I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
The unanswered question is - did he shit himself?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is threatening to blacklist Anthropic from working with the U.S. military over the artificial intelligence company's refusal to loosen its safety standards.
Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."
I do this, get dressed in regular clothes, and I haven’t had a job in more than a decade. I even wear shoes indoors. Everyday. I prepare as if going into the world. If I’d didn’t, I’m not sure where I’d be mentally. But physically, it would be frightening.
Yeah, something got in both my eyes there.
Hockey is the best sport. The end.
"The last thing you want is to be tied to a dead body without a face. Especially on a Thursday."
This quote should be somewhere prominent of the cover of Cool Machine, by @colsonwhitehead.com when it is released this summer.
A fitting and satisfying end to the Harlem Trilogy.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.
We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.
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Rep. Mark Harris: "Some of these things are nonstarters. Having judicial warrants? To me, hat's a nonstarter. Being able to make off their mask, putting them at risk? That's a nonstarter. I would say anything that's going to hamstring the work of ICE, that's just not going to go anywhere."
Six days ago federal officers murdered a man in the streets of Minneapolis and we still don't know their identities. Is there any modern precedent for this?
"Allowing the crime scene to be contaminated then covering the victim’s weapon with fingerprints will make it much harder to investigate the case, much less prosecute it. But of course federal officials never intended to do either. Indeed, the coverup was underway immediately." — @lizdye.bsky.social
English translation of statement from Ecuadorian Consulate regarding ICE’s attempt to enter their building in Minneapolis today:
every time i think i grasp how fucking stupid ICE agents are, they do something to prove they’re actual much stupider.
If you point out we are modern day salve catchers and murderers, we have no choice but to agree with you.
1/21/2026 - Minneapolis
Federal agents abduct two teenagers (15 & 16) from a doctor's appointment
At one point, it appears an agent tases one of the children
scenes from occupied Minneapolis: "Social media video depicts agents taking a 15yo & 16yo on the 2800 block of Blaisdell. Community member reports either tear gas or pepper spray deployed"
If the crowd in Minneapolis had wanted Jake Lang dead, he would be.
I will start to take our leader’s resolve seriously when they start shouldering the burden of courage they are demanding of us.
This is fucking terrifying.
The FBI raided a Washington Post reporter's home as part of an investigation into the leak of classified documents.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
A few months ago, ICE hired me
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
Pro-life.
As he sits comfortable, safe, fed, due to an accident of birth.
"Welcome to a state where the politics of hate
Shout loud in the crowd "Watch them beat us all down"
There's a rising tide in the rivers of blood
But if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence
If they come to ethnically cleanse me
Will you speak out? Will you defend me?"
Don't worry. The criminals running the FBI will certainly be fair, unbiased, thorough in their investigation of the criminals working for ICE.
The criminals will investigate the criminals. I’m sure justice will prevail.
Fearing for his life so much that after he murdered her, he casually holstered his weapon, got in his goon mobile and drove away.
