Brian Kelly

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Report: Leading GOP senator urges Trump to ignore advisers opposing Iran strike * * *

Iran probably isn't on your mind right now. But I think this demonstrates the depths of incompetency in the GOP that will exist long after Trump is gone. These guys really are as extreme as he is.

“However alarmed you are, it’s not enough.”

Stop what you’re doing and read this incredible @jvl.bsky.social piece.

The Westerners From award-winning historian Megan Kate Nelson, an epic account of the creation of the American West in the 19th century, shattering the traditiona...

The forthcoming THE WESTERNERS from @mkn.bsky.social! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-We...

(S+) Bestsellerautor Daniel Ziblatt über den Verfall der Demokratie in den USA: »Wir können uns auf nichts verlassen« Der Harvard-Professor Daniel Ziblatt forscht seit Jahren über den Verfall von Demokratien. Nun muss er zusehen, wie seine eigene Welt wankt.

„Extremism never triumphs on its own. It only does so because others enable it – out of ambition, fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of making small concessions“ — Prof. @dziblatt.bsky.social (@europeatharvard.bsky.social)

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The open racism you guys have emboldened, megyn

“.. First we need to push back on the lies; then crush the pedo/trafficking narrative; then rebuild your image as philanthropist,” Mr. Bannon wrote to Mr. Epstein in April 2019.

@nytimes.com
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I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.

Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005."

"it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

Folks:

This is important.

SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history.

More at the link below.

I know it must have seemed odd years ago when I wrote that Susan Collins, even more than Trump, was the person who made me decide to finally leave the GOP because it had no future.

Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

This is an extremely clarifying comment: these people think that this is somehow their war and they’re mad that regular folks are fighting it. That’s not what’s happening. Minnesotans are rallying to ensure their neighbors can’t be stolen in secret. It’s not even ideological.

No the “anarchists in bloc” flocking in to fight ICE are very specifically interlopers. Minneapolis is being protected by ordinary neighbors using tactics that they are comfortable with and can learn. That’s why there are tens of thousands of people involved.

Almost all of them genuinely are this ill-informed. They know very little about policy or politics. This is why they have to resort to debating sophomores. They cannot debate against professional center-to-left commentators. Everything is Gish Gallop.

This is the sort of stuff you might agree to after an exhaustive negotiation…not your starting offer. Schumer is a spent force.

A standing testament to the Minnesotans who helped stem the tide of disunion at Gettysburg.

During the monument’s dedication in 1897, Gov. David Clough argued that “if…the people of Minnesota dedicate themselves…the future will see the children of the North Star state on every field of conflict…

Looking at the mug shots Bondi posted of folks who allegedly impeded ICE officers... I'm reminded me of some of the iconic 1960s images of 'criminals' from counter sitins and freedom rides

Caregivers for the elderly could lose wage protections under Trump proposal The Labor Department has proposed rescinding an Obama-era rule that gave home care workers the right to overtime pay and other wage protections. The administration says the rule made care too costly.

The Labor Department has proposed rescinding an Obama-era rule that gave home care workers the right to overtime pay and other wage protections. The administration says the rule made care too costly. n.pr/4a1rrSZ

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it.

Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.

If DuBois could be patriotic, you can be too

With Trump going full authoritarian on Venezuela-Greenland, ICE, and the Fed, the response has to be serious. Four Republican senators (Tillis, McConnell, Murkowski, Collins?) could announce they’ll caucus for now with the Dems to give them control of the Senate to check Trump.

Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators:

"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President."

www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

The Dem Reaction - Lawyers, Guns & Money Where are the Democrats right now? Friend of the blog Jamie Mayerfeld has done the research: I saw someone write on Facebook: “Only a short matter of time before we see establishment liberals falling ...

good rundown of how many democrats are, in fact, coming out against this shit

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/the-...

Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”

Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

Rest easy, Isiah Whitlock Jr. 🙏🏾🕊💙