Since Speaker Johnson refuses to display the Jan 6 plaque, the Senate unanimously agreed to display it on our side of the Capitol. Speaker Johnson, go dig the plaque out of whatever hole you’ve been hiding it in.

The video shows that the driver of the vehicle turned her wheels to avoid the ICE agents who surrounded her, screamed profanity at her, and gave her conflicting orders. They escalated the situation, put the public in danger, killed her without justification, and kept firing at her.

I'm looking at the data for a column, and "abolish ICE" is both a lot more popular than you probably think, and a lot more popular than it has been in the past, including 2018

I look forward to congress appropriating these funds

It is the DHS Secretary's claim that ICE agents are *trained* to shoot unarmed civilians

This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.

Yesterday’s murder in Minneapolis got me thinking about Nixon’s response to the Kent State and Jackson State killings in May 1970. From history.com: "A Gallup poll..found that 58 percent of Americans blamed the students for the deaths at Kent State, while only 11 percent blamed the National Guard."

I don’t know the law stuff regarding liability of federal agencies, but in cases I’ve covered when local POs are involved attys very much want to show that an officer who screwed up followed the training—that makes it the PD’s and city’s fault, and they have the deep pockets.

Say, this Vice President Vance fellow is a real piece of garbage huh?

Four reactions: (A) I'm happy to see this. (B) Because Mike Johnson can keep it off the House floor, and Trump can veto it, it's purely symbolic. (C) If Congress really wants to act, it needs to add a rider to an appropriations bill. (D) Chadha was a crappy, destructive decision. wapo.st/4qHyjM7

(Sorry, that's the rule on the ACA thing. Passes with 11 GOP. By the way House attendance on these votes is 213-213, so they aren't going to win any party line votes unless 1 of the 5 missing shows up).

Refreshingly clear headlines from the WaPo, NYT

At Tusk: smotus.substack.com/p/a-day-of-l...

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

… Nevertheless I will say that the public reactions and behavior of some officials (incl Noem) flies in the face of what public safety leaders have been learning over recent decades about these types of cases and the public trust. No surprise, of course.

The constant context for this is that Republicans know there's a realistic scenario in which Trump in 2028 and beyond actively campaigns in general elections against Republicans he holds grudges against. (And that's on top of the continuing threat of violence.)

… Now at 11 GOP US Senators who have tweeted about the Minneapolis ICE incident, by my count, and 31 Senate Democrats. Pretty striking which party is more interested in talking about it.

Am I confused, or does the Free Press have the facts wrong here in its editorial calling for caution in jumping to conclusions

I’ve covered or followed up on a lot of cases of alleged excessive force or shootings by law enforcement, and I find them terribly sad, and the ‘truth’ often very slow and difficult to discern. This one is replaying all the worst aspects, in heightened ways. It’s all too depressing.

Name a presidential scandal or crime from the past and Trump has topped it, but worse. This time? His Venezuela oil plan is Iran-Contra, but worse. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/worse-than...

Not gonna be a law, but that's quite a rebuke to Trump. Anyone have a precedent?

Losing loser loses again.

Hard, hard disagree. You do not need a constitutional amendment to abolish ICE or disestablish DHS. We can do this - but not this year. A new American coalition can do it, but it'll be long after this bunch of soulless opportunists are flushed from government.

It’s like it’s the first time anyone has ever seen the state try to cover the asses of poorly trained, trigger happy cops

Looking back, everyone will one day realize that all that woke stuff was right. Unfortunately, being right won’t erase the suffering.

what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.

systematically dangerous & reckless ICE and CBP practices were catalogued by Judge Sara Ellis, foreshadowing yesterday's killing. Important post by @chrisgeidner.bsky.social www.lawdork.com/p/ice-agent-...

Her vehicle's right front panel cleared the ICE agent who didn't open fire until after he was at the side of her vehicle. He used deadly force on a fleeing individual, which is against DHS policy. This is murder. He needs to be arrested.

The RNC’s “RNC Research” (oppo info) X account has tweeted about the Minneapolis ICE incident more than three dozen times in the past 24 hours, repeatedly describing the deceased as a “radical violent lunatic” and insulting Democrats who question the shooting.

Make it viral.

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

A few months ago you could lose your job for accurately quoting Charlie Kirk after his murder

Damn where have I heard that phrasing before?

I think it’s worth saying, without any kind of starry-eyed sentiment, that now is a critical time for everyone to remind themselves of narrative’s seismic power, and to consistently and unambiguously articulate what happened in Mpls today. No obfuscating passive voice. No pussyfooting ambiguity.

The killing of an unarmed woman by a masked federal agent in Minneapolis is a moral outrage and a betrayal of American values. There has been no justification offered—only deception and deflection from those in charge.

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

Article 1, I remember you.

Fox Producer: Jesse Watters would like to invite you on his show AOC: He has sexualized and harassed me on his show. FP: That’s not true AOC: He accused me of wanting to sleep with Stephen Miller. So why don’t you tell me what you think is acceptable to tell a woman.

love to be a libertarian whose response to the summary execution of an american citizen is “you shouldn’t say bad words”

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

@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.”

You deserve to know what the plan, or lack thereof, is in Venezuela.   It’s time for the Trump administration to stop hiding behind classified briefings and answer your questions directly.

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.

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

My initial take on the criminal law governing the ICE shooting in MN: 609.066 of the MN Code controls a self-defense claim for a "peace officer" under state law. I'm not going to consider federal law given the capture of the DOJ by the Trump administration. 1/

A *very* rare case of the "moderate" (better: least conservative) GOPers actually doing something instead of caving. Don't expect it to continue, but I guess youneverknow...

Sen. Smith: Tensions are high, let’s de-escalate Stephen Miller: DOMESTIC TERRORIST SAYS WHAT?

We have to demand that Trump’s federal agents are held accountable for killing Americans just like we do when state and local . . . . fuck

I would say “I’d think somebody pig-ignorant about defamation wouldn’t flap their useless gums about defamation,” but I’ve been here a while, so I wouldn’t actually say that.