It is a choice to call far right cop assailant Jake Lang a "conservative influencer," and not a good one. [updated} www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/u...

Mary Peltola’s kickoff campaign in Anchorage today.

Federal officials say the ICE officer who shot and killed Renee Good suffered internal bleeding, but videos raise doubts, with the extent of the agent’s injuries still unknown.

Eric Swalwell answering a question on how the next governor of California will protect Californians from ICE. “They're going to lose their immunity. They're not going to be able to drive. I will take your driver's license. Good luck walking to work, assholes.”

Holy shit, Donald Trump won the 2026 Iditarod!

She’s five years old. She’s a citizen. She’s just been deported. www.mysanantonio.com/news/austin/...

Some thoughts about this Tina Peters business @theunpopulist.net

that’s right

The fact that CBS didn’t report this incident tells you everything.

We all knew Tylenol didn’t cause autism. Now the data in the @thelancet.com confirm it—no increased risk of autism, ADHD, or Intellectual Disability when used as directed in pregnancy. Misinformation from HHS keeps failing the science test. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky tells me: “It's so important for us to get transparency. But it feels like systems have failed us time and time again”

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Spanberger is now governor of Virginia, ending the Youngkin era and returning the state to full Democratic control.

You're exactly right. In fact, DHS has been repeating this exact same false claim since (at least) September 25, 2025, and it shows up in plaintiffs' lawsuit seeking to enjoin ICE policies in Illinois v. DHS. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

This is an outstanding and infuriating story, very well done, and well worth a read even with all else that’s going on.

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account. Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

The EU should be cutting ads featuring Danish and other families who lost loved ones fighting in America's stupid recent wars and airing them in every swing district.

“The unemployment rate for Black women rose significantly from the start of 2025 to December, where it stood at 7.8 percent. That pattern of dramatic job loss was not seen for other groups.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...

Sorry. Has someone said this? 1) Trump can’t impose tariff unilaterally 2) Trump has no $$ to buy Greenland 3) Trump has no authority to leave NATO

NEW: This week, Daily Show host Jon Stewart introduced his audience to Jenin Younes, describing her as a courageous civil rights attorney who had been canceled by both the right and left and therefore “must be doing something right.” Really, she spent years undermining public health—and Democrats.

Discount Goebbels has unilaterally withdrawn the US from NATO, I guess.

NYT treating "escalation" as the news hook again. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

Let’s call this what it is: a disgusting abuse of power and a farce. As his agents terrorize Minnesotans, as prices rise, as he fails to deliver for Americans, he is also weaponizing the DOJ against his perceived enemies. This is not a banana republic and justice will prevail.

People under federal criminal investigation for the murder of Renee Good by Trump's DOJ: -Her wife who had to watch -The Mayor of Minneapolis -The Governor of Minnesota People not under federal investigation: -The motherfucker who actually shot and killed her

Speaking out against ICE is not a crime, but DOJ has reportedly opened an investigation of Gov Walz and Mayor Frey for doing so. I’ll discuss at 10 pm ET on @msnownews.bsky.social.

Breaking: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are being investigated by the Trump DOJ for allegedly obstructing law enforcement activities, two U.S. officials told WCCO. It's unclear how Walz and Frey allegedly obstructed law enforcement or what they were allegedly obstructing.

ICE are thug scum

NEW: MN AG Keith Ellison writes to Judge Menendez and asks her to reconsider the conversion of the City/State’s Petition for an Emergency TRO to a Peititon for Preliminary Injunction, citing “extraordinary circumstances.”

NEW: Trump’s DHS forces have shot 11 people since September. NBC News examined every case, revealing a pattern that policing experts called alarming: officers firing into cars, injuring and killing drivers.

JUST IN: Judge denies Trump administration's bid to throw out @StanfordDaily lawsuit claiming deportation drive aimed at pro-Palestinian students is chilling 1st Amendment rights. Judge Noel Wise (CAND/Biden). Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is also a ridiculous, meaningless claim. It is entirely impossible to know (and pretty unlikely) that Minnesota’s 2030 census result will come within a few hundred or even a few thousand people on the borderline for determining a House seat. That can happen, but it’s not in any way predictable.

Dear Legacy Media - ICE’s invasion of Minneapolis is not a “crackdown,” which implies lawlessness by citizens. It’s an authoritarian takeover of a US city by federal troops with zero compunction about violating the Constitution or local laws.

JUST IN: Feds seek life sentence for Ryan Routh, man convicted of 2024 attempted assassination of President Donald Trump on Florida golf course. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Honestly I'll be mildly surprised if we DON'T eventually learn that JD Vance exfiltrated him on AFII.

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Here's the email sent to assistant chief immigration judges:

"In summary, it appears that the government has deliberately and systematically instructed every Immigration Judge in the country not to comply with final declaratory judgments issued by Article III courts. And it appears that IJs are following that instruction, including for class members…"

Plaintiffs filed this today:

An 823-word health insurance plan that forgets pre-existing conditions is like a fire insurance policy that doesn’t mention fire. Bold choice.

BREAKING: The Virginia state Senate just passed a constitutional amendment to pave the way for a mid-decade redistricting push. If voters support the amendment, Virginia's Democratic-controlled Legislature could redraw the state's congressional map before the midterms.

President Trump just pardoned a woman who was convicted of fraud in 2024, after he commuted her sentence in an unrelated fraud in 2021.

A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:

“The president got information from people he trusted on other issues. He rejected it whenever it didn’t fit him staying in office,” Jack Smith said. “…any time any information came in that would mean he could no longer be president, he would reject it.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

A new directive asks USDA workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sent to national security experts at the agency.

Missed this: UnitedHealth Used Aggressive Tactics to Boost Medicare Payments, Senate Report Finds, via @wsj.com

Newly released records: Renee Good was found in her vehicle with two gunshot wounds to her chest and another to her forearm. After they removed her from the vehicle, she was not breathing and had an irregular pulse. She also had a possible gunshot wound to the left side of her head.

Trump won by demonizing Springfield, Ohio, in 2024, and the Marshall Project reports on how residents there are now waiting for ICE: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/16/i...