“America cannot survive as a free society if ICE and CBP continue to operate as they have over the last year — let alone as both agencies are turbocharged and empowered with even more funding, more officers, more guns, and more arrests." Garrett Graff www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

NY Times identified more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, Mar-a-Lago, and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of emails, government files, videos and other records released by the DoJ. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie: “How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.” #EpsteinFiles

It's a permanent memorial honoring the life and legacy of JFK. How is he getting away with it? As a former DC'er, this stabs at the heart.

A reminder that the New England Patriots plane is flown by Omni air who contracts with ICE to fly people in chains to Africa and Asia several times per week. Go Seahawks.

Here's my full 50-page indictment of CBP and ICE and decades of corruption, abuse of force, racism, and misogyny. I promise you — however bad you've ever thought it was, the full reality is even worse, deadlier, and more corrupt. This isn't a "Trump only" phenomenon:

Federal agents shatter a grandmother's car window, tear her rotator cuff, and throw her to the ground. After they dump out her purse and discover her US passport, they drive off, leaving her with a concussion and bruised ribs

And that there is now a confirmed measles outbreak at the ICE detention facility in Dilley, TX, where Liam and his father were held: www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

EXCLUSIVE: leaked image from the redesigned Kennedy Center, as planned for the re-opening in 2028.

Elon Musk is claiming he’s risked everything to protect kids from sexual abuse mere weeks out from laughing while his AI chatbot was generating nearly 8,000 sexual abuse images per hour that overwhelmingly targeted girls and young women

This right here!

He said this today, btw. This morning. Not his job? Representing the people and responding to their needs.

Girl, fuck you.

Woody Allen and climate denier Bjorn Lomborg meet up with Jeffrey Epstein... No, it's not the beginning of a joke.

Democrats in Congress need to immediately appoint an adhoc bicameral working group to organize civil society and the legal community to stop Trump's ongoing desecration of our national monuments and the Capital. This has gone too far. Congress must step up and fight.

What's amazing about this is that Trump genuinely could've become beloved and popular if he had instead just did nothing - continue all of Biden's policies and take credit for the economic "soft landing" already occurring Instead he went with tariffs and jackboots and everyone hates him!

Trump: "I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything."

Oh wow everyone is canceling huh

He's the American Taliban, destroying our cultural history, just as they destroyed those 6th century massive Buddhas in Afghanistan.

Everything Trump touches dies.

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson: “To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children." Ask yourselves why you continue to work for an agency responsible for murders on American streets.” www.koin.com/news/oregon/...

History rhymes.

Here's how ordinary people are mobilizing and organizing civil resistance in real time. www.altrightdelete.news/p/with-a-lit...

Leigh Wambsganns devoted her professional life to Trump and his movement. On Friday, he seemed to reward her loyalty by endorsing her campaign for Texas senate. But after she lost a safe GOP seat by double digits, Trump says he’s never heard of her: “What can I say? I have nothing to do with it.”

In depth story from Saint Peter, Minnesota: www.mankatofreepress.com/news/local_n...

The corruption surrounding Jeff Bezos' use of Melania as a pretext for bribe payments to Trump is obvious, but Trump demonstrated how he can use control over a servile Congress and the DOJ to give himself complete immunity. www.indy100.com/politics/tru...

The very first commend on the Forbes' video of Trump soiling himself is "Thank you for leaving these comments open, Forbes." The rest... are topical. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_6k...

CBS News is, thus far, mum on new contributor Peter Attia being exposed in the Epstein Files making crude remarks to the disgraced financier. link.status.news/4qcyCOq

Discourse about to get annoying now that we know the Border Patrol agents who murdered Alex Pretti have Latine names, huh. With great reluctance, let me say the following for those who are shocked by or want to make something out of this fact: 1/

2. Just because Latines are treated like crap in this country does not make us immune to bad politics. Latin America is full of Latines, by definition, and look at how many shitty, racist, fashy governments we have. 4/

"Ochoa had for years dreamed of working for the Border Patrol and finally landed a job there... By the time the couple split in 2021, he had become a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns" This is a walking red flag of a human being, regardless of ethnicity. Come on. 5/

Source for that quote: 6/ www.propublica.org/article/alex...

PORTLAND MAYOR WILSON: “.. To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. … you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

I am not an attorney, but I have many, many friends who are and…fucking yikes

Trump has mostly backed down from his more extravagant threats—thus cooling the markets—but concerns over U.S. Treasury assets in the long term will continue to encourage investors to turn away from the dollar. And the Chinese currency could take its place. trib.al/4lBq5ww

More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.

For the second time Mandy jumps before he’s pushed. Repercussions for the Epstein Files coming everywhere but America.

in 2018!!!! can we please stop giving her plausible deniability for being one of the most disgusting humans alive

"The Fulton County raid is a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections in 2026..." slate.com/news-and-pol...

This is all *before* it came out he’s a pedophile.

Evangelical influencer Megan Basham—an ally of self-professed “Christian Nationalists” Doug Wilson & William Wolfe—was advising [alleged sex abuser] Sills while condemning [his alleged victim] Lyell” 12/16/25 … 1/ baptistnews.com/article/bash...

Allison Gill reveals she’s been in contact with a woman who reported trafficking tied to Trump’s modeling agency to the FBI. The tip appears on the Epstein file pages that went viral — the FBI interview is missing.

To make matters somehow worse, I knew Joe Ladapo and he’s not a true believer. He’s not delusional like RFK Jr. is. He knows what he’s doing goes against a voluminous body of scientific evidence, and will cause people to suffer and die. But he’s opportunistic and power-hungry so he doesn’t care.

"Among the hires at CBS News announced by Weiss is a doctor who claims he reduced his biological age by 20 years with cold plunges; that cod liver oil treats autism; and that Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with supplements he sells on his online store." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

skip to 7:06 to see him sitting down with a self-proclaimed shaman to explain how we can all just grow new bodies and new brains. cbs news! hello! youtu.be/3EDW_upV3ZU?...

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Join me LIVE on Substack at 2:30p ET for Need to Know and the latest on Epstein. Link: open.substack.com/live-stream/... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

“We as a nation must act to change the trajectory of immigration enforcement in our country. America cannot survive as a free society if ICE and CBP continue to operate as they have over the last year — let alone as both agencies are turbocharged and empowered.”

I got to chat with Aaron Rupar about his publication, his video clipping, and what it takes to document American politics in real time for the millions of people trying to keep up with the nonstop flood of news. One of the nicest guys in media. 👇🏼 @atrupar.com out5p0ken.substack.com/p/q-and-a-aa...