One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.

Four GOP Senators. At most four Repubs in the House. Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger just issued an executive order shutting down state police cooperation with Trump’s ICE immediately after taking office.

I had a lot of questions, eg why simply being observed, followed, and recorded interferes with ICE operations, how they set up these rapid response organizations, how others can follow Minneapolis's lead, etc. valuable information:

Obergruppenführer Stephen Miller never dreamed that middle-aged white guys in Vikings jackets would be screaming "Nazi pieces of shit" at his goons as they chased them away.

“Trump invaded Venezuela, kidnapped its president, stole a bunch of its oil, sold it, and stashed the money in banks in Qatar” is a stone-cold CLASSIC of this genre

No. The problem has been very specifically one thing: if they move in any kind of detectable force, they pick up a tail within minutes, and then it often grows and grows until you have a dozen cars following two ICE SUVs, making so much noise that the entire neighborhood knows they’re there.

The double pardon really gives away the game. Adriana Camberos started her second round of fraud just weeks after her first pardon. She was charged, convicted, imprisoned…and pardoned again. Trump supporters are permitted unlimited crimes, while the rest of us can get beaten by the secret police.

I keep seeing it without a source link, so here it is: January 16, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS LABOR UNION DELEGATION AND LOCAL REGIONAL LABOR BODIES ENDORSE JANUARY 23: DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING minneapolisunions.org/system/files...

The 2026 American Midterm Elections: Democratic Socialism with CIA characteristics v. Redditor Fascism

ICE/CBP is following school busses now. My husband (a school bus driver) was just in an urgent all-hands meeting about it this afternoon.

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.

The Trump admin, which says it was investigating fraud in Democratic-led states, quietly shelved a massive welfare fraud investigation in Mississippi involving public funds funneled to Brett Favre and others

I was quite skeptical when I heard this set of puzzles described as "the outer wilds of word searches" (?!) and it turns out that that was underselling how delightful (and infuriating) they were to solve do it with friends, use a pencil and have a big eraser handy playcebo.itch.io/12-word-sear...

Spanberger is centrist but also clearly genuinely thinks Republicans are scum and for that she deserves plaudits

that’s my bare minimum, a committed and bitter hater. give me rage, spite, and vengeance

I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes: these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

*JUDGE SAYS DOMINION ENERGY CAN RESUME WIND PROJECT TRUMP HALTED

This a million times. I wish I could convey the staggering complexity & scale of the work we are doing together here. ICE has effectively limitless resources, and we’re just ordinary people with phones and spreadsheets. And for every neighbor they kidnap, we keep them from kidnapping two more!

Fundamentally this administration's problem is that it doesn't know how to deal with ordinary people who have real moral convictions, in part because they don't believe those people exist. They're strongest when they can just bully feckless elites.

When law-and-order types point out that only a small percentage of people killed by police each year were unarmed, keep in mind that Renee Good will be classified as "armed."

At the same time, it is also important to remember that bots exist which are programmed to spread their own rhetoric. Some of the people controlling those bots want the population paralyzed. Don't help them.

I do think that governors and mayors are afraid of their own police forces and worry that an increase in chaos means those forces turning against them too. It’s a fair fear but it’s still self-defeating.

People in Minneapolis don't like it when secret police come into their city to kill and brutalize them, people in rural areas think it's great. Somehow, this is a problem that Minneapolis is supposed to make amends for.

Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day

I'm shocked. Would've never thought that ICE would lie!!!

Tonight's immediately impeachable latest crime

Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis. University research delivers. Always has. Now a cabal in the White House is shattering it.

fun fact: turns out I retain the ability to be shocked

Holy shit. Here we go. Dems are now being forced to organize toe-to-toe against the regime. This is how you build a proper opposition.

BORTAC was the unit blackbagging Portland protesters in 2020 knocking them on their heels is a hell of a badge of honor bsky.app/profile/esca...

holy shit they drove out BORTAC

Near Lyndale and 24th Ave in Minneapolis tonight, feds have reportedly shot another person. Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured. BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle. A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—MPD presence as well.

Grok AI has been producing deepfake nonconsensual intimate images used to harass women across the internet. This is unacceptable. We’re demanding immediate answers from xAI on their plan to stop the creation & spread of this content. We’ll use all tools at our disposal to keep Californians safe.

“Willing to die for the children in my community” is actual patriotism.

"absolutely refuses to back down under any circumstances" is, it turns out, an extremely useful type of guy in our current environment

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

A protester is currently lying in a hospital bed with a piece of shrapnel in his neck 7mm from his carotid artery. While he lay bleeding on the pavement, blinded in his left eye, gasping for air, agents did not call a medic. They dragged him and sneered: "You're going to lose your eye."

Great advice for the present moment too.

one of the weirdest things about the current moment is how the national media have to pretend like they don't know what this is about. official government social media accounts are posting about racially cleansing America and they have to pretend like it's not clear who the bad guy is.

And this is the point National Dems need to realize about Goldman’s primary. My biggest complaint; among many, is his disloyalty to other Dems when he in particular, does not have political pressure to do so. He reps a very blue district and he tells the world fellow Dems Tlaib and Zohran hate Jews.

I love that we have four or five separate examples of ICE thugs directly threatening to murder dissidents by saying precisely the same thing (haven't you learned your lesson?), and it never fails to just make people virulently angry. They just refuse to believe it's not working.

we've sort of reached the platonic ideal of the paradox of tolerance here. they've repudiated the social contract, thus it definitionally no longer protects them or binds you vis-a-vis them

the story itself is horrific and this kid never should have been put through this, but, also, this is the most pathetic fucking shit i have ever read. just complete bottom feeder fucking idiot losers.

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...