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John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70 Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.

There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/gcWulzo

Tomorrow, the Democratic Party of Evanston members will vote to endorse candidates.

Unfortunately, the DPOE misrepresented us on the ballot, didn’t tell us, and still has not issued a formal correction.

So we’re doing it ourselves:

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)

The "Return" of the Golden Sword My grandfather guarded it. The British stole it. I'm named after it—and I'm going to fight for it.

NEW: This was the last essay I was supposed to publish at the Washington Post. But they fired me.

I'm publishing it anyway-- about my family's connection to a sword the British looted from Ghana in 1874.

If youve ever wondered why I love swords, here's why.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol agent, expected to file lawsuit, release evidence Body-cam video, text messages and other evidence tied to shooting during Operation Midway Blitz is set for a Wednesday release.

JUST IN: Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol agent, expected to file lawsuit and release evidence Wednesday

From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

"[W]orkers broke into laughter when asked if they got paid enough to cover their basic expenses. One said factory wages weren't enough to pay for new uniforms, books and shoes for school-aged children."

'It's slowly getting better;' Sonoma State students and faculty mark one year since announcement of dramatic cuts Northern California Public Media

“It was a painful move for students like Vivo Cunningham, a Students for Quality Education intern with CFA, the California Faculty Association.” - KRCB

https://ow.ly/433350Y9rYo

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...

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

Welp…https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/2/3/french-authorities-raid-x-offices-summon-musk-in-cybercrime-probe

Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Begging to Visit His Notorious Island Newly released documents show how Elon Musk extensively communicated with Jeffrey Epstein to plan parties and trips to his island.

NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite -- Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge

futurism.com/future-socie...

Why Democrats are suddenly embracing universal childcare Candidates are putting universal childcare on platforms, and strategists say it could be a winning issue

Can we simply acknowledge that universal healthcare is the best option, and start working on it?

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

Can we please, please, PLEASE amplify the names of the other people arrested. They are: "Georgia Fort, an independent journalist; and Trahern Jeen Crews and Jamael Lydell Lundy, both activists."

The NIH Director (Bhattacharya) and Deputy Director (Memoli) recently published their “plan” for US pandemic preparedness—it was essentially to do nothing other than to persuade American individuals to get healthier, so that the healthy would survive the next pandemic. Survival of the fittest.

16/n

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest

Using DOJ to target, arrest, harass and incarcerate anyone the regime doesn't like, Part Gajillion: Magistrate judge recognized there was no case, they appealed to federal judge to make the magistrate let them arrest Lemon.

The First Amendment is apparently imaginary. Like Bigfoot.

Yall, Don Lemon was taken into Federal Custody.

Walz says Trump compared Minneapolis surge to Venezuela mission The Minnesota governor tells MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff that the reference shows where Trump’s head is. The White House denies that.

Walz told me that when he spoke to Trump on the phone the president compared the immigration operations in Minneapolis to the military mission he ordered in Venezuela. www.ms.now/news/walz-sa...

Tucker Carlson’s Nationalist Crusade The pundit’s contrarianism has swerved into openly racist and antisemitic tropes. What does his rise mean for the future of MAGA media?

Tucker Carlson “has long possessed a finely-tuned professional and political radar,” Jason Zengerle writes. Read about how the journalist came to capture the American public’s attention. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Uu9bBs

It's great that more abolitionists and the labor movement are challenging union membership of immigration enforcement.

In this spirt, a 2012 position paper on unions needing to challenge Black criminalization and policing by @kenyonfarrow.bsky.social and me.

blackagendareport.com/content/why-...

Crowd is massive, now overflowing Congress Plaza and taking up a block-long stretch of Michigan Avenue.

Reminder: this event was only announced yesterday.

The Border Patrol Has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924 Since its founding, the U.S. Border Patrol has arguably been the most politicized and abusive branch of federal law enforcement.

The border patrol has been a cult of brutality since 1924.

🚨 Houston Justice v. Harris County Learn more.

NEW: Houston Justice and Pure Justice file a lawsuit against Harris County, Texas seeking emergency court intervention to extend early voting hours after severe winter weather forced the closure of polling places during a congressional runoff election. www.democracydocket.com/cases/texas-...

Minnesota Star Tribune 1/24/26

New York Times front page 1/24/26

#FrontPage comparison

NYT editors are entrusted by their readers to prioritize what’s important. Their editorial decisions such as layout of the #FrontPage contribute to public memory.
Democracywashing Minnesota under siege by Federal agents and #Minneapolis community mobilizing in frigid temps
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Minnesota judges continue to reject arrest warrants in ICE protests Sources say federal agents aren’t providing evidence that protestors are committing the crimes of which they’re accused.

NEW: MN judges continue to reject arrest warrants in ICE protests. Sources tell @ms.now feds aren’t providing evidence that protestors are committing the crimes of which they’re accused. First byline with the great @carolleonnig.bsky.social and Alex Tabet. www.ms.now/news/minneso...

When Trees Testify This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stor...

I’m preping to interview @berondam.bsky.social about her amazing new #BookSky release this week WHEN TREES TESTIFY and one of the points she makes is that enslavers kept better track of plants and animals than the enslaved people that they enslaved

One of the most important 🧪 books this decade.

They know their audience has an insatiable appetite for seeing black women humiliated for exceeding their station, so when it didn’t happen they used AI to complete the fantasy bsky.app/profile/nyti...

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article.

Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.