The killing happened about 15 hours ago. Since then: - MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (FBI equivalent) got a warrant for the evidence on the scene - Tried to execute it - Were forcibly turned away by feds - Filed for a temporary restraining order - TRO granted by the federal district court

My statement on the ICE killing this afternoon:

Why do we continue to have a system where so much power is concentrated in one man? Why is it impossible to remove him? We have to wait for regular elections to stop the madness? Isn't this the whole reason why monarchies were replaced by democracies? To prevent this situation??

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Closed out a long ass week with gay powers restored by my straight barber

We have to somehow shift the Democratic Party's default center of power away from the Senate. Power in a real resistance movement is never going to come from (or rally behind) legislators. It needs to come from executives. Governors, big city mayors, influential activists, etc.

John Birch Society having a totally normal moment.

I've seen some folks giving into doomerism by citing the US's history of paramilitary violence shutting down fair elections in the South, and I want to add some historical context to support Jamelle here (as an historian of Reconstruction paramilitary violence)

I don't know whether Renee Good's murder was INTENDED as a hate crime, but those motherfuckers sure are doing a good job of turning it into one retroactively

It’s funny that there is currently not a single well-known Democratic candidate for governor in Minnesota. The election is 10 months away, and a seismic political shift is happening amidst a very real crisis. Candidates no longer know where the electorate is. Decades happening in weeks stuff.

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

Surreal moment realizing I'm not experiencing anxiety "as if something awful might happen" and am instead experiencing the perfectly normal calm of awful things happening at a regularity and frequency outpacing my ability to worry.

Very much on the mend now, but I do not recommend getting an ulcer as one’s busy season at work is kicking off

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

why I have trust issues

One thing Ross’s angle of the shooting reveals is that he had pretty decent evidence that the person he was about to shoot is a Lesbian and I don’t think it’s unwarranted to venture that this influenced his eagerness to kill her

I KNEW IT. I knew that was gonna make him identifiable. Well done, Secretary Noem, you doxxed Jonathan Ross.

Been thinking a lot today about people giving each other shit for watching it and frankly: I watched them because I don’t trust the media to report on it and because I have the stomach for it and because some of my friends don’t and they found it helpful for me to tell them what I saw.

I know people are still squeamish and want to return to some fantasy status quo. That’s over. We’re in new territory now and things are going to be unpleasant. The entry level position at this point is putting these motherfuckers in jail for the rest of their natural lives.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

This is what they're mad about ftr:

The gay agenda

My team at work is cooking, my mom is home from the hospital, and I can do a Wheel Pose for the first time in over five years. Marked safe from First Working Monday 2026.

A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21. (Unlocked article below)

It’s Jan 6 Eve, so don’t forget to leave out some ivermectin, a little meth, and a pipe bomb.

Love it here!!

Transforming lives, from the bottom up, with no need for imperial wars.

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

If Dems don’t attempt impeachment now, the MAGA regime is making very clear what their next move is

What it boils down to right now is that the Big Tech/AI/Crypto Complex is propping up the Trump Administration and the American economy with a gargantuan Ponzi scheme to create maximum domestic and global wealth transfer and get the energy and rare earth minerals they need.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

Is anyone else talking about how he could barely get his words out at this presser?

Girl, you can't even run one country. What makes you think you can run two?

Idiots like Trump and Miller are overawed by fascists and believe the self-told myths of those men - that the leaders rose to the top through iron will alone. Ironically this has them to overlook the rather important step of actually building the mass support they'd need to do fascist stuff.

That's why they entered office and immediately began behaving as if they massive support from paramilitaries and the general public. They HAVE NOT done the math on the all-important question of "Do we have enough dudes?" because in their view the dudes simply emerge if you act sufficiently based.

Would like to see some JAG officers on the news talking about whether these military strikes are technically legal and, if not, what sort of liability commanders have incurred by carrying them out.

"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." - Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, Vol. 22, 30 Sept. 1946

It is very important that your federal electeds hear not only from you on social media, but through direct contact as well. Tag them and then Call and email. Do both. Tell them to move to immediately impeach and remove for an unconstitutional war of aggression.

I was pretty sure this would happen, but I still can’t believe this is happening. Solidarity with the people of Venezuela!

So the General Strike starts Monday, right?

I'm deeply sorry to the people of Venezuela. There is no opposition party in the United States to counter the fascist regime's actions and the population is easily demagogued.

I love Mamdani's "Beans and Cornbread" rhetorical register so much. We should hang out together like wieners and sauerkraut We should stick together like hot dogs and mustard Every Saturday night, we should hang out like chitlins and potato salad

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Been one hell of a Christmas: Surprise open heart surgery for mom (she’s doing great!), “reunited” with my father for the first time in six years, but @bdproctor.bsky.social flies in tomorrow and we’ve got three days on Miami Beach before we head back to The Big Dark 🙏🏼

This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”

People will lose their housing and healthcare, but at least the rich will continue to pay the second lowest state taxes in the country!

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