Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Guys I was waiting for him to post footage - I KNOW HE HAS IT - but it seems like he may not. But last week I took Brad Lander on an ICE watch ridealong and he PERSONALLY CHASED OUT AN ICE CAR ON FOOT I am not making this up. He walked right up to a lurking unmarked car and they tore out of town

You sold us out the same way 80s centrists did refuting '60's excesses', the same way 90s 'liberals' did during the 'PC wars,' and the same way y'all did after 9/11. Every authoritarian movement needs its useful-idiot 'sensible moderate' handmaidens and you gleefully signed up. Again. /fin

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

/6 Most of the people who normalized Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction are not legally liable for child rape. But I submit they are morally culpable to some degree.

NEWS: Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. A thunderous rebuke against ICE’s violent campaign in Minnesota. Read the order below. Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices

A List of Complaints from 1926 🧵

Oh I've been looking for this. 32 songs about what's happening in Minnesota. From @minnpost.bsky.social. Get beyond The Boss. www.minnpost.com/arts-culture...

A thread of ICE and CBP sex offenders and credibly accused sex pasts. Content-warning descriptions of abuse Yuma Sector CBP agent Ramon Marquez, 31, was arrested in May 2025 and has been charged with 15 felonies including 14 counts of sexual conduct with a 16-year-old between Dec 2024 and Apr 2025.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art. She never expected to slay. https://wapo.st/45BXc3S

Just a reminder: DOGE and the Republicans clawed back money from cancer research, SNAP benefits, weather balloons, and a gazillion other quality programs to pay for the ICE agents.

This administration is stark raving mad, and it is controlled by men - Vance, Miller, Bovino - are all-but-publicly taking orders from neo-Nazis bent on violent removal of nonwhite Americans. The admin barely hides many of these links. And it is driving a campaign of ethnic violence in our country.

U.S. District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz (Republican-appointed in ‘06): “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Let’s name the political journalists who failed journalism 101, their readers and democracy. I’ll start. David Corn (Mother Jones), Robert Draper, Carl Hulse (NYT), Ian Millhiser (Vox), Jack Jenkins (RNS), Andy Kroll (ProPublica). www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-li...

Toughest congressperson in America rears back for a punch, and refuses to cut short townhall, after asshole sprays her with something.

“Sorry but the guy lost two Super Bowls to Eli Manning.”

ICYMI: I looked through a published archive of Boston newspapers from the 1760s, when British troops were stationed in the city. The accounts read remarkably similar to what's happening in Minneapolis. radleybalko.substack.com/p/two-cities...

A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

oh commuters just found the motherlode of ice agents at a suburban hotel, including, potentially, bovino himself. a bunch of confirmed ICE and CBP cars from the bovino convoy there. spring hill suites in maple grove. people of the twin cities, do with this info what you will.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

The whole interview is worth it

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

ICE has become a domestic terror organization. Everyone involved should be prosecuted. The leaders should be hung as the traitors they are.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

I was going through my videos and I have to share this incredible image from Wednesday. Hero

Masked, heavily armed thugs accusing ordinary citizens of being domestic terrorists. I will never vote for a Republican, but the Democrat who gets my vote is the one who promises to prosecute every last one of these motherfuckers.

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Wrote about how John Roberts and Donald Trump have turned the Department of Justice into a corrupt mobbed up law firm whose only purpose is to enable Trump’s persecution of his enemies and protection of his allies www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I ain't got time for Stancil haters. From running for office to following ICE, he walks the walk. He also does all his online advocacy under his real name, unlike so many of his critics, and his ideas are generally reasonable and supported by evidence. Don't lose focus: Republicans are the enemy.

lucky for ice there aren't at least two generations of americans who were raised on a story about a rebel alliance taking on jackbooted thugs

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

the president has declared war on an american state and the leaders of the opposition wont shut the fuck up about retraining the stormtroopers

What is happening in America right now. The arbitrary power of a tyrant deployed against his political enemies.

The authoritarian destruction of democracy in action. This is one of many reasons why removing Trump is only part 1 of dismantling American authoritarianism.

Chiantifa

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...