Andy has cultivated a readership so stone stupid they’re willing to contend that someone writing a slogan on a clipboard is attempted murder

There are about 100 protesters outside Schumer’s building in the middle of the blizzard urging him to whip Dem votes against any more ICE/CBP funding.

The us military in literal war zones often had more stringent protocols on use of force

not trying to doom but this is insanely bad and also just insane for reasons that might not be obvious. there will never be even a fight leaf investigation if they are doing this.

he will probably kill more people than he's ever made laugh

Also, what protest are all these officials talking about here? The videos show Pretti with a handful of people on a nearly empty street. Is it now a demonstration anytime somebody films or argues with a federal agent?

yeah this i agree with. bsky.app/profile/knan...

Shooting a man, who didn’t attack you, who was on hands and knees, in the back 5+ times… and you’re the victim? What Bovino is saying is that Border Patrol have complete immunity to act however they want and anyone who inconveniences them slightly has victimized them and can be executed. Madness

Rahm’s anti-left views are held by many center-left elites in media and politics. And he is pretending to run for president in 2028 (doubt he actually runs because he knows his odds are very low.) So interviewing him can be framed as “news” and he bluntly makes anti-left points centrists agree with.

Bovino is so bad at this, and his weird little voice certainly doesn’t help

A completely insane take. Also, guess what gun ICE issues to it's officers? That's right, the same Sig P320 Pretti was carrying.

chip you put this on your website roy.house.gov/media/in-the...

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW poll: Abolishing ICE is now +5 among US adults Latest poll shows: 46% support abolishing ICE 41% oppose Receives +12 support from independents 19% of Republicans support abolishing ICE now too

the "and you're surprised by this?" guys have never been less vital than they are right now

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars

the dumbest part of all of this is how predictable it was that conservatives would defend ICE executing random people for expressing the 1st and 2nd amendments rights would be

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

it's just remarkable to remember that a whole ass constitutional crisis is being forced because a weird old wealthy dowager queen has no idea how the country he was elected to lead for 4 years works, and a bunch of wormtongues are trying to make cool tough guy videos for him and his fans

He was on the ground getting pistol whipped by 7 ICE agents

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

Multiple officials of the US federal government are spending their day rather blatantly obstructing Minnesota law enforcement and covering up a murder.

Not could. Have. Fred Hampton.

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

I will canvass for whichever candidate runs on putting this man in prison in 2028.

To put a finer point on it: Republicans have embraced the “insurrectionist theory” of the Second Amendment—the notion that you have a constitutional right to stage an armed rebellion against the government if it becomes tyrannical. Now they’re lining up to say ICE can shoot any armed protester?

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

What authority does ICE have to arrest or detain citizens who witnessed a homicide?

i’m not particularly attached to “abolish ICE” as a slogan but as a policy it’s mandatory

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

"Polls have not provided easy answers as to what the moment might mean when it comes to long-term political consequences" yes let's all get back to the most important aspect of all this, how it will affect the midterms

149 House Democrats help pass military spending bill. “The 341-88 passage of the $828.7 billion fiscal 2026 military spending bill came over the objections of progressives who warned that the bill... is a tacit endorsement of [Trump’s aggressive] policies..." www.commondreams.org/news/democra...

This is one of those things that in another administration couldve been a months long scandal if the media wanted it to be. call it AgentGate. What did Bondi know and when did she know it? Weeks of opinion pieces etc etc.

this guy is a terrible liar who genuinely believes he is great at lying

You know what Congress can do: open its own investigation into Renee Good’s death and make its own referral to DOJ. And if the Republicans don’t want to do it, I think we know have 10 attorneys and 1 FBI agents perfectly willing to testify at shadow hearings held by the Democrats.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.

Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.

Again, I really think this is going to end up being just as impactful as the main event downtown. Faith leaders getting shackled in the cold at a major transportation hub is just a brilliant, brilliant organizing tactic. Everyone involved in planning and executing this specific action is a hero.

This is a 16-year old girl who was carrying documentation and was pulled over with her documented friend, also 16. This is what they did to both.

Republicans and conservative Democrats thwarting Obama on closing Gitmo (but Obama mostly doing it anyway) resulted in people getting mad at Obama about Gitmo instead of mad at the Republicans and conservative Democrats. Kind of a problem!

all the legal news around the president. the harrumphing by republican congressmen that jack smith had the temerity to indict a former president and a presidential candidate. here's my theory: it should be a million times easier to sue or jail a president than a normal guy. he's a public resource!

Shapiro and Newsom are both off-putting in a way that is immediately obvious to any primary voter but not necessarily the people in their orbits. I think a lot of the analysis about their odds of running (and winning) are considering them in a vacuum, not as who they are as people.

i like how this person thinks this is an own instead of the fact that Japanese-Americans believed in America more than the fucking idiots that interned them

In many ways i respect the voter who is like "yeah i loved the movie about cool cars that go fast"

I think any straightforward reading of the foreign emoluments clause forbids the president from personally taking a lifetime office and title like this without Congress’s consent fwiw.

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars