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Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆

Oops. Somebody needs to give Grandpa the affordability talking points. He seems to be free lancing and saying all the wrong things.

Today's @nytimes.com dialogue with Ross Douthat & Jay Bhattacharya is tough sledding. I wrote a book on how silent transmission made COVID harder to stop and drove misleading narratives. The interview continues to mislead as a means to seize more power. a 🧵 www.amazon.com/Asymptomatic...

Every SAG actor should be booted from the union for doing this.

It was obvious for anyone not looking for an excuse.

I don't usually turn on the sound when viewing a clip of Dump speaking, I just imagine this golden piece: youtu.be/I-e1Hxy_kQU?...

We take you now to live coverage of Trump's Cabinet meeting.

Protectionism increases the trade deficit. Wild stuff. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/b...

If you aren't familiar with what DARVO is, get familiar with it. "Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender." The govt is relying on DARVO as a tactic on a national scale, and it is also increasingly a conservative tactic to attack outspoken critics of their ideas, theories, & renderings of history.

we do, in fact, owe each other things. one of those things is accountability for the results of our actions.

my increasingly curmudgeonly take is that we all, in fact, have responsibilities. politics isn't an arena for self-actualization. it's an arena for public service. this is as true of voters as it is of politicians.

Between Pam Bondi's ransom note to Tim Walz and the FBI raid in Fulton County yesterday, we are watching the entire federal law enforcement apparatus reorganize itself around the work of legitimizing Trump's demented stolen election conspiracy theories. Nasty, nasty work.

Trump: "Because of the cold -- extreme cold -- I personally asked President Putin not fire on Kyiv and the cities and towns for a week. He agreed to do that."

Meanwhile here in Tennessee @RepChrisTodd (Republican) is focused on allowing guns in playgrounds and letting domestic violence offenders get their guns back quicker

... By the way, if you'd like to listen to the audiobook, but want to avoid Audible, here's another option: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Quick maybe we can distract from ICE by forcing the Dems to filibuster our shitty voter-suppression bill.

Just a friendly reminder that Ukraine was disarmed by the US in coordination with russia. This is if you want to say that the US had no obligation towards Ukraine

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

Having once been a 20-something dude I think it's fair to say that 20- something dudes have a lot of really bad opinions on everything, but especially on what constitutes a life well- lived. "23 year old startup founder" is definitionally not somebody concerned with work/ life balance.

How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.

"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...

Demands from Israel fuel fears of engineered displacement of Palestinians from devastated Gaza.

From Massachusetts to Minnesota, the people demand accountability. Abolish ICE. Impeach Kristi Noem. End qualified immunity. Cut off funding for DHS. Congress cannot keep sponsoring this campaign of cruelty.

As COVID has disabled Americans in record numbers, the Labor Department proposes to make caring for the homebound disabled more difficult by lowering the compensation and rights conferred on home care workers who are overwhelmingly women and minorities.

The Labor Department has proposed rescinding an Obama-era rule that gave home care workers the right to overtime pay and other wage protections. The administration says the rule made care too costly. n.pr/4a1rrSZ

Good news for everyone who thinks caregivers for the elderly have it way too easy.

Millions creating deepfake nudes on Telegram as AI tools drive global wave of digital abuse

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jan 29: In stunning letter to the DC Appeals Court following last week's trans military ban arguments, lawyers accuse govt of misleading judges on both the factual record and how the policy is being enforced, arguing it made false & improper representations.

Exactly and it would drive the normies insane to watch ICE continue to terrorize Americans while the rest of the country was shut down. Would make it clear that the GOP and Trump see that as the most important job of the Federal Government. Win win for Dems unless you're an idiot

No, there are of course Americans who want secret police, but they mostly don’t want to say so.

Police who don’t want to be identifiable are trying to be secret police.

Laws are being bent, twisted + broken so frequently + egregiously that it’s hard to keep up. So on 1/29, join TPM editor-at-large David Kurtz for a Morning Memo Live event delving into Trump’s assault on the rule of law. Get tix (+ a special promo code) here talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

(the average american has no idea who kristi noem is either)

Yeah I think it's a negative for Democrats that a majority of Americans don't know that the President's chief advisor is the most evil and unlikeable person in the entire country, they should probably make him famous

It's bizarre that these guys are treating knowing police officer's identity is some grave threat in the United States. Hidden identity in police forces occur in two kinds of places: 1) Authoritarian regimes 2) democratic regimes under threat of organized crime/cartels such as Mexico and Colombia

Law enforcement officers have always been unmasked in this country until ICE started wearing them last year. *That* is the departure from norms. *That* is the step too far.

If they wore recognizable uniforms and unique badges with prominent numbers on them and gave their badge numbers to anyone upon request, we might not care about their faces.

$200,000 in merch sales at a memorial service, that’s got to be a record, most memorial services I’ve been to have like zero merch sales, congrats Erika.

What are we gonna do about the Male Bad Personality and Nobody Likes Them epidemic?

Good follow up question for mom would have been "what's the most vile racist thing you've ever said about Ilhan Omar to your son?"

Someone show him Marc Andreessen

I listened to 100 accredited professionals and 100 idiots and presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed: the earth is halfway between round and flat

CBS cracking out the calipers

In his episode on “How to Prevent and Treat Colds and Flu”, he describes why he doesn’t typically get the annual shot while stating “the flu shot is completely ineffective at combatting any other forms of the flu virus”—that’s false as even in cases of mismatch, the vax protects against hosp/death.

LOL it is WILD that educated adult human beings can observe the events of the past year and say this with a straight face.

I have seen this presentation a hundred times in the last 30 years. 18 months later there’s usually another “all hands” with the NEW-new leadership saying same shit. No ideas. Just statements of fact (people are tuning out) and introductions of people being hired to help CEO huff their own farts.

Users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees. www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

A report on the banality of banality.