Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Saturday. Again, every time someone says "Trump can't do that" the only serious response is "Yes, he can, until Congress removes him"

A significant majority of the $75 billion that Congress gave ICE in the OBBBA will go to private companies that operate most of the machinery of mass deportations; they staff and provide the prisons, they drive the buses, and they own and fly the planes. They are all set to cash in massively.

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

This is correct. MN officials are the ones appealing for calm. The White House is demanding obedience.

So I watched the shooting video frame by frame and it looks like: 1) They were beating a struggling man with batons 2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back 3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away 4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back

If only we as a country, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence, had some historical events from our founding era that might help us understand why agents of a distant government shouldn’t murder protesters on the streets of the city where they live.

As the other E Higgins points out, he looks like he was disarmed prior to the shooting bsky.app/profile/eoin...

I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street. If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.

DHS said in October that "comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences." After I found one of their lawyers for ICE is a racist and a self-described fascist who has praised Hitler, there have been no consequences.

Fight and help win a world war. Establish a global order that cements your national power for 80 years. Blow it all up. What am I missing?

Have helped guard a local mosque during their Friday prayers. Been very cold but Somali restaurant offers us delicious, warm tea constantly. Members expressed much gratitude & confidence this ugly time will pass.

Media reports say two battalions of the US Army's 11th Airborne Division (aka the "Arctic Angels"), who specialize in cold weather warfare, are on standby for possible deployment to Minnesota.

The White House wants a civil war and they are taking steps to implement one. Democrats who can't recognize or accept that are incapable of leading.

Leadership need not come from the House or Senate. Governors would be better. Barring that, big city mayors. Even influential activists. But it cannot be these two.

I said this morning that we would win. But we will lose — and lose badly — if the opposition party doesn't recognize the gravity of the situation. Schumer and Jeffries must be supplanted as the party leadership's center of gravity. It's vital. They're not capable of leading us through this.

These soldiers come from two infantry battalions, officials say. White House does not confirm but official there says it's typical for the Pentagon "to be prepared for any decision the President may or may not make." Move comes after Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act on Thursday.

About 1,500 soldiers w/ 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed on prepare-to-deploy orders with a mission in Minnesota in mind, defense officials tell me tonight. Unclear if some or all of them ultimately will go. News reported tonight by ABC News, too.

Her mother called 911 for help… and got turned into ICE instead. They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone. ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them. Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.

Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, officials say www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account. Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

ICE detained people while waiting in line at a food pantry. Again, ICE DETAINED PEOPLE WHILE WAITING IN LINE AT A FOOD PANTRY.

Oh, and if anyone was confused. You build houses for the unhoused. Not kill them. Thank you.

Guantanamo today has 15 wartime prisoners, all held in one facility run by a Pentagon staff of 800 military police and other government workers. A look at the operation that began 24 years ago with these first 20 prisoners, one of whom is still there today. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

Who is this guy? He just threatened to murder a woman on camera. He should be arrested by local authorities for menacing.

🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

My favorite part of the US doing horrible shit is every time it happens there is a segment of the population who says "this isn't who we are!" As though they are 12 years old.

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Truly wild that 2 of the 4 charges being put forward against Maduro and others charged are based on US gun laws that literally wouldnt apply in another sovereign nation. Absolutely silly shit. www.nbcmiami.com/news/nationa...

Question that needs to be asked and answered: "If this was an 'arrest operation,' as in law enforcement, then how do you feel about 40 civilians being killed in the process?"

You were saying?

They fired all the generals who wouldn't go along, then they kicked all the reporters out of the Pentagon.

If Nicolás Maduro stands trial in the United States and gets convicted of 34 felonies, does that mean he’s qualified to be our next president now? Just checking what the standards are these days.

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

Anybody tracking Congressional statements on Trump's illegal war and kidnapping?

Pissing off the entire world and then setting the precedent that it's cool to kidnap heads of state is certainly a choice.

If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

"The former entertainer" lmao

Fudali: This is what we call in the civil litigation world a document dump, where you hide things in plain sight by throwing out a massive volume of documents with zero context, no order, no rhyme or reason, and then force the people who actually want information to dig through it.

Remember this? James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.” Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.” www.mediaite.com/politics/att...

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to allow a House vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits, even as a discharge petition is in place that should force the issue. When the credits expire, millions of Americans will see their health insurance premiums rise.

This is the type of thread that only gets written if you're unaware that the VA healthcare system already exists. Or that it provides healthcare for millions of Americans. Or that it consistently generates higher patient satisfaction numbers and better clinical outcomes than the private sector.