Ok but which country is going to intervene to protect US protesters from their government?

NEW: Statement of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Trump’s criminal investigation into him. He says they are seeking an indictment over his Congressional testimony, but calls it pretext to pressure him into lowering interest rates.

I'm just back from the Ice Out for Good protest in Alexandria with @someonedosomething.bsky.social. Cold as hell, massive gusts of wind, and a fired up crowd. Told to organize beyond this moment, a throng of people head straight to the sign-up tables. Outrage today, organize tomorrow. We will win.

This is from the largest single donor of a party that was recently trying to ban the Teletubbies.

The insurrectionary spirit of January 6 infuses the second Trump Administration Both the attack on Venezuela and the killing of Renee Good can be traced back to the president's embrace of lawlessness and violence unforgettably revealed five years ago plus.flux.community/p/the-insurr...

Brooks is one of a handful of conservative writers who pretend to be moderate or liberal. They have zero authority on the reactionary right and so instead pollute left media w their incoherent babbling. They learned nothing from the fact that they failed to persuade Republican voters against Trump.

You cannot tell voters that this regime is an existential threat one day and aid and abet it every other day. Either you're lying or you are complicit, neither of which makes you fit for office.

New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery. I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.

I won't believe this is real until I see Sean Hannity telling the males in his audience that they need to eat balls to be real men.

If you're interested in Dems and messaging and what Dem consultants stuck in the 90s and addicted to an Aaron Sorkin view of politics and bipartisanship can learn from the Mamdani campaign, tune in!

Fear of the unfamiliar and of change is a deep psychological impulse that predates politics and religion. If you're a non-American who thinks "it can't happen here," don't delude yourself. It can. The psychology literature is crystal-clear about the origins of right wing views.

sir, this will surely stop your company from bleeding cash and users. clutch move, sir www.404media.co/x-premium-gr...

🧵 Despite all that's bad in the world right now, the victory of Zohran Mamdani after having everything thrown at him by Trump and his allies shows that there are signs of hope. Democrats can have even more hope by actually learning from Mamdani—and from Trump. @espiers.bsky.social and I discussed.

Age verification laws are one of several surveillance state tools designed to use government power to forcibly intrude in your private life and to give your data to huge corporations.

Thinking like this misses what polls are capable of doing. This particular poll did not even have an option for whether people were concerned with Trump abusing his power, so you shouldn't read too much into it.

It has been a year since the fires in Southern California last January. Trump lied to disaster victims – federal aid still has not come. He's punishing people because of where they live, including the many Republicans who live in Southern California. We need to deliver this aid immediately.

Don't need to. He can just watch Fox and its innumerable imitators. And so do millions of Americans. Democrats do nothing in response to this media ecological disaster.

Literally yesterday Trump and MAGA were celebrating Jan. 6 rioters who maimed cops and said Ashli Babbitt was "murdered in cold blood." Today they're saying it's good and righteous for a federal office to shoot an unarmed woman in a car driving away.

This is LITERALLY how the Kushners made their money www.propublica.org/article/the-... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b...

Trumpism was always going to lead to a tragedy like the Minneapolis ICE shooting The killing of a woman by an immigration law enforcement officer in Minneapolis was the raw application of Trumpist authoritarianism.

There is an essential & extremely generalizable point here. Critical thinking is a team sport. We all need metacognition buddies because human brains. It doesn't matter how quote unquote smart you are. Especially in the slop times. The most pernicious aspect of ChatGPT is how it isolates minds.

AOC: ICE has less accountability than virtually any law enforcement agency in the U.S., yet they are some of the most well-funded, operating with impunity—and we just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood in the street.

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

The warmongers have triumphed. Donald Trump has become Lindsey Graham's dream president, and he's strutting his stuff all over DC like a gamecock. Trump's original non-interventionist inclinations have been sucked out and thrown into the trashcan by South Carolina's senator.

