The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.

I’m here for the positivity today. Tomorrow I want us to say to ourselves, “six guys brutally beat that man, shot him half a dozen times, and then lied about it on national television. they were probably prison guards, since that’s the population ICE recruits from. I wonder what goes on in prisons”

Just remembered that a cabinet-level official tweeted out “ICE > MN” yesterday. Incredible how after all this the Trump administration still manages to perpetually shock us with the depths of its contempt for the people it purports to govern

My view is that when the most obtuse people in the world finally see and say things that should have been obvious it is a good thing. you can still think that they suck and distrust their very bad judgment.

Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents? Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?

On both the Renee Good and Alex Pretti situations: If the federal agents ever had to go under oath in front of jury questioned by a real lawyers about what they did they would get absolutely destroyed. They are only getting away with this because the govt won’t allow that.

Policing is a less dangerous job than being a roofer, grounds maintenance worker, delivery driver, or “miscellaneous agriculture worker” & has been for decades: www.bls.gov/charts/censu...

I understand the sentiment and desire to come here and I appreciate it but you could and should organize to run ICE out of your area

This is the only legitimate stance if our belief in innocent until proven guilty. If, in Blackstone’s formulation, “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer,” how much more strongly must that apply to public servants entrusted to wield lethal state power?

Contemporary policing is done under the motto of “the number duty of the cop is to go home at the end of the day.” For discussion of this “oft quoted & deeply ingrained sentiment in police circles” & exactly this problem, see: www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/ja...

I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.

Classic abuser language. *makes unfounded assertion that vindicates their actions* “But that’s not true.” “Let’s not argue about the framing.”

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

"Why are they dressed like that?" @captmarkkelly.bsky.social says of ICE agents. Full interview with Kelly here: open.spotify.com/episode/019T...

This is why they keep looking for who is funding the protestors. Their inability to understand their opposition will take them down.

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

For "One First," I wrote about DOJ's unprecedented attempt to secretly strong-arm a widely respected district judge in the Cities Church protest case—and why everyone, especially other federal judges, should read Chief Judge Schiltz's two letters in response: www.stevevladeck.com/p/205-chief-...

Trump administration: “Alex Pretti was a demotic terrorist who planned to massacre as many immigration officers as he could.” Alex Pretti’s last words: “Are you okay?”

It's true that when a government becomes tyrannical it is the duty of the citizens to overthrow it and form a new one. It's just that the people who have been saying it in my lifetime have been saying it in response to stuff like the existence of Hannukah, and Black people, and the Spanish language.

State terror has arrived..gifted article… www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

The story is not that there are two conflicting versions of what happened. The story is that the federal government is lying about what happened. There is plenty of evidence. Your job, our job, is to sift that evidence and describe what actually happened ffs.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

I actually think abolishing ICE *is* worth shutting down the government over. Grind all business to a halt in Congress. Nothing should get done so long as ICE is part of any funding bill. THAT'S what you can do now, @democrats.org.

The first professional police force in the US began in 1838 in Boston. In 1854 only three cities had police forces: NYC, Philly, and Boston.

the fact that the NRA is offering even this incredibly mild level of resistance is significant. People do not like what they are seeing.

Please note that NYT is leading with what the videos show, not the lies from the feds. This is what every news organization should be doing. This is how you cover a government that lies as it breathes. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice

The NRA is a gun rights organization the way the Ku Klux Klan is a speech rights organization.

“[The TRO] is an astounding order that reflects the Trump administration’s complete failure to govern for the people, a horrifying reality.” I hope the judges on the 8th Circuit are forever haunted by their stay that allowed this invasion to continue to escalate.

You’re watching the administration lose control of the narrative in real time. The more they show their supporters that they don’t give a shit about their gun rights, the worse it gets. I’ve seen over a dozen right-wing commentators call out the propaganda. That’s progress.

A state government is having to file an emergency lawsuit to be able to ensure that the federal government is not actively obstructing justice.

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump is an empty husk motivated by power, money, and flattery. They show him fake news all day for a reason. Miller specifically gets off on seeing people being hurt and killed, regardless of how popular it is.

Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

Really want the academics and think tanks to start churning out pdfs on what tribunals and truth and reconciliation commissions look like. Political leaders are absolutely not going to come up with this on their own. Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.

You will learn much about the moral center of your church by the sermons you hear in them tomorrow.

If it wasn’t clear before then it must be so now: folk are risking their lives to document the Regime’s pogrom & fascist occupation and risking their lives to defend their neighbors and themselves against fascist stormtroopers carrying out a pogrom.

But the biggest indication is the way the ICE thugs react after the shots. They don't try to arrest him or secure the gun, they either back away or run away. They immediately knew it was a crime and tried to distance themselves.

I'm hesitant to call out the govt claims because it almost gives them too much credibility, but I think you have to call out even obvious lies. He clearly wasn't brandishing, you can see both his empty hands on the ground while they're beating him...

How many January 6 insurrectionists were armed? Is the position now that Capitol police could have shot them all? Just trying to keep up

Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c 1. continuing, not 1 off. 2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it 3. literally at hand of federal government, which is 4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

miller is regularly blamed but vance is not held to any account at all for having started the chain of events that got us here

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

I’m completely fed up with elected Representatives saying shit like, “Republicans will tell you behind closed doors that they don’t agree with what ICE is doing”. Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists. Name them, record them, and make it public.

I want the Truth and Consequences commission to be so memorable people assume they named the town in New Mexico after it fellowtravelersblog.com/2018/03/13/a...

The office of state governor, much less any citizen, is neither subordinate to nor required to “support”, obey, or otherwise offer fealty to the U.S. president, whether to the office or the person occupying* it. *illegitimately, in this case, as Constitutionally barred from serving

This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota. He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

With that mind, here’s some righteous leadership from someone who didn’t ask to lead bsky.app/profile/cjze...

DOJ lies. DHS lies. ICE lies. That has been established. Do not repeat their claims as fact. Their claims are arguments or, often, misleading propaganda — when not outright lies. They are seeking to make a case for their lawlessness (and to please Trump), not seeking to inform.