A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Duncan W.)

A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "Rebekahbau-79")

A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Rupesh Sreeraman)

Timeline Cleanser

A cranky 79-year-old Floridian man with limited vocabulary, whose face is painted in orange pigment, hand is bandaged, pants are girdled, and hair is indescribable, desperately seeks to distract from his misfortunes to regain grandiosity by bullying other world leaders who make fun of him regularly.

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

In my latest Substack, I explain why every video of what ICE is doing in Minnesota (or anywhere) is a powerful form of resistance open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

I find this (in my world) and broadly disturbing: “If you’re like me, you probably have well-meaning people in your life who absolutely don’t support what the Trump administration is doing, but also seem…kind of disengaged…. I’ve realized that they are just very good at compartmentalizing”

I feel that compartmentalization is a betrayer of values (I’ll just stop there) and accelerates complicity in a fascist state

Walz: "So carry your phone with you at all times. And if you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record. Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution."

Republicans have ceded their constitutional authority over tariffs to Trump voluntarily. They could have ended it at any time. They could end it now. Trump is not on the ballot this Nov, but they are. The only way to stop this daily tariff drama and insanity is to vote them out.

Do something nice - block ICE! Let’s help the goon squad be #1 at something other than terrorizing communities. Seriously though, they follow 8 accounts, all reporters who cover DHS or media outlets. Don’t give them light, air, or your data.

Joint Statement by President von der Leyen and President Costa on Greenland ⬇️

Ohh that's RICH @ohhthatsrich.bsky.social

“Should ICE funding be a red line issue for Democrats?” @maxwellfrost.bsky.social : “110%.”

Trump is punishing Colorado for not releasing Tina Peters, who tried to help him steal the election, by vetoing a water project… and his own voters are realizing he doesn’t care about anyone but himself. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/u...

Scanning faces. Building databases. Fascism is here. 🇺🇸 And all the “tyranny” “don’t tread on me folks” are silent. Turns out they meant “tread on them” 🤷🏼

"Everybody pay attention... this isn't a little hint. He is saying, 'We shouldn't have an election'. Two weeks ago, he said, 'I should have seized the ballot boxes'... He is telling us exactly what he thinks. He wants to rig the outcome of the 2026 election." Marc Elias

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People seeking federal pardons generally must file petitions through the Office of the Pardon Attorney. But during Trump’s second term, only 10 of the roughly 1,600 people granted pardons had filed such petitions. (Published Nov. 2025)

Abigail Spanberger has officially been sworn in as governor of Virginia. For the first time in history, the Commonwealth has a woman governor.

America. Still colonizing after all these years.

NEW: President Donald Trump’s redistricting arms race is wreaking havoc across the country, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. But in Missouri, the fight has grown into something that threatens to cut democracy to the bone. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/in-...

I’m done with politicians and pundits on cable news telling us some version of, ICE would be fine if they just followed the rules and procedures. THEY’RE FOLLOWING ORDERS‼️ I just dropped a piece on why “defund ICE” misses the point. Hear me out… open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

The truth is simple: ICE can’t be reformed. It has to be canceled and replaced with an immigration system rooted in civil rights, real oversight, and the Constitution. Anything less is enabling abuse with our tax dollars in our name.

-Cancel and Replace ICE- For those who say it can’t be done, it’s BEEN done with this very agency. A personal INS/ICE history 🧵. My dad was a federal agent for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the United States’ prior immigration agency. 1/5 (& please read inspo post/substack ⬇️)

Did the INS have issues? Sure. But their overall mission was in their name. After 20 yrs in the USAF, my dad joined the U.S. Border Patrol in the mid-70s. He quickly rose up the ranks, becoming a federal criminal investigator for the INS, with his unit primarily focused on smugglers. 2/5

GW Bush dissolved the INS *completely* post-9/11 to form the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and poof! the newly created Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which took over parts of the investigative and interior enforcement of the old INS… AND U.S. Customs. 3/5

My dad had retired by this point, but for his friends still at the INS, the sudden firings, relocations, mismanagement, wage cuts, etc, were not unlike what DOGE did last year. (GOP presidents, amirite?) It’s imperative, more than ever, that we continue to hound Congress. Our voice matters. 4/5

We now have a federal govt actively working against us. No funding More investigations ICE is a federal agency in name only. Their sanctioned mission is intimidation, kidnapping & disappearing people, and murder with seeming impunity. Please read Chris’ Substack, the inspiration for this 🧵. ❤️ 5/x

Now we’re starting to get maximum reach from Pie without much back inversion. Meaning, she’s starting the turn from behind rather than from the front.

@kathrynscollins.bsky.social Are you familiar with this?

'This is not what I fought for.'

Protester says we didn't fight wars just to see people grabbed off the streets here. Americans have to stand up for each other and stop this from becoming normal. "If ICE goes home, we go home. Minneapolis, Minnesota

We are America. How could you possibly target Native Americans - with ICE Officers - and then imprison us? That is impossible. It's legally impossible to do that. - Chase Iron Eyes

YES. AI confirmed • A 56-year-old former contract detention officer named David Courvelle has pled guilty in federal court to one count of sexual abuse of a ward or individual in federal custody for his conduct while employed at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana. 

Given the lack of agency and congressional oversight and ICE’s need to hire officers regardless of qualifications, this must be just the tip of the iceberg.

🤬🤬🤬

ICE hops Texas family's fence and attacks them, guns drawn, for asking for a warrant

Dear active duty and reserved service members

Brave Ukrainian energy workers,day and night,in severe frost,are repairing Ukraine’s energy networks destroyed by Russia Russia is trying to organize a “cold holodomor” -an energy genocide Russia is killing the weak&the helpless.It subjects them to torture.We are talking about millions of people.

🎂 ❤️🎂 ❤️

DHS says this and still proves themselves wrong. Example: Using a battering ram to break the front door of an immigrants home...without a judicial warrant.

The DHS Lawyer Was Fired For Blocking Kristi Noem From Committing Crimes Against Humanity...

That Lawyer Now Works For The ACLU.

Also, not a con law guy, but don’t think the idea is that the 4th Amendment aims to PROTECT arrest powers but to LIMIT them. They are trying to invert a Constitutional that focused on negative liberties (“state can’t do x”) to constrain the state into one of positive liberties FOR the state.

Also, of course, they got the standard wrong. Reasonable suspicion is for stops. Arrests require a higher probable cause bar. So failures all the way down.

So to reiterate now they are attacking an orphaned child