Off of X, it's worse. According to Wired, the Grok app is more privately generating "photorealistic people, very young, doing sexual activities." Full nudity, full videos with audio. And it still has payment processing. "It's disturbing to another level."

Elon Musk's Grok is generating fake photos of Renee Nicole Good, the woman murdered by ICE in Minnesota today. Users are inputting prompts that result in sexualized, racist, and defamatory images. I'm not reproducing any of them here.

New: 6,700. That's how many sexually suggestive or nudifying images Grok is producing every hour, according to an analysis. X is now a top deepfake site. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There's nothing wrong with saying that Trump lied about lowering costs, but if this is all you say, then you should stand aside for people who will fight the regime as tirelessly as it fights against America and its citizens.

Even Democrats who disagree can learn from Zohran Mamdani. @espiers.bsky.social on how Mamdani is pointing ways forward for his party on campaigning, policy, and media plus.flux.community/p/even-democ...

Law enforcement officers CANNOT use deadly force against a fleeing person fleeing unless they have a reasonable belief that the individual poses a danger to others (e.g., they know the person is armed). If in vehicle, the person must be threatening to use deadly force with the vehicle or other means

FOLKS IN MINNEAPOLIS: SAVE all videos & photos from today. They will be valuable to prove the ICE agent --- who had time to move & re-position himself to the side of the victim's car to shoot into the driver's side window --- was not in reasonable fear of imminent serious physical injury or death.

Amy Klobuchar is starting to get better at comedy and it's making everyone nervous.

The Trump operation is nothing more than a 24/7 campaign. Which is also why they cannot actually govern competently.

Reminder: Plato argued that, since souls reincarnate, souls in men & women are the same & equally capable of all things, so the sexes are equal. P’s mother Perictione was (ancient sources say) a Pythagorean philosopher. 19th C didn’t believe she could be a philosopher so erased her from P’s bio.

Heartwarming: Trump-themed store in Pennsylvania closing after sales collapse

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This is a story that every American should know about. Republicans created a censorship regime in which Plato is a woke postmodernist who wrote "gender ideology."

The organizing belief of GOP is that Democrats should not have any economic, political, social, or cultural power. So, sure, Republicans want to hang with Dems...in subordinate relationships and Dems don't want those relationships.

January 6th was the fantasy scenario of millions of far-right Christians and gun nuts. They've looked forward to marching on the Capitol for decades. They have many novels of race wars and crusades for Jesus. Even now, most left leaders do not realize that reactionaries want genocide.

Five years after the Capitol putsch, Trump’s shock troops are rebuilding the same organizations After Trump pardoned and commuted their sentences, the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys are reconstituting, actively co-opting organizing techniques of terrorist organizations

Noticing that CNN is calling Jan. 6 a “riot,” not an “insurrection.” PSA: It was an insurrection.

The ultimate form of irony is sincerity--skepticism must be skeptical of itself. We can bemoan the stupidity and corruption, but we must do more than this.

We failed to hold the right-wing oligarchs accountable for the coup on January 6th, Russian interference, the subprime housing crisis, the WMD lie, Iran Contra, Watergate, and the confederacy. Elect people who will.

JD Vance's top intellectual influence doubling down on "Hitler was right." We shouldn't forget also that Yarvin himself is Jewish. Far too many Jewish fascists like him and Ben Shapiro.

Ignorance is the foundation of authoritarianism.

Scores of now-pardoned Jan. 6 insurrectionists will gather from 11:45am for a march to the Capitol starting at the Ellipse. One insurrectionist who says he's attending: Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to prison until 2045 until Trump intervened.

Hunger is on the rise for the early care and education workforce, raising concerns about care quality. From @the74.bsky.social:

just a reminder of the initial, in the moment, right wing reaction to jan 6 my favorite is greg gutfeld saying republican condemnation of the jan 6 rioters is an example of their moral superiority over the left www.mediamatters.org/media/4018641