The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Trump's mass deportations really are a Forever War. It'll take 3 presidential terms at current pace. The prison camps are a new carceral state. It has its own growing public-private bureaucracy: Contractors, mercenary army, etc. 6/ (h/t @lioneltrolling.bsky.social) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

ICE has long been an overmilitarized agency, including under previous presidents. But under Trump it's unshackling itself with warrantless arrests, expanded surveillance and massive new prison camps. This is the post 9/11 madness supercharged and turned inward. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2069...

The MAGA terror state is growing. Schiff's report documents huge contracts for things like "an AR style rifle with military specifications." "ICE and CBP have together placed orders to purchase thousands of new high-powered lethal weapons at taxpayer expense.” 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Trump's urban occupations and violent campaign of mass deportations constitute his Forever War. It has its own arms buildup, its own war profiteers, and (like after 9/11) its own metastasizing public-private bureaucracy, which is growing harder to constrain. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2069...

A handful of contractors are pulling in big money equipping ICE and CBP with heavy weaponry, ammo, and other accessories as they wage their war on us. I asked Schiff's staff to list out the top contractors per their data. The results are in the chart below. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

This is to remind people that Trump lied when he told us this billion dollar operation “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program when in fact we just learned (from Trump’s Iran envoy!) it did nothing and Iran is now a week away from having a bomb.

I can’t wait for all the panties-in-a-bunch crowd wringing their hands “but her language” about Alysa Liu’s Gold Medal skate reactions. fuck off. Gold for Alysa! #AlysaLiu #Olympics #MilanCorina2026 #USFigureSkating

Bari Weiss didn’t want you to see this

Kids today need to see a modern Wide World of Sports

NBC’s broadcast of “live” curling is edited. They come back from a couple of minutes of ads and there’s full house of rocks. We want to see ALL the shots!

Why in the world do all the women judging or handling at the Westminster Dog Show dress in clothing that looks like it was pulled from the trash bin at a middle school home ec class or made from old torn quilts?

“The biggest of these frauds — a $250 million scheme in which an organization called Feeding Our Future received funds for meals it never provided — was led by Aimee Bock, a WHITE woman.”

OK you Republicans who believe so staunchly in States’ Rights: where are you on Trump’s hope to nationalize the elections?

Today Jan 30 in 1649 King Charles I was executed after being charged and found guilty of treason: (from Wiki) he “was accused of treason against England by using his power to pursue his personal interest rather than the good of the country.” 1/??

ALERT: Per CBS News Feds have arrested Don Lemon

Independent journalist Georgia Fort was also arrested by federal agents earlier for reporting on the church protest in Minneapolis. She was live streaming when agents arrived to take her into custody.

Following Trump’s lies that the US fought alone www.euractiv.com/news/us-emba...

ICE tried to invade the Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis archive.ph/XSVm9

So Trump’s Brownshirts can murder people but Virginia Democrats can’t put a redistricting measure on the ballot. Got it. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

for Alex Pretti

The DOJ is now 38 days past the legal deadline established in the Epstein Files Transparency Act. I’ve been following the Epstein survivors fight for transparency relentlessly. They tell me that have been continually betrayed by this admin and DOJ. Release the complete Epstein Files.

But sure—tell me how it’s the liberals who are “coming for your freedoms,” won’t you. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Routine reminder that there is no treatment for measles. But vaccination is 97% effective at preventing measles infection.

The Republicans praise the thuggery of the Jan 6 armed insurrection, and used political ads with their families including proudly children holding automatic weapons. Why are we surprised they escalated to outright murder of a legally armed but non-threatening protestor/ observers?

The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force. @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

Are you paying attention, Democratic leadership because Bill Kristol nails it @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @deluzio.house.gov

Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room

CNN calling Tom Homan "well respected" and "not as hardline as Bovino" is an interesting choice. The dude took a $50,000 bribe in a fucking Cava bag and says all the same fascist shit as Bovino and Noem.

“Please get the truth out about our son.” Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.

“You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple.” — FBI Dir. Kash Patel

And no leadership-designated bipartisan working group meeting in secret to “work things out.” Public debate about public alternatives.

I don’t know that Dems even need specify now what restrictions, limitations, and cuts would be needed to the appropriations bill. Dems can say that it’s the Republicans’ bill, let them suggest amendments to get the votes they need. It’s their responsibility. Dems can respond to their offers.

Senate Dems needn’t come to agreement on everything right now. That’s a path to the lowest common denominator. They simply have to agree to filibuster DHS approps. As to which of a host of anti-brutality and anti-authoritarian proposals to advance, let a thousand flowers bloom.

Terror IS the GOP plan to win the midterms ICE is 47s private armed militia Training to be used to suppress the urban POC vote, ICE "Voter eligibility" patrols need not be located near blue city polls to be effective A midterm win cements GOP claim "America voted for mass deportation"

The original post was deleted, but this was the video it had.

Indeed. He was blinded by pepper spray, and subdued by an entire goon squad. His gun was then removed from his holster by one of the goons. And he was then summarily executed.

IMO, someone should compile a clear video of the critical moments of this interaction, viewed from multiple angles: Pretti was filming from afar, he was approached by agents, he helped a woman who was pushed to the ground, he was attacked in the face with pepper spray, and then he was shot.

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

#AlexJeffreyPretti Say his name 💔😢🔄

🚨RENDITION DEATH SENTENCE 🇮🇷 👉 An Eastern 777 loading right now in Mesa, Arizona may be carrying homosexual men to Iran where they face almost certain execution 😲 azmirror.com/2026/01/23/g...

What if you knew him? What if you loved him? What if you saw him lying dead on the ground? How do you turn away from that? How do you look elsewhere? How do you just keep moving like nothing happened? No video of a gun “brandished” at ICE soooooo manyyyyyy cameras were out there. Hmmmm…

Again, you can tell this by the body language and the look on the guy's face that literally scampered off with the gun. He looked straight at the camera of the people who were recording from inside the shop.

It appears he was zip-tied when murdered. It also sounds like the agents (CBP) saw quickly this was an unjustified shooting. The shooter should be charged—but remember that statements by Bovino and Miller on quotas and immunity, and Noem cutting training by 60%, helped produce this nightmare.