Abolish Ice should be a centrist position

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." Hats off to @niallstanage.bsky.social:

This is deeply alarming and signals what may await the residents of the Pliva Valley in central Bosnia and other regions across the Balkans, where mining companies, often backed by foreign capital, are conducting so-called “scientific excavations” as a prelude to opening mines. 1/2

WATCH— @niallstanage.bsky.social : “It’s surely better for 🇺🇸 democracy that people protest a government agent shooting someone in the head than to be docile or acquiescent to those kinds of actions.”

Any one of us could be detained for hours by ICE despite being a U.S. citizen. Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night. Any one of us could be the next to be brutalized by ICE for speaking out. Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

Well said, Governor

I'm hoping one of my former colleagues in the briefing room will ask the press secretary why the White House is again propagating phrasing of a white supremacist author who praises Hitler and traffics in antisemitic conspiracy theories.

I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities. Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness. 1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.

Casey Michel, on the oligarchs who want Greenland newrepublic.com/article/2051...

Hungary is an adversary of Ukraine – the whole reason the EU is getting serious about defense. It should have been ineligible for EU defense funding from the get-go.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Very interesting ECFR survey results. "While Europe’s leaders have fallen over themselves to sugarcoat U.S. President Donald Trump’s illegal military operation in Venezuela and ignore his brazen demands on Greenland, Europeans themselves have already realized Washington is more foe than friend."

"Two to three thousand armed agents of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota. Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live."

Yes!

The Danish military gears up to defend Greenland www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Trump’s secret police are killing people in the street. People can’t afford rent or groceries. Health care is absurdly expensive. When politicians take AIPAC money, they’re telling you whose priorities come first, and it isn’t yours. AIPAC wants to buy this seat. We can’t let that happen.

Lars Lokke Rasmussen: "We didn't manage to change the American position. It's clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland. And we made it very, very clear that this is not in the interest of the kingdom."

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

Nice little independent central bank you got right there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.

Posting this, kindly published by @peacefare.bsky.social and drafted a week ago, prior to the Denmark/Greenland - US meeting today. Suffice it to say, JD Vance has already demonstrated he is no friend of Denmark, or what we at @dpcglobal.bsky.social call Europe+. www.peacefare.net/2026/01/12/g...

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Exactly right. A personally loyal one which his people are expanding massively and control the entry criteria for. 👇

Here are the 'highlights' of the videos shown at Fidesz Congress by Viktor Orbán from far-right allies across Europe and the globe supporting him in the election. Note again how these stretch from ECR/Meloni over others from 'Patriots for Europe' to the AfD/ESN. Big one missing is Trump.

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.

Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.

Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."

Agree 100% I have in my mind since its founding always thought of it as the Heimatssicherheitsdienst. The name itself is still bitter on the tongue. It feels un-American, like big military parades.

The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us. Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Hilarious detail from this article: Ric Grenell conducting the national anthem at the Kennedy Center These people really are amateurs at everything they touch

Amy Klobuchar: "There are now more ICE agents in Minnesota than there are police officers combined in Minneapolis and St. Paul. So they are outnumbering our own local police officers out on the streets."

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

Opening Q by Thomas Paine in Ken Burns' "The America Revolution" on @pbs.org: "... the strength and powers of despotism consist wholly in the fear of resisting it, and that, in order "to be free, it is sufficient that he wills it." Seems apropos to our moment. www.goodreads.com/quotes/90907...

Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."

Remember "expand our territory" at inauguration? I remember in the 1st term I added square miles of US w Greenland. georank.org/size/united-... But the sum would still be smaller than Russia: 4,630,430 sq miles vs 6,601,665. 1/

Were the Trump administration’s actions in Venezuela the first chance to see what operationalization of the new US National Security Strategy looks like? Senior Associate @valeryperry.bsky.social talked about this with WXXI’s Evan Dawson, exploring the downsides of a “sphere of influence” approach.

The latest from @dpcglobal.bsky.social colleague @valeryperry.bsky.social, on today's Putin-Trump meeting

Were the Trump administration’s actions in Venezuela the first chance to see what operationalization of the new US National Security Strategy looks like? I talked about this on “Connections with Evan Dawson” @WXXINews www.wxxinews.org/show/connect...

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

This rings true to me. Trump wants untrammelled use of the military as his no questions asked, all-purpose utility tool, for foreign - and domestic - applications.

On a moment’s notice, you answered the call. This weekend our community showed up, got creative, and made it crystal clear where we stand. Thank you to everyone who showed up and showed out! These are just some of my favorite signs from our rapid response event:

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

NO WAR. FULL STOP. Trump has already launched an unconstitutional war for oil. We’re organizing now. Join us TODAY for a protest sign–making party at campaign HQ as we prepare for the larger Emergency Day of Action downtown opposing war on Venezuela. 🕝 2:30–3:30 PM 📍 7016 N Clark St, Rogers Park

Yup.

In the Maduro capture operation, the Trump administration relies on Bill Barr’s (discredited) 1989 memo claiming a President can disregard the UN Charter (CNN report). That is a loaded gun. The legal analysis is utterly flawed. My assessment just published: www.justsecurity.org/127962/madur...

I think @samkiley.bsky.social nails it here. "Trump has attacked a neighbour without any international support. He has aped the behaviour of his great hero and friend, Vladimir Putin." Call it "American world." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...