Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.

"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...

“I’ve never seen federal agents so out of control and acting in such a malicious manner,” a former federal prosecutor and federal judge said. “They said they were going after ‘the worst of the worst,’ then they became the problem. Read this by @jonschuppe.bsky.social & @natashakorecki.bsky.social

In other words, the vast majority of the $45 billion in reconciliation funding is going to go to the new system of warehouse detention camps. The other $6.8 billion will presumably serve mainly to keep the existing system of detention running without any other major changes.

Democrats on the Judiciary Committee keep decrying nominees as unqualified extremists. They also keep voting to turn those nominees into life-tenured federal judges. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/why-are...

The answer is YES. Why was that so hard for Hakeem to answer? Almost like he is owned by the same people funding Donald and has to watch what he says… Hakeem Jefferies is not the leader we need in this most crucial period. It is imperative to any progression that we get him out of office.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

🚨 Tell your Senators to vote NO on the GOP’s so-called “SAVE” Act”, which would: Require continuing voter purges w/ NO PENALTY for erroneous purges. Subject election officials to potential PRISON TIME & citizen suits for mistakenly registering a single voter—even if the voter is a citizen! 1/

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.

New poll — Abolishing ICE continues its historic surge of support. 46% support 43% oppose 80% of Democrats and 15% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE. Independents are +8 on the question.

Banana republic stuff.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Court order. didn't save. toddler.

My honest best take on what's happening with ICE funding. I got it down to 10 points: 1) Trump/Miller/GOP want more ICE funding 2) Dem leadership doesn't want it but also doesn't see a way to stop it without focusing attention on it. 3) Dems consultants say focus on ICE is a political loser.

ICE is writing secret memos claiming power to invade homes without warrants. They're using children as bait. They're killing. Congressional Democrats are about to vote to increase their budget by $18 billion. Call your House rep tonight. The vote may come tomorrow. www.patreon.com/posts/148814...

NEWS: While Hakeem Jeffries has announced he's opposing the DHS/ICE funding bill tomorrow, his team is not whipping the vote. Several frontliners are expected to vote yes. There's a difference in leadership between personal vote decisions & unifying the caucus. From me: prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...

There are more than enough potential votes to be had by Democrats + true independents voters + low propensity/low information citizens to win elections in a landslide (75-80% of adults citizens): attempts to woo MAGA faithful undermine support & enthusiasm from this 75-80%.

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

We have to get rid of Schumer and Jeffries. This is about saving our country now. They have to go.

The amount of anger and resentment this cruel and corrupt administration has engendered in America’s liberal majority has not been fully realized by the Democratic Party. But it will be a political force. The Democratic base doesn’t just want to win. They want to cow their opposition. And good.

I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea. This should not be a difficult concept.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.

All republicans voted down a subpoena of all records and footage related to the murder of Renee Good by ICE agent

Hell yes, shut it all down. Call your representatives and tell them to actually do the only thing they can to halt this madness.

The Trump administration seems to have developed an entirely new model of colonialism. They're testing it right now--on Venezuela, on Cuba, on the world If they pull it off, we will enter a horrific and unprecedented geopolitical era

he should be impeached for this alone

If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.

Trump has admitted that American taxpayers could be tapped to fund the “tremendous” investment needed to upgrade oil production in Venezuela.

it's so weird that there are still people who defend chuck schumer on here so many "we don't have any power, what do you expect him to do" and "we've tried absolutely nothing strategically unique and are all out of ideas" type of folks who seem extremely happy to wallow in powerlessness

1. The military raid on Venezuela and ouster of Maduro will create a financial windfall for a Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer. Follow this thread for details. 🧵 popular.info/p/venezuela-...

“Oh but if Democrats did that Republicans would just vote it down, wouldn’t convict and would rally their base to defend Trump’s crimes.” Yeah, okay, make them do that then.

Trump could declare himself Emperor and Schumer and Jeffries would politely post on X that they’re “disappointed.”

America is not going to be rescued from utter fascism by Democrats, at least not those currently in power.

Yes, this is exactly the time to demand Democrats "do something." They can denounce Trump's actions as unconstitutional. They can state that he must be impeached and removed. They can make clear that all involved will be held accountable. These are the core duties of a role they all signed up for.

Asked about the possibility of impeachment, Schumer says "we hope that we can have support from our Republican colleagues to put a brake on this long before it gets that far"

If "Project 2025" was the blueprint for the takeover, "Project 2026" is the manual for the occupation. While the media is still dissecting the 2024 transition, the Heritage Foundation has quietly released its next phase. Officially titled "Restoring

In 2026, let us all remember that Elon Musk is not a genius, but a guy who got lucky on PayPal even though his colleagues at the time openly mocked him, then got giant loans from the government that saved Tesla, then killed 600,000 people by gutting USAID, and now gets high on ketamine a lot

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

Why Trump is the distraction www.authoritarian-stack.info

"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

“[T]here has been persistent chatter circulating in Democratic circles that Future Forward—the main super PAC backing Democrats, which brought in $613 million from donors last year—was pressuring the DNC to not make them look bad.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

The Chad “Here’s a point by point refutation of this article written from my person experience in policy and government” Versus The Virgin “This proprietary equation I made up says you’re wrong”

And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech. If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.