by the way, all of this, dozens of goons, weapons brandished massive teargassing of public space, people beaten in the street, destroying two intersections on either side of my neighborhood, horror, all seems to have been to create a distraction to abduct crying two teenagers who were here legally

The nonstop stream of North Korea-like propaganda about Trump's Davos fiasco at The Bad Place is something else. Knee-slapping nonsense about him owning the "globalists." Elon has created a hermetically sealed off universe in which the global white nationalist/fascist movement can feed off itself.

Not sure which is worse Trump being unable to distinguish Iceland from Greenland at Davos Lickspittle Leavitt denying it despite the clear video evidence Or that we’re supposed to trust her about any details when she can’t spell a reporter’s name correctly-even when it’s right in front of her

It's not like the Supreme Court is about to hear oral arguments on whether this guy should have the power to invent reasons to fire members of the Federal Reserve board... (Narrator: The oral argument in Trump v. Cook is set to begin in about 20 minutes.)

Where is congress?

Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.

Even by Trump standards, this Davos speech is an insulting parade of blatant lies.

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

BREAKING A federal judge STRIKES the words "United States Attorney" from Lindsey Halligan's signature and warns that he will refer her to disciplinary proceedings if she persists in calling herself one. Doc buff.ly/JvTKLlD Background buff.ly/Ay2iB6u

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

What is the “emergency” that is supposed to give Trump the authority to unilaterally do this?

Gavin Newsom, Governor of California at Davos, does not hold back in criticising Keir Starmer and the European Union for capitulating to Trump, "I can't take this complicity, people rolling over, I should have brought a bunch of kneepads for all the world leaders" "Trump has a police state"

Orange Caligula was lying, too. Lifelong conman/fraudster/gangster. It's a mistake to underestimate him - even today.

Ellison: This is the essence of dictatorship. It’s the essence of it. And we’ve got to get over the idea that this couldn’t happen here. Not only could it happen here—it’s happening here.

The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

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The rich (and well-connected) are protected by the law but not bound by it. Everyone else is bound by the law but not protected by it.

EXACTLY. Wake the fuck up already.

Not on my bingo card. But notable.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.

It’s genuinely bizarre that people who refuse to show their face or identify themselves are demanding identification from people who are fully visible.

“Even milliseconds or seconds of interrupted blood flow to the brain can have serious consequences,” one Harvard neurologist told us. There is no “method of applying pressure on the neck that is foolproof in terms of avoiding neurologic damage.” By @nicolefoy.bsky.social and @mckenziefunk.com

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.

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damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities This is exactly the opposite. Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.

All the rest is red herring.

Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison: "Minnesota has rejected him at the polls three times, which seems to be part of what's motivating him."

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

"The wall looks permanent until the day it comes down." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l... Several people I know have used the word "beautiful" for this piece, and that's exactly right. A beautifully phrased essay on the bind we're in— until we aren't. Recommended, in an extreme way.

Listen to the experts. The writing's on the wall.

I wrote all of this up (including how we got to this point doctrinally) in a recent issue of my newsletter. Here's the non-paywalled version: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-182-...

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

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Cult leaders often usher in their own apocalypse. And take so many down with them.

It’s becoming increasingly hard to tell the difference between ICE operating in Minnesota and the FSB operating in Russia. It all makes much more sense when you think about it. Here is the FSB in Russia:

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Absolutely insane that my life has become texting with local church pastors to try and find a safe place to hold an emergency meeting for parents at my kid’s’ preschool to figure out how to respond to the federal government kidnapping neighbors.

Same with fascists in Italy.

This is the message.