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<\/a><\/p>\nCharlie Sykes: What if There Were No Cameras?<\/a><\/h2>\n\u201cOn January 23, 2016, Donald Trump notoriously declared, \u2018I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn\u2019t lose any voters.\u2019 That statement was understood at the time as a metaphorical expression of the depth of Republican voters\u2019 commitment to him. Ten years and one day later, his administration\u2019s agents shot a disarmed man on the street in full view of the public\u2026. What was once seen as a joke has attained the status of a prophecy.<\/em> \u2014 Jonathan Chait<\/a>
\n…<\/p>\nWhat if we did not have those videos? How many Americans would have believed this? Or given the Administration the benefit of the doubt?<\/em><\/p>\nThis raises another \u2014 and rather urgent \u2014 question.<\/p>\n
What else is happening that we are not seeing on camera?<\/em> What else is going on at the hands of an organization that thrives on cruelty porn and is willing to execute American citizens in broad daylight? What are they doing when no one is watching?
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Hans Christensen: EU Ready With Funding For Russia Tribunal<\/a><\/h2>\nRussia is reacting nervously to the messages from EU that preparations are under way for the tribunal of reckoning with the crime of aggression against Ukraine. Putin\u2019s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has declared on Russian state television that he will not speak to EU foreign representative Kaja Kallas, at all. She is steadily working for establishing the tribunal that is dedicated to holding Russian leadership accountable for the unprovoked and illegal military attack on Ukraine.
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TNR: Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Case for Tariffs in 3 Crazed Tirades<\/a><\/h2>\nAs Trump\u2019s threats sink deeper into absurdity, MS NOW\u2019s Steve Benen explains how Trump gave away the game on his tariffs\u2019 corrupt rationales\u2014and why it\u2019ll be a disaster for our country if he gets away with them.
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… During his Davos speech, Trump told a really odd story about how he decided last year to impose 30 percent tariffs on imports from Switzerland. At one point he spoke with Switzerland\u2019s Karin Keller-Sutter. She rubbed him the wrong way, and he hiked the tariffs to 39 percent.<\/p>\n
… we have a situation here in which the White House has said for about a year now that Donald Trump needs unilateral power. He needs to be able to impose arbitrary tariffs on U.S. trading partners\u2014without congressional approval\u2014in response to \u201cemergency\u201d conditions that necessitate this dramatic action.<\/p>\n
And so with that in mind, you would like to think that the White House has an actual emergency in mind, that this emergency exists. And yet here we are seeing Donald Trump repeatedly and publicly explaining that as far as he\u2019s concerned, there really isn\u2019t an emergency. There are just whims, his own personal preferences. He\u2019s giving away the game on purpose in public in ways that we can all recognize.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – January 26, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\nYesterday President Donald J. Trump blamed Democratic officials for the killing of VA intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minnesota Saturday morning. Since then, administration officials and their supporters seem to be coalescing around the idea that the reason there have been violent clashes in Minneapolis is not the violence of federal agents there, but that city officials aren\u2019t cooperating with federal officials.<\/p>\n
As Allison Gill of Mueller, She Wrote<\/em> notes, this language comes straight from the Insurrection Act, and indeed, MAGA leader and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon told the Wall Street Journal<\/em> yesterday that he thinks Trump should invoke that act. …<\/p>\nThis morning, Republican Chris Madel withdrew from the Minnesota governor\u2019s race, saying \u201cI cannot support the national Republicans\u2019 stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so\u2026. Operation Metro Surge has expanded far beyond its stated focus on true public safety threats.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnited States citizens, particularly those of color, live in fear. United States citizens are carrying papers to prove their citizenship. That\u2019s wrong,\u201d Madel said.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nAnne Applebaum: Minnesota Winter<\/a><\/h2>\nIn the past several weeks, masked federal agents dressed as military officers have killed two Americans who were peacefully protesting their violent attacks on immigrants and U.S. citizens. Both times their actions were recorded on video cameras. Both times, government spokesmen made false statements, directly contradicting the video evidence. Both times, the same spokesmen smeared the victims as \u201cdomestic terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is a tactic that I recognize: blaming the victims for their own deaths has long been standard practice in dictatorships. The administration\u2019s lack of interest in any kind of investigation is also notable: They are now openly seeking to appeal to a part of the electorate that welcomes and celebrates violence, and to frighten and intimidate everyone else. …<\/p>\n
… Immediately after the murder of Alex Pretti, the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, sent Minnesota Governor Tim Walz an extraordinary letter<\/a>. According to Democracy Docket:<\/p>\nBondi blamed state and local leaders for the unrest ignited by the Trump administration\u2019s expansive immigration enforcement operations. She claimed that Walz could \u201crestore the rule of law\u201d by complying with a list of demands, including giving the Department of Justice (DOJ) the state\u2019s voter registration records:<\/p>\n
\u201cAllow the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to access voter rolls to confirm that Minnesota\u2019s voter registration practices comply with federal law as authorized by the Civil Rights Act of 1960.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
(Anne Applebaum more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNoah Berlatsky: The regime’s mind-bending lies are a tactic<\/a><\/h2>\nThinking about them in terms of truth or falsity is a category error.
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The regime\u2019s mind-blowing dishonesty is ultimately a way to demean and mark those who resist. They function as fascist solidarity, signaling that partisans can and should do anything and everything to political enemies, no matter how violent, cruel, or unnecessary.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBari Weiss: Kristi Noem\u2019s Reckless Lies<\/a><\/h2>\nWSJ: Tim Walz: The Un-American Assault on Minnesota<\/a><\/h2>\nFederal officials are lying. My state\u2019s Corrections Department honors all immigration detainers.
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\nThe pretext for all this is the Trump administration\u2019s insistence that our immigration laws would otherwise go unenforced. This federal occupation of Minnesota is, administration officials insist, about our predilection for releasing \u201cviolent criminal illegal aliens\u201d from state custody.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t stress this enough: The Trump administration has its facts wrong about Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Conversation: Minnesota raises unprecedented constitutional issues in its lawsuit against Trump administration anti-immigrant deployment<\/a><\/h2>\nJennifer Rubin: How to Stop the Fascism<\/a><\/h2>\nJay Kuo: The Roy Cohn Playbook Is Failing<\/a><\/h2>\nJohn Pavlovitz: America, We Are All Minneapolis<\/a><\/h2>\nNY Times: Timeline: A Moment-by-Moment Look at the Shooting of Alex Pretti<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Liz Dye: The Perp Walk Is The Point<\/a><\/h2>\nLast week the Justice Department threw a giant hissy fit because it wasn\u2019t allowed to tweet out an image of Don Lemon in handcuffs. Prosecutors demanded that a federal appeals court sign an arrest warrant so they could perp walk a Black journalist and turn him into a meme. And they did it while working overtime to keep all trace of the DOJ\u2019s tantrum off the public docket.<\/p>\n
The incident began on January 18, when protesters disrupted worship at Cities Church in Saint Paul, where one of the pastors is a regional director for ICE. …
\n(Liz Dye more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Raw Story: ‘Changes need to be made’: Conservatives demand heads roll at DHS after Fox News report<\/a><\/h2>\n
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zeteo: 7 Times Conservatives Praised Gun-Toting Protesters<\/a><\/h2>\nThey’re attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here are some famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.<\/p>\n
Sarah Jones: Conservative 2nd Amendment Arguments in Tatters after Administration Blames Gun for Their Minneapolis Murder<\/a><\/h2>\nLawfare: It was never about 2A; it was always about who has the guns. After decades of screaming 2A was necessary for 1A, conservatives justify murdering an American citizen because he owned a gun.
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What if we did not have those videos? How many Americans would have believed this? Or given the Administration the benefit of the doubt?<\/em><\/p>\n This raises another \u2014 and rather urgent \u2014 question.<\/p>\n What else is happening that we are not seeing on camera?<\/em> What else is going on at the hands of an organization that thrives on cruelty porn and is willing to execute American citizens in broad daylight? What are they doing when no one is watching? Russia is reacting nervously to the messages from EU that preparations are under way for the tribunal of reckoning with the crime of aggression against Ukraine. Putin\u2019s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has declared on Russian state television that he will not speak to EU foreign representative Kaja Kallas, at all. She is steadily working for establishing the tribunal that is dedicated to holding Russian leadership accountable for the unprovoked and illegal military attack on Ukraine. As Trump\u2019s threats sink deeper into absurdity, MS NOW\u2019s Steve Benen explains how Trump gave away the game on his tariffs\u2019 corrupt rationales\u2014and why it\u2019ll be a disaster for our country if he gets away with them. … During his Davos speech, Trump told a really odd story about how he decided last year to impose 30 percent tariffs on imports from Switzerland. At one point he spoke with Switzerland\u2019s Karin Keller-Sutter. She rubbed him the wrong way, and he hiked the tariffs to 39 percent.<\/p>\n … we have a situation here in which the White House has said for about a year now that Donald Trump needs unilateral power. He needs to be able to impose arbitrary tariffs on U.S. trading partners\u2014without congressional approval\u2014in response to \u201cemergency\u201d conditions that necessitate this dramatic action.<\/p>\n And so with that in mind, you would like to think that the White House has an actual emergency in mind, that this emergency exists. And yet here we are seeing Donald Trump repeatedly and publicly explaining that as far as he\u2019s concerned, there really isn\u2019t an emergency. There are just whims, his own personal preferences. He\u2019s giving away the game on purpose in public in ways that we can all recognize. Yesterday President Donald J. Trump blamed Democratic officials for the killing of VA intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minnesota Saturday morning. Since then, administration officials and their supporters seem to be coalescing around the idea that the reason there have been violent clashes in Minneapolis is not the violence of federal agents there, but that city officials aren\u2019t cooperating with federal officials.