Trump's appellate judges have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges. How often they ruled for him in 2025: Trump appointees: 92% Other Republican appointees: 68% Democratic appointees: 27% @schwartzesque.bsky.social Emma Schartz www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

“The Justice Department on Friday announced to employees it is creating an artificial intelligence taskforce to challenge state-level regulations so that AI companies can "be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation…”

In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.

Exclusive: I obtained testimony from the Dec. trial where Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, describes an incident in June where he smashed a car window, is dragged 100 yards, and tased a Guatemalan man 10 times. "I feared for my life," he said.

So X hasn't solved the problem, they've just monetized it

Mercator projection as doctrine

Page One. @nytimes.com

Rest of the world is moving on. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...

(KATU) — US CBP agents shot two people in Portland, Oregon, this afternoon, according to authorities. katu.com/news/local/ice-shoot...

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Breaking news: Minnesota authorities said the FBI was taking over the investigation into an ICE officer's fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis, freezing them out and blocking access to evidence. The latest here:

This is quite a sequence: —Trump asks aide for video of ICE shooting to convince NYT interviewers that driver tried to "run over" agent —They watch together —Interviewers note it shows nothing of the sort —Trump says "well . . . it's a terrible scene" GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

I doubt he was recording for posterity. More likely it was part of the effort to collect protester faces for ICE's facial recognition database. We're told all the time that police officers have to make split-second, life-or-death decisions based a rapid processing of the information around them ...

Second, as the officer who killed Good runs up the passenger side of the car, *he is recording with his cell phone.* He literally has his gun in one hand is holding up his cell phone to record with the other.

A few thoughts on this important NYT analysis: First, the officer who killed Good is shown running up the *passenger* side of the car seconds before he killed her. He shot her first from the front, then the driver's side. This means he *put himself* in the path of the vehicle when he shot her.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Appears to be 66 agreements/organizations, and further actions are required, presumably in keeping with international law. "Withdrawal" means nonparticipation/defunding for organizations like the Venice Commission and the International Law Commission.

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

absolutely unregulated surveillance tech used as blunt force instrument don’t forget

It gets worse.

omg

NEW: Border Patrol agents used Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and a plainclothes videographer to covertly record protesters and arrests in Evanston, I found. It's "disturbing," @epic.org told me. Also @stopspyingny.bsky.social, @eff.org, @aclu.org of Illinois.

??? Apparently Venezuela oil revenues will go into “offshore accounts” outside of the US Treasury, PBS reports.

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

Oh no. Oh no. An ICE officer has fatally shot someone. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Seven days into 2026

Lol how can you tell this administration is lying to you? Because oil hasn't been shipped in actual barrels in over a century www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...

The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

“Acquiring”?????

Punchbowl News & Fox News are reporting that U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa, a California Republican, has died. LaMalfa represents a currently ruby red district (CA-01) that is becoming pretty reliably blue under the state's new map. There'll be a special to replace him under current lines.

Breaking news: Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-California) has died. He was 65 years old. His death further challenges the incredibly narrow House Republican majority.

Never forget. 🇺🇸

“Do they even have what they say they do? .. “.. John Arnold, the well known former energy hedge fund manager, yesterday on X basically said the 300 billion barrel reserve claim was made up to Hugo Chavez ..” - Boockvar

From a piece earlier this year: Trump wiped away more than 600 years in sentenced prison time for Jan. 6 rioters. Gift link: wapo.st/4qGmHZY

Absolutely predictable

“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

ICE is using facial recognition tech for arrest, not just at the literal border, and more than 100,000 times so far--https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-facial-recognition-app-mobile-fortify-dfdd00bf?mod=hp_lista_pos1

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

As of this week, millions of Americans are now paying thousands more for health insurance. If the President and Congressional GOP think Washington has the capacity to "run" Venezuela right now, why won't they fix the insurance cost crisis they've created here at home?

There's a long, miserable history of the US installing leader and being shocked, shocked that this leader (the agent) does not do exactly what the US (the principal) wants. Because, well, the agent has his/her own interests (again, shocking!) and those don't match up with what the US wants. 2/

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

My quick take on the legality of the Venezuela invasion. open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

we’re doing what now

a small thing, but apparently my choices for the first day of constitutional law next week include shrugging, silence, or dryly explaining that the class is now purely theoretical

The Kerr-Frisbie doctrine precludes a criminal defendant from objecting to prosecution based on the manner by which he was brought before the court. Head-of-state immunity dissolves once one is out of office. Thus, former US presidents are immune for their crimes, but abducted foreign ones aren't!!