Hungary holds elections in 2 months. And the US Secretary of State is in Hungary campaigning for Viktor Orban. And as you can see, Russian state media loves it.

When Democrats retake the House they should subpoena this Bond villain just for the spectacle of it alone.

We can’t trust anything coming out of this administration. It’s getting tiresome.

Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.

They keep increasing the size and aggression of their deployments while targeting smaller and smaller places, because Stephen Miller derives an almost sexual thrill from the idea of masked thugs overrunning an ethnic enclave, but can’t find enough thugs or a neighborhood that’s vulnerable enough

"Quit demonstrating" is not something that a pro-democracy politician says. It's something that an authoritarian tool says.

The no-angeling is already in full swing.

The first of several votes in Congress that Trump/Republicans are likely to lose today.

When cops kill, police agencies often mislead, exonerate too quickly, smear the deceased, use the exonerative tense, etc.

But there's at least usually some solemnity -- acknowledgement that the loss of life is regrettable.

It's the absolute glee in these responses that I can't shake.

A 6-year-old just lost his mother. A woman was shot in the face in front of her wife.

The swift, lockstep attempt to dehumanize and villainize Renee Nicole Good might be the most depraved thing we've seen yet from these ghouls and their supporters. These people are utterly fucking dead inside.

Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.

A few thoughts on this important NYT analysis:

First, the officer who killed Good is shown running up the *passenger* side of the car seconds before he killed her. He shot her first from the front, then the driver's side. This means he *put himself* in the path of the vehicle when he shot her.

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This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.

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if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.”

Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

Opening the government with no concessions from GOP merely to alleviate airline cancellations - when Congress has been dragging its feet for years on chronic FAA staffing issues - is a lame ass choice.

Also, doing it while the House refuses to work is appalling.

Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Aaron Blake & @AaronBlake Follow Pretty brutal numbers for RFK Jr. in this new WaPo-Ipsos poll. -Americans disapprove 55-42. -Independents disapprove 61-34. -Even 21% of Republicans disapprove. But what struck me most: Just 15% strongly approve, compared to 38% who strongly disapprove. Sept. 11-15, 2025, Washington Post-Ipsos poll of 2,513 U.S.

I really think that Dems should demand firing RFK Jr. as a condition to fund the government

his negative value over replacement cabinet member is undoubtedly the highest in the administration

MAGA Is Revising the Past to Create the Future They Want They are aiming to build the future they want by rewriting history.

Interesting @aselrod.bsky.social point about Trump's efforts to erase the history of slavery: It comes at a time when the American people's historical awareness has actually been on the rise, and it's *this* that must be rolled back at all costs:
www.liberalcurrents.com/maga-is-revi...

An image from the Little Mermaid of Ursula stealing Ariel's voice. Ariel is labeled 'comedians who offend the regime' and Ursula is labeled ABC/Disney

Out from the Disney Vault!

"Charlie Kirk staked out anti-democracy positions on all of those, but Ezra Klein pretends he didn’t. :

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Here are some tweets from Charlie Kirk over just the last few days. They are an impressive mix of hatred towards: Blacks, immigrants, women, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, academics.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

Again, political violence has no place in this country.

I probably don’t agree with Charlie Kirk on a damn thing, but that doesn’t matter - he’s a husband and a father.

This is despicable and can’t become our new normal.