And without being flippant, at least USAID/OPS and School of the Americas bothered to actually train their death squads before sending them out into the streets.

They're not street fighters in uniforms menacing communists and political rivals. They're non-uniformed paramilitaries snatching people off the streets. Now, they're matriculating to executing 'dissidents'. Creations of the US' 20th c. Latin America terror campaign coming home in time for the 21st.

I see people referring to ICE as Trump's Brownshirts, and I think I may have made the comparison myself, but on reflection they're closer to the Latin American political repression agencies and death squads of Operation Condor.

I’m not going to lie. I’ve been writing about the War on Terror in its depravity my whole adult life. And the brazen execution of Renee Nicole Good has left me in a state since the moment I watched it.

Just for context, this month started with Zubaydi at the height of his power, having conquered all of South Yemen and preparing to declare independence

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

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.

@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.”

Well at least no one’s dying anymore… oh

[Taking notes on a criminal conspiracy dot gif]

"Minnesota has repeatedly declined to return it, with Governor Jesse Ventura (serving 1999–2003) asking 'Why? I mean, we won.'"

the woman killed by ICE today was 14 or so when the agency was created. As a 37 year old who has been mad about ICE since creation, as a too politically aware teen, it's been heartbreaking seeing the agency sustained and expanded through at least two presidencies I had hoped would roll it back.

A reminder that last week after the US military hit 3 boats in Latin American waters, an "unspecified" number of people survived. SOUTHCOM handed search over to USCG, who spent 4 days looking before giving up. Now the death toll from boat strikes is truly unknown taskandpurpose.com/news/coast-g...

Hey everyone I found a piece of news today that isn't bad: english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/6... #CatSky

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Can’t help but think that if our fellow MAGA citizens can dehumanize a white mom in a Honda CRV, we are well beyond “first they came for the communists”

National media who are coming to Minneapolis, please treat people respectfully. Don't burn sources. Don't make people distrust journalists because you want a quick story. Consider instead hiring some of the good local journalists who have been here doing the work and will be here after you leave.

Kyle Rittenhouse was an honored guest at a 2024 gathering of Oregon Republican activists. This is the monstrously depraved tweet he sent tonight. These are the people who claim to be defending Christianity and “western civilization.”

I love that someone on here was like "it's not the agency so much as the people in it" and Bill Fucking Kristol is like "ABOLISH ICE" and if you can't get on Bills level well

My wife, a Minneapolis native, reminding me it's dead of night in Minnesota in January, below freezing, and there's thousands of people outside

Angry and despairing and wishing I could write a lot of articles that I can't.

I’m at the spot where ICE murdered Renee Nicolle Good today, along with my daughter and her bf. Still lots of people here at 11:00 pm. (Avoiding getting anyone in the picture) It’s beautiful, surreal but still mostly enraging. Abolish ICE.

Honestly glad he said this. They are celebrating the murder, they are saying the murder is good and they want to make sure other members of ICE know that "shoot first" is appropriate and acceptable behavior. Not an ounce of an apology. They are happy it happened. So now what?

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

This is what broke me: her own words. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Never mind that this isn’t the definition of doxing in the first place, but you can’t dox a federal employee. If you’re a public servant, your identity isn’t “hidden.” It’s on public records. People can access those public records.

Frey has his issues, as I've heard from many Minneapolis people over the years, but this is good. If you're more offended by him cursing than a person being murdered, fuck off.

We're all going to die.

the toyota prius is older than ICE

Remember this past summer when a US Senator from California confronted Noem and asked her about her lies/attempted takeover of LA and got tackled by federal agents?

I’m glad to see Bill say this. But when after a century of just the type of abuse we saw today - relentless and cruel, ensnaring our children and intimidating our communities - young Black people said in frustration, anger, and demand for change “defund the police” - so many of you denounced them.

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

A heavily armed government group is terrorizing communities and has the full defense of the administration and is acting with perceived impunity. And they recently got a budget increase.

Additional context:

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.

im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons

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

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Here is the fundraiser for Renee Good’s wife and son, from a very trusted source.

May she rest in peace and may her murderers and their paymasters never know another moment of it.

Come the fuck on. Five hours later and the headline is still about a disputed shooting. Just a basic lack of courage to acknowledge the obvious.

Not even 7 days in to 2026, and we're already seeing this again:

This is excellent coverage: it gives readers context beyond the specific incident, showing a pattern of excessive force, and also documents that DHS keeps using the same and increasingly debunked explanations. Much better than both sidesing the shooting.

ICE orphaned a 6 year old boy www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

These pics of the murderer from this angle without his mask are AI generated DO NOT SHARE THEM. I don’t care if it gets him killed—disinformation and fake images have consequences for everyone and they are bad consequences

A gentle reminder that Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides” about white supremacists in Charlottsville including one who killed Heather Heyer by… *checks notes* …driving their car into a protest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.