The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned. Soon after the agent opened the civil rights investigation, she was ordered to reclassify it as a probe into an assault on the officer.

Handing SSA data to election deniers seems like more than a Hatch Act violation

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

When can my fellow Asians realize that they are next in line on the chopping board?

We have a goalie fight! Sergei Bobrovsky skates all the way down to challenge Alex Nedeljkovic (h/t @msmambo.bsky.social)

We did our first escape room. It was #Clue themed. It was sooooo much fun.

He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.

I am so tired of the gaslighting by this administration. They pardoned 1500 insurrectionists who attempted to overthrow the government, yet they want to quash protests over the woman they murdered. All the while Trump is intervening in the protests in Iran…

photo of the vehicle that contained six children that ICE is accused of filling with smoke after choosing to deploy a military-grade device in a US city

"We can touch you anywhere at any time or our choosing" - or, as they put it during the election: "Your body, my choice."

Whenever I am bleeding internally after being hit by a car I keep filming on my cell phone while briskly walking away from the scene without waiting for medical attention. What about you guys?

".. The reporter, Hannah Natanson, has spent the past year covering the Trump administration’s effort to fire federal workers and redirect much of the work force to enforcing his agenda." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

Not exactly a national security threat.

Post your home river. Shenandoah River, Clarke County, VA.

Breaking WaPo: The FBI executed a search warrant this morning at a Post reporter's home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified materials. 
It's highly unusual and aggressive for law enforcement to conduct a search on a reporter's home.

Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks says we won't have "troops on the ground" in Venezuela as a Fox News chyron says: "TRUMP: 'WE'RE NOT AFRAID OF BOOTS ON THE GROUND.'"

And @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty tried to give themselves millions of dollars for receiving these calls🤔

In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."

POLITICO: “House Republicans decided to publicly release the transcript of special counsel Jack Smith’s Dec. 17 closed-door deposition on New Year’s Eve — while most of Washington was tuned out for the holiday…” www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Stranger Things: If you don’t think that scene was powerful, it happened in late 87. I was 7 (8 in 2 months). I remember names & derogatory terms & stigma. I remember it coming from friends / family.

Wow. Do we think Bondi and Blanche have lost control over their rancid cover up?

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

I have 10+ handmade items in stock & ready to ship on my website! Go check them out → cvkvlv.com Every sale goes to rent, bills, and taking care of my kitty 🖤 December goal progress in comments ↓ #Beadwork #Art #Mvskoke

The Supreme Court's use and abuse of the Shadow Docket is *how* Chief Justice John Roberts legitimizes Donald Trump's authoritarian takeover of the government. Me, in print for a change, in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Jacob Trouba doesn’t receive penalty for "unsuspecting, blindside headshot" on Ryan Leonard that sends Capitals rookie out of game russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2025/12/05/j...

data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...

This has a whole lot of “OJ looking for the real killer” energy

Uhhhh

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

You were betrayed, José.

“Over the past 48 hours alone, the Daily Beast has counted at least a dozen times when Trump has either confused names and dates, mixed up facts, or even appeared to drift off in public, prompting the obvious question: Is the president OK?” www.thedailybeast.com/12-reasons-w...

"The MRI was not disclosed in the report of the president’s latest visit to the Walter Reed Medical Center … Asked about this by the Daily Beast on Friday, along with a request for an update on the president’s health given this week’s events, the White House declined to answer.”

Democrats asked for ONE THING today to reopen the govt: Keep health insurance subsidies where they are at now for one year. That is IT. Nothing else. Republicans said no. So all the lies they tell every day about things Dems are asking for is BS. Republicans OWN this shutdown.

If you’re a Virginian, you know or are related to or are impacted by DOGE cuts, RIFs, shutdown or forced retirements in some way. Today, Virginians clapped back at 🐂 💩. Hearing Spanberger speak about public service. Hearing Sherrill speak about the Statue of Liberty. I earned a little hope today.

“Wicked” star Jonathan Bailey is People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2025. The magazine's pick was announced Monday night on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Bailey takes the mantle from “The Office” and “Jack Ryan” star John Krasinski, who was the 2024 selection.

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

Under McMahon, ED Is Diminished but Not Dead, Experts Say Inside Higher Ed spoke with more than a dozen politicians, higher education experts and former department employees; their thoughts on the agency’s status varied, but many tried to remain hopeful. https://bit.ly/3WDv9w1

ICYMI: I asked more than a dozen higher ed experts, how dead is the Dept. of Ed? Some tried to stay optimistic, describing the agency as diminished not dead. Others feared the damage has already been done. But across the board, most say ED is in critical condition.

Welcome to Halloween Town 2025! Jack Skellington (me) for our Halloween Skull de Sac party. With Zero.

It's been 15 years and nobody's leaked a single bit of this plan, my man

And there it is... Announcement is made that the US House will be out of session again next week They haven't voted since mid-September

Ffs

Some of my thoughts on what is happening to education during Trump 2.0. #education #highered

👇🎯 It's incredible how THE explanation for Why Democrats Lost in 2024 - the one the pundits were certain about (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) a year ago, & which was the nonstop centerpiece of the National Conversation™️ for <3 straight years> - has now been completely cast aside as if it never happened.