I thought comedy was legal again

A new Fox news poll shows Dems hitting highest support on the generic ballot in survey’s history, winning 52% vs 46% for Repubs. It’s the highest percentage for EITHER party; the prior record was 50% in October 2017—also for Dems (before 2018’s big blue wave midterm) h/t @gelliottmorris.com

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The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.

The senators voting to repeal the additional $75 billion in ICE funding represent a 54-46 majority of the American people, but the vote fails thanks to malapportionment and the filibuster docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Good time to remember that Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in America www.gelliottmorris.com/p/who-is-the...

"We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled." That's from a group of more than a dozen prominent climate scientists. Probably nothing.

“The complaint summary says the feds were told the underage girl was approximately 13-14 years old when the alleged incident occurred,and it says the alleged victim "allegedly bit Trump while performing oral sex" and was "allegedly hit in the face after she laughed about biting President Trump."”

You could imagine similar situations in which members of the media coordinated in solidarity around Lemon to direct sustained negative attention to Trump over this story. Instead the political press spent the earlier part of the week making up a fake story ("new tone") to help Trump.

I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff. They're afraid. One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.” @notus.com: www.notus.org/immigration/...

What would happen if Trump tried to send troops to disrupt the midterms? Undaunted voters in the Twin Cities just gave us an answer: It could backfire very, very badly. New from The Downballot: A wild overperformance in St. Paul shows Minnesotans will "crawl over broken glass" to vote—despite ICE.

People are reading this way wrong. Schumer detached DHS from the other five bills in return for a two week CR on the DHS bill. Now Democrats can make demands on DHS spending without having to shut down agencies covered in the other five bills. They have way more leverage to get real concessions.

The next Fed Chair.

Incredible. Incredible. "The most important thing we have right now is a national sense of immediacy and urgency, and the thing we need to do with it is piss it away."

Gonna go ahead and say this was a) inevitable and b) widely predicted, but the subhuman shitstains involved in all this c) don't care.

Trump launched an affordability-focused midterm campaign for Republicans this week, traveling to Iowa to give a speech about how good his presidency has been for the cost of living. That's going about as well as you'd think. Here POTUS is saying he is going to keep housing prices high.

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

Federal agents cornered Marimar Martinez, shot her several times, boasted about it, arrested her, lied about her to the public and in the police report, and falsely charged her with assaulting them. Now the government wants to keep evidence of their lies secret to protect these agents' "privacy."

Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them: 1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens 2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar 3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia

Confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi, one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000.

It's not as difficult to understand the rush to buy gold...

WATCH-- Tim Walz on his call with Trump officials: "Not once did they ever say Alex or Renee's name. Not once did they ask how the people of Minnesota were doing. So look, I know who I'm dealing with, and I know the reason that he was calling me was he needed something from us."

Congrats to Kennedy and Trump—living the dream

Donald Trump's support from independents hits a new low. (@dhmontgomery.com and @taylororth.bsky.social, @today.yougov.com) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260128

Two democratic members of congress being assaulted reminds me of the time Sarah Huckabee Sanders was politely asked to leave a restaurant

ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

Tough couple of months for the people trying to optimize Democratic strategy to win the last election instead of the next one www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...

Federal deployment to Minneapolis "is steady state and expected to continue as planned," per Border Patrol memo leaked to me

So for Dems, the win is: reiterating 3 things that are already law, 1 thing that is a best practice, and 1 thing that was already a rule up until 6 months ago? From the bottom of my heart: fuck off with this. And they didn't even include ICE out of hospitals, healthcare facilities and daycares.

Losing money is a great start, tbh.

Tony Dokoupil recently criticized the old CBS, saying it "put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites & not enough on you [ie, regular Americans]." This explains why CBS just hired Niall Ferguson, who's British, a professor at Stanford & a hedge fund consultant.

Looks like elites are updating their view of public opinion on immigration bc of recent events. They’re right, but late. Polls have shown Trump underwater on immigration since last summer, esp on deportations. Some of us have been saying this for a while! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

In terms of approximating the right strategic choice for Dems on issue emphasis in the midterms campaign, might be worth taking into account which issues Trump is more scared of (from NPR home page)

I disagree. I think it is great and will help accelerate the decline of what is clearly now a corportate mouthpiece for facism.

Our Canadian neighbors will soon have access to EVs that are better & cheaper than anything available in the US.

many people have fully embraced a timeline in which President Joe Biden lost re-election in 2020 due to his handling of covid policy, backlash to his woke policies, and his "defund the police" agenda.

Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.” Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity. So pathetic and weak.

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.

It’s common and sort of understandable to see Miller as this evil genius. Important to remember he’s actually a complete fucking moron who, when he got a chance, immediately engineered a PR disaster that shitcanned Trump’s best-polling issue. Always the way with these types.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

A lot of people listen to the centrist strategists and “analysts” who wrongly argued Democrats shouldn’t talk about immigration because it would help Trump or some shit. You do have to wonder how that shaped Dem behavior in Congress, & how things could’ve been different w/ different info streams

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

Trump backing down to public pressure is a good thing. But let's be clear. Noem, Miller, Bovino, etc. all followed his lead. He called protesters terrorists. He dehumanized Somali immigrants. He lied about Good and Pretti. He owns all of it. He'll also probably change his mind tomorrow.

Two weeks ago.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"