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The Department of Homeland Security is one of those changes of government, a reaction to 9/11 interwoven with the militarization of American society caused by the Iraq War, that got us to this bad point. We should undo it, @joshtpm.bsky.social writes.
Abolish ICE? DHS Too. It’s Time
If you’ve been watching reportage and viral videos of immigration raids over...
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January 9, 2026 at 9:40 PM
The Department of Homeland Security is one of those changes of government, a reaction to 9/11 interwoven with the militarization of American society caused by the Iraq War, that got us to this bad point. We should undo it, @joshtpm.bsky.social writes.
Over the past two days, protesters urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol to leave their cities took to the streets from Minneapolis and Chicago to Houston, Texas; Portland, Oregon; New York; Oakland and San Diego, California.
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Photos: Anti-ICE Protests Erupt Nationwide After Minneapolis and Portland Shootings
National outrage continues to escalate over the Trump administration’s violent immigration crackdown....
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January 9, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Over the past two days, protesters urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol to leave their cities took to the streets from Minneapolis and Chicago to Houston, Texas; Portland, Oregon; New York; Oakland and San Diego, California.
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Shared decision-making sounds straightforward. But when applied to routine childhood vaccines, the concept shifts the burden of deliberation onto already-stretched clinicians and parents.
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‘Shared Decision-Making’ for Childhood Vaccines Sounds Empowering. But More ‘Choice’ Can Mean Less Access.
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January 9, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Shared decision-making sounds straightforward. But when applied to routine childhood vaccines, the concept shifts the burden of deliberation onto already-stretched clinicians and parents.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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As far back as early last year, the Trump administration was game-planning for how to respond to state prosecutions of federal agents engaged in its mass deportation operation.
The upshot of the planning, which reportedly included Stephen Miller, was:
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The upshot of the planning, which reportedly included Stephen Miller, was:
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The Cover-up of the Fatal ICE Shooting Is Already Underway
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January 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
As far back as early last year, the Trump administration was game-planning for how to respond to state prosecutions of federal agents engaged in its mass deportation operation.
The upshot of the planning, which reportedly included Stephen Miller, was:
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The upshot of the planning, which reportedly included Stephen Miller, was:
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While it may seem from the outside that state investigators could proceed on their own, legal experts say being shut out of the federal investigation creates nearly insurmountable obstacles to winning a conviction on state charges:
The Cover-up of the Fatal ICE Shooting Is Already Underway
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January 9, 2026 at 4:32 PM
While it may seem from the outside that state investigators could proceed on their own, legal experts say being shut out of the federal investigation creates nearly insurmountable obstacles to winning a conviction on state charges:
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January 9, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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January 8, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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The message is pretty simple. U.S. cities are a war zone, and any false move can mean your death.
"Top Trump officials are saying emphatically that this is exactly how it should be and I don't think that will stand," @joshtpm.bsky.social writes.
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"Top Trump officials are saying emphatically that this is exactly how it should be and I don't think that will stand," @joshtpm.bsky.social writes.
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A Turning Point for Trump’s Marauding Secret Police
People who don’t like Donald Trump are kinda gun-shy talking about turning...
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January 9, 2026 at 1:20 AM
The message is pretty simple. U.S. cities are a war zone, and any false move can mean your death.
"Top Trump officials are saying emphatically that this is exactly how it should be and I don't think that will stand," @joshtpm.bsky.social writes.
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"Top Trump officials are saying emphatically that this is exactly how it should be and I don't think that will stand," @joshtpm.bsky.social writes.
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A Turning Point for Trump’s Marauding Secret Police
People who don’t like Donald Trump are kinda gunshy talking about turning...
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January 9, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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"The fatal shooting of Good shows that the people who have been resisting Trump’s mass deportation push are risking their lives. However, waves of protests in the aftermath of her death show the threat is not stopping anyone from showing up."
More from @hunterw.bsky.social in tonight's WTS:
More from @hunterw.bsky.social in tonight's WTS:
Defiant Protesters Face Noem After ICE Shooting: ‘We Have To Be Here’
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January 8, 2026 at 11:11 PM
"The fatal shooting of Good shows that the people who have been resisting Trump’s mass deportation push are risking their lives. However, waves of protests in the aftermath of her death show the threat is not stopping anyone from showing up."
More from @hunterw.bsky.social in tonight's WTS:
More from @hunterw.bsky.social in tonight's WTS:
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From a 2015 fraud allegations focused on Minnesota day care centers overbilling state welfare agencies to an ICE agent killing a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, @laylaayanna.bsky.social provides a definitive unpacking of how we got here:
How the Right-Wing Outrage Machine Prompted the Conflagration in Minnesota
More than 2,000 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are on the...
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January 8, 2026 at 10:56 PM
From a 2015 fraud allegations focused on Minnesota day care centers overbilling state welfare agencies to an ICE agent killing a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, @laylaayanna.bsky.social provides a definitive unpacking of how we got here:
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@laylaayanna.bsky.social: "As has become common in the Trump era, a serious situation was dispersed throughout the unserious realm of right-wing media and content creation, catching the attention of the president and yielding very real consequences."
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How the Right-Wing Outrage Machine Prompted the Conflagration in Minnesota
More than 2,000 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are on the...
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January 8, 2026 at 9:42 PM
@laylaayanna.bsky.social: "As has become common in the Trump era, a serious situation was dispersed throughout the unserious realm of right-wing media and content creation, catching the attention of the president and yielding very real consequences."
