OK, YOU should still absolutely not release a video talking about the charges against you. Powell gets the one-in-a-million exception because he knows what he’s doing and is resisting authoritarian trash.

"Luther informed Hitler in no uncertain terms that the Reichsbank was not part of his revolution. It was an independent fiscal entity with an international board of directors." (The parallels here to Trump vs Powell are uncanny--almost too on-the-nose, really.) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Blue state politicians with presidential hopes are limp on ICE because they’re already trying to appeal to the center. They don’t realize confronting ICE is the centrist position. In addition to being morally right, it’s a national name-recognition strategy there for the taking.

not to diminish the point but I think they knew exactly who he was and what he was doing at the time (we all saw it with our own eyes!), they just chose not to care or were somehow afraid of the wrath of the unelected shadow president who was bulldozing the government.

If I hear any pundits say Republicans support the constitution for the rest of my fucking life because as soon as Republicans had power they started doing shit like this. Being ICE doesn't give you a free pass to the Constitution.

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

Trump just bragged that one of his loyalists is now the president of META. Just a reminder that Threads is owned by META.

“But I am genuinely worried that something has changed for the worse in recent weeks, if not months, because the way that Trump and Stephen Miller and all these fools are acting, they seem to be high on their own supply to a degree that I haven’t ever seen before.”

The Supreme Court sets aside lower court decisions upholding convictions for bribery related to the FIFA scandal because the Trump administration decided to dismiss those criminal cases "in the interests of justice." The FIFA prosecution ends in a whimper. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

I know the doctor who ICE blocked from helping Renee Good. (I won’t identify him since he hasn’t chosen to identify himself.) I’m glad to see this part of ICE’s crime get more attention.

Translation: Activities that the Supreme Court has ruled are legal expressions of free speech under the Constitution should not be tolerated and I stand completely with the Administration violating citizen's first amendment rights.

I said this elsewhere, but I’ll repeat it here. If Americans saw this happening in another country they’d, rightly, decry the brutality of the authoritarian regime. And that would probably also be true of the MAGA folk who celebrate the brutality and lawlessness of ICE because, reasons.

Someone sent me this video of Trump’s goons in action today in the Twin Cities. The audio is disturbing.

Obessing on the junk of single child while the richest men ever to live burn the planet.

They assume we must all be getting paid to rise up cos: A) they can't imagine a scenario where they would stand up for a stranger without financial incentive B) they received financial incentives or free passes to cause trouble C) there is insane funding behind them, and they draw small crowds

Wow: Mary Peltola announces she's running for Senate in Alaska — as a Dem, of course. Peltola looked to be deciding between a run for governor, where she looked like she'd almost be favored, and a tough race for Senate against Republican incumbent Sullivan. Telling of Dems' mood she chose latter.

They could not be any more obvious about sucking up to the Trump Admin than hiring one of his former advisors to be their President/Vice Chair. They need their AI investments to work so the economy doesn't collapse.

I genuinely wonder whether Kamala Harris would be President today if Joe Biden had made NYT feel special. This may be about the 10th story on this interview, probably the 4th or 5th that's largely about "NYT LOOK AT US!!!!" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

White House spokesperson says that they welcome transparency and investigations. Will note for future use.

But please tell me more about the Republicans, champions of free speech and the First Amendment.

I will just note that the TWO Republican members of Congress who have spoken out forcefully against the Trump admin’s criminal investigation of Powell (Tillis & Bacon) have both previously announced their retirements.

BIG FLAG: Trump said during his interview with The New York Times that he regretted not ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines in swing states after his loss in the 2020 election. He doubted whether the Guard was "sophisticated enough" to carry out the order effectively.

*whispering* this is the performance of public virtue and should be feted

These are the sorts of things local authorities could be enforcing to get ICE out but aren’t, these are unequivocal public safety violations & with the mass of surveillance LP readers we already know where they are! (Post is from a month ago to illustrate this isn’t even a new thing)

The problem of why Democrats keep losing in the statewide elections is due to prejudice against straight White males.... according to two White male Democrats in a state that's entire Congressional delegation is either gay or female, all of whom are very popular.

Donald Trump and his father were busted by the DOJ for refusing to rent to Black people. They were guilty but they avoided responsibility by aggressively litigating. It was one of the formative experiences of his life.

This is the tiniest, babiest, most fragile thing I've ever seen

YOU DON'T SAY

Standing up to TACO Trump is the most effective strategy and it's wild that fewer people and institutions do it

Warner: "We've had American intervention in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Nigeria, Venezuela, maybe Greenland where he would blow up NATO. Did you see the Brits and Germans are putting troops in Greenland because they want to send a message. How is this leading to price stability, bringing down costs?"

WARNER: It used to take 5 to 6 months to get trained. They've now lowered the training period to 47 days. Why 47 days? Because Donald Trump's the 47th president. Tell me that's a rational approach KERNEN: I'm not taking that bait WARNER: Joe! You can't pick your facts

AI is like a simulacrum of tech leaders themselves: superficially impressive until they start talking about a field you know, at which point it's clearly shallow and ill-informed. Most business uses of LLMs require a *lot* of time tweaking inputs and error-correcting outputs.

How embarrassing

Friday: EU finalizes Cono Sur trade deal. Monday: EU finalizes deal with China. I wonder if Art of the Deal guy will notice he's the only one who can't make a deal?

ICE is also majorly targeting Black people. Doesn't matter if you "were born here." They are harassing people left, right and center.

Honestly not sure if it gets 60 in the senate but this kinda sounds like the WH is worried about that

New in PN: Republicans in Congress show signs of life "Amid the understandable despair, it can be easy to miss flickers of hope. But the fact is that the regime is ramping up violence and terror in part because its grip on the nation, and even on its own party, seems to be slipping."

MAGA aligned accounts continue to share a fake, AI image of the ICE murder of Renée Good

MAGA accounts are sharing fake mugshots and rap sheets of Renée Good

MAGA is against constitutional rights

Trump is going to use DOJ/FBI to try to steal the 2026 election. My legal team and I will fight back in court but we all have a role to play. Tomorrow, I will offer my thoughts on what Trump is up to and what we need to do now. Subscribe to Democracy Docket for free to find out. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

BARTIROMO: JP Morgan's stock is down 3%, American Express is down sharply. Analysts say this is going to see an impact on earnings of these credit card companies between 25% & 250% PULTE: Well, I'd defer to President Trump on this specific policy. Obviously I support it. He knows what he's doing.

This is an insane thing to say

Navarro on Jerome Powell: "If you actually look at what he's being investigated for, it looks like there's luxury elevators and dining rooms... we know he made false statements. The only question is whether he was aware and did it with malice." (Note that even Maria Bartiromo isn't really buying it)

Just brushing past the President using the Department of Justice to "Troll" someone he disagrees with politically. They're just moving past the open abuse of power because they don't care when Republican presidents are the ones doing it; but if a Democratic president tried the same it'd be furor.

Powell's term is done in May. Trump would rather risk crashing the economy than give up his petty revenge fantasies. And the entire regime is in the "Make great grandpa stop yelling" business.

This is actually something I'm working on articulating. The entire right-wing paranoid style that Murdoch has used to conquer the planet is the weaving of constant faux crises. The reason it's far less effective when Trump is in power is that it's tough to compete with actual crises.

DHS Assaulting Protesters Because Goons Believe They Are "Vicious, Horrible People" www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/12/d...

See if this deputy had listened to the union and not bought Starbucks from any location during the duration of their ULP strike maybe they wouldn't have gotten this cute pig on their cup and had suffered so much trauma