The president said "Fuck you" to a citizen and only the citizen will face any consequences

Whether it's Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard or Donald Trump screaming "fuck you" in a Ford plant at someone calling him a "pedophile protector," presidential norms have been challenged in the 21st century

JD Vance is in Copenhagen right now, where local newspapers have published detailed psychological profiles ranking his personality as authoritarian and noting his strong proclivity to the firehose of lies technique.

The defining feature of Rogan and his ilk is knowing nothing about things but talking about them anyway, saying things that sounds smart to other people who don’t know anything about them. It’s good he is catching on but damned of his and our collective ignorance haven’t run us off a cliff.

Markey: This administration has proved time and time again that it is only interested in vengeance, that it lies and lacks all humanity. Today, six federal prosecutors resigned because the DOJ wants to investigate Renee's widow rather than Renee's killer

how could your reaction, in mid-January '26, with people dying by the fucking thousands in Iran and protesting anyway, and people making ICE's lives a living hell in Minneapolis, be "nobody can stop evil and it's not worth it to try"

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

WILL CAIN: Joining me now is Democrat Florida congressman Maxwell Frost FROST: It's "Democratic" congressman

Elected officials have to stop posting like bystanders who have no power.

The right-wingers at SCOTUS today argue that merely allowing a trans girl to compete in sports is a great harm because we must "protect women." But a woman exercising her First Amendment rights is a smug .... These people don't respect women 1/10th as much as any trans woman I know does.

this is wildly illegal and the courts will rule it such, but congressional democrats should be thinking long and hard about the terms under which they will agree to continue funding this government

Add friction to everything they do and it adds up. Every minute of their time you waste is a win. Attrition is a strategy

Scott Adams: “The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people… So I think it makes no sense whatsoever as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore.” This is who JD Vance and Trump are celebrating today.

Bad move by @gallego.senate.gov, saying this without telling people Trump has repeatedly been offered immigration "deals" and turned them down. In 2018 Dems offered him $25 billion for wall in exchange for Dreamers; he said no. Dems offered GOP big border bill in 2024; he told Rs to kill it.

Claiming to worry about population decline while actively trying to expel as many non-white people as possible from the country is not a real worry about population decline; it's simply and plainly a way for conservatives to call for white supremacy using the sort of words NPR apparently falls for.

Appalling doesn't begin to describe it. Not just doubling down. Authoritarian bullshit to the I've-lost-count power.

It's incredibly disturbing that the Trump administration (1) is not investigating the ICE shooter; (2) has refused to cooperate with any state-led investigation of the ICE shooter; but (3) aims to go hard after Renee Good's widow.

This should have been career ending, as it would be for most editors. This is almost surely at the top of list of editorial malpractice.

I added captions to this video of people heckling Greg Bovino leaving a Target in Minneapolis, and there's so many people yelling things at him it's like a comedy skit

Such a fundamentally unserious tyrant.

"ICE just broke Minnesota law detaining an American Citizen and kneeing on his neck, which was outlawed after the George Floyd murder."- @krassenstein.bsky.social

I say again, there has never been a better time to Do Federal Crimes. This admin cannot keep enough lawyers on the bench.

NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good. www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...

Disguising yourself as a civilian in order to carry out a lethal attack is called perfidy and it’s one of the most serious of war crimes. The usual punishment is execution.

And, the word of the day is now "perfidy." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

Trump's credit thing is not about helping people get out of debt, it's pushing more people into cards, which they will use to conspicuously consume, keeping his ice raft afloat on the lava river for one more day, day and a half. He'll be gone by the time that bomb goes off.

How does "Kavanaugh Occupation" sound

George Costanza claiming to be an architect vibes

The ring leader of the fraud operation was a white American female - Bessent is a fucking liar

Canada and Mexico are stable enough nations to host a World Cup.

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.

one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny

For my part, 'the president is literally too dumb to understand the core concept of NATO' is not a proper pretext for invading an ally.

JUST IN: Sen. Kelly is suing Secretary Hegseth -- precise details of lawsuit are not yet docketed.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march

They were *VERY* obviously here for content. That had dudes with cameras. Stopped anyone who was remotely brown. Those folks would show ID etc and walk away. Then they went into Target itself. But too many community members were there. So they left. Onto the next TikTok. Fucking clowns, dude.

Elon Musk should never see the sky again.

This is how it’s done.

To stay up-to-date on breaking news, we are sunsetting our coverage of: - The Venezuelan boat assassinations - The Tom Homan bribery case - The dismantling of the CDC, USAID, and Department of Education - Alligator Alcatraz - The pardon of drug traffickers - The Qatari jet - The Epstein files

Prayers to the embattled people of the world, fighting totalitarian governments from Tehran to... *Checks notes* Minneapolis

The country sure does seem to descend into chaos a lot when Trump is in charge of it

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A lot of businesses serving ICE agents in the Twin Cities are going to be in for a rude awakening. I already have a list of businesses that I will never patronize and I’m sure a bunch of others do, too. I know this info is being collected, but I haven’t even seen campaigns to share anything yet.

Huge anti-ICE protest now underway in LA.