Tax data center electricity use! Silicon Valley has used its intellectual property to game federal corporate taxes for years, allowing them to pay a rate near zero forever. But now they have big immobile targets for us to hit. Plus, a tax would encourage them to be more efficient.

A new ICE memo asserted that they can arrest anyone who: 1) Has access to a car 2) Provides “unverifiable” information 3) Is in the vicinity of someone they intend to arrest 4) Has “ties to the community.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Public opinion has shifted dramatically against the White House's approach to immigration enforcement, as captured in the rising % of adults who want to abolish ICE (now +12 among independents, per YouGov). Dems have a lot of leverage to push for reforms rn. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

It's 2024 5-year American Community Survey release day! The ACS is the best resource for small-area analysis of US demographics. In R, use tidycensus and mapgl to dive into the data right now. Copy-paste the code below for an interactive income map with a legend filter:

Five classes from college: Development of Western Civilization The Catholic Church and World Religions Phenomenology Theology of Thomas Aquinas Intermediate Latin

A significant majority of the $75 billion that Congress gave ICE in the OBBBA will go to private companies that operate most of the machinery of mass deportations; they staff and provide the prisons, they drive the buses, and they own and fly the planes. They are all set to cash in massively.

The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.

Email from Jeffrey Epstein: "supposedly a girl said that donal= had sex with her at my house when she was underage.. =C2 . she said she has a witness. in 1993"

During a DHS shutdown, ICE and CBP continue to operate, but we begin to use up their slush fund from OBBBA. We also aren't stuck w/ a Sophie's Choice situation where SSI and Section 8 hang in the balance. It's a place of maximum (albeit still weak) leverage. We must ensure Dems do not squander it.

We're looking at a 6-bill shutdown that likely lasts until Monday unless the House descends into chaos. Upon enactment, all of the govt EXCEPT DHS will have full-year funding. DHS funding expires February 14 (tho ICE & CBP continue in a DHS shutdown). At that point, we will be fighting JUST on DHS.

Minnesota is bad enough that they want us to talk about Epstein.

Just a fundamentally evil, malevolent person. Rotten to the very core.

Aaron Judge looking cool as hell. The GOAT.

The New Democrats & the Progressive Caucus just put out a joint statement with a list of demands for immigration enforcement reforms... 2 things on this: 1-the New Dems are to the left of Schumer on this 2-nothing about clawing back the $175 billion in OBBBA funding for ICE

A Democratic aide says of the new deal: “Sets a 2 week clock on DHS funding by itself. If republicans don’t do shit for two weeks, DHS shuts down and there’s little incentive for us to reopen without the guardrails on ICE”

no fan of jeffries, but holy shit is this article misleading. in the press briefing he calls for "a prohibition that DHS cannot *detain* or deport American citizens", and his focus throughout the briefing is on the detainment part

No vote tonight on the funding deal because — and I am not making this up — Lindsey Graham was insisting on undoing this so he can personally enrich himself to the tune of millions in taxpayer dollars

NO SENATE VOTE TONIGHT Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.

You are all ABSOLUTELY entitled to your correct opinion that Chuck Schumer's messaging sucks. But don't waste your time whining while he bought you two weeks. Bc this is legislative success.

1) Excellent take. Esp as it's not just a delay; Schumer got a DHS-only delay, so no gov't shutdown. And if over the next 2 wks Repubs refuse to put real limits on DHS, Dems can refuse a second CR and only DHS is affected. Better Dem leverage. 2) And it matches my priors. bsky.app/profile/empt...

People are reading this way wrong. Schumer detached DHS from the other five bills in return for a two week CR on the DHS bill. Now Democrats can make demands on DHS spending without having to shut down agencies covered in the other five bills. They have way more leverage to get real concessions.

Things are going well with the Illinois Republican Party.

Trump approvals in Feb. 2025 vs. Jan. 2026, according to @pewresearch.org: White: +12 to -8 Asian: -4 to -48 (!!) Latino: -26 to -45 Black: -59 to -71 That’s uhhhh quite the shift, especially with Asian voters.

Tina Smith: "There is real harm that is unfolding in Minnesota as we speak. Nothing has changed on the ground even though President Trump sent Homan to Minnesota."

3,000 agents that Homan describes as being "in theater" like it's a war. 3,000 agents in a state with a relatively LOW population of undocumented people compared to say, the red states of Florida and Texas. The overwhelming amount of force in MN is unreal.

Smashing a nuclear program from airstrikes isn't easy, but is at least plausible. Regime change through limited 'inspirational' airstrikes? 🤦‍♂️

Trump is on a posting bender right now and has is sharing deranged tinfoil hat stuff about the 2020 election

beyond disgusting

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

Just going to go out on a limb and say that attacking one of the largest voting blocs (the largest?) in the country is a bad idea for a political party.

Rand Paul: "When people watch that video and the government tells them, 'Well, he was assaulting the police officers,' nobody with any objectivity believes that. No American believes he was assaulting the officers. In fact, the opposite appears to be true. So we have to get some rules of the game."

Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it

Artemis 2: Apollo missions took place with the eastern hemisphere of the Moon -- left side as you look at it -- in darkness, first quarter phase. Artemis 2 will be the opposite, last quarter, so the crew will be the first to see the Mare Orientale basin mashable.com/article/arte...

You’ve got to wonder if they targeted him specifically and intentionally

Yup. The problem isn't the leadership; it's the mission. You could put Sun Tzu and Jesus Christ in charge and it'd still be a brutal shitshow as long as the mandate remained the same.

The NIH budget bill passed the House. Now, it's bundled w/ DHS funding in the Senate. We are likely to see a fight this week. New from me: things to know about the budget bill, NIH presidentialization, free speech, why science has been quiet, & more. At "Can We Still Govern" @donmoyn.bsky.social 🧪

Breaking NBC: Family members of two Trinidadian men who were killed in a U.S. boat strike in October have sued the U.S. government — accusing it of wrongful death and extrajudicial killings. The lawsuit is the first of its kind to be filed against the Trump admin.

one of the least-appreciated own-goals happening right now is the deliberate sabotage of our knowledge/research sector www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

very cool opportunity!

Ipsos-Reuters polls in January: Date / net Tump disapproval / approve/ disapprove Jan 4-5 +14 42% 56% Jan 12-13 +17 41% 58% Jan 23-25 +21 38% 59%

"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible." Donald Trump 10 years ago this week

It wasn't even close. It's inevitable that Chicago will get two (of six) snowplows named Abolish ICE and one named ICEbreaker.

I’m done with this shit. This isn’t a game. And if you don’t realize that the work of Judges Xinis and Boasberg and Ellis has been an essential part of forcing this administration to account for its actions, you’re not a serious person.

Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told: DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big) CBP stays at border warrants for arrests IDs, bodycams ICE out of churches, schools "That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2057...

They took away his right to post. Not sure there's a bigger punishment in the MAGA universe.

On top of other wins today, Tom Homan gets to spend January in Minnesota.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired