Our institutions are so cowed, our public is so infatuated with the notion that you can invent your own truth, that no one feels they can simply be the arbiter of what is true and real, trusting the evidence of their eyes and ears. Truth is treated as a social agreement, a compromise position.

BASH: Footage shows him holding a cell phone, not a gun. Did he at any point pull out his weapon? BOVINO: We do know that the suspect did bring a weapon, a loaded 9mm high capacity handgun, to a riot. (That's a no!)

BASH: Why was an unarmed man shot multiple times by your Border Patrol agents? BOVINO: Dana, you don't know he was unarmed. I don't know he was unarmed. That's freeze frame adjudication. That's why we have an investigation. BASH: It's not a freeze frame

Chris Murphy: "This is really scary because what Bovino essentially told you is that if you just happen to be present when they are undertaking an operation, if you pull out your phone to record it, the use of force against you is justified. That is not true, it's not what the law says."

It’s gut-wrenching to step back and remember that this is all supposedly about fixing a problem that’s not a problem, something that has no tangible downside, where every argument falls apart quickly until you’re left with nothing else but “I am a racist person.”

This is apparently on X. I have a few concerns: 1) why is DHS sending photos of (alleged) evidence that should be in a secure chain of custody that is now lying on a car seat??? and 2) being armed does not on its own justify the use of deadly force — there has to be evidence he was trying to use it

i do genuinely think we need to jail every single person currently working for ICE

Board of Peace - Season 1

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

“What did we learn from the Holocaust? We have to act and we have to resist. If I’m not going to act and resist now, then I shouldn’t call myself a rabbi and I can’t be a proud Jew.” Beautiful.

ICE used a warrantless forced entry to arrest a US citizen with no criminal record. Rather than acknowledge error, they smeared the family, saying they were harboring sex offenders and critics were defending sex offenders. Turns out that one of their targets was already in jail. ICE never checked.

Seems almost quaint at this point, but Patel and Bondi both testified under oath at their confirmation hearings that this would not happen.

a “bad apple” is a contagion

Adding to this wonderful summation of what I'm trying to speak to, we are also a country which has memorialized the underground railroad. The various churches in homesteads and what not its conductors lived in have been preserved as monuments to the spirit of "fuck this evil shit"

When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

It is impossible to overstate how the US is being run and ruined by people steeped in stages of Poster's Madness that science has no name for.

You’re arresting terrified children and using them as bait. Arresting kids getting treatment at doctors’ offices. Blinding protesters. Illegally raiding homes. Making people terrified to leave their homes. You want to pee in peace? Quit your fucking job.

All I have ever heard about every news story from Bill Clinton to drag shows is “it’s awful, parents have to explain this to their children, why can’t we just let kids be kids?” Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Deeply fascinated by the new wave band Trent Reznor used to play with in the 1980’s and how everyone looks so incredibly 80’s except for Trent Reznor who looks exactly the same as he always has to the point where he might as well have time traveled

We have an entire class of Democratic "leadership" that has been told that it's dangerous and extreme to say this, and that does not understand that what Democrats want is for their leaders to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. That should not be as big an ask as it apparently is.

Immortan Joan over here telling us no to get addicted to food

im getting disturbing reports that donald trump is doing exactly what he said he would and the results are exactly as disastrous as everyone said they would be

being a conservative grifter like this is crazy because how do you completely flip on one of your most central supposed beliefs like this. like this is absurd. does this not embarrassing them at all

Prior to Trump, I always thought someone could do a cutting satire of US politics with a show about a president who loses his mind while in office, and the lengths to which his party will go to justify and defend his increasingly insane pronouncements. We’re living in that show.

At about the 35-second mark the officer says "IF YOU FUCKING MOVE I'LL FUCKING TASE YOU," followed immediately by "GET OUT OF THE FUCKING CAR RIGHT NOW." Which contradictory order are you supposed to follow, knowing that either could get you tased? Or worse? bsky.app/profile/petr...

i am imposing a tariff on anyone who doesn't call me the world's greatest sex machine. i'm a reasonable man.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin bought up to $50K each in Raytheon stock (RTX) & Chevron (CVX) just days before the U.S. strike on Venezuela— Mullin sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee — I’m sure it’s just a coincidence..

Might do an entire series of Nazi photos side-by-side with contemporary ICE and CBP arrests

Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.

Oh man. It would be terrible if people started following Bovino around and playing Baby Shark. It would be terrible because he would hate it, and it would probably become his theme song, and it would make his Nazi in a long coat cosplay all the more ridiculous. So no one should do that.

americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys

I don't like living in a world where resist lib posts from 2017 are just true.

I wonder how long it will take the media to catch on to the fact that ICE’s recruiting spree has effectively deputized every white supremacist hate group out there.

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work. Really depraved shit.

Another day, another example of JD Vance having zero principles at all. I mean, other than the naked lust for power.

if you're viewing things through the dumb suicidal great powers frame and you're honest, this is such a huge failure by the US that it alone should be sufficient to turn on this administration

this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.

On my argument for social housing, the reviewer writes: "Goldstone seems unaware of the legacy of US public housing in the 1960s and 1970s... I do not understand how someone can write about today's housing crisis without knowing this history." Here are 4 pages from the book detailing that history:

They nearly killed this woman. Then they went on national TV and tried to smear her.