This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Just epic youtu.be/iNGZXXowIvY?...

A lot of people talk about wanting Dems with the courage and anger to meet this moment, but Rep. @ramirez.house.gov is actually doing it. Read this 🔥 interview I did with her Friday:

I bought this today at a beloved bookstore I had not visited in years... It feels as though it is missing something - it does not seem to acknowledge that tyranny (democracy's adversary) cannot be wished away by positivity alone but requires resilience & bloody mindedness to be overcome.

how we got here

Great sitting down with Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the Obama Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw

“Karen-branded Goebbels” A quote for the ages

Sen. Mark Kelly:  The most patriotic thing that any American can do right now is to continue exercising our rights, continue speaking truth to power, and not backing down."

Rep. Raskin: “You ignored the law and even with over 100,000 employees at your disposal, you acted with some mixture of staggering incompetence, cold indifference, and jaded cruelty towards more than 1,000 victims raped, abused, and trafficked. This performance screams cover-up.”

This picture perfectly encapsulates this administrations willful ignorance and disdain for anything slightly resembling human decency.

Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."

The most blatantly corrupt gangster government in American history. Where are congressional Republicans on this stuff? Nowhere to be found. Vote them ALL out.

A federal court just upheld California’s law REQUIRING federal agents to identify themselves. California will keep standing up for civil rights and our democracy.

Pure lawlessness, barbarity, and evil from the federal government www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6o-...

Well well well

That‘s the spirit.

This Administration is robbing our country of its humanity.   Yesterday, we heard from the brothers of Renee Nicole Good, Marimar Martinez, Aliya Rahman, & Daniel Rascon, who were shot, brutalized, and detained by ICE and DHS. These are not isolated incidents. This is Administration policy.

For those keeping score at home:

White House Calls Bruce Springsteen’s ICE Protest Song ‘Random’ and ‘Irrelevant’: Spokeswoman attempts to pivot away from addressing the powerful message in "Streets of Minneapolis" #BruceSpringsteen #ICEProtest #StreetsOfMinneapolis #WhiteHouse #ProtestMusic

I don't know about you, but #BruceSpringsteen new song #StreetsofMinneapolis said everything I've been feeling for the past few weeks. #ice #minneapolis #alexpretti #renegood #protestsongs #boss kentingley.substack.com/p/let-freedo...

The Boss has arrived. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaP... What a f***ing god.

Hilarious: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cDX...

Amid these dark moments, something important is beginning to shift. It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.

On CNN, Anderson Cooper using the sentence "That was a lie" over and over tonight regarding the words of Noem, Miller and Bovino.

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

📌The thing about Jack Smith's testimony today is that it is easily corroborated because we all watched the attack on TV, including the guy behind it, who did nothing about it for three hours.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtwT... Interesting view of Trump's performance at Davos. Horrifying, not just from our Dictator, but also from the reaction of everyone in the room.

Cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social.

Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

In the latest episode of the AI Grand Rounds podcast, Dr. Marinka Zitnik of Harvard Medical School describes how AI-driven drug repurposing offers a way to work within existing constraints while still opening new therapeutic possibilities. Full episode: nejm.ai/ep38 #MedSky

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

From today's NYT: The Daily talks to Maggie Haberman , Jonathan Swan, and Charlie Savage about the sheer scale of the capture of power by mad king Trump. www.youtube.com/watch?v=__J9... Most tellingly, they predict a continuation and even an expansion of the abuse of power after he leaves. FML

Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…

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Starting a new podcast: ars-veritatis.podbean.com/e/through-a-...

Is this real? WTF people? Marco! FFS - get this guy his meds!!!

Trump has transformed the justice system into a Putin-style autocratic protection racket. The wealthy are not audited or investigated, if convicted they are pardoned. Political opponents are targeted. Unidentified masked agents grab people off the street, and protesters are shot.

this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.

this is pathetic to a degree i didn't realize was possible

This has been the plan all along. - Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN - Implement the Insurrection Act - Declare Martial Law - Suspend elections

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

I wrote a short essay about police violence and Renée Good. It's called "Federal Agents' Intent and Willingness to Kill" ars-veritatis.blogspot.com/2026/01/fede...

Hey @thehill.com we’re still waiting on your apologies for this lie. 🤷‍♀️

This black man, who was racially profiled by ICE in a gas station in Minneapolis today, would not have walked away if it weren’t for brave Americans who stood up for him and for those whose deaths have brought ICE’s savagery to the epicenter of national attention. Keep calling them out, America!

Like I said.