Project 2025 is at least 70% complete. Project 2026 is much worse.

President Donald J. Trump commuted the prison term of David Gentile, who led GPB Capital, less than two weeks after he began serving a seven-year sentence in a $1.6 billion fraud that prosecutors said harmed more than 10,000 investors. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-free...

FYI: Dems in the senate can't defund ICE. ICE is funded by the Big Ugly Bill. Shutting down DHS on this vote wouldn't touch ICE, but it would shut down FEMA, TSA, Coast Guard, etc. Shutting down ICE requires taking back Congress in the midterms. Dismantling DHS requires the White House in 2028.

3/ Court order: "IT IS ORDERED AND ADJUDGED THAT: 1. Respondents shall release C.R.T.V. to the custody of her attorney ..."

2/ "The lawyers learned the child and her father had already been placed on a commercial flight to Texas. 'To me, that is clearly part of this effort to try to evade the court’s jurisdiction,' [attorney] Vaynerman said. 'We have never seen this level of depravity with a 2-year-old.'”

"A 2-year-old girl and her father were detained by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis and placed on a commercial flight out of Minnesota, despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release." 1/

NEW: MN judges continue to reject arrest warrants in ICE protests. Sources tell @ms.now feds aren’t providing evidence that protestors are committing the crimes of which they’re accused. First byline with the great @carolleonnig.bsky.social and Alex Tabet. www.ms.now/news/minneso...

A MAGA congressman says he'd "love" for the U.S. to go to war with France. This is fascist madness. Get active now to stop these asswipes from destroying our country.

If the world is truly “de-risking” and moving away from investing in Trump’s America we are headed towards an economic calamity in the US. 4/ bsky.app/profile/cram...

Because we lowered taxes on the wealthiest in 1964. Then lowered them even more several times since.

The existence of this agency, staffed the way it is today, is just completely incompatible with a democratic society.

Sure, we're the ones lying about everything. They have blinded people, severely wounded, and killed people. Over misdemeanors, or less. It's not a game bsky.app/profile/chri...

Videos show dozens of incidents of immigration agents using life-threatening tactics. In nearly 20 cases, agents appear to use neck restraints that the Department of Homeland Security prohibits unless there is a threat of deadly or serious harm.

Democrats needing to message on affordability as the country endures a brutal authoritarian takeover is tragic. Take it from someone who lives in occupied Minneapolis. Our problems go deeper than prices.

We can never recover what we were. We can try to make something new, but can’t go back. No other country can ever trust us again and our government system has been revealed to be dramatically vulnerable.

The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.

ICE’s new policy directing agents to ignore the 4th Amendment is one of the most frightening things we’ve seen yet. And there’s no telling where it could end up. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

ICE is detaining a 5 year old boy. If you get off on this, you’re a monster and don’t you dare pretend to worship God.

This family did every single thing they’ve been asked to in order to seek asylum here. Yet in less than 24 hours, this kid and his Dad were nabbed off our streets and sent to Texas, using tactics that can only be described as pure evil.

👉 Insurrectionist Ivan Raiklin harasses fmr Capitol Police Michael Fanone at Jack Smith hearing. Fanone fires back (Ivan's video)

Dear Mr. Smith, I’m going to ask you a bunch of nonsensical questions, but you are not allowed to answer any of them because I’m going to keep answering them myself with lies. Not so sincerely, Crazy lady Representative

President Donald Trump is threatening the primacy of law in the United States by attacking civil servants previously assigned to probes against him, Jack Smith, the former special counsel for the Department of Justice (DOJ), said in a congressional hearing Thursday.

There’s no reforming this

Funny how the right is outraged at Fanone flipping off a congressman just days after celebrating a president flipping off a working American .

Jack Smith: "The people who assaulted police officers and were convicted after trial in my view and I think in the view of the judges who sentenced them to prison are dangerous to their community. Some of these people have already committed crimes against their communities again."

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We also want the release of the full, unredacted #EPSTEINFILES

People want to have their basic needs met. They want to be paid a living wage. They want to stop being nickle and dimed by powerful corporations who control so much of our lives. They do not want Venezuela. They do not want Greenland. They do not want masked thugs terrorizing our communities.

Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6

"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said. "Two of them are high-schoolers. "One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Q: Did you uncover evidence to prove Trump knew his claim the election was stolen was false? SMITH: Yes Q: And Trump claimed it was stolen while he privately acknowledged he lost? SMITH: Yes Q: Yet on the 5th anniversary of J6, Trump still promoted the stolen election theory on a govt webpage

Jim Jordan cuts off Jack Smith when he describes that they paid someone to analyze video evidence to show that people came directly from the Ellipse to attack the Capitol. Hope to hell some Dem follows up. [They can show it with Danny Rodriguez, who almost killed Michael Fanone.]

Jack Smith: "Our assessment of the evidence is that [Trump] is the person most responsible for what happened on January 6. He caused what happened, it was foreseeable to him — and then, when it happened, he tried to exploit it."

Swalwell: "My Republican colleagues are a joke. History will harshly judge them ... these guys are so lucky they're not under oath, because they would have to tell you what they really think of Trump. They call him crooked, they call him cruel, they call him a scumbag ... you're tiny, small."

Rep. Jamie Raskin to Jack Smith: "If anybody decides to attack you personally, they will only be revealing their own ignorance of what prosecutors do and their own indifference to what the rule of law requires in America. They will only be stroking the wounded ego of a lawless … president."

If this is accurate, Good was killed by a bullet fired after there was any conceivable argument Agent Ross was in the path of her vehicle, which means there was no legal justification for using deadly force. But DOJ says there’s no reason to investigate. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

Liam Ramos, a preschooler ICE detained the five-year-old Minnesota boy as he returned home from school and transported him to a detention center in Texas.

UK tourist Becky Burke was arrested by ICE in the USA and kept in handcuffs and chains for 19 days before being deported back to Wales. Her 'crime', doing unpaid work in return for accomodation (which isn't illegal). This is the evil of Donald Trump's USA, DON'T GO.

⁉️ Ukrainian government names regions with most difficult energy situation

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AOC: The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming, and everyone is pretending this is normal.

ICE Are Chump's Kidnapping Terrorists.......

And yet the Florida Bar did not discipline him finding that any activities did not interfere with his ability to practice law.

That status might well transition, but I think it really is just a corrupt NGO that Trump controls in a capacity independent of the presidency. It is unhinged, probably impeachable… but 🤷‍♂️

2/ In the words of Maine Governor Janet Mills from a different context, “See you in court.”

1/The law requires a judicial warrant based on probable cause signed by a judge to enter a home or private area in a biz (not an administrative one signed by an “immigration authority” ie a DHS employee). This is clearly unlawful conduct. ICE can’t change the law just because it doesn’t like it.

From @theguardian.com

A Cuban detainee’s death at an El Paso federal immigration detention center was ruled a homicide Wednesday, with the medical examiner finding he was suffocated while restrained, contradicting immigration officials’ claim that he died by suicide.