@myraja.bsky.social
“ICE doesn’t actually have that money yet. Congress still has to pass an *appropriations* bill before DHS gets the funds, & that means getting 60 votes, not 51, in the Senate...[it] remains a bipartisan affair, and that can have a highly moderating effect. statuskuo.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Can Stop Or Slow Down ICE
They still have the power of the purse, and they should use it now.
statuskuo.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:53 PM
“ICE doesn’t actually have that money yet. Congress still has to pass an *appropriations* bill before DHS gets the funds, & that means getting 60 votes, not 51, in the Senate...[it] remains a bipartisan affair, and that can have a highly moderating effect. statuskuo.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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These ICE goons are like Russian soldiers.
January 15, 2026 at 8:31 PM
These ICE goons are like Russian soldiers.
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Organize. Make your voice heard. Donate. Vote like your nation’s future depends on it, because it does.
January 15, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Organize. Make your voice heard. Donate. Vote like your nation’s future depends on it, because it does.
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Rep. Frost spitting fire here.
January 15, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Rep. Frost spitting fire here.
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NEW: Former Special Counsel Jack Smith is set to publicly testify before a House committee next Thursday on his investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. This comes after Smith defended his probe in a closed-door hearing last month.
Former special counsel Jack Smith to testify publicly on Trump probes
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:35 PM
NEW: Former Special Counsel Jack Smith is set to publicly testify before a House committee next Thursday on his investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. This comes after Smith defended his probe in a closed-door hearing last month.
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Where is the business community and corporate leaders of Minnesota based companies in speaking up? Why aren't the big law firms sending lawyers to represent the people being attacked?
We are not at the end of this authoritarianism, we are at the beginning. And, sadly, we are on our own.
We are not at the end of this authoritarianism, we are at the beginning. And, sadly, we are on our own.
January 13, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Where is the business community and corporate leaders of Minnesota based companies in speaking up? Why aren't the big law firms sending lawyers to represent the people being attacked?
We are not at the end of this authoritarianism, we are at the beginning. And, sadly, we are on our own.
We are not at the end of this authoritarianism, we are at the beginning. And, sadly, we are on our own.
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NEW: Republican election officials in North Carolina denied Black students' request for an early voting location at a major HBCU in the state. The move marks the latest from the GOP-controlled state election board to restrict voting in the state.
North Carolina election board rejects early voting site at country’s largest Black university
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:16 PM
NEW: Republican election officials in North Carolina denied Black students' request for an early voting location at a major HBCU in the state. The move marks the latest from the GOP-controlled state election board to restrict voting in the state.
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inspected only for narrow transparency purposes related to list maintenance not for broad law-enforcement review, data mining, or politicized investigations. Absent a specific court order or clear statutory authority, voluntarily transferring voter rolls to fed law enforcement violates federal law.
Texas gives DOJ list of its 18 million registered voters
The Justice Department has asked states for their voter rolls with an eye toward purging ineligible voters. Democrats say sharing the data could violate federal election law.
www.texastribune.org
January 10, 2026 at 1:13 AM
inspected only for narrow transparency purposes related to list maintenance not for broad law-enforcement review, data mining, or politicized investigations. Absent a specific court order or clear statutory authority, voluntarily transferring voter rolls to fed law enforcement violates federal law.
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Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter rolls to the Justice Department. This action violates the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), which strictly limits how completed voter registration data can be disclosed and used. Under 52 U.S.C. § 20507(i), voter information may be
January 10, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter rolls to the Justice Department. This action violates the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), which strictly limits how completed voter registration data can be disclosed and used. Under 52 U.S.C. § 20507(i), voter information may be
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FFS. ICE is targeting Native Americans!
January 10, 2026 at 3:59 AM
FFS. ICE is targeting Native Americans!
"THE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS ARE ICE."
“The notion that [Trump] claims this is somehow making the country safer is absurd. It’s making the country more dangerous. The domestic terrorists are ICE. It’s hard to believe we have a criminal president running a lawless government trying to intimidate the people of this country through force.”
January 10, 2026 at 11:06 PM
"THE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS ARE ICE."
Ridiculous!
i'm not saying this as anyone who knows anything about health; i'm saying it as someone who is an alleged expert in interest group politics: the American beef industry is all over MAHA, wellness, and podcast spaces.
remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
New federal dietary guidelines give federal approval to beef tallow, a fat that both cardiologists and the U.S. government told Americans to avoid for nearly half a century.
January 10, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Ridiculous!
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This agency is out of control if leadership is no longer checking violations of constitutional rights. Congress absolutely must step in before more people are kidnapped/killed.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 6:57 PM
This agency is out of control if leadership is no longer checking violations of constitutional rights. Congress absolutely must step in before more people are kidnapped/killed.
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This is exactly right.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
People might argue that ICE is not recruiting quality agents.
But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy.
