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Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder.

" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."

www.al.com/news/2026/01...
Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register
Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants
www.al.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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Today is National Thesaurus Day.

Personally, we find these made-up holidays contemptible, abhorrent, nauseating, repugnant, and unpalatable.
January 18, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Tomorrow we honor the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. I remember the "good trouble" that occurred 65 years ago. I believe it’s time for some good trouble again. Some thoughts...

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-a-time-for-good-trouble
Sunday thought: It’s time again for good trouble
Time to take action against Trump’s mayhem
robertreich.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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No one's buying it.
Officials Ripped After Making Incredibly Dubious Claim About ICE Agent's Injuries From Renee Good Shooting
www.comicsands.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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“I think more than 350 of those cameras have gone out and are already deployed in the community now,” he said...

www.404media.co/how-one-guy-...
How One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE
‘We have to make sure people are watching. We have to make sure we’re keeping track of our community members.’
www.404media.co
January 18, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Greenland embraces the new MAGA hat: ‘Make America Go Away’
Greenland embraces the new MAGA hat: ‘Make America Go Away’
Thousands of people turned out across Denmark and Greenland to protest Trump’s efforts to seize the island
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence
January 18, 2026 at 9:01 PM
January 18, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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In a few days we will find out how much he paid. I’m going to say this one was at least $2 million.
January 16, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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It really gets under that orange skin, so I say, let him hear it everywhere he goes.
January 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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I honestly believed everyone understood that Conald outed himself at the Ford plant. But comments make me wonder, so here’s a cartoon to make it clear.
January 16, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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#BREAKING Lionel Richie has given me one of his Grammys. Mr. Richie told reporters he had made the presentation “as a recognition for Patrick’s unique commitment to dancing on the ceiling.” I in turn called it a “a wonderful gesture”
January 16, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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The first sale of Venezuelan oil went to a guy who donated $6 million to Trump. The proceeds are now in a bank in Qatar.
January 16, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Cartoon by Michael de Adder
January 16, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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Do any Republicans in Congress care about Trump grabbing oil from Venezuela, handing it off to his megadonors to sell on the international market to whoever, depositing the proceeds in foreign bank accounts, then spending the money however he sees fit with no input from Congress?
January 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.
January 16, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents.

Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.

Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to p
www.propublica.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM