What’s wrong with this picture? Kristi Noem and Tom Homan: “what picture?”

Look how well stuffing 340M+ people into just 2 political parties is working? It’s not a solution, but diluting and diffusing the binary disgust our population each has for the only other party would help a lot. Let’s try 3-5 legit parties, rank choice voting everywhere, & shorter seasons for less $

Daily reminder: as we approach the too-bloody-long campaign season: it is a choice not necessity— that we have 2 parties, Each naturally breeds bjnary hate for the other. This is the Tyranny of the Binary. We need 3-5 legit parties, to represent people who don’t fit under either “Big Tent”.

It's all so "she made me do it" blaming the victim, and this iteration closely echoes a previous admin. one. Rhetoric justifies bloodshed in this frame, and his rhetoric uses the passive tense/vagueness to avoid saying 'we will shed blood.'

On mainstream news, GOP apologists are still indignantly talking about how the authority of ICE/CBP as “legit law enforcement” is still being usurped by protesters. They miss the whole point. CNP and ICE are NOT acting like legit law enforcement. Until they do, they have no authority. Remove them.

Today in Fulton County Georgia, the FBI is back on an election ballot hunt for (surprise!) election 2020 ballots. These have been apparently counted 3 separate times, the results yielding similar results. How many more times will these be counted? I think the 2020 election is really over.

I don’t think the power of this notion is appreciated: neighborhood. Take care of each other at this scale, this level, and repurpose the culture from inside out, from the ground up. I’ve always said: upper levels have a role, but they won’t save you. With cooperation, you and your neighbors will.

I wish this weren’t funny. Ironic, paradoxically, twisted sad funny, Mot funny. Bon Voyage to El Centro.

One key lesson for me from the Battle of Minneapolis, underneath it all but at times forgotten: The whole creaky rotten edifice of our collective Immigration policies, procedures, protocols MUST be made more sane, humane, compassionate. We can’t keep ignoring this away.

It turns out that when the good guys do have guns they still get shot in the back by Federal thugs.

This is basically it, except they forgot a few.. Blackfeet/ Blood, Salish, Kootenai, Chippewa Little Shell, etc etc.

The Minnesota v. Noem hearing is beginning before Judge Katherine Menendez. Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul are seeking a TRO today to stop Operation Metro Surge.

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Ironic isn’t it? Had an ICE thug been hurt at the very same location 5 minutes earlier, Alex would have dropped everything to save his life. But 5 minutes later….

A brief winter respite. Amid the human’s chaos, the owls and woodpeckers remain.

You know why we’ve spent the last 10 years hearing republicans telling us, ‘they’re coming for your guns’? Because, as it turns out, republicans were coming for your guns.

ICE is out of control. Another shooting death in South Minneapolis. ICE cannot remain the on-scene arbiters for “capital offenses”; this is utter madness. The unraveling is accelerating. How long will the GOP majority and SCOTUS take joy in this “winning”, this smug “owning the libs”?

ICE idea of citizen safety? substack.com/@theglassyvi...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Yes it is. Love, dedication and recognition of the moment. (And unpaid of course!) . There are a lot of people in the neighboring Upper Tier and Western states rooting for you too.

Now.. the ICE road show extends over to Portland Maine. And who knows where after that? as our elected but calcified, inert Congressional majority sits on idle. Oh, and SCOTUS… Guessing we can expect the same enshitification. Reminiscent of: “the beatings will continue.. until morale improves”.

ICE: “well, why not??” substack.com/@jasminesjus...

On Jack Smith hearings: there is not a single congressman that has brought up or articulated why their uniquely empowered body has done basically NOTHING this whole DT term, except pass the horrendous Big Bad Budget Bill. They could explain why they are the 1st congress to yield all authority to DT

My suspicions become true. The anticipated Jack Smith hearings will not yield better insights. Critics of Trump know —no one sane can defend him, given his malevolence, insanity, & cult support. The fans of Trump repeat lies, half truth’s, fantasies, crafty omissions, confusing repetition as truth.

on today’s Jack Smith hearing, It’s mind boggling to hear so much judicious cherry picking by earnest GOP panelists of “flaws” in the investigation, circular logic to defend Trump at any cost or means, and most importantly, gigantic Errors of Omission. So far, just bizarre political theater.

