NEW: I speak to expert @stevevladeck.bsky.social about the Insurrection Act and the possible implications. www.muellershewrote.com/p/what-to-kn...

"We’re actually seeing new super PACs being established. One of them has already committed to spending $100 million in the midterms. And we’re seeing politicians and candidates speaking very frankly about wanting to install pro-crypto candidates" more here: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

Stephen Miller's invasions are utterly atrocious but they're also renewing civil society in every city he invades.

And Rodriguez is running Venezuela backed by Trump.

substack.com/@hrichardson... Free on Facebook and Substack (don't add credit card info)

I am a hell no on any more funding to ICE. We cannot accept this rogue agency terrorizing our communities.

What's happening in Minnesota can and will come to the rest of us. It's time to organize - we are stronger together.

Dave Zirin Dan Troccoli, a public middle school teacher, says everyone should start “emulating” Minneapolis’s resistance to ICE and the Trump regime. The post A Minneapolis Teacher Want...

Another ICE shooting in Minneapolis, which tonight looks like a war zone. 🚨 An ICE-linked federal officer shot a man in the leg during a confrontation in north Minneapolis. The ICE agent and the man he shot are reportedly in the hospital.

This is a critical point. What we're really witnessing is the *collapse* of law and order, brought about by Trump's lawless thugs. I think a lot of ordinary people intuitively understand that this is what's happening.

This is not a sane use of US federal law enforcement resources.

The crisis is real, and this is part of our effort at new approaches to supporting scholars and advancing scholarship in the (vast!) early Americas. Sharing again and would appreciate your sharing, too. More info in the thread. 🧵⬇️

SFRC Chair asked WH to confirm: “U.S. military personnel are no longer involved in hostilities in Venezuela.” In response, WH said: "there are currently no U.S. armed forces in Venezuela.” Does not take some brilliant war powers expert to spot the delta here. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

The Big Die-Up teaches us to be in relationship with the land, rather than conquering it. The land can also connect us to each other. Film festivals this month discuss the history of the West and what it means for building a stronger America in today’s world. open.substack.com/pub/monicatr...

ICE just confronted us in our car saying it’s our first & final warning. There’s nothing illegal about driving your car safely on Stinson, Lowry, or any street in our community. They are purposefully surging at school get out times terrorizing our families. Ice needs to stay away from our kids.

Donald Trump is a criminal who should be in jail and not the White House. ICE is a band of lawless goons who shouldn't be allowed to carry guns or badges. And the citizens who peacefully protest the Administration's violence against our nation are the true patriots.

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.

NEW: The neo-fascist group Patriot Front is building a network of business in North Texas in an attempt to create a parallel, self-sufficient white nationalist economy. @stevanzetti.bsky.social, @wileydcope.bsky.social and I identified the men behind 4 of these companies.

Reading this, one thing that's striking (and yes, obvious in a way) is how so many of these people are protected by anonymity. Unmasking is such a crucial step in fighting this stuff. This also applies to ICE.

EXACTLY

Lot to unpack— "Disgraced congressman Duncan Hunter got a Trump pardon....Hunter is using what’s left of his political influence to help Raymond Liddy, son of infamous Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy, escape his conviction for child pornography."

Todd Blanche is making clear that the federal invasion of Minneapolis-St Paul is all about political retribution targeting a state that tenaciously votes against Trump and his party.

Alleging violations of the U.S. Constitution and federal law during the chaotic and at times violent immigration crackdowns in Chicago and Minneapolis, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly and roughly 70 Democratic colleagues on Wednesday moved to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

"Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a 'confidence score' .... ICE is using it to find locations where lots of people it might detain could be based." www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Denmark/Greenland will let us do anything we want militarily to protect our interests in Greenland with current and abandoned US military bases. We can move any assets we want there. So all the arguments about security are BS. Trump wants to OWN Greenland, not protect it.

NEW: US House legislation would repeal some money for I.C.E. from Trump's "big beautiful bill" ... and repurpose the money for health care tax credits

Say goodbye to another respected institution about to be destroyed by the Trump propagandists.

I think Dem strategists and comms/data folks need to recognize that we are in a period of discontinuity. What's happening now is not like what's come before. It's all new. And we need to stay close to the data that's in front of us, not bring old fights into the ones we now find ourselves in.

More Dems need to think about skating to where the puck will be not where it is. All indications are Trump's brain has turned to mush and no one around him will even try to control his worst impulses. He will just get way crazier and more evil and unpopular by November.

Here's Emerson, Texas, today. "Threats to democracy" is #2. 5/ emersoncollegepolling.com/texas-2026-p...

Here's Economist/YouGov this week, most important issue 4/ 24% inflation 16% jobs and the economy 14% civil rights/civil liberties 10% health care 8% immigration d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

I was in the midst of preparing a Morning Memo arguing that Minneapolis is shaping up to be the catalyzing moment that Trump was looking for to justify doing what he has wanted to do since his 1st term: invoke the Insurrection Act...when he posted exactly that: talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

For the intentionally obtuse: there are many many ways to enforce laws. Stop framing issues as ‘don’t enforce the law at all, or enforce it in the worst way possible.’ Your false choice is intentional. This is deliberate. And it’s going to be our downfall if we persist.

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

What if the goal was to loot federal databases for their wealth of priceless private information on hundreds of millions of Americans--our tax records, Social Security #s, mortgage filings--& use that data to punish political enemies & train the surveillance technologies owned by the Broligarchs?

DOGE was hustling that data OUT of federal agencies as rapidly as possible, using techniques associated with hackers and cybercriminals. People don't understand: our data IS the treasure. That's why federal agency heads tried to intervene physically to protect it. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Trump’s plan has been clear: terrorize Americans, attack them, shoot them in the face, and create as much chaos as possible — whatever it takes. Then use the chaos he manufactured to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Trump: "It's actually a legal definition -- 'whole milk.' And it's whole with a W for those of you that have a problem."

This leads me to believe that up until this meeting, Trump absolutely thought it was "hole milk."

Important to say the ICE occupation is a project of white supremacy. The feds are treating black and brown people as if they have no constitutional rights, demanding citizens of color justify their presence in ways white people don’t have to and, in this case, smashing down a door without a warrant.

This isn’t just about one applicant. A law enforcement agency is fast-tracking guns and badges while skipping safeguards meant to protect the public. If vetting is optional, so is accountability. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

One thing to note in my chart below is that I have Congress in the center, because, as usual, all the powers the President in this arena has are statutorily granted. They could fix it *today* if they wanted to, just like with tariffs, immigration, qualified immunity, etc., etc.

It got me out and protesting, and I met so many first time protesters over the weekend. The groundswell may be late but normies are fucking pissed

By using brutal force against Americans, ICE has given Democrats a chance to change how voters think about immigration. Will they take it? An extra post recapping new numbers about ICE out this week: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ice-is-a-7...

Europe having to perform military exercises against their primary threat, the United States.

800 people at Whittier International Elementary right now to coordinate ICE resistance. EIGHT HUNDRED, at one little school. Recall there are only 2,000 ICE agents in the entire metro. Puny!