PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, authorities said. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/immi...

In a rebuke to the GOP party line, the House of Representatives voted to extend the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium subsidies. 17 Republicans defected to join all Democrats in voting for the legislation, after the end of the subsidies sparked the longest-ever federal government shutdown.

“They didn’t stop the ICE agent, but they stopped me,” said Jose Madera, who followed a vehicle driven recklessly by ICE agents, who continue to roam freely nationwide, even after killing Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis yesterday. Full story: lataco.com/job-center-d... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

“.. 2025 is likely to be the worst year for job growth outside of a recession since 2003 (when hiring was anemic after the Dot Com bust). .. No wonder Americans are nervous about the economy.” @byheatherlong.bsky.social

The leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.

ICE agents shot 2 people in Portland this afternoon. We are sitting on a tinderbox that is about to go off, and I'm legitimately worried.

Everybody's had a few Now they're talking about who knows who I'm going back to the Crescent City Where everything's still the same This town has said what it has to say Now I'm after that back highway Crescent City - Lucinda Williams youtu.be/DxhfAweKDaw?...

Talking to someone about Greenland recently and realized it was futile when she asked, "What is NATO"? 🤦‍♂️

Some statements are relevant forever: “When the speech condemns a free press, you are hearing the words of a tyrant.” --- Thomas Jefferson

People who want to bully people seek out jobs where they can bully people. If they don't abuse enough people at work, they go home and abuse people at home

How two big names in mainstream disaster preparedness helped sell Americans on fear, anxiety and a new generator.

amen to this.

A year ago today was the start of violent, terrorizing raids in California’s rural Central Valley. Violent federal agents were hunting down farm workers like animals. Today, they’re in the streets of Minneapolis. Our communities should not be enduring this. None of us are safe until all of us are.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

This is murder. Abolish these motherfucking terrorists.

Hear Albert Camus Read the Famous Opening Passage of The Stranger (1947)

Maybe it’s cuz I lived in the Twin Cities. Maybe it’s cuz I don’t think ICE should be allowed to execute people like they’re Judge Dredd, Maybe it’s cuz we are run by people who are openly coy about being fascists. But I’m really fucking angry.

One year ago today, brutal and racist Border Patrol raids began in Kern County, CA. They hunted down farm workers, violently detaining our union members and terrorizing our communities. This began a year of deadly force across the US that continues today. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

#ICYMI Enjoy my #Carnival2026 preview with @wwltv-mirror.bsky.social Mike McDaniel on the WWL Louisiana Morning Show for Twelfth Night! #MardiGras2026 #OurCarnivalHeritage

Holding Apache Stronghold in my heart tonight. Will tune in to the hearing tomorrow at 9:30 AZ.

Tough day today. Can't shake what our country has become since 5 years ago... how, after that, does what's happening happen? I'll go to my grave not understanding.

Hello! #KingCake #Carnival

It’s Twelfth Night—Carnival starts today. Let the Good Times Roll

Please join me in rejecting the revisionist lies coming from this administration. We saw everything with our own eyes. And, while the government has deleted the J6 databases, @npr.org has preserved them. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Your Professor celebrates 30 years with the WWL Louisiana Morning News, starting tomorrow morning after 7 am! Twelfth Night Carnival Update, & 1st parade preview. Follow on YouTube & X @profcarlnivale, and Bluesky @profcarlnivale.bsky.social! #carnival2026 #mardigras2026 #OurCarnivalHeritage

The rain and wind have knocked approximately 9,672 oranges off my backyard citrus trees. Are we sure Sisyphus was pushing a stone and not picking up fruit off the ground at El Rancho Hubbardo?

This is beyond disgusting

Schloss, who was friends with Frank in Amsterdam and whose mother later married Frank's father, was a tireless educator about the Holocaust and was honorary president of The Anne Frank Trust UK. n.pr/4pnJxEo

Sharing music is a form of love - no matter the scale or depth of love, it's love. The world needs more love.

Making plans to camp in the California coastal ranges and wrote, "Coast Rage Camping" in my planning notes. Just gonna leave it... seems right?

Someone said to me recently, “it can’t get any worse”. Except, yeah, it can… and is…

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

“.. For Venezuelans, our situation will not be fixed by Mr. Maduro’s departure, let alone by a foreign occupying force. .. Replacing the man at the top will not dismantle the web of bosses, private loyalties, corrupt practices .. that have replaced public life ..” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...

No Top 10 list for me… I choose my one (just 1) best image of 2025! Hint: It’s not this one. Click the link to see what it is! 😁 www.getrealjc.com/blog/2026/1/... #landscapephotography #photography #on1pics

Jack Kerouac Reads from "On the Road": The Only Known Footage of the Beat Icon Reading His Work (1959)

Yelling “pursuant to the constitution” as my head gets dunked in the toilet again. What they don’t know is that I’m yelling hard enough to be heard by a teacher walking down the hall.

Some folks are in my mentions blaming these players for going to Venezuela like they are reckless tourists or something. Stop it. Venezuela is where they were born and raised and continue to live in the offseason and where their family and friends also live. We bombed their home.

Howard Zinn’s “What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire”: An Illustrated Video Narrated by Viggo Mortensen

Yes! Get out there the old fashioned way.

Jack Smith is a man of honor and moral conviction. He is the kind of person we as a nation must become like once more.

Walking out towards the gate You'll all be stars, now just you wait Done enough to take the bait Don't let my sorrow turn to hate Turn to Hate - Orville Peck youtu.be/vR-4l5M_MQ8?...

Gettin' too old now to push this here plow Please let me lay down so I can look at the clouds Take 'em away, take 'em away, Lord Take away these chains from me My heart is broken 'cause my spirit's not free Lord, take away these chains from me Take 'em Away - OCMS youtu.be/wfqm-rP_kFY?...

Don't you know what happened down there? A youth of fourteen got shot down there The Cocaine guns of Jamdown Town The killing clowns, the blood money men Are shooting those Washington bullets again Washington Bullets - The Clash youtu.be/mkoWjhZOKWo?...

Too many times, when I get on an airplane, I blindly put my trust in the professional pilots, the so-called, “experts” in the cockpit, and not the guy in 14C reading a John Grisham book or his napping wife in the sweatshirt with a tiger on it. That ends now. This, the year I die in a plane crash.

Today, January 2, marks the birth of Willi Graf, a member of the White Rose. In 1943, after eight months in prison, he was murdered by the Nazis. By remaining silent during Gestapo interrogations, he saved the lives of many others. In honorable remembrance.