When FBI agents killed white separatist Vicki Weaver while trying to take her criming husband into custody, it fueled the anti-government militia movement that formed one tributary into today's MAGA right, which is shrugging off today's state murder of Renee Good. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ri...

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

This is precisely the story I've been thinking about all day, and how these fascists launched this occupation after successfully standing down the federal government in a case with the Bureau of Land Management where they were in the wrong, but a Democratic admin caved because they were armed.

The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...

This is also why they spent so much time talking about the Insurrection Act in ‘24/‘25. They thought there would be mass unrest when Trump won again, and they were almost disappointed when it didn’t happen.

More seriously, kudos to John Miller for explaining that the ICE agent shooter didn’t follow DHS policy by stepping in front of a moving vehicle and shooting at a moving vehicle. Hadn’t seen any other “expert” say that on other news coverage I’ve watched.

CNN graphics put the asterisk in the wrong place, it appears…

Will be on with Chris Hayes in a few. So far, his show has been righteous fury, as you would expect and hope.

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

Millions of Americans watched a middle-aged US citizen get shot in the face and killed by an ICE officer today. That's a level of national trauma that deserves a more respectful response from this administration than falsely claiming she's a domestic terrorist. We have lost our moral compass.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

The image of the blood-soaked airbag next to the glove compartment overflowing with stuffed animals is going to stick with me for a very long time.

Among other things, what's so terrible about Noem's language labeling an innocent civilian a domestic terrorist is it creates an explicit permission structure and encourages individual agents to be more violent. Combined with ICE's lowered recruiting standards, it will absolutely make things worse.

“You have a right to flee for your safety, and so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that’s their fault for impinging on you.” - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, June 2025

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

Really worth watching this interview with a bystander who witnessed the ICE shooting in Minneapolis: "I'm pretty right-leaning. But seeing this, this is not how we're supposed to be doing things in America.”

I am a simple person who thinks that telling the truth about things is important. I watched the video footage of this shooting, and the killing is casual and unhurried. DHS and aligned political actors are very ready to present a story of rushed, panicked violence, and it just is not true.

She had stuffed animals in her glove box.

Literally yesterday Trump and MAGA were celebrating Jan. 6 rioters who maimed cops and said Ashli Babbitt was "murdered in cold blood." Today they're saying it's good and righteous for a federal office to shoot an unarmed woman in a car driving away.

This glib statement is all the more risible when you recall how many law enforcement officers used their vehicles as weapons against protesters in 2020... and how many Republican-dominated states *sought to legalize killing protesters with vehicles* as a reaction to the demonstrations

This is some real, Severance-level dystopian corporate behavior…

Reinventing colonial mercantilism to own the libs

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

Kristi Noem's old boasts of shooting dogs, horses and goats sticks in my mind today

“.. they carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," Heller said. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes." “This was horrific and will change my life forever,” she said. “I feel so scared." @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

remains striking the extent to which trump quite loudly does not see himself as president of the united states and more as a clan leader for his supporters

Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot & killed by an ICE agent, had a young son whose father died in 2023, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune “There’s nobody else in his life,” the boy’s grandfather told the paper. “I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come get my grandchild.” www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

"Lawmakers said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in closed briefings about Venezuela on Wednesday, said that the money generated by the sale of Venezuelan oil would not be deposited in the U.S. Treasury."

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

Protest sign on Route 4 in Paramus, New Jersey reads “ICE murders woman in MN”

Specifically, watch for people to point to some of the very posts on this platform, and to public statements calling the ICE agent a murderer, to claim they are incitement or stochastic terrorism and outside First Amendment protection and advocate prosecution

You know it was an "act of terrorism" because the homeland security secretary has camouflaged and sandbagged her lectern.

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

“The photo slowly became a joke in her friend group and even turned into a meme with the words “the gringos have arrived!” written over it.” apnews.com/article/vene...

Last week, we published a story detailing ICE's strategy for recruiting new officers, including targeting "gun rights" supporters and geo-fencing ads around gun shows. Ex-ICE director told me: “That mentality you’re fostering tends to inculcate in people a certain aggressiveness" wapo.st/3Ngmo9C

I just want a nation that tries harder not to put the public welfare in the hands of shithearts

DHS's first official statement is out, and they call the woman who was shot a domestic terrorist who they claim was trying to kill an ICE agent. As a reminder, Tricia McLaughlin's post-shooting statements have been proven to be false MULTIPLE times in the past. They are simply not trustworthy.

Remember not to say anything on social media you wouldn't want read to a grand jury.

Do you know who Willie Horton is? What about Laken Riley? How is it that you came to know these things? Ok, now. Without googling, how many Jan 6 rioters have recidivated? Been charged with violent or child-sex crimes? What are their names? Who were their victims? More on the disparity here.

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

We cannot say enough: This is insane. Just insanity start to finish.

NEW: @carolinehaskins.bsky.social obtained records documenting the aftermath of RFK Jr. dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park (to "be fun," he's said), including photos. Our paywall is down on this story per our policy on stories based on public records requests.

The oil will pay for it. Also, the taxpayers will pay the oil people to build the infrastructure to take the oil that's supposed to pay for it. Also, nobody's going to be paying for it

The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

it's the little things, isn't it

WATCH: "The stuff we’re playing with here is kind of the core of what starts world wars. I don’t think that’s an overstatement," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Trump's push to acquire Greenland.

Q: Where do you keep your gun? A:

cbs news is giving us a great natural experiment into what happens to your business if you marginalize your existing consumers to go after a new market that hates your product. interesting strategy

Been reading a lot of newspaper front pages from the 1930s lately and this NYT newsrail from today echoes a bunch of them

Department of Interior says if you put a sticker over Trump's face on your national park entrance pass, the pass will be invalidated. Meanwhile Trump's decision to put his face on the passes is being challenged in court