ROSEN: Yes or no -- was Hernandez convicted of trafficking approximately 400 tons of cocaine into the US? RUBIO: I'm not involved in the pardon process ROSEN: I'm just askin-- RUBIO: I don't do yes or no. I don't play games.

You cannot overreact to evil. Moderate Dems take note.

Warnock on Trump's response to Ilhan Omar getting attacked: "This is unacceptable. It's deeply appalling. It's bigger than politics ... the presidency deserves better"

"Republicans are protecting murderers and pedophiles"

Tuesday morning: New CBS boss promises “huge emphasis on scoops.” Tuesday evening: CBS Evening News anchor interviews his mom. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Warnock: "If you look at the sheer scale of the Trump/Vance regime's operation in Mpls, it's clear they're trying to overwhelm people, weaponize despair, convince citizens you don't have a voice. But the people in Mpls even in this dark moment, are showing that's among the lies they are telling"

Two agents who fired at Alex Pretti in Minnesota are put on leave as investigation continues

Trump: “Visa is creating a brand new platform that will allow credit card holders to deposit their cash back rewards directly into Trump Accounts.”

Trump & Vance have repeatedly smeared Ilhan Omar. After their vile attacks, now a Member of Congress was assaulted at a town hall. Dangerous rhetoric normalizes political violence. It puts people in danger.

You mean after a week and heavy political pressure and public outrage the Trump admin is going to do the absolute bare minimum that every law enforcement organization would do in an officer-involved shooting?

This is another dividing line between being conservative and being fascist. Fascists love hyper violent secret police and keeping them masked is part of the package.

Just 18% of EU citizens polled think Europe should align with the US in great power rivalry with China. 52% now want it keep the same distance between the 2. 64% said US foreign policy is defined by neocolonial aspirations and overtly predatory conduct. Greenland was a breaking point.

An Axiom of fascist thought: the victim is always responsible for the harm that befalls them, usually because they don't love the Führer enough.

In his typical authoritarian fashion, Trump waves off the murder of an American by DHS paramilitaries on the street as “hoopla” and a distraction, in an attempt to delegitimize scrutiny of state violence. #holdfast

Any meaningful political-psychological profile of Trump at this point comes quickly to focus on one point: he craves the admiration, attention and support of just one man—Vladimir Putin. And today he put that on display by putting up his

The U.S. Forest Service begins accepting reservations to camp in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on Wednesday. Officials with the Superior National Forest encourage visitors to plan at least three different travel dates and entry points into the wilderness before making a reservation.

Mona Charen: "Each surrender enhanced Trump’s power and inflated the menace we now face. But the other path—etched in tragedy and martyrdom in Minneapolis—has shown repeated success. When you stand up to the bully, he backs down."

Bruce gives us some music to live by.

Deutsche Welle: “On suspicion of money laundering, the judiciary is searching the buildings of Germany's largest financial institution Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and Berlin. Unknown employees are under investigation, according to the Frankfurt prosecutor's office.”

Today with @hcrichardson.bsky.social & American Promise’s Jeff Clements on Citizens United and Campaign Spending Reform www.youtube.com/live/RWhSVDC...

REALLY good explanation of Citizen’s United, where it came from in Buckley v. Valeo, why it must be overturned, and how to do that.

⚡ Ukraine has publicly identified 66 vessels operated by Russia, Iran, and Venezuela that are allegedly involved in the transport of sanctioned oil and the theft of Ukrainian grain.

The Battle of Minneapolis is far from over. But Trump... flinched. The People are doing what the law and the Democrats cannot: defending thier rights and the rights of others. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/acti...

"There is this real sense of 'we the people," standing up for each other..." Community and mutual aid networks. Heather Cox Richardson is someone y'all should be watching/listening to if you aren't already.

We must find the courage to not look away, but see clearly what is happening. Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson: 2026-01-27 substack.com/@heathercoxr...

"Elected Republicans could stop this TONIGHT if they wanted to." Heather Cox Richardson

Oil proceeds are going into a private account in Qatar that US Treasury cannot block. The entire arrangement is grotesquely illegal and corrupt. Rubio's answers are dissembling. And we can't seemingly even get intelligent questions for him. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Mika: Have Noem, Miller, Bessent been held accountable for jumping to ICE’s defense for no reason? www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Wc...

