Yup, Trump is sure de-escalating alright. He just called Alex Pretti an agitator and insurrectionist and said this murdered man's "stock has gone way down."

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

We have reported for a long time now that this is Feucht’s MO. He follows controversy around the country/globe (Australia in a couple of weeks) then insert’s himself for the attention, drama, clicks and cash. He’s a pest. leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/feu...

Elon having a normal one.

The coverage and response from the commentariat and our political leadership to the pipe bomb attack at the Invasion Day rally was so muted, that even I didn’t find out about until the next day. But I know about it now and what it says about us a country, so I’ve written about it here for Crikey.

LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: Trump is suing the federal government, which he heads, for $10 billion—billion with a "b"—so his personal lawyers are going to square off against a bunch of government lawyers, some of whom probably also used to be his personal lawyers.

was that not already banned

A lot of the right-wing infighting on twitter rn is libertarians, pseudoscientific racists and apathetic normies complaining about the death cult fascists they were friends with, but the secondary fractures are spreading everywhere:

Anyone who gives a dime to the Democratic Party right now is a fucking chump.

After all the attention got by the protest of the church w the pastor who's an ICE field director, Feucht wants in on the action. He's seeking out that ol' time persecution narrative, baby. God's most notorious ambulance chaser. #hostilehairMNPLS

Like clockwork- Sean Feucht is heading to Minneapolis next week. Re-using the “Riots to Revival” event title he used in Minneapolis in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. Bad news all round- this is the last thing MN needs right now’s

🚨"They're stealing the car!" As Tom Homan vows "safer" ICE operations, ICE rammed into a driver's car in Minneapolis—in front of an elementary school—then chased him. After failing to catch him—they stole his car. "Back up before I f*cking spray you!" ICE yelled at observers ⬇️

Absolute grub

lol ok grandpa, let’s get you to bed

Scoop: AG Bondi gave St. Louis US Attorney Thomas Albus special appointment with nationwide authority to probe voter fraud. This explains why Albus, not the Atlanta US attorney, was on FBI's Fulton County search warrant yesterday. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers. Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024. And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary. The system is rigged.

“in theater” is a crazy way to describe minneapolis

The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. https://to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU

It’s ramping back up in SoCal- record numbers today. Stay safe out there- look after each other.

kinda sorta maybe perhaps www.abc.net.au/religion/jos...

"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

Big news that I'm delighted to no longer be keeping a secret: Next week I join @wired.com as a senior writer! As everyone knows, this is a top-tier publication and indispensable record of digital life today. I'll be covering internet culture in all forms, as I have for almost 15 years now.

"But the independent court monitor who reviewed her death said he had heard general concerns from Border Patrol officials about the operational "drain" involved in transferring migrants to hospitals." www.cbsnews.com/news/anadith...

HOLY CRAP! The US did this in Mexico last week! “If the U.S. government is unilaterally going into a sovereign country and apprehending somebody, you can understand the concern that sovereign entity might have,” Columbia said.

So my connect the dots here is that there will be some allegation that there was foreign interference in the voting — Hugo Chavez, Italian satellites, etc. — (hence why DNI is involved), making it a nat sec issue that they will use to justify doing something crazy/illegal in Nov

rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people

This is so fucking funny, Elon Musk just fully pivoting to the next grift to juice stock prices now that no one wants to be his Nazi cars Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Genuinely some of the craziest shit I've ever heard

The regime is going to try to rig the election. They're going to flood the zone with misinformation and suppress the truth on X and TikTok.

@lukeoneil47.bsky.social was kind enough to let me ramble. Particularly proud of “what may have seemed to him like an impromptu barricade against bloodthirsty insurgents, but from an outsiders’s perspective looked a lot more like an adorable fort...” www.welcometohellworld.com/the-battles-...

🚨BREAKING: Outrage and grave concern about the midterm elections followed in the wake of the FBI’s court-authorized raid of the Fulton County, Georgia elections office Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NEW from DSM: Last night, DHS flashbanged, shot less-lethals, and tear-gassed attendees at a candlelight vigil for #AlexPretti in #EugeneOR following a day of several protesters being detained. Read about it ⤵️

i am a democratic senator and i won't support any additional DHS funding until ICE spends 30 minutes reading quietly

ICYMI: The mayor is being weird about public records. She chose not to publicly release a town hall that included resources for documenting ICE and a presentation by LAPD about their role in immigration enforcement. So I put in a FOIA and got it, but with watermarks saying it can’t be excerpted.

Incredible. Millions are newly-mobilized, questioning how their taxes are being used to hurt their neighbors. Republicans are in a terrible position. Democrats have huge leverage. And they may just go ahead and give DHS more money — as long as they slap on a few rules DHS is already not following.

@schumer.senate.gov this is wholly insufficient. dismantle the agency and prosecute human rights violators.

QAnon figure Jordan Sather posted a video where he apparently created a fake account on the dating app Hinge & then used it to harass liberal women around Minneapolis. Sather also wrote that he has "a few more cities planned" to do this to.

“Around 9:45 a.m., a man selling flowers near 2nd and Mott streets was taken by federal agents, according to Verita Topete of the social justice group Centro CSO.” thelalocal.org/neighborhood...

Audra Price, the leader of COPS NW, commented on Scott Benthin's post. She's normalizing racism and Nazism - it's funny to her when people accurately categorize her as a racist and Nazi.

Since COPS NW is in the news because one of their people, Eric Oelkers, shot and injured 2 PPB officers - here's disgraced former Clackamas County Sheriff Deputy Scott Benthin promoting COPS NW.

When you watch these creators' content, as I am contractually obligated to do, it becomes clear these folks are more operatives in an information war than journalists. Their content—praised and supported by the Trump admin—is used to justify a harsher federal response.

There are about a dozen big creators who gain money and clout by going to protests and capturing content of themselves being victimized by the "violent left." Many work for or have worked for Turning Point USA and appeared at a White House “antifa” roundtable last year.

In Minneapolis, far-right influencers posing as journalists are casting themselves as victims and labeling ICE-watch groups “terrorists.” Their big new evidence—“infiltrated” Signal chats—isn’t a secret, had no calls for violence and urged people to witness, not interfere. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

Just an aside: When the National Conservatism convened in DC last year, the digital billboard that sits at the exit to the hotel's parking lot had ads like the one you see below on rotation all of the days I was there covering it.

Fr. Harry Tasto, a Catholic priest and chaplain at the VA hospital who worked with Alex Pretti: “(Pretti) was known for his kindness and gentleness to patients,” Tasto said. “So don’t, please, pay any attention to the vilification from our national leaders.” www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/pri...

Omg shut up

While the dictionary may suggest that terrorism is when anyone uses unlawful violence for political means, many understand that the application of the term becomes impacted by 'other factors'... chaser.com.au/general-news...

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”