Libs and mods need to argue and fight on political substance and stop smugly assuming that everything they don’t like is a consequence of improper procedure and faulty constitutionalism. It doesn’t work particularly well as politics and it isn’t true!

I see liberal umbrage at this for the usual wrong reasons. A Speaker of the House sharing the executive’s substantive agenda is not a procedural crime or violation of the federal constitution. We had that alignment during the New Deal! We had it 2009-10, 2021-2!

I know this from researching police salaries for a recent paper: many cities have a set of officers taking home more than $500k and they can’t really explain why oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...

Biden lied

Two people have been abducted from Scotland in the middle of the night by the US military. Despite an order from our highest court that they be kept here. The Scottish Government must show that actions have consequences by evicting American troops from their base at publicly-owned Prestwick Airport

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

There´s a lot to say about these skeets by @jwmason.bsky.social My 5 cents: not all prices are market prices. What do I mean? I´m investigating the Commons on the Dutch island of Ameland. As late as 1910 (when they had been officially disbanded for 14 years) one of these mustered 68 people to

Janet Mills still won't say if she wants to ditch or keep the current Senate Dem leadership that has repeatedly failed to meet the moment. tinyurl.com/35ppyfy6 May seem like inside baseball. But as we've argued before (tinyurl.com/yj546xpj) it's a threshold issue of high consequence. #MEpolitics

"The theft at the heart of Israel’s booming wine industry: After seizing Palestinian land, settlers are replanting it with vineyards — then exporting their wine as ‘Made in Israel’ to obscure its origins." www.972mag.com/israel-wine-...

Chairman of the law firm that initially caved to Trump’s demands is in the Epstein files… imagine that…

They obviously aren’t deescalating but even it they were that would still be an attempt to continue the project. The problem is the project.

On the other hand, here’s Adam Tooze saying that his independent income from substack is what let him speak out about Columbia’s repression of Gaza protests, which he has certainly, admirably, done, while most of his colleagues have not. So, it’s tricky.

A few years ago, I was asked to talk at some conference for investors on the climate transition, the economics of the Green New Deal. For a couple hours of my time they’d pay several thousand dollars, plus airfare and a hotel room.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Racial profiling is bad. Please know however that the threat and problem of a $85BN deportation force is of a different order of magnitude than “racial profiling”

The purpose and mission of ICE is to forcibly deport ~4% of the people living in the United States, and they are on their way to getting the budget, staff and physical plant to do this. “Regulatory reforms” misses the point

Watch the video as a recklessly driven cheap car careens around and a gang of armed thugs spring out to menace an innocent civilian, like a kidnapping or robbery or murder-for-hire. It looks like organized crime taking place in a third-world country, because it is.

As the US political class discusses if/how/when Trump should strike Iran, just a reminder that no one has yet offered a remotely plausible legal justification for it. It’s just based on a presumption that the US has a special privilege to do violence wherever, whenever.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

DHS just unloaded a massive amount of teargas on the big labor rally at the PDX ICE facility. Just before this the crowd was chanting "Show us your face!" That turned into cries of "There are children here!"

apparently they didn't do genocide in a well equipped enough manner US approves $6.6bn sale of attack helicopters, assault vehicles to Israel flip.it/ICrrp1

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

If 26 Americans or Israelis or Germans were murdered today, it would be the top headline on every network. They keep telling you “the war is over” while this happens, because their idea of a peaceful, “normal” order is one where Israel gets to mass murder Palestinians at will.

It is stupid and bad that a barely literate failed teacher who did nothing of value in of itself was a broker for the UAE, Israel, Russia, half of the US media elite, a quarter of Europe, a random selection of Southeast Asia, and a key node in finance and intelligence.

Takeaway: Any time the Trump administration says "AI" or anything about software or data, what you should hear is "repression as a service" This has 2 parts: 1. AI as an excuse to consolidate data 2. AI to execute orders that humans would refuse

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

Kristallnacht in the West Bank on Holocaust Remembrance Day: pogroms carried out in the open and Jewish institutions choosing silence. www.infinitejaz.com/p/kristallna...

Yes, this friendly 2019 Jeffrey Epstein email exchange is about the owner of the Patriots, Robert Kraft. But it's more important who it is WITH: Brad Karp, the chairman of Paul, Weiss. And Karp was still chairman when Paul, Weiss became the first law firm to cave to Trump's demands in 2025. 1/

Oh: Brad Karp? This Brad Karp? I’m getting a sudden sense of clarity about his unhesitant bend of the knee to the Trump II White House.

7 reporters on this story and not one of them bothered to ask “hey, is any of this actually legal?” www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/p...

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US okays over $6.5 billion in new military sales to Israel, including Apache gunships www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-jan...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is hoping for an attack,” the former senior intelligence official said, “and assuring Trump that Israel can help put in place a new government that is friendly with the West.”

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

“assholes on this website” but more importantly Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, Brett McGurk, Samantha Power, & Jake Sullivan.

The regime is obviously feeling the pressure to allow Minnesota state officials to conduct an independent investigation of Alex Pretti's assassination so they're now announcing an investigation by their thoroughly corrupted FBI. We can not accept this substitute. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

This is a terrific report by @lookheron.bsky.social on how to create institutional structures that protect free speech at public universities. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

The fact that the cases are meritless actually makes them MORE effective for intimidation. Prosecuting actual criminals sends no broader message. They’re saying: “Piss us off and we’ll find some bullshit reason to tie you up in court whether or not we have any chance of making it stick.”

Another banger from Jonathan Guyer, who's been on the USAID-Gaza beat for a few years. If anyone wonders why I really, really hate Joe Biden and his administration? It's because I had to work for them on Gaza. They're evil, evil people who deserve prison.

The US Ambassador to Israel and close friend of Joe Biden, Jack Lew, personally blocked the distribution of a cable written by USAID which accurately described the situation in northern Gaza

MNA nurses vigil for Alex Pretti at the Leeds VA in the bitter cold

Protected speech made my agents murder these people, says federal official

In the wake of the horrific ICE killings in Minnesota, many prominent Democrats have called for ICE to wear body cameras. Yesterday, @equalityalec.bsky.social talked to @democracynow.org about how important it is that we don't get distracted by meaningless & counterproductive reforms.

Jake Auchincloss (MA-4)