On point…

Assuming this is a legitimate video, it shows the reason why Ross has to be held account. So that the murder of Renee Good serves as a warning to those who would murder and not to those who might be murdered.

Over the holidays, the DHS ran a tweet about how it defines "Americans" as white Christians and that's it. So that's a pretty good indicator of "who is protected from violence?" The president wants to define America's struggle as "white people vs everybody."

No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.

It sounds like these goondas are being told that 18 U.S.C. 111 means they can arrest anyone who protests or “opposes” them. They seem to have missed the “forcibly” part. Also, not for nothing, but this crime is a misdemeanor www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Somebody should see if they can get Mike Johnson to read this. I understand his challenged in that regard, but he could learn a thing or two. bsky.app/profile/mprn...

Again, I'm convinced that the easiest amendment to pass is one that eviscerates unitary-executive theory nonsense: "Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to grant the President unenumerated powers derived from monarchical privileges or prerogatives."

"People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called *elimination of unreliable elements*. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them." 5/6

"I am not going to pay masked thugs to shoot moms in the face. Period," Swalwell says. EVERY DEM NEEDS TO REPEAT THIS

"ICE and CBP have grown into predatory organizations in which an ethic of explosive and malicious violence against civilians, coupled with casual lying, is not only tolerated but aggressively encouraged." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-tur...

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

Another possibility is that they are dumb as rocks.

Who is the domestic terrorist, the woman who documents law enforcement brutalizing people or the LEO who shoots her in the face for doing so? Which act is actually terrorizing people for political purposes? Which act is actually scary? Do they even hear themselves?

Seems pretty clear at this point that Grok is just Musk’s id, uploaded to the cloud.

I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

How the Right-Wing Outrage Machine Prompted the Conflagration in Minnesota talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...

I'm reposting this just to spread this image. Remind the "3%ers" or whatever they call themselves of what they claim to care about. bsky.app/profile/anth...

If Trump and Vance were truly confident in their (false) narrative around the ICE killing in Minneapolis, they’d allow a joint investigation with state law enforcement.

If you beat up and injure a cop at the Capitol the Trump admin will pardon you. If you drive away from an ICE agent they will kill you.

It occurs to me we have a national autoimmune disease. The elements of our civic body that are meant to protect it are instead attacking its vital organs. Or perhaps it's more like cancer. A vote for MAGA is a vote for lupus! Or cancer, if you will. New Republican slogan for the midterms!

Jesse Watters translator: "We understand some of you have misgivings about this death. Here are reasons why you should withhold sympathy from the victim and even celebrate her death." bsky.app/profile/atru...

Make it viral.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

A 6-year-old just lost his mother. A woman was shot in the face in front of her wife. The swift, lockstep attempt to dehumanize and villainize Renee Nicole Good might be the most depraved thing we've seen yet from these ghouls and their supporters. These people are utterly fucking dead inside.

They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal

This glib statement is all the more risible when you recall how many law enforcement officers used their vehicles as weapons against protesters in 2020... and how many Republican-dominated states *sought to legalize killing protesters with vehicles* as a reaction to the demonstrations

Of course.

Which Republicans are flippable? Which in the House? Which in the Senate? We can't wait for accountability. We need to find a Republican with a conscience, preferably two or three.

@joshtpm.bsky.social: Trump is the same guy in business as in domestic policy as in foreign policy. In all of these spheres, he "operates by surprise, uncertainty and exertions of raw force." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

In functioning democracies, ministers resign all the time, under threat of a no confidence vote in the parliament. We have a system where legislative confirmation totally fails ex ante to screen out wildly unqualified people, & ex post accountability depends on a toothless extraordinary measure.

A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead

Given news that ICE shot and killed an observer in Minneapolis, here is a pattern we've seen before: *DHS say officers were under threat. This justifies to use deadly force. *Subsequent reporting shows such claims simply don't hold up. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

ICE is a honeypot for sadists and psychopaths. So is MAGA. bsky.app/profile/benc...

The Trump administration’s lawless attack on Senator Mark Kelly is part of a much broader project to turn the US military into a partisan militia and silence veterans who might speak out against that by threatening their pensions www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Amount of blood US has expended defending Greenland: zero. Amount of blood Denmark has expended defending the US: 43 Danish soldiers gave their lives in Afghanistan, responding to a US appeal under article 5 of NATO. Ogles has no idea about any of this, because he's an incompetent buffoon.

This. Their margin is so tiny it would take almost no Republicans with courage to put a stop to this. Just 2 in the House, 4 in the Senate. There is no crowd in which to hide. This continues because *all* the Republicans want it to continue. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Most psychopaths can disguise their psychopathy, but every member of the Trump regime seems to revel in their complete lack of morality, decency, and dignity.

If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time? Really American FB

Paul Farhi's full quote: "The fact that the Pentagon’s officially approved “press” corps hasn’t reported a single story of importance since it was created isn’t a surprise. It’s working exactly as it was designed." True. MAGA media is a negation of journalism dressed as an alternative press corp.

January 6 in History Wrote this two years ago: “If the insurrectionist-in-chief returns to power without ever facing any real consequences and while explicitly declaring his intent to establish a vindictive autocracy, then January 6 will have been successful.” And here we are.

"Trump and his gilded, misshapen White House are monuments to the fevered night sweats that have shaken us from the American dream. He is our monument — and January 6 is his national holiday." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-mom...

"there is a thundering emperor-has-no-clothes situation here that somehow isn’t quite being identified clearly enough. This is likely the lay of the land for the next three years." This is so fucking exhausting. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/venez...

Bari Weiss's Free Press website ran this screed by Matt Taibbi defending his lawsuit against a book author. But the Free Press apparently never reached out to the author. Even though Weiss spiked that 60 Minutes piece for not reaching out to enough Trump officials www.thefp.com/p/matt-taibb...

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

Let us recognize companies that do the right thing. Take Lyft, not Uber. open.substack.com/pub/populari...