Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”
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Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
The Trump administration has announced the end of a massive immigration crackdown in Minnesota after two and a half protest-filled months, 4,000 arrests and two fatal shootings by immigration officers. https://to.pbs.org/4ty84tO
Rep. Stansbury: “The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States, and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.”
Last fall, Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security to help oversee election security.
(Published Aug. 2025)
DOJ Protects Trump From Epstein Accountability as MAGA Attacks "Sanctuary Cities"
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“The United States government under Trump has made a deliberate, calculated, and shameful decision to embolden and enable Nazi-glorifying elements within his party; to elevate and amplify Nazi messaging”
My latest for the Guardian, and I bring receipts:
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
TODAY, Friday January 23rd, 2026:
We are ALL residents of Minnesota.
We ALL want #ICE_OutForGOOD 🚫 🧊
Also: #ICE_OUT4ReneeGood 💔
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
Trump thinks he can bully an independent agency to serve him and his billionaire friends—regardless of the cost to consumers and our entire economy.
His corruption is a threat to all of us.
"The question of whether America will continue to hold free and fair elections is an increasingly serious one moving into the November 2026 midterms. Nobody should count on the Supreme Court to help the cause."
Jan. 16, 2025: A SpaceX Starship rocket explodes over the Caribbean.
Suddenly, dozens of planes in the area must scramble to get out of a newly designated FAA "debris zone."
Their passengers are now unwitting participants in a test run gone wrong. (THREAD)
Well this was totally predictable for those of us who understand science: WHO Analysis Finds No Causal Link Between Vaccines and Autism
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Actively boycotting
I want a government that doesn’t sound like a deeply damaged, bratty boy when it communicates with citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.
This is because Intuit, Inc. gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his "inauguration." Intuit owns Turbo Tax, which makes money off charging taxpayers to file their returns.
The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments during the government shutdown.
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly signaled he is open to invoking the Insurrection Act, a law from 1807 that allows the president to deploy the military in the United States. https://to.pbs.org/3JyaV3N
Check who is in control of Congress for each of these, with one exception:
While Elon Musk brandished the DOGE buzzsaw, insiders saw Russ Vought’s prints on DOGE’s actions.
“I can’t imagine that the DOGE team knew to target all these little parts of the government without Russ pointing them there,” a former official said.
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The discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed this week by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, which said the mosquitoes likely arrived by freight.
Republicans had always been much worse at managing the economy. trib.al/C5oLJfR
It was hardly coincidence that Herbert Hoover was president at the start of the Great Depression, Ronald Reagan at the start of the savings and loan crisis, and George W. Bush at the start of the 2008 financial crisis.
This isn’t the first instance of an insurrectionist pardoned by Trump going right back to committing alarming crimes—and it likely won’t be the last.
“Even if I am hated, he must be eliminated, I will kill him for the future,” the suspect allegedly wrote. trib.al/BpIceGj
