The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.

Congratulations to the judges of the 8th circuit. ICE got your message loud and clear.

If you work for ICE, you will be unhirable in California.

Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them. “At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”

If you’re on the ground, it is absolutely unmistakable what they’re doing. Bovino has gone to multiple gas stations, with a massive convoy, gotten out of the car, and strolled into the street and posed for ten minutes at a time. No gas, no food, no bathroom. Just over and over in sequence.

They are trying to whip people into a frenzy, in the hopes that someone will do something violent, or we’ll riot, and give them an excuse. It’s not a coincidence that JD Vance is coming tomorrow. Again, every journalist on the ground knows this, but we’ll see if their editors will let them say it.

trump admin immigration policy reaching new levels of fucked up

hello my loves 🤍 nursing homework done a little early, so i get to spend tonight with you i’ll be live at 10pm pst 🌙 hope to see you there ☁️ #nurse #vtuber

“don’t usually have”

This week, I’ve seen one group of people pooh-poohing 60% opposition to ICE as not high enough to make a difference and another group of people (sometimes, likely, the same people!) mocking efforts to move public opinion.

I will most certainly have more on this once I collect my brain from today’s arguments/coverage, but do be sure to read Aaron’s thread here and the underlying AP report.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Congress ordered CBP to create a biometric entry/exit system 25 years ago. The problem was that the tech wasn't there until recently, and the agency never pushed hard for it. In late 2020, CBP proposed a rule to implement it. That rule sat until 2025, when the Trump admin finalized it December 26.

Promises made, promises kept— in a New York minute.

lol is the “deal” that the United States gets what it currently gets, but everyone gives Trump a shiny object so that he’ll be distracted?

DoD has placed active-duty soldiers with the 82nd Airborne, based at Fort Bragg, on standby for possible deployment to Minneapolis should the president invoke the Insurrection Act, reports Newsmax’s Carla Babb (a former VOA colleague who was our Pentagon correspondent).

McGovern: Well, he said a lot of crazy shit today. I think it’s time to take the keys away from grandpa. He doesn’t seem like he’s all there.

"Usually they say, 'He's a horrible dictator-type person.' But sometimes you need a dictator." As I have always said, he is at his most honest when he is at his most malevolent and depraved.

The justices keep returning to the hypo of a Fed governor posting pro-Nazi videos to ask whether that would meet the bar for for-cause removal. The idea that this kind of content would obviously cross the line seems a bit farcical given some of the material that DHS regularly posts on social media

good discussion imo, with someone who (in her words) saw Trump coming and tried to do something about, but got shut down by Dem leadership newrepublic.com/article/2052...

NEWS: Pentagon ordered active-duty soldiers with a military police unit in NC to prepare for possible deployment to Minneapolis, three people familiar told @ms.now Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg

Not surprised by this at all, given the makeup of the 8th Circuit and the underlying situation.

First take out of court: Don’t mess with the Fed. Sauer faced his roughest arguments yet since joining DOJ, with every justice seeming skeptical of aspects of the Trump admin’s extreme position. The only real question was if the court will just deny DOJ’s stay request or go further into the merits.

Kavanaugh to Sauer on the Fed: "Your position that there's no judicial review, no process required, no remedy available, very low bar for cause — that the President alone determines — and that would weaken if not shatter the independence of the Federal Reserve."

Alito asks about a situation where videos emerge of a Fed governor praising Hitler. "That's an official that would be impeached in a heartbeat and would resign in half a heartbeat." ... "Impeachment — It's the ultimate backup here."

Paul Clement, a conservative ex-SG for George W. Bush, represents Cook. He notes at the outset that no president from Woodrow Wilson (who signed the Federal Reserve Act) to Biden ever tried to remove a Fed governor.

After Sauer says Lisa Cook "was given an opportunity" to respond to the allegations, KBJ asks whether that due process was: "She supposed to post about it, and that was the opportunity to be heard?" Yes, Sauer replies.

Yes, this is my overwhelming impression listening to it. He repeatedly demanded full ownership of Greenland, and made an explicit threat to punish the Europeans if they don't give in. He then threatened to punish Canada over its prime minister's speech!

Perhaps Trump going full eugenics for a second straight day will cause the media to realize they need to make it a headline.

WIRED spoke to 10 residents in Minneapolis about what life has been like for them since ICE seized the city. I know there's a lot of coverage out there, but spend time with this heart wrenching piece:

Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."

it's bizarre to see both CNN and CNBC run with chyrons reporting that Trump said he won't "use force" to take Greenland, when the comments in question were clearly a threat to take Greenland by force. How naive are we at this point?

One week until the new outfit reveal! In the mean time, enjoy a nice close up of my eyes :3

New Strength In Numbers/ @verasight.io poll out this morning (conducted Jan 14–20). Democrats start 2026 with their biggest lead yet on the House generic ballot yet — D 51 / R 43 (D+8) among registered voters. Trump losing ground on immigration and deportations www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-t...

Pool report: "AF1 landed at JBA at 11:07 p.m."

“We’ve got confusion here.”

The current official word is this is a “minor electric issue,” but I want to express my gratitude for the shot of momentary joy this post gave me.

Following publication, these things happened. Halligan's claimed 120 days (under A.G. appointment authority, had it been a valid appointment) were up today, so, apparently, she's done.

New Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll out tomorrow at 6:00 AM ET. We'll have fresh results on how Americans are feeling about Trump's deportations, issue salience and party trust, and an update on the 2026 House generic ballot. Toplines and crosstabs to be posted here www.gelliottmorris.com/p/poll

What I can say for sure is that Chuck Schumer is picking a hell of a few weeks to unveil the midterms campaign for the Democrats, in which he explicitly pushes them not to talk about immigration much. Counterargument: Can we talk about ICE now, and Nov in like.. June? And there's merit in that!

NEW: The Department of Justice has become a misnomer with Bondi at the helm. One year in, the depths to which DOJ has sunk was laid bare in an order on Lindsey Halligan's claims in Virginia and in subpoenas issued against officials in Minnesota. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Congressman Moulton will be joining @naynagupta.bsky.social and me on Thursday to discuss ICE detention over the last year and the findings from @immcouncil.org’s latest report on the Trump admin’s unprecedented growth of immigration detention over the last year. Register at link in the next post.

Why even have an appropriations process?

It is not normal for a president to be pushing for a net -80 policy. That Trump apparently does not care about the public opinion on Greenland (or maybe he doesn't know about the polls) is a sign of how far we have drifted from normal democratic government

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

New research concludes the Trump administration’s policies will reduce **legal** immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

When people talk about ICE just needing more training, these are the tactics they’ve been trained to use for years.

Minibus is out. Democrats were able to include some guardrails in about ICE: -restricts ICE to spending $3.8 billion of its annual budget on detention as opposed to being able to spend $10 billion -$20 million that must be used for body cameras 1/ www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Fuck body cams, the masks are the first thing that needs to go. Agents of the state working with the American public should be clearly identifiable. Local cops don’t get to mask.

🚨BREAKING: Senate Republicans Steamroll Democrats on Another ICE Funding Increase Congressional Appropriations Committees negotiate massive boost to detention budget with no real accountability measures despite Democratic claims of cuts and oversight. migrantinsider.com/p/breaking-s...