Jassa Skott
@jassaskott.bsky.social
MediaNews expat / seminary grad / political economy / non-theist ethics / still a jazz singer at heart. Find me on Substack and Threads. Website: whatwomenaresaying.com
The SAVE Act would no longer allow citizens to register to vote with a driver's license or state ID. It's unconstitutional and Thune knows it.
Thune is being an ass & trying to divert attention from & deflate anti-ICE momentum created by the Trump/Noem/Miller debacle in Minnesota. It won't work.
Thune is being an ass & trying to divert attention from & deflate anti-ICE momentum created by the Trump/Noem/Miller debacle in Minnesota. It won't work.
🚨BREAKING: Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he plans to bring the SAVE Act to the floor. Full story to come.
Background:
Background:
Trump, Musk, House Republicans push for super-charged SAVE Act
“Pass the SAVE Act,” trended on X Tuesday afternoon.
www.democracydocket.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:56 PM
The SAVE Act would no longer allow citizens to register to vote with a driver's license or state ID. It's unconstitutional and Thune knows it.
Thune is being an ass & trying to divert attention from & deflate anti-ICE momentum created by the Trump/Noem/Miller debacle in Minnesota. It won't work.
Thune is being an ass & trying to divert attention from & deflate anti-ICE momentum created by the Trump/Noem/Miller debacle in Minnesota. It won't work.
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Schumer calls for Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to be removed from their jobs.
January 28, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Schumer calls for Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to be removed from their jobs.
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I feel like the value-add of the reporter/columnist is now that they can offer a literate translation of what a pol is saying, versus putting up a video and having influencers hack it apart out of context
January 28, 2026 at 7:12 PM
I feel like the value-add of the reporter/columnist is now that they can offer a literate translation of what a pol is saying, versus putting up a video and having influencers hack it apart out of context
Never thought I would experience a single second of liking anything that came out of this guy's mouth. But I happily stand corrected.
January 28, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Never thought I would experience a single second of liking anything that came out of this guy's mouth. But I happily stand corrected.
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Dems should say they won't even come to the table for any discussion until ICE and the administration produces names. Want to show voters you care? Here's a real easy (and public) way to do that and it won't cost you a nickel or any political capital.
January 28, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Dems should say they won't even come to the table for any discussion until ICE and the administration produces names. Want to show voters you care? Here's a real easy (and public) way to do that and it won't cost you a nickel or any political capital.
Is she resigning? Few survive after throwing a president under the bus.
BREAKING: Kristi Noem is now implicating President Trump for comments she & Greg Bovino made calling Alex Pretti a “domestic terrorist.”
“Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen [Miller]”
BREAKING: Kristi Noem is now implicating President Trump for comments she & Greg Bovino made calling Alex Pretti a “domestic terrorist.”
“Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen [Miller]”
January 28, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Is she resigning? Few survive after throwing a president under the bus.
BREAKING: Kristi Noem is now implicating President Trump for comments she & Greg Bovino made calling Alex Pretti a “domestic terrorist.”
“Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen [Miller]”
BREAKING: Kristi Noem is now implicating President Trump for comments she & Greg Bovino made calling Alex Pretti a “domestic terrorist.”
“Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen [Miller]”
Refusing to be bullied by a corrupt president, the Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady today as policymakers meet to weigh the state of the labor market and inflation.
Powell's hard line on White House interest rate pressure is center stage at Fed meeting
The Fed and chairman Jerome Powell face a criminal investigation launched by the president's close ally, Jeanine Pirro.
www.nbcnews.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Refusing to be bullied by a corrupt president, the Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady today as policymakers meet to weigh the state of the labor market and inflation.
Join National Nurses United in a week-long series of actions to honor Alex Pretti and all who have been murdered by ICE. Demand that Congress abolish this violent, racist & lawless agency that poses a dire public health threat to all of our communities.
