Democrats are ready to avert a GOP shutdown. But Republicans are threatening to block the 5 bills we all agree on. Why? After people have been shot & killed in broad daylight, they're insisting ICE—which they admit has enough money—needs MORE money without any new strings attached.

“The shooting of Porter, who leaves behind daughters aged 10 and 20, was not caught on camera” How convenient for ICE

Indeed. prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...

To honor Alex Pretti life of service and sacrifice to protect innocense, bring flowers to your local VA Hospital in his honor. Flowers can be given to the kind of patients he cared for and his fellow nurses. And/or protest at ICE!

I was one of Alex's nursing faculty at MCTC. This is simply devastating. He was a good student and I knew he'd be a good nurse. Im so sorry for you and his VA family. May his memory be a blessing and an example of what a nurse is.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Judging from Brazil’s experience under the military regime, I’d say the opposition party needs to actively help mobilize civil society. A demobilized society won’t defeat the regime electorally, and mobilization needs help from organized opposition parties.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

I do not understand why the Democrat establishment is not calling for national mobilization. Everything the government is doing is unpopular (poll-tested), Americans want to fight for their rights, and for their neighbors, and for NATO, all of it. Democrat leaders are failing and I don't understand

The StarTribune live blog is paywall free: - The man shot by federal agents this morning has died - Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. - ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

There is a video from across the street of half a dozen or so masked federal agents wrestling a man to the ground, punching him. Then there is a shot, then several others, until he is lying completely still. You may want to be cautious if you don't want to see the video.

My org @immcouncil.org represents those two gay men. They had been arrested on charges of sodomy by Iranian moral police, and fled the country seeking asylum. They face the death penalty if returned, yet the Trump admin denied their asylum claims in a kangaroo court process. They are terrified.

Absolute ghouls

🧪IMPORTANT! This graphic explains how science all over the US is funded. Congress approved a 2% increase in the #NIH budget for FY 26. Buried in the bill- Shift of ~40% of grants to MYF. This will still result in a 35% DECREASE in the NUMBER of grants funded per yr. Russel Vought is behind this.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Full survey results show American public have high levels of confidence in scientists while revealing some partisan differences (including on how to fund science), but statements asserting lost trust should be read instead as intentional efforts to degrade trust. www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...

It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

This is heartbreaking.

1/ Ciji Graham was the mother of 2-year-old SJ, a sister to 9 younger siblings, a beloved friend. She's also the 7th case we’ve found of a pregnant woman in a state restricting abortion who died after being unable to access standard care. This is her story.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

goddamn

The Trump administration is kidnapping and torturing children

1/2 Many of us at CDC have faced moral dilemmas this past year. One USPHS officer’s “red line” came when asked to support the mass detention and deportation of immigrant families. Her departing letter is a raw, honest reflection. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

One of my responsibilities as Reid's aide - on point for "new media" back in the day -was managing/editing (and advocating for) digital content on our caucus media pages and Reid's official pages. Can't imagine this situation below. I'd rather resign. Wouldn't have to bc Reid had a moral compass.

“IT WAS MURDER” Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026) 👏👏 (📸 Erik Castro)

Also, its illegal to discuss gender in some American universities now.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

This is just baffling to me. Why, @democrats.senate.gov, do you keep enabling this administration? How is anything other than a "No" vote possible? @durbin.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com @hassan.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov @welch.senate.gov

Our responsibility is to make sure the facts are gathered carefully and lawfully, and the integrity of the investigation process is protected. If you have information about the January 8 shooting involving federal agents in Portland, leave us a voicemail on our DOJ Tip Line: 971-673-3900 #orpol

Less than 400 Venezuelans live in Portland, according to U.S. census data. Elliott Young, a Lat. Am. history professor at Lewis and Clark U who has researched Tren de Aragua in Venezuela, surrounding countries and the U.S., said he has not seen any evidence of the gang’s presence in Portland.

"During the evening, as some children ran down 146th Ave playing with sticks, a woman stepped out of her apartment and told them not to speak to each other in Spanish, and not to open the door if anyone came to their apartment."

New from @helenbranswell.bsky.social with a chart by me: the United States is now a global outlier when it comes to vaccines www.statnews.com/2026/01/09/c...

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

The vaccine schedule change is "one of the most opaque & destabilizing public health decisions I’ve seen," says @kkjetelina.bsky.social "The result is painfully predictable: fewer children will be vaccinated, and children will be harmed" yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-unilater...

What followed wasn't just a Trump-led assault on our democracy. It was also a failure of the Dem Party to respond. Garland's incompetence killed accountability. Biden sidelined democracy reform & Senate Dems failed to pass it. 5 years later, Trump's goons are trashing our democracy from the inside.

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

Kennedy's conspiracy-fueled leadership of the CDC endangers every American — especially our children. This move fails to meet the scientific criteria for CDC guidance & will cause more confusion around vaccines that save lives. This man is a threat to our nation’s health.

RFK Jr. is a dangerous man whose conspiracy theories are putting children’s lives at risk. There is NO evidence behind this decision, and it will only cause more preventable diseases to spread. RFK Jr. should never have been confirmed. He should be FIRED or RESIGN.

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area

A few hundred people are gathered in downtown portland to protest the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuela. A broad coalition of groups is present. Maybe 350 people here so far.

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

“The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.”

BREAKING NEWS: We’re leading a lawsuit challenging federal attacks on gender-affirming care. Healthcare decisions belong with families & providers, not the government – and the government can't simply use a “declaration” to circumvent basic legal requirements for policy changes. #orpol #breakingnews

Hey @democrats.org, why haven’t you released the DNC 2024 autopsy? Does it say something about centrism that would make corporate megadonors mad at ya? Does it show that supporting a genocide was a terrible idea? Sorry bud. You still got to release it. You can’t repeat the mistakes you made in 24