“The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…” That was last year. I can only imagine where the US reputation is now. The fastest destruction of a nation’s reputation in history?

Amy Klobuchar voted for one of Trump's nominees the day after a woman in her state was murdered by ICE.

Cops are taught to avoid shooting into cars, for all the obvious reasons, but ICE has shot NINE people in cars since September. Great reporting from @nlanard.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They're trying to escalate. They're trying to start something so they can put it down violently. Why else would she say stuff like this?

The NYT does stenography, leaving it entirely to the reader to bring the essential context: That he has no morality. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

This is correct.

WIRED has updated this guide in light of the protests happening in Minneapolis, NYC, and beyond.

I wish people would tune in to an hour or so of right-wing media a week. If you don't see how you and I are framed incessantly as terrorists-in-formation (at best), you can't understand what is going on, and what plan for what might happen next. You can't do your work as a citizen.

Talking to Indivisible's @ezralevin.bsky.social right now about how to organize and resist ICE and state sanctioned terrorism. Join us now. thelefthook.substack.com

Imagine if instead of "pressing" Trump about the killing of Renee Good, they had asked what Stephen Miller told Greg Bovino the rules of engagement should be and if that explains why Bovino and so many of his goons assault peaceful Americans? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

BINGO from Janet Mills: My problem with Susan Collins is that she never does the right or hard thing the first time when it’s needed most – only when it serves her politically – and we always pay the price. Once again, she is a day late and a dollar short.

"We have elected a man who's just so sick that he can't have anybody around him who gives him sensible advice, and he has people around him who are as unwell as he is or...who are just so beholden to the grift." George Conway on Trump and his inner circle of grifters and sycophants.

Insane.

Reminder that today’s events, and the ensuing protests, are the perfect excuse for bad actors everywhere to infiltrate, agitate, and stoke & commit further violence. Like this literal psychopath who already got away with murder. Please be careful out there.

This is a test for Democrats right now. If you really want to grab the mantle of leadership and emerge as a frontrunner, you have to speak out forcefully and against ICE... Right now. No centrist mealy-mouthed bullshit.

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

If someone is corrupt lying murderous scum and you do not describe them as such, if you treat them with any sort of deference, if you pull your punches...you are aiding and abetting them, passively defending them, raising the likelihood that they will commit more crimes, harm more of us.

AOC: ICE has less accountability than virtually any law enforcement agency in the U.S., yet they are some of the most well-funded, operating with impunity—and we just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood in the street.

I lived in Soviet Russia in 1981. Yes, this is waht state-regime media looks like.

The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago. The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

ice agents simply aren't trained well enough to be on the street. they are a genuine danger to citizens

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

The Trump administration has released less than 1% of the files in its possession.

“It would be fine to annex sovereign territory of NATO allies if food prices were lower” is not the banger messaging Democratic lawmakers and their consultants seem to think. And their refusal to avail themselves of the legal means available to interfere with Trump’s expansionism is indefensible.

Just yesterday DHS was taunting us on social media. Now they've come to our city and killed a legal observer. How much more can we take? We are being invaded and shot by our own government for the purposes of generating content for a mob of Nazis on the internet.

This is blatantly illegal. A president can’t go into the oil business and then decide where to spend the money. We are completely untethered from our founding document with a lawless president and a Republican Congress which has abdicated all Constitutional authority.

Trump didn't tell Congress, but of course DID tell..

Read the whole thread. Gregg is right. It’s NOT a question of “experts disagree.” I’ve been working in medicine, medical journalism or global health for 32 years & know a LOT of health professionals—I do not know a *single one* who supports RFK Jr’s dangerous dismantling of the US vaccine system.

I believe the original sin Democrats, and especially the Biden administration, made after January 6th was viewing January 6th as the *end* of something, rather than the *beginning* of something. My post on how to remember this somber anniversary for democracy: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-...

Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.

January 6th participant: You can't gaslight me. I was there. I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down and hit his head and his back. So don't be telling me it wasn't violent. Don't come to me with that ever again.

Jared Kushner has somehow found a place at Coalition of the Willing press conference with Scholz, Zelensky, Macron, Starmer and Witkoff. Kushner has no official position in the US government.

Congrats to the self-anointed peace president. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇

"Fear grips Caracas as a new wave of repression is unleashed in Venezuela. Venezuela's government launched a far-reaching crackdown after Maduro's ouster, detaining journalists and civilians and sending armed gangs to the streets." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

In new essay I talk about how Trump-Witkoff-Kushner are approaching the world the way the New York real estate families approach their businesses, and in their titanic idiocy and blinding greed are guaranteeing we become less prosperous, less safe, less free: www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-ridicu...

Kelly: This letter or anything that Hegseth says or does to me is in no way going to affect the way I do my job. His option is he can continue with this kind of bullshit or he can go take a hike. That's his options.

Thomas Massie tonight says DOJ is citing laws that don’t apply to hide key parts of the Epstein files: “They’re still trying to protect billionaires, politically connected people, and trying to obscure the involvement of our own intelligence agencies.”

J6ers: Where Are They Now? essential recap of recitivists open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Worth noting: ABC World News Tonight offered a full report on the J6 anniversary, including one rioter’s tearful apology to police, a statement from Pence and a note that the WH website today repeated “the lie” that the election was stolen. NBC Nightly News didn’t cover the anniversary at all

24 Republicans could end this

When I invade Venezuela and the number one trending topic is still "Epstein Files"

#January6 Rupert Murdoch allowed his employees to lie to the American people about the 2020 election results. #NeverForget The Murdochs and their employees at #FoxNews contributed to the insurrection. Murdoch's US empire: WSJ, NY Post, Fox N*ws, FS1, Fox, Harper Collins, Tubi, Realtor.com...

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

Trump is insane. His inner circle is insane. They want to burn the world so they can loot everyone else’s wealth, feel like big tough guys, and hurt all the groups they despise. But the thing breaking the whole world is how everyone feels obligated to avoid stating this fact directly.

You may find the answer by digging deeply into the appeal of a single model: Ideology on the left, ideology of the right, professional journalism calling balls and strikes in the happy middle. pressthink.org/2010/06/clow... In the competition for "influence" that was the plan. Now it's in ruins.

Five years ago today, we named specific Coloradans who stoked election rigging claims and tried to overthrow the election. “What those Coloradans did, leading up to today’s insurrection, is on them. Whether the rest of us on Colorado remember what they did, is on us.” This aired Jan 6, 2021.

Brazil succeeded in holding coup plotters accountable. "If — when the glass has been swept away & the trials are over — those who empowered, guided, mobilized, and legitimized [the riots] are never held to account, then... the conditions for repetition remain intact.” jacobin.com/2026/01/janu...

This year’s flu has caused the most doctors’ visits in almost 30 years. It’s not too late to get vaccinated.