One of Ours Is Down in Iran. Here’s What That Really Means. As a former Air Force pilot, I can tell you: we trained for this exact moment. And right now, America is doing what it does better than anyone on earth.

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For Alex Jeffrey Pretti
Murdered by I.C.E. January 24, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
@amandagorman.bsky.social

Rep. Scalise, along with this administration and the majority of the GOP, appear not to know or understand that exercising one’s First Amendment rights is not impeding law enforcement, and that peacefully protesting or bearing witness are not crimes.

Steady State Short -- The evolution of DHS January 25, 2025

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Please help my message reach Senator Joni Ernst! #MAGA #JoniErnst

Olympics Sports Watchdog Failed to Stop Mississippi Coach's Sexual Abuse, Women Allege Two gymnasts who say they were sexually abused at an elite academy in Iowa filed lawsuits Monday against the sport’s oversight bodies.

The gymnasts claim the inaction enabled Sean Gardner to get a job at Chow's Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, Iowa, in 2018, where the gymnasts say they and other preteen and teenage girls were abused despite additional complaints about Gardner.

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

TBH The only one who surprised me was Tim Kaine.

Ukraine says it has struck oil terminal in Crimea and key Russian explosives factory Ukraine's military says it has struck one of Russia's main explosives factory as well as an oil terminal in Russian-occupied Crimea.

Ukraine says it has struck oil terminal in Crimea and key Russian explosives factory

Supreme Court is increasingly pre-empting, rather than overruling, lower courts.

It’s similar in structure to the President firing mid-level bureaucrats or the Secretary of State personally ordering someone deported.

A dangerous concentration of power.

Supreme Court will weigh expanding Trump’s power to shape agencies by overturning 90-year-old ruling The Supreme Court will consider expanding President Donald Trump’s power to shape independent agencies by overturning a nearly century-old decision limiting when presidents can fire board members.

Congress wrote laws to protect leaders of independent agencies like the FTC, SEC and The Fed from being fired at will. That’s the law. SCOTUS agreed in 1935.

Todays corrupt SCOTUS may tear that down. Benjamin Franklin warned us: the republic would only survive if we could keep it.
We're not.

In Big Win for Voters, Utah Supreme Court Upholds Block on Gerrymandered Congressional Map Read more here.

WIN: The Utah Supreme Court denied the state legislature’s request to keep its gerrymandered congressional map in place for upcoming elections.

The decision likely ensures Utahns will have fair districts in 2026 and could give Democrats an additional seat in Congress.

From: @jenrice.bsky.social

All right, the former divisive podcaster turned head of the FBI has taken credit for the arrest of the shooter of the divisive podcaster turned conservative martyr. It’s time to go back to demanding the release of the Epstein Files.

Rest in peace to the wonderful actor, Graham Greene.

512-463-1000 Let her out!
#letherout

And, he just gets up in the middle of the meeting to go call Daddy to ask him what to do. This is the President of the United States. Why would anyone think he’s a Russian asset?

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I wonder how well Murkowski will sleep tonight.

Where has Scott
Pelley been since this segment?

The Promise of American Higher Education No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

"No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."

-- Harvard President Alan Garber

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DIRE WARNING‼️‼️

Fear has a way of being contagious.

But courage is also contagious.

#Philly HandsOff
Drumline near Independence Hall

Raskin: We even have the right to call the president deranged for crashing our economy, destroying $6 trillion of wealth and turning our 401(k) Into a 201 (K). And the press has the right to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico.

Thousands rally, march across Iowa for 'hands off' anti-Trump message

So proud of American Resisters today!

#Handsoff

🔥 “Without a level playing field — without Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — Meritocracy fails spectacularly… it’s ok to at any point stop and admit you didn’t think this all the way through.”

cc: Rep. Aron Maberry (who is carrying yet another an anti-DEI bill)

Trump Takes Aim at California Six Times in 24 Hours The Trump administration seemed to hold back immediately after the January wildfires. But its multipronged assault on California has now begun in earnest.

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