Rep. Kennedy: "Do you believe your agency has a legal obligation to follow court orders?" ICE Director Lyons: "Yes." Rep. Kennedy: "You have a very strange way of showing it, with a federal judge finding that your agency is in violation of 96 orders in one month alone."

Harry Enten: “He built his two presidential victories on winning voters without a college degree. Well, Donald Trump’s base with non-college voters is absolutely collapsing.”

Standing ovation as @governor.ny.gov blasts Bruce Blakeman’s defense of ICE and refusal to say whether Alex Pretti deserved to die. “Let me help you with that, Bruce. The answer is NO.”

NOW: The Supreme Court will allow California to use a new map in this year's midterm elections designed to counter gains from Republican redistricting efforts in Texas. The California GOP and the Trump administration had asked the court to block it.

They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...

What is inside Pam Bondi that she saw the horrific images of old perverts abusing children and felt she had to protect the perverts? We are not the same.

Lawyer: “Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?” Epstein: “Yes” Lawyer: “Have you socialized with him in the presence of females under 18?” Epstein: “I’m asserting my Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights.” via @meidastouch.com

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

We must stop funding DHS.

sliced bell peppers + tzatziki is good

Why Christians should have denounced trump early on. He'll turn on everyone that no longer benefits him. Glad to see the clergy out there though.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

via @pabloreports.bsky.social Over 100 priests arrested in Minneapolis for protesting ICE in Minnesota where today it's -21 degrees outside MSP Airport. The clergy gathered in prayerful solidarity to demand airlines cease contracting deportation flights to DHS.

sonny loves laying on my husband's laptop cover lol

@raskin.house.gov: "Jack Smith found proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Now Trump wants the Special Counsel in prison, not because he did anything wrong—but because he did everything right."

Jack Smith on Trump's pardon of people convicted in violent Jan 6 riot: "I do not understand why you would mass pardon people who assaulted police officers. I don't get it. I never will." www.ms.now/ana-cabrera-...

👍 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Vance on Jan. 8: "You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That's a federal issue. That guy's protected by absolute immunity." Vance today: "I didn't say that officers who engaged in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity. That's absurd."

Pernicious wordplay by Vance. Vance: "Nobody is talking about doing immigration enforcement without a warrant." Truth 1: DHS is doing immigration enforcement IN PEOPLE's HOMES without a JUDICIAL warrant. Truth 2: Our system - the Fourth Amendment - requires a judicial warrant.

Jack Smith: "Trump was charged bc the evidence established he willfully broke the law -- the very laws he took an oath to uphold... After leaving office, Trump illegally kept classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago social club... highly sensitive natl security info was held in a ballroom & bathroom."

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

"By making a nakedly imperialist claim on the territory of a faithful American ally, Trump has made it far easier for Putin and Lavrov to justify Russia’s imperialist claim on Ukraine" gift link 🎁: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

🚨🚨🚨 Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal ICE memo obtained by The Associated Press apnews.com/article/ice-...

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

via @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social Lindsey Graham says Trump's speech in Davos convinced him the US needs to control Greenland. "We're not going to take Greenland by force, but we need Greenland for very good reasons."

Jones: All you do is keep people fearful because you get paid 45 million a year to keep people fearful so they don’t pay attention to the CEOS taking their healthcare. You don’t care about the American people. You want them to be afraid of immigrants because all you have is fear.

Wow. #NoKings #Davos2026

Comfy cozy ❤️ #CorgiCrew

Trump in Davos, Switzerland: "Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German". German is the main language of Switzerland.

@governor.ca.gov gives @kaitlancollins.bsky.social his reaction to Trump's speech in Davos:

Trump: "Until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me 'Daddy', right, the last time."

JUST IN: Judge Engelmayer has *denied* @RepThomasMassie @RepRoKhanna's effort to participate in his case, saying they can't use his docket to raise new issues, though "They raise legitimate concerns about whether DOJ is faithfully complying with federal law" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's strange for the President of the United States to be litigating in his personal capacity against the Justice Department he runs — but he's seeking an order barring "current, former and future" DOJ officials from releasing Jack Smith's second volume. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ray Dalio: "Global monetary order is breaking" Dalio thinks the US and the allies are losing trust in one another, so central banks don't want to hold the US bonds. This is why commodities are skyrocketing, and it won't reverse anytime soon. His advice? Buy gold. ht: @thexcapitalist.bsky.social

ABC News: "here's a list of those targeted by his administration" with *50+* names abcnews.go.com/US/list-indi...

THE WOMAN WHO WAS DRAGGED OUT OF HER CAR AND ARRESTED BY ICE SPEAKS OUT… We’ve all seen the videos, but it matters to hear Aliya Rahman say it herself. 📌 She says her treatment in custody was dehumanizing, and that officers completely failed to take her disability seriously.

I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." And woman.

"In the immediate aftermath of the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis... an FBI agent in Minnesota conducted an initial review of the shooting and determined that sufficient grounds existed to open a probe into the actions of the officer who shot Good..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Fukuyama: Trump is a bully who wants to dominate everyone around him. Trying to placate him with concessions is a fool’s errand. He despises weakness. As an American, I say to my European friends: do not back down. Appeasing Trump with flattery has failed and must stop. 1/3

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I'm starting to think that, until he's finally gone, I should repost on a daily basis this 11,000+ word piece I published in @theatlantic.com about Donald Trump's serious psychiatric disorders to explain why, as a legal and constitutional matter, he was unfit for the presidency.

“The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota after President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to unrest there” gift link 🎁: wapo.st/4pIFqTG

Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino marches through Minneapolis surrounded by federal agents, shouting at American citizens. This isn’t about deporting “the worst of the worst.” It’s about deliberately sowing fear and chaos in cities that oppose the Trump regime ht: @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

Reuters: A federal judge ‌said on Thursday he would issue an order ‌designed to prevent President Donald ⁠Trump's administration from ​exacting retribution ‌against academics who challenged its arresting, detaining and deporting non-citizen, pro-Palestinian activists on U.S. college campuses.

While he previously twice voted against impeaching Trump, Bacon (Republican) signaled he'd "lean that way" on a Greenland-related impeachment ... "You do that with Russia or China, Iran, but don't treat your best friends like a piece of shit." www.rawstory.com/trump-greenl...

Trumplethinskin can dish it out, but just can't take it. Because someone called him a "Pedophile Protector", the short-fingered vulgarian flipped the tiniest bird imaginable. 😂 #TheTruthHurts

Rand Paul: “I look at my colleagues who say they’re pro-life, and they value God’s inspiration in life, but they don’t give a s‑‑‑ about these people in the boats.” thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Ask yourself. If ICE is going door to door, what’s next? Armed federal agents took a man away in handcuffs. A woman came out of the house and said the man was her husband. It also appears ICE used an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant. That matters….