BREAKING: A Texas jury acquits a Uvalde schools officer on charges he failed in duty to confront the gunman in the Robb Elementary attack.

A Cuban detainee’s death at an El Paso federal immigration detention center was ruled a homicide Wednesday, with the medical examiner finding he was suffocated while restrained, contradicting immigration officials’ claim that he died by suicide.

incandescently enraged. They kidnapped a 5 yo and shipped him to Texas with no way for his family to know where he was.

No more of this. Defund the department. It was always a bad idea.

It's a good thing the Constitution isn't alive to see all of this.

From UAF’s Poker Flats Research range, northeast of Fairbanks at 813pm AKST Tuesday. About as close to an “all-sky” aurora as there is. #AlaskaSky #aurora @vincentledvina.bsky.social @capture907.bsky.social

Aurora was just ripping tonight. Could even see them downtown with all the light pollution.

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.

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

It's inevitable, you simply must adapt to it and use it, you have no choice, but also please use it more or it's going to die

A report has found that former Alaska Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum’s decision to invest tens of millions from the state’s primary rainy day account into a private equity fund raises “significant concerns about whether he met his statutory fiduciary duties.”

In a massive win for Oregonians’ and Californians’ privacy, two federal courts dismissed the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking access to both states’ unredacted voter registration records. The judges agreed that states are not obligated to share such data with the government.

Incredibly powerful language from a Reagan-appointed federal judge setting the record straight about the “unconstitutional conspiracy” between Felon Trump and Cabinet members, Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio.

BREAKING: Maryland advances a redistricting plan that could wipe out the GOP’s last U.S. House seat in the state — as Democrats move to counter Republican gerrymanders nationwide.

MN Doctor: I learned that Renee Good still had a pulse 8 minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent. Yet the offer to administer aid from a physician on the scene was denied. I can't say how much that stirs the blood of everyone here as we try to fulfill our oath to care for the people of Minnesota

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

In a bizarre court filing, DOJ conceded that in March 2025, two members of DOGE who were working at the Social Security Administration were in touch with an advocacy group that hoped to “find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States."

Yeah this is how we should get policy updates from the president

Wow. Here’s the real-time motion of the aurora tonight filmed with my iPhone. Amazing show just now, and the night is only getting started!

“It’s time for every single Minnesotan who loves this state and the notion of truth and freedom to raise their voices and deepen their solidarity for our neighbors and coworkers living under this federal occupation.”

Reuters interviewed ChongLy Scott Thao since being taken by ICE. "I was praying. I was like, God, please help me, I didn't do anything wrong. Why do they do this to me? Without my clothes on?” They also report one of the men actually wanted by ICE is the ex-husband of a member of the Thao family.

Very nice auroras now 70 miles from Fairbanks. Bortle-1 skies on the tundra.

ICE arrests and detention in Alaska jails is increasing. Over the last year, people detained were reportedly from Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Fiji, Tonga, Mauritania, India, the Philippines and Slovenia, among other countries.

Purple aurora on the Toolik Lake all-sky camera at 634pm AKST Jan 19. #aurora #AlaskaSky @vincentledvina.bsky.social

Harmeet Dhillon has posted or reposted 32 times on Twitter today. So far. In case you're wondering what the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice does for a living.

2/ But did you know the same paragraph addresses the 'outside agitator' label now back in vogue: "Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial 'outside agitator' idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."

1/ You probably know the first part of this MLK quote... "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

many people are saying

Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland

Danish soldiers are now arriving in Greenland as the military presence increases.

NEWS: Survivor Lisa Phillips backs request by Reps. Khanna and Massie for judge to appoint a special master to release the Epstein files. "I have no confidence that the Department of Justice, already 30 days late in complying with the Act with no end in sight."

Germany and France's joint statement on the US' Trump economic terrorism: "Germany and France are united and we will not allow blackmail." "we are already preparing joint countermeasures." "We Europeans must make it clear: The limit has been reached,"

Danish officials will not attend Davos as tensions with the US escalate, Bloomberg reports.

Pretty soon the UK will need to make a tough choice which side of the fence it wants to be on.

Good morning members of the GOP in Congress. Today would be a good day for you to wake up.

An Iranian official says verified deaths linked to the protests have reached at least 5,000, Reuters reports.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

The Nobel Foundation makes yet another statement:

That negative 21 gone show you something

I do think it's very funny that the people who spent a decade whining about the existence of safe spaces have suddenly decided "verbal assault" is now a Very Serious Concern.

Verbal assault or, as it's legally known, "not assault"

As corporate earnings soar and the U.S. GDP balloons, the American workforce isn’t feeling the same boom. American workers are taking home less of the country’s overall wealth, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show, and employment in the U.S. is set to continue to slow.

This.

This should concentrate some minds. Will it?

Reminder that just a month ago the Swiss Government rejected using Palantir in any role in Switzerland's Government. Because they posed a 'catastrophic' threat.

THIS

Arlit Maria Martinez is a mother of 4. Her son, Kevin, died of cancer while she was in ICE custody. ICE refused her request to be at Kevin's side in his final moments. They must let her attend Kevin’s memorial. Arlit, I hope you hear how many patriots stand with you.

They all casually use the language of abusers.

This is extraordinary. They aren’t just kicking the ICE agents out. They’re temporarily closing the hotel altogether due to “heightened safety concerns in St. Paul.”