I almost walked out, I found it so despicable.

Thank you Anderson Cooper for this interview with Stella Carlson, aka The Pink Coat Lady. She is one brave lady who came out in public and share her story of the assassination of Alex Pretti. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

This thread.

Meanwhile, on the home front of San Francisco - where folks are waiting with baited breath for ICE's promised Super Bowl surge: Daniel Lurie Freezes Instead of Confronting Ice open.substack.com/pub/abrahamw...

Alex Pretti sacrificed his life. We must all be as brave as he was. Via @moiradonegan.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you manage to find a theater playing this film (difficult in US, where director couldn't find a distributor), I highly recommend Cherien Dabis' "All That's Left of You." A masterpiece.

They murdered a VA nurse.

"Israel live-streaming a Holocaust while insufferably acting as if they’re the victim reaches a level of tone-deafness that is truly unprecedented in my lifetime." Fun report-back from Richmond CA city council brouhaha abrahamwoodliff.substack.com/p/richmond-c...

Abortion care should be basic healthcare for all. Officers should not get the final say in whether or not someone can access abortion care in a timely manner, yet this dystopian practice is happening in real-time across the country.

ICE is going to help Trump try to steal the midterms and the 2028 election. If Democrats fund ICE, they're contributing to the end of free and fair elections in America. If a Democrat votes for ICE, they're pretty literally complicit with fascism.

Who’s going to enforce it? Because until authorities are brave enough to enforce this ruling, we’re going to keep seeing this abuse. This is who they are when the cameras are on. Imagine who they are when they think no one’s watching.

I hate this. Stars and Stripes is an invaluable media source.

Yeats observed that a lengthy period of "slouching" precedes "the blood-dimmed tide," during which time all who decry the coming threat are dismissed as "shadows of indignant desert birds." That the monster has only just arrived in your town doesn't mean it has only just been born.

Cowardice Cluelessness Complicity The 3 C's keeping major news media from being radically truthful in their news reporting open.substack.com/pub/stopthep...

This has been the fantasy of law enforcement and why they supported Trump. They wanted to exercise unfettered violence because even the whiff of regulation offended the rules of their Baronial Class. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

An ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good. The Department of Justice then pushed to investigate her widow and was reluctant to investigate the shooter. Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday over push. Yikes www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

The FBI searching Hannah Natanson’s home for classified documents is an attack on the first amendment meant to chill sources and journalism. Her reporting this year has been outstanding. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

Gift version. Must read: share.inquirer.com/0QuqRC

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

“I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.”

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

I remember someone said that it’s funny that the liberal solution to cop violence always tends to be giving them more funding. If things are going well, it’s more reason to fund them more. And if they’re going badly, then they need more funding for trying and hiring even more cops.

I have no words. Then again, I have too many words. So, let’s just sit with their words.

if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed. everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.

Renee Nicole Good sounds like she was a remarkable, compassionate human being. Such a nightmare we're living in. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

Rep. Ilhan Omar on Trump's Truth Social post about the ICE shooting: "That's an incredible delusional statement"

WATCH: ICE denies her medical care from a physician after the shooting… (From huff post)

The ICE agent is a murderer as he walks away unconcerned from the crime scene. Murdered an innocent woman without provocation. Waiting for his name to be released.

Mayor Frey responds after ICE shooting: "To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis."

Marco Rubio, a central figure in the U.S. campaign against Venezuela, has another country as his ultimate target, according to historian Alejandro Velasco. "Marco Rubio's primary interest in the region is not Venezuela, it's not Colombia, it's not Mexico — it's Cuba."

The world is rightly outraged by the illegality of Trump’s invasion of Venezuela. But an invasion motivated by converting the world’s largest oil reserves into CO₂ emissions is not just a crime against international law - it’s an unconscionable and sadistic assault against our entire planet.

What a way to ring in the new year - with rogue violence ratcheting up to a whole 'nother level, and no functional Congress to even whisper in dissent. #Venezuela

Beyond @atrupar.com’s on point description of this (and every other) unhinged, nakedly racist and fascist post from Trump, it is important to note that the regime has been intensifying attacks on opposition members of Congress. And I think that is actually a calculated strategy for what comes next.

Abolishing ICE is necessary if we want to maintain our democracy. There is no middle ground here. ICE must end like the Securitate and the Stasi ended.

“This is just one more step to push out principled humanitarian actors."

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...

They're enabling creepy lonely men to create submissive "AI companions" that can be modeled on whatever real-life woman they're obsessed with and made to do whatever they want and, Jesus Christ, I need to wash my hands just typing that.

Good summary of latest autism research - 4 subtypes proposed, with differing genetic and symptom profiles and ages of expression www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

ICE will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump admin. to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications.

Dating apps accommodate serial rapists, lawsuit alleges “Even when Match Group receives reports about rapists, they continue to welcome them, fail to warn users about the general and specific risks, and affirmatively recommend known predators to members.” www.jezebel.com/lawsuit-clai...

Is it alarmist to think the Vance administration, plausibly starting any minute now, will be far worse? It seems like Peter Thiel and Co. is just licking its chops...

Maybe this is why I'm not a Beltway journalist, but I think the fact the United States is about to invade Venezuela to take their oil is an 100X bigger story than Trump's chief of staff going on the record with Captain Obvious characterizations of their dysfunctional regime

“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. But teach a man how to fish and Pete Hegseth will murder him.”

Whoa … this is really strange. Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone. 🎁 link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

One officer was accused of spreading a nude photo of a woman he knew. Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault. In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them. With @invisible.institute

Dude spends 27 years on Death Row based on bogus bite-mark evidence, his conviction gets overturned and he's released in time to have Thanksgiving with his family, and the state of Louisiana is STILL aiming to kill him? Maybe enough is enough?! Via @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/jimm...