A gift link to that excellent piece. bsky.app/profile/seth...

I got this one the other day. The second was a response when I replied STOP to their texts.

As M Gessen argued in the NYT the other day, Trump is trying to rule by terror, and that terror is aimed at *everyone* who doesn’t affirmatively assent to everything he’s doing, including his own supporters.

US consumer savings are falling at an alarming pace: The US personal savings rate fell -0.2% in November 2025, to 3.5%, the lowest since Oct 2022. Excluding the Mar-Oct 2022 period, this is the lowest level since the 2008 Financial Crisis. This percentage has declined -2.0 points since April 2025.

Trump just threatened to attack Iran "like Venezuela" and said the US Dollar is "doing great" after losing -10% of its value. It's reasonably clear that heavy devaluation of the greenback is a priority for him. This must be coupled with Bessent's comments

⏳𝟭 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗲𝗳𝘁 —“𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆” $𝟲,𝟭𝟬𝟭✅ $𝟭𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬🎯- 𝟱𝟲% - 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗹𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗴𝗼! One hour remains to equip “Nobody”-the GUR detachment that slips past enemy lines, executes the missions no one else can touch, and answers every question about their identity with the same word: “Nobody” ⤵️1/2

The fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the largest in the United States since the disease was declared eliminated in this country more than two decades ago. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/h...

The man who assaulted Ilhan Omar is a MAGA man through and through, fiercely loyal to Trump, and attentive to his attacks on Ilhan Omar. That makes this yet another case of Trump-incited stochastic terrorism.

This is just misleading. There is a big difference between saying state resources can’t be used to enforce fed’l civil immigration policy & local cops refusing to assist fed’l partners in an emergency. Deliberately conflating the two is disingenuous.

Ilyse Hogue: “The moment transcends politics; we’re at a moral inflection point that calls for clarity in our vision and in our language. The ‘border control’ budget has ballooned to $170 billion…It’s time we call this what it is: Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Militia.”

Images of the immigration crackdowns in Minneapolis and across the U.S. have been compared to those from the country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The helmets, camouflage and tactical gear all look straight from the battlefield. nyti.ms/4a9SH22

DHS paramilitary practices in Minneapolis raise massive legal flags. If you care about civil liberties, now’s the time to demand real oversight——contact your reps, demand a congressional inquiry, and support watchdog orgs pressing for transparency. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

To say aloud that the vice president is friends with Nazis and to point out that his Holocaust tweet is crafted so as not to offend them is to sound crazy to everyone who doesn’t know both are stone cold facts. Frustrating thing.

Running a headline like this after the details of the probe are now clear is grossly irresponsible journalism. bsky.app/profile/davi...

"Fico seemed to be 'traumatized' by his encounter with Trump, one of the European diplomats said. Fico characterized Trump as being 'out of his mind,' a diplomat said, using the words briefed to them by their leader, who was directly involved in the conversation."

“An American financial crisis” @peterschiff.bsky.social with a wake-up call about the world shifting away from 🇺🇸— and a coming collapse

Also, I didn't WRITE them. I @ed them on Xitter, one of the primary reasons I'm still at the Nazi/CSAM bar, to @ right wingers. Also to laugh at Harmeet Dhillion.

Thompson has shown his courage. Peters is retiring, has nothing to lose. Paul has consistently (if quixotically) opposed authoritarian dragnets. And Garbarino at least feigns interest in doing a grown-up job, and in an R+9 district in a D+8 year.

The other day, I wrote the 4 Chairs and Ranking members of Homeland Security Oversight, urging them to get Pretti's killers off the street (Rand told them to do that). I realized it's a remarkably useful 4-some: @peters.senate.gov, @benniethompson.bsky.social, Rand Paul, and Andrew Garbarino (NY-2).

What we know about Anthony Kazmierczak after man arrested for attack on Ilhan Omar

The new DOJ report suggests no intention of ever complying with the mandatory requirements of the Epstein Act, suggesting that neither Congress nor the courts can compel compliance. bsky.app/profile/macf...