We're at the Caligula stage of presidential madness

Nothing to see here folks, just a sitting president investing in two companies whose merger he claims sole authority to approve or reject. Totally normal! 🙃

He posted this an hour ago, with the music “Join ice” by Jesse wells. I think he’s ok.

Getty photographer was tackled by about 50 agents while covering Whipple. He threw his camera at another photographer to prevent it from being confiscated. 📸: Pierre Lavie

they told us folding on the shutdown was a big ol’ W because the epstein files would be released

#ProudBlue #DemsUnited Heather Cox Richardson says the violence is finally waking up white Americans who thought it wouldn’t reach them. It will get worse—but it’s not inevitable they'll win. Authoritarian regimes fall when people refuse them. We can still stop this. #ChoosePeaceNotChaos

Trump Cards, folks

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

"This has been obvious for the past year to all who have eyes to see, or who are willing to let their eyes do any seeing. But the last few days have provided especially clear instances of the assault on the rule of law."

THREAD. A collection of random dogs I have met on my adventures in the British countryside. You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.

We don’t want Greenland. We want healthcare.

LA Times sums up the state of our government: federal Nazi propaganda. www.latimes.com/politics/new...

At least 2 Senators have said "All Powell has to do is talk to Pirro and tell her he's going to resign and Trump will drop the charges." So here we have 2 sitting US Senators admitting the President is illegally extorting the chairman of The Fed. Admitting crimes out loud, on TV. WTAF.

Grinning like a 5-year old getting his participation trophy at the post-season T-ball pizza party.

I don't think people realize how quickly self-sorting is happening as the middle evaporates. You're either 100% behind the resistance or you're a fascist collaborator.

besides all the obvious things to say, my hot take is that this is also time to retire the Nobel Prize as this whole thing is too embarrassing for words

A change in tempo...a new blog format, including audio. Essays and reflections on history, culture, and everyday life — written in harmony. open.substack.com/pub/rosehayd...

I seriously bless the young people in my Congressional rep’s office for being such good listeners. Their phones are ringing off the hook and they are unfailingly kind and patient.

just a wild thing for a Senator to have to say??????????????????

He really is doing all of it.

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

Just want to stress that this was a woman who was simply trying to get to a doctor's appointment.

Macron: At the request of Denmark, I have decided that France will participate in the joint exercises organized by Denmark in Greenland, Operation Arctic Endurance. The first French military elements are already on their way. Others will follow.

It’s time to stop the influx of immigrants who take drugs, father children out of wedlock, and steal from the government. by Elon Musk

hey, boys, let's go to Maine in the absolute dead of winter and make sure everybody there REALLY fucking hates the GOP right before a pivotal Senate election

I don't understand how this is legal...? www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

a piece of chicken a piece of broccoli (a) corn tortilla one other thing is that piece of chicken a wing? a leg? how big is "a piece" of broccoli? do you just eat your corn tortilla dry? what's "one other thing"? a dollop of salsa? a rice kernel? these are deeply unserious, wicked people.

Sweden is over Trump's nonsense about Greenland and is sending in troops. SWEDEN, PEOPLE.

Imagine having Trump point at you - you specifically - and say "fuck you" - again, fuck *you* specifically - twice in one day, and then he caps it off by flicking you off in front of everyone. The stuff of legends tbh

This works much better with the audio from the final scenes of The Shining.

Amazing how quickly the pretext for invading a city just falls away. The circular justification in Minneapolis is now “we are punishing the city for resisting our punishment.

The defining feature of Rogan and his ilk is knowing nothing about things but talking about them anyway, saying things that sounds smart to other people who don’t know anything about them. It’s good he is catching on but damned of his and our collective ignorance haven’t run us off a cliff.

I'm just sitting here, trying to figure out how to threat model for armed, masked thugs who may kidnap you off the street, then steal, and possibly sell your phone.

Abolish ICE. Never vote for a Republican. Primary any Democrat who won't abolish ICE.

Only Bari Weiss would come up with the brilliant idea of turning your professional looking set into a shitty looking bar, so that your news anchor comes off like the guy on the last stool muttering "and I'll tell you sumthin' ELSE!"

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

I want these fuckers prosecuted. I will not vote for a candidate who shies away from this.

The Minnesota shooting case is now metastasizing unlike any i've ever seen. The successive resignations of heads of the crim section at CRD and 3 top career prosecutors in Minn -- who had hung in all this year n/w/stg multiple outrages-- means the Department is in open revolt in DC and the field.

Who honestly supports this shit? They gave this woman about 8 conflicting commands, broke her window and drug her out of her car.

Presidential behavior, 2026.

preview says 3, as of now the headline is updated to 6

I’m looking for a lot of undo button promises from the 2028 Democratic field, but I’d really like to see some candidate get behind the federal government unwinding some of these incredibly hinky deals with Musk.

The child porn AI bot built by his billionaire donor being integrated into the war machine by this idiot is the distillation of all Trump stories

I don’t see how this country survives until 2029 unless Trump is impeached and removed. This level of lawless malice is not sustainable. What fresh horrors await us this week?

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

The 8 million ways to die administration.

11 days into the new year and we've got a new illegal war of plunder with an abducted head of state, full administration backing for executing moms driving near ICE, and the chair of the federal reserve recording proof of life videos to explain the threats he's recieved from the president