#BREAKING: Federal jury finds Chicago man NOT GUILTY of offering $10K for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino. The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

This is one of the most unsettling three-paragraph sequences I've read in my life, and I've spent two decades reading the most deranged people on the planet.

House Dems added an amendment to the DHS funding bill that would protect US citizens from being detained or deported by ICE. House GOP supported it. The White House, aka Stephen Miller, stripped it out late last night.

Immigration "administrative law judges" are not judges. They are DOJ employees reporting to the Attorney General

Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:

I’m told Raiklin, who has allegedly threatened to have Fanone’s children raped, said “Pleasure to see you here, buddy.” Fanone said “F you” and Raiklin winked at him. You can see below what happened next.

We all understand that this is Trump creating his own version of the Nobel Peace Committee in an attempt to award himself a peace prize, right?

Everyone: Judges have ruled several times that the President has broken the law. Do you support impeachment? House Leader: Yes... Everyone: Oh, okay... House Leader: ....of the judges.

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

This is why we shouldn't be allowed to host the World Cup. Let Canada and Mexico split the hosting responsibilities. Take it from us. Same with the Olympics.

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

A Minnesota high school student was nabbed by ICE agents as she was trying to pick up food for her family after work. She was violently dragged from her car and lost her shoes. So, barefoot in the middle of winter, she was put into the back of an unmarked car in a small town (Willmar).

We knew immigration enforcement squads were doing this - smashing into homes without a proper judicial warrant, notwithstanding the standard understanding of the Fouth Amendment. What we didn’t know is that it’s a policy, and apparently dates back since May if not earlier. /1

Every day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.

Great job everyone. www.reuters.com/business/eur...

On News Nation, Trump suggests that Biden didn’t defend him when the Islamic Republic of Iran was making threats to assassinate him. That is false — the Biden White House told the Islamic Republic that if they attempted to assassinate Trump, the United States would consider it an act of war.

why is bovino talking to reporters instead of up in his tree bakery making delicious fudge striped cookies. if he’s there who is guarding his lucky charms. people are always after them, his lucky charms breakfast cereal.

“…There is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.”

“People think we’re not at the level of crisis yet. But we are: with the Canadians, with NATO, Great Britain, the Danes, the French, talking about us as if we are a putative enemy at this point. All because of these deranged plans from one man…” — Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Trump's appearance in the WH briefing room today began at 1:49pm and ended at 3:33pm ET, so, 104 minutes.

From appointing unqualified Cabinet secretaries to cutting a trillion dollars from Medicaid to starting a costly trade war with most of the rest of the world to trying to seize freaking Greenland, almost none of the severe damage Trump has done could have happened without Congressional Republicans.

As with any of @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletters, the whole thing is worth your time, but this quote alone (see image) was enough to stop me cold for a few seconds. Let it sink in. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-19...

In some ways, OR GOP/MAGA influencer and J6er is a new sort of political actor in OR GOP politics. But in other ways, his career marks a deep continuity. His girlfriend's grandfather, for example, was one of Oregon's leading far right evangelical media figures from the 1970s into the 90s.

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Last week, #SCOTUS expanded its standing doctrine to give special solicitude to candidates for office. In yesterday's "One First," I wrote about how, as incoherent as the ruling is in its own right, it's especially galling when contrasted with the Court's deep hostility to *legislative* standing:

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

Notice they say “flights.” Plural. Individuals don’t have to declare under $10k. Mathematically impossible that both violated the law. ICE is broadcasting that they robbed 2 American citizens. Now imagine how much they’ve stolen from noncitizens & other citizens too scared to come forward.

🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️

Just as everyone predicted with the exception of Donald Trump, Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, and Kevin Hassett. The last 3 knew they’ve been lying, not sure with Orange Caligula because he’s a moron and a liar so in his case it could be either one or both.

American officers know what Trump is planning, and their minds will rebel at directives to take everything they’ve prepared to do for years and apply it backwards, against the allies they have trained to work with and protect. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

Blanche won’t investigate the killing of an innocent woman on camera but they’ve got all hands on deck for a church service being interrupted

Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account. What the fuck are we doing here?

Local news Fox9 reports: ICE detains Minnesota city worker, a snow plow driver, and transfers him to detention facility in Texas. Where he remains. "He had every federal authorization to be here," public works director in interview. hat tip: @longtimehistory.bsky.social

Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.” What?

1/About 1,500 active-duty soldiers, two infantry battalions of the Army's 11th Airborne Division, are under prepare-to-deploy orders for possible action in Minnesota. This means Donald Trump is actively contemplating invoking the Insurrection Act.

This was the day that Charlie would do his podcasts about how black people had it so good until MLK ruined everything with the civil rights movement.

EXACTLY. Wake the fuck up already.

"Many presidents have pushed at the limits of their powers to achieve some particular goal. What makes Mr. Trump’s claims to expanded executive authority unprecedented is not just his aggressiveness, but the sheer volume of the ways he is consolidating power."

We need Greenland because of Russian expansionism. Also Putin is going on Gaza's board of peace.

“With a single letter to Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre, though, Trump has thrown out all pretence of caring about anything other than himself – or that he understands the very basics of how the Nobel is awarded, what it’s awarded for, or even how international relations are supposed to work.”

Remember when everyone noticed the uncanny similarities between Miles Bron and Musk? All I see is Lockjaw when I look at Bovino.

KKKaroline 🔥🇺🇸 claims Trump has secured "nearly $9 trillion" in investment to the US. The $9.6 trillion total includes projects that were announced during the Biden administration, such as parts of the $16 billion investment from Global Foundries. www.cbsnews.com/news/fact-ch...