Dennis Dimick

Who is this guy?

1/ This is terrifying to watch. Another warrantless search, another family brutalized by our government. But it's just one trauma inflicted on this family—many of which are US citizens—by the agents of the state, whose salaries we all pay

incredible reporting from @samanthamichaels.bsky.social

As Trump Heads to Iowa to Trumpet Economy, Many Residents Feel Pain

This isn't a bad article by NYT standards, but it reinforces the false idea promoted by big ag that Iowa's "economy is heavily reliant on farming" (while linking to a piece about North Dakota lol). The reality is that farming is a small portion of the state's economy and labor force, less than 5% 1/

Maybe someday America will decide it wants to fit in with the rest of the world as one of Mark Carney's 'middle powers,' an oversized Belgium or something. I think a majority of Americans would go for it in a heartbeat
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Very good framing by @ejdionne.bsky.social capturing the urgency of the Trump threat:

"Failing to confront what’s at stake would be a generational failure. The danger now is not alarmism but complacency."

EJ marshals lots of evidence of this from many different places and presents it well here:

they keep coming out and saying "we will continue to kill your neighbors in the street until your democratically elected state and local governments accede to our demands"

“He’s killing us in the streets and we still have to pay our taxes in April” is an incredibly compelling point.

The person who publishes the Free Press — where the words “Minneapolis” and “Minnesota” never appear tonight — also runs CBS News.

Just a reminder that the paper is owned by one of the wealthiest men in the world who recently paid $40 million to distribute a documentary about the first lady.

Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded (Gift Article) A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.

Here's a gift link to the New York's Times' timeline of Homeland Security's killing of Alex Pretti. It shows clearly what actually happened and makes it abundantly clear that the Trump regime is lying to cover up a murder.

Rare to see discusson of the point @jamellebouie.net makes here. "Most coverage of Trump treats him as president in a functional way, even if he doesn’t perform the civic duties of the office." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
Rather than designing coverage for a cateory of one — the mad king...1/

Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c

1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

I will never forgive the legacy media for failing to pick up where Heidi left off. Perhaps they were intimidated or fooled by what this network did to Heidi. Except what they did was the tell, ie, she was onto something big. Now some of the people in the same network are targeting Don Lemon.

We reach the stage where Capital Weather Gang becomes the reason to keep subscribing to @washingtonpost.com , and despite the great work of @capitalweather.bsky.social this 46-year home delivery subscriber is tempted to write -30- on this once great newspaper’s sad story of decline under Bezos.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

The reason this gives me heart is not that I'm some sucker for stories of "good conservatives." It's that I'm grateful for reminders that there are countless paths to being human and doing the right thing. For this kid, it's his Christian faith.

Maybe it’s time for IOC to ban the US from the Olympics.

Anti-fascism is a set of methods which to resist fascism. What's happening in Minnesota seems bigger than that: resisting fascism, yes, and real democracy in action, the world we want to live in. Not the terror! The care, the courage.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Dear Jonas’ Letter Is No Prize We have three years left with a mad king. It doesn’t feel sustainable.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“The uncomfortable truth is that the president of the United States is a man with the mind of a spoiled child. His debilitating solipsism is a threat to the stability of the entire world,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.

Force is very effective. Right now, it's being applied asymmetrically. While inconvenient, this won't end until those on the left, both elected and un-elected, have a real discussion about whether nonviolence and voting are capable of ultimately resolving a problem of this magnitude.

This is a gargantuan storm. I still can’t get over it. In terms of girth, it’s def in the top 5 that I recall.
This will impact 2/3rds of the nation and half of the country in a big way. Longevity too, with us Friday-Monday! And the brutal cold that follows. 🥶
Disruption deep into next week!

Climate change, pollution and decades of overuse pushed the world into a state of “water bankruptcy,” leaving billions of people without enough water to meet their basic needs.

In a sweeping report, scientists compared humanity to a person plunging into financial ruin. https://wapo.st/4pTRFNp

Excellent framing from @markjacob.bsky.social on mainstream media:

"They want to make their news truthful enough to keep an audience that’s attractive to advertisers while preventing it from being so truthful that it ticks off center-right customers and gains the negative attention of Trump..."

Weaponizing sensitive government data to try to overturn election results. What authoritarians do. Chilling.

The biggest obstacle we face as a society in getting people to accept reality about Trump is that it requires people to face reality about themselves and about ourselves as a society.

With democracy in free fall, the media must (finally) wake up Plus: a piece of heartening news amid the barrage of horrors

I love this point in Margaret Sullivan's newsletter:
"There should be far less emphasis on 'we don’t want to look biased,' and far more on 'how well are we doing our jobs of getting across the truth?'”
It's not biased to call out authoritarian liars. 1/2🧵 @sulliview.bsky.social

Screenshot of a post by Nick Schifrin (@nickschifrin) on X/Twitter. The post reads: “NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials: Dear Ambassador: President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state] ‘Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT’” At the bottom of the screenshot: “8:31 PM · Jan 18, 2026 · 25.6K Views.”

This is utterly deranged.

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

Another episode of “Stenographers for the Regime,” brought to you by just another knee-bending, spineless media monstrosity. Tune in tomorrow when we feature ICE’s 21st century updated look for Fascist fashions of the Third Reich.

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.