scenes from occupied Minneapolis: "Walked out of home to see abandoned crashed car in middle of intersection. Didn’t see the actual accident but there are no police around"

trump has probably destroyed the minnesota republican party for the duration

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”

Bondi’s letter represents a major assault on Minnesota’s sovereignty, demanding that it forfeit its ability to make and enforce its own laws and maintain its voter rolls without oversight from the executive branch, which does not have authority over elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Just kinda seems like refusing to tell us which ICE agents murdered Alex Pretti undercuts the idea that they’re wearing masks to protect themselves — rather than to be able to kill people with impunity.

New in PN: The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic "The VP told them they could kill anyone who annoyed them. Pretti annoyed them. So they killed him. Now the lies Bovino and Noem are telling about Pretti’s death are intended to encourage further extrajudicial executions and likely will do so."

We need to get it broadly understood that Stephen Miller's ethnic cleansing will result in a permanent metastasized immigrant carceral state and paramilitary warfare on US streets that goes on *for years.* The internal logic of his agenda dictates this of necessity. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

“I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say ‘The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the f*ck they want and make sh*t up as they go along.’” — George Conway

Scalise lies: "The want to defund ICE. They defunded police. The police chief of Mpls said yesterday multiple times how stretched thin his department is. They don't have enough people because Mpls defunded the police." (Police were not defunded and MPD is stretched thin bc of unrest caused by ICE)

Bailey Ober recognizing the situation in Minneapolis, the first MLB player to do so #MinnesotaTwins #TwinsBaseball #MLB

Only political cowards “struggle” to respond.

HOW IT WORKS IN MOVIES: 1. Government lies 2. Brave heroes release video showing the truth 3. Press says “the government is lying!” HOW IT APPARENTLY WORKS IN REAL LIFE 1. Brave heroes release video showing the truth 2. Government lies 3. Press says “Oh no, what now? So confusing! So hard!”

Gavin Newsom Is 💯% Correct.....

#GVerse #Attention Reporter: ''So you agree that people who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted?'' JD Vance: ''Yes'' Reporter: ''Ok, I'm just checking, because you helped raise money for people who did so on January 6th''

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

Bovino: “ICE are the victims”

Hugo Lowell told MSNOW that the Trump administration expects that the murder of Alex Pretti will "blow over and go away." They believe that Americans will forget about it in a week or so.

being heckled at a restaurant for being in the gestapo and being beat up by 6 gestapo agents, bear sprayed, and shot 8 times with zero accountability is equivalent to these freaks

It's like racists in America being dumbfounded by the attack on Pearl Harbor because they'd convinced themselves that members of an inferior race were biologically incapable of flying planes.

i like that every time jd vance tries to tell a story about some awful thing that happened he just sounds like the softest dude on the planet. aw, poor baby, you mean you and your chud friends were locked in a restaurant?

This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this. Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.

These are all valid points—including Trump's

State sponsored terrorism…. @michaelssmithii.bsky.social is an expert and knows it when he sees it.

I don’t know a person on Earth that works harder than Kat. Go meet her if you haven’t yet. She will abolish and prosecute ICE.

Slim Shady on the mic.

The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*

🎯🎯

We got no investigation whatsoever for Renee Good. Todd Blanche said he watched the video and there was no need. Now we will get a rigged investigation on Pretti with DHS investigating itself to determine if DHS did anything wrong, and zero oversight from the Republican Congress.

Hey @politico.com you’re telling on yourselves with this garbage

The lies immediately offered to besmirch Pretti are so lazy & formulaic its hardly even descriptive to call them a 'smear campaign.' I don't mean to criticize @wired.com here, it just seems like we need another term for this generic, paint-by-numbers, post-War on Terror, enemy of the state pablum

Just say the government is lying. The goal of journalism should be to inform, not gaslight.

"AG Bondi’s letter is an outrageous attempt to coerce Minnesota into giving the federal government private data on millions of U.S. Citizens in violation of state & federal law — after repeated failed attempts to pressure my office into providing it." www.kare11.com/article/news...

Trump attacked California because of Kamala Harris. He attacked Minnesota because of her running mate. He attacked Maine because its governor said she see him in court to his face. See a pattern here?

Senator Rosen calling for Noem’s impeachment. More of this, please.

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

Keith Porter, 43-year-old father, was fatally shot by ICE officer on New Year’s Eve outside his apartment in Northridge, CA.

“They are using the mechanism of armed officers with masks who are killing citizens to create disruption so they can use more force to eliminate the possibility they could be removed from office and suffer criminal sanctions for the crimes they are now committing”

Statistic: 2/3rds of murders in Minneapolis so far in 2026 have been committed by DHS agents

oh commuters just found the motherlode of ice agents at a suburban hotel, including, potentially, bovino himself. a bunch of confirmed ICE and CBP cars from the bovino convoy there. spring hill suites in maple grove. people of the twin cities, do with this info what you will.

Yes.

Murphy on Bovino: "That was a bone-chilling interview. I was shaking while I was listening to it, in large part bc it takes just an unbelievable amount of gall to lie to the American public. Everybody saw that video ... it should freak the public out that the Trump administration lies this easily"

Kristi Noem deserves to be impeached for the things you know about: mass deportation policies that have gotten Americans killed. But folks aren't talking enough about what she's not doing: keeping us safe. She's gutting disaster relief agencies and putting us all at risk.

The idea that fascism’s progress starts with the ability to “fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent” is often quoted. The wrapper to this passage by Bertrand Russell, from his 1940 essay “Freedom and Government” is even more prescient in today’s political climate: …

It’s not “self defense” it’s a tactic. It permits offensive action by police. ALTERNATIVELY federales are too stupid to get out from in front of vehicles. www.ms.now/news/federal...

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds playing CSNY’s “Ohio” with a little “Killing in the Name Of” thrown in.

We can be clear that we are legally allowed to oppose the actions of the government, it's our constitutional right.