Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

Republican state attorneys general pressured the agency that advises the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges on scientific and technical matters to withdraw all of its content on climate change from an authoritative reference manual. By @abrahm.bsky.social

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

The $305 million raised by the main super PAC supporting President Trump comes almost entirely from megadonors: 96% of its funds are from donors giving $1 million or more. bit.ly/4t8PBDU

The US Women’s Hockey team is terrifying. They have scored twenty goals in this Olympiad so far. Their opponents? One.

I just published: The Taken Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents: From Minnesota to Texas Documented through court records. Including worms in food, sewage water flooding into eating areas, returned to Minnesota in chains and shackles after courts order release, more.

Extremely and very do not like whatever the fuck this El Paso airport thing is about.

Prosecuting lawmakers for their speech is a clear assault on the most basic of American freedoms. Fortunately the grand jury stopped this in its tracks, but it should never have gotten this far.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I spent the morning at the DOJ looking at the unredacted Epstein files. Here are my initial thoughts and what I’ve found, so far.

As a native New Yorker who learned Spanish in middle and high school and now lives in Nuevo Mexico, I have to say I was very proud to hear and see it celebrated on such a big stage last night. Puerto Rico is not my personal heritage, but it was in the water growing up. Pluralism is American.

/3 It acknowledged — subtly sometimes, but irrefutably — that we’ve done wrong and bad things but are capable of doing better. It reminded me of the Clinton inaugural line “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”

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Every study shows that being in a jail or prison, no matter how "nice" or whatever, shortens your lifespan. It does. So the government is taking years off the lives of people, including children, when it opts to put them in jail. www.propublica.org/article/life...

“When less than 1% of farm employers are investigated every year, they can act with impunity, knowing that there is a very low likelihood that they will ever be investigated,” one expert said.

In 2025, Democrats gained 25 state Senate and House seats held by the GOP, out of 118 that were up for election. That’s a haul reminiscent of 2017, when Dems flipped 20 percent of GOP-held legislative seats in the run-up to the 2018 midterms.

Julia Loktev's documentary My Undesirable Friends follows young independent journalists covering Putin's invasion of Ukraine. n.pr/45On5O3

How do you say this just there's months after Jimmy Carter's death?

The nerve of these fools to be tweeting about sports after shit-canning their entire sports staff....

Republican state Rep. Leslie Heinemann of Flandreau introduced legislation that would allow health care providers to refuse patients treatment due to conscience-based objections. via @southdakotasearchlight.com

CAPS WIN

Hot take: it's a massive problem that people in charge of sending other people to jail believe that you can get 24hrs of restful sleep in that place. Most prosecutors in my district have never even been to the local jail, let alone spent a night there as I believe they should have to do.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005." "it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

“But now, with the pro-democracy media ecosystem weakened, Russia and other authoritarian states in the region will likely seek to hijack its audience. They will expand their own media offerings to capture citizens looking for new outlets to follow.“

Congress failed to pass the SAVE Act last year for good reason: it’s an anti-voter bill. But now lawmakers have revived it despite overwhelming public opposition. bit.ly/4qS8wBr

You just hate to see it.

Look, I hate to body-shame, buuuuuuut...

Russia’s biggest strike wave of the year hit Ukraine’s heat-and-power system in brutal cold, leaving major cities fighting for warmth and light. NATO’s secretary general arrived in Kyiv as air defense, repairs, and ceasefire-response planning collided in the same 24 hours.

First Person: ‘They ban books by Black authors. Then they tell us to celebrate Black History Month.’ Story via @opencampus.org.

What could possibly go wrong?

On this day in 1948, an all-white jury sentenced a Black woman and two of her teenage sons to death for killing an armed white man in self-defense.

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Was this dude 13 at the time of the offense? Because I don't think peoples' juvenile convictions should turn them into punching bags for life. That's the whole point of having a separate system. Being in CBP is what qualifies this guy as a legit target of your ire.

It’s here, isn’t it. 🚨Mass evacuations in Victoria, Australia as the state set to break its temperature record. 🚨’Temperatures that used to be seen just once in a generation’. 🚨Expected to see 30C/86F at midnight, 24C/75.2F at 4am, a stunning 49C/120.2F in the afternoon #heat #climatecrisis

Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Hey just an extra-special fuck-you to the 12 citizens who convicted a dude of child rape despite ample and obvious evidence the child was lying. Thanks for not considering any evidence at all. Hope you enjoyed your shitty pizza, you human scum.

1/2: AG Brown and 19 other attorneys general filed an amicus brief in support of Minnesota’s lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s extraordinary campaign of lawlessness under the guise of immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities area.

Absolutely massive turnout at the ICE Rapid Response training in Pittsburgh tonight, hosted by Frontline Dignity. Over 500 people showed up, including dozens from out of county & out of state.

If your representative is voting to cut health care while giving tax breaks to billionaires, they should at least be willing to stand in front of you and explain why.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia US attorney Lindsey Halligan, who sought indictments against Trump adversaries, is leaving her position.

Color me not shocked at all www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Basically every time someone in jail dies, the initial report is "medical episode" even when the person has been literally beaten to death. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Not headline news. No real fuss by Democratic leaders. No calls to censure. No pushback. No questions asked of GOP leadership by the press. Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.

So, who wants to tell him that Denmark and Norway are not the same country anymore?

Are you all fucking high? "Law and order is a two-way street" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Rep. Robert Garcia: "This is an administration that is so inherently corrupt. And they have turned our federal law enforcement agencies against our own people. That's what should be very concerning to everyone ... Kristi Noem should be removed from office."

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. When McDonald's first came to Ukraine in 1997, it symbolised the end of an era: the collapse of the Iron Curtain. But during the war the chain has offered shelter and warmth to many and today is a symbol of resilience.