If this story is accurate, then we are screwed as a country. This is something the totalitarian countries have in their arsenal. Weird how the Democrats are now the party advocating for and protecting our civil liberties.

“When violating the Constitution on a daily basis a mask helps, because people who are assured that they won’t face consequences for abusing power almost inevitably do so.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Epstein survivor Lisa Phillips reacts to Todd Blanche: I’m actually shaking right now. I want to fucking cry. It makes me so sick. And he has a wedding ring on. Like, really—how does he go home to his wife. I’m looking at the files right now that shows names…

Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers. Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024. And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary. The system is rigged.

“We can stand firm without mirroring the cruelty of our opponents. These are dark days in America. To rekindle our light, we must reject cruelty and corruption. To be strong, we need more empathy, not less.” ~Hillary Rodham Clinton www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“Authoritarianism doesn’t disappear with the news cycle. The administration’s automatic lies about the killings and slander of the victims are less a cover-up of facts than a display of utter contempt for them.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

ICE agents are firing kinetic impact projectiles at close range, causing severe injuries that can result in permanent disability or death. Today, they tore off part of a woman’s hand #ICE

“If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Good www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“The National Basketball Players Association releases a statement following the Trump regime’s murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, saying that NBA players “can no longer remain silent.” ~MeidasTouch www.threads.com/@meidastouch...

“Minneapolis residents are risking their lives to document what is happening to their city. In Pretti’s case, doing so cost him everything. We should believe what we can see with our own eyes.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Federal agents claimed Alex Pretti, 37, forced their hand on a Minneapolis street Saturday morning, alleging he “violently resisted” disarmament until the officers fired “defensive shots.” -WSJ Bystander footage appears to tell a different story. on.wsj.com/4raTaHV

“Trump has revealed himself, and we must name what we see.” Fascism www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Land. Europe has spoken. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

BEWARE: ICE is tracking everyone www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

“With an ICE memo that allows officers to enter homes without a judicial warrant, the Trump administration is seeking to usurp guardrails that are enshrined in the Fourth Amendment and have protected Americans’ civil liberties for centuries.” CNN cnn.it/4aapYes

“Dmitri Mehlhorn, a former Democratic strategist, thinks that the chance of political apocalypse is about 20 times higher—and that Americans need to start preparing now.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“An estimated 3,500 soldiers from NATO countries died in Afghanistan. The United States suffered the most losses in absolute terms…But per capita, Denmark suffered even more severe losses, burying 43 soldiers in a population, at the time, of about 5.5 million.” www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

“Americans are entering the most dangerous world they have known since World War II, one that will make the Cold War look like child’s play and the post–Cold War world like paradise.“ www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell to testify before the House Oversight Committee

The Supreme Court’s 2024 decision to grant presidents “absolute immunity” to criminal prosecution for “official acts”—a concept with no textual basis whatsoever in the Constitution—means that Trump can abuse his authority over the executive branch with impunity. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The U.S. military is obligated by law, and by every tradition of American decency, to refuse to follow illegal orders. But what about orders that may not be illegal but are clearly immoral and illogical? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

While in solitary confinement in April 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a nearly 7,000-word letter, smuggled out with the help of his lawyer. The Atlantic published it in its August 1963 issue, with the headline “The Negro Is Your Brother.” Read it here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war." Watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize speech, where he accepted the award on behalf of the American civil rights movement: bit.ly/3bJCQuc MLKDay

Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland have all confirmed plans to deploy military personnel to Greenland, after diplomatic talks with the United States this week ended in disaster. trib.al/pWhML99

In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. outlined a strategy to expose official brutality. Anti-ICE protesters are following it—and it’s working. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

The message of Trump’s letter to the prime minister of Norway signals that the president “genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him,” @anneapplebaum2000 argues. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“Most Americans probably couldn’t care less about Greenland, but they will be forced to care—tragically, too late—if Trump’s gambit engulfs the world in flames.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“For the first time, Powell plainly articulated the Fed’s fight to retain independence from a president seeking to sway it.“ www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“The first days of 2026 have been breathtaking in their share of Wait, he did what? headlines, cable chyrons, and news alerts.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

America’s immigration and customs officers are operating with an assumption of impunity that is changing the lives of U.S. citizens and immigrants alike. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

“…a doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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."

It was always about the oil. www.threads.com/@piper_for_m...

“At the root of it all, Trump made clear, is oil, something that his critics had long claimed while the administration portrayed the months-long pressure campaign as principally about stopping the drug trade. Today, Trump didn’t hide his intent.” www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

“Trump’s ego poses clear and present dangers to American democracy and American world leadership. An ineffective anti-Trump movement is an indulgence American democracy cannot afford or accept.” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

“The United States is now led by someone who cannot contain his thoughts or emotions, and who still thinks of the men and women of the U.S. military as little more than his own toy soldiers.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In a move that has angered traditionalists, Pope Leo XIV dismissed a senior liturgical aide after a homophobic slur was picked up on a hot mic. The aide’s prominence in Latin Mass circles had made him a focal point for those pressing Leo to reconsider Pope Francis’s restrictions on the old rite.

“Much of what ICE is doing is not remotely constitutional. The Court decisions that laid the groundwork for the agency’s lawlessness no longer stand up to basic scrutiny.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...