Text messages between Bannon and Epstein in 2018 appear to reference Epstein's contact with Trump's WH operations director. "Madeline Westerhut. very funny. kneepads. doing Gods work." www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Reid Hoffman, reminding us that it was Elon Musk who alerted the American people that there was a pedophile in the Oval Office. 😳👇

Oh look, it's Melania emailing Ghislaine, praising a profile of Jeffrey Epstein, and signed Love, Melania. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

The DOJ is now removing some Epstein Files documents it has just released.

BROOKE ROLLINS: Don't call a $12 billion payment to farmers a bailout BROOKE ROLLINS MOMENTS LATER: The American dream is not getting help from the government

Kari Lake promotes Trump on Voice of America. Does that break the law? www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...

The Trump Adm is arresting Don Lemon and overcharging disruptive protesters at Cities Church to posture as if it’s protecting Christians. It’s not. DHS is staging disruptive ops at other churches, at least one of which has had to go online. ... 1/4

Fucking outrageous Carroll hasn’t been paid by her rapist

"I don't really care, do U?"

2022: Massachusetts enacts a 4% tax on millionaires. Critics predict catastrophe. 2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty. Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty: www.qasimrashid.com/p/fixing-the...

Any criminal charges over 2020 election in Georgia would seem barred by statute of limitations. More political theater. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

🚨 The Senate has agreed to a deal to vote on 5/6 full appropriations bills and replace the DHS funding measure with a 2-week stopgap bill, per multiple sources. That gives time to negotiate on the Dem demands for ICE and CBP restraints.

Smart

They won’t investigate the murders of Good or Pretti, but they’ll investigate fake 2020 election fraud. www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

In Minneapolis, ICE was seen abducting or disappearing a man who was holding a baby in his arms.

Across the U.S., farmers are struggling. Prices for nearly every major crop are below what it costs to grow them. Farmers in Mississippi are perhaps worse off than farmers in the rest of the country. Rice is one of their biggest crops, and almost no one is buying.

Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying that she believes Noem is attempting to "mislead the American public” about the fatal shooting of a 37 year-old protester in Minneapolis.

A growing number of Republican lawmakers are breaking ranks and expressing criticism, and anger, over the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents.

He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it. Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.

Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, Gun Owners of America, and Second Amendment Foundation have all called for an investigation of the Pretti shooting. The NRA took a different tack, though.

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

This is a MUST-READ affidavit. This eyewitness to Alex Pretti’s murder — who is too scared to even go home because she doesn’t trust federal agents — directly refutes what the feds are saying happened today:

"OK, quick follow up, do you realize when you say locking up a five-year-old coming home from preschool is 'making America a safer place' that normal people will think you're an insanely racist piece of shit?"

Nehls: I would like to quickly address the police officers from January 6th. And I can tell you that the fault does not lie with Donald Trump. It lies with the US capitol leadership team. Fanone: *Coughs: Go fuck yourself*

Jack Smith: "The people who assaulted police officers and were convicted after trial in my view and I think in the view of the judges who sentenced them to prison are dangerous to their community. Some of these people have already committed crimes against their communities again."

Dear Mr. Smith, I’m going to ask you a bunch of nonsensical questions, but you are not allowed to answer any of them because I’m going to keep answering them myself with lies. Not so sincerely, Crazy lady Representative

Moskowitz: "I mean, we're definitely not in a court of law today. Half this shit wouldn't come in if we were. Good God ... the wedding planner Ray Epps? That's the mastermind? 'It wasn't Donald. Well, who are we gonna blame? How about the wedding planner for the Oath Keepers!' It's just pathetic."

Moskowitz reads quotes of Republicans denouncing January 6 before they taught themselves to love it

HOLY SHIT. Democrats now have a TWENTY-TWO POINT advantage on the general ballot. Dems had a 14-point advantage leading up to the 2018 election which netted us 41 seats in the House alone.

Maggie Haberman Says Trump’s Greenland ‘Deal’ Appears To Be ‘Something That Is Already in Existence’ Mediaite

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Trump is giving a deranged, rambling monologue in Davos to an audience stunned into silence. He sounds incredibly tired, his voice raspy; he keeps trailing off into long pauses. It's jaw-dropping. The sanewashing headlines are going to say "Trump Doubles Down On Greenland Demand In Davos Speech"

👇👇👇👇👇👇 "Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to 'overturn election results in certain states,' and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data..." www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

A reminder how ICE treats priests.

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Carney: "We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland's future. Our commitment to NATO's Article 5 is unwavering ... Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland"

KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?” @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks: