But a huge % of the people currently holding office in that institution got those seats by disrespecting the institution to disaffected populists, so here we are.

HOLD UP. This headline from the @wsj.com is dead wrong - No one at the actual opening ceremonies thinks the US team was being booed. Come on! The CBC broadcasters & people in the stadium are all crystal clear that JD VANCE WAS BEING BOOED, not the team.

"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..." www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

“The Church at the Center of Don Lemon’s Arrest Has Ties to Christian Nationalism” By @kieraevebutler.bsky.social, 1/30/26

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

JUST IN: GOP Sen. Thom Tillis just called for President Trump to fire DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. “I think that what she’s done in Minnesota should be disqualifying,” Tillis tells reporters. “She should be out of a job.”

fingers crossed she is resigning in disgrace

The man with the nuclear codes wants to annex a key ally…and he can’t even remember which one it is. It’s time to take away the car keys.

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

Thanks, Eighth Circuit

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

look, they're not secret police, they're just non-police paramilitaries obeying secret orders and unrestrained by any legal or Constitutional limits at the behest of the President's chosen Nosferatu

The mainstream media has collapsed in 2 ways: Gradually, then suddenly Whatever was expected with the right-wing capture of CBS News...it's worse. I looked into its MPLS shooting "internal bleeding" propaganda, a historically bad act of journalism My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/cbs-...

Re: Greenland. Can we stop imagining Trump is anything other than certifiably insane?

NEW. Robert Kagan on Trump’s Foreign Policy and the New World Disorder. “We take for granted the degree of peace we’ve enjoyed over the past eight decades. We think that’s the norm. The norm is a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945.” conversationswithbillkristol.org/conversation...

Being required to present proof of citizenship to someone not required to present proof they're actually law enforcement is one hell of a dichotomy

So DHS’s standard of reasonable suspicion is “bilingual and dark skinned”. Seriously, they’re flexing on how they detained a U.S. citizen because he could speak Spanish and had an accent.

We need to overturn 2010 Citizens United (the irony of the name).

If Trump is really stealing spending power from Congress then it would be insanity for Democrats to vote to fund the government later this month. Shut it down until the president stops wiping his ass with the Constitution.

So many scandals now but pay attention to this: DOJ has sued 14 states-12 led by Dems-to demand full unredacted voter files in order to turbocharge Trump voter suppression plans @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Serious or not, we can’t allow exchanges like this to feel normal. Nor should we become numb to it. Don’t let small men like Hegseth and Kolvet convince you otherwise.

Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

Essentially it is this, yes.

This is not reporting. This is propaganda.

Today's my birthday and I'm hoping @realDonaldTrump will send me one of his amazing handcrafted cards with a beautiful Sharpie-drawn woman on it

A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated federal law by using the US military to help carry out law enforcement activities in and around Los Angeles this summer. https://cnn.it/45MKT5a

Vought is dangerous and cruel.

When I was back home I spent an afternoon volunteering at the food bank my mom helps run. It’s in a mid sized Midwestern city. It was pretty eye opening. These are people who are really reliant on the social safety net that the BBB slashed. Here’s a list of observations 1/x

This is how @nytimes.com frames the Trump Regime's plan to vandalize some of our cherished public institutions and make them project a white supremacist, fake Christian viewpoint. #BrokenTimes indeed

Scoop: The Freedom of the Press Foundation is formally asking the Office of Disciplinary Counsel at the D.C. Court of Appeals to probe and consider disbarring FCC chair Brendan Carr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...

Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.

The most disheartening thing about America’s descent into fascism has been the abject cowardice of virtually all the people and institutions that could have stood up and refused to comply.

a moral degenerate

Funny how the scandals from two months ago persist even when new scandals emerge.

Fantastic work by Dems, a double whammy, stop the legislation and corner them on Epstein. And TBH there's nothing more Republican than "we can't move forward our hateful legislation because we have to help our President cover up his pedophilia scandal."

Assuming this isn't within 100 miles of the border (which technically would be the ocean, I guess), and absent reasonable articulable suspicion, ICE has no lawful basis to stop cars and ask for proof of citizenship.

So many people need to go to jail over this, from the guards at these concentration camps to the leaders in the White House making this all happen.

Imagine that the US had an actual functional media that did not act as uncritical stenographers and publicists for the Trump Administration.

Emil Bove is up for a lifetime appointment. This is not a time to rush through the process, violate the rules, and end debate. But that’s what Republicans on the Judiciary Committee just did. I was the next to speak and they barred us from debating. So we walked out.

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The antipathy for the Department of Education is the most enduring relic of the cause that birthed the modern GOP: not having to go to school with Black people.

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

Generally speaking, one swaps out license plates solely to commit crimes

JUST IN: LA Press Club sues LA County & LA Sheriff's Department @LASDHQ over repeated deployment of less-lethal munitions against journalists during immigration-related protests. Complaint includes some gory photos. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We are an international embarrassment. We put conspiracy theorists and cranks in charge of critical public health agencies and they’re quickly destroying decades worth of progress. It’s self-sabotage in the worst way.