In addition to Good's murder, ICE has been busy in Minneapolis causing car wrecks and traffic jams, filling the streets with tear gas and goons with loaded weapons, issuing specific threats and sewing general chaos. This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.

Someone drew a cartoon pig on a deputy's coffee cup but the LASD is on the case! Personally, if my boss humiliated me with a press release that said he had called me to "check on my well being" because of a little cartoon on my coffee cup, I would change my name and move to another state.

If true, senior military officers should know better & should be held accountable by whatever administration follows Trump.

I assume Target, like other major retail employers in the US, submits I-9 forms to the IRS for all their new hire employees, which verifies their identity and legal work status in the US. Pretty cowardly of them to not issue a statement condemning ICE for harassing their employees.

the number and diversity of war crimes Trump 2.0 are engaging in should surprise no one since Hegseth made his name advocating for war criminals.

Whatever groups Good may or may not have been a part of have no bearing on what happened the day she was killed. Nor would her membership in any group justify her killing. This is not an investigation. It's authoritarian propaganda.

For many of the highest-ranking official in the Trump admin, this is a feature, not a bug. An excuse to leave NATO and pivot fully to Russian.

ICE is now behaving in such a way that even Tucker Carlson’s favorite Holocaust minimizing, Hitler-apologist “historian” is like “hey now guys, this is getting a little out of hand.”

Defund. Abolish. Prosecute. ICE is lawless and destructive.

One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.

Breaking MS NOW: The Justice Department has fired the No. 2 official in the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia after he declined to lead the controversial prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, according to multiple people briefed on the matter.

say it with me now....lethality is not a substitute for strategy

the thing about the corruption of this admin is that it exists at every level from the petty to the grand

"The Trump administration is trying desperately to politicize the murder of Renee Good to further attack its political enemies. Agents kill an innocent woman and then the Trump administration uses her death to villainize the people protesting her killer."

We've watched in horror as unchecked federal agents assaulted and terrorized our communities and neighborhoods, undermining Constitutional rights and threatening safety. @ilattygeneral.bsky.social has filed a lawsuit against DHS over the dangerous use of force used by CPB and ICE agents.

I am, in fact, triggered by someone being murdered by the Gestapo and our government lying about it and celebrating the murder. It’s time for decent people to decide where they stand — with the Gestapo and its supporters, the juvenile shitposting government, or with America.

"There is no reforming this," writes @attackerman.bsky.social.

IR Realists saying farewell to the Rational Actor Assumption

The Iranian foreign minister said on Monday that the country was prepared for war but was also ready to negotiate, after President Trump said he was “ looking at some very strong options” to curb Iran’s harsh repression of anti-government protests.

A term like "immigration crackdown" is no longer sufficient to describe what's happening in Minneapolis. We're seeing a state terror campaign being waged by the regime's paramilitary forces.

WARNER: It used to take 5 to 6 months to get trained. They've now lowered the training period to 47 days. Why 47 days? Because Donald Trump's the 47th president. Tell me that's a rational approach KERNEN: I'm not taking that bait WARNER: Joe! You can't pick your facts

Here’s the thing: protests in the U.S. this past year have been large and will continue to get larger. But the most important organizing from a social mvmts perspective is the extensive local, in person, and deeply connected organizing around community protection.

Trump’s line is that disrespect to law enforcement is punishable by death. Impeach and remove. This is not tolerable.

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

Tillis is spot on. The Senate can't confirm a Trump toady to succeed Powell at the Fed. The rest of the game is now out in the open, and it doesn't end well.

Just comes out and says it!

Seeing Europeans contemplate creating a tripwire in Greenland is just depressing. That the US is now becoming Europe's enemy is so infuriating. So much wasted time, effort, capital, and so on for a non-threat (US has access to Greenland, it is protected by US already under NATO treaty).

A sober and realistic assessment of US policy in the Middle East heading into 2026. 👇 foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/01/t...

Correction: This is no longer *only* about immigration. Many people of color and other vulnerable people in our neighborhood and across our city are terrified, kids are staying home from school, people are in hiding. The rest of the community has risen up to protect them and to force ICE out.

BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up. Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.

I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.

This is exactly right. They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now. Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.

Agents like this should be identified and their name and picture posted on a searchable web site with videos and content like this linked to their names

If a federal agent tries to assault you, just scream "JOE BIDEN STOLE THE 2020 ELECTION" It's apparently like an Uno Reverse card. Now *you* get to assault the cops without any penalty. Beat them with a flagpole, use mace or bear spray on them, whatever. I'm sure the lawyers here will back me up.

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This agency is out of control if leadership is no longer checking violations of constitutional rights. Congress absolutely must step in before more people are kidnapped/killed.

This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV. The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence. This is not protection. This is occupation.

A thread of insights from Jill Lepore's excellent new history of the Constitution. First, here's Madison elucidating what she calls the "philosophy of amendment: “That all power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from the people. That government is instituted, and ought to be/

Read the whole thread - the Constitution is meant to be an instrument of practical progress along with a guardrail for abuse of authority, and if you don’t take @joestieb.bsky.social’s word for it, takes James Madison’s

I wrote up my analysis of what Ross's movements and actions reveal about whether or not he had a "reasonable belief that he was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury" (the legal standard). I list 7 crucial moments that suggest he did not. asharangappa.substack.com/p/friday-rou...

If there are *any* Democrats in Congress who will still vote to keep funding this administration when it is using that money to terrorize our cities and refusing to allow congressional representatives their clear right to observe their activities, then those reps need to be primaried into retirement

The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.

The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”

They can't be shamed, but it's still worth it.

Because of course not. I mean, c’mon

Yes. It's as completely insane and unacceptable as ICE actions leading to the closure of school in Minneapolis. Impeach both Kennedy and Noem now. Get Congress talking in real life about this.

Oh, look. From 2014: “Border Patrol agents have deliberately stepped in the path of cars apparently to justify shooting at the drivers [in] 67 cases that resulted in 19 deaths.” You can’t reform that culture. Ross was in Border Patrol in this period (2007-2015). www.latimes.com/nation/la-na...

@kamalaharris.com told us exactly what would happen.

students hiding not from a mass shooter but from the government that's out to injure them