Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings. newrepublic.com/article/2060...

Kindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported. 6 years old. She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.

Today @cato.org published our report providing the first look at the fiscal effects of the wave of legal & illegal immigration over the last 3 decades. It shows immigrants created surpluses every year, by a combined $14.5 trillion, even as deficits grew www.cato.org/white-paper/...

On trans Bluesky, there are many posts circulating describing Epstein's anti-trans views and ties to prominent transphobes. Anti-trans politics fit neatly into all of this because the existence of trans people threatens the idea that men are naturally superior to women.

A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.

Really worth a read. A vaccine expert on anti-vax fascism.

7 pediatric bioethicists: Proposed ban on Medicaid funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care for minors is deeply unethical www.statnews.com/202... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day. One month in, and it feels like I've already sewn a year's worth of news. But it helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 11 more.

That’s because nothing is right. You have to think like someone experiencing intimate partner abuse. Nothing will ever be right, even if they tell you what to do and you do it perfectly they will find something wrong and then they will beat you anyway.

#US #USA #trump #vance #MAGA #ICE #fascism #stopfascism #nazis #fcknazis #republicans #christians #men #incels #billionaires #hostiletakeover #democracy #politics #ChemicalWarfare #ParkrosePermaculture reporting on the #Portland #Unions #ICEOUT #protest www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKk0...

It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet. (Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)

My sign for today’s Ice Out protest in Concord, NH, 12-2 at the State House.

Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

From Georgia‘s Facebook account — Bluesky is only allowing me to upload a short clip.

For nearly a century, the @washingtonpost’s foreign correspondents have been on the ground for the world’s most pressing stories. Now, our desk is facing potential steep cuts. Washington needs us. The world needs us. If you read us and need us, please watch this video and share.

This is a direct assault on the First Amendment by the Trump administration www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Pew has Trump's approval at 37%. And: "Only about a quarter of Americans today (27%) say they support all or most of Trump’s policies and plans, down from 35% when he returned to office last year. That change has come entirely among Republicans." www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Thanks, Bruce. Don’t think Trump will be stealing this one for a maga rally.

Horrific story of an Epstein survivor in ICE detention for months and deported because she was in a custody dispute with a man who is in the administration and is buddies with Trump & Melania.

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

New CBS contributors announced: Grand Moff Tarkin, Lex Luthor, Norman Osborn, Cruella De Ville, Javert, Titus Andronicus, Killmonger, and the Beastfly from Silksong.

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

The National Basketball Players Association has released a statement on the killings in Minneapolis: “Following the news of yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a city that has been on the forefront of fight against injustices, NBA players can no longer remain silent”

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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.

This statement from an eyewitness to the Minnesota murder of Mr. Pretti is gut wrenching, from beginning to end. Please disseminate it as you see fit. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Everything you need to know about ICE is here: "I asked the ICE agents if the victim had a pulse, and they said they did not know." Instead they were standing around counting bullet wounds. This is from a medical eyewitness: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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.

TONIGHT: Organizers in Minnesota are asking you to shine a light for their state.

this PAC, “democratic youth wave,” has poured over $100,000 into a single delaware based corporation with a generic sounding name that came into existence shortly after the PAC was formed in 2024. they’re using this man’s murder to fundraise for some vague fucking grift.

Nothing complicated or subtle or hard to understand about what is happening: -"forcibly entered homes without a judge’s warrant" -"interrogated people because of their ethnicity or accents" -"broke windows and dragged occupants from their cars" -"used force on people who were already restrained"

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.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

A post-by-post dissection of the Nazi and neo-Nazi tropes used in U.S. government social media accounts. By @alibreland.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com.

I wrote about how fucked up the past year has been as a person who's covered the far right for over a decade and who lives in DC. The guardrails are gone, and everyone knows it. Everything those of us on this beat warned about happened, and then some. postsfromunderground.ghost.io/the-not-so-g...

"American Jews cherish our own families’ immigration stories. "We recall that we or our ancestors came to this country to escape oppression and find opportunity. "We grieve an American promise that seems to be no more." -- Joint statement by 7 rabbinical groups, asking Trump & Noem to back off

Holy shit. HHS says the Africa CDC "is a powerless, fake organization attempting to manufacture credibility by repeating its claims publicly. It is not a reliable source, and its statements should be treated accordingly."

The sign I held today in Concord, NH. The protest is happening until 5. Good crowd of around 300 people my best guess when I left at 3. Probs more by now. Lots of thumbs ups and horns in appreciation. Though one fellow didn’t like my sign and stuck out his tongue at me as he drove by.

European Parliament Member Anders Vistisen gave a speech, warning Donald Trump that Greenland is "not for sale." He concluded by saying, " Mr. President, let me put this in words you will understand - fuck off." (He also got reprimanded by the parliamentarian for swearing.)

In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an ICE raid. Both were wrong. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...