Cheryl Sullivan

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”

That was fucking fantastic

It was probably difficult to foresee that Trump would put the Kennedy Center out of business.

So he’d rather shutter the Kennedy Center than be perpetually embarrassed by the cancellations and the quality of the performers that will actually show their faces there.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

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

Insane

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: “Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. “Today, we demand accountability. “In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota. “Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.

This hit so fucking hard today.

He doesn’t want to *see* it.

Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

"Kristi Noem and her department's latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately."

The first professional police force in the US began in 1838 in Boston. In 1854 only three cities had police forces: NYC, Philly, and Boston.

What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis blasts Trump for weaponizing the DOJ against Jerome Powell and the Fed:

"It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question."

Donald Trump is a convicted criminal.

This is not an administration, it is a crime spree.

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE:

"No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested".

"Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

New Republican election officials make voting harder in North Carolina Read more here.

In North Carolina, GOP-led election boards have shut down early voting sites across the state and sent personal voter data to the Trump administration, which is running the information through a federal database to find non-citizens who shouldn’t be voting. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/new-...

Just ridiculous. What a pathetic embarrassment Trump is.

Stand up with other moms to protect our neighbors and stop ICE. Sign up here! Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent after dropping her child at school. They are using fear to silence us -- we will not let fear win. Join Red Wine & Blue and other mom groups to support one another and take concrete steps to protect our communities, stay safe, and demand accountability.

Fear and disinformation are being used to silence people speaking out against ICE. We’re choosing action instead.

Join us on Monday, January 12 at 7 PM ET where we’ll come together to process what’s happening, support one another, and talk through how we can protect our communities.

It will take a generation to repair the damage this presidency has inflicted — and that’s assuming we get the chance.

ICE agents kept neighbor who was doctor from shooting scene, witness says Aaron Davis Video from Emily Heller's phone, which she shared with The Washington Post, shows the driver of the SUV slumped forward and not moving after the ICE shooting.

Officers in camouflage and carrying weapons surround the vehicle and then keep anyone, even a neighbor who identifies himself as a doctor, from approaching the car to administer first aid, according to the video. "Can I go check a pulse?" the neighbor says loudly, taking a step in the direction of the officers. "No, back up now," one of the agents says. "I'm a physician," the neighbor protests. "I don't care," the agent replies. "Give us a second, we have medics" on the way. Heller estimated it took 15 minutes for paramedics to arrive, in part, it seemed, because their ambulance was blocked from advancing to the scene by the ICE vehicles. Five or so first responders ultimately approached the car on foot, Heller said. They spent minutes with the woman who was shot and then carried her "by her limbs" the length of two or three houses before they could get to an intersection where they could load the woman into an ambulance, Heller said.

After ICE agents shot woman, a neighbor approached and said he was a doctor and wanted to help, witness tells @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social

Instead, ICE agents kept him away from the scene, she says.

Deadly Minneapolis Encounter Is the 9th ICE Shooting Since September

This is the ninth shooting by ICE since September (I did not know that). All of them were into vehicles.

When will Congress stand up and demand that the president stop treating Article I like toilet paper?

In 2026, the U.S. will spend $182 billion on mass incarceration. That's a lot of money that could be better spent on investing in communities instead of locking them up.

New year, same failed priorities.

Happy New Year.

It’s nice to get a break from Trump’s pedophile crimes to change it up with Jack Smith’s testimony on all his treason & insurrection crimes.