I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/ (New piece) newrepublic.com/article/2057...

Free speech in America continues its death spiral—just like Trump and MAGAs wanted.

This is actually one of the most troubling ICE stories I’ve seen recently — an eye-popping sign of how corrupt, broken, and racist the internal culture is:

So far in Minnesota They Shot a 37-year-old mother Renee Good four times, killing her, right after she dropped off her son at school. Then Ice kidnapped a five year old. Then ice kidnapped a two year old Then border patrol murdered Va nurse. Then Sec Noam went on tv and lied about it

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

This is a really important project. The voters of North Carolina deserve to learn Justice Earls' extraordinary story in advance of her reelection contest this fall. Her victory in November will be key to saving the NC Supreme Court from the grips of a corrupt and ultra-partisan MAGA majority.

The choice for replacing Rodney Scott, if pushed out, is seemingly Joseph Mazzara, a lawyer who’s facing possible contempt charges in the CECOT case in front of Boasberg. He may have been the one who wrote the “raid homes without real warrants” memo. Noem named him Deputy Commissioner last month.

Trump's FCC is cracking down again on Kimmel, SNL, Colbert,. These shows now are mandated to put Republicans on air or be subject to sanctions. Trump wants to program US TV like Putin does with Russian TV www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/b...

1/The law requires a judicial warrant based on probable cause signed by a judge to enter a home or private area in a biz (not an administrative one signed by an “immigration authority” ie a DHS employee). This is clearly unlawful conduct. ICE can’t change the law just because it doesn’t like it.

“Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to ‘overturn election results in certain states.’” (reporting by @kyledcheney.bsky.social) www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland. There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same. And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment. 1/

Trump has had a bee in his bonnet about NATO since he got back from Moscow in 1987. Invading Greenland would break apart the Alliance—Putin’s biggest goal. A lot of people didn’t want to believe Trump is a Kremlin asset in 2018, or even last year, but it’s time to (figuratively) come to Jesus.

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

The custom (not law!) of placing a hand on a religious text when making an oath is rooted in the idea that the person adheres to that faith and therefore would never lie with their hand on its main text. That's why you don't force Muslims to swear on a Bible, or Christians on the Koran.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

Why aren't Trump's tariffs saving manufacturing? "Trump put enormous tariffs on steel... That's a little bit like putting tariffs on flour and asking what do you think is going to happen to bakeries... Trump has put us at enormous disadvantage relative to foreign competitors."

Loud sigh.

The Trump administration is a criminal enterprise.

We fact-checked the first hearing of the GOP House committee re-investigating Jan. 6. At one point, a member suggested Biden was president during the riot - which would be impossible without time travel. www.npr.org/2026/01/16/n...

made some updates to the list. if you want to give to a gofundme, the ones in spanish are getting way less than other, and they are asking for much less

JONATHAN ROSS THREAD: 🧵 I think a certain # of women have seen the video from Ross’s cellphone showing the taunts that led to Renee’s murder. And we feel in our bones that we’ve left immigration officer territory and entered domestic violence territory very quickly. Here’s why: 👇🧵

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Major rebukes for Trump today on the Hill. Needs far more attention. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

US foreign policy today: invade, violate, create a humanitarian crisis, and then deport refugees who flee here seeking safety www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/w...

Trump just said "all" of Venezuela's oil must be made accessible to US oil companies. Trump wants to emulate Putin's model: Authoritarian, expansionist rulers carving up their regions and distributing the spoils of conquest to friendly oligarchs. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2049...

Judd Legum on Trump-supporting billionaire Paul Singer, who recently got his hands on CITGO and stands to profit significantly from Trump’s Venezuela invasion, after donating to Trump’s campaign. Because of course.

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

"By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors." NYT Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

This war and extra-judicial kidnapping is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Political leaders on both sides must condemn it. It’s not about whether Maduro is a tyrant but whether the US is still governed by laws and the Constitution. As if this morning, we are clearly not.

Neocons wanted violent regime change in Venezuela. Trump is giving them that. Neocons wanted violent regime change in Iran. Trump is giving them that. Neocons wanted blind support for Israel. Trump is given them that. Tell me again how Trump is different to the neocons?

"2025 was the year Sen. Bill Cassidy sold what was left of his soul," new by me. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

Trump’s domestic deployment of the National Guard marks an area where he has diverged from the consensus of the conservative legal movement, with no plausible footing in Federalist Society dogma. And it is extremely telling that SCOTUS finally drew the line here. slate.com/news-and-pol...

1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated 2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements 3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program 4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

Don’t forget. Biden’s DoJ was investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files up until the last minute. Trump shut down the investigation, sent the files to DC, & fired the prosecutors. They went through them, redacted Trump’s name, then elected not to release them and closed the matter.

A fantastic NYT report: Donors to Trump get pardons, jobs, & access - and benefited from regulatory decisions the Trump admin has made. SUPER timely as SCOTUS is about to kill agency independence & give POTUS more control over agencies (likely to donors' benefit) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A month ago, I did a line by line breakdown of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and why it was written to prevent any shenanigans in the event that Bondi sought to withhold documents damaging Trump. If you need a refresher this am as we await docs, here it is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEB1...

Just enraging. They want to kill trans kids. This is eugenics in action and they know it. Being denied gender affirming care causes suicidality in trans kids to skyrocket.

MORE from Jack Smith: "The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts."

AOC: Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want you to believe that this is who we are as a country. And we are here to say that it is not. We are a country that has fought and defeated the confederacy. That has defeated a history of civil rights violations, of secret police, of fascism.

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

This is one of the ways Trump's tweets work--and are designed to work. With each one, he exacerbates polarization and demands shows of loyalty/opposition. To be fair, response to THIS TWEET is actually more thoughtful on Xitter than on here.

"South Fork Wind, the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the US, is exceeding expectations for power generation and co-existing with the marine environment."

Quick guide to interpreting US foreign policy propaganda: if the word “deal” was used, some American made some money, and the war is still going on.