A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Marine Le Pen's trial for embezzlement — something they've done to other judges around the world

Amid outrage over the invasion of Minneapolis by masked goons, is the secret to melting ICE economic pressure against its collaborators? I looked at whether successful campaigns against Avelo, Spotify and others can save an America where money talks. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Discount airline, Avelo, abandons ICE charter deportation flights Avelo Airlines announced it will cease deportation charter flights for the Trump administration effective January 27. The decision follows nationwide protests regarding its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The…

Dunphy says he didn't consider that any of his players might be engaged in fixing games. He spoke Monday to acknowledge what many of the game's key figures have seemed content to ignore.

German producer prices fall 2.5% y/y in December reut.rs/4qUmFxE

A greeting card for my Bluesky friends

Lolol as a Yale alum married to an Indiana alum I HAPPILY pass on this legacy

For every one of us that have been screaming for years about just how dangerous this regime is, this is worth the read. There's Something Weird Happening With Some Trump Supporters — And It Might Piss You Off www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

TWIN CITIES FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START: I put together a big list of resources. Do you want to deliver groceries? do people's laundry? work in community defense? I want to help you get connected! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...

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The irony of ICE detaining and disappearing the original Americans should stop everyone cold. As a Lakota proverb says, when you discover you’re riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. This system isn’t broken. It’s dead.

🚨”If everyone who came before me had just complied and complied and complied, then I probably would have entered this theater, any theater, through a colored section. Every good thing you have in your life is a product of someone else’s struggle.” ~ Josh Johnson Message: Do Not Comply

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 19 JANUARY 2026 HONOR DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I BELIEVE HIS HAND IS ON YOUR SHOULDER RIGHT NOW & HE IS TELLING US : "WE HAVE SOME DIFFICULT DAYS AHEAD " HE IS TELLING US : "THE ARC OFTHE MORAL UNIVERSE IS LONG, BUT IT BENDS TOWARDS JUSTICE" We Shall Overcome

Seen today in San Luis Obispo

Aurora has begun here at the farm in Oregon ✨ Shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max, 30 second exposure.

Congressional Republicans, including ones who made a big show of caring about the Epstein files, are now shrugging off the DIJ basically ignoring the law requiring their release www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

How dare the press *checks notes* focus on the president threatening to take an ally's territory by force because he didn't get a peace prize, which would then lead to the destruction of the world's largest security pact.

U.S. troops stationed on Greenland sitting next to Danish troops stationed on Greenland sent to deter America from invading Greenland

my Substack Live conversation with scholar and pollster Robert P. Jones about Trump 2.0's open embrace of white supremacy zeteo.com/p/robert-jon...

JUST IN: Virginia's legislature just adopted a constitutional amendment that would end Virginia's rules that ban people from voting for life. Virginia currently is the only state that strips people of voting rights for life for any felony. Youngkin rolled back reforms. Now going to a referendum.

ICYMI, I guest-hosted the I HATE BILL MAHER podcast last week, joined by the very patient and funny @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social! Listen whenever you get your podcasts if you are as sick in the head as I am.

The head of Denmark’s army should not be in Greenland, working to deter US attack. That is a bad use of his time, weakening everyone in NATO, Denmark and the US very much included. Or, rather, it would be a bad use of his time, except the US president decided to threaten conquest against US allies.

All it would take is for a bunch of these CEOs to confront Trump in front of the world and tell him he's unfit to run a hot-dog stand, and his presidency would be over. Seriously. But none of them has the balls to do it.

I cannot express the level of potential danger this coming weekend. Trump is trying to do some big peace compact on Thursday that none of Europe is going to sign. Because he's a lunatic and *waves hands at everything* and now they're building forces in Greenland.

I suspect 9 of 10 Americans are unaware that the Hmong are here because they aided the US in the Vietnam war, and then had to flee as refugees afterwards. Quite the “thank you” we’re giving them 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

The arc of the moral universe does not bend on its own. It bends because people organize, resist, and refuse to comply with injustice — again and again, even when the path is hard.

Roberta Metsola, the President of the European Parliament, delivered the most severe criticism of Donald Trump we’ve witnessed so far regarding Greenland. It’s quite remarkable.

Like as a scholar of empire I had no doubt the energy transition would lead to some imperial reshuffling but a hot war in Europe declared by the US was not where I think we would be starting.

My story:

Thousands of workers, mostly Latino, carried out the dangerous work of clearing a million tons of debris and toxic ash from the Palisades Fire burn zone, paving the way for residents to sell or rebuild. buff.ly/5CIocot

Patriots Caucus wire report: Madison Sheahan, a carpetbagging, up-jumped fish cop running for Congress in #OH09, is off to a hot start in the district’s bedrock of Lucas County.

LA Gov. John Bel Edwards' veto of HB 648, our 2023 healthcare ban, begins: "The bill is entitled the Stop Harming Our Kids Act, which is ironic because that is precisely what it does." He wrote he'd "never issued a veto with the degree of detail that I am providing here." It's 6 pages. 1/2

tbh i'm not sure if i'm more offended by her taking her staff to a strip club for an outing or if i'm more offended by her choice in strip clubs, we're a vibrant city that takes great pride in our strip clubs, and this is an objectively terrible choice

i'm struggling to come up with an analogy here, but it's something like traveling to austin or nashville or even st. louis and then choosing to go a chili's with a guy smoking foil in the parking lot for BBQ

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

This is (*checks notes*) after a Federal District Judge ordered them not to use chemical weapons on observers. ICE is a collection of lawless, cruel, racist thugs. Defund them, and prohibit their non-elected federal employment for the next 20 years.

on this MLK Day, the FBI is honoring its civil rights legacy

"“Whatever you think it is, it’s worse,” Brandi Reilly, a neighbor who witnessed Thao’s detainment, told me by phone on Monday about what it’s been like in the Twin Cities of late. " www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-st-pau...

They got suburban realtors talking like Patrick Henry, it's over

I hope Minnesota Republicans enjoy not winning another statewide election until Great Depression 2 hits with a Dem in office.

Guarantee you we spent more than $14,000 on ICE and CBP overtime at MSP airport today to seize … $14,135.

Also, Ohio isn't as xenophobic as Vance. Vance won with just 53% of Ohio's vote. And a significant chunk of his support was from people who knew absolutely nothing about him or his views but just pulled the lever every time for the GOP. Fewer than 53% of Ohio residents are as xenophobic as Vance.

The three highest-ranking Roman Catholic clerics who lead archdioceses in the United States said in a strongly worded statement that America's "moral role in confronting evil around the world" is in question for the first time in decades — a critique of the Trump admin's principles.

"We will fight for, the Cream and Crimson." If you were a kid in Bloomington in the 70s and 80s, this was the ad on TV that meant the game was about to start. It makes me feel a lot, tbh, to listen to it. Especially the laugh at the end.

ICE illegally grab a city snow plow driver: "He was detained because of his country of origin. He had every federal authorization. We do a criminal background check of all federal documents." Sent 1,000 miles to Texas with a serious medical condition. (From Fox 9)

Brings a tear to my eye. 💧🥇