If this doesn't kill Newsom's presidential ambitions, I don't know what will. There are other alternatives who are not trying to flirt with the extreme right.

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

I don’t have a huge platform or anything, but I want to use whatever influence I do have to share this. What’s happening is frightening and unconstitutional. Know your rights and protections. www.reddit.com/r/stateofMN/...

Israel also learned this lesson, despite the U.S.'s otherwise carte blanche approach to genocide.

I wonder how long it will take the media to catch on to the fact that ICE’s recruiting spree has effectively deputized every white supremacist hate group out there.

Holy cow! #Seahawks

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

I just want people to know that there is no active insurrection, no regular protests, no rioting or whatever. The only time people are in the streets is when masked armed ICE thugs descend on one of our neighbors to disappear them as part of a federal government-led ethnic cleansing campaign.

That there’s not a massive, credible, instant, bipartisan impeachment/25th Amendment move over these senseless and destructive Greenland threats is a sign of how broken our politics are — and especially how broken the Republican Party is.

The Mandalorian helping out a hungry young girl sitting on mound of grass: This is the whey.

Abolish DHS is not an outrageous ask. Whatever necessary parts exist could be returned to their original departments. DHS is now the fascism accelerator many warned it would become.

Periodic reminder that the Republicans can stop the chaos any. Time. They. Want. (They won’t, because they’re all in with Trump’s Make Nazis the Good Guys agenda.)

I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.

This 100%

This is happening so often the city had to put out a statement.

This week, I spoke with a St. Paul woman who told me ICE came to her door and asked her to report on her "Asian neighbors." The Hmong community, the large majority of whom are in this country legally for decades now, is in hiding.

We’re at the double-tap pardon stage. Democrats *must* challenge these pardons as corrupt and unlawful. It’s too much power for any one person to have.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Stop using Spotify. They're stealing money that should go to artists. Buy your music direct from the artist, through Bandcamp, or at a retailer. Noting: Streaming has always paid artists a ridiculously low amount. This takes away even that. 88% of songs will no make them NO money whatsoever.

This thread for the #writingcommunity (and to keep as a reminder)

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I'm just going to point out that ICE is about 23 years old. It was formed as part of the response to 9/11 and was reactionary, performative, and racist from the start. Its not eternal. This is not a thousand-year Reich.

This is embarrassingly ridiculous. It's all about political positioning and will do absolutely nothing to help the people ICE is abusing.

He can't win it, but he sure can steal it.

Yet another example that we are being led by a cabal of inept supervillains with cut-rate writers having them deliver unbelievably dumb monologues.

Important distinction, especially because the president doesn't seem to understand it.

If you see federal agents pulling into your driveway, reporters, power down your electronic devices ASAP. That's the advice from @runasand.bsky.social, via @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/news/hannah-...

While we get ready to invade our neighbor and erstwhile ally, Japan and Korea improve relations with a K-pop Demon Hunters jam session. THIS is how to do foreign relations. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

As if these losers we're violent racist neo-fascists to begin with? Let 'em try to get a real job like everyone else. May be tough with felony convictions, though.

Let’s talk about abolishing ICE. Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.” /1

He can't even sit up straight and keep his eyes open.

As well they should. Every nation has a right to self-defense, even the ones you don't like. And the U.S. has made it clear that Europe is the enemy now. Not only will we not come to their aid, we will attack them the minute it becomes expedient to do so.

Washington can easily slip out the back door unnoticed.

So he spoke to Putin again. The guy's utter gullibility is going down in history as the most embarrassing aspect of this administration. He'll be remembered for a lot worse, though.

So we're going to create a socialist utopia in space? Wonderful!

This would be the first chop in the trunk of the tree that actually lands. Yes, it's illegal. Yes, the courts will probably, eventually stop it. MAYBE the Supreme Court will toss it, too, but never say never with Roberts. But it's a clear wedge: Trump is declaring war.

Why, yes, I belep it's still Tuesday....

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

So many cool stories in today's #BluePit. Nice meeting everyone, even though I had *stuff* to do and could only pop in and out periodically. So much talent!

Call your reps, call your senators. Tell them they can shut this authoritarian government down or we'll throw them out of office and get some representatives who, you know, actually represent us.

The derelict enemy warship holds valuable intel, but Revera's extraction team have their own secrets, which they’d kill to protect. And fulfilling her duty may come at the cost of reigniting a cold war, and losing both her honor and humanity's future. #BluePit📖 #A #SF #Q #BluePit #amquerying #FMC

Second-degree Driving While Witnessing Constitutional Violations

The Trump regime is targeting Renee Good’s wife now????? Low-down depraved monsters. “Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter.”

SEOUL, Jan 13 (Reuters) - South Korea's special prosecutor on Tuesday requested the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.

Nothing says “grace” more than calling a woman “fucking bitch” right after shooting her in the face.

Revera, a scarred war hero seeking one last shot at relevance, signs on to a covert mission that turns out more than she bargains for, with a secret at its heart that risks her honor and reigniting a war gone cold, with humanity's survival at stake. #BluePit📖 #A #SF #Q #BluePit #amquerying #FMC