"European governments have reached a difficult conclusion: The Americans are the baddies now." Trump may have chickened out, but tonight's #EUCO summit is still going ahead with a broader discussion on the end of the transatlantic alliance.

This comes just after the president publicly demanded that ICE should start showing the public how terrible the people are who they're grabbing and arresting. In this case, his name is Liam. He's five years old. www.kare11.com/article/news...

British soldiers who Trump says did nothing for America, circa 2006

Can we please protect the children? I remember being a kid and being told to go back to Africa. And that was before Trump. Kids right now have it so much worse. The cruelty is louder, more public, more sanctioned. Shelter the little ones. No one deserves this treatment, but especially not them.

This was always coming. We’re spiraling fast.

A brilliant speech by Canada's Mark Carney in Davos: "The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy...The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home & to act together."

Seems 2026 will be the year of "tactical poverty" in Russia 😁

🗞️ Let it be noted we are now into Year 10 of Trump, and the NYT STILL won't use the word 'LIE' to describe the most notorious LIAR in history. Instead, we get 'falsehoods' 'inaccurate claims' & 'overstated boasts' in one headline. It's almost as if they are going out of their way to gaslight us.

The Nobel Foundation makes yet another statement:

Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom release a joint statement:

I don't want to minimize the threat against people like Walt Giardina. But 1) It is malpractice for someone who covered the Hunter Biden case, like @glennthrush.bsky.social, to suggest this is new and 2) MANY of these releases can backfire if journalists just do their jobs.

She wasn’t a perfect candidate. Far from it. But once elected, I have no doubt Harris would have led the country with dignity and integrity, values currently in short supply inside the Oval Office.

We must document these stories to hold perpetrators accountable and to prevent this nightmare from happening again in the future. By sharing these experiences, we can raise awareness, promote empathy, and foster a collective commitment to creating a better world. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

The political ground is shifting on ICE. Your own Dem rep or senator may not have caught up yet. Now - before the 1/30 funding deadline - is the time to push.

In case you missed it ... "The United States relies more heavily on imports from the EU than commonly assumed, with the bloc surpassing China in both total value and number of goods. The EU could target goods critical to the U.S. economy with export restrictions."

For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply. Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.

Heres tonight's #TimelineCleanse: I can't imagine MAGA doing anything like this. It is so whimsical, creative & silly — an awesome way to protest. Doesn't that look like fun? I would have loved to have been there! I hope we can think of something fun like that here in sunny California. 🌞 ☀️ 😎

Carney calls Trump tariff threats on European countries over Greenland an “escalation” youtu.be/W-aKdkcDb5U

Well. This is worth a read. They're all starting leave, too. As the elite of MAGA descend into chaos & turf wars between rival influencers, they've started to confront an unpleasant reality: the right’s domination of X is doing more to divide MAGA than unite it. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

It turns out, the Leopard Eating Faces Party isn't particular about faces. Senator Cassidy now has blood on his hands AND is about to be out of a job.

Kristi Noem clashes with CBS’ Margaret Brennan in tense interview

⚡️EU prepares to retaliate against Trump's Greenland threats. The EU is preparing possible retaliation against the U.S., including €93 billion ($101 billion) in tariffs or restrictions on U.S. companies operating in the bloc, amid tensions with President Trump over Greenland, FT reported Jan. 18.

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Three years ago, I was sworn in to be your governor using my grandfather’s bible and the bible of Fredrick Douglass. Since then, we have moved Maryland forward by creating safer communities, protecting our neighbors and their rights, lowering costs, and much more. We are leaving no one behind.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

The FAA has warned U.S. airlines to exercise caution when flying over parts of Mexico, Central America and South America due to a “potentially hazardous situation.”

Despite US politics being a total clusterfuck, this is an incredible development. It will be the first time anyone under the age 54 will have been alive to see a Lunar mission. Part of the spacecraft was also built by the European Space Agency. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Putin puppet Chump is weakening the United States by breaking our bonds with our longstanding allies. The goal is to destroy NATO. But that won’t happen. NATO will stand strong against the United States, which will plummet into the abyss that Putin created.

We just saw this, and it’s a good idea for businesses to post. Private businesses are allowed to set dress and conduct rules. Requiring no full face coverings has long been standard for safety and loss prevention reasons, and it is within a business’s rights to refuse entry or service.

Went live an hour ago to break this down. Why is Michael Cohen Crawling Back To Trump? (It Most Likely Has to Do With The Epstein Files) thelefthook.substack.com/p/why-is-mic...

NEWS: EU lawmakers are set to halt approval of the EU’s trade deal with the U.S. over Trump’s vow to impose tariffs on countries that supported Greenland in the face of his threats. (Bloomberg) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Federal officials say the ICE officer who shot and killed Renee Good suffered internal bleeding, but videos raise doubts, with the extent of the agent’s injuries still unknown.

I found this very interesting perspective thread on FB.

911 call after Minneapolis ICE shooting differs from DHS’s account of incident. "The video captures tense moments inside the home as a woman speaks with a 911 dispatcher. ....She claims... [when her husband] ran inside, agents shot through the door, hitting him in the leg." kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

Please SHARE if you agree!

"Neighbors in neon vests dot the neighborhood... Information-sharing networks have been built. Residents have connected with non-profits and churches to deliver food to people who are locked in their homes out of fear. Resistance signs are everywhere..." www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...

Nothing threatens authoritarian regimes more than act of nonviolent protest — people standing together, choosing empathy and courage, and refusing to be afraid.

"License plate readers and personal data from car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation... “Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...

NEW: EU ambassadors will hold an extraordinary meeting tomorrow in Brussels to address recent US threats. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

I’m sorry, but if there’s thousands of good guys and 10 Nazis, who are the “counterprotestors?”

A free society does not have agents of the government wearing masks.

To punish Europe for supporting Greenland's right to self-determination, Trump is imposing a 25% tariff, to be paid by US consumers. That's right. Trump is mad at Europe, so he taxes Americans already hard hit by rising food prices, skyrocketing home energy bills, and unaffordable insurance.

Remember how he supposedly "remade the electorate" in 2024? That was a bit premature, it turns out. trib.al/O7QCboT