Ernst Fraenkel: In my book I invented the concept of the Maßnahmenstaat as a cautionary tale US Federal Goverment: At long last, we have created the Maßnahmenstaat from classic political science and law work The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship

WARNING: PROFANITY Roughly 400 people are protesting ICE and Trump administration policies on the west side of the Capitol in Denver following the killing on Saturday of another person in Minneapolis by federal authorities.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Ultimately you're not supposed to believe it. It not mattering is the point. The bolder the lie, the greater the impunity. The ultimate victory for evil is not convincing you, it's the truth being irrelevant.

this is a small thing but it would be nice to feel good about paying taxes. i would like to write a check to the government and think about kids going to school and freshly paved roads not all the death squads my income helps fund.

Not sure if this is meant to be read as a Private Eye style piece but it is probably as close as any mainstream US publication will get to telling the establishment to get the fuck up off their asses and do something.

Alex Pretti’s dad: “He cared about people deeply & was very upset with what was happening...He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests” apnews.com/article/immi...

Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun. Any second now, I'm sure. He was a white guy, if that helps? Hello? NRA?

Unreal sized crowd for the There Is No Ceasefire @ipsc.bsky.social Dublin Regional March. Considering it's a rainy January I'm so impressed with the passion that people have #Speirgorm

This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.

Small clashes broke out between unarmed US civilians and Trump's paramilitary ICE forces, a civilian captured by the regime, yelled: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong!" "I'm a US citizen!" #3E #GoodvsEvil

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Reporters should be asking congressional Republicans what *other* kinds of Americans they think deserve to be executed in the street by the president's goon squad. "So you support the murder of a mom and a VA nurse, but what about an Eagle Scout or a kindergarten teacher? How about a priest?"

Literally 10 days ago, this hypocritical jackass introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re...

Norway doesn’t ask how children with SEND can fit into schools. It asks how schools should be designed so everyone belongs from the start. This piece explores inclusion as architecture. Global Insights #17 Norway: Inclusion, SEND, and Belonging by Design 🔗 paulurry68.substack.com/p/global-ins...

As it happens, Alex Pretti apparently had a carry permit. THAT DOESN'T MATTER, because he *didn't draw a gun.* Even had he possessed an illegal gun, this would still be murder. His alleged gun is a DHS red herring; it doesn't matter. We do not need to debate it one way or other.

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

i suppose it makes sense but it is completely demoralizing that we live in a moment where there is more video/photographic evidence (often from multiple angles) than ever before and also a durable system in place for propagandists to gaslight or convince others into not believing their eyes

A reporter who refers to what’s going on in Minneapolis as an ‘immigration crackdown’ has no business being a reporter.

Thinking today of this one from @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Multiple officials of the US federal government are spending their day rather blatantly obstructing Minnesota law enforcement and covering up a murder.

That we're rewarding Putin for the most barbaric assaults on civillians of this century is shame that I'll carry until my last breath.

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

The New Yorker wanted this but I said I’d put it up on Bluesky at half 8 in the morning instead.

!!!! "Aides to Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Atty’s office and FBI agents based in MN to shut down a civil rights investigation into an officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability, according to three people briefed on the discussions."

This is an *exceptional* piece of work, and ought to be borne in mind when looking at literally any online ragebait in future. A TikTok account that professed to be highlighting how 'illegal immigrants get free housing in London' was… well, not that at all. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

I just thought everyone should see this

Grok is being used to create sexualised images of women and child abuse material which are posted on X. So, why is the Department of Education still posting images of children to X? If Government Departments are going to continue to use X, can they at least stop posting images of children?

If I think about the fact this is even a question that has to be asked I think I'd pack it all in and go live in woods

There was a surge of people signing up to become a Green members last night. So what that means: Yes, more money from ordinary people instead of wealthy donors. More people to decide on the party’s democratic processes. More feet on the streets to leaflet. The ability to get our message across.

That is a lot of different colors for a guy to be

We become the people capable of changing the world by acting as if we already are. Seems like Minnesotans are doing this. From an essay by Amia Srinivasan. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I was heckled by another MP while asking about inclusive relationship education in schools Sickened but not really surprised that homophobia is alive and well on the bench behind me 'They're primary school kids' he says - as if no primary school kids have lesbian or gay parents!

"They stole my face... my identity... I don't remember who I was three years ago." This is Lucy. Her life changed utterly after she became a victim of deepfake image abuse. Forced to move jobs & home... change every aspect of her daily life... she has a strong message for victims and legislators

People don't really think through how the Nazis actively made it harder for Jews to leave The idea that all Americans are guaranteed any kind of freedom of movement, including boarding a flight, is quite the presumption at this point.

“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle” has to be one of my least favorite phrases. Sometimes, one side is actually truthful and one side is actually malicious and lying!

On the one hand, it makes sense to do a coordinated response led by the European Commission. On the other, there’s a real sense of ‘we can’t stop all the bad things so why even try’ and frankly we should expect a lot better from government.

X’s terms of service are extremely restrictive and allow them to sue users for practically any reason And they mandate that any case go through the East Texas court which Musk essentially owns It’s now LEGALLY RISKY to be posting on X because they can sue you and have an almost guaranteed win

I sincerely hope the Irish woman (a barrister I believe) who went full fash with replacement theory nonsense today will be refered to, henceforth, as the Bannon Tí.

With masked armed federal agents sitting at the corner and circling the St. Paul neighborhood for quite some time, about 50-100 neighbors came out to blow whistles. This man says this is his neighborhood and thanks everyone who came out. The agents have all left.

I ain't no big city geopolitics expert but nothing I have seen from von der Leyen thus far would tell me that she has any intention of doing anything bolder than waiting for Trump to die

People need a plan that does not depend on Democrats winning elections forever. Your plan for American democracy needs to work even if different parties win the presidency and Congress over time. Democracy is a system in which people have freedom, participate equally, and power alternates.

The NYT has a new video analysis of Renee Good's shooting which is careful, accurate, and clear - he walked across the path of a moving car, then leaned in and shot her with his feet well clear of the vehicle. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

big strong savvy gavin newsom apparently doesn’t even have the wherewithal to stand up to ben “i have never satisfied a woman in my life” shapiro

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting: