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You need to listen to this whole thing.
January 22, 2026 at 7:50 AM
You need to listen to this whole thing.
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After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
January 22, 2026 at 1:00 AM
After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
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When something needs to be said, @julieroginsky.bsky.social can be relied upon to say it. Here: on Scott Jennings & CNN. She speaks for many who have not spoken.
"I’m Probably About to Be Banned From CNN — But Someone Has to Say This About Scott Jennings"
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"I’m Probably About to Be Banned From CNN — But Someone Has to Say This About Scott Jennings"
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I’m Probably About to Be Banned From CNN — But Someone Has to Say This About Scott Jennings
There are times when you need to tell your friends that they are committing a grave mistake, even if they resent you for telling the truth.
saltypolitics.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:38 AM
When something needs to be said, @julieroginsky.bsky.social can be relied upon to say it. Here: on Scott Jennings & CNN. She speaks for many who have not spoken.
"I’m Probably About to Be Banned From CNN — But Someone Has to Say This About Scott Jennings"
saltypolitics.substack.com/p/im-probabl...
"I’m Probably About to Be Banned From CNN — But Someone Has to Say This About Scott Jennings"
saltypolitics.substack.com/p/im-probabl...
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The FCC says that daytime and late-night TV talk shows featuring interviews with political candidates must comply with “equal time” rules, which require them to provide airtime to opposing candidates' views.
Late-night and daytime talk shows must offer equal time for candidate interviews, FCC says
Democratic Commissioner Anna Gomez said the guidance contrasts with the FCC's long-standing view that such programs are entitled to editorial discretion based on newsworthiness, not political favoritism.
nbcnews.to
January 22, 2026 at 10:40 AM
The FCC says that daytime and late-night TV talk shows featuring interviews with political candidates must comply with “equal time” rules, which require them to provide airtime to opposing candidates' views.
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The autopsy done by the Good family strongly suggests that the second or third shot that ICE agent Ross fired killed her; those two shots are the LEAST defensible as self-defense as Good was driving away from Ross, and deadly force would be least justified. And yet Trump/Vance protect him....
I've been waiting for this.
Independent autopsy of Renee Good is in. It's strong evidence against Agent Ross, given what it means about the second or third shot through the left-side window.
It's the second and third shots that make the easiest criminal case of a willful killing.
Independent autopsy of Renee Good is in. It's strong evidence against Agent Ross, given what it means about the second or third shot through the left-side window.
It's the second and third shots that make the easiest criminal case of a willful killing.
Independent autopsy in ICE shooting death of Renee Good released by law firm in civil investigation
The results of an independent autopsy for Renee Good have been released as part of a law firm's civil investigation, two weeks after she was shot and killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis.
6abc.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:34 AM
The autopsy done by the Good family strongly suggests that the second or third shot that ICE agent Ross fired killed her; those two shots are the LEAST defensible as self-defense as Good was driving away from Ross, and deadly force would be least justified. And yet Trump/Vance protect him....
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US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties
Trump’s Board of Peace has now officially been recognized as an international organization, according to the White House.
January 22, 2026 at 11:48 AM
US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties
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Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
January 22, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
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AOC: The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming and everyone is pretending this is normal.
January 21, 2026 at 10:49 PM
AOC: The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming and everyone is pretending this is normal.
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Orin is probably the preeminent fourth amendment scholar in the United States. He is also extremely professional. This is the way he says "I wish a bitch would try"
This DHS memorandum says that the DHS General Counsel's office has adopted a new position that the Fourth Amendment allows entry into the home to make an arrest just based on an administrative warrant.
I would like to see that argument.
documentcloud.org/documents/26...
I would like to see that argument.
documentcloud.org/documents/26...
January 22, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Orin is probably the preeminent fourth amendment scholar in the United States. He is also extremely professional. This is the way he says "I wish a bitch would try"
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Is it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.
January 21, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Is it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.
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I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
![May 12, 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR: All ICE Personnel
FROM: Todd Lyons Acting Director
SUBJECT: Utilizing Form I-205, Warrant of Removal
On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to "ensur[e] the successful enforcement of final orders of removal." 90 Fed. Reg. 8443, 8444 (Jan. 20, 2025) (E.O. 14159). Essential to the removal of aliens subject to final orders of removal is the ability to locate and arrest them. To this end, certain supervisory immigration officers within both Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are authorized to issue an administrative warrant, Form I-205, Warrant of Removal (Form 1-205), for the arrest of an alien with a final order of removal. 8 C.F.R. § 241.2(a)(1). All U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and deportation officers are authorized to execute Forms 1-205. 8 C.F.R. § 287.5(e)(3)(iii) - (y)
Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose. Accordingly, in light of this legal determination, ICE immigration officers may arrest and detain aliens subject to a final under of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), or a U.S.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifrzrvaszfhj4bzhgtyvx3fm6ht4kc2zrwtvozijyxl3zxgp7vx6a@jpeg)
January 21, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
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Media just lying straight up to their audiences today. Stenographer ass bullshit not doing one bit of reporting. It's all dogshit, people. Subscribe to independent media.
Rutte says the status of Greenland was not discussed as part of the “framework” deal Trump announced
January 22, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Media just lying straight up to their audiences today. Stenographer ass bullshit not doing one bit of reporting. It's all dogshit, people. Subscribe to independent media.
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His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:27 PM
His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
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A Cuban detainee’s death at an El Paso federal immigration detention center was ruled a homicide Wednesday, with the medical examiner finding he was suffocated while restrained, contradicting immigration officials’ claim that he died by suicide.
