This is not the law.

Early in 2025 @kicamatos.bsky.social said, "the road to authoritarianism is paved with attacks on immigrants" and it's been echoing in my head every day since.

BREAKING: The Hennepin County District Attorney's office says they have jurisdiction to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal Minneapolis shooting.

Congress, not the president, has the power to decide when and against whom the United States goes to war. It’s a core component of our constitutional system of checks and balances. bit.ly/49bZRDC

The head of Minnesota's state investigations agency says the U.S. attorney's office has cut off its access in the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent. https://to.pbs.org/4qD81KW

45 seconds after the shooting, in the same video, the camera app appears to be visible on the agent’s phone as he walks away from Good’s vehicle.

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Links in his thread.

The anger you are feeling over Trump's ICE murdering Renee Nicole Good, then smearing her as a terrorist and now blocking the Minn investigation is all designed to get you to commit an act of violence. All fascist regimes need that excuse to suspend civil liberties. We can't give them that excuse.

Minn AG Keith Ellison slams JD Vance saying on Fox News Wednesday night that "America has a Somali problem." Ellison called this comment by Vance As "Third Reich shit."

Big blubbery babyman got his ass kicked in the Senate today and he's pissed.

‼️ Emily Heller, who was an eyewitness, is now speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. ht: @yfcg.bsky.social

I've been writing about this at @hopiumchronicles.bsky.social. It's now clear Trump doesn't believe the Constitution, domestic law, the UN Charter, international law, or Senate ratified treaties apply to him; and that he has crowned himself Emperor of the Americas, Lord of the Western Hemisphere.

First, they lied about what we saw on video when ICE killed Renee Good. Now, they're politicizing the investigation by freezing out Minnesota authorities, so the full truth may never see the light of day. They are breaking our country. We must continue demanding accountability.

Last night we saw Minnesota meet this moment. We saw a beautiful vigil. We saw thousands of Minnesotans demonstrate peacefully. Let’s keep it that way - stay peaceful, stay safe.

I’m re-upping this because we need to focus.No country should allow masked enforcement officers to terrorize communities. But this country’s history makes this practice ESPECIALLY repugnant. So long as we allow anonymity & impunity there will be brutality. NO MASKS open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Wow, they are clearly worried the wheels are coming off their thing....what an incredible and pathetic embarrassment this is for the Republican Party.

Funding cuts by the Trump administration represent a departure from long-standing bipartisan support for criminal justice research and data collection — the cuts undermine that work and, by extension, public safety. bit.ly/3Y4QGP2

FLASH: Sen Thom Tillis (R-NC) is on Senate floor and he's about to make a motion for "unanimous consent" to expedite the hanging of the January 6th plaque at the Capitol To honor the police heroes

Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."

Swalwell: You better believe that accountability is coming. Immunity is going to be stripped. And to Kristi Noem, Tom “Cashbag” Homan, Greg Bovino—your asses are going to be in these witness chairs.

We've heard your concerns, Illinois. Families are paying more to keep the lights on, and Trump's only making it worse. With the steps we're taking, residents today will benefit from new jobs and lower prices and residents tomorrow will benefit from a stronger power grid.

Imo we really let people off the hook unjustly when we don’t attempt to campaign in certain places. I feel like we need to set the expectation that Americans should not be voting for the GOP anytime or anywhere.

this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy

Tim Walz dropping out of the race for a third term is the direct result of Republican threats to kill his entire family after they had already murdered one of his state’s representative and her husband. — Anyone still believe both parties are the same?

My friend @charlotteclymer.bsky.social has written about Mark Kelly’s distinguished military career. This is not to be missed. open.substack.com/pub/charlott...

Stephen Miller sounds so f-ing crazy and unhinged in this interview. Just watch. Lunatics are running the country.

Chris Murphy: "At some level he's winning tonight because clearly part of his intent here was to distract the American people -- you and I -- from what's happening here at home. You have 20 million families who are getting massive increases in their healthcare premiums. People will die."

Did Trump also kidnap the Epstein Files? Whatever happened with the DOJ’s requirement to release the files, explain the redactions, and catalog everything they had?

The faces of greedy warmonger imperialism.

Amid the tumult caused by one invasion with several more threatened, Trump is hoping Americans will forget about the Epstein files, which should be called the Trump Files since he is going to such great lengths to keep them hidden. Don't let Trump distract us. Demand that the files be released!

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for these Carrot Candles. Have you ever tried to burn a carrot and been disappointed by how not flammable it is? I never have. That would be a weird thing to be disappointed by. Anyway, these candles are neat. collabs.shop/bcbrki

“Are you still talking about Epstein?”

It's been nearly an entire year since the President promised federal disaster relief to the people of Los Angeles that he's never delivered. What are you waiting for, Donald Trump?

Approval of Maduro removal so far: 40% - Washington Post 34% - YouGov 33% - Ipsos/Reuters So far it's at or below Trump's overall approval rating, and Americans are not rallying behind his Imperial flag.

Read the whole thread. Gregg is right. It’s NOT a question of “experts disagree.” I’ve been working in medicine, medical journalism or global health for 32 years & know a LOT of health professionals—I do not know a *single one* who supports RFK Jr’s dangerous dismantling of the US vaccine system.

Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.

From Hopium: - The ridiculous Donroe Doctrine makes America less prosperous, less safe, and less free - we need to fight it - Trump has apparently declared himself Emperor of the Americas - VZ emigre: "We are not free. We just changed the regime's leader" 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-ridicu...

We must act fast to ensure Trump doesn’t run Venezuela. Join our emergency organizing call with @moveon.org, @workingfamilies.org, @publiccitizen.bsky.social, @winwithoutwar.bsky.social, and more special guests to discuss the immediate actions you can take to stop more endless war.

Every word of this.

This is the thing I want to say to everyone who says “why won’t someone do something?!” Lots of people are doing this ⬇️ and also YOU CAN BE ONE OF THEM.

Spend a minute with excerpts from the transcript of Jack Smith’s testimony - released on New Year’s Eve.

The gender studies coursework (and critical race theory) that I took in college and then law school has proved far more useful than many of my advisors at the time ever thought it would be. Once you understand how it all links together, it’s impossible to unsee it.

This sucks. I find it heartbreaking. I spent Friday nights watching CPB/PBS with my dad growing up (yes, Washington Week in Review; I started early).

Spotify is running ads to help recruit for the regime’s secret police. Don’t use Spotify until the ICE ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

“So force is on the table?” is…… NOT the logical or nominally probing question that should have followed from Miller’s utterly unhinged statement.

What a catastrophe.

This is a strategy trial lawyers use all the time to put an opponent in a weaker position even if you lose some. Flooding the zone goes both ways, the Hill is packed with lawyers, and there is no reason to not flood the zone with articles of impeachment. The Overton window won’t move itself.

Awwww: Vivek Ramaswamy Leaves Social Media After Angering Republicans With Speech. In other words Vivek told the GOP to stop being white supremacists and they drove him off social media for saying that. Vivek thought he was one of them. They will always hate him www.mediaite.com/politics/viv...