i firmly believe — like you would have to give me hard evidence to convince me otherwise — that they feed trump a steady diet of AI slop

I just watched two women get kidnapped right in front of me in Northeast Minneapolis. ICE is still terrorizing our city.

Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock? Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?

oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term

Weighing evidence is fine but it’s wild how US media never starts from the presumption that cops should never shoot citizens dead

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

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

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

Sharing this video from Twitter, apparently of the victim's wife, and of a doctor being turned away. Really upsetting, be warned x.com/TheJFreakinC...

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.

What I observed today is ICE agents wildly driving through the streets, doubling the speed limit, passing cars on narrow roads. Stopping randomly in the middle of the street. ICE's goal is making mayhem.

Minneapolis Council Member Robin Wonsley and other local officials are on scene where witnesses say ICE shot an observer, the officials say theyre trying to get MPD to get ICE out of the scene. Chief Brian O'Hara is present.

Elected Dems are going to be tweeting "how does this lower the price of eggs" while mushroom clouds dot the horizon

👇 read the whole thread Minority rule and the breakdown of church and state has been on overdrive since Trump 1.0, and local and state politics is where people can fight back against U.S. authoritarianism.

“It’s like a hydra effect. They’ve planted seeds for a vine & now the vine’s taking off in all the directions it wants to go.” New story @inthesetimes.com & @hechingerreport.org on how the Independence Law Center spread anti-trans school policies across PA & how they continue to spread on their own.

“I think it’s very obvious, but if something has to be taking place in secrecy, I’m not sure it can be good for our students.” @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social reports on parents trying to avoid an anti-LGBTQ legal case that could go to the conservative Supreme Court.

I wrote a book about January 6 and what I called the "slow civil war" in which it was a battle, called The Undertow. In 2022 Vanity Fair published an excerpt of the in-progress called "January 6 Was Only the Beginning." I think we really nailed that headline... www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06...

a textbook example of far right normalisation. The energy of the moral panic and monstrous fantasies transfigured into everyday doxa

“It’s like a hydra effect. They’ve planted seeds for a vine & now the vine’s taking off in all the directions it wants to go.” New story @inthesetimes.com & @hechingerreport.org on how the Independence Law Center spread anti-trans school policies across PA & how they continue to spread on their own.

It’s sobering to look back on the run-up to the Iraq war—a period of unceasing chattering-class debate, elaborate official lies, media complicity, unavailing global protest, in the end a giant stitch-up—and have it seem like some sort of paradise of public deliberation compared to these gangsters.

I am reminded here to tap the sign encouraging you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free newsrooms how and where you are able

My friend @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social and I wrote a story on the left-to-right slide for In These Times. Some were not so ersatz, as the very archives of ITT demonstrated. inthesetimes.com/article/form...

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Was in SoHo earlier and the cadres were already fully differentiated by ideology and had selected comrades to lead a purge.

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Honestly I chose the wrong pull quote for the post. The right one is: “by making bigotry explicit, Trump and his closest imitators create a permission structure for people to be their worst selves.”

I’m interrupting my incessant quoting from @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social ‘s THE CHILD CATCHERS with a post in praise of the book. It’s amazingly thoroughly researched. It’s about the Christian “orphan care” movement but it also tells you about the Baby Scoop, CPCs, Utah’s notoriety, and so much else. +

Ok, I don't usually do this, but the Molly Worthen piece on Christian Nationalism in the NYT? Apologetics. I'm on Xmas break and I don't feel like wasting my time breaking this down but let me just say this: WHO IS WE? Because some of us get Christian Nationalism, the NAR, and Dominionism.

"Designating antifascist organizing as foreign terrorism could unleash a limitless repressive arsenal, and the government is happy to apply the label to the most diverse targets—from Greek anarchists to Americans blowing whistles at immigration raids.” New from @alfatau.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com

Watching the spiked 60 Minutes episode on YouTube, thanks to @phillewis.bsky.social. It's not like the Trump admin didn't have its say. At about 4:15 mark, there is footage of Trump saying CECOT was "great facilities, very strong facilities" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lenF...

especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

I have never, once in my career, heard of a news org responding to a decline-to-comment with, “Well, we’ll hold it until you do.” The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.

I’m rereading @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social ‘s 2013 book _The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption_, and with her hoped- for forgiveness, I’m going to make a thread out of a passage in the book which explains why the concept of #adoption as “orphan rescue” is dubious. +

Birtherism, but make it administration policy.

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

This is ever more evidence of the shrinking influence of white evangelicals in Trump's second term (as opposed to rad trads and groypers and Millerites and broligarchs etc). International adoption by evangelical families is literally an article of faith. See: @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social

this is what happens when elite institutions are in part run by the dumbest group chats in the world. whatever the information bubble you live in, it's not nearly as stupid as the one that whoever greenlighted this book or any coverage of it lives in.

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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

New meeting of Trump's "Religious Liberty Commission" is starting. Today's focus is "religious liberty in the military" to highlight alleged anti-Christian bias in military. That's backward, especially now. Hegseth's creating problematic Christian bias: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/pentagon-p...

This story by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social & @thomasbirm.bsky.social is wild. Private equity landlords are fighting the growing tenant union movement with all the familiar tools of traditional union busting, and then some—from police harassment & counterprotests to bouncy castles & fake tenant groups.

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

Jesus

Wow. A must read.

This is unnecessary in a country as wealthy as ours.

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A new @inthesetimes.com investigation by @ottavias.bsky.social w/ @typeinvestigations.org uncovers Texas “boarding homes” where disabled & elderly people face neglect, abuse & exploitation. As the US faces the largest healthcare cuts in its history, Texas' disastrous system is a warning for us all.

As the United States faces the largest healthcare cuts in its history, Texas presents a frightening vision of the future of long-term care. @ottavias.bsky.social reports in partnership with @inthesetimes.com: www.typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...