There’s a special kind of grief many of us are feeling tonight. Because it didn’t have to be like this.

Growing up, my parents taught me and my sisters that white folks who stand up against white supremacy and domination are always, always, ALWAYS punished and killed alongside the targets of white supremacist domination... this is yet another facet of its violence, and how/why white supremacy endures.

I strongly suspect that '92-'93 is the real starting point for MAGA. I became super obsessed with the long tail of Waco a few years ago, and honestly the emotional core of it all — despite that most of the allegations against the FBI were bullshit at Waco — is super affecting. archive.is/M7qkk

I’m at the spot where ICE murdered Renee Nicolle Good today, along with my daughter and her bf. Still lots of people here at 11:00 pm. (Avoiding getting anyone in the picture) It’s beautiful, surreal but still mostly enraging. Abolish ICE.

A 6-year-old just lost his mother. A woman was shot in the face in front of her wife. The swift, lockstep attempt to dehumanize and villainize Renee Nicole Good might be the most depraved thing we've seen yet from these ghouls and their supporters. These people are utterly fucking dead inside.

The world has a bit of a pathetic white man problem. This is so disgusting. These overly coiffed buffoons chuckling amongst themselves about a community of immigrants from a country that the US has intervened in several times. And that just puts a giant target on all Somali-Americans.

This is the ninth shooting by ICE since September (I did not know that). All of them were into vehicles.

Harsh but fair.

Today's events with ICE are an example of why I don't quibble about calling the Trump regime fascist. There's no utility in throwing around academic terms like 'competitive authoritarianism' when the President has a personal army invading cities and murdering citizens. It's fascism.

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

Now THIS is the way 🎉🎉🎉

"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret. But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.

Impeach Kristi Noem.

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

AOC: What we saw today was a horrific act of violence. What we have seen and are now seeing is that ICE has not just become an anti-immigrant force—it is becoming an anti-civilian, paramilitary organization. People are being taken off the streets for exercising their free speech rights.

Minneapolis, I love you.

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

If there's a single undercurrent of our age it's that these miserable conditions are the result of unchecked elite impunity, and the further they continue the harder it becomes to imagine anyone using wealth to cause harm ever facing a consequence for their actions.

Imagine calling the USA a “dominant predator force” in a favorable way. There’s a new frame you don’t see every day.

Amount of blood US has expended defending Greenland: zero. Amount of blood Denmark has expended defending the US: 43 Danish soldiers gave their lives in Afghanistan, responding to a US appeal under article 5 of NATO. Ogles has no idea about any of this, because he's an incompetent buffoon.

New: I spoke with a Colombian asylum seeker who was the victim of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ about what it was like to be racially profiled, abducted in front his family and held in ICE detention hours from home for more than a month—despite doing everything “the right way.” This is Nick’s story.

Cutting analysis of T on Greenland versus 3 kinds of (geopolitical) "realism" by @smsaideman.bsky.social (I honestly had to learn the more fine-grained meaning of "schmuck": "Stephen Miller Is Too Much of a Schmuck to be a Lousy Realist: Greenland edition")

Trump's Razor yet again.

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

the lineup has always been thus: Gabbard heads use intel and works for the Russians RFK Jr heads health department and allies with disease Hegseth heads defense dept and is an ally of Christian nationalism/white supremacy It was always nakedly so that Trump as heads enemies of each agency

It is worth asking how far a dispute over Greenland that could collapse the alliance between America and Europe flared up again because of an uncoordinated shitpost from Katie Miller whose only strategic purpose was to bolster her husband's position in Trump's royal court

Inevitable. After all, Tulsi Gabbard works not just as the Director of US National Intelligence but also as a Russian agent.

My blogpost extends some stuff @thomashughes.bsky.social and I discussed on today's podcast: cdsn.substack.com/p/episode-47... Plus I talked to RCAF Colonel Curtis Wright about air ops in Canada and beyond.

The hardest part of writing this take on Miller and Greenland and realism is trying to figure out how to insult Miller best. saideman.blogspot.com/2026/01/step... He isn't dumb but he does stupid stuff. He isn't ignorant, but he does like to ignore important stuff. He is educated so schmuck it is.

So, Holly is my fave Wheeler.

The Greenland stuff really checks off the last box in Robert Paxton's definition of fascism: "pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of external expansion"

Now’s as good a time as any to remind people that there is literally nothing the US would “get” through violating Article 5 that it doesn’t get already. We have access. We have a base. We get free monitoring of the Russian navy in the N. Atlantic. Zero new benefit. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

And, like this time would , it came from within the alliance and thus did not trigger Article V.

It’s great that the champions and defenders of Western Culture are censoring Plato. The moral panic over accurately teaching about American racism was always about disciplining professors in general. We’re a check on propaganda, which propagandists hate.

It's not silly. It's wildly illegal, violates our most important international treaties, endangers US national security, & requires immediate impeachment & removal. If only there were someone who could <do something> about the lawless authoritarianism, Congressman Bacon: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I wanted to see how many friends the President of Peace has made during his first and second term, so I made a map of countries he has threatened both economically and militarily, banned citizens from, and bombed. Some things are up for discussion, so a bit on methodology below.

Let's run the government like a business! When we get out of this mess, I hope that recommendation will be thoroughly discredited.

Depends on how you think about Cyprus....

I wrote this about NATO and Denmark as people were and are getting it wrong saideman.blogspot.com/2026/01/gree... I feel @emptywheel.bsky.social 's pain when she sees people piling on Merrick Garland...

Oh, and just to piss people off, Jan 6th was not an attempted coup d'etat but an autogolpe--the incumbent tried to usurp the powers of other actors to stay in power.

there really is no better evidence of Trump being a sociopath and being demented. There is no need of any kind for the US to own Greenland. It has access, it is under the US nuclear umbrella, there is no threat. This is all ego and bad 1970s real estate mindset at work.

I am really sorry for the faculty there, but Texas A&M should lose accreditation.

Accountability is the guardrail. Remove it, and democracy slides fast.

Grrrrr. The US didn't invoke A5 in 2001. A) The alliance does this, not an individual country B) Remember how unilateral the Bushies were? They didn't move to have the alliance invoke A5--Canada and other allies did to show solidarity and the Bushies couldn't refuse. C) FFS!!!!!

Greenland is happening. Not a joke, not trolling, not a distraction. He has already made up his mind and nobody who matters in the inner circle will try to talk him out of it. Some of them want it precisely because it will destroy NATO. There are no adults in the room. They really mean to do it.

Trump's obsession with making Greenland part of the United States because it looks big on a map and is colored differently from the states is a classic case of Mercator Projection

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson need not be depicted for this, you wretched shrews.

The failure of our elites to hold Trump accountable for January 6th is as disgraceful as what happened on that awful day. Since 2010, 35 democratic leaders around the world have been criminally convicted. Only Trump went unpunished and unconstrained. Now he threatens democracy at home and abroad.