The shooting that preceded Renee Good's -- that of Marimar Martinez, was thrown out based on body camera video. As were a bunch in Chicago.

Isn't basically this a confession she was (and is) wrong about the $3 meal. If she weren't, then $13 would be enough for a day. She was off by 17%. Or something. Probably used Grok the first time.

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Invoke the 25th! Trump was deemed to be "unfit," "paranoid," and to have a "dangerous mental illness" by many psychiatrists years ago. www.independent.co.uk/news/world-0... …

I'm curious to know how Trump is handling being blamed for the mess he's caused in Iran. Trump enjoys blaming Biden for all his shortcomings and now someone else is pointing the blame at Trump.

Gee if only the USA had like an amendment to get rid of obviously demented presidents I mean it could have been invoked at least a dozen times already

I thought this was a parody. It isn't. Cray-cray is blaming his own future dangerous behavior on not winning the Nobel, and on the prime minister of Norway, because he is from the same country as the Nobel committee.

secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/... Over the weekend Greenlanders showed the world how it’s done: they marched through their capital opposing becoming part of the US and committing to resist Trump’s bullying. It’s our turn now – let’s stand together across the world to show that they are not alone.

Finished Heated Rivalry, Game Changer is on back order and still hasn’t arrived, Tough Guy won’t arrive until Thursday… all the other books have arrived… Do I wait for Tough Guy to arrive to read through then end of the series (until Sept) and then go back to a game Changer? I need my smut stories!

JUST IN: Federal judges Virginia are seeking applicants to succeed Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. attorney, whose 120-day appointment expires today, they say. www.vaed.uscourts.gov/sites/vaed/f...

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Ireland failed to remove the 3-day waiting period for abortion, which "...reinforces the idea that abortion is uniquely regrettable, that it carries an exceptional emotional risk, and that guilt is not just possible but expected. This belief is widespread, deeply ingrained, and wrong."

BREAKING A federal judge STRIKES the words "United States Attorney" from Lindsey Halligan's signature and warns that he will refer her to disciplinary proceedings if she persists in calling herself one. Doc buff.ly/JvTKLlD Background buff.ly/Ay2iB6u

DEMOCRACY DOCKET EPSTEIN FILES newsletters.democracydocket.com/the-doj-offe...

ICE is a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanish in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer means anything. The knock on the door is the sentence.

She was absolutely right. And she would have been an amazing President.

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

From the "No Shit Sherlock" news desk...

One point I’ve been banging on about in interviews the last few weeks is that the mere threat of the use of force by the U.S. President is illegal both under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter but also the U.S. Constitution by virtue of the Take Care Clause.

i personally believe that us americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps, and i believe that our education like such as in south africa and the iraq everywhere like, such as,

Fuck Face will start WW3 before we see the Epstein files.

Watch out: the guy who bombed Iran, kidnapped a foreign leader, and is currently invading a city in his own country is going to stop being so peaceful

It's bizarre that some politicians are trying to behave as if the US president were sane, or capable of reason or moral judgement.

You're going to want to read Judge David Novak's rebuke of Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer in its entirety. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump: "We're also the most secure. As an example, Iceland, without tariffs they wouldn't even be talking to us about it. So we'll see what happens."

A joke for the history buffs.

Really can't stand the self-abasement of takes posing as the reasonable middle by conceding it'd be a sensible policy to purchase / annex Greenland so long as it wasn't by force, as if any of the nonsense reasons are compelling. Stop it. There is no reasonable version, that would still be idiotic.

The cops: "Can you make your car any less identifiable to keep you safe from your ex?" My car:

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By: Dave Granlund

NEW: ICE’s failure to pay its bills for months has caused some medical providers to deny services to ICE detainees. In lawsuits, numerous detainees with severe illnesses allege that they cannot obtain treatment, including a man whose symptoms and test results suggest he has prostate cancer.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Danish MEP Anders Vistisen to Donald Trump :”Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off.”

How do you quote a Trump flunky saying, we want an alliance with Greenland w/o noting, the US has one? Who **is** this person? edition.cnn.com/2026/01/19/p...

Not wrong. (From security table)

@dandrezner.bsky.social To mark your return to the toddler today, I confess I accidentally adopted it myself. So much for my Chief Toddler Scold cred! www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/20/t...

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

"You're asking me about something that the president just said... He's never going to implement it... We should talk instead about what he's doing... Every time we get distracted by what he talks about rather than what he does... he destroys and he redistributes to the rich."

So much winning!! 🤣🤣

NEWS: Survivor Lisa Phillips backs request by Reps. Khanna and Massie for judge to appoint a special master to release the Epstein files. "I have no confidence that the Department of Justice, already 30 days late in complying with the Act with no end in sight."

Someday corporations and technology companies will pretend they were always against this

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

There are numerous reports across the Twin Cities on ICE monitoring pages of drones circling apartment buildings. What valid law enforcement reason could there be for this?

I actually think Tillis' approach here is not bad. You're not going go persuade other Republicans to buck Trump directly. You MIGHT lead them to revolt against Stephen Miller, without whom Trump might crumble at this point.

Great point from @markfollman.bsky.social: It's precisely because ICE's killing of Renee Good is so clear cut that Trump and Miller are trying to mire us in debates over supposed video ambiguities. But the evidence is definitive. On the pod Mark is good on all this: newrepublic.com/article/2054...