if anything, in light of later developments, we were too nice

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

"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

“I Would Die 4 U” Prince and The Revolution — Purple Rain (1984)

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

Hire me to help you run a successful campaign. This IS the kitchen table issue. My god.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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you can’t fucking dox a public official!

All this sudden fearmongering about Signal looks like a badly disguised psyop to get people to move to something less secure

A federal judge, in a published order, so very much on the record: “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

buy exactly one gun, load it, and immediately lose track of it in a box of your old clothes or something. In a year or two you'll have a fun surprise!

@mmasnick.bsky.social: “The thing that seems to have broken the MAGA brain is that even people who might have supported targeted enforcement of immigration law looked around at what was actually happening … and said “no.” Not because they’d been radicalized … because they have eyes and consciences.”

This is central to most right wing understanding: your kids are your property and they are reproductions of your values

I'd actually go further and say that the "STEM"/"humanities" split is a meaningless and fake one. Mathematics and programming have as mucv in common with music and writing as with biochemistry or paleontology.

All my Dad Hobbies (old music, podcasting, vintage TV, comics) are far too fascist-pipeline-adjacent for comfort. I'm a little worried. If you see me starting to rant about pronouns, buy me some birdwatching binoculars or something, eh?

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

The first Trump administration was chaotic and unorganized, frustrating many on the right. So they put together plans to be organized and move quickly in Trump II, but they found that doing it in a methodical and non-ostentatious manner impossible, which is subverting their goals again.

One of the nine (9) U.S. Senators at the time who had the courage and insight to oppose the whole, original monstrosity.

If Trump doubles down like this then their actions reinforce the democrats’ budget demands.

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law. The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

In the new season of Autocracy in America, I will ask how the Trump White House is rewriting the rules of US politics. First episode: How ICE and the National Guard are being used not just to enforce immigration, but to project power open.spotify.com/episode/4Baj...

If you didn't think that Prosecutor and Sheriff elections were important before, you must believe they are now in this era of Trump's ICE. It's time we all learned about these crucial criminal justice elections in 2026. boltsmag.org/criminal-jus...

It's a film, I know, but it's really true that there are young men who want to be Sensei Sergio and young men who want to be Colonel Lockjaw and it's pretty obvious which one is the righteous aspiration. www.welcometohellworld.com/what-does-a-...

From the movie Downfall: Joseph Goebbels: "I feel no sympathy. I repeat, I feel no sympathy! The German people chose their fate. That may surprise some people. Don't fool yourself. We didn't force the German people. They gave us a mandate, and now their little throats are being cut!" "Mandate."

The stories of how Miller dictated insane language and took over social media accounts of prominent Trumpists are going to be recounted in history books for many years to come.

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

English translation of statement from Ecuadorian Consulate regarding ICE’s attempt to enter their building in Minneapolis today:

It’s funny he would say that because that is what believing in phrenology is actually, he hit the nail right on the head

check out this guy i found

BREAKING: A key Maryland House committee has advanced a redistricting bill that would eliminate the state’s last GOP-held congressional seat. The vote sends the bill to the full House — a major step in Democrats’ push to counter Trump's gerrymanders.

as an American Jew, I can't imagine talking about "legal" immigration and the Holocaust this way restrictive American immigration laws passed in the 1920s doomed countless Jews who could've otherwise escaped occupied Europe. my family got out via Cuba and Argentina, they were the lucky ones

Important reminder that Alex Pretti did not "bring a gun to a protest." There was not a "protest." He was an observer filming and directing traffic because ICE showed up to terrorize his neighbors.

You should read this piece. Adam is right: the core theory behind the anti-ICE mobilization here in Minneapolis isn’t really a political ideology, but that neighbors are neighbors and must be protected.

BREAKING: Minnesota's chief federal judge has demanded the acting head of ICE personally appear in court Friday to explain what the judge described as repeated failures to comply with dozens of court orders amid its enforcement efforts in the state.

I do not think the trump administration is planning to meaningfully off ramp much. They may do some PR manicuring here and there, but I think signs point to them maintaining their sieges and violence across the country. National attention may shift, but Trump and everyone who matters are still …

[8] …Roma, people with disabilities & lesbians, gay men, bisexual ppl, trans ppl & many others are properly understood & recognised. Genocide has a long history. For instance Germany had already carried out one on the Herero & Nama peoples in Namibia (1904-8). After decades of pleas the German…

TODAY: @mariabustillos.com on MAGA’s long fascination with Putin’s version of power. “Viewed through this lens, MAGA’s every move has made all the sense in the world” flaminghydra.com/r/22c4c493?m...

"simply about getting ICE back to obeying the law" Come on. They will never obey the law. And the law itself allows them to abuse & murder with impunity via qualified immunity. ICE OUT OF OUR CITIES is the minimum short term demand. Defund and abolish ICE is the only moral long term course.

I was there once for a deposition at Calipatria State Prison. I’m convinced the town name is a joke. It is el centro del nowhere. I don’t even know why they guard the prison; let the inmates escape into the desert and pick up their bleached bones in a couple of weeks. It might as well be on Mars.

So Greg Bovino is back to his post at USBP in El Centro. There are many lovely hardworking Americans in El Centro but at a place to be it is not to everyone’s taste. I had a hearing in El Centro and drove there the night before because you can’t get there in the morning…../1

This came up in my old posts today. Don’t know why, but it feels good to know that Andre 3000 specifically is this kind of guy.

people who say this is all going to be forgotten in two days think they're doomering and being cynical, but in fact they are engaged in the worst kind of pie in the sky optimism, because they're assuming that ICE is not going to keep killing people.

I'm pretty bearish on the idea that the 2026 World Cup will be widely boycotted by fans (or that fans will be afraid to come to the US) in a way that will turn the WC into a financial disaster for the organizers or an embarrassment for Trump. However, I think a *players boycott* has potential

Great. Everything is so fucked that somehow I agree with Greenwald. He nails it here, though.

Ten years ago, some people dismissed libraries as "yesterday's" institutions. They are *the* institutions of the moment. And tomorrow. Deb Fallows has ongoing chronicle of them, at Our Towns site. www.ourtownsfoundation.org New dispatch coming soon.