Just wait 2 minutes for the next distraction.

Pro tip to House reporters: Print this out and have with you BEFORE you interview Mike Johnson later today.

Damning.

Good - get a subpoena.

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

Is it possible that the D’s finally learned how to play a proper hand of poker?

OTD in 2022 your Prez predicted the exact invasion date.

Seems the kangaroo immigration courts weren't kangaroo enough already. Looks like they've received their marching orders to just assign everyone to a pro forma removal order party.

Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders

“The memo also said that only one previous whistleblower complaint filed in 2020 required such tightly controlled security parameters. The current whistleblower complaint was “the most sensitive to-date received” by the inspector general’s office.”

Under Donald Trump, American foreign policy is for sale.

Art.

I think it's pretty clear from the transcript of the Julie Le hearing that ICE/DHS is intentionally setting up a defective system of detention so that it can use the purported failures of the "system" as an excuse to ignore or delay complying with court orders

Whatever happened to the whole “Don’t Tread on Me” crowd? Where did the Proud Boys go? A preview of tomorrow’s “To the Contrary” Podcast w/ Garrett Graff….

Steve Bannon: We're gonna have ICE surround the polls come November.

Today would be a good day to support @51st.news

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

Allowing the president to use active-duty military to conduct civilian law enforcement is far too easy

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

The Speaker of the House once again doing the sit-down between Phil and Tony - “whatever happened there” youtu.be/Ohscge4f1Ak

WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.

I wonder how many in Congress grasp just how serious this is.

David French: This is not a drill www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

Michael Bloomberg: The Hudson River tunnel project is too important to derail

The commission overseeing a massive $16 billion Hudson River tunnel, the linchpin of rail travel between New York and New Jersey, filed suit to force the Trump administration to restore funding just days before construction is set to halt on Friday.

Bad Bunny is an American citizen.

It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.

It is hard to fathom how inhuman, sadistic and disgraceful it is for government agents to be lurking at elementary schools to seize kids and use them as hostages. To send little kids to concentration camps. To refuse needed medications. Truly, American Gestapo.

First, he's saying the quiet part out loud: he wants to take over elections to control outcomes. Second, when he realizes he can't do this directly, he will try to leverage federal funding to coerce states to tilt the playing field for him. Governors and courts better be ready to defeat that.

“It is not “doxxing” federal agents for the public to know who they are. We are supposed to know who they are, because that is how we hold them accountable. This is why police officers wear visible badge numbers and name tags. The responsibilities they are given are not compatible with anonymity.”

“Very weird shape” = gerrymandered

Nobody but sorry D-listers will play the Trumpified Kennedy Center and he’s going to shut it down rather than endure the humiliation.

Such a pathetic little baby - but thanks for watching though

there was an ABC news camera 15 feet from me. don’t light things on fire on the news. also don’t burn down the neighborhood that all the neighbors are trying to protect.

WSJ - A US intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it hasn't been shared with Congress. www.wsj.com/politics/national...

Even if OpenAI doesn’t die, it needs to be able to pay Oracle an astonishing amount - the contract is $300 billion over 5 years. AWS’ entire revenue is around $110bn a year. The OpenAI deal starts in 2027, and will likely be tens of billions at the least. Oracle needs the money to pay the loans.

Justin Bieber’s tux was still at the dry cleaners, so

On behalf of everyone who’s watched SNF

I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

State sponsored terror: “Acevedo said she rarely leaves the house, and if she does, she doesn’t leave alone. Her grandchildren, who live with her and are all citizens, haven’t been to school for weeks. She doesn’t trust this ICE enforcement.”

Closure is because no one is going. I shudder to think, though, what he'll do to it. I hope someone sues to stop him.

The pettiest little baby - if they won’t perform at the place that renamed for myself, then I’ll just shut it down

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Today, Russian forces again attacked a maternity hospital, and they also attacked a bus transporting coalminers. Every day, they murder innocents. In the White House, the president has hung a picture of himself with Putin. What happened to the GOP and the conservative movement?

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Portland City Council member

fire him. or better yet, Bari Weiss

Watch the video as a recklessly driven cheap car careens around and a gang of armed thugs spring out to menace an innocent civilian, like a kidnapping or robbery or murder-for-hire. It looks like organized crime taking place in a third-world country, because it is.

I wrote yesterday about Kevin Warsh, saying what everyone who really follows monetary debates knows: he's a bullshitter who uses big words to make incoherent arguments that always amount to stimulus for Republicans, austerity for Dems 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-bad-heir...

A new statement from Epstein survivors: "Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."