Twat a horror.

Just in case anybody is not clear on this; if a Democratic president was sending in a military force to red states for easily debunked, bullshit reasons, the mainstream political media would be sounding a five-alarm outrage siren, setting their hair on fire and demanding his/her resignation.

“There is a lesson here about dealing with autocrats and it is a simple one: Live not by lies.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-nob...

this is a rollicking great read it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Tell your families. We all know someone who doesn’t know:

Breaking news: An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner said it is likely to classify the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center as a homicide. A detainee says he witnessed Campos being choked to death by guards.

This family wasn’t even part of the protest In fact, they took all of their children and put them in a car so they could ESCAPE the violence But ICE didn’t care. They threw the tear gas and flashbangs anyway. Then the baby stopped breathing Yet Kristi Noem backed up her goons-completely

Dear #Canadian Neighbors: imagine watching it from the inside... 🤮 😭 🤬 🤬

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

Again, the yelling at/questions directed to Democrats about What They Must Do are good, & we should expect more. But the people who actually control the institutions & have primary responsibility for Doing Something simply are not being asked nearly the same amount of hard questions:

Three doctors who have served on state maternal mortality review committees, which study the deaths of pregnant women, told ProPublica that Ciji Graham’s death was preventable. “There were so many points where they could have intervened,” one said.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

We’re now THAT country: A convicted felon is president. Streets are militarized. AG is investigating the felon’s enemies. Countries/allies - threatened. Press censorship, history erased, propaganda is rampant throughout the administration. America = shithole country.

Navarro says it plainly like few others can.

It was crystal clear what MASS DEPORTATION NOW meant, if only one cared to look. All this stuff is happening now.

Under Trump's watch, a DHS agent shot a protestor in the face with a non-lethal round at close range, fractured his skull, and then dragged him around as he choked and bled. He is now permanently blind in his left eye.

Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith is set to testify publicly next week about his investigations into President Donald Trump that resulted in two indictments. https://to.pbs.org/3YFyHij

@timmiller.bsky.social says it's time to stand up and fight back against ICE thuggery: "This stuff is ratcheting up, not down, and it is gonna take a united populace to say no, to get them to back off this, and it's worked"

In addition to Good's murder, ICE has been busy in Minneapolis causing car wrecks and traffic jams, filling the streets with tear gas and goons with loaded weapons, issuing specific threats and sewing general chaos. This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.

MAHA?

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REMINDER: The Trump administration was required by law to release all the Epstein files by December 19 and still has not released 99% of the files

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Happening now: “ICE out” protests from East Coast to West Coast in solidarity 🔥

 Michael Fanone: "This exact scenario is not an uncommon scenario for most law enforcement officers. I came across it countless times in my career. The amount of times that I fired my weapon is zero… There's no way that you can justify what this agent did."

Renee Good should still be here. She was a beloved child of God, with inherent value and infinite worth. She was murdered by her own government in broad daylight in what is supposed to be the greatest democracy on the planet.

I wrote up my analysis of what Ross's movements and actions reveal about whether or not he had a "reasonable belief that he was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury" (the legal standard). I list 7 crucial moments that suggest he did not. asharangappa.substack.com/p/friday-rou...

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If you all would learn Thune's name and take Jeffries' out of your mouth we'd be a lot better off.

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

The fact that the Trump administration looks at a video where the victims final words are “I’m not mad at you” and the shooter seems to say “fucking bitch” after killing her, and thinks, yeah, this looks good for him, is amazing.

NEW: Jack Smith will testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee later this month. Smith has pressing them for this — in a public forum.

This is a big deal.

Read American Carnage How Trump, Musk, and DOGE Butchered the US Government by Sasha Abramsky orbooks.com/catalog/amer...

"Officials have described the killing of Ms. Good in starkly different terms." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u... Oh, thanks. To know my frustration is to watch this clip from 2021, where I explain to @brianstelter.bsky.social — as clearly as I can — what might be better. www.cnn.com/videos/busin...

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

I’ve heard from multiple friends today about daycares being raided and parents being ripped out of cars (in one case with a child left behind in the backseat). Grim times here.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

Putin carries out another assassination in France. A 38-year-old Russian journalist was found dead in France. Yevgeny Safronov fell from the window of his seventh-floor flat, the signature execution of Putin's Murder X team. www.lefigaro.fr/faits-divers...

How many people has ICE murdered? FOUR Here are ALL ICE shootings www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi....

This is incredibly well done, and totally damning. Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Make it viral.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

Her name is good. May her death from an ICE agent’s bullet not be in vain.

Good thread on benefits for America of USAID

Expertly done by Mehdi. Worth the watch.

I just left the Venezuela briefing. It's worse than you thought. Oil company executives seem to know more about Trump's secret plan to "run" Venezuela than the American people. We need public Senate hearings NOW.

Stephen Miller's Triumph of the Will “We live in a world, in the real world that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” open.substack.com/pub/charlies...