The Senate’s top Democratic appropriator Patty Murray faults DHS for “an execution” in Minnesota, and adds: “The Republican Congress must join us to end this. Enough.”

January is almost over and there have only been 3 homicides in Minneapolis so far this year 2 of them were committed by ICE agents.

this is the New York Times, describing an execution www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

According to ICE's "Wall of Honor" website, the last ICE officer to die in the line of duty was this man, who accidentally shot himself with his own service weapon in 2021. Rest in power. www.ice.gov/topics/eow

"Longtime commenters especially tend to develop a thwarted sense of ownership and blinkered sense of nostalgia about the sites on which they comment" maxread.substack.com/p/the-commen...

Trump is weak, Bondi is weak, Miller is weak. The administration is filled with cartoon bullies who crumple when they face real opposition. Minnesotans get it. Denmark gets it. Lower court judges get it, and the best have moved into DGAF mode. When will SCOTUS get it? slate.com/news-and-pol...

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

I had a really fun conversation with Magdalene Taylor about...sex! Are we finally sick of dating apps? Will AI change social interactions? Plus: The decline of the manosphere and Trump's strange performance of masculinity. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

This is a funny one

The amount of content that the assorted rightwing freaks produce daily is incredible. The top 25 conservative media personalities must produce hundreds of hours of video per day.

Trump's coalition is falling apart, by @mattklewis.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/camp...

As Dylan would say, David Brooks has been on anything but a roll. Today, though, he has a pretty good column. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/o...

"There is very little that’s good to say about Elon Musk’s transformation of Twitter into a white nationalist propaganda factory, but one tiny silver lining is that it has lessened the platform’s malign influence on progressive politics." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/o...

Top story on the NYT homepage right now

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

incredible work by the Forward who found the one Jew in Greenland so they could work the Jewish angle on the Greenland story (spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)

A federal judge expressed deep skepticism that the White House has legal authority to construct President Donald Trump’s massive new ballroom without express authorization from Congress.

A Trump quote without his face or voice. It's Trump without Trump. This quote is unedited and 100% accurate. It is from his press conference on January 20, 2026. - The big building with bars on the windows.

Woah—if you reverse-negative the image of Trump's bruise, it looks like a black hole...

don't put it in your newspaper that i got mad

The profile of Ellison père et fils portrays the young man as basically a well-meaning doofus who is apolitical and just wants "success" to impress his father. I don't think Bari Weiss makes it to 2027. www.vulture.com/article/larr...

Thirty-one known defendants have been charged in Chicago with non-immigration crimes tied to “Operation Midway Blitz.” With today’s acquittal, 15 of them have been cleared. No one has been convicted.

Nancy Lacore, who served in the Navy for 35 years as a Navy helicopter pilot, three-star admiral and the chief of the Navy Reserve, announced a run for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District Navy admiral removed by Hegseth announces run for Congress abcnews.go.com/Politics/nav...

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We never did find out whether that dress was blue and red or black and gold...

the woke mob is giving He-man pronouns

one thing that the trump administration and the titanic have in common: reckless with ice

I always thought that naming your podcast "Honestly" was a "the lady doth protest too much" kinda thing

A banal point but it's obvious now why they wear the masks!

Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Orange Man Bad

Via @gettyimages.com

Will Smith just slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars

Just 32% of Americans think the country is better off than when Trump took office and most disapprove of how he is handling the economy, immigration, Ukraine and Venezuela, per @nytimes.com @sienaresearch.bsky.social poll. @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Barron Trump seems to have had a young female friend in the UK whom he video chatted with and witnessed being attacked by a Russian national.

"Prominent Trump allies and U.S. lawmakers have shared AI-generated videos showing a post-Communist utopia, with boats arriving from Miami, family reunions, and Trump and Rubio driving a 1950s convertible past the gleaming hotels of a liberated Cuba." www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Trump’s first choice for attorney general:

Breaking News: A Cuban immigrant’s death in an ICE detention center in El Paso was ruled a homicide, according to an autopsy report.

"Trump pounces on weakness, but retreats from strength. That’s one reason for Europe’s present troubles: For too long it was weak both toward President Vladimir Putin of Russia in the East and toward the new menace arising in the West." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

The only option at this point is for FIFA to rescind its Peace Prize. It brings me no pleasure to report this.

BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

“Let’s not be hasty, wouldn’t want to accidentally stop them from beating up some protestors who deserve it”