Week of action in honor of Alex Pretti, RN and all others killed by ice
Join National Nurses United RN members in a week-long series of actions to honor Pretti and all who have been murdered by ICE, as well as demand that Congress vote to immediately abolish this violent,...
www.nationalnursesunited.org
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Join National Nurses United in a week-long series of actions to honor Alex Pretti and all who have been murdered by ICE. Demand that Congress abolish this violent, racist & lawless agency that poses a dire public health threat to all of our communities.
FOR COLORADO: An Aurora vigil for Alex Pretti will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. today, Jan. 28.
It will be by the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center at 1700 Wheeling Street. Organizers say people will not gather on the VA property, but at the corner of Wheeling and East Colfax Avenue.
It will be by the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center at 1700 Wheeling Street. Organizers say people will not gather on the VA property, but at the corner of Wheeling and East Colfax Avenue.
Aurora Nurses Vigil for Alex Pretti: What to Know
Pretti, a registered ICU nurse who cared for veterans, will be honored as "one of our own" with an electric candlelight vigil near the Aurora VA facility.
www.westword.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:54 PM
FOR COLORADO: An Aurora vigil for Alex Pretti will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. today, Jan. 28.
It will be by the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center at 1700 Wheeling Street. Organizers say people will not gather on the VA property, but at the corner of Wheeling and East Colfax Avenue.
It will be by the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center at 1700 Wheeling Street. Organizers say people will not gather on the VA property, but at the corner of Wheeling and East Colfax Avenue.
Civil Rights Atty Ben Crump on CBS:
"What ICE is doing in Minneapolis is an assault on our Constitution in every way:
1st Amendment - Freedom of Speech & Assembly
2nd - Right to Bear Arms
4th - No Unlawful Search & Seizure
5th - Right to Due Process
6th - Right to Counsel"
"What ICE is doing in Minneapolis is an assault on our Constitution in every way:
1st Amendment - Freedom of Speech & Assembly
2nd - Right to Bear Arms
4th - No Unlawful Search & Seizure
5th - Right to Due Process
6th - Right to Counsel"
January 28, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Civil Rights Atty Ben Crump on CBS:
"What ICE is doing in Minneapolis is an assault on our Constitution in every way:
1st Amendment - Freedom of Speech & Assembly
2nd - Right to Bear Arms
4th - No Unlawful Search & Seizure
5th - Right to Due Process
6th - Right to Counsel"
"What ICE is doing in Minneapolis is an assault on our Constitution in every way:
1st Amendment - Freedom of Speech & Assembly
2nd - Right to Bear Arms
4th - No Unlawful Search & Seizure
5th - Right to Due Process
6th - Right to Counsel"
Rep. Thom Tillis said some of Kristi Noem's actions reflected "amateurish assistant-manager-sort of thought processes," calling them "unacceptable" for someone in a Cabinet-level position.
Two Republican senators call for Kristi Noem to resign as DHS secretary
Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis are the first GOP members of Congress to call for Noem to step down as secretary of homeland security.
www.nbcnews.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Rep. Thom Tillis said some of Kristi Noem's actions reflected "amateurish assistant-manager-sort of thought processes," calling them "unacceptable" for someone in a Cabinet-level position.
Very glad to see this. A group of locally elected prosecutors from across the US have announced the formation of a new national coalition aimed at holding federal law enforcement officers criminally accountable when they violate state laws.
Fight Against Federal Overreach
The Fight Against Federal Overreach (FAFO) is a national coalition of District Attorneys collaborating to ensure federal officials are held accountable when they exceed their lawful authority.
federaloverreach.org
January 28, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Very glad to see this. A group of locally elected prosecutors from across the US have announced the formation of a new national coalition aimed at holding federal law enforcement officers criminally accountable when they violate state laws.
Among the new contributors named to the CBS network by Bari Weiss today were Niall Ferguson, a Free Press columnist supportive of Trump, and Mark Hyman, a doctor and podcast host who has been allied with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
CBS News chief Bari Weiss tells staff 'we're toast' if they continue on current path
CBS News chief Bari Weiss told her staff that “we're toast” if the network continues with its current business strategy and invoked legendary newsman Walter Cronkite as a symbol of old thinking.
apnews.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Among the new contributors named to the CBS network by Bari Weiss today were Niall Ferguson, a Free Press columnist supportive of Trump, and Mark Hyman, a doctor and podcast host who has been allied with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
NYT: "A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a man who didn’t pose a threat."
