@dawndone.bsky.social
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This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!”
But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling.
If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling.
If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:09 PM
This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!”
But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling.
If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling.
If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
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A new analysis finds the 15 richest U.S. billionaires gained nearly $1 trillion in Trump’s first year back in office, as the country’s 935 billionaires amassed $8.1 trillion in wealth and about a dozen took jobs in his administration.
Top 15 US Billionaires Gained Nearly $1 Trillion in Wealth in Trump’s First Year
The US has 935 billionaires, roughly a dozen of whom have jobs within the Trump administration.
buff.ly
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
A new analysis finds the 15 richest U.S. billionaires gained nearly $1 trillion in Trump’s first year back in office, as the country’s 935 billionaires amassed $8.1 trillion in wealth and about a dozen took jobs in his administration.
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It’s been a horrific week. I think I’m gonna relax by watching The Pitt.
January 10, 2026 at 5:14 AM
It’s been a horrific week. I think I’m gonna relax by watching The Pitt.
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What is the point of appropriations if the White House can just cut off spending against its enemies?
The USDA just cut off ag aid to MN
They’re targeting and invading Minnesota. Cutting off all of our federal funding and flooding our state with federal agents with no purpose. They’re here to terrorize, cause chaos to justify their unlawful cruelty. Enough.
January 10, 2026 at 4:11 AM
What is the point of appropriations if the White House can just cut off spending against its enemies?
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Please understand what it means when journalists are evacuating their family members out of town.
In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory
In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory
We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
January 10, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Please understand what it means when journalists are evacuating their family members out of town.
In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory
In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory
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It is difficult to explain how dire this situation is. There are 2,200 ICE agents in Minneapolis right now. They are heavily armed and are operating with no rules. The MPD only has 550 officers. StP even fewer. How can they protect us against an invading army? Because that's what this is.
Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Federal officers are leaving Louisiana immigration crackdown for Minneapolis, documents show
Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that federal border agents are pulling out of a Louisiana immigration crackdown and heading to Minneapolis.
www.mprnews.org
January 10, 2026 at 2:18 AM
It is difficult to explain how dire this situation is. There are 2,200 ICE agents in Minneapolis right now. They are heavily armed and are operating with no rules. The MPD only has 550 officers. StP even fewer. How can they protect us against an invading army? Because that's what this is.
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"2025’s payroll employment gain of 584,000 marks the worst year outside of a recession since 2003. The payroll gain in 2024 was nearly quadruple that, totaling two million..."
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon-k...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon-k...
Trump Goon Delivers Bonkers Excuse for Grim Jobs Report
Kevin Hassett gave an out-of-the-box explanation for a dismal economic marker.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:39 PM
"2025’s payroll employment gain of 584,000 marks the worst year outside of a recession since 2003. The payroll gain in 2024 was nearly quadruple that, totaling two million..."
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon-k...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon-k...
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This, combined with him *moving to the front of the car* and then reaching for, if not actually unholstering, his weapon before Good even begins moving forward deminstrates that the intention to shoot was not reactive to a threat posed by the vehicle
Hand switch at the 29sec mark thus freeing up his right weapon side hand:
January 9, 2026 at 8:13 PM
This, combined with him *moving to the front of the car* and then reaching for, if not actually unholstering, his weapon before Good even begins moving forward deminstrates that the intention to shoot was not reactive to a threat posed by the vehicle
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Remember this is the same dude who thought the stealth fighter was literally invisible, said people should ingest bleach, wanted to nuke a hurricane, and thought Seoul's population was 38 million because he misinterpreted "Altitude: 38m" on Wikipedia.
Why is Trump fixated on Greenland? @sbg1.bsky.social recalls what he told us in 2021: "I said, 'Why don’t we have that?' You take a look at a map...I love maps. And I always said 'Look at the size of this, it’s massive and that should be part of the United States.'" www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Why Donald Trump Wants Greenland (and Everything Else)
There’s no Trump Doctrine, just a map of the world that the President wants to write his name on in big gold letters.
www.newyorker.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Remember this is the same dude who thought the stealth fighter was literally invisible, said people should ingest bleach, wanted to nuke a hurricane, and thought Seoul's population was 38 million because he misinterpreted "Altitude: 38m" on Wikipedia.
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Our entire politics now is about our sundowning, failing, unpopular leader, whose powers are clearly ebbing, maniacally trying to find ways to restore his STRENGTH, POWER, and MANLINESS.
Like seizing Greenland; taking VZ’s oil; killing men in boats; terrorizing US cities; bombing other countries.
Like seizing Greenland; taking VZ’s oil; killing men in boats; terrorizing US cities; bombing other countries.
Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT:
When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Our entire politics now is about our sundowning, failing, unpopular leader, whose powers are clearly ebbing, maniacally trying to find ways to restore his STRENGTH, POWER, and MANLINESS.
Like seizing Greenland; taking VZ’s oil; killing men in boats; terrorizing US cities; bombing other countries.
Like seizing Greenland; taking VZ’s oil; killing men in boats; terrorizing US cities; bombing other countries.
