Incredible photo choice to get them both doing the virgin walk from the "virgin vs Chad" meme

In other (current) news, Jonathon Ross (derogatory) needs to be The Main Character until he is in jail forever, and then we can move on to the administration goons who lied to our faces about what we saw

I've seen refugee aid efforts defeat multi-year occupations by regional / national police forces who deployed 30x the amount of resources. Hell I've been part of that. It is *very* possible. ICE's budget has a limit. Make them use it. ICE's morale has a limit. Make them lose it.

got a phone call from my father tonight, first asking how we were doing here in portland, and second, ranting about how he saw people killed at kent state, and third he and his extremely religious wife talking about renee good as a martyr, these people are late 70s oklahomans

One of the (several) problems with the demand that bystanders and targeted people be immediately compliant with ICE agents is that fleeing ICE is incredibly rational. They’re violent, piggish thugs who disappear some people into horrendous gulags and shoot others in the face.

There’s also the problem of the simultaneous domineering demands for subservience & the concurrent claim that ICE agents are traumatized whittle babies who “fear for their lives” and need to have their feelings considered. Are they big, mean, scary bullies or sensitive children? You can’t have both.

I think we’re about a week away from the administration actively labeling ICE Watch groups as domestic terrorist organizations. But remember: it is perfectly legal to record law enforcement.

before murdering renee good, the ice goon was frightened for his life, we’re told It’s meant to justify the murder nobody telling us this ever seems to wonder whether the woman who was murdered might have been afraid for her life killing because you’re afraid is only for cops, it seems

Pastor: I said to this ICE agent, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The agent got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, 'Are you afraid now?' To which I said, 'I am not afraid.'

There are so many acts of bravery by every day people while elected Dems cower behind focus group tested talking points.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson: "There was a time that we could take [the federal government] at their word. That time has long passed. That is why we are calling on ICE to halt all operations in Portland until a full and independent investigation can take place."

We've officially reached the "show me your papers" phase of Trump's fascist takeover.

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

It's time to state clearly that if MAGA and Republicans can't condemn any part of this shooting, continue to blame the victim for it, and even hint that it's a just outcome that others "deserve," that's a crossing of the line that the rest of us won't ever be able to forget.

Trump describes that he is psychologically needy if not ill, and NYT says that's proof he sees his role as protector of "the West," even though taking Greenland would destroy it. 4 bylines, including David Sanger, wrote this. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

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.

Congratulations to John Roberts bsky.app/profile/larr...

Democrats will continue to vote for Republican judges (like this guy, who refused to say who won the 2020 election) until Democrats are punished for voting for Republican judges

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

They aren't sitting down and carefully deciding hmm, this deputy undersecretary or district court nominee seems reasonable and qualified. They just take the basket of throwaway votes they think don't matter and nobody will care about, and then cross the aisle randomly on some of them.

The situation in Minneapolis is insane: seemingly many large convoys of heavily armed masked men, blocking off streets at random, grabbing people nearly at random, racing around the city with no discernible plan or aim. Under attack by our own government the day after it killed someone

“A social media video shows a uniformed DHS officer kicking over a candle at a memorial set up for Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.” "The officer in the video told a protester who confronted him, ‘I don't give a f—.’” people.com/dhs-officer-...

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

Amy Klobuchar voted for one of Trump's nominees the day after a woman in her state was murdered by ICE.

A friendly reminder that no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty in a hostile incident. The industries that illegal immigrants often work in — like landscaping and construction — are far more deadly and dangerous work than being an ICE officer.

It’s important for ICE officers to wear masks to stop people like … [checks note] … the DHS secretary from doxxing them.

Worth remembering, when you see passages like the one below, that this was not inevitable--the WPR mechanism does not allow for a presidential veto. It is only because of the Supreme Court's Chadha opinion that the president could veto the Venezuela resolution. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Wait wait wait, while Americans have to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in new tariffs, Trump is going send over $10,000 to each person in *Greenland*????????? This is a joke right ? www.reuters.com/world/europe...

All strands of the Right – elected officials, the media machine, the intellectual sphere, the base – have been openly embracing and clamoring for state and rightwing vigilante violence if it is directed against anything and anyone associated with “the Left.”

A Republican elected official proudly declaring he has no problem with agents of the state shooting unarmed citizens in the face if they annoy the regime. It is impossible to make democracy work with a party that not only tolerates people like this, but elevates them to positions of influence.

If "centrists" want to run on "kitchen table" issues that mean something locally, here's $170,000,000,000 to play with!

Um, you're not allowed to go door-to-door hoping to randomly find someone violating the law. You need a warrant. That's is basic Constitutional shit.

Lmaooo hell yeah go get em. Tell them to try and stop you. You know why he can say this shit out loud? Because absolutely no one has stood up to him. And we had him on a recording asking those dudes in Georgia to find him 11000 votes. And he's back in the White House and not in jail. So.

It is extremely embarrassing to all Americans that the vice president’s poll numbers are as high as they are rn and yes I’m aware of how low they are

There it is in bold print. They fear becoming a minority because of how they treat minorities.

The more Democrats talk about this as a "distraction" from grocery prices or say similar insane shit, the more it normalizes what Trump is doing. "Oh, Dems want lower prices, Trump is focused on immigration and national security, which one will I choose?"

“They’re killing the moms, they’re killing the dads”

This is *definitely* how you behave when you're trying to bring every resource to bear, rather than trying to cover up the unlawful behavior of your own personnel.

Setting aside the long term viability of that strategy, at what point do you start to sound insane when people are watching armed government gangsters running wild every day and the local candidate is smiling into the camera and talking about groceries

I should also note that 7 Republicans (Cramer, Daines, Moran, Scott (FL), Scott (SC), Tuberville and Wicker) were absent for the vote. Had these Democrats not gone along with the GOP, Van Hook would have not been confirmed.

The gaslighting is not just off the charts - it's in whole another galaxy. But, this is also a sign of desperation. He knows. They know - except for their MAGA core just watching their edited frames, everyone else knows the objective reality.

the government is telling you not even unarmed nice white lady moms surrounded by stuffed animals are off limits, and I’m sorry but: that is an extremely terrifying.

i firmly believe — like you would have to give me hard evidence to convince me otherwise — that they feed trump a steady diet of AI slop

Do not accept the idea that local officials can't do anything because the FBI "cut them out." They should run their own investigation. If the Feds try to stop them they should force them to arrest cops and DAs. The mayor should go on TV demanding the release of his officers. No business as usual.

So Minnesota is not even going to try to enforce Minnesota law because Dan Rosen whined???

Democrats should run on the fact that their opposition is literally killing Americans and destroying the country. It’s not hyperbole. That’s the message they should be blasting out to media every day. They are killing Americans and destroying the country. They hate our freedom. They hate democracy

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

I love that someone on here was like "it's not the agency so much as the people in it" and Bill Fucking Kristol is like "ABOLISH ICE" and if you can't get on Bills level well

It’s not just vibes and anecdotes, the Jan 6 pardon recipients really do have a statistically insane number of pedophiles.