<\/p>\n As Allison Gill of Mueller, She Wrote<\/em> notes, this language comes straight from the Insurrection Act, and indeed, MAGA leader and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon told the Wall Street Journal<\/em> yesterday that he thinks Trump should invoke that act. …<\/p>\n This morning, Republican Chris Madel withdrew from the Minnesota governor\u2019s race, saying \u201cI cannot support the national Republicans\u2019 stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so\u2026. Operation Metro Surge has expanded far beyond its stated focus on true public safety threats.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUnited States citizens, particularly those of color, live in fear. United States citizens are carrying papers to prove their citizenship. That\u2019s wrong,\u201d Madel said. In the past several weeks, masked federal agents dressed as military officers have killed two Americans who were peacefully protesting their violent attacks on immigrants and U.S. citizens. Both times their actions were recorded on video cameras. Both times, government spokesmen made false statements, directly contradicting the video evidence. Both times, the same spokesmen smeared the victims as \u201cdomestic terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n This is a tactic that I recognize: blaming the victims for their own deaths has long been standard practice in dictatorships. The administration\u2019s lack of interest in any kind of investigation is also notable: They are now openly seeking to appeal to a part of the electorate that welcomes and celebrates violence, and to frighten and intimidate everyone else. …<\/p>\n … Immediately after the murder of Alex Pretti, the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, sent Minnesota Governor Tim Walz an extraordinary letter<\/a>. According to Democracy Docket:<\/p>\n Bondi blamed state and local leaders for the unrest ignited by the Trump administration\u2019s expansive immigration enforcement operations. She claimed that Walz could \u201crestore the rule of law\u201d by complying with a list of demands, including giving the Department of Justice (DOJ) the state\u2019s voter registration records:<\/p>\n \u201cAllow the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to access voter rolls to confirm that Minnesota\u2019s voter registration practices comply with federal law as authorized by the Civil Rights Act of 1960.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (Anne Applebaum more…)<\/a><\/p>\n Thinking about them in terms of truth or falsity is a category error. The regime\u2019s mind-blowing dishonesty is ultimately a way to demean and mark those who resist. They function as fascist solidarity, signaling that partisans can and should do anything and everything to political enemies, no matter how violent, cruel, or unnecessary. Federal officials are lying. My state\u2019s Corrections Department honors all immigration detainers. I can\u2019t stress this enough: The Trump administration has its facts wrong about Minnesota.<\/p>\n Last week the Justice Department threw a giant hissy fit because it wasn\u2019t allowed to tweet out an image of Don Lemon in handcuffs. Prosecutors demanded that a federal appeals court sign an arrest warrant so they could perp walk a Black journalist and turn him into a meme. And they did it while working overtime to keep all trace of the DOJ\u2019s tantrum off the public docket.<\/p>\n The incident began on January 18, when protesters disrupted worship at Cities Church in Saint Paul, where one of the pastors is a regional director for ICE. … They’re attacking Alex Pretti for having a gun. But here are some famous moments when Trump and the right treated armed protesters like heroes.<\/p>\n Lawfare: It was never about 2A; it was always about who has the guns. After decades of screaming 2A was necessary for 1A, conservatives justify murdering an American citizen because he owned a gun.
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\n(Charlie Sykes more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\nHans Christensen: EU Ready With Funding For Russia Tribunal<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Hans Christensen more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Case for Tariffs in 3 Crazed Tirades<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – January 26, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nAnne Applebaum: Minnesota Winter<\/a><\/h2>\n
Noah Berlatsky: The regime’s mind-bending lies are a tactic<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBari Weiss: Kristi Noem\u2019s Reckless Lies<\/a><\/h2>\n
WSJ: Tim Walz: The Un-American Assault on Minnesota<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nThe pretext for all this is the Trump administration\u2019s insistence that our immigration laws would otherwise go unenforced. This federal occupation of Minnesota is, administration officials insist, about our predilection for releasing \u201cviolent criminal illegal aliens\u201d from state custody.<\/p>\nConversation: Minnesota raises unprecedented constitutional issues in its lawsuit against Trump administration anti-immigrant deployment<\/a><\/h2>\n
Jennifer Rubin: How to Stop the Fascism<\/a><\/h2>\n
Jay Kuo: The Roy Cohn Playbook Is Failing<\/a><\/h2>\n
John Pavlovitz: America, We Are All Minneapolis<\/a><\/h2>\n
NY Times: Timeline: A Moment-by-Moment Look at the Shooting of Alex Pretti<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nLiz Dye: The Perp Walk Is The Point<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Liz Dye more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nRaw Story: ‘Changes need to be made’: Conservatives demand heads roll at DHS after Fox News report<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nzeteo: 7 Times Conservatives Praised Gun-Toting Protesters<\/a><\/h2>\n
Sarah Jones: Conservative 2nd Amendment Arguments in Tatters after Administration Blames Gun for Their Minneapolis Murder<\/a><\/h2>\n
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