Mark Welch

Gosh, release 3 million pages of Epstein documents on a Friday when millions of Americans are participating (openly or not) in a general strike. Make sure no journalists get the day "off." Also, hint that any congressmen who ask to review the redactions are disgusting perverts.

Like the demand that ICE obtain arrest warrants before entering homes, Democrats are just bargaining for the Trump administration to follow existing law, which is an insanely stupid negotiating position.

Our vote is no longer a private matter.
The feds know YOUR vote!
With knowledge comes oppression.😒

@reecejones.bsky.social has a great book on CBP
bookshop.org/p/books/nobo...

Federal ICE Agent Pepper Sprays Person in Face in Santa Barbara Eastside Incident A masked federal agent wearing a vest labeled “police” pepper sprayed a person in the face at close range Wednesday morning on Santa Barbara’s Eastside.

ICE agents just seem to consider pepper spraying people in the face to be an appropriate casual greeting. www.noozhawk.com/federal-ice-...

This is the way.

He's getting ROASTED

MAGA Jesus Is Not the Real Jesus Trump is causing incalculable damage to the Christian faith, yet most evangelicals will never break with him.

The Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals aligning with ICE are “prying Christianity further and further away from the ethic and teachings of Jesus,” Peter Wehner argues.

What rules there are no rules anymore that’s the point

Moving Special Ed to HHS Will Treat It Like a Medical Problem. It’s Not Hinds & Floyd: Shifting the focus from education to diagnosis could mark a return to low expectations and lack of services for kids with disabilities.

Moving Special Ed to HHS Will Treat It Like a Medical Problem. It’s Not www.the74million.org/article/movi...

Pam Bondi Tries New Intimidation Tactic With Protester Arrest Photos The attorney general posting photos of people in Minnesota who have been arrested but not convicted.

There is mounting evidence that suggests federal law enforcement has lost the plot on what protesters “impeding” their work actually looks like. Federal agents have aggressively approached citizen ICE watchers simply monitoring their operations, threatening to arrest them—or worse, TNR reported.

An extraordinary document. Read it.

“Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

Well, I rarely participate in documentaries, and I got introduced to the people who made The AI Doc by someone I respect. Should have declined but hindsight is 20/20.

Minneapolis live updates: Two Border Patrol agents who fired their guns in Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting have been put on leave Follow live updates on a preliminary Department of Homeland Security report sent to Congress on Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting in Minnesota that said two officers fired their guns during the struggle.

What are the names?

How can the regime's claim about putting on leave immigration agents be trusted without knowing their names?

Trump upgraded the lifestyle of Epstein pedophile sex ring operator Ghislaine Maxwell, but didn't release the Epstein files.

Who trusts Trump or his DHS goons, really?

"The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver. 🌻

Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT The interim director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency triggered an internal cybersecurity warning with the uploads — and a DHS-level damage assessment.

Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT, which triggered an internal cybersecurity warning — & a DHS-level damage assessment. www.politico.com/news/2026/01... Incompetence is his qualification—it’s not a bug it’s a an utterly putinous feature. #loligarchy

👀 Judge Schlitz, the chief federal judge in Minnesota, has ordered the head of ICE, Todd Lyons, to appeal personally in court Friday and threatened him with contempt for the agency’s repeated violation of court orders.

“The court’s patience is at an end.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Number of people living in extreme heat to double by 2050 if 2C rise occurs, study finds Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune

“If the 2C threshold is breached, the new dataset indicates the number of people experiencing extreme heat will increase from 1.54 billion people (which was 23% of the world population in 2010) to 3.79 billion (41% of the projected world population in 2050).” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One human rights observer in Maine said agents followed her home, blocked off her street, and came to her door to say they know where she lives. Her children are now staying elsewhere, to keep them safe.

Suella Braverman, "There is a very strong case to increase the powers of any immigration enforcement officers that we deploy"

"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"

Energy Department Cancels Solar Program For Low Income Residents Of Puerto Rico - CleanTechnica The federal government has pulled the rug out from under Puerto Rico again by cancelling funding for distributed solar.

Energy Department Cancels Solar Program For Low Income Residents Of Puerto Rico cleantechnica.com/2026/01/26/e...

prospect.org/2026/01/26/i...

What could possibly go wrong? Will such regulations be intelligible and enforceable? What loopholes will the techbros push into these regs?

Here's a statement from Gov. Walz' office on the call he had with Trump today. According to this, Trump apparently agreed to speak to DHS about allowing the Minnesota BCA to conduct an independent investigation.

"They will be named. You can count on that. They will be shunned. Their families will be run out of decent neighborhoods. They will not be able to secure a good job. Their children will, or will contemplate, changing their names."

Big Brother Watch responds to Home Secretary’s facial recognition expansion announcement — Big Brother Watch

Big Brother Watch responds to Home Secretary’s #facialrecognition expansion announcement - bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releas... "one of the most significant threats to civil liberties in the history of British policing" #privacy

If not now, then when?
If not us, then who?
If not me, then who?

What action?

Literally the Party telling you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ NEW: Since yesterday's deadly shooting in MN, I've talked to more than half a dozen federal sources involved immigration enforcement, including several in senior positions, who all tell me they have grown increasingly uneasy & frustrated w/ some of the claims & narratives DHS pushed in the aftermath of the shooting. Specifically, I'm told there is extreme frustration with DHS officials going on TV and putting out statements claiming that Alex Pretti was intending to conduct a "massacre" of federal agents or wanted to carry out "maximum damage", even after numerous videos appeared to show those claims were inaccurate. While they say it was a terrible decision to show up with a gun and inject himself into a federal law enforcement operation, there is no indication Pretti was there to murder law enforcement, as videos appear to show he never drew his holstered firearm. These sources say this messaging from DHS officials has been catastrophic from a PR and morale perspective, as it is eroding trust and credibility - comparing it to when Democrats falsely claimed the border was closed or that Haitians were being whipped at the border. Some of these sources have described DHS’ response to the shooting as “a case study on how not to do crisis PR”, one said they are so “fed up” that they wish they could retire, another said “DHS is making the situation worse”, and another added that “DHS is wrong” and “we are losing this war, we are losing the base and the narrative." These sources all believe this is going to end up being what they call a “bad shoot”, a “shitty” situation that happened in seconds where agents likely heard “gun!”, then the disarmed firearm may have had an accidental discharge that spooked the agents, and they shot. The agents do not have the luxury of multiple slow motion angles - and had to make split second decisions. All of the sources support the mass deportation agenda, but have serious hesitations about the way it is …

Bill Melugin of Fox News may be the best-sourced journalist within ICE and CBP. If he's hearing this, the administration has a real problem.

We have a new paper in Science today on how malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy.

AI systems can already coordinate autonomously, infiltrate communities, and fabricate social consensus.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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