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A Year Inside Kash Patel’s F.B.I. Forty-five current and former employees say Patel is making decisions that are undermining the agency and making America less safe. #chaos #disfunction www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In his first year in office, Trump managed to generate a ton of jobs and wealth — for himself

Liberals say that government-sanctioned abductions of little children have no place in our democracy. They're wrong—government-sanctioned abductions of little children have no place in our republic.

US National Park Service staff removed a slavery exhibit from a Philadelphia historic site in line with President Trump's claims, rejected by civil rights groups, of 'anti-American ideology' at historical and cultural institutions reut.rs/49OnReT

Now we model precisely these reports for our own reports about why continued employment of Paul Ingrassia violates Trump's prohibition on spending federal $$ on antisemitism.

It's terrible that ICE is abducting five-year-olds. But BlueSky wine moms sound so cringe and hysterical when they talk about it. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Opinion | As a conservative Christian, I have no problem with ICE agents abducting children—unless they are unborn.

What Trump's pathological obsession with Greenland reveals about Democrats.

One unusual part of the indictment against Aureliano Perez-Lugones (the guy accused of leaking Venezuela info to a WaPo journalist) is that DOJ IDed precisely which articles include classified info, which sort of defeats the point. www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/23/i...

65 Polish soldiers died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump's insults have not gone down well wyborcza.pl/7,75968,3255...

Next book project. Extremely excited.

No matter how tough Minnesotans are, this weather should be taken seriously. Make a plan to stay safe and check out the link below for a list of warming centers in Minnesota where folks can find shelter from the cold. www.fox9.com/news/minneso...

When you’re used to privilege, equality for someone else feels like a mugging. Please read, review, subscribe. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/how-donald...

This is Pinto. She was in foster when she began coughing and struggling to breathe. She was rushed to the ER, where vets found she had severe pneumonia. Without emergency hospitalization and oxygen support, she would have suffocated. Help her below ❤️‍🩹 1510.fan/pinto-bsd

The existence of this agency, staffed the way it is today, is just completely incompatible with a democratic society.

Today's Lawfare Daily is a @scalinglaws.bsky.social ep where Jakub Kraus spoke to @alanrozenshtein.com and @kevintfrazier.bsky.social about about Anthropic's newly released "constitution" for its AI model, Claude and whether an AI model might ever be a conscious being. youtu.be/1WxXJZUjj_o

🇬🇧 WATCH: “How dare he say this? A man who dodged the draft. Absolute disgrace.” UK soldiers who served alongside us and mothers of the fallen react to Trump disparaging their sacrifice to denigrate NATO. (H/T @lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social ) Putin is pleased.

I often say that the future of democracy is on the docket. Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking: Active Voting Rights Cases: 164 Active Redistricting Cases: 46 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 89 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 71 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 27 Stay informed and subscribe today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Bovino: "The child is in the least restrictive setting with a family member. I don't think it gets any better than that."

Bovino: "Many American citizens are separated when they're arrested -- say by the Mpls PD of any police department -- they are separated from their children when they are arrested ... I challenge any other law enforcement agency to show me the fantastic care that ICE and CBP provide children"

[Majel Barrett voice] Structural integrity field at 7%. Failure imminent.

Trump boosts call to primary these 8 Republican senators: Susan Collins (ME) Lisa Murkowski (AK) Rand Paul (KY) Mitch McConnell (KY) Thom Tillis (NC) Todd Young (IN) Chuck Grassley (IA) Jerry Moran (KS) Tillis and McConnell are already retiring.

It takes a certain level of committed to confessed sexual predator, convicted criminal, adjudicated rapist to go on TV and defend Trump but Vance is committed to the bit.

Since Lindsey Graham is now on the "we should own Greenland" side, go back and read @saletan.bsky.social's meticulous documentation of how Lindsey Graham's notion of getting Trump to support sane foreign policy failed and corrupted only himself: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pR7K6l

Is there an AI bubble? Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon weighs in. links.profgmedia.com/4byJYc3

Hochul and Mamdani spent months crafting a plan to expand free child care after his primary win, sources with knowledge of the negotiations told us. Despite concerns about the cost of a program — some estimates ran around $15B annually — they found a feasible first step would be far less pricey.

The legally-mandated release of the Epstein files is now more than one month overdue. There are still MILLIONS of pages DOJ has yet to release. What are Trump's personal lawyers at the DOJ trying to hide?

The world today is living evidence that self appointed authority figures are seldom a good idea.

Q: Does the father have a criminal record? ICE OFFICIAL: I will have to get back to you but he was in the US illegally Q: What's the son's legal status? ICE: The family came across illegally Q: What about the mother? ICE: We have not encountered the mother as of this time

In which I become cranky. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/res...

Reminder! 💚✊

California will miss Rob Caughlan.

Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie Are Going to the Winter Olympics—For Real This Time

'Heated Rivalry’ stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie Are Going to the Winter Olympics 2026—For Real This Time

I would be significantly less grossed out by the LLM tools suddenly built into every app if they didn’t always call them things like “AI Companion” 🥴

Trump repost: “Tim Walz needs to be removed in order to cut the head off the snake that is the Minnesota government”

ICE spokesperson Marcos Charles: "My officers stayed with the child. They cared for him. Took him to get something to eat from a drive-thru restaurant and spent hours ensuring he was taken care of. Again, my officers did that, not his father ... his family refused to open the door and take him back"

Inside the Dramatic Arrest of Ryan Wedding, Olympic Snowboarder-Turned-America's Most Wanted

A former Trump official is planning a multi-billion-dollar data center project in Greenland. The project would be several times bigger than any active data center on Earth. It also has yet to secure land or approvals from the local authorities. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/23/g...

In Indictment of Aurelio Perez-Lugones, DOJ Proves It Didn't Need to Search Hannah Natanson's Home www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/23/i...

If anyone wants to tune in live, I'm interviewing journalists @carolleonnig.bsky.social and @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social on my YouTube channel and Facebook at 11:30. They're smart. (The interview will be posted later on YouTube, where all my interviews live).

One of the green shoots of hope emerging from Trump’s oppression is a movement to make boards of directors more responsive to their constituents — especially university boards. Let me explain. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/opening-boards

here's today's post: "three cheers for Jack Smith" — also, Donny's hand and brain are rotting, and his Peace Board is a corrupt scam. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

Airlines offer vouchers as winter storm cancellations mount

Bovino: "How about our victim of the day, a victim at the hand of illegal alien criminals, these same criminals that we are taking off the streets. This victim was Rachel Morin. She's separated permanently from her 5 children."

Trump pushed Melania’s new movie that is struggling with ticket pre-sales

Less than a year after the deadly battle of COP Keating, Latvian NATO troops CPL. Martins Dabolins, SFC Janis Lakis & CAP Agris Liepins flew to Minnesota to reunite with the US troops alongside they served. US SGT Eric Harder is in the maroon. 🇺🇸 🇱🇻 gazette.com/2010/07/25/l...

I suspect confusion is the point. Some people may know to ask “Do you have a warrant?” but it is a lot to ask for an average person to know the difference between an administrative and judicial warrant. It’s deceptive and coercive.

Bovino: "Here in the US Border Patrol, I will say unequivocally that we are experts in dealing with children"

"After weeks of living under the heavy weight of this racist campaign of terror by ICE agents," hundreds of businesses in Minnesota have closed for the day as part of a historic general strike.

⚡️Mass attack that plunged Kyiv into darkness cost Russia over $130 million, Ukrainian intelligence says. Kyiv, home to more than 3 million people, is still reeling from the Jan. 20 attack in which Russia launched 33 missiles and 339 drones against Ukraine.

Bless you, Canada! ❤️

Twelve minutes after Fox News host Jesse Watters levied a BS attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar, President Donald Trump, who was apparently watching, called for an investigation into her purported "Financial and Political Crimes." www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/res...

Rep. Greg Steube: "You see Macron and the French sending troops to Greenland. I would love to see the US military up against French troops in Greenland, because it would not last very long. It would be a very small skirmish ... we don't care about what Macron and the French want."

Bizarre ‘Trump Diet Soda,’ Email Calls Supporters His ‘Cabinet Members’ Fundraising message serves fake pop and false titles meidasnews.com/news/bizarre...

Rep. Greg Steube: "You see Macron and the French sending troops to Greenland. I would love to see the US military up against French troops in Greenland, because it would not lost very long. It would be a very small skirmish ... we don't care about what Macron and the French want."

In this age of economic uncertainty, what’s scarier than the thought of being on the outside looking in of your chosen profession? @sonnybunch.bsky.social reviews "No Other Choice": lnk.thebulwark.com/3ZfMrRj

Trump Explodes in Wild Fury After Poll Hits Him with Worst Results Yet As Trump rages over “fake” polls after a New York Times survey delivers abysmal findings on immigration, a leading political theorist grapples with whether popular opposition has any hope of constraining him at all.

"It’s a Keystone Cops operation—but as Renee Good’s death attests, that hasn’t made it any less dangerous." Read more from @eggerdc.bsky.social in Morning Shots.

The Trump administration is a criminal organization.

Today’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. 👀

In Reuters latest Beacon newsletter we feature a photo essay about the Ukrainian veterans taking to the stage, along with other uplifting stories from around the world this week. Sign up to receive The Beacon here: reut.rs/3Nz1e6V

LIVE NOW: Watch on-the-ground coverage from today’s protests in Minneapolis

footage of Jared Kushner (and Witkoff) in the Kremlin with Putin

The DOJ has arrested and detained three people who interrupted a church service in St. Paul to protest a pastor's role as a local ICE official. Jordan Kushner, lawyer for Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of the arrested activists, describes the "circus" of her arrest.

Going through bills this morning being filed across the US and here's one for you. A bill in Nebraska that mandates the teaching of the "atrocities" of communism and how communism conflicts with American values.

