I guess this might not be obvious to folks who aren’t in DC/regular attendees, but: The KC is a gorgeous venue. It is not run down, and certainly is not remotely in need of the kind of complete renovation that would require shutting it down for two years.

Neither Trump nor the GOP in congress have this power, & the only way they do this is if we decline to stand up for our rights. He's had a string of electoral defeats & rightfully fears the midterms. His outbursts are real threats, but they come from weakness. Tough shit, he's going down. No Kings.

"I won MN three times but I got no credit for it" is just batshit crazy dementia talk. He genuinely thinks he kept winning and "they" just kept stealing it from him. It's like he thinks squirrels stole his glasses, or the wind is saying mean things about him. This can't go on much longer.

Early last year I approached Rep Gimenez with an offer to work together to protect immigrants in his district & mine. He rudely told me he had his own strategy & walked off. Apparently his strategy was to do nothing for over a year to actually stop this. Miami deserves better.

History of a smear against Boston Mayor Michelle Wu

Congress should consider making it a felony to demolish federally owned buildings without congressional approval.

Gonna beg media not to just repeat Trump's obviously bullshit framing in the headlines. Tell readers the truth in the headlines. Alternatives: "With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely" "Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"

Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.

Troublemaker is my middle name.

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

Jesus Christ

Melania’s first screening in Times Square draws four people, at least three of them professional critics. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

the foreign descriptions of what is going on are hilarious and terrifying www.youtube.com/shorts/SfzuV...

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

WE ARE HERE, FOR REAL NOW!

If you answer “No” you get an invitation to Mar-a-Lago

Shot and chaser from new Epstein batch

Okay, so impeach when?

This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.

I know we’re so far past even considering the possibility that Republicans ever actually believed in the Constitution, but it’s a useful thought experiment to read this article as if it was about Biden using technology developed by a billionaire donor to surveil anti-abortion and 2A activists.

Raise your hand if you know in your bones 100% that trump is having his goons plant fake data in the election files he just confiscated in Georgia🤚

Truly insane

FBI searching Fulton County elections office, per Reuters www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

“Danes responded by placing hundreds more flags in front of the American Embassy, according to video shared by TV2.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/e...

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

Just a reminder that it was only 4 days ago that Trump caused an international furor by denigrating the service of allied combat veterans. Think of all the chaos and mayhem since then in just 4 days. The sheer volume of it is meant to exhaust us and numb us. We mustn’t let it.

This is The Atlantic suggesting that Trump is changing course because he's decent. He is *not* decent. He's only reacting because he didn't like how killing innocent people on video was affecting his already low poll numbers. If those poll numbers had gone up, the streets would be FULL of blood.

I think the thing that killed the administration was that they were so gung-ho to find a reason that Pretti deserved to die that they accidentally declared that that the second amendment isn't real.

Has anyone told JD Vance what happened to Trump’s last Vice President

I came away from the Davos discourse certain of one thing: we need more workplace trends thought leadership. So I* built Workplace Buzzword Slots. workplacebuzzwordslots.com *Well, Claude did, but I wrote some pretty fire prompts for it, not gonna lie.

Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

This framing is disgraceful. We saw the videos. A bloodthirsty group of ICE/DHS agents tackled, beat, shot and killed Alex Pretti. Then Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and Greg Bovino lied about it and denigrated the victim You either report the facts as they are or you support fascism It’s time to choose

Just say the government is lying. The goal of journalism should be to inform, not gaslight.

I'm at a loss for words. I'm glad someone else has them.

H/T @mollyploofkins.bsky.social

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

The Trump regime's position seems to be that Republicans have the right to bear arms and everyone else has the right to get shot by them.

And the 2A-breathed assholes have finally given up on "guns don't kill people, people kill people" and are now resorting to, no, it's the guns. In order to justify fascism, every principle and credo -- pretended or otherwise -- can and will be jettisoned.

I swear to god some of these corporate news outlets would open a window right now and say “We can’t confirm it, but it appears that the ground is allegedly being snowed upon.”

there we go

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

WHAT ARE THEIR NAMES. I want the names of the shooters.

Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"