Scoop: As Washington Post leadership laid off hundreds of staffers this week, exec editor Matt Murray blocked the paper’s media desk from covering the cuts, spiking a pre-written story despite internal lobbying www.status.news/p/ms-now-cro...

JUST IN: Federal prosecutors in Chicago move to dismiss charges against another defendant tied to Operation Midway Blitz. Erik Meier faced trial 3/9 for resisting a federal officer. Once the motion is granted, he will be the 16th of 32 known defendants cleared. No known convictions.

Polk attacked Mexico to expand US territory. People can support that, but it wasn't a defensive war. And lots of Americans opposed it. Manifest destiny did not, in fact, beat in every American heart. Anyway, you can read more on this kind of crap here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

For years, Weil has written these elegies about the weather that might be a bit much but are often the most interesting writing in the paper. I want a local publication that runs this. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Small scoop here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"...dictate the presentation of US history and culture ..." I meant. USA! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Our hot new MJ cover story on all the idiotic things Trump is doing to control America's 250 anniversary celebrations and ictate the presentation of US history and culture is online. Read it before the First Amendment gets canceled. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

These unbelievable buffoons are in the government, running DOJ, but still manage to get in trouble for impersonating federal agents. www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/p...

You have to take clicks where you can in this business. Thanks for reading Larry. www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

Trump wants to control the country’s future by rewriting its past. For the latest issue of our magazine, @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social explain how the president is weaponizing history to wage his never-ending cultural and legal battles. Read it here: tinyurl.com/32n7948b

Here's an absolutely wild deep-dive from @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social into Trump's all-out assault on America history and the bizarre political struggles among the alphabet soup of official 250th-anniversary organizations

Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.

Ed Martin's ouster doesn't mean DOJ is going to stop trying to prosecute Trump's enemies/fed officials. It means Trump wants DOJ's politicized prosecutions run more competently. (See from CNN prior to Martin news. www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/p...)

BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb issues a TRO blocking DHS Sec Noem's Jan 8 memo purporting to require 7-day notices by members of Congress to perform oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. The effect is that congressional oversight visits are allowed on request, as is required by Sec. 527.

"The president addressed the agents on speakerphone, asking them questions as well as praising and thanking them for their work on the inquiry, according to three people with knowledge of the discussion." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Not the main point here, I'm not sure "a cloak and dagger mystery reminiscent of John le Carre" that "is swirling around the complaint" helps clarify what's up here. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...?

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.

Me and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social have even MORE good news and it concerns exotic varieties of pseudoscience you may not have even known exist www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Traditionally, “you see the evidence first and then decide what to charge; you don’t charge and then see the evidence.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Terrific work here from @dfriedman.bsky.social and @schwellenbach.bsky.social on the contracts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is one of the jets Daedalus Aviation bought for DHS. Turned over the “keys” to CBP a few weeks ago. Avelo 737s they bought are getting new paint jobs rn. Then maybe new N-numbers, bc Daedalus already reserved 472US-479US. 47. Yup. If you know how this jet is being crewed, msg me on Signal!🙏

CONFIRMED: AG Pam Bondi, DHS Sec. Kristi Noem, and DNI Tulsi Gabbard will all speak at the National Association of Secretary of States conference tomorrow.

Chaya Raichik, who runs the social media account Libs of TikTok, has spent the days following Alex Pretti’s killing doxxing ordinary working people — teachers, nurses, school board members — for speaking out against federal immigration officials or expressing sympathy for Pretti.

Tommy Tuberville says he placed his assets in a blind trust. There’s no record that he did www.al.com/politics/202...

I have a story coming out with Amanda in Mother Jones magazine, which is not a social media platform. I can also confirm it is not similar in style to right-wing youtube content.

The 3d Circuit has denied rehearing en banc of the panel decision finding that Alina Habba had been unlawfully appointed as US Attorney. However, 3 of the 11 en banc judges would have granted rehearing, and one will later publish a dissent.

Wrote about the observers. The people standing by and filming and the risk they are taking to let the world see what is happening. It's crucial and its the only way to combat the lies and blatant propaganda. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

Watch the video below with your own eyes.⤵️ Note: DHS had earlier come out claiming, "an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun." Does DHS mean? "approached" = came toward with a camera? "with" = on his person while filming?

There's now a clear pattern where immigration agents shoot and kill people and DHS immediately lies about it. But their speculation today that this guy repeatedly shot while lying on the ground wanted "to massacre" agents seems like a new level of dishonestly. There is zero evidence of that.

“Cindy MacLeod, former superintendent at the park, praised the work that had gone into the exhibit, calling the removal ‘vandalism.’” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Bovino clearly spends time each day picking his little outfits. He's choosing a fancy fascist look for his job peforming authoritarianism on TV. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/s.... "Accessorized with black leather shoes and gold-trimmed patches, it is a look...“intended to intimidate and also provoke.”

How do you pause an injunction barring cops from using retaliatory violence against **peaceful** protesters? That's . . . already illegal. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.

“The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together.” paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney... In this case, he stopped just short of naming.

NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force. w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

This isn’t the first time ICE has tear gassed a baby www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The maturing market for corrupt Trump pardons seems to be setting the price of clemency at maybe a couple million dollars a Trump PAC or one of the family businesses.

This is horrific - and it was also incredibly brave of this detainee to speak the truth about the murder of his fellow. He is defenseless and vulnerable against all the ICE agents who will want to enact retribution. This is true bravery.

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

For a lawsuit involing a US senator, sex and drugs, this lawsuit was less fun than I hoped. Who cares if she got him a theragun? Boring!

Photo from Status Coup live broadcast shows FBI/ATF/IRS/HSI homeland security task force challenge coin found in Minneapolis now with skulls and vulture motifs.

“They chased him, he got home and when we closed the door they shot him.” MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...

“The sweep…is expected to focus partly on unspecified suspicions of fraud… among refugees who have already been admitted to the United States.” But it follows very specific, incredibly racist, evidence-free allegations by Trump and Miller about Somali people. . www.ms.now/news/trump-m...

Trump justified bombing Caracas and 100 odd people in Caracas by claiming this little war would help US oil companies. Seems pretty notable that he's screwing them, not to mention the 32 million Venezuelans still living under the same repressive regime, minus Maduro.

Has Iran considered pretending their demonstrators are paid by left leaning US groups? Current US policy seems to be that killing people you claim are paid by Soros etc is cool. And if they happen to be gay, even better. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

This grand jury information bolsters Jack Smith's case that Trump was not merely repeating lies advisers fed him but ignoring people who told him he lost and seeking bullshit to use to try to stay in power. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

These guys don't try to calm things down. They immediately escalate, yelling, gesturing, swarming the car. And intentionally or not, they use their colleague having just killed a woman to implicitly threaten to kill anyone who doesn't comply with their confusing, shouted, curse-laden instructions.

This "What happened to due process chrome" is too stupid to take. Due process is for legal proceedings, not opinions. You don't have to have hold a trial to conclude and argue that Jonathan Ross shooting Renee Good as her car drove past him was murder.

DOJ wants to investigate Renee Good's widow, but won't investigate her killer. As a result the people running the real investigation into the fraud that DHS pretends is the reason they are in Minneapolis just quit. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...