I used to patrol in this district and it's genuinely mind-boggling to me to see so many Minnesotans mobilized immediately in that busy area to run ICE off. I'm so proud of you, Minneapolis. 💙

What if I told you that the United States already had a treaty obligation for the mutual defense of Greenland should it come under attack.

This, combined with him *moving to the front of the car* and then reaching for, if not actually unholstering, his weapon before Good even begins moving forward deminstrates that the intention to shoot was not reactive to a threat posed by the vehicle

Officer 1: “Get out of the car!” <simultaneously> Officer 2: “Get out of here!” The confusion is not surprising. The shooting officer had his phone out too. This deserves a clear and fair investigation

We are now at the point where we need state governors, especially in MN and OR, to activate their state NGs to protect their residents against the federal government.

One agent literally moves to stand in front of the vehicle (she has no other way to move) and two more agents, including the one who shot her, approach the vehicle. Those are not the actions of people who have a reasonable belief that they are in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury

I started this year by rereading Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism. Unfortunately, this time while reading it, it hit far too close to home. In the wake of the ICE agent murdering a US citizen in Minneapolis, I'm thinking of Arendt's words...

One of the organizations the US withdrew from is the European Centre for Countering Hybrid Threats. That group primarily focuses on protecting European democracies from hostile Russian intelligence and military operations. Except the current US government hopes to see those hostile ops succeed.

Law enforcement officers CANNOT use deadly force against a fleeing person fleeing unless they have a reasonable belief that the individual poses a danger to others (e.g., they know the person is armed). If in vehicle, the person must be threatening to use deadly force with the vehicle or other means

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

This is an escalation and Minnesota leaders have a duty to meet the moment by: 1. Demanding the arrest of the murderer 2. Demanding that federal agents leave the state 3. Publicly threatening to withhold tax dollars by placing payments in escrow if the first two demands are not met

In the video in the post, you can see that the officer can clearly get out of the way of the vehicle, at first doesn't, pulls his firearm and continues to shoot as the driver has already driven past him. bsky.app/profile/bnon...

This right here is why the FBI cannot be trusted with this OiS by ICE. Either MPD or the MN BCA should take over this investigation.

If MPD wants to salvage its relationship with their community, arrest the Border Patrol/ICE agents for murder before the Feds can move them out of MN jurisdiction. If initial reporting is true, case law is well established you don't shoot into a fleeing vehicle. Stand tf up against this regime.

My heart breaks for Minneapolis. The city & state just can't catch a break. This is what happens when you surge hire a bunch of unqualified zealots for mass deportations.

"I doubt NATO would be there for us if we really needed them" says President of the only country NATO has invoked Article V to defend...

We're really going to go back to banning women in combat simply because the bros in the Pentagon don't understand that everything is gender.

We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

That's... not a SCIF.

They didn’t even bother to ask for an AUMF, impeachment

THIS. How on earth did everyone tasked with developing this COA not either refuse or resign?

How are the "no more foreign wars" Trump voters feeling? 🤡 absolutely shameful

I'm not saying she was the inspiration for this Lego kit. But I'm not NOT saying that

Starting the year with a bang! LFG! #Astros

BREAKING: Tatsuya Imai goes to Astros

Jack Smith Deposition quotes

Final day of the year, so here are my Top 5 Books of 2025 that absolutely no one asked for. Leisure reading slowed down towards the end of the year after starting my PhD, but still made time for some absolute gems from @leahlitman.bsky.social, @juliaioffe.bsky.social, & @shannonmonaghan.bsky.social

Christmas Eve with these two chonks who seem to think they're on Santa's Nice List. (Spoiler: they always are)

The other scary part is that Bovino isn't a political appointee. So that's the culture in BP that allows a guy like that to rise through the ranks. This is why Abolish ICE/CBP and returning DHS functions (with reforms) to where they were pre-9/11 should be THE position for the next Dem admin.

LFG Bring back the Houston Comets! ☄️🏀

Wrote a piece seven years ago about how the passing of Holocaust survivors and the re-emergence of fascism was not a coincidence. It didn't occur to me that their deaths would also drive anti-semitism in general, but I suppose I should've seen that coming as well.

feels stupid to say at this point but how the fuck isn't anyone invoking the 25th amendment.

With the killings continuing, Qs for Trump-Hegseth-Rubio-Bondi-Leavitt: - Who was killed? (admin hasn't made public which groups we're in a fake war against) - What drugs were they allegedly carrying? (unlikely to be fentanyl) - What was the destination? (Rubio said most bound for Europe, not US)

A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.

If the US can seize a Venezuelan tanker carrying sanctioned oil, then can other tankers in other places, say the Baltic or the Black Sea, also be seized?

Trump Administration sees its chief foreign policy role as the backer of the far right international, all foreign policy bends to that aim. The antidote cannot be pursuing far-right policy in half-measures like Starmer is or Biden did on Israel & the border. Internationalist solidarity or barbarism

This week, the US has demanded Europe take over core NATO components by 2027 and threatened to withdraw from OSCE in 2027 if the org doesn't reform and cut funding by 10% next year. The Trump Admin has really looked at Europe and decided the transatlantic alliance is dead. Truly absurd times...

Beautiful Riga 🎄🇱🇻

In Riga running final training for Ukraine SBGS forensic experts, so it's a good time to share timely new article - NATO case study on battlefield forensics argues for increased interoperability with civilian forensic capabilities as they're often absent from national military capabilities

Fuck Donald Trump for putting National Guard troops in harm's way domestically for no reason.

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

My email responses for the rest of the day - "apologies for my delayed response. My fat cat was sleeping on one arm"

Just saying, but they could always uh… do their jobs instead of being partisan shitweasels?

Nothing better than coming home from "vacation," which was a 2 week mentally exhausting course, to a pile of clingy cats for #Caturday

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Viljandi, Estonia 🇪🇪 with the bonus of popping into a local coffee shop and finding a cat 😻🐈

Valka, Latvia / Valga, Estonia - 1 town, 2 countries 🇱🇻🇪🇪