Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

This cannot be reformed. It needs to be completely dismantled and overhauled. @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov

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Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

Bicycle infrastructure is less expensive to build and maintain than car infrastructure. The return on investment is enormous when you have a healthier and happier community. #BikesAreBetter

@chriswarcraft.bsky.social Did you actually have “a productive back-and-forth with Mayor McKeon about the housing element lawsuit with the state.” I find that really difficult to believe. A draft of a compliant HB housing element has been ready to be approved since December 2022.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

@sethcotlar.bsky.social What do you make of the articles stating "Europe's Far-Right Splits with Trump?" Significant here in America? I doubt Trump even cares. Thoughts?

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AND IMPEACH AND REMOVE. We need to clamor for that even if the votes aren't there—yet.

@kentlundberg.bsky.social Take Charlie to this event!

ICE are untrained, undisciplined, incompetent, violent, and criminal thugs, being paid bonuses per person to shove bodies into for-profit prisons where they can be tortured, abused, raped, and exploited for private profit. There is no tiny fraction of any of this that is legal, moral, or American.

Where is the outrage from all the GOP’s “Constitutional Conservatives” today?

The fact that the US president is a racist and a criminal? You knew that already. The fact that he is consumed by dementia? That's gossip. The fact that media and other institutions are willing to treat him as legitimate? That's the scandal.

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Henry Cuellar (Texas), Tom Suozzi (New York), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Laura Gillen (New York), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington), Jared Golden (Maine), and Don Davis (North Carolina) voted to finance this murder.

no matter how hard Greg Bovino tries to exude rugged masculinity he always comes off like Don Knotts in a Portlandia sketch

The decorum & politeness of Dems has contributed to America being in a bad place & at the mercy of bad people (GOP). It's well past time for Dems (electeds&voters) to stand up for our core principles & values as Americans! We must politely yet ruthlessly cast aside those who've undermined America!

Our billionaire Treasury Secretary called Denmark “irrelevant.” Hmm. Unlike the US, in Denmark, health care & college are free, the starting wage is $22 an hour, paid parental leave is 1 year, paid vacation is 6 weeks & all workers get pensions. That seems very relevant to me.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

I remember asking my grandparents abt living through the Great Depression & WWII. They told me abt suffering, pain & horror. I guess my grandkids will ask me abt surviving Trump. I will tell them abt suffering, pain & horror all brought on by stupidity & blind hatred. This is the Trump Legacy

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

Jack Smith will testify publicly in Congress on Thursday 10am ET/7am PT Pass it on

I think it’s really important for European governments and heads of state to keep making all of Trump’s unhinged utterances public. Put it all out there for the world to see.

Two people you should never trust; A religious leader who tells you how to vote, and a polition who tells you how to pray.

Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.

Republicans have ceded their constitutional authority over tariffs to Trump voluntarily. They could have ended it at any time. They could end it now. Trump is not on the ballot this Nov, but they are. The only way to stop this daily tariff drama and insanity is to vote them out.

If you believe ICE would heed any sort of restrictions on use of its funding, I've got a complete Epstein file to sell you. MAGA doesn't follow laws, including ones it passes. The ONLY option is for 41 Senate Dems to show 1/1000th the courage of Minnesotans and block cloture vote for funding.

It exposes directional alignment; you still seek to limit, not expand, who is allowed to be human. Yes, you have set your limitation more inclusively than our fascist gang of white supremacists; it doesn't mean you're not also setting limitations & they'll use your limit as long as it serves them.

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

This IS the result of the Supreme Court of the United States of America giving the most amoral person in America immunity from his crimes. Crimes that stack up daily. Including 115 counts of 1st-degree murder of unarmed civilians suspected of crimes not punishable by the death penalty.

I’m starting to wonder if looking genuinely happy and acting like you really love the city is a more effective way to campaign (and govern) than scowling about what a shithole the city is and how many more cops it will take to subdue it.

It's odd, isn't it, how the supposed "woke overreach" that we are told has repulsed all of America & sent Dems into the wilderness coincided, almost perfectly, with final collapse of media gatekeepers & the rise of unrestrained RW media & social media dominance.

***RADICAL OPINION*** No one in America should have "Absolute Immunity" for criminal acts. Full Stop.

It is nuts. I'm not a protester either. I'm just an old middle-class white dude, but now I'm attending protests, signing petitions & calling elected officials to let electeds know I'm watching & telling them: THIS IS NOT OK! If you care abt America, we must never remain silent!

THREAD!!! America's problems are SOLVED PROBLEMS!

Reupping my ridealong offer for reporters. I took someone yesterday and they saw it all go down, many times

Look Huntington Beach, CA ... More "free speech absolutist" hypocrisy. Sadly familiar isn't it?

A felon who married an immigrant is telling a lot of y’all that the problems in this country all stem from felons and immigrants. But keep buying that stupid red hat that’s made in China.

“… dangerous time …” created entirely by DHS

Good morning from The #WeMatter State. One week from tomorrow, after nearly five years of work and waiting, my biography of Harry Reid will be published. I hope that you will preorder the book: simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ga... Reid bio: 8 days Candidate filing: 49 '26 election: 295

On the phone with them right now. You can host the armed goons terrorizing our families, or you can host us.

Quick, hold an emergency community meeting about the dangers of ebikes in cities!

It's amazing how often the truly racist in America reward murder simply because its a target they approve of. George Zimmerman and their favorite active shooter Kyle Rittenhouse got rewarded for literally killing "those people". This is no different.

Reality is evidence-driven. Trumps MAGA people are narrative-driven. If a claim fits their worldview, it feels true even when it collapses under scrutiny.