From Pat Buchanan to "The Camp of the Saints," @gregsargent.bsky.social masterfully traces the dark ideological lineage behind Stephen Miller's anti-immigrant extremism.

#GVerse #NewYork #AlexPretti NYC right now. Alex Pretti’s face on a billboard in Times Square. From “healthcare hero” to target of state violence. They want this story buried. The city just put it on a screen the whole world can’t ignore.

Apparently some Italians are also now terrified about a (false) rumor that ICE will be doing security at the Milan Olympics for Vance and Rubio. www.ansa.it/english/news...

Haven't seen that yet but the main cable news channel in Italy has a ticker reading "ICE agents threaten Rai crew, giving them half an hour to leave"

Actions for #Minneapolis CALL TARGET  612-304-6073 and HOME DEPOT 1-866-589-0690 They are allowing their parking lots to be used for staging for ICE CALL HILTON 1-888-446-6677 and WYNDHAM (800) 466-1589 ICE STAYS HERE CALL ENTERPRISE CAR RENTAL 855-266-9565 THEY ARE RENTING VEHICLES TO ICE

First Brands said on Monday it has begun winding down parts of its North American operations, including its Brake Parts, Cardone and Autolite units, while keeping its remaining businesses running as the company seeks buyers for the assets.

SOLIDARITY! UFW in solidarity with the 31,000 nurses and health care workers who are on strike in California and Hawaii. #UnionStrong #1U

They pulled the corpse of noted corruption enthusiast Sepp Blatter out of its crypt and even it thinks what ICE is doing is fucked.

Pay attention to a key propaganda tactic in moments of public unrest. Officials will say things that suggest they care about whatever outrages the public, but it's carefully designed to not commit them to structural changes. Pacify-->distract-->wait-->resume business as usual.

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

The Economy Is The Stock Market Strong 2H25 household consumption numbers required on one of the sharpest drops in the savings rate in decades leaving little else supporting the economy other than spending down asset gains. bobeunlimited.substack.com/p/the-econom...

Entirely possible it ends up being Rieder, of course. But worth noting the reference point for the “frontrunner” framing was also, just a couple months ago, the home of traders trying to find a “bull case” for which of the White House turkeys was going to receive the official Thanksgiving pardon.

Restraint of trade-grade isolation. I mean, we do have implied imposed tonnage ratios if it isn't safe to sail.

“If the yen slides hard, Japan has to defend it, and the fastest lever is selling reserves, including Treasuries. That’s how a Japan problem turns into higher US yields at exactly the wrong moment.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

4-5,000 people showed up in the small town of Missoula, Montana (pop. 78k) to protest against ICE executions.

Bangor, #Maine plane crash: "Records indicate the plane is connected to Arnold & Itkin LLP, a prominent Houston personal injury law firm." www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

"Based on the parties’ submissions and the entire record, Plaintiffs’ motion is GRANTED. The Court ORDERS as follows: 1. Operation Metro Surge is declared unconstitutional and unlawful ..." Read more here ⤵️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... #ICE

Theia Chatelle's amazing photograph of Greg Ketter, owner of DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis...emerging from a cloud of tear gas. Signed there a couple of times, great SF/Fantasy bookstore.

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

🎶I'm just an Act, an Insurrection Act, and all I do is allow the military to be used to enforce existing federal law (I am not an instant fascism button)🎶

STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (NBPA) AND ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS BY ICE

Crowd is massive, now overflowing Congress Plaza and taking up a block-long stretch of Michigan Avenue. Reminder: this event was only announced yesterday.

The most important public health story right now in America is that the Trump administration is executing people in the streets, it is kidnapping people of all ages, including 2-year-olds, it is torturing them, & it is putting them in concentration camps where many have been killed or “disappeared”

A witness to Alex Pretti's murder: "I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me." Right now. In America. There is nothing subtle or complicated or hard to understand about what is happening.

His dying words were asking about the safety of someone next to him Hero

“For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:” “For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:” United States Declaration of Independence

Excellent reporting from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/intolerabl...

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

Bondi is demanding MN surrender its voter rolls in exchange for pulling ICE out of Minnesota. In a sane and civil society this is called extortion. In the Banana Republic of the United States this is just another day in trump’s fascist, tyrannical regime. How much longer will we tolerate this?

