A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Did his trigger finger get a cramp?

It’s past time for Dem leaders with massive social media platforms like @aoc.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @barackobama.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social et al to leave or wind down on X. Show some freaking moral leadership.

politicians shouldn't swear it sets a bad example for the kids orphaned by ice agents

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

We're mobsters. That's all we are. This shit is accelerating. Democrats should refuse to fund this government.

Renee Nicole Good was murdered today. Her mother said, “Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known. She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” Keep saying her name.

Raju: The Speaker and others have said that this driver was weaponizing her vehicle. AOC: Their editorializing of this event to justify a public murder is disgusting. It is horrifying. Watch it for yourself and make that assessment for yourself on which of these leaders are lying to you.

Amount of blood US has expended defending Greenland: zero. Amount of blood Denmark has expended defending the US: 43 Danish soldiers gave their lives in Afghanistan, responding to a US appeal under article 5 of NATO. Ogles has no idea about any of this, because he's an incompetent buffoon.

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences

Unless every single of these ends with a new call for impeachment/removal, I don't want to listen. Unless every GOP speech ends with "and now I am caucusing with the Democrats until the lawless authoritarianism stops," I am not interested. Talk is cheap. Stop violating your oaths.

.@PabloReports: What’s your reaction to the White House blaming the police for the violence on January 6th? Aguilar: This is just another effort by Trump’s White House to whitewash what happened. They released this website while former police officers were testifying

also, maybe don't vote to confirm unqualified and dangerous fascist appointments to key positions of power? Is that ok as a minimal strategic ask of Democrats, or no?

I can't get over how half-baked Miller's rhetoric is. This is supposed to be "they're scared of America," but what he's really saying is "we're bluffing because we think Denmark doesn't care about Greenland or sovereignty." Uh, okay Temu von Clausewitz, real strategic genius move you got there.

“It feels like these data center companies have just put a big target on our backs — Where are the people we elected who promised to protect us from these big corporations trying to steamroll us?” This is a grass roots issue. Are Dems paying attention? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

WATCH: Anti-War Protester From Viral Video Speaks With Zeteo After Michigan Arrest A 22-year-old preschool teacher spoke with Zeteo about being arrested after a TV interview, following a protest against Trump’s attack on Venezuela.

Not only did taxpayers pay for the U.S. military to conquer Venezuela, but we’ll also be subsidizing the operational costs of Trump’s Big Oil donors stealing their oil. But Republicans cut healthcare and food assistance for millions of Americans because it was “wasteful.”

Reasonable to ask whether Americans just got played by Cubans and Venezuelans who will now stay in power in Caracas and who understood that after 24 or so hours of gringo euphoria this will be a disaster for the US. macspaunday.substack.com/p/the-dog-th...

Here’s the Pentagon warning veterans not to quote from actual Pentagon rules, since the Pentagon doesn’t follow rules anymore.

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

Some people run for Congress because they want to make a positive impact on people’s lives. Others run because investing and trading stocks in the companies Congress regulates and takes donations from can make a positive impact on their wealth. Ban Congressional stock trading.

Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.

Introducing the newest member of the Washington Post Editorial Board, Nick Shirley

ongoing reminder that being on twitter means supporting this

Comically over-lawyered and under-inspiring. Just resign, man. Take a lobbying job or something. This is why Democrats look to a mayor like Zohran Mamdani for national leadership.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

Happening now: several hundred people are pouring into Chicago's downtown Federal Plaza. It's 25 degrees outside. Organizers are leading the crowd in a chant of, "no boots on the ground, no bombs in the air!" Two protesters hold a large banner reading, "no war for Venezuela oil."

This is insane. If your member of Congress doesn’t support impeachment, call/email and ask why they are giving away their Constitutional power

none of this is legal. none of this is normal. feel free to tell anyone who says otherwise to fuck off.

This could have big repercussions for mail voting in 2026: USPS no longer guarantees when it’ll postmark mail. More important than ever to be careful about how you vote, including voting as early as possible if you want to do so by mail. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I would think Maduro has head of state immunity from prosecution under international law (with exception for grave human rights violations, see, e.g., Pinochet)

Welp.

AOC: Zohran Mamdani will be the first Muslim mayor of our great city. He will be our first immigrant mayor in over a century. He will be the youngest mayor of New York City in generations. Most importantly, Zohran will be a mayor for all of us .

Stephen Miller wants you to think he's all-powerful, so that he can become so. Important perspective. One point I would add is that the SCOTUS conservatives (Roberts, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett) have mostly been playing shadow docket games. They love unitary executive, but are seeing its problems.

Official.

Happy new year! Keep on sharing this so that it doesn’t fade away as a NYE evening news dump.

“Did you believe you had sufficient evidence to obtain and sustain a conviction against Donald Trump for interference with the lawful transfer of power?” JACK SMITH: “Yes.”

Q: “To the extent members of Congress are up in arms this happened to them, who should be held accountable?” JACK SMITH: “Trump. He directed his co-conspirators to call them to delay the proceedings.” As @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty try to take millions from taxpayers. 🤔

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee just released — on New Year's Eve — the 255-page transcript of Jack Smith's closed door deposition. House Republicans continue their attempts to bury Smith's testimony. Read it all here: tinyurl.com/cndtn3ez

94% of Americans will pay into Social Security the entire year. Here’s when the wealthiest Americans will stop paying into it on Jan 1st: Musk - 12:00:28am Ellison - 12:00:29am Page - 12:00:58am Brin - 12:01:05am Bezos - 12:01:45am Dell - 12:02:09am Huang - 12:02:18am Scrap the cap.

"While Dems are likely to retake the House, they’ll need everything to go right to win both chambers. But if it happens, a year from now we’ll be talking about Trump's full lame-duckification & what it means for 2028. That’s a nice note on which to end a year in which hope was in such short supply."

A year ago, I thought that Trump and the GOP were going to use bogus deficit cutting rhetoric as a smokescreen for attacking the social safety net, and that Trump would end up being an early lame duck. 1/

DEMS WIN BIG IN IOWA: Democrat Renee Hardman wins IA State Senate SD-16 with 71.5%, a 27-point Dem overperformance from 2024. Harris won the district by 16. Hardman's victory blocks a GOP supermajority and makes history as the first Black woman elected to the Iowa Senate.

Friendly reminder that Trump only cares about himself, so he would only care about bulletproof glass if he thought the next inauguration will be for him…

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

Half of our news stories these days are "Rich Asshole Doesn't Want to Follow the Rules" or "Rich Asshole Doesn't Like Something" or "Rich Asshole Makes Ominous Threat" Instead of kowtowing to these spoiled toddlers, I want to stand outside their mansion like Lloyd Dobler blaring this on a boom box: