Just so everyone is clear: The Clinton's didn't refuse to testify. They refused to testify behind closed doors. They say they will gladly testify in open hearings, televised.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "What's happening in Minnesota right now defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos and disruption and trauma the federal government is raining down upon our communities. They're pulling over people indiscriminately,

Phillip: They control the house, the senate and the White House. And they have a supreme court that is in their favor. So why is it—explain to me, 12 months of Donald Trump, no legislation whatsoever on immigration?

These are the masked “little green men” Russia used to invade parts of Ukraine in 2014. Unmarked, anonymous, claiming authority. Who do they remind you of today?

“A majority, 58%, calls the first year of Trump’s term a failure.” cnn.com/2026/01/16/pol…

Do any Republicans in Congress care about Trump grabbing oil from Venezuela, handing it off to his megadonors to sell on the international market to whoever, depositing the proceeds in foreign bank accounts, then spending the money however he sees fit with no input from Congress?

A federal judge tore into senior Trump administration officials for what he described as sweeping violations of the Constitution as part of a “retribution” campaign against critics. trib.al/JD28mPq

This new millisecond-by-millisecond video analysis with newly cleaned up footage leaves zero doubt that the “crunch sound” on Ross’s video was his phone in his hand slapping the car hood as Good tried to leave. This debate is over. nytimes.com/video/us/10000…

ICE uses the tactic "command‑overload" - issuing rapid, confusing, and overlapping orders from multiple agents to escalate tension and then claim “non‑compliance” as justification for force. This tactic creates a no‑win scenario for the person stopped as there is no physical

Remember all that fuss and announcement about Tylenol and autism? Huge new study shows it was completed nonsense Predictably RFK Jr and MAHA are wasting everyone's time

Monsters. The leaders should be worried when they are out of power ICE deports 5-year-old US citizen from Texas to Honduras, group says mysanantonio.com/news/austin/ar…

.Bari Weiss reportedly “expressed a high level of interest” in pushing the ICE agent internal-injuries story, even as a CBS medical producer raised major skepticism, and it was viewed internally as a “thinly veiled, anonymous leak to someone who’d carry it.” Humiliating!

The world is basically watching the United States commit suicide because Trump is entirely driven by his own fragile ego and the GOP doesn’t have the courage to oppose him

Wearing a Nazi cosplay coat while complaining that people are calling you a Nazi, is certainly a choice.

🚨NEWS: Trump just quietly deployed his regulators to try to block states from reducing credit card interest rates, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. Trump's intervention comes at the same moment he is telling voters he supports capping credit card interest rates.

True fact: not all beer is vegan, but here are a couple dozen that definitely are. vegnews.com/guides/vegan-b…

Carole Cadwalladr, "The UK has a security alliance with the USA, that has been the bedrock of the international order, its been hugely important" "But trying to suck up to Trump, which involves sucking up to Silicon Valley... Totally disastrous deals with Silicon Valley

The president -Is occupying a major city with armed paramilitiaries -Is blackmailing treaty allies to hand over their sovereign territory -Is trying to set himself up as chairman for life of a UN rival with $1B fees for permanent membership -Is talking about canceling elections

There is nothing complicated or subtle or hard to understand about what is going on. Trump may not succeed. But he will only fail if patriots stand up and defend our democracy and the Constitution. We must act, as m. gessen writes, while we still can.