Watch Gym Jordan’s theatre/fund-raising campaign-ad efforts try to re litigate the J6 Hearing, not the Case. He doesn’t discuss refute ANY evidence pertinent to Trump. Just hammers on the errant noise around the case— classic argument ad hominem. I hope this Jack Smith hearing ends up having value.

Are we “winning” enough yet? Is this what MAGA means by “owning the Libs”?

Yea, a living hell. And MAGA folk in Red states like Montana (safe at home and so far, largely absent of ICE) keep saying: “well, stay out of their way while they’re ‘just doing their job’ and you won’t be bothered..” and “Just comply and you’ll be fine”. Uh, no! Wait until it’s your child.

Many US corporatists are relieved we “won’t be using force to capture” Greenland. So—the idea a relived population is now to be comforted by, that we should instead BUY it (via BS extortion) is equally preposterous. Yet the “why not” US fanboi sez “wow! that’s a good fallback!” No! We DON’T NEED it!

David Irwin (CNN) “Obama and Clinton also profited big from their presidencies.. so, we can’t pick on Trump for HIS grift ! ($1.4B+ grift just the first year) Me: , [I’m not defending Clinton or Obama here; if they did something wrong, call’em out!) BUT .. does that excuse DT’s Massive grifts?

Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."

Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland

This insightful new Sarah Kendzior interview with Mark Thompson and captures the Greenland moment perfectly and in context. Mike Johnson and his Congress bros do not have a clue, but could rein this in starting right now. youtu.be/FyjQ5CUS1V8?...

Next ICE will go after adopted non-white children (naturalized citizens) that “just don’t look right”. And try to Deport them back to their country of origin, where no one there actually knows them. No worries? they’ll just have to figure it out on arrival. Not!!

Kristi Noem: “10,000 + illegal immigrants have been arrested in Minnesota, with 3000 of them in the last few weeks. A) how true is this? Pretty doubtful, given how she lies. B) how have these arrests made any of us “safer”, in Minnesota, or the US at large? Her “safety metric” is totally imaginary.

Local LEO ordered to surrender? Doesn’t this sound like a battle from the Civil War? What about the (Federal) armed forces rule about not obeying illegal orders? We can only hope that some of the top military generals and leadership remember they came from actual American neighborhoods too.

Senator Red Cruz yesterday (on Taking/ Extorting Greenland):”bit, bit… America has *always* been a nation dedicated to acquiring foreign territory!”. Well, true nuf What he left out: ..that doesn’t mean it’s right “, or that we should continue being that nation. Cruz has always been despicable.

Lucy In the Bluesky with diamonds

Aaron Douglas. “Boy with toy airplane”, 1938

Retribution—it’s what’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner. McDonald’s will soon name a meal after him; the Double-Down Retribution Burger.

Further to Peter Manson kindly sharing the brilliant Hamlet song by Adam McNaughtan , here it is by Martin Carthy for sassenach ears www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Ob...

It’s been a really tough week. Now Minnesota Gov Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Frey are being investigated, subpoenaed by DOJ & The Regime, for spoken statements equated to “impeding law enforcement”. WTF?!! It is all about 1930’s style intimidation. Which cities will be occupied next, for same BS??

Remember: it started with the DOGE private information theft (everyone’s ID and IRS tax records and status) and the subsequent draconian NSPM-9 initiatives. This illegal info access enables ICE to selectively target whoever they want. In between their random opportunistic sweeps and stops.

Remember that the assertion that the US must grab Greenland before China and Russia do is a lie, and so is the argument about security. It's about delusional grasping imperial greed.

Bluesky’ers.. read this when you can. open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...

There shouldn’t be a Department of Homeland Security. It’s a grab bag of various agencies under a dangerously murky heading which can and now has been co-opted for a fascist transition. Abolish ICE and redistribute the other agencies.

Senate Republicans blocked the war powers resolution on the same day that officials from Greenland and Denmark were pleading with the U.S. not to invade. They are knowingly and willingly bringing the U.S. closer to a world war.

To all my EU family.. this Sabre rattling re Greenland is NOT what the vast majority of Americans want—our apologies for Dear Leader’s behavior. As Canada, Sweden, and others in EU amass military in Greenland.. my sincere hope is that nothing comes to fruition.

Amid the US chaos, let’s not forget Ukraine. They’re going through it. In rubble.