The Trump administration is putting together a private army of vicious thugs, and purging the real military of officers and service members who will refuse illegal orders. This isn’t the end of anything yet. 2/3

And this is an accurate statement, not an exaggeration. All of the parts of that tweet are not only technically accurate at every level, it is a meaningfully accurate description. Straightforwardly true. And so many would laugh in your face for saying it

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.

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This would be a good moment for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that Trump has lost his mind and you don’t have to cover him like he’s normal anymore.

100 percent this. Also that they have hired untrained thugs, and that this was an entirely foreseeable murder.

When people come up to me in the subway ranting like this I immediately start looking for a cop.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

Tim Walz: "I want Minnesotans to hear this from me. The desire to get out and protest and to speak up to this administration of how wrong this is -- that is a patriotic duty at this point in time. But it needs to be done safely."

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

Denny is completely correct here. I'll even go a step further and say that strictly from a craven political ambition standpoint, if you're the person who stands up to this murder and takes ICE to task and doesn't back down, you become the 2028 Dem frontrunner overnight. People yearn for a leader

An even better one would ask those objecting what qualities in a commissioner would satisfy them. But, instead, as with almost all other political stories in Australia, we get contextless accusations.

A decent journo would inquire into the political leanings of those calling for the Royal Commission and objecting to the possible choices. Even with Frydenberg, it would pay to mention his political priors, in case readers didn’t know or remember.

*the Melbourne-based zionist royal commission activist I should have said. There is no one single “Jewish community”, whatever Frydenberg says or whoever his nameless “leaders” claim to represent.

“the Prime Minister has been told directly by leaders of the Jewish community that they have serious concerns about this appointment” posted Josh Frydenberg, the zionist royal commission activist voted out of Parliament in 2022, on CASM production platform X. archive.md/2026.01.07-1...

Every day Trump gives us a brand new, fresh clean narrative we could rally behind to end his presidency. And every day, Democrats shrug it off. National ones, anyway. The local ones are more likely to recognize the moment. But it's the national ones who need to act.

On Telegram, a community of thousands are working around the clock to make Grok produce far worse. They share Grok-generated videos of real women taking their clothes off and graphic nonconsensual videos of any kind of sexual act these users can imagine and slip by Grok’s guardrails.

It's nuts what's happening. I think, for a lot of us in Europe, even if we were just to visit the US, our social media history would now be enough to get arrested, and once you're arrested, you could no longer count on a trial or legal treatment as a prisoner. Civil rights have been wiped out.

As I wrote recently in @newrepublic.com, the notion of state protectors bringing charges against federal agents acting outside the bounds of their authority is perfectly plausible and probably necessary

Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One https://theonion.com/every-trait-disqualifying-ice-agent-from-previous-jobs-ideal-for-current-one/

"Although it would be reasonable to assume that Border Patrol agents would not expose themselves to needless danger, the PERF report uncovers instances in which Border Patrol agents intentionally jeopardize their safety in order to manufacture a pretext for using lethal force." – March 11, 2014

ICE murdered a woman today because a random 23 year old MAGA nutjob was too dumb to understand how agglomeration works.

Breaking: Indian police have raided the homes and offices of high-profile Indian climate activists. Their "crime"? Campaigning against fossil fuels www.climatechangenews.com/2026/01/07/i...

shutting down a 100-year-old newspaper (with roots dating to the 1700s!) rather than pay fair wages and engage in fair labor practices

"How can you or your department remain on a platform that produces image-based sexual violence?" should be the question put to ministers. They need to be able to *justify* this decision. X is a private company; there is NO obligation or requirement for the government to continue to use it.

NOTE: This news immediately followed a Supreme Court order this morning denying the paper's shadow-docket efforts to block an injunction issued by the Third Circuit that was enforcing an NLRB unfair labor practices order relating to the paper's health insurance plans.

Because the right-wing owners are too cheap to provide health insurance and failed to get the requirement scrapped in court.

"Harris should have done more to earn our votes" they said as ICE agents shot their neighbors in the face in broad daylight.

Adding that law enforcement has killed MANY citizens, a hugely disproportionate number of them Black or Brown, in broad daylight and/or on video. The ICE agent who just murdered a woman in Mpls should be arrested immediately, but please don't think that's anything other than a shaky starting point.

The subs we cancelled (at vast cost) were a conventionally powered version of the Barracuda. LMAO.

Masked ICE agents, it seems, are now killing American citizens on American streets. Any Democrat who doesn’t support abolishing ICE should be instantly primaried and run out of the party. This is non negotiable. You cannot support the continued existence of this fascist murderous secret police.

I don't care if she didn't follow directions; I don't care if she was disrespectful; I don't care if she was noncompliant; I don't care if she spit in his face, called him ugly, and smacked his mom - "immediate execution by the state" was not warranted; jfc, this isn't complicated.

Last week, we published a story detailing ICE's strategy for recruiting new officers, including targeting "gun rights" supporters and geo-fencing ads around gun shows. Ex-ICE director told me: “That mentality you’re fostering tends to inculcate in people a certain aggressiveness" wapo.st/3Ngmo9C

ICE just murdered a woman here in Minneapolis. A legal observer. Shot her multiple times while she drove away as ordered. She was a US citizen. Absolute, unequivocal, cold-blooded murder by Trump’s gestapo. Abolish ICE, jail for everyone in charge. This is the lowest bar we accept now.

the nyt says that no version of events in minneapolis can be "verified independently." but that's not true! there are multiple videos proving that the ICE version of events is a total lie. maybe the nyt can, y'know, watch one of them? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures... For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

I realize this is a story from like 50 years ago in internet time, but I wrote about how it was journalistic malpractice for major news orgs to claim that "Grok apologized" when it literally CANNOT do that, and there is no sign that xAI has made a single change to its deepfake porn generator.

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

in MN: anything short of prosecution for murder is capitulation to authoritarianism. in DC: anything short of denying every last vote for ICE funding is a violation of their oaths of office

I agree but I want to stress that they ARE reacting quickly.

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

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.

Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

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