Is imperialism, with all its attendant stupidity and evil, as an indelible, deeply-rooted national identity, showing signs, finally, of fading just a smidge in Russia? I wouldn't bet on it. It is a societal disease that is well-nigh incurable. A staggering loss in war can cure it though.

No, you certainly would assume, correctly, that boosters of Hassett and Bessent would absolutely do it again — because that is who they are.

I wrote yesterday about Kevin Warsh, saying what everyone who really follows monetary debates knows: he's a bullshitter who uses big words to make incoherent arguments that always amount to stimulus for Republicans, austerity for Dems 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-bad-heir...

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

it has been clear for months

The national impotence in the face of outright lawless, unhinged, and unlimited fascist thuggery is truly astounding. Also, the "Don't Thread On Me" crowd are nowhere to be seen ... Correction: they're the ones doing military cosplay wearing gator masks brutalizing and executing innocent people.

BREAKING: CBP agents who murdered Alex Pretti have been IDENTIFIED: Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

"Russian Advances Are Slower Than The Battle Of The Somme"

The erosion of democracy in the US is clear even if you don't use intl comparisons. From the Century Foundation: "In the first year of Trump 2.0, the United States went from being a passing if imperfect democracy to behaving like an authoritarian state." donmoynihan.substack.com/publish/post...

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

"Triumph Of The Bill: Amazon’s $75 Million ‘Melania’ Movie Is A Corrupt, Fascistic Cinema Fest"

Do not even bother asking the rhetorical question. We are beyond that. Rather, state directly that they are fascist thugs, that they are a a rightwing paramilitary force that is not only loyal to but is an integral part of the regime, that they are Trump's sturmabteilung.

The corruption went into overdrive even before the inauguration. People saying that the American system of checks and balances is holding are detached from reality. When it comes to checking corruption, they don’t seem to exist. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Triumph Of The Bill: Amazon’s $75 Million ‘Melania’ Movie Is A Corrupt, Fascistic Cinema Fest talkingpointsmemo.com/news/triumph...

So this just happened.

It was all part of West Germany, and then the reunited Germany, refusing to come to terms with its colonial war in the east — what became WW2. Relatedly, it took 50 years to get more serious about Nazis, and until late 2022 to finally get serious about Russia — and Ukraine.

It's easy to accrete "powerful" people: high office holders, the wealthy, academic stars. And they all lie. The accretion process was self-perpetuating. "They Said They Weren’t Close to Epstein. New Documents Show Otherwise."

There were two main stories. First, there was a great report (with link to download) released by CSIS which detailed just how the Russian military and economy is struggling. Second, there were numerous signs of Trump's desire to work with Putin, including family photos. Enjoy.

Once again, the only way the actions of Trump and his supporters makes sense is if you accept that they have no intention of willingly giving up power, regardless of what happens in any democratic process.

"In order to build tyranny, you have to open zones where the law doesn't apply... one zone like that is the border. The logic of what they've been doing with ICE is to take the border everywhere." www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNB...

Homan's message: When we kill you, you have to be especially nice to us. Or else we will keep killing you.

The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are part of the autocratic war to control the narrative. The more lawless governments become, the more they seek to silence inconvenient facts and people and invent the reality they need.

“I was 13 years old when Donald J Trump raped me. Ghislaine Maxwell was also present,” reads one of the files, compiled from an FBI tip line record. www.jezebel.com/doj-drops-mi...

Popping out of the vehicle guns drawn and pointing them at a legal observer exercising her constitutional rights. Everything about this is reckless, dangerous, the opposite of law & order and keeping anyone safe… how do people see this and not see masked secret police style terror on US streets

Today in the NYT. God knows where we will be in January 31 2027.

Our visual journalists @cengizyar.com and @peterdicampo.bsky.social documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis. Here's what they saw 👇

Fuck 'em. They're not just morons and idiots: they're assholes.

Protests sweep across the US, but they are better covered in foreign media than in the US, where broadcasters cower in fear over what might happen to them. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Watch the video of the ICE "pastor". He is what you'd expect: a fraud and vile.

"How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are" A citizen's Global Entry and TSA-Precheck access canceled for trailing ICE:

This. They are turning the wealth the American people have created over generations into cash for their own dirty pockets. It’s obscene.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Awesome. Incredible. Inspiring. Insuperably beautiful in its way. "Escape to Alcatraz: Coyote Swims a Mile in Search of New Turf"

And Trump is at it, his minions are now arresting members of the press. I still cant wrap my head around people thinking it would not be so bad with Trump. It’s terrible and will get much worse. www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/p...

Do not pass this off as the ravings of a looney, old, narcissist. These false reports are going to be used to try and corrupt the 2026 elections by increasing White House Power over the vote. It could spark off the greatest crisis in the USA since the Civil War.

"‘Melania’ Review: 20 Stage-Managed Days in the Life of the First Lady" "Directed by Brett Ratner, the documentary shows a woman deeply concerned with her appearance who rarely lets us behind her facade." That facade is a rotten filigree. You can see all the way behind it. Rot all the way back.

And that "Popcornmeter" reading is a demonstration by the fascist regime.

"A Bad Heir Day at the Fed"

There is so much crazy and malignant shit brought to the US and world society by Republicans that I feel myself tuning out ... "2020’s Most Insane Conspiracy Theory, ItalyGate, Returns"

A lot of shit's going down. Hard to keep up. Now this 👇

Wow -- incredible!!!

We still have free states in the USA (?).

Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!