Devastating new CNN poll on the anniversary of Trump’s first year in office: voters think he’s made everything worse — crime, free speech, health, global security. Literally every promise. www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...

"It’s sadly revealing how quickly the administration realized they needed a different lie for a white lady than for all the other innocent people DHS has killed."

“These are no longer dog whistles,” Jon Lewis, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, said. “They’re bullhorns.” www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

Defected Trump DHS staffer reveals his huge spend to help communities resist ICE

It’s easy to be proud of Minneapolis-St. Paul. The citizens there have acted with amazing decorum, resilience and a stubborn dedication to our collective freedom in the face of terrible and lawless violence by ICE.

Breaking news: The leaders of the University of Virginia’s board resigned Friday after Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D) asked them and at least three other appointees of her Republican predecessor to step down.

The Justice Department already missed its December deadline to release the Epstein files—and now it’s struggling to defend the delay, @willgottsegen.com argues in The Atlantic Daily:

Great news for Californians and anyone looking to cruise along one of our country's most scenic drives: Highway 1 is fully open! www.ksbw.com/article/high...

Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2053...

Damning: Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

Everyone should boycott the World Cup, take a stand

#KavanaughStop slate.com/news-and-pol...

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

As we await the release of Supreme Court opinions, I want to remind everyone just how much Democracy Docket is tracking: Active Voting Rights Cases: 170 Active Redistricting Cases: 47 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 90 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 76 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 26 Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

These 10 companies stand to rake in $1 billion by 2027 by helping ICE track down and round up immigrants. Cashing in on cruelty.

Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Biggest acknowledgement over the last year of tyranny is that everything the left warned America about with Trump has come to pass and then some. The right is bad and the middle enabled it. Convince me otherwise.

We should be ashamed and embarrassed to be a society in which people will willingingly, actively, point a loaded gun in the face of a fellow citizen. A free society should be one where government employees don't put a gun to your face when you're exercising a core tenet of said society: free speech

What I'm listening to today: "War" Sinead O'Connor covering Bob Marley, stripped down, sharpened, into something like a weapon. This ran live on TV and all anyone talked about was the career-ending final seconds. No one understood why she did it. Child abuse? Absurd www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZINQ...

Those same dudes are wearing ICE uniforms

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Our enemies are pleased to witness our oppression at the hands of our own tyrannical government.

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Good was a mother of three and had dropped off her six-year-old son at school when she encountered a group of ICE agents, according to her ex-husband.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

None of us are safe.

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

ICE = murder

The situation in Minneapolis is insane: seemingly many large convoys of heavily armed masked men, blocking off streets at random, grabbing people nearly at random, racing around the city with no discernible plan or aim. Under attack by our own government the day after it killed someone

We NEED to personalize this attack on our society. The Trump government is kidnapping and killing our neighbors. It’s disgusting and illegal even if the GOP Congress and SCOTUS and DOJ will do nothing.

The FBI is actively trying to prevent Justice for yesterday’s murder

Venezuela’s government is arresting journalists and sending paramilitary forces to suppress anyone who is too happy about Maduro's removal giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Never forget.

NEW: The anonymous "researcher" in Nick Shirley's viral "fraud" video--treated as a concerned citizen on Fox News and elsewhere--is actually a Minnesota state lobbyist and political activist who worked with a GOP House staffer to provide Shirley info/ theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...

Here are some choice quotes from Jack Smith’s testimony about the conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “..the evidence made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy.”

2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments. One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….

Rep. Seth Moulton comes on CNN and starts by saying: "Is anyone going to just stop for a second and be honest? This is insane. What the hell are we doing? We've got a lot of problems in America today, and invading / occupying / running Venezuela does not solve any of them."

The indictment doesn’t mention oil or fentanyl. Just cocaine. (After he just pardoned the president of Honduras)

In a time of war it is a little glimmer of normalcy that we can still find cultural respite at the Trump Kennedy Center witnessing the magic of the Epstein Dancers!

Making some sense of this illegal action by Trump in real time:

POLITICO: “House Republicans decided to publicly release the transcript of special counsel Jack Smith’s Dec. 17 closed-door deposition on New Year’s Eve — while most of Washington was tuned out for the holiday…” www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Former special counsel Jack Smith also described President Trump as the "most culpable and most responsible person" in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a transcript of Smith's closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee. n.pr/49cmd6E

2025 comes to an end. It’s been a strong year for deployment and innovation, but a worrying one for energy politics. Moves like the US pause on offshore wind show how quickly progress can be undermined by polarised debate. Here’s hoping 2026 brings calmer, more evidence-based energy policymaking.