It is impossible to overstate the degree to which the entire national political media's coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, especially once Harris won the nomination, was deeply, fundamentally, shamefully unserious about the stakes & the candidates.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Also, by their own standards, the cops protecting the Capitol on Jan 6 should have opened fire all over.

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Really feels like just telling military to draw up plans to invade an ally should be an impeachable offense regardless of party

Like I’ve been saying: I think one of the big political stories of the year is going to be non-conservative Christians getting loud.

"...records show that none of ICE’s agents have ever been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s more than two-decade history. Instead, the leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19. According to ICE’s data, the second leading cause of death is cancer linked to 9/11."

I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.

Perhaps a half mile of mourners with candles slowly circling our small Vermont town tonight in memory of Rene Good

Jonathan Ross worked for Border Patrol before ICE

Veteran Epstein Reporter Says New Files Are ‘Worse’ Than Expected www.thedailybeast.com/veteran-epst...

San Fran has entered the chat 🤝 #ICEOutForGood #FuckICE

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.

If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.

When I was getting my TS clearance, I to explain to a very young FBI agent why I had a collection on my credit report for 99 cents. The funny part is - if you're under 30, you're going to say "what a waste of time" If you're over 40, you're going to ask "Hollywood or Blockbuster"?

This is Zero. She is something of a shapeshifter. Not voluntarily, but still very impressive. 14/10 (IG: zerothesupercollie)

Tell me again how all politicians are the same.

POTUS proposed an overall cut in scientific funding to $154 billion from $198 billion — a plunge of 22%, the largest reduction in federal spending on science since World War II. This week, the Senate Appropriations Committee largely scraps Trump’s planned cuts.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

NEW: A federal judge has blocked an effort by President Trump to threaten election assistance funding for states who refuse to update their voter registration forms to include his preferred “documentary proof of citizenship” requirement. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

What is the point of appropriations if the White House can just cut off spending against its enemies?

Houston saw another day of protests Friday over the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Here's what to know. bit.ly/4qJZnub

It is deeply counter to the whole very basic concept of this nation that its citizens can be taxed and then have funding withheld punitively because the person exercising the power of the presidency decides on a whim to do so.

If I start freaking out, you should definitely freak out. As someone sent to me on the other place long ago:

One of my old professors told us about how he and other political communication scholars had gotten hyped about satellite imagery + global cable news making it nearly impossible for genocides to happen without intervention, only to see that hypothesis fail in real time. A humbling experience.

I know this like the 347th thing but, *You don't put your dog in the car if you're going "use it as a weapon."*

The federal government Friday agreed to pay $125,000 after a judge found a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent liable for civil assault for pointing a gun at a hotel maintenance man who came to the agent’s room to unclog a toilet.

what's "secession" called when it's the feds doing it to a state? this seems bad

Houston Democracy Project Blog has list of Houston region ICE protests for Saturday, Jan. 10. All grassroots organized. We must have our own culture of rapid response & autonomous action. The work ahead is ours. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/

I remind myself that for how impossible things feel in Minneapolis, every brownshirt they send here to deal with our whistles and icy roads and protests is one that isn't operating in another city and state. They can't do this everywhere. Maybe not even in two places. Bog 'em down.

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

Exxon was among more than a dozen companies represented during a White House meeting Friday. Leaders of Chevron, ConocoPhillips and others were also there. bit.ly/4qi6Pgq

Vance's stance is, almost literally, "Well, she shouldn't have mouthed off like that. She asked for it."

Renee Good’s wife Becca: “We had whistles. They had guns… the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.” Full statement: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

So an officer has his phone out recording obviously distracted, shoots a woman and calls her a “f’ing Bitch” and they think that HELPS the case?!?

I warned us all last spring to take seriously that this deeply unstable president wasn't kidding about Greenland. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I have to say, as a man with two mothers, I find the derisive deployment of language like "lesbian" and "lover" by those on the far right who are trying to justify Renee Good's death particularly disgusting and dehumanizing. These women. They are wives. They are a family. That's it.

Attorney General Dan Rayfield says the Oregon Department of Justice will open a formal investigation into the Border Patrol shooting that left two people injured in Portland.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

“I’m not mad at you… we’re not mad at you.”

It’s very convenient: No matter what she did, you can claim she was disobeying police orders. Which in the minds of a depressing number of people with a taste for boot leather, merits summary execution.

"I'm not paying masked thugs to shoot moms in the face. Period." - @ericswalwell.bsky.social on why he won't vote for ICE funding, in this interview:

Editorial: After ICE agents killed a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis, Houston must confront the growing danger of unchecked immigration enforcement in our own communities. bit.ly/4jAWKsk