I reshared @siembranc.bsky.social's excellent toolkit "How We Dealt with Border Patrol" in NC just this morning in my newsletter before this horrible killing. It's worth people reading and then acting on: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

We learned today about another ICE murder—Luis Nunez Caceres, killed by ICE's cages: detentionkills.substack.com/p/the-ice-de... ICE's cages killed 32 (known) people in 2025 (www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...) & they're shooting people at ever increasing rates: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.

I can’t stop thinking about the victim’s partner sitting right next to her while it happened. Nobody should ever have to live through that. It’s just unfathomable.

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.

ohhh the democrats swear now, that'll teach the fascist white supremacist mass murderers

Here's a tracker of all the people (40) ICE has shot, including someone celebrating New Years by shooting his gun who was killed by an off-duty ICE goon. www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

You have to take their money. Period.

I think many are not fully reckoning with the fact that the US government is repeatedly flexing an unlimited authority to murder political opponents (in the streets, at sea, in ICE cages, in foreign countries) at will, then make up whatever facially obviously fake explanation they want.

DHS is murdering people for legal observing, murdering people for protesting, murdering people for trying to get away from them. They're murdering people through torture in ICE cages. They're murdering people by sending them to their deaths. DHS is a murder machine.

Folks remember that Tricia McLaughlin was caught lying about: The LaMonica McIver incident The Marimar Martinez shooting The Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez shooting Virtually everything about Kilmar Abrego Virtually every other use of force incident

In LA, ICE shot a man that they claimed was trying to run them over and are now indicting him. It's a pattern of victim-blaming to justify the use of excessive force.

Just as they are claiming in Minneapolis, ICE said in their previous fatal shooting that the person they killed tried to run them over. Video showed that was simply not true. Media has a responsibility to provide this context when sharing DHS statements. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

Given news that ICE shot and killed an observer in Minneapolis, here is a pattern we've seen before: *DHS say officers were under threat. This justifies to use deadly force. *Subsequent reporting shows such claims simply don't hold up. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

Also what they did to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in Franklin Park. He didn't make it.

Or this earlier in November. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm truly sorry to hear about this ICE killing. I want to remind people about what they did to Marimar Martinez in Chicago. She fortunately survived being shot multiple times. news.wttw.com/2025/11/20/f.... -

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

The widespread de-sensitization to mass death on display is deeply troubling

12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed

If you are focusing on: - grievances against Maduro - management practices of the Venezuelan oil industry - ”narco-trafficking” - or, yes, congressional authorization Then you are collaborating. The US is asserting the power to kidnap heads of state on a whim. This is now a war of aggression.

Right now, Exxon is at SCOTUS demanding a green light to pillage Cuba's national coffers (www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...) as "compensation" for Castro seizing the oil refineries in 1960. Cuba seized the oil assets when Exxon (then Standard Oil) refused to refine oil to help Eisenhower invade.

In the past 24 hours, Rubio and Trump have threatened to kidnap, kill, or coup President Sheinbaum of Mexico, President Petro of Colombia, and President Diaz-Canel of Cuba. This is deadly serious.

The democrats are fully and enthusiastically complicit in this. Craven, unspeakably evil pathetic little monsters.

Not feckless. Collaborators.

Reminder that Trump 1 indicted Maduro in 2020 (hence, "superseding"), swarmed Venezuela with US navy ships, & almost invaded then: www.usnews.com/news/world/a... Reminder that this was the pretext Bush 1 gave for invading Panama and ultimately kidnapping and prosecuting Noriega (see screenshot).

In 2020, I made a long thread on The Other Site on how Trump appeared to be following the Panama/Noriega playbook of using drug trafficking as a pretext to begin preparing for an invasion of Venezuela. Tragically that has been proven correct.

uh holy SHIT?

If you’re confused about Trump’s claim that the US bombed a facility in Venezuela last week, I wrote this tick-tock of the past few days:

They are $55,000 away from their goal. If they don't reach it by the end of the month, then they cannot open in the New Year.

I’m a monthly donor. Please join me. They are volunteers. They do necessary work. We can get there. They need our help.

Rubio is using the same essentially unprecedented authority here that was used to target Mahmoud Khalil, Yunseo Chung, and others. Which means this “censorship” purge could include targeting permanent residents.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

This is a region-wide plunder campaign. People don’t realize that the solicitor general’s office is currently arguing to the Supreme Court that it’s a major US foreign policy interest for the Court to side with Exxon in its bid to plunder Cuba for nationalizing the oil refineries in 1960.

People need to stop fantasizing that local cops are going to arrest ICE agents. Under no circumstance will that become a practice.

Report on ICE agents entering NYC shelters (without warrants, as almost goes without saying, not that warrants would make it okay) in open violation of NYC policy. gothamist.com/news/ice-ent...

An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.

Great piece connecting some of the dots on how the administration is using (and misusing) a massive network of data to increase immigration enforcement. The constant expansion of the surveillance state puts all of our privacy and safety is at risk.

Passing this on from folks who are not on Bluesky: If you're in NYC, Bluestockings is having a final closing sale. Come celebrate and grieve the closing of the store, and the sunset of Bluestockings Cooperative. Books, appliances, merchandise, furniture-- everything is going. Masks are required!

Columbia's Task Force on Antisemitism has dropped its final report. They're advocating what seems to be affirmative action for Zionist scholarship (resonant with "viewpoint diversity" push for e.g. pro-racism scholarship from anti-higher ed activists) www.columbia.edu/content/repo...

NEW: an activist has been charged for allegedly wiping a Google Pixel phone before CBP could search it. Search was by a secretive CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team, which ACLU says "interrogate innocent travelers." We uploaded the indictment here: www.404media.co/man-charged-...

Today, 6PM, at Leavenworth KS town hall. Help stop and delay the expansion of the internment camp system.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

This is a "good" result—better than the alternative—but query: how responsive is it to rampaging white supremacist state violence to now have this judicial pushback against using Guantanamo as an black site for immigrants? Because in terms of timeline & scope—that's what courts can typically offer.

The Supreme Court just set aside a 2nd Circuit decision upholding New York's requirement that all school students, public and private, obtain certain vaccinations, without any religious exemptions. It orders the 2nd Circuit to reconsider the ruling in light of SCOTUS' LGBTQ school books decision.

One of the few ”two kinds of people“ frameworks I find useful. I would add that cultivating the first worldview is, in my opinion, a major piece of many people’s embrace of fascism.

One of the reasons why Zionist rhetoric is blatantly antiSemitic.

The problem is "criminal" is a flexible concept that sometimes means (politically) "out of status," or sometimes things like (per Trump's eliminationist rhetoric) "Black Muslim immigrant." Plus, MAGA likes criminals if they're the right kind. Accepting this framework as the right metric is losing.