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The government is trying to silence criticism online via intimidation tactics.

Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.

Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho

ICE sacked some tiny Idaho town and deported ~4 percent of the population at a stroke, it's liable to collapse the local economy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers Trump Skips Super Bowl Because He'd Get Booed, Threatens to Take Control of Elections: A Closer Look

Great to see Seth Meyers citing original reporting from Zeteo's @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social on his show tonight:

Last month was the worst January for job cut announcements since 2009 | CNN Business Mass layoffs outlined by the likes of Amazon and UPS meant last month was the worst January for job cut announcements since the Great Recession, new data showed Thursday.

Mass layoffs surged in January.

It was the worst month for layoff announcements since the Great Recession. Amazon and UPS among the companies slashing jobs.

cnn.it/4rvq5XI

Seconding this endorsement of serving as a poll worker. The hours are dreadful (5 a.m. to 8-9 p.m. in Virginia), but you do get paid, you get to help your neighbors exercise their rights, and the next time some bozo talks smack about election integrity, you can smugly reply "have you even served?"

“You’re Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer” It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...

State and local police rarely investigate when federal law enforcement officers are involved in violent altercations. If the federal government doesn't investigate, agents can act with impunity. www.propublica.org/article/why-...

What a frightening world we live in now.

WTF is happening to this country?!🤬

List of metro areas by population in 2024: 13 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA MSA 4,566,961 4,749,008 14 Detroit-Warren- Dearborn, MI MSA 4,342,304 4,392,041 15 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA MSA 4,044,837 4,018,762 16 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI MSA 3,712,020 3,690,261 17 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA 3,342,963 3,175,275 18 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA MSA 3,269,973 3,298,634 19 Denver-Aurora- Centennial, CO MSA 3,005,131 2,963,821 20 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD MSA 2,834,316 2,844,510

A pet peeve I’ve developed is when people describe Minneapolis as a small or mid-sized city. The Twin Cities are the nations’s 16th largest metro, between Seattle and Tampa, both of which I’d consider in the tier of “big” (but not “major”) US cities.

This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts EpsteIN—as in, Epstein and LinkedIn—searches your connections on the social network for names that match those in the released files.

A new tool lets you search the Epstein files for mentions of your LinkedIn contacts. Tried it out, does work. Outputs a report with links to the material on the DOJ website.

www.404media.co/this-tool-se...

Oct 1, WaPo: sales for orchestra/theater/dance performances worst since pandemic

Jan 2, PBS: Kennedy Center faces artist cancellations, drop in sales after Trump's name added

Feb 1, Trump closes K. Center for 2 yrs “for Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding”

Venezuelan Oil Revitalization: Paid For With Your Taxes - The American Prospect The biggest oil companies will immediately profit off Trump’s Venezuela coup, including via American taxpayers’ money.

We'll have more on Minnesota in a moment but this shouldn't get lost: despite the protestations, oil companies are fine with extracting crude from Venezuela as long as the U.S. government guarantees the profits. Those guarantees are in motion, writes @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social.

May he be the start of a Republican wave of dissent and protest.

Live: Trump softens troop threat as Walz’s office says it’s in touch with White House The president said he does not need to use the Insurrection Act yet. Newly released documents detail Renee Good’s injuries.

Trump pusses out on troop threat in Minnesota

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

‘Toughest conditions imaginable’: Victorians urged to shelter inside from heatwave as tropical cyclone heads for Queensland Heatwave warnings in place for nearly all states and territories as Sydney braces for 43C forecast on Saturday

‘Toughest conditions imaginable’: Victorians urged to shelter inside from heatwave as tropical cyclone heads for Queensland

If they do decide to invade at least we’ll get a warning bc someone will absolutely place a suspiciously large bet on one of these sites right before

I was told that Congress was finally back in session today.

How, exactly, are we going to be able to tell?

Is “law enforcement operation” the new “special military operation”?

it’s hilarious that the united states is trying to charge the president of a foreign country with possession of machine guns

Nixon was pardoned. Bush and Blair did not even smell the threat of jail time. Unless there are arrests, trials, criminal convictions, actual jail time and significant *individual* fines, these flagrant violations of domestic and international law will not only continue, they will escalate.

Trump offers questionable new reason for killing Colorado water project Trump said he vetoed a clean drinking water project because people are leaving Colorado “in droves.” It appears he’s relying on a single moving company’s statistics.

NEW: President Trump cites people leaving Colorado "in droves" as a reason he vetoed a bipartisan clean drinking water project. Trump appears to rely on a single moving company's survey, which is contradicted by four similar surveys and government stats. www.9news.com/article/news...

It wasn’t just the Republican district attorney who supported the prosecution of Peters, all 3 GOP Mesa County (Co.) Commissioners at the time supported the prosecution.

In August 2024, Peters was convicted of 7 charges, including four felonies. 1/3

House Judiciary Committee releases transcript of interview with Jack Smith (with redactions)

judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Trump ends National Guard deployment in 3 cities after Supreme Court loss The president said troops will no longer be in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland.

Let's consider this a preview of the legal and political defeats to come in 2026. 🍻https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/31/donald-trump-national-guard-deployment-00708714

Jan 6 bomber’s lawyer calls out legal flub by Jeanine Pirro U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a former Fox News host, was called out by the lawyers for the accused Jan. 6 bomber, Brian Cole, for trying to influence the jury pool before the case even went to trial....

If anyone can screw up this prosecution - it's her

Jan 6 bomber’s lawyer calls out legal flub by Jeanine Pirro www.alternet.org/jeanine-pirr...

I will have more to say about our strike on Venezuela as soon as I can figure out *if it really happened or if Trump is conflating it with something*, which is a hell of thing to say about a statement from the president about military action.

Kelly’s work documenting resistance to ICE in Chicago was essential reading for me this year, please consider subscribing!

This presser is like listening to a child. A dim child.