Ethan Fletcher

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

American Gestapo

If ICE shows up anywhere near voting precincts they're going to get bullied the f*** out of there.

go straight to hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200

In a normal time, this would happen. Jared Kushner is on the actual payroll of at least two Middle Eastern sovereigns as he purports to represent the US in negotiations, many of which involve the Middle East. It's the all-time most outrageous conflict. But US media are ignoring it.

It remains so today, even with children in detention camps by the 100s or 1000s.

This is by far the most cartoonish politics has been in my lifetime. Extremely kind & decent people vs. the absolute dregs of humanity. It continues to baffle me that this is not equally clear to the whole country.

The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

Rough week for Trump, right? Backlash from Rs to racist memes, loses the Canada tariffs vote, Lutnick and Bondi making terrible headlines in Congress, SAVE passes but DOA in Senate, all-time-low approval numbers… etc. I’m expecting some truly unhinged Truth Social posts tonight

Surprising precisely no one: Of course it was CBP doing reckless shooting at the border, using a weapon that didn’t belong to them, that caused this (deserved) freakout by the FAA.

This guy has no fucking juice. People need to realize standing up to him works and catering to him does not.

ok so is there anyone in this administration who isn’t connected to epstein?

one thing that comes across in these clips is that bondi is totally out of her depth. just an absolute lightweight. barely sentient.

AOC: We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and crashing, and I think it’s because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles through:

Meanwhile, many libraries that used to offer passport services were recently told by the Federal government they can’t do that anymore. Probably a coincidence!

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

image from today's hearing

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them

(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

This is true, and even if we get rid of Trump, we still have to reckon with the fact that a substantial proportion of US economic and political elites were *eager* to jump on the fascism train. They will still be the same people when Trump is gone.

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.

It was a "sideshow," I was told.

The 2025 "vibe shift" was something a lot of media tried to make happen, casting themselves as mere observers rather than drivers.
But it turned out 2024 was a national election amidst multiple fluky factors in the aftermath of a global pandemic, not a binding referendum on American culture. Whoops.

No more presumption of regularity.

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

Amid massive layoffs, @washingtonpost.com is gutting its climate change coverage team. Clean energy dies in darkness, thanks to #Florida man Jeff Bezos. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington... h/t @sejorg.bsky.social

Tim Cook is a sniveling coward, and it gives me no pleasure to speak this plain truth out loud.

Opinion | We’re Seeing the Weakness of a Strong State

“Visible state violence against sympathetic civilians was the beginning of the end for Jim Crow. It may be a turning point now, too.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...

Dara's Guide to Handling Reality Minneapolis, inside the economic blockade zone where we are pioneering nonviolence, whistle edition

“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.” — @deardara.bsky.social deardara.com/so/adPmSCLoz...

Well, my fellow Maine voters. Here is Susan Collins today paying tribute to her boss while holding her MAGA hat.

What's the statute of limitations in Minnesota for child endangerment?

Okay, what's the text of your proposed constitutional amendment? I'm open to considering new ways of doing things. Let's see it and debate it.

But until ratification, that's not how it works.

Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.

There should be a bot where anytime someone tweets some version "Me Too went too far" the app automatically replies with an image of the text in the format of an Epstein email.