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"You give an outlet that spent.... the Biden Administration bitching that they didn’t get any sitdown interviews with the President two hours to watch the President ramble incoherently, and in return... you describe the most dangerous kind of malignant Narcissism as the opposite of what it is."
Annals of Sanewashing: NYT Labels Trump's Confession of Psychological Unfitness as Leadership
h/t @parkermolloy.com
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/09/a...
h/t @parkermolloy.com
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/09/a...
Annals of Sanewashing: NYT Labels Trump's Confession of Psychological Unfitness as Leadership - emptywheel
The NYT committed literal sanewashing in the latest of its series of stories bragging that four journalists got to watch Trump ramble for two hours: It described Trump's pathological need to possess t...
www.emptywheel.net
January 9, 2026 at 10:50 AM
"You give an outlet that spent.... the Biden Administration bitching that they didn’t get any sitdown interviews with the President two hours to watch the President ramble incoherently, and in return... you describe the most dangerous kind of malignant Narcissism as the opposite of what it is."
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Very “good people on both sides” in Charlotte
January 9, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Very “good people on both sides” in Charlotte
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That’s a lot of words to say a whole lot of nothing
January 9, 2026 at 11:07 AM
That’s a lot of words to say a whole lot of nothing
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Boy that sounds good and wholesome until you understand that one side believes all people deserve to live in peace and with dignity and quality of life, and the other thinks white men should be able to fu€k anyone and anything they want with impunity, for all values of fu€k. We are not the same.
January 9, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Boy that sounds good and wholesome until you understand that one side believes all people deserve to live in peace and with dignity and quality of life, and the other thinks white men should be able to fu€k anyone and anything they want with impunity, for all values of fu€k. We are not the same.
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So an oligarch buys a storied American news source, replaces its leaders and public faces with people willing to undermine its integrity, journalists with integrity quit in protest leaving only the people without integrity, customers abandon ship leaving only gullible people listening and … profit?
January 9, 2026 at 11:18 AM
So an oligarch buys a storied American news source, replaces its leaders and public faces with people willing to undermine its integrity, journalists with integrity quit in protest leaving only the people without integrity, customers abandon ship leaving only gullible people listening and … profit?
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Page One across the pond. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
White House unleashes torrent of untruths after woman shot dead by ICE
Victim-blaming began almost as soon as Renee Nicole Good was killed – we examine the claims and the reality
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Page One across the pond. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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More information on the CBP shooting in Portland:
CBP agents shot and wounded a married couple this afternoon in a medical clinic parking lot in Portland, the Oregonian reports: "One was shot in the leg and the other in the chest, Portland police sources said." Police didn't have info on their conditions. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...
2 shot by federal immigration agents in Portland
Mayor Keith Wilson decried the shooting, saying "Portland is not a 'training ground' for militarized agents."
www.oregonlive.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:48 AM
More information on the CBP shooting in Portland:
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7 Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election:
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Shaheen
Welch
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Shaheen
Welch
January 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
7 Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election:
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Shaheen
Welch
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Shaheen
Welch
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NEW: An ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good. Judge Sara Ellis all but told us today would happen.
"[A]gents have used excessive force … without justification, often without warning, and even at those who had begun to comply with agents’ orders," Ellis wrote on Nov. 20.
Tonight, at Law Dork.
"[A]gents have used excessive force … without justification, often without warning, and even at those who had begun to comply with agents’ orders," Ellis wrote on Nov. 20.
Tonight, at Law Dork.
An ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good. Judge Sara Ellis all but told us today would happen.
"[A]gents have used excessive force … without justification, often without warning, and even at those who had begun to comply with agents’ orders," Ellis wrote on Nov. 20.
www.lawdork.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:59 AM
NEW: An ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good. Judge Sara Ellis all but told us today would happen.
"[A]gents have used excessive force … without justification, often without warning, and even at those who had begun to comply with agents’ orders," Ellis wrote on Nov. 20.
Tonight, at Law Dork.
"[A]gents have used excessive force … without justification, often without warning, and even at those who had begun to comply with agents’ orders," Ellis wrote on Nov. 20.
Tonight, at Law Dork.
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They think they can murder anyone.
Don’t forget, Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose any votes.
They shot a scared mom in the face three times.
And they’re lying about her, calling her a domestic terrorist.
They think they can literally do anything.
Anything.
Don’t forget, Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose any votes.
They shot a scared mom in the face three times.
And they’re lying about her, calling her a domestic terrorist.
They think they can literally do anything.
Anything.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
January 8, 2026 at 2:06 AM
They think they can murder anyone.
Don’t forget, Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose any votes.
They shot a scared mom in the face three times.
And they’re lying about her, calling her a domestic terrorist.
They think they can literally do anything.
Anything.
Don’t forget, Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose any votes.
They shot a scared mom in the face three times.
And they’re lying about her, calling her a domestic terrorist.
They think they can literally do anything.
Anything.
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WITNESS: "I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further. That’s absolutely not what it was… ICE agents didn’t let anyone help her for 15 minutes, then medics couldn’t get through with their ambulance.”
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 AM
WITNESS: "I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further. That’s absolutely not what it was… ICE agents didn’t let anyone help her for 15 minutes, then medics couldn’t get through with their ambulance.”