the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays
Reader, I was WARNED and was still not prepared
You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.
Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.
We should try electing some kind of deliberative body that makes decisions about levying taxes.
You know, the wild thing is, all the dem consultants and Very Smart Editorialists who keep insisting that the party has to move towards the center *still* won’t entertain the idea of packing the court even though Trump has literally suggested it. What could be more “both sides”?!
This song breaks my brain every time I hear it. What an amazing feat by Adriano Celentano!
Ok so womp womp the kiddo wasn’t actually Liam, he was Lincoln Fox:
www.instagram.com/reel/DUhUaQp...
(But was meant to represent Liam and his dad)
Best. Uno. Reverse. EVER.
How do you not view this as a gorgeous expression of Hispanic culture in the U.S.?
Smooth music, beautiful sets, and great dancing.
ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota.
This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats.
They hate the helpers.
Which is why must keep helping.
It's a pathetic statement that we're in the midst of a (Republican-led) US federal government shutdown, and the @nytimes.com doesn't have a SINGLE MENTION of it on its home page at the moment.
"Time to drop a really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files."
-- Elon Musk
Guess who else is in the Epstein files, Elon.
My latest song: A Scary Time for ICE. #FUCK🧊 @50501movement.bsky.social @democracynow.org @startribune.com @nilc.org @markruffalo.bsky.social @alyssamilano.bsky.social
Congress designed the TPS statute, carefully and deliberately, to restrain the Secretary’s authority to designate, or extend or terminate an existing designation of, a foreign nation for TPS. The statute contains numerous procedural safeguards that ensure individuals with TPS enjoy predictability and stability during periods of extraordinary and temporary conditions in their home country. But the statute contemplates that this stability would last only a short while: the protective guarantees of TPS are subject to termination at most every 18 months. At bottom, this case comes down to the Secretary’s failure to conform to the strictures of the 25-5724 47 TPS statute. The Secretary attempted to exercise powers Congress simply did not provide under the statute. Because that conclusion resolves this case in full, we need not, and do not, reach any other aspects of Plaintiffs’ claims.
9th Cir. holds that Sec. Noem had no statutory authority to vacate TPS designations for Venezuela and Haiti.
Judge Mendoza, concurring, would additionally hold Noem's action also violated the APA given Noem's explicitly racist comments in vacating TPS.
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I refuse to die until I get to see Stephen Miller humiliated as publicly and devastatingly as possible. It is the most important thing in the world to me.
Only one unpaid ticket (speeding, 11-15 over the limit, from August 2025) in the system, shockingly! (But of course, there could be other ones we can't see anymore because they've been paid...)
It’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.
Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress approve of what the President is doing.
It is preposterous for Donald Trump to say he no longer feels an obligation to peace…
Does the FIFA World Cup World Peace award not mean anything anymore?
When the better times materialize (& they will, so many are working towards that right now) & it comes time to investigate everything ICE did & it did it, we need to reject the old strategies that have failed us.
Don't let an old prosecutor or police chief lead the way.
Homeland Security & @DHSgov X.com Law enforcement uses 'reasonable suspicion' to make arrests, as protected under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on this position. A person's immigration status makes them a target for enforcement, not their skin color, race or ethnicity. @TriciaOhio
DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
If you’re a Democrat and your position is anything less than abolishing and prosecuting Trump’s secret police, then you are complicit and enabling fascism through thine cowardice.
A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
This is a good question. Let's talk about it!
Why do civil servants resign in protest? Couldn't they have done more good on the inside? 🧵
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
I have just started the Murderbot series and LOVE THEM SO MUCH.
Disguising yourself as a civilian in order to carry out a lethal attack is called perfidy and it’s one of the most serious of war crimes. The usual punishment is execution.
By Charlie SavageEric SchmittJohn IsmayJulian E. BarnesRiley Mellen and Christiaan Triebert Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt, John Ismay and Julian E. Barnes reported from Washington; Riley Mellen and Christiaan Triebert reported from New York. Jan. 12, 2026 Updated 6:47 p.m. ET The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter. The aircraft also carried its munitions inside the fuselage, rather than visibly under its wings, they said. The nonmilitary appearance is significant, according to legal specialists, because the administration has argued its lethal boat attacks are lawful — not murders — because President Trump “determined” the United States is in an armed conflict with drug cartels. But the laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called “perfidy.”
U.S. military manuals about the law of war discuss perfidy at length, saying it includes when a combatant feigns civilian status so the adversary “neglects to take precautions which are otherwise necessary.” A U.S. Navy handbook says lawful combatants at sea use offensive force “within the bounds of military honor, particularly without resort to perfidy,” and stresses that commanders have a “duty” to “distinguish their own forces from the civilian population.”
And, the word of the day is now "perfidy."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
“Sometimes public service requires standing firm in the face of threats, which is what this unambiguously is”
How did the banker dude get here before the leaders of every self-mythologizing media organization or even Congress
If this is a good idea to you, all I ask is that you do not participate in any elections moving forward.
