One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.

if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”

"Israel has demolished more than 2,500 buildings in Gaza since the cease-fire began..." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

FYI: Judge Ellis (Chicago ICE case) noted in November that video evidence shows ICE "brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."

"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

100% this!👇

An embroidered silkwork panel, titled Spring Flowers or similar, designed by Helen Adelaide Lamb around 1909–1910.

This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV. The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence. This is not protection. This is occupation.

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

New logo for the Death Cult Party. Art by Jesse Duquette

Carlitos Ricardo Parias, TikToker who was shot by ICE & then charged w/assault, whose case was dismissed after DOJ stashed him in a GEO prison and prevented his criminal attorneys has a (still sealed) habeas corpus case b4 same judge who dismissed criminal case. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72109...

Great piece by my Cato colleague. “Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle. The same playbook is used each time: the agent says they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them. Juries should decide, but we tie their hands.

looking at a painting from a new angle is like walking in one direction, turning around to walk back & finding a whole new forest 🤍🕊️ . #ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #AbstractArt #AbstractExpressionism #Painter #Art #Artist #WomensArtBlueSky #AbstractArtist #BlueSkyArt #OregonArtist #Oregon

Vulcan, a rare-earth magnetics firm backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s 1789 Capital, lands a record $620M conditional loan from the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital in a $1.4B bid to curb China’s magnet grip. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/pentagons-...

Lol how can you tell this administration is lying to you? Because oil hasn't been shipped in actual barrels in over a century www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...

This is true.

My thoughts today are with the security people and police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 and have been treated with such distain since by the GOP. For them and the Democratic leadership who lived through such chaos and no doubt continue to carry the scars within. We will not forget.

Things Trump destroyed (or badly damaged) in a year: • rules-based international order • global trade • large-scale private enterprise • nonpartisan civil service • foreign aid • nonpolitical prosecutions/pardons • independent agencies • immigration • alliances • rule of law • Education Dept • truth

A snow study #art #oilpainting

i think that people really underestimate reality that 1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man 2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually 3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas

Venezuela: Here is the monograph out of the US Army War College that details what we must be prepared to do to "run a country". i.e. occupy it like Japan or Germany after WW2. This was published in Feb, 2003 and mostly ignored. ssi.armywarcollege.edu/SSI-Media/Re...

These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.

The GOP appears to be preoccupied with personal financial gain, resulting in a lack of action on pressing issues.

Rep. Seth Moulton comes on CNN and starts by saying: "Is anyone going to just stop for a second and be honest? This is insane. What the hell are we doing? We've got a lot of problems in America today, and invading / occupying / running Venezuela does not solve any of them."

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Oh. my. god. This is the Asst. US Atty General calling people -- in print -- "hoes."

Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939

Looking west at Sherborne Abbey. A feast. 🤓

it is extremely funny that RFK both does not believe in the germ theory of disease and is a lab leak truther

Did the United States really spend trillions of dollars on winning the Cold War, only for its president in 2025 take orders from a Russian dictator? This is an earth-shattering humiliation for America of which its reputation may never recover.

If you’re in line to make fun of Tom Brady stay in line

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

In other news, expecting Trump will distance himself, Greenland has changed its name.

Well, while Trump has been posting about scumbags and liberal sleazebags and starting a war in Nigeria — Obama went to a hospital — visiting patients, handing out gifts and thanking the staff for all they do every day. 🎅🏿 ❤️ 🐐

"omnidirectional incoherence" captures Trumpism perfectly

Trump is banning fact-checkers--yes, those people who do the research to learn the truth--from entering the USA. When Trump says he supports free speech, what he means is supports his right to lie. Those who tell the truth are therefore his natural enemies.

Just a little anti-constitution! Definitely anti-democracy.

He and his people have decimated our ability to adequately defend this country. One well-placed strike and our country, possibly the whole world, is over in a couple of hours.

Merry Christmas from The Eastside Orangeys plus Gentrification Kitty plus Señor Pretty Kitty. We all matter or none of us do. And all means all. Merry Christmas

Christmas in the East Wing, 2023. 🎄

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.

Bari Weiss is really bad at her job, until you realize it's her job to be really bad at her job, in which case she is excellent at her job

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.