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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

American citizens ARE already subject to it. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

The economy produced roughly the same number of jobs in Joe Biden’s last full month in office as it produced in Donald Trump’s first full year in office.

"The state represses, the law cheats,
Taxes bleed the poor;
No duties are imposed on the rich,
The rights of the poor are empty words,
We have languished long enough under domination,
Equality wants other laws:
'No rights without duties,' it says
'Equals, there are no duties without rights.'”

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

The Hyattsville location is in the same building as the PG County Service Center, including the SNAP office.

Might the revolution be funded?!

And Scott Galloway is saying things like this:

So...the Wall Street Journal has started talking like this:

Write about the women's game!! It is the future!

Social Security isn’t facing collapse—it’s facing a political choice. Today’s shortfall is tied to rising inequality and policy decisions after the Great Recession, not just demographics. Our Director of Stratification Economics @socio-steve.bsky.social explains:

Lessons from YIMBYism: Taking “Abundance” Back to Its Fundamentals Lessons from YIMBYism examines how supply-side reforms, public investment, and state capacity can make progressive social policy work as intended.

New from me: A brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the logic of YIMBY policymaking and its applicability to other domains. What principles underlying the YIMBY agenda are transferrable to thinking about energy, healthcare, and other areas? Short 🧵 to follow. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protesters in Minnesota In victory for Trump administration, appeals court has temporarily lifted injunction as JD Vance set to visit state

So...how many precincts in Minneapolis and Saint Paul could hold an election today? Go on, reassure me that we'll have free and fair elections in November.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump Blurts Out Real Reason for Insurrection Act Threat—and It’s Dark He thinks it lets him abuse his power however he wants. It’s up to the courts—and the American people—to show him otherwise.

"A big reason Trumpworld is unapologetic about Good...is to warn Americans showing solidarity with immigrants that they do so at their personal peril."

My brothers and sisters in Christ, this has ALWAYS been true. Solidarity will cost you, maybe even your life.

newrepublic.com/article/2055...

Anyone who has ever helped me when I was doing something solo with my two kids. So many strangers holding doors, pointing out something we dropped, waiting for us, etc. It feels like a village when people are kind to us.

All you fascists bound to lose.

Abolish ICE—For Real This Time Neither activists nor elected Democrats should repeat the mistakes of the past.

"ICE is different. It needs to be abolished because the agency is rogue, and, more pointedly, because it’d be exceedingly difficult to design an agency like ICE that wouldn’t go rogue eventually." Strong @brianbeutler.bsky.social take. www.offmessage.net/p/abolish-ic...

Opinion | By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All

"All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

One very tough scenario for the Fed:

Labor force participation & prime-age EPOP are basically flat for the year, total EPOP down slightly

But these depend a lot on stale population projections

Labor market could be much tighter than hiring, wages & inflation suggest

And the two members giving her snaps are my fave fangirls.

When @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social ran for DC Council, her opponent sent a mailer attacking her for her defund stance. I had never seen a better endorsement.

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.

Nope. Absolutely not. ICE shot a person exercising their right to observe ICE.

#ICEKILLS

The nerdery is both staggering and laudable.

Anniversary of #FDR's 4 Freedoms speech and this feels really relevant: The fourth is freedom from fear – which...means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a point ...[that] no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor – anywhere in the world.

FDR loved assigning "royalism" to opponents of the New Deal.

As long as it feels threatening to Santa Monica's Millennial Goebbels, I'm happy to be out here married to a brown immigrant citizen, raising bilingual, mixed race kids with two passports.

Policía y la migra, la misma porqueria

George Retes is a U.S. citizen and Iraq war veteran. He was detained by ICE and held in solitary confinement for three days without explanation.

George shared his story before Congress to make sure no American has to endure the same abuse he did.

NWSL said it would fight for Trinity Rodman. It’s only fighting with itself One way or the other, the league will set a precedent with Rodman. The NWSL has the power to choose what that looks like.

I'll say what this excellent take won't: @nwslsoccer.com is fucking this one up. Michelle has done so much for the game. The league should let her take us to the next level.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...

Ella es mujer del pueblo.

Or **and hear me out**, we could do the boring, normal thing where we tax rich people and fund public programs that help everyone.

Infinitely preferable to outsourcing social policy to whichever billionaire feels whimsical this week.