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy.
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
Opinion | ICE's violence is no accident
Alan Elrod: The killing of a woman by an immigration enforcement officer in Minneapolis was the raw application of Trumpist authoritarianism.
www.ms.now
January 10, 2026 at 9:58 PM
This is exactly right.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
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Anti-ICE nationwide protests in photos
Anti-ICE nationwide protests in photos
Anti-ICE nationwide protests in photos
www.independent.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Anti-ICE nationwide protests in photos
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JACK SMITH: “The attack that happened at the Capitol does not happen without Trump. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit.”
January 1, 2026 at 1:42 AM
JACK SMITH: “The attack that happened at the Capitol does not happen without Trump. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit.”
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Funny how there’s always “no money” for health care, food, or housing—until ICE needs billions. Then the vault swings open. If cruelty had a budget line, this would be it.
January 1, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Funny how there’s always “no money” for health care, food, or housing—until ICE needs billions. Then the vault swings open. If cruelty had a budget line, this would be it.
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At 10 am on @MSNOWNews, I’ll discuss Smith transcript. He debunked the claim that Trump was just contesting an election like other presidents. Trump knowingly engaged in fraud and took steps to obstruct the lawful transfer of presidential power.
www.ms.now/news/jack-sm...
www.ms.now/news/jack-sm...
Jack Smith deposition transcript released
The former special counsel, who led two failed prosecutions of President Donald Trump, spoke before the House Judiciary Committee in mid-December.
www.ms.now
January 1, 2026 at 1:44 PM
At 10 am on @MSNOWNews, I’ll discuss Smith transcript. He debunked the claim that Trump was just contesting an election like other presidents. Trump knowingly engaged in fraud and took steps to obstruct the lawful transfer of presidential power.
www.ms.now/news/jack-sm...
www.ms.now/news/jack-sm...
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The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.
This year, statues of tall men clad in all black with masks drawn up to hide their faces are disrupting the serenity of a Charlotte church's Nativity scene.
The figures are depicted approaching the Holy Family and the Wise Men with handcuffs as if preparing to make an arrest.
The figures are depicted approaching the Holy Family and the Wise Men with handcuffs as if preparing to make an arrest.
As anti-ICE Nativity scenes spark outrage, faith leaders grapple with politics at the pulpit | CNN
As Nativity scenes depicting ICE draw attention and outrage, faith leaders are grappling with politics in religion and urging a closer reading of the Christmas story.
www.cnn.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.
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Jack Smith told House committee he had ‘proof beyond reasonable doubt’ in cases against Trump
.. the fact that Trump's Jan 6 coup attempt didn't end with him in prison is perhaps America's biggest miscarriage of justice ever
.. the fact that Trump's Jan 6 coup attempt didn't end with him in prison is perhaps America's biggest miscarriage of justice ever
Jack Smith told House committee he had ‘proof beyond reasonable doubt’ in cases against Trump
Ex-special counsel testified in front of judiciary committee about aborted federal prosecution of Donald Trump
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Jack Smith told House committee he had ‘proof beyond reasonable doubt’ in cases against Trump
.. the fact that Trump's Jan 6 coup attempt didn't end with him in prison is perhaps America's biggest miscarriage of justice ever
.. the fact that Trump's Jan 6 coup attempt didn't end with him in prison is perhaps America's biggest miscarriage of justice ever
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Starting today, around 22 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare will see their tax credits run out.
The average recipient will likely see their premiums more than double in 2026.
Certain people — including residents of many states that voted for Trump — will be more exposed to a subsidy lapse.
The average recipient will likely see their premiums more than double in 2026.
Certain people — including residents of many states that voted for Trump — will be more exposed to a subsidy lapse.
ACA subsidies are expiring. Here’s who the lapse will hit hardest
Early retirees, mid-income consumers, small business owners and residents of states won by President Trump are among those who'd be affected most.
www.cnbc.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Starting today, around 22 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare will see their tax credits run out.
The average recipient will likely see their premiums more than double in 2026.
Certain people — including residents of many states that voted for Trump — will be more exposed to a subsidy lapse.
The average recipient will likely see their premiums more than double in 2026.
Certain people — including residents of many states that voted for Trump — will be more exposed to a subsidy lapse.
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social looks ahead with positivity:
January 1, 2026 at 1:20 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social looks ahead with positivity:
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What emerges from an impromptu interview with Trump: his doctors have apprised him of serious health issues, and he's not going to share them with us... but no, he's not following his doctor's advice, either. www.wsj.com/us-news/as-s...
Exclusive | As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance
In an interview, President Trump—the oldest man to assume the office—said he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging.
www.wsj.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:41 PM
What emerges from an impromptu interview with Trump: his doctors have apprised him of serious health issues, and he's not going to share them with us... but no, he's not following his doctor's advice, either. www.wsj.com/us-news/as-s...