We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

One thing I hope people take the time to acknowledge: The sea change in public opinion has been achieved because violence, though encourage by a lot of people here online, was never once employed by the movement. Violence was solely the purview of the state and that is why the state is losing.

No, @tomsuozzi.bsky.social, we don't want you to do a "better job demonstrating" how "critical of ICE" you are. (Whatever the hell that means.) We want you to pull the lever of every single enumerated power of Congress, and every form of influence you have, to STOP ICE. Hope that clarifies things.

The original post was deleted, but this was the video it had.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

Resistance idea for folks at protests worried their videos will be lost when their devices are taken: Have a friend at home set up a Streamyard account While you (possibly others) are in the field, they send you a link to the stream Video goes live on multiple platforms & is stored w/ Streamyard

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

This is Alex Pretti, the man murdered by ICE, aided and abetted by Donald Trump.

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Okay sorry one more shot:

The picture of his cubby

Federal agents pinned a man to the ground in south Minneapolis and sprayed him with chemical irritants directly in the face. Minnesota Star Tribune photographer Rich Tsong-Taatarii did not witness the man put his hands on agents.

“When even one person stops performing… the illusion begins to crack. Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down.” — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney opens Davos remarks with very clear shot at Trump

The *police* are saying ICE's actions are unconstitutional and racially biased.

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

This "dual state" concept feels like a good explanation of what's happening in the US.

I have a bunch of reservations but they’re not nearly as important as the bottom-line things this gets right. Didn’t expect David French to put The Dual State in the pages of the NYT.

Powerful. pcusa.org/news-storyte...

New York City turned OUT. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.

Ms Good was also a wife, mother, widow of a USAF veteran, past visitor to the north of Ireland as a young missionary for peace, and more. A masked man with a gun and uniform decided to execute her in an instant, believing that he could kill her with impunity.

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

This is a good analysis of the MN shooting from different footage.

WITNESS: "I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further. That’s absolutely not what it was… ICE agents didn’t let anyone help her for 15 minutes, then medics couldn’t get through with their ambulance.”

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

Maduro Requests Lindsay Halligan to Prosecute Him

Zelensky on Venezuela: “About Venezuela? How should I respond to that? Well, what can I say? If… If it is possible to act with dictators like this, it means the United States knows what to do next. Thank you” Omg I love it.

When I knocked on doors in Pittsburgh trying to GOTV in 2024, so many people told me they were voting for Trump because he would keep the US out of foreign wars. Wonder what they are thinking today.

So this is what it's like to live under a mad king.

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Some people have asked what I mean when I talk about the need for anti-corruption reforms. Here are some ideas.

Women, we don't need to contort ourselves to fit into spaces that are too small for us. From Zimbabwe by Tapiwa Mugabe

The NYT photo desk FTW. www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

I already know depression hates to see this man coming. I’m cancelling all of my therapy appointments and adding this song and dance to my morning routine. *Depression no, no, no ALEGRÍA SI SI SI*

Amazing how the wealth disparity of the Roaring 20's looks like a tiny foothill compared to the current Everest of inequality we've allowed to go completely unchecked.

it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

You don’t invite people to the Situation Room to try to bully them into removing their name from a discharge petition because you are innocent. Just saying.