The alternative is all of us accepting that the government exists as a plaything for depraved sadists and people maddened by greed. I don't see the consent of the governed lasting too long under those circumstances.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless…. Remember this. ~ Robert Reich

Very legally significant. I am going to avoid the gory details in these texts. NYT also reporting: "Two of the gunshot wounds were not immediately life-threatening, the autopsy found." It appears to be bullet that appeared to go through the left-side window that was.

"[M]asked agents apprehended 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in his driveway on Tuesday...[the agent] led him to the door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.”

NEW: "Mitchell and EIN are hoping to change the dynamic of the 2026 midterms by pressuring state and local election officials to only allow voting to take place in small neighborhood precincts, rather than the vote centers." www.democracydocket.com/analysis/vot...

This tired old dementia patient has looked pretty miserable every time we've seen him of late.

Neither are particularly good, tbh.

Got your popcorn and snacks ready for Jack Smith's public testimony tomorrow? I do...but I'll likely be too focused to eat.🔥

If you miss critical votes because you are too busy campaigning for higher office, you don’t deserve higher office.

I don’t know why this is coming up but… can confirm

Youse better be prepared to be called “jabronies” and watch out for the hoagies. ICE is rumored to be heading for Philadelphia. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump added $2.25 trillion to the national debt in his first year back in charge, watchdog says finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...

Crow: I’m concerned about the president destroying our alliances, destroying our economy, destroying working class Americans' livelihoods… this president is destroying everything that he touches

Rare to see discusson of the point @jamellebouie.net makes here. "Most coverage of Trump treats him as president in a functional way, even if he doesn’t perform the civic duties of the office." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o... Rather than designing coverage for a cateory of one — the mad king...1/

This comes just after the president publicly demanded that ICE should start showing the public how terrible the people are who they're grabbing and arresting. In this case, his name is Liam. He's five years old. www.kare11.com/article/news...

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Jared Golden sees what ICE is doing to Minneapolis and welcomes the same to his district. I expect that from Republicans. But it's Dems like this that wreck the Party brand and make it harder for us to win. Thankfully he understands his limitations and is throwing himself out of politics.

This DHS memorandum says that the DHS General Counsel's office has adopted a new position that the Fourth Amendment allows entry into the home to make an arrest just based on an administrative warrant. I would like to see that argument. documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I wonder if he left his dog Snowflake home alone again so he can freeze when the power goes out.

DIMON: “.. I don’t like what I’m seeing, five grown men beating up a little old lady. So I think we should calm down a little bit on the internal anger about immigration.” @cnbc.com #$JPM www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/j...

Media just lying straight up to their audiences today. Stenographer ass bullshit not doing one bit of reporting. It's all dogshit, people. Subscribe to independent media.

We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/ice-...

TONIGHT: @repbrendanboyle.bsky.social joins @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

ICE said he killed himself and that was just a blatant lie. We have no idea how many people are being murdered in these concentration camps.

TONIGHT: @hennepinatty.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

Eff you!!! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is the absolute minimum we should expect from business leaders.

“We, not our detractors, were the clear-eyed and clear-headed ones, but that is no comfort right now.” www.theunpopulist.net/p/wed-have-b...

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

TONIGHT: @khanna.house.gov joins @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

Call your reps.

“It's not a game, it's personal”: @rokhanna.bsky.social recounts January 6 horrors ahead of Jack Smith’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, where lawmakers are expected to grill the former special counsel on his investigations into Donald Trump.

Why are our taxpayer dollars supporting this? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

The United States government used armed thugs to kidnap a 5-year-old child off an American street, separate him from his dad, traffic him to another state, and sling him into a scary & unsafe concentration camp. "This is not who we are!!!" Yes, unfortunately, it now is.

Orin is probably the preeminent fourth amendment scholar in the United States. He is also extremely professional. This is the way he says "I wish a bitch would try"

My take on the Jan 23 action in Minneapolis is that I don’t really care whether it’s a “true” general strike (we could argue about that all day). What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance

“I don't believe him”: Michael responds to Trump's claim of having a “framework of a future deal” on Greenland

There’s no This Fucking Guy more than this fucking guy

So are we getting Iceland in this deal or Greenland? I’m a little confused after Trump’s speech.

Dire consequences in Florida of Trump/Republicans' federal decision to eliminate ACA subsidies: Cutting off HIV+ Americans from the medications **they're currently taking** that are keeping them alive. www.wtxl.com/downtown-tal...

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ABOLISH ICE, or a variation of it, should be a litmus test for most Americans. It is one of mine. If a Democrat thinks they can rally people by supporting and funding ICE, they are grossly misinformed and utterly ghoulish.

“Abuses of executive power”: Legal Defense Fund President @janainelson.bsky.social says Supreme Court is finally questioning Trump

my god. this baby. his little self. there have been chapters this dark in US history before—that we moved through them makes it even more damning that we’re in this chapter now. nothing short of accountability, meaningful justice, and full scale government reform can move us fully out of this one

Our reporting has found that ICE sent 600 immigrant kids to detention in federal shelters in 2025. A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf. Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn:

A federal judge said in a legal filing that the U.S. attorney title for the Eastern District of Virginia will be vacant and put out a call for qualified attorneys to apply for the role — a move that strips Trump loyalist Lindsey Halligan from the title after her disqualification.

He was already on the ground. This is government-sponsored sadism. That is, Trump-sponsored sadism.

Ice needs to be abolished

The ex-president and the former secretary of state could face criminal charges if found guilty, after they refused to testify over their links to Jeffrey Epstein. ft.trib.al/tuu15o3