In the unchecked federal power on display in Minneapolis, the outlines of Trump’s nascent MAGA police state are coming into focus.

Amazon is actually spending $75 million all in to license and promote this movie.

Imagine getting up and going to work every day when your job includes kidnapping 5-year-old kids.

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Kelly is emerging as a major Democratic fundraiser, giving and raising nearly $5 million ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Food Insecurity Still High, Admin Ends Data Collection Before SNAP Cuts Push it Up www.cbpp.org/blog/food-in...

"As a synthesis, the National Academies report is rigorous and admirably transparent about what we know and what we don’t. " @noupside.bsky.social reviews the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report “Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science.”

Trump may chicken out from following through on his most extreme threats, but his insistence on pushing self-imposed crises to the brink not only makes us less safe, but alienates us from the world. And thanks to Trump, we're probably past the point of no return.

⚡️ BREAKING: Ukraine holds trilateral talks with US, Russia as Kremlin ties any deal to Donbas capitulation. "The issue of Donbas is key," President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters hours before the talks began.

It’s worth spelling out one of the great delusions of the Trump era that has been definitively unmasked by the Davos Debacle. And the Europeans are the ones who definitely get it. Can we all open our eyes too? New from @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4rdmmhF

I am glad this story is still getting traction but I won’t be happy until the individual cops who showed up at the door are named and their names and pictures widely distributed to shame them and warn the populace of their thuggery.

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Substack Live with Doug Jones Join us today, Friday, at 1:30pm ET open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

5¶¶ of this story focus on Greg Bovino. None of those 5¶¶ explain that multiple judges have found Bovino to be a liar, which 1) might be useful to mention 2) might be why magistrates don't believe him or those associated with him.

hey that's me and @aselrod.bsky.social talking

1. Footage from a surveillance camera in South Tehran on January 8, 2026, captures a young woman being viciously attacked with batons and knives by Basij members and plainclothes operatives.

ICE has been trained that it’s okay to enter without a warrant per two whistleblowers. The fact that they’re still trying to get them is evidence DHS doesn’t believe its own legal theory that administrative warrants are enough.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Now leading HuffPost:

Reminder that in solidarity with today's anti-ICE general strike in Minnesota, I am donating all proceeds from today's newsletter to People over Papers, the Midway-Hamline Diaper Bank, and Every Meal. Sign up for PN through the links in this edition 👇 to support good causes.

Whether it was Jimmy Carter going to Florida to help rebuild houses after a storm or Ted Cruz going to Florida to flee storms in his home state of Texas, leaders from both parties have dealt with storms in unusual ways.

And according to the new New York Times/Siena poll, a majority of voters disapprove of Trump’s presidency, with Trump underwater when it comes to immigration (-17), the economy (-18), and the cost of living (-29). share.google/1ZRamvkumjY0...

And according to the new New York Times/Siena poll, a majority of voters disapprove of Trump’s presidency, with Trump underwater when it comes to immigration (-17), the economy (-18), and the cost of living (-29).

Khanna: "I do think the Epstein issue is what most concerns Donald Trump ... Donald Trump knows this has broken into the culture. It's broken into the culture because he said he was gonna hold people accountable, hold the elites accountable, and now he and Pam Bondi are protecting the elites."

ROGAN: They said they released them, but what did they release? OTHER GUY: They're still not out yet. It feels like everything else has been drowned out by Somalians and the ICE shooting. It feels like Epstein is completely drowned out ROGAN: I think some of that is on purpose

"Let’s stipulate up front that in any analogy to Nazism, the differences dwarf the similarities. But with all that being said: It’s disconcerting how much Trump’s speech resembles Hitler’s." New from @saletan.bsky.social:

Every time a Trumpist or Right-wing shitbird yawps about free speech, remember they are lying trash who would use state force to suppress your speech in a heartbeat if it suited their ideology or mood. /1

One year of Trump in a nutshell. Still waiting for those "day one" lower prices.

For the past year, the Trump admin has abused federal statistics and confidential records, mostly through deletions and censorship. But some of the most disturbing developments don’t involve data the administration is suppressing, but rather data it’s *collecting* www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-chil...

The Kyiv Independent's Chris York speaks with Adam Entous, an investigative reporter at The New York Times, about his new investigation into the first year of U.S. President Donald Trump administration's peace efforts to end Russia's war against Ukraine.

I just have to say that CK3 is a very enjoyable game that I highly recommend if you like deep strategy games and that the decision to play it on a submarine strikes me, a very nontical person, as fine, but posting about it probably no

Blumenthal: "I'm a no vote on that spending bill unless there are conditions that require ICE to go to a judge, to get a warrant, as well as other kinds of constraints -- the use of masks, the non-identification, the unmarked cars. These secret police, totalitarian tactics need to be stopped."

Hey pathetic crone who called to leave a nasty message for me: Everything is content. (Also, this is officially not my mother.)

Blumenthal: "The judge's approval of a warrant is absolutely critical when they are entering your home without your consent. We revolved against the British because of this principle. The 4th Amendment, the right to be let alone, is a libertarian view."