"Riot Women" is great TV.

"Many Conservatives Now Cheer the Jackbooted Thugs They Once Warned Against." My new op-ed: coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/01/many...

We dedicated much of tonight's program to an in-depth look at what Colorado is doing to prevent - and prepare for - President Trump's violent crackdown by federal forces potentially coming to Colorado. This is a thread of those reports.

"The people running the federal government — Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino and more — are monsters.... ICE and the Border Patrol are now filled with sadistic thugs. Yet many people ... were too cowardly to admit the obvious." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/monsters

"Ms. Noem and Mr. Bovino are lying in defiance of obvious truths. They are lying in the manner of authoritarian regimes that require people to accept lies as a demonstration of power."

This analysis deploying the Fraenkel framework might be single best thing written on the Pretti execution thus far. At @theunpopulist.net. Must must read: open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

There's gonna be a lot of "woulda coulda" in Colorado over the next week.

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

Holy crap. This is the most damning video yet. It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face. Murder.

The parents of Alex Pretti, killed today by federal agents in Minneapolis, live in Colorado, per the AP. Renee Good, killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis on Jan 7, grew up near Colorado Springs. apnews.com/article/immi...

Hello?

NEW: Colorado Democratic Party chair @shadmurib.bsky.social on today’s shooting in Minneapolis: “this chaos is what Trump wants: armed, masked, and unaccountable paramilitary of thugs who roam our neighborhoods, tear families apart, and kill people in broad daylight with no consequence.”

Trump has now firmly cemented his legacy as one of the worst presidents in United States history.

Stephen Miller called the victim, an ICU nurse at the VA filming ICE, a “domestic terrorist who tried to assassinate federal law enforcement.” Greg Bovino said he “wanted to massacre law enforcement.” You saw the videos. How can any Republican not call for their resignations?

You can stand with the fascists, or you can stand against the fascists. This is the time for choosing.

"This is not a shooting, or even a murder. This is a street execution." www.firewalledmedia.com/p/minneapoli...

I'm just sickened.

two years old.

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Just throwing this out there, from Colorado's Revised Statutes:

This is just straight-up assault, and should be criminally prosecuted as such. Anyone who claims otherwise is plainly lying. www.startribune.com/border-patro...

Olson: "In Minnesota, ICE Is Assaulting the Constitutional Rights of Citizens": www.cato.org/blog/ice-ver...

This is why reckless threats toward NATO are not slips or blunders; they are signals. They tell strongmen abroad that the rules no longer bind. They tell democratic partners that loyalty will not be repaid. And they tell domestic audiences that intimidation is the new diplomacy.

"I wouldn't be alive . . . if our borders had been closed." —Ayn Rand www.facebook.com/chris.sciaba...

ICE is kidnapping U.S. citizens off the streets and imprisoning them without cause. In any sane society what ICE is doing would be considered a crime and prosecuted as such. Don't pretend to be a Constitutionalist if you endorse such abuses. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Absolutely shameful. Morally, this is a kidnapping and wrongful detention of a five-year-old. This does not Make America Great Again; this drags America through the muck of moral depravity. www.fox9.com/news/5-year-...

The real "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is ever thinking Trump was anything other than a narcissistic, mercantilist, grifting, lying bully.

Balko: "This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

New Claypool-Lennon: youtu.be/ANiAuYKaMB4

The Grifter in Chief: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Every member of Congress who does not now push hard for impeachment and removal, right now, is a goddamned coward, and will be justly remembered by future generations as such.

A surprisingly large amount of the Trump presidency boils down to the attitude, "Look what you made me do."

Trump (in effect): "Because you did not give me the Nobel Peace Prize, I will now bring the world to the brink of war." www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Welcome to Trump's America. "6-month-old revived with CPR after tear gas floods family’s SUV amid ICE protests." www.kwtx.com/2026/01/18/6...

Quite a thing to see your name on the front page of the newspaper.

Let's say Trump really were a "Manchurian Candidate," secretly working for Russia's interests. How, exactly, who he act differently from the way he's now acting?

I would like to publicly thank some of the people from Team Libertarian and Team Rand telling the truth in these distressing time: Shikha Dalmia, Andy Craig, Ilya Somin, Walter Olson, Yaron Brook, Harry Binswanger. Here's Somin: reason.com/volokh/2026/...

Well here's a punch in the gut: Bo Nix broke his ankle and so is out for the rest of the playoffs. Damn. www.9news.com/article/spor...

Tip of the hat to Buffalo Bills; heck of a game.

All my life conservatives have warned about the dangers of the "jack-booted thugs." Well, here there are! And the conservatives are cheering them on! www.wcvb.com/article/twin...

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.

Okay, this is funny. (And sad.) Via fb.

So Trump took a Nobel Peace Prize that someone else earned, given to him to flatter his fragile ego so he might do what he should already have done (recognize Machado as legitimate leader of Venezuela). What a petty, narcissistic, absolute piece of shit Trump is.

Some ICE agents are going to continue to assault citizens, unless and until local prosecutors get serious about holding them accountable for their crimes. An authoritarian regime is definitionally one in which state agents are above the law.

Appropriately harsh words about ICE from leading Objectivist Harry Binswanger: hbletter.com/trumps-gesta...

Every day now I open the news with the mindset, "What fresh hell..."

I just used ChatGPT to help edit a document, and it was super-useful. BUT you have to be skeptical and use your own judgment. I found it hilarious that Chat found it necessary to edit its own suggestions (it's not very self-aware in some profound ways).

U.S. Department of Labor: "Ein Vaterland, ein Volk, ein Erbe!"

To paraphrase @tracinski.bsky.social, "The U.S. Congress is a great idea! It would be great if we had one!"