Totally unsurprising that Big Journalism is reacting to the arrests of two journalists with ponderous, "balanced" stories that rely on third-party quotes to note that the Trump regime is shredding what's left of freedom of the press. This isn't a both-sides issue, and this coverage is malpractice.

Brace yourselves, fellow Arizonans

Lawmakers approve measure declaring that a woman who has a 'partial-birth' abortion should be prosecuted along with any doctor. Another measure says university health care workers can't even tell students they have the legal option of abortion. tucson.com/news/state-r...

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

The DHS Secretary’s job is to keep Americans safe. Not to play dress up. Not to play politics with disaster relief. Not to act like the head of a right-wing militia. Kristi Noem is an embarrassment and a danger. She has to go.

"What we are seeing here, and in cities around the country, on video and with our own eyes, are lawless ICE thugs, hiding behind face covers, flak jackets, guns and tear gas. They are violating the U.S. Constitution and state laws every day." story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

Thank you New Mexico for giving us a real representative n Congress. Melanie Stansbury is fearless.

Reminder. Here are the House Democrats who crossed party lines and voted to fund ICE. House Democrats who voted to fund ICE: - Tom Suozzi (D-NY) - Henry Cuellar (D-TX) - Don Davis (D-NC) - Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) - Laura Gillen (D-NY) - Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) - Jared Golden (D-ME)

Dems should introduce legislation now defunding ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota, so they have to leave the state. One sentence bill. Demand an immediate vote. Maybe refuse to vote for cloture on any funding bills (or other bills) until a vote. Make the GOP Congress break w/ Trump or own it all.

Journalists need to ask, “What made Pettri a ‘suspect’?” He was ‘seized’ under the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, which requires *probable cause that he was committing a crime* MAKE THEM ARTICULATE THE BASIS FOR THE SEIZURE

Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see. Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him. It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.

Best video evidence yet. If anybody did that in the army, they would be court-martialed. The United States is a fascist dictatorship. Alex Jeffrey Pretti was executed. Murdered by Nazi goons at the hands of Trump, Noem, Bovino, Bondi, Patel, Hegseth, Homan, Bove, Vance, Mike Johnson, and MAGA.

FYI: the clergyperson is referring to this convening, which, among other things, essentially trained 600+ pastors on various ways to push back against DHS/ICE. religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...

Monsters

As states check voter registration against a mashup of federal data, a new complaint says US citizens are getting kicked off state voter rolls as a result. www.wired.com/story/dhs-da...

The web’s best resource for spotting AI writing has ironically become a manual for AI models to hide it. www.wired.com/story/wikipe...

"Jewish identity in its modern form has been bound to sovereignty and demographic control rather than to moral accountability. Judaism is not first a theory of statehood. It is an ethical covenant." This is a great read by Jake Orlowitz.

In Trump's telling, the US are the equivalent of the Nazis

Just showed up at the San Antonio immigration court. I’m here as an observer. People are coming here for their required appearances; people following the law. It’s 8:15am and the place is already swarming with armed ICE officers, waiting to arrest peaceful, legal immigrants.

A brilliant speech by Canada's Mark Carney in Davos: "The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy...The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home & to act together."

Setting aside his massive ego and clown-like appearance, let's take a moment to laugh at Donald's crazy-ass use of punctuation and capitalization

Rewarding ICE agents for arrests — even if the person is released without charges — is leading to chaos in the streets and Constitutional rights being violated. This isn’t making us safer.

Most news coverage of the endlessly corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" -- and its endlessly corrupt enablers in finance and politics -- is wretched. Molly White is great. She sweats the details and makes complex topics understandable. Read her latest newsletter: www.citationneeded.news/issue-99/

If Venezuela supposedly emptied out their prisons and mental institutions and sent those people here, along with violent gang members, and if Florida hosts the largest population of Venezuelans, why isn't ICE flooding Florida with ICE agents instead of sending them to Minnesota?

NEW: My dispatch from *inside* Minnesota's Whipple building today (the facility where ICE has rooted its operations in the region), where a group of clergy attempted to offer pastoral care to immigrant detainees. They were denied — an emerging national pattern. religionnews.com/2026/01/13/f...

Trump flips off a Ford employee after being called a “pedophile protector.” Thin-skinned and profoundly unpresidential.

Democrats are fighting for working families, for seniors, for students, For You. We want an Arizona We Can Afford, not someday, but now. How? -Our priorities this legislative session are to 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓invest in public education, 🛑fight corporate greed, and 🚑 make healthcare affordable.

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Apple cowardly still has not pulled X and Grok from the App Store – Six Colors sixcolors.com/link/2026/01...

Last night, at the corner where an ICE agent murdered Renee Good, thousands of Minnesotans gathered in the frigid dark to protest her killing. In the face of this administration’s lawless violence, solidarity is the answer. They want to mold America to their cruelty. We refuse.

This is the agent that murdered the woman in Minneapolis on 1/7/2026.

Where the hell are the Epstein files?

Never trust anyone who would rather raise the retirement age than make the rich pay their fair share into Social Security!

ICE's next stop is Phoenix, per @thebulwark.com report. www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-ice-...

ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland. (Published November)

It's been 50 years since AZ Republic reporter Don Bolles was assassinated. Rep. Bliss says it's finally time for AZ lawmakers to erect a monument to him near the Capitol - and for some GOP lawmakers to get out of the way of the majority who want it. tucson.com/news/state-r...

Has someone published a good review of what was in this massive Epstein files dump?

Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t. www.wired.com/story/people...

You’ve got a few days left to get your annual National Parks pass without Trump’s face on it.

Are we surprised?

“[Italians] are coming in waves and think they have a right to come….There has been a surfeit of unskilled illiterates for years and the people do not want any more of them.” — the Jersey (City) Journal, November 29, 1902, a year before Frank Sinatra‘s father arrived from Italy.

Hey, hey it's The Monkees! But seriously, this is a beautiful, old a capella Christmas carol

Research shows that watching a simulated fire may have real psychological benefits. www.wired.com/story/turbro...

if you didn’t bother to watch (and i did not) here’s all you need to know

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

After a shooting in 1996, Australia enacted sweeping gun safety legislation and experienced no public mass shootings for two decades and a significant decrease in firearm deaths. Now, Australian lawmakers are acting again to further protect people from gun violence after this weekend’s shooting.

In the #Advent season Christians all over the world are getting ready for the birth of Jesus, but some of the most beautiful narratives of Jesus’ birth are in the Quran, not the Bible. The Christmas miracle we need is to challenge #Islamophobia together by building respect across traditions.