Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

I have no idea who the fuck could look at Bari Weiss' behaviors over the last few years and conclude she's "non-ideological"

Philip Glass cancels Kennedy Center symphony premiere in protest of Trump's leadership

Three cheers for Philip Glass, whose Solo Piano record has been my boon companion for decades whenever I'm painting. (I notice that Glass didn't use the current administration's name for the center in his letter.)

Nothing says we understand this political moment like begging Republicans to pass a bill that codifies things that are already the law

McLaughlin: "You have the right to practice your First Amendment, of course, and your Second Amendment rights. But ... "

Yeah, there need to be bigger hammers in here.

Part of the corrosion on the right is that they can't conceive of normal community building things like organizing as something anyone would do naturally without power grabbing as a motivation.

BREAKING: Minnesota's chief federal judge has demanded the acting head of ICE personally appear in court Friday to explain what the judge described as repeated failures to comply with dozens of court orders amid its enforcement efforts in the state.

The Bari Weiss plan is for CBS News to employ fewer reporters charged with finding things out and more (right-skewing) commentators charged with telling them what to think. Same playbook Wash Post is using. www.npr.org/2026/01/27/n...

“You don’t have to love the zombies to be happy for their success in infecting another person!”

Well at least she’s saying out loud that they all think democracy itself is woke and that they’re against it. That is ACTUALLY Un American and it would be nice if our electeds pointed it out every time they use rhetoric like this

Bovino is still wild to me as the most nailed on “tertiary antagonist” looking dude I have ever seen. This man is central casting for “imperial officer” in any sci fi. He is 100% the guy here to make sure the village pays its share of the tribute.

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

I have been waiting for this signal from Senator Rand Paul. Senator Paul, Chairman of Senate Homeland Security Committee follows House committee. Sends letters to heads of ICE, CBP, USCIS to testify in public hearing.

I know we’re all correctly focused on the ICE reasons why Trump must be immediately removed from office, but let’s not forget about the wildly illegal trade policy that violates both US law & multiple ratified international treaties that also require him to be immediately removed from office.

Even before Jo Rowling became a public bigot, and even 25+ years ago when these books came out, it was obvious that they were super racist and antisemitic.

Chris Madel: "The president posted something on Truth Social saying it was a time of reckoning and retribution on the citizens of my state, and I've seen that happen and I cannot be a part of it, and I can't be a part of a party that's a part of that"

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

if Tom "Cava Bag" Homan is your emergency crisis comms guy, you're fucked

Long way to go yet but I think it's worth pointing out that the entire rightwing media ecosystem went all in on the idea that Americans, or at least enough of us, would accept the idea that the government should be able to murder people in the street and they failed utterly

They are wounded and flailing. Press the advantage.

Lawyers of all the people he fucked with like

This is what you say on the right when you want to establish credibility.

Lmao look at this rag. Littered with either wilfully ignorant or plain old stone stupid people. Nobody cares because it's fucking 20 years old and the young people today know exactly who JK Rowling is.

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

we are witnessing historic backpedaling here

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

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This is why I always talk about social correction and the need to tell these people to fuck off

Lololol “Please stop hating us so much. We don’t only jump and execute innocent people, we also jump cars. We aren’t the baddies, really!”

Bovino’s retirement needs to be a cage. His command environment yielded Renee Good’s death, Alex Pretti’s death & Julio Sosa-Celis’ shooting. Failure to prosecute Bovino & everyone else materially responsible for these atrocities will be understood by ICE, CBP, etc as a green light for the next ones

jesus fuckin christ katie, 'classical liberal' has been what Republicans who don't like all the god stuff, and non-anarchist libertarians have been calling themselves all my life.

If the WSJ had refused to print this, we all know exactly what he’d have said.

Excuse not accepted.

Charles Sumner is the patron saint of pedocon theory www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

If you are running for president you should make clear you’re gonna send Greg Bovino to prison

Tacit acknowledgement they've lost control of the narrative plus saving face via lawfare

Every state democratic party should use this as a tactic. The republicans declared war on our people. Never vote for them again.

Scalise lies: "The want to defund ICE. They defunded police. The police chief of Mpls said yesterday multiple times how stretched thin his department is. They don't have enough people because Mpls defunded the police." (Police were not defunded and MPD is stretched thin bc of unrest caused by ICE)

"They called us names so we had to kill them"

Thea Stamos doing the classic “lose badly and run to the tepid embrace of the right wing” move.

Somehow I feel like the depth and vibrance of “proud Democrat” Theo Stamos’ true colors have yet to be fully revealed. What’s next, Deputy General Counsel for Kristi Noem? Will she suit up and actually become an ICE agent? Or worse, a Proud Boy?

Dear Americans, after you abolish ICE might I suggest you replace it with an army of free lawyers whose sole role is to sue the pants off the federal government.

“At a certain age, about 86, 87, he started getting, what do they call it?” He pointed to his forehead and looked to his press secretary for the word that escaped him. “Alzheimer’s,” Leavitt said. “Like an Alzheimer’s thing,” Trump said. “Well, I don’t have it. nymag.com/intelligence...

Oh my God, what an incredibly real and incredibly terrifying story. These grown men were locked inside a restaurant? Wow. It's hard to say where that ranks next to the state-sanctioned murders and the kidnapping of children, but gosh, they were briefly locked inside a restaurant? Heaven forfend.

This is the single funniest excuse he could have come up with for not wanting to be booed in public

Senate Dems needn’t come to agreement on everything right now. That’s a path to the lowest common denominator. They simply have to agree to filibuster DHS approps. As to which of a host of anti-brutality and anti-authoritarian proposals to advance, let a thousand flowers bloom.