I would never accuse the Iraqi Army of being well trained or using a lot of restraint. And yet in Mosul I came to expect more discretion from the average Iraqi soldier than U.S. cops who have never taken incoming fire.

not for the first time I note these guys pulling shit that would have gotten you extremely killed in any actual insurgency situation

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

I understand why people think protests are a waste of time. But they’re the only thing that give me hope anymore. Elected Dems are still voting for Trump’s nominees. They insist pointing out Trump’s fascism is bad strategy. They offer vague promises things might be marginally better years from now.

Exhausting seeing the Fed govt wage war against its own states bc of their political views in so many differently illegal ways. But also, I wonder where on this map most of that Fed ag aid goes.

These flyers are seemingly all over the south side of Minneapolis. "WANTED FOR MURDER" "MURDERED AN INNOCENT WOMAN 1/7/26" "APPROACH WITH EXTREME CAUTION" Lake Street and Lyndale Avenue, South Minneapolis

fair enough

Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.

THAT WE KNOW OF

ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed Renee Nicole Good, 37, while she was in her car on Jan. 7. The fatal shooting was at least the 9th time ICE agents have shot into cars since September. At least 5 people have been killed in Trump's immigration crackdown. 32 others died in ICE custody last year.

These morons are too stupid to understand that this is just going to make people more determined to follow them around.

Pete is such a tool

Pete and Amy are really out here arguing that ICE isn’t killing people by the employee handbook when we are out here arguing ICE should not exist. They do NOT represent the will of the people.

Josh Marshall on a heater: The language of “homeland” security, an imported word which was mostly unknown in American civic discourse before the late 1990s, was always a grim sign of what was to come. It was a bad idea. Time to undo it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/aboli...

not even buttfucking can make me care about hockey

The everyday courage of normal people is breathtaking

And with no apologies to Scott Adams, I like to call this "pointy-haired boss theory", the idea of management desperate to prove its legitimacy by latching on to a trend in the name of finding a profitability breakthrough no matter how effective it actually is.

thrilling tales of the One That Got Away

Idk why people are interpreting this as "Portland Cops are actually doing OK in this instance". They insisted the victims were involved in a massive criminal investigation despite not being able to provide a single example of said organization operating in Portland. They are covering for ICE

It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something

The choice really is socialism or barbarism, Rosa was right

Protesters making as much noise as possible in front of the Hilton Canopy where ICE agents are staying in Minneapolis.

A failed California reform would have helped domestic violence survivors erase previous convictions. “I can picture all the people it would help, all the people who aren’t going to be judged by the worst day of their life that took them to prison.”

While this is all very embarrassing and pathetic, it's worth noting that a) the Nobel Prize was created to salve Alfred Nobel's guilty conscience over being an arms manufacturer and inventing dynamite and b) since Kissinger won it, the Peace Prize hasn't been worth a bucket of warm spit

Shorter David Brooks on the @pbsnews.org: Both sides watch the Minneapolis murder videos and see what they want to see. I'm reserving judgement. What a despicable little fraction of a man.

why are we still paying federal taxes

This is unsustainable and is an explicit threat of civil war against blue states.

Today, this artist, Noval Noir, was painting a stunning portrait of Renee Good at the site of where she was killed

It is astonishing how a bare minimum like this can just feel so rejuvenating.

Reddit conservatives think this is worthy of death

Two different "wine moms" I work with have dropped their emergency contact info to the company slack in the last couple days because, to quote one of them, "I'm going to the protest tonight and if i get shot, I want you to know why I missed work."

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

In the face of fascism, existence is resistance. Joy is revolutionary. Community is the answer. They will come for us whatever we believe, so all who are able must take action, too. They'll try to take it all away from us. It will work, some of the time. But I genuinely believe that we can win. <3

They are trying to kill our brains and our hearts, too, when they can't kill our bodies. See: Book bans. Firing college professors and public school teachers. Eliminating equity and diversity work. Defunding public health care and social safety nets. Banning drag shows and shooting up queer clubs.

Immigrants: they get the job done

Alongside the terrible news, this was really a hell of a week for Zohran Mamdani, who has already advanced the core campaign promise of free, universal child care, among other forms of progress for New Yorkers. I wrote that up for today's On Tap: prospect.org/2026/01/09/m...

imagine how much of a fucking macho dickhole loser you have to be to point a gun in the face of a pacifist priest and ask if they're scared of you yet

They’re not even trying to hide the white supremacy any more.

Gamergate is as big a moment to understanding the modern right in America as 9/11 is and there are still people who think it is insane to say that.

yes, only if you feel safe to do so, but we know that a lot of these people are a lot less capable of handling confrontation than they pretend to be

white women and queers - and people who love them - this is a good week to look GOP voters you know in the eye and ask them if they think it should be legally permissible for men to shoot you or your loved one in the head on the basis of being a “fucking bitch”

Make the GOPers you know say out loud that they think it should be legal to publicly execute women if they displease a white man in any way.

The MAGA regime is currently doubling down on its tactical stance of “we will kill women like dogs for merely displeasing us.”

really feels like Becca Good saying “go get some lunch, big boy” is when he snapped. the kind of man who joins ICE is absolutely the kind of man who thinks women should die for saying things like that. they absolutely crash out when we aren’t cowering in fear and making them feel scary & powerful

I needed a hit of real America right about now ❤️ 🗽

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

My first for @dropsitenews.com: after a grueling three-year strike, workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette returned to work in victory. This week, the 240-year-old paper’s wealthy owners decided to shut it down. open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

once again we are all tapping the sign

"BLAKE"

this is rape culture