Video: New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti
A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a man who didn’t pose a threat.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:21 PM
NYT: "A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a man who didn’t pose a threat."
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Swalwell: "The masks has to come off. These guys, the don't just wear these masks for their own anonymity. They wear it for moral cover. They hide their identities from us and their humanity from themselves. So their masks have to come off. Period."
January 26, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Swalwell: "The masks has to come off. These guys, the don't just wear these masks for their own anonymity. They wear it for moral cover. They hide their identities from us and their humanity from themselves. So their masks have to come off. Period."
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his stance clear on vaccines in a podcast last week—and that stance was so alarming that the American Medical Association was compelled to respond with a scathing statement.
Doctors face-palm as RFK Jr.’s top vaccine advisor questions need for polio shot
Kirk Milhoan's comments come as federal vaccine policy slides to insignificance.
arstechnica.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his stance clear on vaccines in a podcast last week—and that stance was so alarming that the American Medical Association was compelled to respond with a scathing statement.
Great article.
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave."
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave."
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Great article.
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave."
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave."
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Is that awful? Of course.
But you can choose in this moment just to be angry at those people for getting here late, or you can choose -- as the civil rights activists behind Freedom Summer did -- to exploit that problem by embracing anyone who gets on board.
But you can choose in this moment just to be angry at those people for getting here late, or you can choose -- as the civil rights activists behind Freedom Summer did -- to exploit that problem by embracing anyone who gets on board.
January 26, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Is that awful? Of course.
But you can choose in this moment just to be angry at those people for getting here late, or you can choose -- as the civil rights activists behind Freedom Summer did -- to exploit that problem by embracing anyone who gets on board.
But you can choose in this moment just to be angry at those people for getting here late, or you can choose -- as the civil rights activists behind Freedom Summer did -- to exploit that problem by embracing anyone who gets on board.
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For the same reason it took the murders of two white people for a significant portion of white America to suddenly care about Jim Crow violence. Many people don't care about a problem until they see it might impact them.
January 26, 2026 at 10:31 PM
For the same reason it took the murders of two white people for a significant portion of white America to suddenly care about Jim Crow violence. Many people don't care about a problem until they see it might impact them.
This list includes several of the largest corporations in the country.
This is a major development. Minnesota’s Chamber of Commerce has released an open letter signed by more than 60 businesses and CEOs warning the actions of federal immigration agents has sown "widespread disruption" in the state and led to the "tragic loss of life."
Major US companies speak out against Alex Pretti shooting: Full list
More than 60 firms call for the "immediate de-escalation" of DHS operations in Minnesota after this month's second fatal shooting.
www.newsweek.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:35 PM
This list includes several of the largest corporations in the country.
This is a major development. Minnesota’s Chamber of Commerce has released an open letter signed by more than 60 businesses and CEOs warning the actions of federal immigration agents has sown "widespread disruption" in the state and led to the "tragic loss of life."
Major US companies speak out against Alex Pretti shooting: Full list
More than 60 firms call for the "immediate de-escalation" of DHS operations in Minnesota after this month's second fatal shooting.
www.newsweek.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:33 PM
This is a major development. Minnesota’s Chamber of Commerce has released an open letter signed by more than 60 businesses and CEOs warning the actions of federal immigration agents has sown "widespread disruption" in the state and led to the "tragic loss of life."
In the ad, Kanye West wrote that the scariest part of his mental illness was that it had persuaded him that he was not sick. “It makes you blind, but convinced you have insight,” he wrote, adding, “I lost touch with reality.”
Only time will tell.
Only time will tell.
Ye Apologizes for Antisemitic Behavior, Again
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:14 PM
In the ad, Kanye West wrote that the scariest part of his mental illness was that it had persuaded him that he was not sick. “It makes you blind, but convinced you have insight,” he wrote, adding, “I lost touch with reality.”
Only time will tell.
Only time will tell.