Given ICE’s violent, impunity-drenched core, at a moment when the Trump regime is leaning heavily into a vision of dominance grounded in aggression and lawlessness, such a killing (certainly not ICE's first) was all but inevitable. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/01/07/i...

they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect

Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

And precisely why Heritage and MAGA want to purge Critical Race Theory and gender studies. Bc those frameworks helped millions of people connect George Floyd, Climate Change, Income Inequality and Empire.

This is a proper headline. Where are American news agencies on this story?

One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.

three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

This is right, of course. And, imagine if a suspected criminal was sitting in a US city - we would never think it acceptable to kill 80 people to capture that suspected criminal. This only works if you think Venezuelan lives do not deserve the same respect as American lives.

Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.

This vile new Stephen Miller tweet, along with the news that Miller may run the occupation of Venezuela, is a good time for you to read our deep dive into Miller's actual worldview and agenda, especially this part comparing Miller's language with Pat Buchanan's: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

garbage country run by garbage people and I'm embarrassed to live here

TRIAL STARTS TODAY for 5 Stanford students facing felony charges for occupying a building to demand Stanford divest from companies complicit in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Watch this trial closely: it's the most severe criminal case brought against US student protesters against the genocide.

Ngl it’s really disheartening to see liberal currents struggle to raise 500K and these jokers just keep raising cash no questions asked

I’d argue borderline negligent to teach Property Law this spring & fail to tease out some connections bw Johnson v McIntosh & MAGA.

@victorerikray.bsky.social maybe our analysis that MAGA is a racist segregationist project is, uh, too generous?

Prominent MAGA figures are making it 100% explicit that MAGA is a neo-imperialist movement that's all about pillage and plunder justified by assumed racial superiority:

For those wanting more on imperial boomerang @wihorne.bsky.social @jphillll.bsky.social & WEB DuBois insights that connect ICE to Jim Crow to Vietnam to Venezuela, check this convo I had w @drcbs.bsky.social Charisse Burden-Stelly just two months ago. on.soundcloud.com/8Q6dFpRMfWS3...

80 civilians were killed in this war crime and you mention them exactly zero times.

Thank you for reading! Like so many of us, I’ve been begging folks to take this threat seriously *before* the point of fascist consolidation. Devastating to see this process continue to unfold almost today unabated.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

This from @wihorne.bsky.social in July 2022 couldn’t be more on point and prescient for rn. drwilliamhorne.substack.com/p/what-is-fa...

There have to be consequences for this & they have to be devastating.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

in this statement, Schumer says Trump lied to him THREE TIMES about this invasion. but Schumer's only concrete ask is for Trump to BRIEF CONGRESS. why? so Trump can lie again? IMPEACH. Call your reps and demand they IMPEACH. reps.fyi

To @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social Publicly and repeatedly demand impeachment or resign. If you do neither, go ahead and pack your office because you’re losing your next election. IMPEACH NOW.

My full statement on Trump’s illegal actions in Venezuela to kidnap a foreign leader, force regime change, and his plans to indefinitely occupy Venezuela.

Any Dem w White House aspirations would get a serious boost if they moved to impeach Jeffries.

And here are those statements! AOC: x.com/aoc/status/2... Bernie: x.com/sensanders/s... Zohran: x.com/nycmayor/sta... Rashida: x.com/reprashida/s... CVH: x.com/chrisvanholl...

I’ll respond to this disingenuous question exactly one time. Maduro’s rule does is immaterial to the violation of sovereignty and international law that this strike represents. Go bother someone else with this nonsense.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but this is all batshit crazy. We now “own” Venezuela, US troops will take over, & as I said months ago Trump will steal all the oil. And this insane regime didn’t even bother fabricating evidence to justify this. Meanwhile, Republicans have surrendered Congress

The President of the United States of America took over another country without so much as talking to a member of congress.

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Just awful: David Sanger, an experienced and knowledgeable correspondent for the NYT, is forthrightly describing this as an "American occupation." Done without any Congressional authorization or even any consultation with our key elected representatives.

I’m telling you. He nor his sycophants are leaving office. This is a dictatorship.

Then call for impeachment, yourself. Force the vote, force the GOP onto the record, force the media attention. You have the power to do it directly, yourself:

I think the key to this version of US imperialism is the interaction of 1 and 2 here

Damn Times Ed board w the “I” word. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Illegal and unwise are his guiding principles. Add racist and misogynist, and you've described the Trump era.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

The people defending this are the same ones counseling restraint in our dealings with Putin, fwiw

Wow (derogatory)

MS NOW is putting on John Effing Bolton to defend Trump's attack on Venezuela. We need less corporate media, more pro-democracy, pro-decency news media.

The fact that this has George Wallace (whom in a lot of ways was the Trump of the 1960s and 70s) as the photo is the icing on the cake.

Always read Victor Ray! Another banger.

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

“He spent the next 48 hours in a large room with 150 other men — in a room he was told was intended for 80 people. There were three metal toilets. The lights were always on.” “They never turned it off,” he said. Estrada had no bed, no mattress, no blankets.”

Yep, the level of vicious bigotry is extreme and we can cannot give an inch. There is a movement on the far right, supported by billionaires and powerful people in the White House, who want to ethnically cleanse Somalis from the U.S., and we must describe it as such and treat it as such.

today's collab w @victorerikray.bsky.social brought me back to our convo on the #RaceClass Pod two years ago. helpful reminder that Rufo Heritage & co. came for Critical Race Theory first bc facsists are scared of ideas, history and facts.