Dear tulip. Your heart knows the path that unites us 💝 #ColorADay #Flower #RedWed #abstractia #photography #weekCforcloseup

We can no longer depend on traditional national media to document and describe what is going on in America. They are all run by Trump Lackeys, owned by the oligarch class. A campaign to discredit them and support independent media is required.

The story is not that there are two conflicting versions of what happened. The story is that the federal government is lying about what happened. There is plenty of evidence. Your job, our job, is to sift that evidence and describe what actually happened ffs.

🚨🚨🚨 "At least 63 times since 2007, data from some of the 28 human genomic repositories that the N.I.H. controls was improperly released to researchers, used for unapproved purposes or made vulnerable to theft..." (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

The real problem is not that we are losing this battle, it is that we already lost it. With racist and fascist adjacent men in the very highest and most powerful offices in the world, they distribute the lies of fake science by these cosplayers with abandon, because it fits their ideologies.

Healing is tending what nourishes us, and standing inside what's real. #HealingKnotes 🌻🌱

An incredible spool using Boston Massacre to focus on interpersonal relationships between citizens and their fellow-countrypeople-turned-occupiers, and propaganda at the inception of the US. Even our Constitution was promoted anonymously through propaganda meant to make consumers feel and act.

Whereas the image we're used to, possibly the most famous image of the revolutionary era, is Revere's Boston Massacre showing aggressive British with guns drawn against the crowd of Bostonians. The offset above, from the first London print, unintentionally reflects the chaos of the scene. 2/

Last week @jamellebouie.net wrote a characteristically sharp columns about occupied Boston and occupied American cities now (esp. Minneapolis). He points to the violence that is inherent in an occupying force. 3/ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/o...

3 things abt Boston in 1770 & American cities now. 1) As Serena Zabin shows so brilliantly in her book _The Boston Massacre: A Family History_, British soldiers were living and working alongside, and courting and marrying Bostonians. When it turned explicitly violent, it was still intimate. 4/

Great point. Loyalist Thomas Flucker fled America when it got too hot, but his daughter, Lucy, had married Henry Knox, & they lived in midcoast MA/Maine. Flucker's Copley hangs at Bowdoin & demonstrates Flucker on the run, for it has none of the symbols Copley usually employed to express narratives.

That means that the Bostonians *knew* those specific soldiers. While Bostonians had differing views about the politics of rising tensions w Britain, and abt having soldiers quartered in their midst, these were not masked, anonymous unknown agents of the state. Small town. They knew them. 5/

2) An obvious point, but the ability to communicate what had happened was hampered --or aided-- by the technology. Revere's print, many historians agree, was exceptional propaganda meant to narrate clearly what wasn't necessarily clear. But there was no video! No cell phones w cameras. 6/

Revere and his fellow Sons of Liberty were angry about the British presence and the policies that landed them there (still 5 years from Lexington & Concord, remember). The "Massacre" was a data point for them, narrated via that image. But perhaps the most important thing... 7/

3) the most important point runs in the opposite direction from what we're seeing now both in terms of strategy and clear evidence of illegality. Which is that in the wake of the "Massacre" the lawyer John Adams --yes, that John Adams-- stepped up to defend the soldiers in court. This shows 8/

Adams's (and others') commitment to putting the soldiers who fired on trial and to giving them a strong defense shows us the vital important they placed on process. On evidence. On rule of law. This is from Adams's notes of Capt Preston's trial (link to full sources at MHS in alt text). 9/

The royal government in Massachusetts did plenty that was provocative, but Gov Thomas Hutchinson promised there would be a trial of the soldiers -- and Adams, though his politics lay elsewhere, agreed to defend them. The trials didn't conclude until late October. 10/ www.masshist.org/features/mas...

The necessity for witnessing, sharing and making public the evidence, insisting on the full legal process in the face of chaos and violence. No one is above (or below) the law. RIP Alex Pretti. 11//

Hey, 2nd Amendment folks! YOU'VE BEEN HAD! Hahahahahaha!!!! 😂 He's against YOU, TOO! 🤣 #FuckingHilarious #Sheep #YoureTheMark