there is a specific tic in the way that centrist Dems address law enforcement: they don’t understand that the interaction with police *is* the harm. they think a show your papers situation is neutral as long as you leave walking, but police interaction is itself traumatic. It’s terrifying.

The most essential foundation for rebuilding will be official, codified, binding recognition that constitutionally legitimate government ceased on Jan 20, 2025 and everything since then has been null and void. No sustainable system worth having can be built on anything less.

As a Pennsylvania native, this is my favorite pedantic nitpick.

actually it's a commonwealth

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

The reform I want is the "no, you can't just ship alleged undocumented immigrants out the country without a real Article 3 judge adjudicating their case" reform. The existence of a rubber stamp fake court system for something so consequential is abhorrent.

One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.

Not trying to be "that guy," but bringing a pizza cutter to spring a guy named "Luigi" from jail feels like 19th Century racism.

ITS TIME

The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

Hello Donald this is your political strategist speaking. I am advising you today to please keep saying this stuff

And sweet Saint Paul, he must be the hardest-luck saint of them all

I am nominating Saint Paul for the FIFA Peace Prize.

I feel like I've already said everything useful I have to say about politics for the foreseeable future, but what I hope we all take away from the heroes and martyrs of Minneapolis is that you really can choose to believe in things just because they're right, and that doing so really does matter.

This is a scheduled pogrom

I’m not sure how much notice this has received but the Assembly of First Nations in Canada has issued a travel advisory for the United States after reports that Indigenous people are being increasingly questioned and detained by ICE. www.instagram.com/p/DT-_SacDEH...

Using the r-slur is a big, flashing red warning sign that a person isn’t worth listening to and I really hope we’re moving back to a place where more people realize that

🎶detective hole / noir as your soul / he’d rather die / than give you control🎶

This is grounds to expel Hoekstra, right?

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

Between advocating Alberta secession and removing memorial flags for fallen Danes outside the US Embassy in Copenhagen, a bunch of our guys should be getting PNGed

now is the time for believing in things and courageously standing up for those things you believe in. do not care about how you think things should be worded or how not to overplay whatever hand. we're past that

Serwer: “The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.” fact check: true ✅

there are people going out in the freezing cold and literally putting their lives on the line in defense of their communities and the multicultural secular society they believe in. not interested in what some online wannabe dnc consultant type wants to tell me what is and isn't possible now

Leading democratic politicians should make plans to be in Springfield on February 4th

That is correct. Trump has set a date to revoke Haitian protected status, and then set a date for the anti-Haitian pogrom to begin the next day. ICE must go. Miller must go. Noem must go. Even Vance must go. Their ethnonationalist mania gets more violent every day and is going to destroy America.

This is only violations since 1/1/26

This is a scheduled pogrom

Imagine having Bruce Springsteen AND Billy Bragg release songs about how much you fucking suck and how much the people fighting you rule you within the same 48 hours

'While many of you are likely yelling "GO PATRIOTS" or "GO SEAHAWKS!" I'm yelling "GO DEEP-VEIN THROMBOSIS and the risks of prolonged air travel!"'

I don’t know the date of this photo but that bronzer is doing some heavy lifting vis-à-vis the pallor of impending death

"Okay boss, I'm good at the language of images so you want the dissident facing the camera, defiant, and the agent of the state faceless, back to the camera, as if they're cowering in shame, right?"

I live an hour north of Minneapolis and they’re here too. They’re rounding up workers in chicken processing plants and breweries.

whelp, January 6th 2.0 has started www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Well-sourced reports suggest ICE is camping out at school bus stops in Ypsilanti and snatching parents. I have a Mini Cooper with all-weather tires and I’m willing to go through some training.

Push it as hard as Mamdani was asked to, for some reason, renounce Hamas.

I saw this guy the first time I took mushrooms in Amsterdam. He was standing menacingly behind me at the kebab counter and changing the words on the menu with his mind

she’s a member of congress. the president has repeatedly spoken about her in terms that would make an average german in 1936 uncomfortable. thank god this wasn’t more serious. it’s outrageous that this is something she - and we, as a people - have legitimate reason to be deeply worried about.

I was always told that one of the central lessons of the Shoah is that legal, juridical regimes can still be immoral. The claim that Anne Frank was in Amsterdam "legally" is false, but more than that, the question "Was Anne Frank an illegal?" is so grossly missing the point of Holocaust remembrance.

One of the great (and I think mostly irrational) fears that dissuades people from observing is the idea that they’d be targeted by the government after the fact. There’s zero evidence DHS is doing that or has the capacity to do that. The primary risk is always escalation at the time of an encounter.

Virgin Bordiga vs Chad Gramsci

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

before you take any of the "Trump is pivoting/lamenting/lowering the temperature after the Pretti murder" stories too seriously, absolutely nothing has changed in Minneapolis: "an absolutely brutal day of raids and abductions" says one friend

here's a video from this afternoon in Eden Prairie MN of ICE agents camping out as a bus stop. Again, this is terrorism.

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"Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Mpls or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America" ~ @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I feel like one fundamental error of the right is they assumed every white Democrat was lying and would actually more or less happily acquiesce to a fascist white ethnostate

Bovino’s retirement needs to be a cage. His command environment yielded Renee Good’s death, Alex Pretti’s death & Julio Sosa-Celis’ shooting. Failure to prosecute Bovino & everyone else materially responsible for these atrocities will be understood by ICE, CBP, etc as a green light for the next ones

DOWN WITH THE TRAITORS AND UP WITH THE STAR