My main takeaway here is that — outside of gear that is literally used by law enforcement and government agencies in different parts of the globe — it's actually kinda hard for journalists covering stuff in the U.S. to find gear that will protect them right now. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/what...

The President trusted a fart and it betrayed him JUST LIKE HE BETRAYED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RT AND FOLLOW IF YOU AGREE

Hello Bjorn! #EpsteinFiles #BjornLomborg www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Every billionaire is a policy failure

Might be driving down to The City with a load of super soakers soon

The Kavanaugh Crisis in Minnesota is deliberate. By the best estimates, Minnesota has a relatively modest undocumented population. If deportations were the goal, ICE/CBP would be elsewhere. This is about: • Targeting Somalis out of racism & politics • Traumatizing political-dissident communities

The Republican Party must be destroyed

Texas Rs outspent Dems TEN TO ONE and the Dems won anyway

Texas meticulously created, with surgical precision, a Republican gerrymander that was both overwhelmingly partisan and resilient enough to even a 5-10 point D swing. But a 30 point swing, as in Tarrant County last night, blows the entire thing open. Texas will be an extremely spendy swing state.

There are already bodies. If there is no direct action there will be *more* bodies.

Woop Box it up I’ll take it

these are senator james talarico numbers

From Rehmet's website, it sure doesn't look like he's running away from Environmental Justice. If Democrats can win in TARRANT COUNTY while using Environmental Justice then there is absolutely no excuse for any candidate in this country. Should surprise no one familiar with the polling.

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Imagine the mood in the White House right now. You’re welcome.

2025-2026 has been a giant "What if we Proposition 187ed the entire fucking United States all at once?" experiment. As it turns out, the answer looks pretty much the same.

Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground

the democrats have everything they need to destroy the largest funder of the opposition right now today if they want to, if not legally then in the public square

you know when the last time republicans won the senate popular vote was? 1998

SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. The full user guide here:

On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville. On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”. In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.

Five college classes 1) Humanities (2 years) 2) plant communities of the Pacific Northwest 3) intro anthro 4) intro sociology 5) policy analysis

Got em www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...

“Small-d democratic legitimacy now exists in the free states. And it’s the responsibility of the free states to resist the power of a renegade presidency making war on the Constitution as well as they can while the forces of civic democracy regroup”

The Republican Party must be destroyed

Today is also Fred Korematsu day, which means it's a great day to challenge the federal government with both your middle fingers up

In case we thought that ecological disasters were a special talent of modernity, let’s talk about how the 13th-century peat trade of Norfolk made it permanently vulnerable to flooding, including 3 catastrophic floods just since 2013. #medievalstorytime

I've written a lot about oilfield liabilities and how we need to plan for the oil industry to walk away from those and also realize that the industry has no plan for managed decline. Once the profits are gone, they will just abandon everything...including society. I make those points in this:

I have a new newsletter out, about John McPhee, the role of perspective and structure in writing, Hubert Dreyfus clowning on 'AI' with the tools of phenomenology, and how to understand the things that even the most capable LLMs can't do and most likely will never be able to do.

Evita Peron was a nasty fascist but Don’t Cry For Me Argentina was an actual piece of art The uhhh contrast with the Melania pic wheeew boy

Got weed, ran out of chocolate. Logistics, logistics, logistics.

Fuck this guy in particular

The Republican Party must be destroyed

Fascinating: "We identify a risk of collapses in service availability as specific elements of fossil infrastructures reach what we term 'minimum viable scale,' a level of throughput past which existing physical, financial, & managerial infrastructures can no longer effectively operate as expected."

The writers have finished the tequila and are into the ether

Was BORTAC looking for Alex before they executed him?

ICE Not Only Looks and Acts Like a Paramilitary Force—It Is One, and That Makes It Harder To Curb talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/ice-is-...

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An extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

Here’s one possible reform — since the 1950s the Border Patrol asserts it can operate within 100 miles of any border. That’s never been agreed to by Congress. What does Congress think?

Bottom line: Big Daddy wants to rebuild as stupidly as possible, so it will all burn hotter and harder the next time And there will always be a next time

Trump: "I haven't told this to Lee Zeldin yet, but I'm gonna put you in charge of getting permits. I think we're gonna override the local authorities because they're never gonna have it ... I don't a big section of the area built into low income housing. It's not the American dream."

Trump's "you can't carry guns" statement might mean we're finally be ready to talk about how the very first gun control laws targeted the Black Panthers and how badly tyrants would like their people disarmed and helpless And how MAGA isn't pro gun, they're pro themselves having guns

The word to pay close attention to here is “you.” “You who are opposed to me” It’s Wilhoit’s Law, and he’s telling “you” that you are bound by law, not protected by it

The toughest people these ICE/BP guys have ever encountered are a male nurse, a lesbian poet, some grandmas, and folks in little cars like a Honda Fit. It's shattering their worldview and sense of self. Wasn't supposed to be this way. The podcasters and X posters and supplement sellers said so.

Anne Frank was Doing Being Hunted Down and Murdered by Agents of the State the Right Way by Ezra Klein

New: DHS now says that two weeks of missing surveillance footage from ICE's Broadview Detention center isn't "missing," it was never recorded in the first place and thus can't be produced in an abuse lawsuit. An utter shitshow: www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...