Ryan Enos

It should go without saying that this "suing your own agencies for 10 billion dollars thing" is so insane that it should be the end of an administration in any well-functioning constitutional system.

This is the most extraordinary judicial opinion I have ever read. It equates the actions of Donald Trump with George III.

(read it, it is short)

Here are Bible versus he included:
Matthew 19:14: "Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.'"
and
John 11:35, "Jesus wept"

Read the opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We need to listen to what the judges are trying to tell us.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

Not a good sign for our information ecosystem.

Definitely a sign of the ideological differences between movie critics and people who choose to buy a ticket for the Melania movie.

Masked men arriving at the door of dissident journalists in the middle of the night.

(see too that is a DEA agent: the president is weaponizing all parts of the US government against his political foes).

I know it worthy of derision, but it is also the government bragging about arresting journalists. Our freedom is under grave assault.

Abstractly, if I told you there was an entity in the United States roving around cities and killing people, busting into people's homes, and kidnapping children, you wouldn't say "let's reform it," you'd do everything in your power to put an end to it.

Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest

The Trump administration is arresting journalists, creating dystopian databases of American citizens' faces, sending masked men busting into homes without warrants, using the police to raid election offices. Everything is authoritarian now. We must resist.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Trump Administration Live Updates: F.B.I. Search in Georgia Tied to Criminal Inquiry Over 2020 Election

This is how democracy dies. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

More people *strongly disapprove* of Trump than approve of him, even in the slightest. He is not even a "polarizing" President, he is just historically unpopular. There is no political downside to opposing authoritarianism.

yougovamerica.substack.com/p/falling-co...

According to this reporting, this nursing assistant, with no criminal record and who is pursuing the legal path to citizenship, was violently abducted by masked men because of the color of her skin.

All decent people must reject this and demand its end.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/s...

What about no masks? Or is that implicit in IDs?

Note that we've seen that when civil society stands up (the people of Minnesota, Harvard, etc.), that they can beat back authoritarianism. Find courage in that.

I suspect the only thing constraining Trump is his own ego, and that's what slowed him down here because somehow it broke through that this was hurting him. That *might* operate after the midterm, too.

Greg Bovino Loses His Job The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

This is good because it shows a whiff of accountability, which is a necessary condition for democratic governance. But we can't become complacent. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Yes, but the issue is that they have convinced themselves that public opinion is on their side.

It's obviously far from the most important thing here, but the fact that Trump would be pointing his finger at another politician over accusations of personally enriching themselves in office is perhaps the most jaw-dropping hypocrisy in this history of jaw-dropping hypocrisy.

And I know some people are going to say that it's not courageous to do the right and obvious thing. But the fact is that most people in his position are not doing it, so it is taking something that other people don't have. If you don't like the word "courage", fine, but let's support it.

Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.

Courage. Good for him.
www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...

An aging, increasingly unpopular leader with autocratic impulses sends masked agents into opposition areas to provoke unrest. Those agents shoot an unarmed civilian observer after disarming him, obstruct evidence collection, and the government then lies about it publicly.

When you explain it plainly, it’s hard not to see where we are as a country.

The first shots of the American revolution were in resistance to a law-enforcement action by the British Army marching to Lexington in an attempt to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams.

Read these chilling words that an American is being compelled to say about their own government: "I don't know what the agents will do when they find me."

I wrote something a while back about the dangers of ideological capture of civil rights organizations...

The utter contempt for the lives and intelligence of the American people is displayed in the lies of this regime.
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I think this is about right. It is certainly not the case that government violence against its own citizens is new in the United States. But we have to realize that the totality of the circumstances make it arguably unprecedented. A very dangerous moment if this is allowed to continue.

This was a great American film because it was about resisting fascism.