BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK TO FOCUS ON MARSHMALLOW FARM INSTEAD OF GUMDROP CITY www.wsj.com/science/spac...

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

We just published database: @aclu.org plaintiffs' sworn declarations of ICE enforcement actions in Minnesota Devastating Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles Mostly US citizens A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne... 🧵

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

Not true. Elon is in there. And Melania.

BREAKING: 8 more U.S. Attorneys in MN resign from Trump’s DOJ in protest as backlash grows. This isn’t normal; isn’t routine reshuffling. It’s a rebellion. Last month, 6 veteran prosecutors quit in protest. Normal staffing for the MN DOJ’s office is around 50 attorneys. They’re down to just 9.

Remember that the pretext for invading MN was fraud committed by Somalis (on a scale smaller than some of the fraud Trump has pardoned and/or committed). Now, BECAUSE of the abuse arising out of the invasion has led ~14 AUSAs to quit, plus ~6 in Civil Rights. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

"Populist politics, online disinformation, cyber warfare, & cryptocurrency were all just scaffolding for his work as a financier and sex trafficker. A way to destabilize the global order, make connections with the world’s elites, and continue enriching himself and preying on vulnerable young girls."

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

New Trump admin slogan just dropped

For Sarah's son. For Medicare for All. For getting the work done. Thank you Detroit. I’ve got your back. Thanks for having mine.

Michiganders joined protesters in all 50 states this weekend to say one thing: ICE Out

BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb issues a TRO blocking DHS Sec Noem's Jan 8 memo purporting to require 7-day notices by members of Congress to perform oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. The effect is that congressional oversight visits are allowed on request, as is required by Sec. 527.

BREAKING: GOP Rep. Mike Lawler held a town hall tonight in Rockland County…and proceeded to have VETERANS thrown out of the venue. #NY17

1/31: Narrowly avoided being arrested when LAPD officers kettled a small group of protesters, legal observers, and press. I ID'd myself as a journalist & tried to leave but an officer claimed I wasn't exempt from dispersal orders & said I would be detained. Luckily another officer let me leave.

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...

Seems like pretty big news that the biggest Republican donor in 2024 — who helped elect Trump & Vance — repeatedly made plans to visit Epstein's island. Especially when you recall the various abuse allegations he faces — or how his website has been mass generating sexual content, including of kids.

ChatGPT's free ride is ending: Here's what OpenAI plans for advertising on the chatbot

Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs acceptance speech for Song of the Year: "We need to keep fighting and speaking up. Our voices do matter."

I heard it all! 😂😂😂😂

CBS censored Billie Eilish saying “Fuck ICE” at the Grammys. Here’s the uncensored version:

Billie Eilish used her acceptance speech to say: “No one is illegal on stolen land.” And CBS censored her when she said “Fuck ICE.”

Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE. Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

The R candidate has apparently conceded, so that's a flip folks. Probably a 30-point swing vs 2024 per The Downballot, could be 35 vs the 2022 election in the seat docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Holy fucking shit! That’s a 32-point over performance AND a flip!!

JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

Homeland Security doesn’t like it when we call ICE and Border Patrol “the Gestapo.” So let’s set the Gestapo aside. Instead I’ll use this thread to compare Trump’s thugs to other secret police and terror squads from different times and places. It’s tyranny, no matter where it comes from. 1/10🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵

Oh, this Wormtongue thing is catching on!

Reup: A quarter of the people Bondi was so aroused about arresting last week were charged in significant part bc of felony spitting. emptywheel.net/2026/01/31/p...

Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100

“There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall.” abc7ny.com/post/ice-min...

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

My statement on the funding deal.

What do these corporations have in common? -Amazon -AT&T -Home Depot -Microsoft -Palantir They all reaped billions in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and are actively collaborating with ICE's deportation machine. Always follow the money.

Yes, this friendly 2019 Jeffrey Epstein email exchange is about the owner of the Patriots, Robert Kraft. But it's more important who it is WITH: Brad Karp, the chairman of Paul, Weiss. And Karp was still chairman when Paul, Weiss became the first law firm to cave to Trump's demands in 2025. 1/

Brad Karp of Paul, Weiss was so close to Jeffrey Epstein that Epstein could ask him for a "personal favor" in 2018. Seems like it was for the corrupt art dealer Larry Gagosian, already busted for tax evasion in 2016, who got sued in 2018 over an even bigger fraud. Epstein asked Karp to help. 5/

A man who contradicted the government narrative about a prior shooting found himself pinned to the ground and detained after Pretti’s death.

Tom Morello takes the stage at his Defend Minnesota! benefit concert at First Avenue 🎸 📸: @chrisrstrib.bsky.social

Statement from Don Lemon's attorney: "This unprecedented attack on the 1st Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand. Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court"

I repeat, for about the 100th time, Donald Trump does not choose his political martyrs very well. And in this case, the Chief Judge of the District already said there was no probable cause Lemon committed a crime.

As @brittnymejia.bsky.social noted last night, prosecutors in LA have lost 6 trials on these "you were assaulted by goons so we'll charge you" cases so far.

Fort filmed this before her arrest--she confirms they did go before a grand jury.

More images of this agent “NS-919,” one of two who shot Pretti and a main instigator of the Pretti incident— from January 21. NS-919 pushed the woman that started the Pretti violence on January 24.

Breaking on MS NOW: Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests. The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per @carolleonnig.bsky.social.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois deputy has been sentenced to 20 years for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, who called 911 for help.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois deputy has been sentenced to 20 years for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, who called 911 for help.

For your Thursday morning listening pleasure. They even call out Huntington Beach, which might be relevant to @chriswarcraft.bsky.social's interests.

When this crash happened, Trump and Vance et al immediately came out to blame the crash on affirmative action. Not so different from calling Alex Pretti an assassin and Renee Good a domestic terrorist. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...