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Government agents committed a barbaric, extrajudicial killing on an American street in front of witnesses whom they also harmed.
WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS? Why aren’t they standing, physically, w/ the brave citizens of Minneapolis? Any city may be next. Leaders should lead. At least follow the brave.
WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS? Why aren’t they standing, physically, w/ the brave citizens of Minneapolis? Any city may be next. Leaders should lead. At least follow the brave.
Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Government agents committed a barbaric, extrajudicial killing on an American street in front of witnesses whom they also harmed.
WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS? Why aren’t they standing, physically, w/ the brave citizens of Minneapolis? Any city may be next. Leaders should lead. At least follow the brave.
WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS? Why aren’t they standing, physically, w/ the brave citizens of Minneapolis? Any city may be next. Leaders should lead. At least follow the brave.
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ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
January 24, 2026 at 12:29 AM
ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
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There's no compromise when it comes to funding concentration camps. Shut it all down.
Minibus is out. Democrats were able to include some guardrails in about ICE:
-restricts ICE to spending $3.8 billion of its annual budget
on detention as opposed to being able to spend $10 billion
-$20 million that must be used for body cameras 1/
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
-restricts ICE to spending $3.8 billion of its annual budget
on detention as opposed to being able to spend $10 billion
-$20 million that must be used for body cameras 1/
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov
January 21, 2026 at 1:25 AM
There's no compromise when it comes to funding concentration camps. Shut it all down.
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Obama, Biden, and Clinton all embraced this notion that they had to appear “tough” on immigration and it helped to build this machine that the GOP is using to oppress and kill Americans.
Maybe the party ought to stop doing that shit.
Maybe the party ought to stop doing that shit.
January 19, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Obama, Biden, and Clinton all embraced this notion that they had to appear “tough” on immigration and it helped to build this machine that the GOP is using to oppress and kill Americans.
Maybe the party ought to stop doing that shit.
Maybe the party ought to stop doing that shit.
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Hate to point out the obvious here but if Democrats aren't even willing to support abolishing ICE imagine how receptive they'll be to abolishing, you know, anything else Trump passed through Congress, especially the stuff that included tax cuts.
January 20, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Hate to point out the obvious here but if Democrats aren't even willing to support abolishing ICE imagine how receptive they'll be to abolishing, you know, anything else Trump passed through Congress, especially the stuff that included tax cuts.
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The headline is the important part here but look at this:
"In 2000, China produced only one-third of the amount of electrical power that the United States did; by 2024, it produced nearly two and a half times U.S. levels."
"In 2000, China produced only one-third of the amount of electrical power that the United States did; by 2024, it produced nearly two and a half times U.S. levels."
Opinion | Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:22 PM
The headline is the important part here but look at this:
"In 2000, China produced only one-third of the amount of electrical power that the United States did; by 2024, it produced nearly two and a half times U.S. levels."
"In 2000, China produced only one-third of the amount of electrical power that the United States did; by 2024, it produced nearly two and a half times U.S. levels."
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Democrats need to say, right now, that Trump is out of his damn mind. More than half the country already senses this. Saying it will reinforce the notion that it's the normal person's response to Trump's obsessions, particularly the Greenland obsession. It's time to other Republicans for a change.
January 19, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Democrats need to say, right now, that Trump is out of his damn mind. More than half the country already senses this. Saying it will reinforce the notion that it's the normal person's response to Trump's obsessions, particularly the Greenland obsession. It's time to other Republicans for a change.
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If you keep bending the knee to a fascist, they will keep bullying you. They see weakness as opportunity, complicity as agreement.
The fact Schumer is still willing to fund DHS should OUTRAGE all of you.
The fact Schumer is still willing to fund DHS should OUTRAGE all of you.
January 17, 2026 at 12:31 AM
If you keep bending the knee to a fascist, they will keep bullying you. They see weakness as opportunity, complicity as agreement.
The fact Schumer is still willing to fund DHS should OUTRAGE all of you.
The fact Schumer is still willing to fund DHS should OUTRAGE all of you.
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“Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said on X in the wake of the shooting in Minneapolis.
More here:
More here:
Senate Takes Big Step Toward Funding Gov’t as Some Dems Demand ICE Constraints
This is your TPM evening briefing.
wherethingsstand.talkingpointsmemo.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:57 PM
“Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said on X in the wake of the shooting in Minneapolis.
More here:
More here:
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Correct.
Dems/patriots should be straight-up committed to abolishing ICE.
We must never again have masked, armed, untrained, unscreened, embittered rogue agents patrolling our streets, destroying civil order rather than trying to maintain it.
Empowered by 'Kavanaugh stop' and 'Roberts waiver.'
Dems/patriots should be straight-up committed to abolishing ICE.
