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Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

We shouldn’t have to fight just to be able to exercise a right, but primary night in Texas made it clear we will have to. Here’s what you need to know and how to get ready to do it. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Pete Hegseth suggested this morning that reporting on the 6 U.S. service members who were killed in Trump's Iran war is an example of the news media 'trying to make Trump look bad.'

There are much bigger issues at stake here than making anyone “look bad”. Sad this Administration can’t comprehend this.

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone] Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

We sent 4 records requests to the Education Department — the first more than a year ago — seeking the status of school investigations, findings of discrimination reversed under Trump and more. The agency gave no response except to acknowledge it received them.

In his press conference today, Pete Hegseth "used the deaths of U.S. military personnel to air his own grievances with the press," @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:

Major update: United Nations review finds Epstein Files likely rise to crimes against humanity as fallout goes global. Epstein co-conspirator will be disposed today. Pope rejects Trump’s invitation to join Board of Peace. Trump sent pardoned drug trafficker to luxury hotel in New York.

Trump ICE regime thugs spotted at their hotel drinking and mocking protesters below who are angry about the two unarmed civilians the regime publicly murdered this month. One of the thugs proceeds to expose himself while laughing. #3E #GoodvsEvil

Like many around the world, I am so grateful Stella was brave enough to pull her car to the side of the road to start filming this tragedy. She stayed there even though many would have feared for their own life and run the other way. Stella is another hero to add to our list.

I don’t understand why American ICE agents would be present at the Olympics in another country. Is this some kind of bonus for them? Like, do the quota winners get a trip to Italy for their bounty hunting here in the states?

Thank god for this woman. I imagine god too would say “What the fuck did you just do?” Stella has no reason to explain her language. Why was “Do you regret saying it?” even a question???

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

🔥 @ginotheghost.bsky.social : “Which ICE agent was the ‘innocent victim’, Bovino? The one who shoved the woman to the ground? The one who pistol-whipped Alex Pretti in the face? The one who executed him in the back of the head? The one that emptied his entire f*cking clip?”

Neil Young. Still showing us the way all these years later.. If you haven't heard, he gifted his entire catalog to Greenland for free. He says he hopes it will "ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,”

Gotta get down to it Soldiers are gunning us down

This five year old is still in jail

one of the funniest things i’ve ever seen

Ellison: "We have the right as a state, as a co-sovereign, to do our own business with our own tax money. What the federal govt has said is, 'if you don't do it our way, we're gonna saturate your state with 4,000 ICE agents until you cry uncle and obey us.' That's unconstitutional and illegal."

Hopefully there are videos of today’s Arizona shooting.

You can’t reform this. Throw the whole department away.

Bovino was forced out of Minnesota because the American people stood firm. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in below-freezing temps to peacefully defend their neighbors & freedoms. We’ll keep fighting. No more deaths at the hands of rogue DHS agents.

Chief Justice John Roberts turns 71 today. Two decades ago, I warned the Senate that confirming Roberts to the Supreme Court would be a disaster for working people. I'm sad to say I was proven right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir5kmPdRJLw

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers in California & Hawaii go on strike. “More than 31,000 workers across at least two dozen hospitals and hundreds of clinics run by the non-profit health care system walked off the job at 7 a.m. PT..." abcnews.go.com/Health/31000...

Walz: I think Kristi Noem probably should go back to South Dakota, not have any dogs, and just kind of ride things out

Consistently useless.

Abolish. ice. 💔

Hakeem Jeffries: "Kristi Noem is a despicable, corrupt, pathological liar. We've seen her slander not just one, but American citizens, patriotic Americans who were killed without justification on the streets of Mpls ... we are prepared to initiate impeachment proceedings against her in the House."

I didn't say it. The Germans did.

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Everyone, remember to include Melissa and Mark Hortman in the list of Minnesota assassinations. Use the word assassination, as it's the harshest term for what's going on. Drumpf and confederates used the term for those two stunts last year; this is a far more applicable use than those farces.

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

The nurses are pissed

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Holy shit. He was filming. He went over to help a lady that ICE shoved down. Agents engaged him. His hands were on the pavement when he was shot. He never had his hand on a weapon. Cold blooded murder.

You’re watching the administration lose control of the narrative in real time. The more they show their supporters that they don’t give a shit about their gun rights, the worse it gets. I’ve seen over a dozen right-wing commentators call out the propaganda. That’s progress.

We can’t afford universal healthcare. We can’t afford better public schools. We can’t afford high-speed rail. We can’t afford to work on curing cancer or public broadcasting. how can the U.S. taxpayers afford to buy Greenland?

BREAKING NEWS: We are opening a formal investigation into the shooting involving federal agents in Portland today. Our office will take every step necessary to ensure the rights and security of Oregonians are protected. #orpol #breakingnews

A big thanks to every pundit who dismissed as hysterical the many people sounding the alarm bells in 2015

Will never forget this very bad take from Derek Hunter.

A cold-blooded murder was committed inside the United States by an agent of the United States federal government acting under the authority of Donald Trump. That is cause for deep concern by us all — right and left, Democrat and Republican. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-cold-blooded-murder

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

The Trump doctrine: Violence is us

New in PN: Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted "There’s no path to justice that runs through this administration or the federal courts. Hell, Trump will probably give the shooter a medal, and would certainly give him a pardon. But there is a path to justice that runs through Minnesota."