Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych out of Winter Olympics over banned helmet honoring war dead Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych is out of the Milan Cortina Games after he refusesd to stop wearing a banned tribute helmet.

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych is out of the Winter Olympics over a banned helmet honoring athletes killed in the war with Russia.

Jon Stewart: America's real "sanctuary city" is the one protecting elites from any accountability

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Didn't this happen in My Cousin Vinny?

Alex Pretti: Judge wipes away order requiring feds to preserve evidence gathered from shooting scene | CNN Politics A Minnesota judge has wiped away an order he issued last month that required federal investigators to preserve evidence gathered at the scene of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting by immigration officers.

The judge said he was lifting the emergency order he issued the day of Pretti’s shooting barring various federal investigatory offices from destroying or altering any evidence related to the incident because he had gotten assurances from federal officials that evidence would be properly maintained.

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)

Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

🚨 KS LEGISLATURE INTRODUCED A TRANS BATHROOM BAN 🚨

Rep. Humphries REMOVED the original bill text and added the amended bathroom ban, known as "gut and go". So this bill SKIPPED committee process, w/ NO opportunity for the public to opposing this bill.

➡️ loudlightaction.org/trans-rights

#Kansas

They're lying!

“If you raise your voice I’ll erase your voice” said an ice agent.

Insane

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

NEW: The Atlantic reports Greg Bovino has been REMOVED from his role as Border Patrol “Commander at Large” and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and “adviser” Corey Lewandowski are at risk of losing their jobs.

Masked government agents are conducting “show me your papers” stops, detaining 5-year-olds to use them as bait, and brutally murdering U.S. citizens.

Call it what it is — fascism.

History will not look fondly on politicians and so-called "leaders" of this country who stood by and enabled this.

The stock market in President Donald Trump's first year back in the White House was the weakest of any president's first year of a new term since 2005, when George W. Bush started his second term. https://cnn.it/49Coo4U

Who executes an unarmed ICU nurse on the streets of Minneapolis?

Trump's Gestapo ICE does.

Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed.

The next could be you.

What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones.

This is personal — to every one of us.

I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

PSA: If Bill Kristol can say this dems should be able to say it

One year of Donald Trump: Alarms sound over relentless expansion of presidential powers • Kansas Reflector President Donald Trump promised during his bid for another White House term that he would be a dictator only on “day one.”

One year of Donald Trump: Alarms sound over relentless expansion of presidential powers | via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social and @fischler.bsky.social #ksleg

In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters

"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

The Trump regime's affordability plan has finally arrived

Gavin Newsom is correct. Trump and Stephen Miller are quintessential fascists.

Truth

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.