I know they're all pushing the "he shouldn't have brought a gun to a protest (even though it wasn't even a protest)" line, but only Kash is dumb enough to say this.Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 25, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Sunday, January 25, 2026
Innovations in 2nd Amendment Interpretation
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Which Dem Senators Will Be The Designated Shiteaters
Get in line.
Reminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) January 24, 2026 at 4:47 PM
It's Tariff Week, Again
I'm starting to think you can't make binding deals with President Deals, especially illegal trade deals that are required to go through Congress and thus there isn't even any pretense that they are binding in any sense.
There's A Catch
Two women were detained by ICE (under attorney's advice they are not saying why), one of the ICE thugs started having seizures, they saved his life, and then:
Once the agent was transferred to medical care, Amundson and Zemien were placed into another vehicle and driven to Whipple anyway.
“I asked if we could just go home,” Amundson said. “I said, ‘We just saved his life. Is that cool with you?’ And they said no.”
Eventually:
“We’re releasing you to your counsel and to your state representative,” the officer said, according to Amundson. “But you need to tell everybody that we treated you kindly.”
A scene in the film version of Catch-22, when Cathcart and Korn are offering to send Yossarian home.
We will issue orders sending you back to the States and there's one thing you have to do for us in return.
What would that be?
Like us.
Like you?
Like us.
You'll be surprised how easy it is once you begin.
Later in the Star Tribune piece, the obvious realization:
What stayed with Amundson most, she said, was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent’s head in her hands and keeping his airway open.
“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me,” she said.
Friday, January 23, 2026
...The Democrats!
I have no patience for the ones who pull shit like this because they are saying, "ha ha fuck you stupid hog voters."
Over the years I've noticed that it really enrages Professional Democrats when the hog voters don't clap along with scripted nonsense like this. They put on the show for you! Clap!
Well fuck you too!Cynically, DeLauro issued blistering statements against ICE, then negotiated the ICE funding deal, then personally voted against it, then celebrated with Republicans after passage. She's 82, represents Yale, and has a primary challenger.
— Ezra Levin ❌👑 (@ezralevin.bsky.social) January 23, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Over the years I've noticed that it really enrages Professional Democrats when the hog voters don't clap along with scripted nonsense like this. They put on the show for you! Clap!
The Best Guy In The Trump Administration
I appreciate Kash Patel just trying to live like an A-List celebrity instead of focusing on destroying American lives.
Senior executive 2: Every May, there’s a Five Eyes conference with the head of every intelligence agency. This year it was in the U.K. Kash Patel is going. In the lead-up to that, his detail starts making crazy requests. He’s got special requirements on everything. And the Brits are getting pissed.
Before the conference, his staff says he’s unhappy because he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events. He wants Premier soccer games. He wants to go jet skiing. He’d like a helicopter tour. Everyone who heard about this was like: Hold on. Is he really going to ask the MI5 director to go jet skiing instead of meeting? The schedule is set, and every Five Eyes partner is doing this. They can’t just say that he’s not participating and instead he wants to go to a Premier soccer game. This is a job, guys.
His staff only cared about three things: what his meals were, when his workouts would be and what his entertainment would be. The biggest plan is how he’s going to get his girlfriend in there so she can go to Windsor Castle. He’s got Nicole Rucker as his assistant, like a true executive concierge. And when she’s not getting the food or the workout she wants, she’ll just start screaming at people, Make it happen!
His staff was briefed multiple times that the Brits were going to want to talk about an F.B.I. position in London that has been pulled. The F.B.I. is arguably their most important partner. MI5 is 5,000 people. The F.B.I. is 38,000. If MI5 ceased to exist, it would be very bad for us. If we cease to exist, it would be an existential threat for them. That person was working on a ton of sensitive stuff, including embassy penetrations and technology, and they want this position back. So Ken McCallum, the MI5 director, goes to Kash Patel at the conference and says: Hey, we really need this position. It’s so important for our mutual benefit. And Kash says: Yep, that person’s going nowhere. She’s absolutely staying. And the Brits rejoice.
Two weeks later, he reverses himself and removes her. The Brits are outraged. Kash will make promises and he will break them, and he doesn’t worry about that.
On that trip, the heads of intelligence for the Five Eyes went to Windsor Castle and met with the king. There was a photo taken of all the Five Eyes people, some of whom are nondisclosed, meaning their affiliation with the British intelligence service isn’t public. The Brits forwarded that picture as a keepsake for the individuals. They prefaced it with, This isn’t to be shared. But Kash has decided he wants to post it on social media. They have people trying to negotiate with the Brits about whether that’s possible. They’re fighting with the director’s office, like: You cannot post this. Do not do that. And they’re arguing, He wants a picture out.
Did Anyone Take The "Invitation" Seriously
For a moment it seemed like some country leaders did, though they might have been faking it, but maybe that moment has passed.
Yes I know some countries have signed up, but...
Yes I know some countries have signed up, but...
Shot, Chaser
The simple explanation for this is Tesla couldn't manage to set up the remote intervention system that Waymo does its best to obscure but not hide entirely, so this is what they do.
Earlier today, Elon Musk announced on X that Tesla had “just started Tesla Robotaxi drives in Austin with no safety monitor in the car.” Tesla’s stock immediately jumped over 4% on the news. Headlines across the financial press celebrated the milestone.It looks less obviously ridiculous than having "driver" in your driverless car, but it is actually more ridiculous of course!
There’s just one problem: it appears to be another game of smoke and mirrors. The Robotaxi cars spotted without “safety monitor” were all being followed by a trailing black Tesla supervising the “driverless” Robotaxi.
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Would You Like To Try That Again, James
Obviously that they're constant shameless liars isn't good, but he did feel some pressure to walk this back a bit.
Speaking at the White House, Vance appeared to try to stymie any efforts by Minnesota prosecutors to pursue a criminal case against the agent.
“The precedent here is very simple. You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action – that’s a federal issue. That guy is protected by absolute immunity. He was doing his job,” Vance said, echoing others in the Trump administration. “I’ve never seen anything like that. It would get tossed out by a judge.”
JD Vance: "I didn't say that officers who engaged in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity. That's absurd. What I did say is that when federal law enforcement officers violate the law that's typically something federal officials would look into. We don't want these guys to have kangaroo courts."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 22, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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Breaking the Law
We knew they were misusing the data because there was no proper use for it, but if they are admitting to this then just how bad is it?
After months of denials, the Trump administration has acknowledged in a federal court filing that employees working for Elon Musk’s supposed cost-cutting operation accessed and improperly shared Americans’ sensitive social security data.
The justice department court filing, submitted on Friday in an ongoing lawsuit, reveals that a member of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) signed a secret data-sharing agreement with an unidentified political advocacy group whose stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and overturn election results in certain states.
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