The moment it was crystal clear we were in the worse case scenario, was exactly a year ago when Trump pardoned every single Jan 6 perpetrator, including the ones that beat the crap out of cops and were convicted of seditious conspiracy.

Query whether this comment is in some sense worse than being referred for discipline.

NEWS: No one filed to challenge two conservative/Republican justices on the Nevada supreme court who are up for reelection this year. The deadline was a few days ago. They will run for new terms unopposed.

My "No, Earth Won’t Lose Gravity for 7 Seconds on August 12" has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

An off duty local cop in MN, a woman of color, was stopped by ICE and they demanded to see her papers. When she reached to get her phone to record the interaction, an ICE agent knocked it out of her hand.

It’s important to crunch the numbers given all the nonsense this administration spouts, but also worth stressing we didn’t actually need new research to know this is how tariffs work. It’s well known, it’s what virtually every economist said, & the administration just plunged ahead delusionally.

made a thing that's fun to stare at projects.gelliottmorris.com

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

@perrystein.bsky.social update! New info on the FBI seeking search warrants for Renee Good's car. "Law enforcement applied for a warrant to search Good’s car under a civil rights statute" "as new facts emerged in the case," they applied for a warrant under an assault statute. It was rejected.

Breaking: churches shut down for Jan. 23

"He said he wanted to see the UK give up its nuclear weapons, saying he would try to persuade other nuclear-armed countries – including Russia – to do the same." What an optimistic fellow.

“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%. “Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.” www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

The problem isn’t our laws, the problem is our leaders. Our system has many problems, but the issue here isn’t that Trump has found some legal loophole. It’s that a critical mass of our politicians have broken their oaths and abandoned their sacred duty to uphold our fundamental laws.

"As a longtime foreign correspondent, I have covered civil wars in countries across the globe. Not so long ago, I would have rolled my eyes at the notion that one could erupt anywhere in America, much less in my once placid home state of Minnesota. And yet here I was"

These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

We are now 31 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files

The sort of people who support ICE and the Trump Administration are fine with this because she’s black, because she’s a woman, because she‘s Somali-American, and because THEY are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture.

Bloomberg confirmed the letter, But no one else of note has touched it, even to say reports are out there That’s…interesting

Leaking this in bad faith after the fact proves that they were correct not to pick him.

Houston Texans’ Azeez Al-Shaair has reportedly been fined $11,593 for wearing eye black that contained the message "stop the genocide” The report says he was fined for violating NFL uniform and equipment rules www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

it's more or less impossible to find issues that poll this badly and he's decided to make it a major, public priority www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...

new: during 2 competing rallies outside the Supreme Court as it heard a case on trans youth sports, police swarmed a trans woman and advocate after an anti-trans commentator yelled assault—releasing her and arresting him for assault after watching the tape "This is about power" @us.theguardian.com

Former French DGSE officer Vincent Crouzet tells French broadcaster that Ukraine has now “broken” with US intelligence and is receiving 2/3 of info from Paris via intercepts. He claims that the Ukrainians sent info to the Americans, which was then leaked to the Russians. 1/2 x.com/24hpujadas/s...

Yeah it’s good

They’re trying to deport witnesses to a murder by ICE guards

Three years ago I got footage of a sheriff's deputy beating a trans man who flipped him off while driving past This month, the now-ex-deputy (already convicted after feds found a massive cover-up) had his policing certification revoked. He can't be a cop anymore in California:

Here’s to the Nobel committee for posting this bit of history yesterday

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account. Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

What makes this statement by Emmanuel Macron so unprecedented is, for the first time, a leading European ally is equating Trump with Putin. “No intimidation or threat will influence us - neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world.” EVERYTHING has changed.

June 2024: "Arkansas Congressman Steve Womack‘s [(R)] son James Phillip Womack was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to distributing methamphetamine." Jan. 2026: Trump pardons James Phillip Womack. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo... www.justice.gov/pardon/media...

NYT publishes audio of Karoline Leavitt threatening CBS over its Trump interview: “He said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...

I’m starting to wonder if looking genuinely happy and acting like you really love the city is a more effective way to campaign (and govern) than scowling about what a shithole the city is and how many more cops it will take to subdue it.

US federal forces blind two protesters shot in face with ‘less-lethal’ munitions www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Mischief Toys is a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking to hold his tariffs unconstitutional 🤔🤔🤔

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

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.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.

It's particularly galling to call for ICE to wear body cams when Renee Good's murder literally recorded the whole thing on his phone. He was so confident in his impunity as part of that organization that he recorded and allowed for the release of footage of him shooting a woman at point blank.

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Lost in this one because its so absurd is that this is, again, a blatant violation of the emoluments clause and this is a clear case of someone trying to influence the foreign policy of the United States through gifts given to Trump.

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:

Oh yeah, Massachusetts is prepping. Apparently this bakery had anti-ice cookies and received death threats. They won't be open their usual hours tomorrow. Not out of fear, out of baked goods. They completely sold out and need to spend tomorrow restocking. fallriverreporter.com/massachusett...

It always gets dumber somehow

Surprise! www.ft.com/content/da74...

The scale and speed of state censorship of campus really is amazing. More than half of America's college students attend institutions in states that have passed laws censoring higher education since 2021. From @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/report/ameri...

Small peeve: Punditry (or GOP boosterism) that pretends Greenland would be the 51st state. Of course it wouldn't. We bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark a century ago. More than 2x the population of Greenland. It's a territory, and its citizens don't have voting DC reps. Neither would Greenland.