BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

JUST IN: Fed judge in Seattle strikes down several provisions in Trump executive order on election integrity. Judge John Chun (Biden) says the Constitution assigns the president no role in election administration. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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We're three former newspaper people who couldn't sit by and watch Trump destroy this country. So we're helping to call attention to what he's doing and, we hope, rally support to stop him.

I'd love to see a reporter ask rank-and-file ICE agents if they understand that the administration is clearly hoping one of them gets killed out there.

"Are you ready to give your life to become a meme pushed by incels on Twitter for a couple days?"

And the world moves forward to greater peace & prosperity, without 🇺🇸. Thank you, Donald Trump, for this Golden Age… 🫠 cc @dpounder.bsky.social @fergdawg.bsky.social @frashure.org @tylerharris.bsky.social @jasonpye.bsky.social @aaronrosspowell.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...

No declaration of war. No congressional oversight. No accountability. 'At least 95 people have now been killed in strikes on suspected drug boats as part of a campaign, dubbed Operation Southern Spear' via @cnn.com Welcome to the Golden Age. www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/p...

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From @jasonpye.bsky.social: “The fusionist experiment is dead.” https://www.exiledpolicy.com/p/on-the-death-of-conservative-libertarian

Despite the political rhetoric surrounding crime, the violent crime rate in the United States dropped to its lowest level since 1969.

@jasonpye.bsky.social analyzes the most recent crime data and explains how public perception continues to lag behind the facts: idueprocess.org/blog/f/crime...

“It’s a self-licking ice cream cone of crazy” former Congressman @denverr.bsky.social explains why Trump’s $10 billion dollar lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over the Epstein story may come back to haunt him.

NEW! @biodoss.bsky.social @frashure.bsky.social & I spoke w @jasonpye.bsky.social w. @dueprocess.bsky.social & discussed the erosion of due process rights & Constitutional protections under the Trump admin.➕hyper-partisanship, the budget bill, authoritarianism & more open.spotify.com/episode/4NTP...

Special guest @jasonpye.bsky.social from @dueprocess.bsky.social joined us on the podcast to discuss due process and the One Bad Behemoth Bill.

CBO published the estimated interest costs of the House-passed OBBBA. The estimate is $551 billion. Brings the deficit impact to $3 trillion. There are 16 provisions that could be extended before they expire. If all are extended, the deficit impact would be around $4.3 trillion.