@kellygammonwhite.bsky.social
Writer, professor, mom, wife, etc. Author of YA novel “Finnegan’s Close” believer in democracy and equal justice under the law. (One can dream.)
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The House passed the extension of ACA subsidies, but it still needs to pass the Senate. Call the GOP senators, and don't forget to also call the 8 Democratic senators who caved during the government shutdown. Let them know they cannot screw us over again.
January 9, 2026 at 12:40 AM
The House passed the extension of ACA subsidies, but it still needs to pass the Senate. Call the GOP senators, and don't forget to also call the 8 Democratic senators who caved during the government shutdown. Let them know they cannot screw us over again.
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BREAKING: Local and federal sources tell ABC News that federal agents shot two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon. The FBI is responding.
The sources say the agents who opened fire are with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The sources say the agents who opened fire are with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
January 8, 2026 at 11:58 PM
BREAKING: Local and federal sources tell ABC News that federal agents shot two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon. The FBI is responding.
The sources say the agents who opened fire are with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The sources say the agents who opened fire are with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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The chamber voted 230-196 to approve a bill that would extend for three years the credits, which were first created under Joe Biden but expired at the end of last year despite a concerted effort by the Democratic minority to continue them.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US House breaks with Trump to revive Affordable Care Act subsidies
A handful of Republicans joined Democrats to pass a three-year extension of tax credits cutting ACA premiums
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:35 PM
The chamber voted 230-196 to approve a bill that would extend for three years the credits, which were first created under Joe Biden but expired at the end of last year despite a concerted effort by the Democratic minority to continue them.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Why Greenland?
"Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."
"Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."
January 8, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Why Greenland?
"Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."
"Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."
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OHIO: MAGA Ex-baseball player John Rocker shows up at a daycare looking for kids (and being racist while he does it)
This is what they’re doing now
(H/T @jeffpearlman)
This is what they’re doing now
(H/T @jeffpearlman)
January 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
OHIO: MAGA Ex-baseball player John Rocker shows up at a daycare looking for kids (and being racist while he does it)
This is what they’re doing now
(H/T @jeffpearlman)
This is what they’re doing now
(H/T @jeffpearlman)
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Trump told NYT that his power as commander in chief is constrained only by his "own morality" — brushing aside international law and other legitimate checks on his abilities.
"My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me."
"I don't need international law."
"My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me."
"I don't need international law."
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Trump told NYT that his power as commander in chief is constrained only by his "own morality" — brushing aside international law and other legitimate checks on his abilities.
"My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me."
"I don't need international law."
"My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me."
"I don't need international law."
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We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
January 8, 2026 at 6:38 PM
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
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"Even as he asserted that 'no one is above the law,' Roberts placed Trump above the law in almost every meaningful way."
For the January 6th anniversary, @thelisagraves.bsky.social revisited John Roberts's counter-constitutional immunity ruling:
www.graveinjustice.news/p/john-rober...
For the January 6th anniversary, @thelisagraves.bsky.social revisited John Roberts's counter-constitutional immunity ruling:
www.graveinjustice.news/p/john-rober...
John Roberts, Stop Gaslighting America
Roberts Continues to Claim All Is Well While Americans and the World Witness the Wreckage of Trump’s Impunity
www.graveinjustice.news
January 8, 2026 at 9:58 PM
"Even as he asserted that 'no one is above the law,' Roberts placed Trump above the law in almost every meaningful way."
For the January 6th anniversary, @thelisagraves.bsky.social revisited John Roberts's counter-constitutional immunity ruling:
www.graveinjustice.news/p/john-rober...
For the January 6th anniversary, @thelisagraves.bsky.social revisited John Roberts's counter-constitutional immunity ruling:
www.graveinjustice.news/p/john-rober...
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Congratulations to John Roberts bsky.app/profile/larr...
Isn't there a word for a leader who thinks there are no meaningful legal constraints on his or her power and that "My own morality. My own mind" is "the only thing that can stop me"?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Congratulations to John Roberts bsky.app/profile/larr...
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Reminder that the terrorists did this last year
January 8, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Reminder that the terrorists did this last year
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Wait wait wait, while Americans have to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in new tariffs, Trump is going send over $10,000 to each person in *Greenland*?????????
This is a joke right ?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
This is a joke right ?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US
U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources famil...
www.reuters.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Wait wait wait, while Americans have to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in new tariffs, Trump is going send over $10,000 to each person in *Greenland*?????????
This is a joke right ?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
This is a joke right ?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Is it 2026, or 1933? This from JD Vance should send a chill.
Bragging about ICE “going door-to-door and making sure that if you’re an illegal alien, you’ve got to get out of this country…”
Screw the Constitution and due process? This doesn’t sound like American values to my ears.