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What's unfolding in Minnesota started as legitimate local and federal fraud investigations and has devolved into violent ICE operations, the pausing of federal funds to blue states, and the end of Walz’s gubernatorial tenure.
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How the Right-Wing Outrage Machine Prompted the Conflagration in Minnesota
More than 2,000 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are on the...
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January 8, 2026 at 9:02 PM
What's unfolding in Minnesota started as legitimate local and federal fraud investigations and has devolved into violent ICE operations, the pausing of federal funds to blue states, and the end of Walz’s gubernatorial tenure.
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X users are asking the platform's AI chatbot, Grok, to create sexualized images before new legal protections take effect.
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Will Musk’s Grok Be Held Accountable for Flood of Sexualized, Fake Images of Women and Children?
This story was originally reported by Mariel Padilla of The 19th. Meet...
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January 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM
X users are asking the platform's AI chatbot, Grok, to create sexualized images before new legal protections take effect.
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A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, @kateriga.bsky.social and @joshtpm.bsky.social discuss Venezuela and Tim Walz dropping his reelection bid. Head to TPM to listen now!
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January 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, @kateriga.bsky.social and @joshtpm.bsky.social discuss Venezuela and Tim Walz dropping his reelection bid. Head to TPM to listen now!
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The ICE shooting in Minneapolis highlights the dire situation of the Justice Department – including the FBI – being run out of the Trump White House. Nothing is stopping Trump from kneecapping the FBI investigation or ordering any putative prosecution ended:
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The Trump-Run DOJ Is Going to Investigate the ICE Shooting, Huh?
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January 8, 2026 at 4:42 PM
The ICE shooting in Minneapolis highlights the dire situation of the Justice Department – including the FBI – being run out of the Trump White House. Nothing is stopping Trump from kneecapping the FBI investigation or ordering any putative prosecution ended:
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Trump sent 2,000 ICE agents to Minnesota this week as part of his ongoing immigration enforcement assault across America.
Minnesota Officials Remind Residents Trump Admin’s Aim Is to Provoke
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January 7, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Trump sent 2,000 ICE agents to Minnesota this week as part of his ongoing immigration enforcement assault across America.
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It’s a sentiment that Democratic elected officials in blue states and cities around the country have had to embody for months to fend off the kind of federal occupation that Trump appears to be pursuing.
Minnesota Officials Remind Residents Trump Admin’s Aim Is to Provoke
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January 7, 2026 at 11:32 PM
It’s a sentiment that Democratic elected officials in blue states and cities around the country have had to embody for months to fend off the kind of federal occupation that Trump appears to be pursuing.
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Many of the targets of his first year of immigration operations have been blue cities — places whose elected Democratic leadership he wants to punish and where he can send in federal officers and the National Guard to inflame tensions as residents inevitably protest the ICE arrests.
Minnesota Officials Remind Residents Trump Admin’s Aim Is to Provoke
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January 7, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Many of the targets of his first year of immigration operations have been blue cities — places whose elected Democratic leadership he wants to punish and where he can send in federal officers and the National Guard to inflame tensions as residents inevitably protest the ICE arrests.
Minneapolis mayor called killing "reckless" and said he believes it could not have been self-defense.
Trump Officials Cry ‘Domestic Terrorism’ After Videos Show ICE Agent Killing Woman
After a masked federal ICE agent shot and killed a Minneapolis woman...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Minneapolis mayor called killing "reckless" and said he believes it could not have been self-defense.
@joshtpm.bsky.social: Trump is the same guy in business as in domestic policy as in foreign policy. In all of these spheres, he "operates by surprise, uncertainty and exertions of raw force."
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Trump’s ‘High-Fear’ World
Not long after I first moved to Washington, D.C. more than 25...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:23 PM
@joshtpm.bsky.social: Trump is the same guy in business as in domestic policy as in foreign policy. In all of these spheres, he "operates by surprise, uncertainty and exertions of raw force."
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For our first-ever Morning Memo Live event, @davidkurtz.bsky.social will moderate a robust discussion on the politicization of the DOJ under Trump II, featuring @annabower.bsky.social and more special guests.
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Join TPM for the First-Ever Morning Memo Live Event on Trump’s Assault on the Rule of Law
The new year dawned with a shock. After months of saber-rattling against...
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January 7, 2026 at 6:16 PM
For our first-ever Morning Memo Live event, @davidkurtz.bsky.social will moderate a robust discussion on the politicization of the DOJ under Trump II, featuring @annabower.bsky.social and more special guests.
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A U.S. takeover of Greenland is so patently absurd on its face that it’s easy to dissolve into the laughter and ridicule that the JD Vance photo invites. Yet a Greenland grab is such an increasingly real threat, that it’s probably best to sober ourselves up ...
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MAGA’s March of Folly Into Greenland Is a Historic Catastrophe
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January 7, 2026 at 4:09 PM
A U.S. takeover of Greenland is so patently absurd on its face that it’s easy to dissolve into the laughter and ridicule that the JD Vance photo invites. Yet a Greenland grab is such an increasingly real threat, that it’s probably best to sober ourselves up ...
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It’s a broad assault on the reordering of the relationship among nations that emerged following World War I, when war-shattered countries moved toward replacing brute force and Darwinian principles with a rules-based approach to foreign relations.
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MAGA’s March of Folly Into Greenland Is a Historic Catastrophe
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January 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
It’s a broad assault on the reordering of the relationship among nations that emerged following World War I, when war-shattered countries moved toward replacing brute force and Darwinian principles with a rules-based approach to foreign relations.
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