We must never again have masked, armed, untrained, unscreened, embittered rogue agents patrolling our streets, destroying civil order rather than trying to maintain it.
Empowered by 'Kavanaugh stop' and 'Roberts waiver.'
ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
January 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Correct.
Dems/patriots should be straight-up committed to abolishing ICE.
We must never again have masked, armed, untrained, unscreened, embittered rogue agents patrolling our streets, destroying civil order rather than trying to maintain it.
Empowered by 'Kavanaugh stop' and 'Roberts waiver.'
Dems/patriots should be straight-up committed to abolishing ICE.
We must never again have masked, armed, untrained, unscreened, embittered rogue agents patrolling our streets, destroying civil order rather than trying to maintain it.
Empowered by 'Kavanaugh stop' and 'Roberts waiver.'
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I am fully convinced that DOGE was a smash and grab on public datasets.
January 14, 2026 at 10:12 PM
I am fully convinced that DOGE was a smash and grab on public datasets.
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Union strong 💪
UAW defends union member who heckled Trump at Detroit factory
UAW defends union member who heckled Trump at Detroit factory
The president flipped off the worker and mouthed an expletive at him during a visit to a Michigan.
dlvr.it
January 14, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Union strong 💪
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we have an entire amendment of our constitution about this.
john roberts, this is your legacy
john roberts, this is your legacy
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM
we have an entire amendment of our constitution about this.
john roberts, this is your legacy
john roberts, this is your legacy
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ICE is behaving exactly as was intended, doing the exact stuff Trump wanted, which is why it should never have been funded and the government should have stayed shut down.
January 10, 2026 at 8:06 PM
ICE is behaving exactly as was intended, doing the exact stuff Trump wanted, which is why it should never have been funded and the government should have stayed shut down.
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If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
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Under international law, this is unambiguously a war of aggression. There is no plausible pretext of self-defense. The objective is transparently to topple the government, install a surrogate of US liking, and to seize Venezuela's natural resource reserves. It exudes contempt for law in all forms.
Live Updates: U.S. Captures Venezuelan Leader, Trump Says
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Under international law, this is unambiguously a war of aggression. There is no plausible pretext of self-defense. The objective is transparently to topple the government, install a surrogate of US liking, and to seize Venezuela's natural resource reserves. It exudes contempt for law in all forms.
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Agreed. Share.
Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.
January 3, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Agreed. Share.
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I read a book on making money in ancient Athens recently (by Michael Leese, it's great), and the Greeks absolutely believed that the endless pursuit of wealth was a serious moral defect and personality issue no different than being a drunk or sexual deviant.
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I read a book on making money in ancient Athens recently (by Michael Leese, it's great), and the Greeks absolutely believed that the endless pursuit of wealth was a serious moral defect and personality issue no different than being a drunk or sexual deviant.
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Here's the 3-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly for the past 75 years of data, now at 1.51°C over pre-industrial.
Where is this going over the next 75 years? The Climate 8-ball is moving to its bunker in New Zealand.
Where is this going over the next 75 years? The Climate 8-ball is moving to its bunker in New Zealand.
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Here's the 3-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly for the past 75 years of data, now at 1.51°C over pre-industrial.
Where is this going over the next 75 years? The Climate 8-ball is moving to its bunker in New Zealand.
Where is this going over the next 75 years? The Climate 8-ball is moving to its bunker in New Zealand.
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it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
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The current Supreme Court has forfeited all legitimacy.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The current Supreme Court has forfeited all legitimacy.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.
John Roberts > Roger Taney.
Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
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A planetary system feedback from DAC that I had not yet considered: If we manage to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere at an industrial scale, it would cause the CO2 in ocean and land sinks to flow back towards equilibrium and into the atmosphere. Hard to make progress against that tide.
More reasons why OVERSHOOT of 1.5 is a terrible idea:
"[Carbon] removal would set off a process of outgassing, from oceans and forests and other spheres: sinks would somersault into sources...the more that is removed, the more will be outgassed...lending this project, too, a Sisyphean character."
"[Carbon] removal would set off a process of outgassing, from oceans and forests and other spheres: sinks would somersault into sources...the more that is removed, the more will be outgassed...lending this project, too, a Sisyphean character."
November 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A planetary system feedback from DAC that I had not yet considered: If we manage to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere at an industrial scale, it would cause the CO2 in ocean and land sinks to flow back towards equilibrium and into the atmosphere. Hard to make progress against that tide.
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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Democrats snuffed out all the hope the voters expressed last Tuesday in less than a week.
a picture of darth vader with the words most impressive written below him
ALT: a picture of darth vader with the words most impressive written below him
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Democrats snuffed out all the hope the voters expressed last Tuesday in less than a week.