Bragging about ICE “going door-to-door and making sure that if you’re an illegal alien, you’ve got to get out of this country…”
Screw the Constitution and due process? This doesn’t sound like American values to my ears.
January 8, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Is it 2026, or 1933? This from JD Vance should send a chill.
Bragging about ICE “going door-to-door and making sure that if you’re an illegal alien, you’ve got to get out of this country…”
Screw the Constitution and due process? This doesn’t sound like American values to my ears.
Bragging about ICE “going door-to-door and making sure that if you’re an illegal alien, you’ve got to get out of this country…”
Screw the Constitution and due process? This doesn’t sound like American values to my ears.
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One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun
THERE IS VIDEO
I really do not want to recommend to everyone a video of a person being shot but there is video from multiple angles
why not cut the crap and just publish "this paper supports random state murder, it makes us feel good, kill kill kill"? same exact meaning, less embarrassing
I really do not want to recommend to everyone a video of a person being shot but there is video from multiple angles
why not cut the crap and just publish "this paper supports random state murder, it makes us feel good, kill kill kill"? same exact meaning, less embarrassing
January 8, 2026 at 3:57 PM
One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun
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ICE destroying a memorial for Renee Good set up by protesters after ICE murdered her in cold blood.
January 8, 2026 at 4:35 PM
ICE destroying a memorial for Renee Good set up by protesters after ICE murdered her in cold blood.
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Very bad: The FBI has taken exclusive jurisdiction of the ICE shooting inquiry and told Minnesota state investigators they will not have access: dps.mn.gov/news/bca/bca...
BCA statement regarding investigation of ICE fatal shooting in Minneapolis | Minnesota Department of Public Safety
Please see this updated link to the statement below from Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans.
dps.mn.gov
January 8, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Very bad: The FBI has taken exclusive jurisdiction of the ICE shooting inquiry and told Minnesota state investigators they will not have access: dps.mn.gov/news/bca/bca...
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Republicans murdered a woman and they’re lying about it.
Thune: "What happened in Minneapolis is an indication of the uptick we're seeing across the country in these protesters starting to attack ICE officers, law enforcement officers who are trying to lawfully enforce immigration law"
January 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Republicans murdered a woman and they’re lying about it.
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📈 Our key finding: the rural–urban divide didn’t grow gradually. It *jumped* in 2016. Support for Republicans became much more strongly associated with living in rural areas in 2016—and this pattern then remained stable in 2020.
January 8, 2026 at 7:53 AM
📈 Our key finding: the rural–urban divide didn’t grow gradually. It *jumped* in 2016. Support for Republicans became much more strongly associated with living in rural areas in 2016—and this pattern then remained stable in 2020.
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Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.”
So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?
So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?
January 8, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.”
So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?
So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
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The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago.
The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
January 7, 2026 at 10:38 PM
The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago.
The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
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Hey, media, here's your headline:
"Video shows Trump and Noem lying about ICE's killing of woman in Minneapolis."
It's not a "he said, she said." There's video that shows ICE wasn't acting in self-defense. Facts exist. Everything isn't a matter of opinion. Stop being cowards.
"Video shows Trump and Noem lying about ICE's killing of woman in Minneapolis."
It's not a "he said, she said." There's video that shows ICE wasn't acting in self-defense. Facts exist. Everything isn't a matter of opinion. Stop being cowards.
January 7, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Hey, media, here's your headline:
"Video shows Trump and Noem lying about ICE's killing of woman in Minneapolis."
It's not a "he said, she said." There's video that shows ICE wasn't acting in self-defense. Facts exist. Everything isn't a matter of opinion. Stop being cowards.
"Video shows Trump and Noem lying about ICE's killing of woman in Minneapolis."
It's not a "he said, she said." There's video that shows ICE wasn't acting in self-defense. Facts exist. Everything isn't a matter of opinion. Stop being cowards.
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This keeps happening every day. www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/est...
January 7, 2026 at 10:51 PM
This keeps happening every day. www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/est...
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HuffPost has obtained a video of a physician trying to give medical care to the woman shot and killed by ICE goons today, and not being allowed to go near her. The ICE agents claim there are medics on site, but witnesses scream that there are no medics present
January 7, 2026 at 10:49 PM
HuffPost has obtained a video of a physician trying to give medical care to the woman shot and killed by ICE goons today, and not being allowed to go near her. The ICE agents claim there are medics on site, but witnesses scream that there are no medics present
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"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
A Deadly Shooting in Minnesota
A federal immigration agent’s killing of a woman driving an SUV fits into a tragic pattern.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:32 PM
"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...