.

Also useful for what has reportedly happened in Portland with another DHS-related shooting.

🚨 ""News Hour" has learned senior administration officials today told members of Congress the proceeds from the sale of Venezuelan oil would not go into the U.S. treasury, but to private banks. That's according to five bipartisan congressional officials"

@bellingcat.com uses open-source intelligence—publicly available data, satellite images social media—to verify facts. They are trustworthy because they rely on transparent, verifiable open-source evidence and clearly show their methods so others can independently check their findings.

We’ve also updated our animated map of the positions of agents and vehicles during the incident here with new footage published by @cnn.com that shows the shooter closer to a white SUV prior to the shooting bsky.app/profile/bell...

A member of our Discord first spotted this detail which was then explored further by @godin.bsky.social. Discussion continues within the Server, which you can join via this link: discord.com/invite/belli...

45 seconds after the shooting, in the same video, the camera app appears to be visible on the agent’s phone as he walks away from Good’s vehicle.

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

Even if Kash Patel's FBI doesn't care, making this act of explicit cover-up advances the overall political goal of thwarting authoritarian takeover, by making the Feds look more and more and more toxic.

Also, re: the BCA pulling out: Even if its harder, the BCA (and MPD, and everyone else) should keep investigating because of POLITICS. PUBLICLY investigate, make it clear it's bc the FBI is covering things up. Hold daily pressers about progress and publicly shame the FBI.

So this isn't great, but as the FBI itself acknowledges, it cannot "take over" investigations from local actors. Which means the MPD retains the full authority to investigate a murder that happened on non-federal MN land, even if it pisses off the FBI.

We are a country whose Constitution, according to the Supreme Court, gives our own presidents immunity for crimes committed while in office, but we will prosecute presidents of other countries for alleged crimes and invade them to execute arrest warrants.

Trump campaigned on an “America First” platform. Now he wants to "run" Venezuela? 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Health care is collapsing. Housing is unaffordable. Trump should address these major crises at home and end his illegal military adventurism abroad.

"Trump has not even a fig leaf of legal authority for his attacks on Venezuela." Yep. That this is illegal is the point. As with January 6, his sexual assaults, his frauds, and every other crime, the point is to demonstrate that he is above the law. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

In addition to being illegal, immoral, and murderous, this makes us less safe as Americans both abroad and here www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

From Jay Kuo on Facebook: "So apparently, if you take a redacted Epstein files document and simply copy and paste the text into another document, you can see the entire unredacted text in many cases (not all, some I tried didn’t work.) Sleuths: Get on it before they figure out a workaround! 😆"

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Garcia: If you are a whistleblower at the FBI, at the DOJ, if you worked hard to put the files together and are seeing your work now being hidden by your own DOJ, contact the oversight committee. We have whistleblower protections.

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

Cheddar Man, 9th millennium BC (Mesolithic) found in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, UK

well i guess i’m gonna have to start smoking now

For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given. The same is true for everyone who swear their oath. Hope that clears things up.

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel. Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire. Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year. Glad everything worked out for them. How about you?

"Hey, man, what message should we push today as we deliberately deny millions of Americans their food benefits?"

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Lots of folks wonder what they can do about ICE & military on our streets. Masha Gessen is a brilliant human & thinker. Gifting their thought provoking article on this topic & more. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o... #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

When the state begins speaking in the language of purity and duty, history warns what comes next. #authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment

All these people are saying “wait to you think he’s REALLY a Nazi,” and my response is “no I think it’s more likely he’s an irony-poisoned edgelord douchebro, another group that’s absolutely ruining the fucking country.”

Last week, we co-hosted debate night bingo with Seniors for Zohran, some of our most enthusiastic and active canvassers, at a community center in Chelsea. They were joined there by a…familiar face. Tune into the final debate tonight at 7pm on NY1, WNYC or YouTube!

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.

“Are you telling me we can spend $40B on Argentina, $1B on Trump’s Qatar jet, $250M on Trump’s ballroom, $150M on Trump’s golf, $520M on Trump's National Guard deployments & $172M on Kristi Noem’s jets - but we can’t spend a penny on lowering our healthcare #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #EMSky

Friends i availed myself of this and I feel lively and fantastic, let me suggest that you do the same