Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) tells reporters the Epstein files contain allegations that President Trump raped and threatened to kill children.
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Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
if not gestapo why gestapo shaped, etc.
“We need to get better at treating this like a business…like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.” — ICE director Todd Lyons, April 2025
I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.
Believe all these guys when they act like they’re in a war against America. They think they are.
Kash Patel refers to FBI agents who raided the Fulton County elections office as "my troops on the ground"
NEW: Children are developing encephalitis as the South Carolina measles outbreak continues.
@emilymullin.bsky.social has more:
Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South Carolina
In the ongoing measles outbreak in South Carolina that has infected more than 800 people, some children have developed a rare but serious complication called encephalitis.
"We know enough." Watch this.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Met Sam as an intern at Esquire roughly a decade ago. He was so talented beyond his years then and that's even more true now. Any outlet would be lucky to have Sam and all the other Post journos on the market today
I am part of the mass layoffs at the Washington Post.
I am sad and angry. We all want to keep doing the work.
But for now I want to document a reality of being in journalism today.
Why the hell were so many people so comfortable talking about pedo parties with their Gmail accounts?
THOU SHALT NOT PROTECT PEDOS!!! WHY THE FUCK IS THIS SENDER’S NAME REDACTED?!?
Find the answer by using the
@kenwhite.bsky.social principle. Works with most things but it was literally made for this moment.
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials."
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Judge orders release of suspects in alleged shovel attack on agent
Department of Homeland Security says agent fired in self-defense after being attacked with a snow shovel and broom.
This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Possibly the biggest burn in this year, and this says a lot when reflecting the last 4 weeks. The French MFA absolutely torched Elon Musk.
Three rules in FBI firearm training:
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
if you needed the receipts, here's email proof via
@nbcnews.com that Trump's raids are indeed indiscriminate.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Bovino frustrated by directive to conduct ‘targeted operations’ in Chicago
The former commander-at-large of Border Patrol, Gregory Bovino, clashed with other administration officials over immigration enforcement tactics months before fatal shootings in Minneapolis.
CNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: “the Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."
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The person who baselessly accused Obama of treason, supported various strongmen (such as Assad) against rebel movements, and praised Putin's invasion of Ukraine is now facing a serious whistleblower complaint. You absolutely love to see it.
I have spoken with several senior FBI counterintelligence officers who believe that there is a reasonably strong prospect that Tulsi Gabbard is a foreign intelligence asset.
He’s destroying everything—acting like these buildings are his.
Also the real reason he’s closing it is because literally no one will perform there anymore after he slapped his name on it and this way he gets to claim “under construction” instead of the actual reality which is everyone loathes him.
Trump Says Kennedy Center Will Close for Two Years for Renovations
The president wrote that the performing-arts center will be shut on July 4 for ‘Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding.’
Just think about the amazing Epstein scoops the new CBS Evening News contributors will have just by interviewing each other.
This is happening a lot to female journalists. So here is a modest proposal for the White House press corps: Stand together. No one should ask another question until the President answers the question that was ignored.
We need to get tactical. If OpenAI’s revenue falls by 2%, it will make a difference.
The best way to ignite positive change is to carry out an economic strike the tech CEOs can’t ignore.
Republicans redistricted to win five new seats in Texas. All five are projected to be between R+4 and R+8. To achieve this, they diluted their advantage in other districts.
A 15-point swing in November wipes out Republican control of the state. A 30-point swing erases Republicans in Texas entirely.
Thirty point swing to Democrats deep in the heart of Texas.
The right way to get into the Epstein files.
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
NEW: Trump’s approval among Catholics falls to a historic low.
A rising movement of Catholics, emboldened by Pope Leo, is turning against MAGA.
With over 20,000 members, we are the fastest-growing Catholic group in America.
To the MAGA purveyors of cruelty and lies — we will defeat you.
Under Pope Leo XIV, American Catholics Are Uniting to Defeat MAGA Authoritarianism
Trump’s support among U.S. Catholics has plummeted to an all-time low of 39%, a stark decline over the year. This is no accident. Under Leo XIV, we're working to defeat Trump-Vance authoritarianism.
The president of the United States had his DOJ raid the Fulton County election office and seized ballots. This is clearly a dry run for 2026. Yet, this is treated by too many in legacy media as normal.
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hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0Popping out of the vehicle guns drawn and pointing them at a legal observer exercising her constitutional rights.
Everything about this is reckless, dangerous, the opposite of law & order and keeping anyone safe… how do people see this and not see masked secret police style terror on US streets
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.
(clip via MPR and
@davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend
“It would cover essentially anyone they want to arrest without a warrant, making the general premise of ever getting a warrant pointless,” she added.
Scoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
This is from Georgia Fort’s video.
DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”
Let's speak plainly.
In a legitimate criminal cases, political appointees don't have to first hollow out U.S. Attorney offices of objecting career prosecutors with integrity; federal judges don't kill the cases at the cradle, and the government doesn't fight tooth and nail to revive them.
If you answer “No” you get an invitation to Mar-a-Lago
Dept. of Justice over here like pornhub
Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Friday permanently blocked key portions of the sweeping anti-voting executive order that President Donald Trump signed last year.
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In major rebuke, federal judge blocks key parts of Trump’s anti-voting order
“Our Constitution does not allow the President to impose unilateral changes to federal election procedures,” the judge wrote.
Breaking on MS NOW:
Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests.
The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per
@carolleonnig.bsky.social.
🚨BREAKING: In a case that could have profound nationwide consequences for elections, the state of Missouri has sued to block the federal government from including undocumented immigrants and temporary visa holders in the country’s once-a-decade census count.
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New GOP scheme to rig presidential elections: Missouri sues to exclude undocumented from census
“Foreign trespassers should not control the direction of this nation,” Hanaway said in a social media post announcing the lawsuit.
Since the occupant of the White House is attacking Alex Pretti again and calling him an insurrectionist, just a few pictures of real insurrectionists that he pardoned.
Simply put, his deranged posts won't erase his culpability in Pretti's murder and won't erase the EPSTEIN files.
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
Trump and MAGA are trying to justify the execution of Alex Pretti with a video showing him kicking out a gov’t car’s tail light a week earlier. By their standard, the Jan 6 insurrectionists who vandalized the Capitol (but committed no other crimes) deserved to be summarily executed. Their logic.
This feels like the very least Democrats should be rallying around?
If you ban masks, there's a good chance you cripple ICE, in terms of personnel. A lot of these guys won't be willing do the job while showing their face.
To my colleagues in the Senate: Hold the line.
Every law enforcement agency in America knows how to manage the car after an arrest at a traffic stop. The Trump DHS leaves them open on the road like that to terrorize the rest of us. A nationwide policy.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
cover of The Economist this week
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All right this is just ghoulish
www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/u...
A Texas man detained by ICE was his disabled son’s sole caregiver. His son will be laid to rest without him | CNN
Wael Tarabishi’s family had hoped his father and primary caretaker could be present as they say their final goodbyes to the 30-year-old at his funeral on Thursday.
