Btw, a lesson Canada should draw from Ukraine's experience is that the ability of the aggressor to create a "separatist movement" out of thin air by promoting and arming completely marginal losers should never be underestimated. When Ru jump started protests in Ukraine's east in spring 2014, ....

If you read or share only one article today, make it this: HOW TRUMP HAS POCKETED $1,408,500,000 (Historically, one thing that has helped bring down authoritarians is public awareness of their use of the power of the office for self-enrichment.) Gift link:

"Numerous studies show that immigration is not linked to higher levels of crime, but rather the opposite." Source: Research articles cited in article at Brennan Center www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

Hey @thehill.com we’re still waiting on your apologies for this lie. 🤷‍♀️

One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.

Know your rights if ICE show up. An important piece from @kimwehle.bsky.social and Zeteo:

A felon who married an immigrant is telling a lot of y’all that the problems in this country all stem from felons and immigrants. But keep buying that stupid red hat that’s made in China.

Tillis is spot on. The Senate can't confirm a Trump toady to succeed Powell at the Fed. The rest of the game is now out in the open, and it doesn't end well.

Well this is f-d up. Turns out Ross was with CBP in El Paso during a time period when officers were often putting themselves in the path of moving vehicles, “justifying” the use of deadly force. Links to the report and story about Ross’s background in the comments below.

I’ve spent my career studying how regimes justify the unjustifiable. So when a civilian driver is labeled a “domestic terrorist,” I know what that language is doing — building a permission structure for violence. Minneapolis isn’t just a tragedy. It’s a warning. I break it down in my new essay.

Scenes of protest in Mashhad, N/E Iran, via b9AcE:

An arsonist hit a Mississippi synagogue Saturday. Seven Torahs were damaged or destroyed in the fire. One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched. The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

Trump shows you his priorities–Big Oil companies. “Running” Venezuela is all about enriching his donors. The American people are done fighting foreign wars to pad the pockets of oil executives.

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea. This should not be a difficult concept.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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What's happening with the release of the Epstein files? There's still over a million more that should've been released on 12/19/25. #BelieveWomen #EpsteinFiles #FDT

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson: "There was a time that we could take [the federal government] at their word. That time has long passed. That is why we are calling on ICE to halt all operations in Portland until a full and independent investigation can take place."

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

“God damn them all.”

This regime excels at one thing. Killing people in a myriad of ways, each crueler than the one before. . www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...

Her vehicle's right front panel cleared the ICE agent who didn't open fire until after he was at the side of her vehicle. He used deadly force on a fleeing individual, which is against DHS policy. This is murder. He needs to be arrested.

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Families across Florida are struggling to afford their rent, groceries, and healthcare. Democrats are fighting for relief, meanwhile Republicans are ensuring your bills keep rising.

Absoltely crazy warmth also in Russia and Ukraine on The Black Sea. NIGHT temperatures up to >16C at Sevastopolis, Crimea, 13C in Tuapse,Russia. Next days we will see 20C in Caucaso Russia and >25C In the former USSR (Turkmenistan) and Caspian coast. Expect MANY records

28/ I’m also looking forward to @gilduran.com’s upcoming book on this subject. bsky.app/profile/gild...

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump approves major Russia sanctions bill after Zelensky says war could end soon

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

The gun should have never come out at all. First rule of gun safety is never even AIM a gun, let alone fire, unless you intend to kill. That means even in the general direction of anyone. This isn't a James Bond movie. People have a chance of dying any time a gun is involved regardless of intent.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

I won't circulate that awful video, but it’s very telling that the first thing the two ICE agents do after the shooting is pull up their face coverings—as if all they need to do to mask their behaviour is to mask themselves, as if their anonymity is a shield against all accountability.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

If Renee Good is a "a domestic terrorist" according to Kristi Noem it means the label is meaningless and will be used by the Trump Administration to murder anyone it wants. From Venezuelan fishermen to anti Trump protestors in the No Kings Rally. Eyes wide open, friends.

Amount of blood US has expended defending Greenland: zero. Amount of blood Denmark has expended defending the US: 43 Danish soldiers gave their lives in Afghanistan, responding to a US appeal under article 5 of NATO. Ogles has no idea about any of this, because he's an incompetent buffoon.

NEW from me: The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...

From the sworn testimony of Special Counsel Jack Smith 2 weeks ago.

Congrats to the self-anointed peace president. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇

This is from one month ago.

Why won’t Speaker Johnson display this plaque thanking law enforcement for their heroic efforts to protect our Democracy on January 6?

HARD PAUSE — Explain to me: why would Venezuela give America its resources. to be sold by the U.S and then receive a lesser cut than what they could have sold it for at a high dollar themselves? And when you get done with that, tell me how this will stop drugs coming into the United States👇🏾

This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.

Trump administration confirms less than 1% of the Epstein Files have been released…roughly 12,285 documents out of more than 2 million

Secretary Rubio basically said the use of military force would not occur without first coming to Congress to get authorization. He needs to explain why he straight up lied to Congress.

Is it any surprise from a religious cult that believes death is life? (But are still yet afraid to die).

“I don’t think there is a legal basis for what we’re seeing in Venezuela. There are certainly legal arguments that the Administration is going to make, but all the arguments that I’ve heard so far don’t hold water. None of them really justify what the President seems to have ordered to take place”