Between seizing ballots in Georgia, trying to leverage Minnesota to turn over its sensitive voter data, and political prosecutions, the DOJ is laying the groundwork to subvert the 2026 elections. I created Democracy Docket for times like this. Help it grow by supporting it now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

Deeply inevitable, entirely predicted, and the shit people running this country don't give a damn.

A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor. ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.

Tom Homan is blaming "rhetoric" for the uproar in Minnesota, not the fact that federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. trib.al/csUOwbq

There will be a welcome rally when they arrive to DC, which is looking like Thursday 12 February: 50501dc.com/event/walk-f...

We invaded France and no one will sell us a croissant. It’s very hard on the men.

Medicare Advantage seems to mostly be a way to extract additional $ from the feds while also making medical care more difficult to access for subscribers.

Federal officials have a plan that could curb billions of dollars in overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans. But will they follow through on it? n.pr/45CaSMa

This is EMS Chief Rachel Sayre. I'll drop the Public Notice essay I found this clip in, in the responses.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

I had a fair amount of interaction with BP and INS investigations in the late 90s, which granted was nearly 30 years ago and before folding into DHS. But I've been struck by how different the vibe has been more recently. This is consistent: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads

note that this is fox news

Yes. There's a need to expand generation and transmission, but the data centers somehow don't fund that. Private benefit at public cost.

A whole lot of local orgs are together for this vigil for Alex Pretti, including we at 50501dc. See you at VA Headquarters Wednesday.

Map in the comment shows counties that elect sheriffs and prosecutors, which include some of Maryland.

👀 notable notes for Maryland voters

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

wow.

I had forgotten about these two

"Republican Chris Madel says he is ending his campaign for governor of Minnesota, saying that he cannot support the national members of his party and their 'retribution on the citizens of our state.' [...] The operation, Madel said, has been an 'unmitigated disaster.'"

Rob Schenck is an interesting figure, because in the middle of his religious right career, he decided to get a graduate degree and write his dissertation on the German church during Nazism, and ended up realizing that he and the rest of the religious right were the baddies, and walked away.

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

As someone who has been in negotiations with Schumer: YOUR CALLS TO HIS OFFICE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER NOW. You are not wasting your time, our goal is achievable, but Schumer requires constant pressure, constant pressure....

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"Susan, . . . I know you do not hate Jews. But to be in relationship with you, I need to be seen. I need you to see that the lanyard I wear during Shabbat services holds a panic button. I need you to see that when I stand at the front of the sanctuary, I am also scanning the room for danger."

Don't mind me - this post is both for a thing I can't get to and might need volunteers and is great people and also to test whether Action Network is being weird. Do you see anything about subject to change at the bottom of the preview? actionnetwork.org/events/rally...

www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=29132 USA today says there's over a thousand ice out for good events this weekend, has a fair amount of coverage of a bunch of them, and includes a link to this mobilize search to find one near you:

Showed up in my phone notifications last night, mentions over a thousand put together in a couple of days, and even includes a link to mobilize for finding one near you. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Shame on Richmond.

Tomorrow! Tomorrow! ICE Out For Good! Meet at @flareusa.bsky.social 333 Constitution at 1p for choice of workshops* then Rally and March! Near National Gallery East Wing - closest Metros are Judiciary Square and Archives. *De-escalation, Know Your Rights, Protest First Aid

Cellphone vid from Jonathan Ross, who killed Nicole Good.

Graphic near the end, but a clear refutation of admin talking points re the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents who per video were not endangered. (And should not have been there in the first place.)

Parker, not being enthusiastically pro-small-dogs-with-human-breasts is literally as bad as either kidnapping nicolas maduro and/or being nicolas maduro... i just don't know which exactly

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

Never forget. 🇺🇸

What sucks about everything is that two things can be true at the same time. We have a rules based world order that goes Not include countries taking over other countries, because world wars are bad. AND Maduro is/was horrific. But the VP has been left in charge 1/

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

protests spreading across Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

On DC resists 51st.news/how-dc-resid...

Bit of a wild story. Hearing this second hand, but buckle up. ICE attempted to pull a Kavanaugh stop last night (Christmas Eve), pulling over my mom’s boss (an LPR). He proved his immigration status, but they decided to go after the coworker he was with instead. It gets wilder from here… 1/

Kinda seems like Trump punishing Colorado for not releasing Tina Peters (who tried to help him steal the election) from prison should be a bigger story

New Mass blackout action but this time giving and buying rather than stopping all that. www.instagram.com/reel/DSao2xk...

This is so very overdue. I'm also just going to class this as stopped clock can get something right every so often.

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

The comments are worthwhile

I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...