This will definitely fix me!

I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes: these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

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I compared the user interface in this photo to the leaked user guide I have for Mobile Fortify, and it's the same. Mobile Fortify is ICE's app for verifying someone's identity, immigration status, whether issued order of deportation. ICE says it overrides a birth certificate bsky.app/profile/donm...

This Maine community has survived demonization for the entire War on Terror. Shortly after 9/11 a conservative magazine singled it out as an example of where America was headed (shock, horror) amidst the alleged threat of Islam. (Chapter 1 of REIGN OF TERROR has more on this.)

This will definitely help ICE win over the normies, by *checks notes* making AIR TRAVEL an even worse experience. Same energy as the Trump truck convoy attempting to create traffic on the fucking Beltway.

/2 We created ICE in a flurry of post-9/11 enthusiasm for muscular terminology and reorganization, as part of creating the Department of Homeland Security. Recall being sneered at by conservative and centrist bien-pensants if you thought “Homeland Security” was ominous?

I did this if this helps: www.kirchnerreport.com/p/your-next-... I need to followup. I believe insurance companies self insure, so if they do their own repairs it might not show up on carfax that they were used to ram another car.

countdown to an ICE agent's qr code directing your device to malware starts now

Checking in with the hero of the rust belt working man to see what he's up to:

Woke up this morning half convinced It Had Happened.

We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad. This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

I know Americans have the collective memory of a goldfish, but I feel like if we chose to, we could emphasize that ICE and DHS are less than a quarter century old. They are not deep-rooted American institutions. It was the *creation* of ICE that was radical and, we now know, dangerous.

Been thinking a lot about why they're wearing jungle camo in Minnesota in January. It's to be conspicuous.

This is how we end up with a mandatory lutefisk course at Thanksgiving

The follow-up here should have been, "please explain the context which is different"

“If you call us murderers, we will have no choice but to murder you.”

Who knew this would be our best weapon in the face of fascism?

When you get to the hiking spot but it's just a paved nature trail but you're dressed like Bear Grylls.

When you show up to the point-by-only track day in a full fire suit, pilotis, and a stock STi.

Counterpoint: get fucked, buddy

"On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns." - Becca Good on her wife, the late Renee Macklin Good. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

A government of the content, by the content, for the content

One reason I favor impeaching Noem is because it's a political process for a political problem. No, this will not stop ICE enforcement action but YES it would be an opportunity to educate the public about DHS & perhaps begin to lay a foundation for dismantling it.

Our hero returns from his journey to the East, work trip complete, not to the warm embrace of his wife but instead to the traditional welcome sign.

I can’t remember being angrier.

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

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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.

CALL YOUR REPS reps.fyi

This is the only correct position, and the inevitable response from knee-jerk centrist reactionaries of "it won't work" is not a valid objection. Every member of Congress has a duty to say that what Noem has been doing is not acceptable.

I am a constituent of yours and an Iraq war vet. I voted for you. My support is contingent on you calling for Noem's impeachment, the abolishment of ICE and the breakup of DHS. I will knock on doors for a primary challenger if I have to. You're an opposition party leader. Fucking act like it.

I’m not going to lie. I’ve been writing about the War on Terror in its depravity my whole adult life. And the brazen execution of Renee Nicole Good has left me in a state since the moment I watched it.

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

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

I’m an American and I hate all of this evil shit. All of it. Fuck you if you don’t.

play this loud, play this often, play it on repeat

It's another day where the only thing you can feel is the particular mix of sadness, anger, helplessness, disappointment in the people who could do more, and the frustration of knowing the tragedy was always going to come.

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."

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

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.