Hey, all you folks who voted third party or not at all to protest Biden/Harris Mideast policies, good job!

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

Reading this story—about how the Pentagon has been given so much extra money it's struggling to spend it all—while thinking about the formerly homeless tenants I've spoken with in recent weeks whose housing vouchers are being discontinued for "lack of funds."

New Hampshire is Vermont’s Wario

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

That’s what’s up.

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

The right portrayed Hunter Biden as the ultimate in nepotism and corruption when in reality he was just doing coke, banging adult prostitutes, and driving his Porsche too fast, while they were all raping children, burying the bodies, stealing hundreds of billions, and covering it all up.

wrt to some of the replies to this post, part of why the media has “moved on” is because it has become extraordinarily difficult to document ICE activity on the ground, outside of them arresting citizens.

The thread from Mandelson to Epstein, Thiel and Putin is one that needs pulling till the whole tapestry of lies comes undone.

but don't call them Nazis

I'm getting the impression that Epstein Island was Eyes Wide Shut meets Salo: 120 Days of Sodom.

One of the leaders of this new campaign to strip the rights of gay US citizens is evangelical leader Al Mohler who promoted both “The Sin of Empathy” by Joe Rigney & “Toxic Empathy” by Allie Beth Stuckey. Mohler’s former intern is William Wolfe, a leader in the “Christian Nationalism” movement.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

So what I'm hearing is that, in the last five days, two Black Members of Congress have been assaulted in apparent support of the regime's deportation diktat (Rep Frost, punched at Sundance & told he'd be deported; Rep Omar at an ICE townhall) & the regime has arrested four Black journalists. Huh.

From The Iron Snowflake on Facebook. #Pinks #MomSky #Proudblue

TikTok hasn’t let me post all day, multiple vids uploaded hours ago with zero views. many other political accounts there saying the same thing. very cool, very fun!

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 25 JANUARY 2026 THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES REMEMBER ALEX PRETTI Reports on HOW GOOD A MAN ALEX WAS He is Worth Our Tears My heart goes out his family Did you know Alex was a DEDICATED ICU NURSE FOR OUR VETERANS working on research DO NOT FUND ICE CALL YOUR REPS ⬇️

Minneapolis, MN - Many many more agents filing into the area around the hotel. Minneapolis PD announcing everyone is under arrest, telling them to sit down with their hands up. An ad hoc journalist squad being told to go further down the street. Chemicals irritant deployed in the road.

This was also done in apartheid South Africa. The autopsy of Dr Neil Aggett, who was tortured to death before police lied he had committed suicide, showed the exact same wounds to his private parts. So that's where we are at.

At least 600 clergy came to MPLS in the freezing temps, dropping everything from their overwhelming jobs including like 100 rabbis to be there in solidarity. The Bible commands us to care for im/migrants at least 36 times, more than any other commandment. "Thou shalt not murder" is also a thing.

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

Unreal It was NEVER about immigrants-or making America safe DHS agents just killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti-after detaining two kids, ages 2 and 5 And Pam Bondi just told Governor Walz if he wants to get ICE out of Minnesota, he needs to “allow the..Department of Justice to access voter rolls”

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

Whistles are now WMDs, according to the "high IQ" crowd.

Also how many of the Atlantic writers and editors signed the anti woke letters

Bellingcat founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social: It's "really important to get analysis of events" like the Pretti shooting "out to the public quickly, especially when it's clear the US government, ICE, and DHS are willing to immediately start lying about what’s happening" www.cnn.com/2026/01/24/m...

Secretary Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I’m calling on her to resign. Gregory Bovino must also be fired. No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law.

Where does this all end? How does this all end?

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.

Mood in Nuuk, Greenland today.

We can actually predict polar vortex events now by monitoring Ted Cruz flight patterns

When Marimar Martinez was shot, she was called a terrorist. Accused of assaulting ICE. By the time her name was cleared, she was forgotten. ICE shot her five times and then the agent bragged “five shots, seven holes” He said “do something b*tch” before opening fire. Marimar was a US citizen.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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 was just supposed to follow clergy leaders as they did a pilgrimage from George Floyd Square to Renée Good’s memorial. But then when we got back to the landing spot, we found out an observer had been attacked by ICE agents who had been tailing the religious leaders. From me today in Minneapolis:

the incredulous "this is bullshit, are you fucking kidding" tone here is a sign that you have turned someone into a lifelong radical against you and people like you this is a stupid tactic used by stupid people who don't have any other ideas

Guillotines

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

I am outside Roosevelt now, my daughter goes there. Talked to staff, ICE was in a car pursuit of someone and they crashed and went up on school property. Teachers formed a circle around the person to protect them. Ice releases tear gas and took two people

I link to this excellent piece in my post for tomorrow.

January 6 across social media platforms: FACEBOOK: Business as usual. Some media sites post "flashback" reports, which are greeted by a sea of LOL responses. BLUESKY: HOA Business as usual. Occasional posts with half a dozen likes. TWITTER: Wall-to-wall tweets about Jan. 6.

David Graham, a day later: “Remember what yesterday’s attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol was like. Very soon, someone might try to convince you that it was different. Maybe someone already has.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Five years ago, we watched a violent mob try to overturn an election. We don’t honor democracy by forgetting that day. We honor it by defending the truth, strengthening institutions, and refusing to normalize political violence.

How I'm walking out of 2025