Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

ICE’s cruelty knows no bounds. Deporting children with cancer. Shooting moms. And now, using a 5 year-old as “bait” to detain his family. It’s far past clear: ICE must be abolished. Congress should not give it any additional funding. And the people responsible for its crimes should face charges.

👇👇👇👇👇👇 "Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to 'overturn election results in certain states,' and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data..." www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

This is a very good point. The November 2025 US National Security Strategy never mentions the Arctic at all. The idea that it's a genuine security priority for the Trump administration is not credible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

A few hours before Trump ordered the raid on Maduro, a new, anonymous user placed a $32k bet on Polymarket that the Venezuelan leader would be toppled — one of three bets the user placed, all on Venezuelan politics. That bet turned into a $400k payout www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...

It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.

day one in mamdani’s new york

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

i'm trying not to constantly post about it but all the shit about epstein is boiling my head cos it's not actually news. the media has completely failed in their role to make it clear the news here is the authorities were fully aware of both epstein and his network.

So the "most transparent president in history" won't let Jack Smith's testimony become public. He's got them holding back tens of thousands of Epstein documents, haven't seen his taxes, his school records, and no one knows why the East Wing was destroyed before he even had ballroom plans. Yeah.

NYT's "Year In Pictures" piece is a gut punch www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

No, we don't want "free" healthcare. We want universal healthcare paid for by our taxes that covers everyone and leaves no one bankrupted and sick. This isn’t difficult to comprehend.

And here it is. Kushner is working with the Saudis to grab CNN and make them a propaganda channel for both them and tDumpster. If we do not start doing something now, we are going to belong to all the wrong people. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Everything is going so well in the world that Rubio has time to wage war on a typeface. He’s bravely saving us from the “woke” Calibri font, the one chosen because it’s more accessible for readers. Thanks for making the world a safer place for all of us, Marco. 🙄✍️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone. Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work. Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.

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No one should have to face such threats. It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.

I love the whole "I don't have kids in school anymore, I shouldn't have to pay taxes that go to the public school" argument from people. It's the classic "I got mine, fuck you." I have no kids. I never want kids. Take more of my tax money and put it towards schools and not cops. Thank you.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

They regret they *got caught* associating with Jeffrey Epstein.

The BBC reached out to the US Department of Homeland Security for comment on a story about immigration policy, and the official response from DHS was, “go cry about in some tea — oh wait, it’s in the harbor”

Just making sure @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social see this

The Dems who are caving are doing so not because their base wants them to, not because the voters want them to, not because the fed workers and SNAP recipients want them to… they are caving because their DONORS want them to. And that’s really all that ever matters to the corrupt

This is so true. This must change

Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

We could feed, clothe, and house so many human beings.

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Future generations are gonna be really confused about the etymology of “trumped-up charges”

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

It’s a fucking pop tune, not the national anthem. I don’t stand up when they play any other pop tunes, why would I stand up for that one?

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

At various points in the 1990s, my dystopian predictions had me thinking, "I should buy gold," but it was something like $400/oz at the time, and I was broke, so I never did. [Me, in 2025, listening to a news story about how gold just hit $4000/oz]

It’s so fucking funny that we’re still getting five NYT op-eds a week calling for the left to tone down their rhetoric

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie; But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"

I’ll take any new opportunity to say fuck Dave Chappell

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Troops to Portland? Illegal and absurd. But the absurdity is the point. Trump policy is to ignore real threats to US security coming from abroad and use the armed forces to pursue imaginary threats from within, thereby creating an atmosphere suitable for personal rule. (1/2)

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Double negative? Two wrongs make a right? 🤔

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Imagine saying nothing about school shootings, or the genocide in Gaza, or the kidnapping of our neighbors, or the vilification of trans youth. Imagine saying nothing about these and so many other tragedies. And then finding your voice for Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk’s last words were blaming trans and Black people for mass shootings, enough with the “he was the best of us” eulogies 🙄

There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power. The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.