The whole thing where SGA pushes off and the announcer like scoldingly goes "mwell you may not like it but that's legal" drives me insane. Very Ygglesias-ian

I thought for sure this was an old quote. He said this statement this morning.

Trump came groveling to Schumer, skywriting that the Democrats had all the leverage. Schumer's reaction was to immediately cave, keeping the government open and DHS funded for two weeks while Trump's minions could get their ideological house back in order, on the eve of another major ICE/CBP surge.

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

We profiled refugees who: Arrived in the country legally. Applied for green cards. Were arrested by ICE and detained. One refugee who was arrested found out they got their green card after being released. This is an unprecedented operation. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

Genuine question about Senate Democrats' new demands re: DHS funding: What reason is there to believe that, even if they were passed, the Trump administration would comply?

as an American Jew, I can't imagine talking about "legal" immigration and the Holocaust this way restrictive American immigration laws passed in the 1920s doomed countless Jews who could've otherwise escaped occupied Europe. my family got out via Cuba and Argentina, they were the lucky ones

I need a job and I would not take a job working for Bari Weiss. If you are a commentator who cannot see what the play is there, I'm not sure you should be offering commentary.

Trump is not doing this and the media is lying to you because they want to take him to the dance and kiss

UPDATE: After seeing this video, I informed ICE of my intent to visit the Baltimore facility today. I was told I would be denied entry. It’s clear Trump's ICE would rather engage in a cover up. I will not stop pressing until we get answers. We need transparency & accountability.

If a non-citizen neighbor gets kidnapped by ICE, you supposedly have about 4-5 hours to file a habeas petition in Minnesota to prevent ICE from shipping people to Texas. They are moving people that quickly regardless of whether or not they have legal status.

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

appeals to bipartisanship are how you signal to donors youve got their back and to voters that you dont

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup

Multiple officials of the US federal government are spending their day rather blatantly obstructing Minnesota law enforcement and covering up a murder.

We don't need body cams for ICE agents. We need to terminate the entire agency.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

“Trump’s ICE” is the new “access to healthcare” signifier to tell you they don’t actually want to do anything

He was a nurse.

I have been a lonely crank emailing my senators telling them to remove Schumer for like 6 months now, come on in the water’s fine

Actual leaders would be flying to Minnesota & standing on the frontlines of this. Actual leaders would forcefully exclaim that it is wrong to militarily occupy a city like this, & that due process & the rule of law are the bedrock of a free society.

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

Why is Dem leadership not on the ground in MN? If the answer is “polls show Trump’s disapproval is only -15 on deportations, but -25 on prices,” thats a Bad Use Of Polling and a complete failure in their capacity as leaders to lead public opinion and fight for democracy and the rule of law

This is about immigration enforcement like Montgomery was about transit policy

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

One upside of living through the Bush-Cheney years was learning never to believe Republicans when they say they believe in anything. All you need to know is their ideology will pretzel to reinforce hierarchy and power no matter what. It’s actually fine for the government to kill you if you’re armed

I know it’s trite to point out that conservatives are hypocrites with no actual beliefs beyond “we should be allowed to do whatever we want to you and you can’t do anything to us” but reminder that this is how they responded to being asked to wear a surgical mask into Kroger

in like 10 years we're gonna find out they were handing out challenge coins for doing what they did this morning

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

Our govt is making state-sponsored snuff films for the pedophile president and his fans, and the “opposition party” is trying desperately to bury this in a graveyard of norms because they know they fall somewhere between complicit and indifferent

As the son of a man who as a teenager had to hide in an attic to avoid capture by the Nazis: Every word of this thread. Every word. And this is what I would say to them if I were face to face with them right now: Sooner or later, you will all be going to jail for what you're doing.

Watch this space for her vote on the Senate floor when the funding bill comes up.

He wasn't even the guy who ordered the coup!!! He knew about it but didn't do anything, and then tried to cover it up later. We have MANY members of Congress who are guiltier of malfeasance on 1/6.

Stan Chera

Again. Dems need to be saying now that any future admin will not honor this and will return the island if he is so foolish and evil That’s how you “apologize” preemptively reject this. He wants a legacy to change the maps (like golf of America). Tell him now they will never be changed.

trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him

10 years of this shit

Democrats caved on "ICE shouldn't deport U.S. citizens," yes.

That oughta do it!

It would be trivially easy to purge these ghouls from anything related to national security, just start drug-testing them

couldn't read this without picturing this scene

hard to believe that the Charlie Kirk firings / pearl clutchings happened mere months ago but here we are

One of the big media failures of the past decade is the ongoing search for the deeper side of Trump. There isn't one. His ideology, such as it is, is personalist, transactional, and zero-sum. That's as vain, vulgar, and wrong as you can get. He likes gold shit and applause. There's nothing beneath.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.