El Paso medical examiner rules death in ICE camp a homicide
Immigration officials initially said the 55-year-old Cuban detainee died of “medical distress” but later changed the cause to suicide. The medical examiner ruled he was suffocated while being restrain...
www.texastribune.org
January 22, 2026 at 12:34 AM
A Cuban detainee’s death at an El Paso federal immigration detention center was ruled a homicide Wednesday, with the medical examiner finding he was suffocated while restrained, contradicting immigration officials’ claim that he died by suicide.
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Congress ordered CBP to create a biometric entry/exit system 25 years ago. The problem was that the tech wasn't there until recently, and the agency never pushed hard for it. In late 2020, CBP proposed a rule to implement it. That rule sat until 2025, when the Trump admin finalized it December 26.
It appears the jetway photos at Logan were part of CBP "biometric exit" program, which has been tested for years but was quietly approved for wider rollout in Sept. (Doesn't explain threats to passenger)
Some really creepy, damning details in NYT report from Sept: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/t...
Some really creepy, damning details in NYT report from Sept: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/t...
January 21, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Congress ordered CBP to create a biometric entry/exit system 25 years ago. The problem was that the tech wasn't there until recently, and the agency never pushed hard for it. In late 2020, CBP proposed a rule to implement it. That rule sat until 2025, when the Trump admin finalized it December 26.
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It is time for my colleagues across the aisle to show courage and take steps in powerfully rein him in.
January 21, 2026 at 7:30 PM
It is time for my colleagues across the aisle to show courage and take steps in powerfully rein him in.
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It was not a great idea to elect an anthropomorphized sundowning boomer's racist Facebook feed as president.
Trump: "Somalia -- they turned out to be higher IQ than we thought. I always say, 'These are low IQ people.' How did they go into Minnesota and steal all that money?"
January 21, 2026 at 4:50 PM
It was not a great idea to elect an anthropomorphized sundowning boomer's racist Facebook feed as president.
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These poll numbers are beyond catastrophic for Trump.
The whole world needs to have the courage now to unite and do what the GOP has been too cowardly to do: Remove him from office right now.
He's not a lame duck, he's a dead duck. And the sooner people understand that, the sooner we can move on.
The whole world needs to have the courage now to unite and do what the GOP has been too cowardly to do: Remove him from office right now.
He's not a lame duck, he's a dead duck. And the sooner people understand that, the sooner we can move on.
New poll showing most Americans think the U.S. is out of control under Trump. There’s a link to the actual data if you want to see the details. There’s a lot to read in here!
71 percent of Americans say US is "out of control" under Trump
The picture from the polling data was not positive for the president even among voter groups favorable to him.
www.newsweek.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:49 PM
These poll numbers are beyond catastrophic for Trump.
The whole world needs to have the courage now to unite and do what the GOP has been too cowardly to do: Remove him from office right now.
He's not a lame duck, he's a dead duck. And the sooner people understand that, the sooner we can move on.
The whole world needs to have the courage now to unite and do what the GOP has been too cowardly to do: Remove him from office right now.
He's not a lame duck, he's a dead duck. And the sooner people understand that, the sooner we can move on.
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Yup. Imagine Russia proposing to buy back Alaska. Not only would we not do it, we’d be outraged and refuse to even discuss it. It would be political suicide for any American official to treat the idea of selling our citizens to a foreign power as a serious option under consideration.
Precisely. Negotiations are impossible. To even talk about holding them would imply that Greenland's sovereignty is up for grabs and validate Trump's stance.
January 21, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Yup. Imagine Russia proposing to buy back Alaska. Not only would we not do it, we’d be outraged and refuse to even discuss it. It would be political suicide for any American official to treat the idea of selling our citizens to a foreign power as a serious option under consideration.
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No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
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COMER: Bondi has complied. She's turned over Epstein documents
ANSARI: 1% is not compliance
COMER: They're trying to get this
ANSARI: The subpoena from this committee was issued in July
COMER: Nobody on our side is defending Pam Bondi. They are turning documents over
ANSARI: 1% is not compliance
COMER: They're trying to get this
ANSARI: The subpoena from this committee was issued in July
COMER: Nobody on our side is defending Pam Bondi. They are turning documents over
January 21, 2026 at 5:03 PM
COMER: Bondi has complied. She's turned over Epstein documents
ANSARI: 1% is not compliance
COMER: They're trying to get this
ANSARI: The subpoena from this committee was issued in July
COMER: Nobody on our side is defending Pam Bondi. They are turning documents over
ANSARI: 1% is not compliance
COMER: They're trying to get this
ANSARI: The subpoena from this committee was issued in July
COMER: Nobody on our side is defending Pam Bondi. They are turning documents over
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His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
January 21, 2026 at 2:21 PM
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
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This
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
January 21, 2026 at 5:03 PM
This
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The last couple of weeks feel like a breaking point for our foreign allies, where they have just given up on the US
ECB President Christine Lagarde walked out of a dinner at the World Economic Forum during a speech critical of Europe by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and the hosts called off the event before dessert, sources familiar with the matter said reut.rs/4pTlI7M
Lagarde walks out of Lutnick speech in Davos critical of Europe, sources say
ECB President Christine Lagarde walked out of a dinner at the World Economic Forum during a speech critical of Europe by U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and the hosts called off the event befo...
reut.rs
January 21, 2026 at 5:07 PM
The last couple of weeks feel like a breaking point for our foreign allies, where they have just given up on the US
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I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
Newsom: "It was remarkably boring. It was remarkably insignificant. He was never going invade Greenland. It was never real."
January 21, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.