I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

McBride: Look, people are clutching their pearls at this guy yelling something at the president. They are more offended by a worker standing up to the president and calling him out for his hypocrisy than they are by the president trying to cover up for a human trafficking ring

The people celebrating ICE enjoy watching masked men terrorize and abuse women and children. They love it! They enjoy watching the videos of the violence first, then create justifications for that violence in reverse. Their ICE support is predicated on wanting the violence to escalate and continue

NEW: Mass resignations at the DoJ Civil Rights Division - including the Chief of the Criminal Section - over the administration’s refusal to investigate the murder of Renee Good. www.cbsnews.com/news/minneap...

Russia offers to help the U.S. Military sink NATO ships If this doesn’t convince Repubs something is terribly wrong, nothing will

Disconcerting asymmetry of “We share the same values, we all want freedom and prosperity,” juxtaposed with the White House, the GOP, and their media allies screaming that America isn’t white enough, and if you criticize state agents murdering innocent people, they’ll send state agents to murder you.

Absolutely galling to me that the Department of Homeland Security is straight up using Nazi songs on its social media and everyone is acting like it's normal.

"ICE agents operate masked, heavily militarized, and—most troubling—without any visible identification...In democratic societies, the use of lawful force depends on legitimacy. Legitimacy depends on accountability. And accountability begins with identification." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

When he tells you who he is, believe him. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

It would be nice if the president considered taking action against the government targeting US protesters.

Trump praised Hitler, has operated concentration camps, is engaged in ethnic cleansing of America, is using troops against innocent citizens, is committing mass murders and acts of war against other countries, and is overthrowing foreign countries. We know where this is going.

Keith Ellison: "These poorly trained, aggressive, and armed agents of the federal state have terrorized Minnesota with widespread unlawful conduct. They're making unconstitutional arrests and using excessive force ... this has to stop."

Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."

Congress should pass a law requiring agents to show their faces, identify themselves, & wear their badges. It’s not agent safety we have to worry about these days. End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.

When will it become a stretch to far? Killing Americans Killing immigrants Invading Countries Playing Pretend President Grifting:Meme Coins/Crypto Threats against its own government Giving taxpayers dollars to other countries The Presidency is for sale When will enough be enough?

Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it

Ok but which country is going to intervene to protect US protesters from their government?

TWO. Two chances this Supreme Court had to make the right call. One was the simply call January 6 what it was: An insurrection. Even the liberal justices couldn’t do that. The other was to not make sham and politically-motivated investigations an “official act.” And here we fucking are.

Rep. Ilhan Omar: Trump administration trying to provoke Minneapolis residents. "...I think the ultimate goal of [DHS Secretary] Kristi Noem and President Trump is to agitate people enough where they are able to invoke the Insurrection Act to declare martial law." www.commondreams.org/news/ilhan-o...

The president of the United States is extorting the Federal Reserve Board Chairman by threatening criminal prosecution if he doesn't lower interest rates. DOJ is compromised, legacy media is cowed and Big Law is AWOL. As I wrote last year: "We are on our own."

WELKER: Has the president crossed the line of impeachment? CHRIS MURPHY: I have common sense. I know this president has committed 10 times more impeachable offenses in his second term as he did in his first. He's stealing from the American people.

Auchincloss: "When you have a badge & gun and you are interacting with a citizen who has committed no crime, the onus of responsibility is on you to exercise good judgment. Nobody watching that video will buy the argument that he had no other resort other than to shoot her in the face 3 times."

Immigrants commit fewer crimes, meaning they're not the threat they've been made out to be. Thus, ICE's deployment and actions are political. Assass*nation refers to someone being killed for political reasons. Put it together, and you see Renee Good was assassinated. It's also terrorism.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

This agency is out of control if leadership is no longer checking violations of constitutional rights. Congress absolutely must step in before more people are kidnapped/killed.

The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.

Frey: "An individual from a car that was in the middle of a street was detained. ICE left the car in the middle of the street. The car wasn't even in park, so you got it just rolling down the street w/nobody in it. It could've hit anybody, including my own family. This is not about safety"

We shouldn’t have to be putting ourselves in mortal peril to keep the federal government accountable. Slightly over half of the American voters made us do so, though. Thanks for that, by the way, American voters. Redblad.com

Once again the absolute dumbest people you and I know will be downright gleeful about this. Disgraceful.

Hey Jake LaMotta, any comments?

After killing Renee Good, ICE fascists in Minneapolis have now arrested and detained 4 members of Oglala Sioux Tribe. ICE HAS ARRESTED AND DETAINED INDIGENOUS AMERICANS. These ICE fascists are not here to keep us safe, but to advance white supremacy. Defund and abolish ICE permanently.

Epstein Venezuela Greenland Department of War Gaza ICE Renee Good [$]TRUMP The East Wing Gulf of America January 6 E. Jean Carroll 34 convictions Alien Enemies Act Stephen Miller US-Iran War DOGE The Trump Shutdown Noem Hegseth + 100s more When does everyone decide it is enough

LETTERMAN: “.. CBS News is a wreck. It’s just gone. .. The integrity of CBS News .. has been trampled on, pissed on and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over.” @letterman.bsky.social $PSKY youtu.be/CHYksa07oQA?...

The post contains the DOJ’s own “use of force” policy — which is where any analysis should begin. Also, the point that the agent was still recording while firing with one-hand has been underreported.

if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed. everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Could you imagine if a Biden WH CEA doc was leaked talking about how it's fine if red state economies were doing bad, it'd nailed to the desk of every right wing talk show for a decade

Trump will do whatever he can to monkey with the midterms, but he can't cancel them. And that's why people need to turn up to vote - in droves.

Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!

I've been screaming for a year: We are at war. This is a war Trump has declared upon us. He does not want to govern like an elected official. No, he wants to rule us like a king. The Trump regime and MAGA get they are waging a war upon us. Only Democrats have been missing that. Now it's undeniable.

Shapiro: J.D. Vance is profoundly and pathetically a weak human being, and he does whatever he thinks his boss wants him to do. What we need right now is not idiotic gaslighting from the sitting VP He should be ashamed of himself—and he’s not. I think that speaks to the weakness of his character.

This, combined with him *moving to the front of the car* and then reaching for, if not actually unholstering, his weapon before Good even begins moving forward deminstrates that the intention to shoot was not reactive to a threat posed by the vehicle

Border Patrol Tactical Unit Goons Warn Residents: "Don't Make a Bad Decision Today" MINNEAPOLIS, MN

This is why we have been using the word fascism. If you all think Trump will peacefully and voluntarily leave, you aren't paying attention and are suffering from a severe failure of imagination. They're playing for all the marbles now, folks.

I love me some crude humor.

The left has a rhetoric problem? Renee Good was labeled a domestic terrorist before any investigation at all. That’s their approach - did it in Chicago, too. And that video doesn’t show what they think it does.

Even in death, women are denied the bare minimum of respect. This pathetic, rage-filled coward—after murdering her in cold blood—called her a “fucking bitch” mere seconds after shooting her dead. The contemptible misogyny doesn’t even pause for a corpse to cool.