Wow I bet that guy’s going to get charged with assault, I hope that doesn’t delay is debut on @cbsnews.com

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

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I spent the weekend trying to process what's happening in my city of Minneapolis, Minnesota by creating this video. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

People of Maine, how can the rest of the country help you stand up the way MN successfully did?

So, I've spent most of my professional life on what Bluesky would surely consider "the right," and I think what's going on here is that so much of the action there is top-down and ultimately donor-driven that some of these folks genuinely can't wrap their heads around...

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.

As @kenwhite.bsky.social has said before: "A government that deliberately abandons the rule of law is not morally entitled to its protections." We have eclipsed that tipping point.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Damn the soulless Nazis of Trumpism straight to Hell.

And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.

Here’s a good list of organizations who are helping folks in Minnesota. Support them!

When one side says it's raining, and one side says it isn't, your job isn't to quote both sides. Your job is to look outside and see if it's fucking raining.

sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings

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TW ⚠️ This is the pink jacket lady’s angle. (From Drop Site News) Horrific. Bovino is a stone cold liar. Pretti wasn’t attacking officers, he had just helped a lady they assaulted and had gotten pepper sprayed.

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God. Thank God we have video. Because according to DHS, these 7 heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against him or something. It's nonsense, people. It is nonsense and it's lies."

People are nervous about watching video, but this one is not of the murder, it's of the lead up, and people need to see it before the spin takes over.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

This is such an important point. This family tried to follow the rules. The distinction is going to get more important when they start mass deporting the people whose TPS status Trump revoked. They’ll call them “illegal” too, even though they were here legally until Trump yanked the rug.

Stormtroopers Who Killed Tatooine Farmers Feared for Their Lives hard-drive.net/stormtrooper...

Latest NYT video analysis. The White House is lying. Gift link.

this is the most important thing i’ve ever written goodmovie.substack.com/p/jaws

"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state." —William J. Brennan Jr., joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, & Marshall, Houston v. Hill, 1987

Also: the sentiment that law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to endure disrespect is craven, servile, and profoundly un-American. Saying is a relatively rare burst of truth from Trump,. People who agree show their ass as born bootlickers.

BREAKING Fed Chair Jerome Powell says he’s under federal investigation. The Fed chair says subpoenas and the threat of criminal charges are retaliation for refusing to set interest rates according to the president’s wishes. Story: bit.ly/4aOOWAV

She smiles at the man who shoots her and says she isn't mad at him. Clearly initiates the effort to leave when the aggressive agents arrive. The question now (not that this was in question) isn't who's telling the truth. It's when DHS had this video and knew that what they were saying was a lie.

The easiest way to defeat these goons is to embarrass them. You’d be surprised how quickly they wilt in front of a guy roasting them mixed with someone playing the fat guy tuba song as background music. They’re a bunch of fragile and scared divorced dads. Remind them of that.

A few thoughts on this important NYT analysis: First, the officer who killed Good is shown running up the *passenger* side of the car seconds before he killed her. He shot her first from the front, then the driver's side. This means he *put himself* in the path of the vehicle when he shot her.

hate it when the trump administration’s killing civilians abroad agenda is temporarily overshadowed by its shooting civilians domestically programs

Live your life in such a way that Fox won't have anything good to say about you

The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood. Scum.

Trumpists will be giving the ICE murderer awards and recognitions and honors. That’s because (1) killing someone who thinks differently than they do is their fantasy (2) most of them are too spineless to do it but (3) by praising the murderer they can murder in a fantasy-league way

1. ICE will kill you. 2. Trumpists will lie to justify it. 3. Because they are all thug trash.

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

Important context for claims that the Nicole Renee Good was obstructing/assaulting officers before she was shot & killed: The last time immigration agents shot a woman (Marimar Martinez, Chicago) they made similar claims. Prosecutors have already dropped the charges www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Look for the helpers. Faced with evil, watch for the decent people standing against it.

"Trump thrives on the ineffectiveness of his opponents. The operation in Venezuela is a warning that Trump’s imperial ambitions are growing. An ineffective anti-Trump movement is an indulgence American democracy cannot afford or accept." - @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Russia and China already know that the president of the United States is helping to clear the way for their adventures—and they should keep their faux-outrage to themselves. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

"By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors." NYT Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

I also love America and believe in its stated values. And I understand that this pronouncement lands very differently when it comes from an organization that has intentionally been overhauled in order to curry favor with a jingoistic proto-fascist who says his opponents hate the country.

2026 is off to a great start!

Andrea Pitzer, who wrote a global history of concentration camps, on why we must call a concentration camp "a concentration camp." One of the most important things I've ever worked on.

1969. CBS pulled the final Smothers Brothers episode featuring David Steinberg, but it aired without controversy on CTV in Canada. Tommy Smothers flew to Toronto and invited the media to watch it on CTV in his Yorkville hotel room. Read all about it in my new book, to be released in Nov 2026.