Man, this is impressive. Inspiring. And shows that for all their bluster, ICE is afraid, and likely growing more so as the public turns increasingly against them. One woman and a camera drove off, what, a dozen heavily, clearly rage-filled armed men w almost unfettered permission to kill.

“Tame”? Like what you do with a wild animal that’s unfit to be around humans?

Can’t be emphasized enough that the US-led global order has been to US advantage. Trump’s complaint is basically: You accepting that we’re No. 1, with international institutions and conventions tilted in our favor—because you benefit from it too—was really unfair to us, let’s make it worse for all.

Mr. Trump, sir, in response to your strong demands of strongly strength, we weakly agree to the NATO charter and continuing 80 years of precedent. And we promise not to mention our military moves and economic counter-threats, at least not in front of you. Who’s such a strong boy? You are! You are!

It seems to me Congress should hold off on funding elaborate conspiracies to violate the Constitution.

This is Simpsons level misread of the room.

While obviously it’s wrong that there aren’t massive protests, I suspect what’s going on is that many Europeans’ idea of “protests” is “the country is all but shut down” and they’re wondering why we haven’t reached that point given how dire the situation is.

The Democrats should shut down the government on this sentence alone.

Is it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

We recently watched a woman murdered in cold blood on video, and they converged on the insane excuse that she was "domestic terrorist" without batting an eyelash. I don't think there's anything too evil for them to excuse at this point.

“Do me this favor: If you see headlines today proclaiming that the big takeaway from Trump’s speech was that he renounced the use of military force to take Greenland, ignore them. That’s not what actually happened.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Heartbreaking cruelty visited upon children in our name

Looks like Senator Blumenthal's office worked with the whistleblowers, and has already put out a letter to the Trump admin demanding answers. Congress MUST act. This is a five alarm fire for our basic rights under the law. bsky.app/profile/blum...

That is an ICE agent pepper spraying a restrained victim in the face at close quarters; it's an unquestionable and indefensibly abusive use of excessive force that should (but won't) be criminally prosecuted as assault

We represent the Lollipop Guild The Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild And in the name of the Lollipop Guild We will kidnap your children, pepper spray your priests, and shoot your mothers in the face

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."

This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.

seems relatively simple to say and understand ... bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is actually an understatement—the response was totally unhinged—but I'm glad Judge Novak is highlighting the Justice Department's venomous rhetoric.

Well, I suppose that’s one way to reduce the quantity of foreign goods we import.

Again on my "trust fund kids" hobbyhorse: Trump & co have never understood that American power was not exclusively a matter of having the economic & military ability to bully people, but about much of the rest of the world viewing that power as providing net benefits.

The mass-murderous repression in Iran is a reminder that an entrenched authoritarian regime is really hard to overthrow. Which is why it's important to resist democratic backsliding ASAP. It seems Trump will lose big in the midterms. But don't lose the opportunity, it only gets harder from there.

Letting people die of disease is how concentration camps work...

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

This is so grim. Science isn’t just something nerds do, but the foundation of the modern world. What the Trump regime has done to US science will harm Americans for generations.

As 2026 dawns, look for RFK Jr. to ramp up his assault on vaccines using policy-based evidence-making and bankrupting the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de...

He is giving himself the bad advice.

A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.

He's making the same mistake domestically: He doesn't seem to get that you can't just govern a country the size of the United States by main force when half the population views your actions as illegitimate.

I wrote about RFK Jr.'s war on moms slate.com/technology/2...

This is one of those things that progressive activists don't realize is massively alienating to most religious people (I am not religious) and that the offense overshadows any message they want to send. It's worth noting that the Civil Rights movement operated through the Church but left white/

Mamdani is a political genius for understanding the largest problem he can address for his constituency is affordability. Schumer is a political fool for insisting the largest problem he can address for his constituency is affordability. This isn't the gotcha moment you're phrasing it as.

It's hard to sum up the Trump Doctrine of International Affairs, but "But I want an Oompa-Loompa now!" goes a long way

It’s important to crunch the numbers given all the nonsense this administration spouts, but also worth stressing we didn’t actually need new research to know this is how tariffs work. It’s well known, it’s what virtually every economist said, & the administration just plunged ahead delusionally.

rapist foreign policy from a government full of rapists

the international far right’s embrace of trump, and trump’s attempts to force the rest of the world to adopt miller’s international segregationism, is a reminder that even the “globalist” attack was projection. They want to use american power to remake the whole world into fash ethnostates

Insightful point here: Even if you take Trump seriously - he does not like the optics - they rested on an assumption that communities would welcome ICE as heroes, rather than showing the type of solidarity that Trump inherently cannot understand.

Starting to think electing a criminal was a mistake

Exactly. At scale, this will produce an ICE Boston Massacre sooner rather than later and possibly an ICE My Lai. Hopefully relatively few ppl do what this guy is doing.

Some Greek Oracle obviously promised Miller and Noem that if they were brutal enough they'd build an organization with the power to change the US forever. They're building an organized, angry opposition. Every day. With their vile, vicious behavior.

I like how people on here defending Schumer et al like to say: sorry you Out of Touch Bluesky people don’t understand he’s messaging to NORMAL people who care about PRICES. as if it is not both true and smart politics to say the White House is threatening to go door to door in your town.

This is literally what every right-winger has spent my whole life telling me they want.

The founders would have hung him, and then dug up his corpse and hung it again for good measure. Good chance there might be a holiday about this had it happened back then, and we'd all be digging up little dolls and hanging them once a year.

Dude is fucking off his rocker.

Nobody was given anything remotely close to 40 years for FACE act violations. Longest sentence I can find is 57 months.

The movie Ice Age (March 15, 2002) is older than ICE’s age (March 1, 2003)

The fact that European conservatives have so little pride as to consent to being Trump’s lapdogs isn’t their worst quality but it is their most contemptible