Sen. Gallego: Trump is suing your agency for $10 billion. Where would that $10 billion come from? Bessent: The general fund Sen. Gallego: So, taxpayers. Bessent: Yes

Chris Murphy: “He’s telling you he wants to federalize national elections — he's telling you that he thinks he won Minnesota & Georgia & California, that the 2020 elections were rigged— He’s trying to rewrite history & trying to make sure that nobody other than him & his allies win in 2026 & 2028”

Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social, el cantautor más político que se enfrentó con Margaret Thatcher y ahora se atreve contra Trump y el ICE www.eldiario.es/1_c5c97b?utm...

always a treat to hear @billybragg.bsky.social's steadfast belief in and support for the world's oldest democracy on @thecurrent.org

The GOP’s new Voter Suppression bill, the so-called “SAVE Act,” would disenfranchise many of the 69 million women who took their husbands’ last names, as explained in my summary. It proposes *no penalties* for erroneous voter purges but potential *prison time* for erroneous registrations. WTF?! 1/

France’s Foreign Ministry owns Elon Musk in this response:

Have you heard? There’s a new bill that makes it harder for millions of eligible Americans to vote. Join me and @standupamerica.bsky.social in urging Congress to vote NO on the SAVE Act:

I’ve written an editorial for @consequence.bsky.social revealing the inspiration behind my song ‘City of Heroes’ and reflecting on the role that music can play in the struggle against oppression consequence.net/2026/02/bill...

Rs are trying to push thru the “SAVE Act” creating a bureaucratic nightmare for new voters (eg college students), married women, & voters trying to re-register (after being wrongly purged by the GOP) or trying to fix their registration if GOP operatives switch it w/o their consent (as has happened).

In France, a raid on the offices of Europe's leading porn-pusher, Elon Musk. Now watch how he musters Trump deputies to scream, yell and threaten the Europeans. Elon Musk’s X offices in Paris were raided by French and European investigators on Tuesday, following a public outcry over how its Grok

Even if Trump hadn't tried to overturn the 2020 election leading to the 1/6 insurrection at the Capitol, his statement would be harrowing. Given that history, this is terrifying.

A win for the Green Party at the Gorton & Denton by-election on 26th February would halt the Reform Party's momentum and send a clear message to Keir Starmer. Want to help? Chip in here: donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/parliamentar...

I spoke to the Christian Science Monitor about my song of solidarity for the resistors of Minneapolis www.csmonitor.com/USA/2026/013...

The GOP blames women for undermining them on issues like abortion & ICE & thus hopes to pass the “SAVE Act,” which will make it harder for married women who changed their last names to vote. But they want you to think it’s about “election integrity”. 1/31/26 #HandmaidsTale 1/

ICE isn’t invincible. Rep Dan Goldman and I dropped the ICE OUT Act to end their blanket immunity.

Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a Texas state Senate election in a reliably Republican district that Trump won by 17 points in 2024

Whoa!

Interesting …

CITY OF HEROES, my song celebrating the courage of the people of Minneapolis defending their community from Tяump's goons, is now available to stream on numerous platforms via this link: bbragg.lnk.to/cityofheroes

My song of resistance for the people of Minneapolis - St Paul is now available to stream on these platforms bbragg.lnk.to/cityofheroes

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

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Canadian friends: today is *the very last day* to buy a membership in the NDP and have a say in who the party's next leader will be. Only members can vote in March. On climate and economic justice, we need a strong third party. Don't sit it out! act.lewisforleader.ca/become-an-nd...

This is the language of ICE right here in the UK

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

This is like how the Catholic Church passed known pedophiles from parish to parish

"Separate analyses by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, CBS News and other organizations all concluded that the videos contradict the Trump administration’s description of the killing." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...

Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Kristi Noem. "Kristi Noem and her department's latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately."

Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

Solidarity with the forces of resistance in Minneapolis as they stage a day of action in protest at the harrying of their city by Tяump's goon army www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

Robots to watch your kids. Sounds like his kind of parenting.

It's a sign of the times that callousness is now dressed up as intellectualism. That empathy is framed as being as morally problematic as prejudice. That bigotry and hatred is just honesty. That solidarity is treason.

I've reported on this kind of thing happening before — in Hungary

BREAKING: Whistleblower disclosures reveal a formal ICE policy to ignore the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.  Every American should be terrified by this secret ICE policy authorizing its agents to kick down your door & storm into your home. 1/

Mamdani: "I'm trying to inspire amongst New Yorkers a sense of faith and belief in what government can do, and it's very hard to do that when they look at masked agents and see them as another face of a similar government"

ICE detained Purple Heart veteran William Vermie for hours at the Whipple Federal Building. He says he’s speaking out because he’s white, he has privilege and if he doesn’t use it to stand up for others, who will? That is what solidarity looks like.

All this Trump stuff was good when it was targeting other people, people I don't like, explains House of Lords member Daniel Hannan. But now it's targeting me. That's insane!

Freedom is a Collective Endeavour: some thoughts on Minneapolis open.substack.com/pub/braggb/p...

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

I'd pretty much given up on understanding skiffle when Billy Bragg published his excellent book on the subject, Roots, Radicals & Rockers. I'd call it essential reading for anyone interested in any kind of 20th century pop.

BONUS EPISODE // Music greats Jamie Cullum and @billybragg.bsky.social join us at Anti Social Camp for two special live conversations about songwriting, collaboration and empathy. Platforms: linktr.ee/sodajerker Direct: sodajerker.com/bonus-jamie-...

70 years ago Lonnie Donegan hit the UK charts with Rock Island Line, kicking off the skiffle craze that inspired the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, Cream, Led Zepellin, Pink Floyd etc I'll be discussing skiffle with Mark Radcliffe on BBC Radio 2 Weds 14th Jan at 9pm. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

Some thoughts on the struggle against might is right open.substack.com/pub/braggb/p...

This is the ninth shooting by ICE since September (I did not know that). All of them were into vehicles.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

When historians attempt to analyse the wreckage of American democracy, they'll see Jan 6 as the moment that the brakes failed. It's clear that, in the days that followed, many tried to bring Trump's wreckless momentum to a halt, but when they hit the pedal, there was nothing there.

Trump now literally plagiarizing from the neocon playbook on Iraq: