Correct.

Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

16-year-old Arnoldo Bazan and his father were getting McDonald’s before school when immigration agents pulled them over.

They slammed his father to the ground and put the teen in a chokehold. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” he said.

Read the full story: https://propub.li/4qSnVkQ

UNARMED WOMAN: “Shame on you.”

ICE GOON: “Have you not learned from the past few days?”

UNARMED WOMAN: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?”

ICE GOON: *VIOLENTLY SNATCHES HER PHONE*

(H/T @Mollyploofkins)

Over the weekend, ICE agents repeatedly used the killing of Renee Good to threaten Minnesotans recording their activities. "Did you not learn from what just happened?" They thought it was a "lesson" and now they'd be left alone. Didn't work.

Thought I had just now:

“Hmm, how does the citywide student protest walkout affect my regularly scheduled shift standing guard outside the school to protect the kids from government agents?”

Welcome to Minnesota, January 2026.

Can’t actually take this anymore.

Have to just f’ing take it anyway.

Twin Cities students walk out, decry ICE as surge continues Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out of school Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Officials are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism in some sc...

Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out Monday to protest ICE operations in Minnesota. Some schools are reporting 30% drops in attendance as families fear leaving their homes, with districts pausing field trips and offering virtual learning options.

Quack quack quack...

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

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

These online right wing freaks don't just hate their own country in the abstract. If you are reading this here, they hate *you* specifically. I don't know what our future holds for living with these people, but people should remember that toleration in Europe started behind a sword and a shield.

“Point blank lies.”

trans people, Somalis, Haitians…

Mr. Biden's top national security aides had, for the most part, cordial meetings with their successors. The exception was the defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III. Mr. Austin had been a proud architect of the Biden administration's Ukraine partnership, and he, too, hoped to argue for its survival. He let it be known that he was available to meet with Mr. Hegseth, but the Trump transition team did not reply.

This article about Trump policy toward Russia and Ukraine is exceptional but I just want to focus on what a vacuous tool Pete Hegseth is:
Example 1 - he refused to meet with his predecessor:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.

The only real innovation in the U.S. healthcare system is figuring out how to use new technology to deny you care faster.
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...

Tweet by Heritage Foundation co founder criticizing Heritage Action threat to Indiana

The Heritage Foundation is cracking

Holy crap! I just found a video on YouTube of a man saying hello to hand puppets in Akkadian!

Puppets!

In Akkadian!

Is Antifa in the room with us right now

He’s had MRIs and multiple cognitive tests in front of panels of doctors, and hems clearly receiving some kind of treatment that requires regular IVs.

I just don't see how the court can avoid at least sanctioning the attorneys at this point.

Trump Hit With His Worst-Ever Approval Rating on the Economy The president has repeatedly dismissed dire warning signs as nothing more than fake news from his opponents.

The president has repeatedly dismissed dire warning signs as nothing more than fake news from his opponents.

THOMPSON: You blamed the shooting of Guardsmen solely on Joe Biden. Who approved the asylum for this same person?

KRISTI NOEM: This individual that came in---


THOMPSON: No. I want to know who approved----


NOEM: *keeps talking over Thompson*


T: I don't want to file perjury charges against you

I consumed brain surgery when I was 20. My mom’s insurance company hit us with rescission (a practice finally outlawed decades later with the ACA) and for the next few years credit agencies hounded me.

Poor consumer choice?

A media mogel with important merger business before the FCC says he has "great conversations" about it with Trump, while Trump for his part speaks openly about the kind of ownership he wants to see at CNN, a news network he detests.

And it's just another day in our Orbanization. Via @status.news

Judge Xinis: “Respondents SHALL release Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately”

Dems are searching for a candidate who can be Mamdani in the streets and Manchin in the seats.

@lauren-egan.bsky.social breaks it down in the latest Opposition: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pvCn1I

This is embarrassing. This guy knows it's horseshit.

Chase Williams & @ChaseWilliams_• 1d New York City Mayor Eric Adams is on Capitol Hill today. X He tells me about Zohran Mamdani announcing he's moving into Gracie Mansion: "Beware of the ghost. I told [Zohran] about it. So the ghost is there. It's a friendly ghost, as long as you're doing right by the city. If you don't become right by the city, he turns into a poltergeist."

Eric Adams is an incredibly strange man

“Requiring temporary visitors here for a vacation or business to surrender five years of their #socialmedia to the #US will send the message that the #American commitment to #freespeech is pretense, not practice. This is not the behavior of a country confident in its #freedoms.”