The response to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good is not what the White House was expecting. Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.

PS about the oil thing: Traditionally, when business is good and things are being made and shipped and people are going to and from work, oil prices rise. It's been a leading economic indicator. When oil is down, things are probably bad. Oil prices are currently almost at their pandemic lows.

look- they can attempt martial law, but there are 400 million guns in America. By their own fucking doing combined with the geographic size of the us, they have made it impossible for their ever to be successful martial law. They can try, but I mean good luck.

🧵!!!! My acupuncturist said to me, while I was doing the human pin cushion impression an hour ago, “didn’t you tell me a while back this is the first attempt to impose a dictatorship where they didn’t disarm the population first?” And I said yes.

This is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you

Again, Greg Bovino gets his orders from Stephen Miller. The reason goons are attacking protestors on a trigger finger is bc Bovino, acting on Miller's instructions, told them to. Which means the FBI refusal to work w/MN on shooting investigation is designed to protect Miller.

All real estate ads should be this good

This is how they played The First of Us

When the major metro news outlet says "Thousands" you know the crowd is HUGE.

This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV. The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence. This is not protection. This is occupation.

This woman is deeply disturbed.

I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.

When people give me things, I post them. #NationalSecurity

“What I really wanted to do was start another Nouvelle Vague, our own New Wave.” A lovely obit of a NYC legend. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/a...

ICE really is freaking everywhere, not just in Minneapolis, but all over Minnesota, and it's fucking horrifying. (A lot isn't posted about on here.) Grateful to everyone reporting in and doing patrols and being observers and helping in whatever way they can.

In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet. youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

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Trump's White House is hyping his declaration that credit card interest rates will be capped at 10% as if it's a real thing. But he can't just declare that. It needs to be passed by Congress. FYI: Bernie Sanders and AOC actually drafted bills to do this and they were killed by Republicans.

US oil giants scramble for ways to say "no" to Trump's demand that they repair and operate Venezuela's oil and gas infrastructure, as a doddering Trump stands up mid meeting to stare out a window at the demolished East Wing. www.ft.com/content/4c21...

Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."

Hard to think of a better example of the Streisand effect than Johnson stopping a plaque from going up resulting in 100 plaques going up.

Bald eagles are a sign of hope. We almost killed them off with DDT, but we changed our ways, and now there are plenty. We can correct our mistakes.

Every once in a while some bootlicker toad will pop up with some shitty claim like "none of this would have happened if ONLY they had been POLITE" and aside from the fact that this is appeasement bullshit, it's not true.

One thing lost in the frame-by-frame analyses is the bigger picture: ICE escalated a routine, non-threatening encounter into a fatal confrontation.

A Red Lake Ojibwe descendant was snatched by ICE in Minneapolis, and a Plains Cree woman was questioned. This is in addition to the four Oglala Lakota men who reportedly were grabbed by ICE. ictnews.org/news/i-felt-...

Pinning your hopes on police orgs breaking with ICE is not sound thinking. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/whether-it...

That line from Mamdani is one of the most perceptive and necessary observations on What Has Gone Wrong, and it’s pretty pathetic to pretend you don’t understand it, simply because you’re paid not to. Relevant every day, and perhaps especially right now

Just now: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents. ICE ultimately denied the members their due right to oversight.

This is for the base in red states

Nobody steals more shit than white girls. Nobody. They do it for fun. It's like a rite of passage. Looks like stores are figuring it out and locking up white hair products and not Black hair products.

See also: no more firm limits on alcohol consumption, seems like an industry lobbying point www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/h...

Frey: "I think the initial impetus to come to MN was to arrest & deport a bunch of Somali people. They got here & realized the Somali people that would be deported are all citizens. Then they turned their ire toward our Latino community & others. These are communities that make Mpls a better place."

This is really freaking weird.

Frey: "An individual from a car that was in the middle of a street was detained. ICE left the car in the middle of the street. The car wasn't even in park, so you got it just rolling down the street w/nobody in it. It could've hit anybody, including my own family. This is not about safety"

Kelly Morrison on a Twin Cities ICE facility she & other members of Congress tried to visit: "We were told to leave. We met with 2 of the commanding officers & they told us the reason we were not able to stay & meet with detainees is because the funding for ICE came from the 'Big Beautiful Bill.'"

The scale of how many ICE agents there are in Minnesota right now is something that seems to be getting lost in the discourse. It’s why they seem to be everywhere.

what does a sea anemone need to wait in line for, anyway

What the fuck is going on with the ownership and leadership at the NYT, man

ICYMI: WaPo, on why ICE always has phones in their hands: to feed the social media beast. @drewharwell.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

The thing about the Boston Massacre— the fruits of arbitrary power— was not that the colonists were universally in the right. Things were thrown at the soldiers. But, the presence of a standing army escalated conditions. The use of force that night was not proportional. Citizens died needlessly.

Holy cow, previously unreleased 1978 album by DC funk outsider Rick Simms, aka Wicked Witch youtu.be/zMGcIuNdoNA

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Three Members of Congress showed up to inspect the actions of federal officers in their state and the federal officers drew their weapons?

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The day we heard David Bowie had died, this tribute happened at 285 Lafayette St. Soho NY

whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him

College Campus Tour Ends Inside Unmarked ICE Vehicle https://theonion.com/college-campus-tour-ends-inside-unmarked-ice-vehicle/

Look, I too fought in the "People who make 150-400k in expensive cities are not rich" wars of the 2010s, but these takes need to be updated: 150k in 2010 was at the 90th percentile of HH income, but is at the 67th now. 200k in 2010 was at the 95th percentile of income, but is at the 79th now.

Some journalists would be confused by this point