US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties

I’m tired of being talked down to by people like this. They are doing the Elon Musk Mars In 2 Years bit but have tied the entire U.S. economy to a bespoke compliment generator. It’s time to start talking about these AI mutants like delusional babies.

Looks like Senator Blumenthal's office worked with the whistleblowers, and has already put out a letter to the Trump admin demanding answers. Congress MUST act. This is a five alarm fire for our basic rights under the law. bsky.app/profile/blum...

It appears the jetway photos at Logan were part of CBP "biometric exit" program, which has been tested for years but was quietly approved for wider rollout in Sept. (Doesn't explain threats to passenger) Some really creepy, damning details in NYT report from Sept: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/t...

In a sign of how explosive ICE knew this secret memo would be, one whistleblower says he was only allowed to read the memo and was barred from taking written notes, and warned that employees had been punished for disagreeing. At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach the illegal memo!

McGovern: Well, he said a lot of crazy shit today. I think it’s time to take the keys away from grandpa. He doesn’t seem like he’s all there.

NEW: After the @texasobserver.org reported that James Rodden—an ICE attorney we identified as the operator of a racist X account—returned to work in the Dallas immigration court last week, Congressman Marc Veasey has introduced a bill to reduce his salary to $1. www.texasobserver.org/congressman-...

It would be a real shame if one of the European countries had a copy of the unredacted #EpsteinFiles.

I think about this a lot: the fact that it's "inconceivable" is a HUGE part of the problem. Hey folks: conceive of it. That's the necessary first step. This fascism is in fact happening, and the whole "I can't imagine" part is stopping a lot of progress in overcoming it.

Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

Danish parliamentarian Rasmus Jarlov speaking to MS NOW on Stephen Miller comments regarding Greenland: "I hope he’s kept away from young women, because that’s the mentality of a rapist. You can’t defend yourself, so I’m going to take you. That’s basically what he’s saying."

It’s like Donald Trump has declared war on smart people and you don’t even have to be that smart to be qualified as smart people

if sports heckling involves greenland something has gone badly off the rails

She is an expert on authoritarian regimes, in case you're wondering whether peaceful protests matter.

Amazing essay - a must read.

You already have Murkowski and Collins so you really only need two more….

If you think that gesture was unfriendly wait until you’re out of power, friendo.

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

Ohio GOP U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has taken at least $75,000 in campaign contributions from Centene, including more than $29,000 after the company paid $88.3 million to settle allegations that it had fraudulently extracted tens of millions from Ohio Medicaid ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/16/h...

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

the only good thing about this part of the horrible shooting story is that it may turn out to be a gut shot for the carcass of @cbsnews.com and that's great. and unlike the ICE goon CBS has real internal bleeding.

This is a direct violation of the Tenth Amendment and State Sovereignty. Conditioning federal funds on states surrendering their constitutional authority is not “law and order.” It’s coercion—and the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled it unconstitutional.

.@PabloReports: Stephen Miller seems to be operating sort of as a shadow president at this point. Is there any legal liability he could face at the end of this presidency? Ryan: There’s going to be legal—and I think criminal—liability for multiple members.. certainly Stephen Miller.

besides all the obvious things to say, my hot take is that this is also time to retire the Nobel Prize as this whole thing is too embarrassing for words

'Two cabinet secretaries conspired': Judge reads shocking ruling against Trump admin www.rawstory.com/noem-rubio-c...

ANOTHER MAJOR WIN: Trump’s effort to invalidate the collective bargaining agreement between AFGE union & @tsa.gov is rebuffed—again! An amazing win for AFGE and its legal team, the great lawyers at Bredhoff & Kaiser, and our @democracydefendersfund.org crew Defending labor IS defending democracy!

Yay!!

Reagan-appointee Judge Young on Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio: “These cabinet secretaries have failed in their duties to protect the Constitution.”

The administration needs to be asked directly how many J6ers, and anyone convicted of seditious conspiracy, are now ICE agents with a badge and a gun.

so much to cover right now, but a thread i just want to throw out there from my reporting is that the car rental market in minneapolis is reportedly totally screwed up right now because ICE has cleared the inventory. rental companies should have to answer for supplying vehicles used in terror.

*CALIFORNIA AG LAUNCHES PROBE INTO XAI, GROK *CALIFORNIA AG: PROBE OVER UNDRESSED, SEXUAL AI IMAGES

🚨BREAKING: Any candidate for federal office may challenge election laws governing their election, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision Wednesday, potentially triggering a deluge of litigation over the counting and certifying of results. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.” Gift link: wapo.st/4sG38CD

Markey: This administration has proved time and time again that it is only interested in vengeance, that it lies and lacks all humanity. Today, six federal prosecutors resigned because the DOJ wants to investigate Renee's widow rather than Renee's killer

Jessica Tarlov (@jessicatarlov.bsky.social) just wow. So incredible. So grateful for her work, every day.

Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations

The massive increase in hiring by ICE with big bonuses and lower standards on background checks, physical fitness, and length of training, makes it one big giant MAGA chud welfare program.

BREAKING: Former special counsel Jack Smith will testify publicly on January 22 before the House Judiciary Committee.

Today, we were officially notified by USG that Pres Trump's memo that revoked my security clearance w/o due process is no longer in effect over me. My access eligibility to classified info has been restored. On Dec 23, 2025, a federal court ruled his action was unconstitutional. Rule of Law wins!

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

We're in a crisis unlike any since the Civil War. This is how it stops. This is how it ends. www.againstallenemies.net/p/how-it-sto...

I don’t see how this country survives until 2029 unless Trump is impeached and removed. This level of lawless malice is not sustainable. What fresh horrors await us this week?

Looks like the regime has put JD in charge of bullshit.

Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.

"In his final drive for power Hitler had considerable financial backing from a fairly large chunk of the German business world...What good [that] eventually did these politically childish men of the business world will be seen later in this narrative." Shirer, p. 242