we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

The Mercury has obtained a series of images of group messages that show racist, sexist, and homophobic tropes used by a local developer and other local conservative political activists during a council president election. Readers may find this content offensive.

Once white women–particularly white women in suburbs with college degrees–began to consistently vote for the Democrats, conservative media no longer felt a need to appeal to them and instead A) disdained them and B) felt it could caricature white women the same way it does other "out-groups."

Good to know that if I'm murdered by an agent of the state that they'll try and use my past experience on the bylaws committee of the school PTA to smear me.

Sad to watch these politician interviews about ICE terror because people keep asking them what is to be done and they have no answers.

Translation from bullshit speak: "Fine you assholes, we won't give them MORE money. But we are keeping things as they are and putting some lipstick on the death squads. Deal with it, vote for me, and give me money."

"On September 28, 2025, [Rodden's] account responded to the question 'Can anyone point to me exactly where America started going downhill?' The account responded: 'November 6, 1860'—the date that President Abraham Lincoln, the president whose administration ended slavery, was elected."

goddamn this is pathetic

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People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.

BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

I suspect that a lot of the wealthy owners and operators of national media outlets with kids in private schools fundamentally don't grasp that regular US citizens with kids in the public schools are FURIOUS because ICE is terrorizing THEIR NEIGHBORS and THEIR KIDS' BEST FRIENDS.

Like every other Trump scandal that's too vulgar to meet daytime TV standards, I bet a lot of people won't even see this one. A sitting president saying "fuck you" and flipping off an autoworker would've been considered a scandal in the pre-Trump era. www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/t...

The weird thing about “the left needs to focus more on birth rates” thing is that almost every policy the left advocates would make it much easier to have children, and regular people don’t spend their days thinking about birth rates. That’s exclusively elite discourse.

A lot of folks don't realize the social contract is actually a cease fire in some ways.

They're targeting Renee Good's widow because they don't want her talking. If they can manufacture charges, most defense attorneys will tell her not to speak with media even if she did nothing wrong

Just so folks know, authorizing does not actually do anything. Funds need to be appropriated. Lots of times Congress will brag about funds they authorized to trick people into thinking they’ve done something when they have done nothing. Authorizing is not a required step before appropriating.

That she’s complicit in what is happening and will happen

On the killing of Renee Nicole Good, I just published a piece in @foreignpolicy.com arguing the Trump administration is weaponizing the narrative of “vehicular terrorism” as a shortcut to justify an unlawful killing: “death squad logic, adapted to American streets” foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/13/v...

ICE is targeting Hmong families in St. Paul as they go door to door looking for people to kidnap. they’re asking “do you have any Asian neighbors”

If someone in a crowd where you were yelled out “pedophile protector,” would you automatically assume they were talking to you? Because I sure wouldn’t. I’d be looking around for who they meant.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

The hard part is the litany of illegal actions?? That is not a credible argument.

“The hard part of impeachment is what in the litany of illegal actions [that have] been taken do you actually draft articles on?” She has got to be kidding me with this. In March of last year I sent her chief of staff a list of 27 impeachable offenses.

Trying to live my life so that when I die it’s a “pour one out for a real one” scenario over a “rest in piss” situation

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

More than 100 children have been killed in Gaza since the Oct. ceasefire, UNICEF says, 60 boys & 40 girls. Speaking from Gaza, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said children are still being killed by airstrikes, drones, tank shelling, & live fire, while others are dying from exposure as winter...

big tough guys cant handle smirking wine moms

I like that they’ve given up on even having immigration enforcement as a pretext for any of this. It’s just purely armed masked goons wandering around in the middle of intersections harassing U.S. citizens as a display of force now.

So close…

If you've ever read about how cults die - and you should - you know that they don't simply rupture. They die of slow attrition, leaving a core of true believers whose faith is, contradictorily, strengthened by every failure.

The pivot from childless cat ladies to terrorist wine moms was pretty seamless, I'd say.

Part of what's great about Eric Foner's scholarship on this, for our purposes, is that it's about responding to kidnappings in an urban environment!

There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter

Horrific footage from Iran. A journalist traveled 1,000 km just to publish these images. According to him, in a single day, he witnessed approximately 2,000 bodies of protesters killed by the Ayatollah regime. www.iranintl.com/202601136322

This is appalling: Top DOJ officials are actively pushing for a criminal investigation into the widow of Renee Good, leading prosecutors to quit en masse, NYT is reporting. Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.

All of which raises the question of whether a more forceful response to the attack on Cook was warranted.

I can see why Powell could draw a distinction between his case and Cook’s—hers is before the courts, his is not…yet. But there’s also a lesson from the old poem that ends “Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me.” Reporters suggest Pulte was the source of both cases

Worth pointing out: while Fed Chair Powell has called the DOJ criminal probe a “pretext” for a president who wants lower rates, he has largely declined to comment on the proceedings against Gov Cook. Many have called her firing similarly pre-textual. His comments on Sunday failed to mention Cook.

Thank you to all those who followed along with my mega threads today. Sorry we lost again. I have to go throw up and then write this up for @thenation.com

Williams is back for rebuttal "Biological sex directly impacts sports performance." Yes, but WHY? Is it maybe because of HORMONES which can, you know, be BLOCKED BY A 12 YEAR OLD LIKE THE PERSON IN THIS CASE???

Roberts wants to define sex. To be clear, media people who like fellating Roberts, the hardest core anti-trans people during this argument have been Alito and Roberts.

Protester is 21 yrs old. ICE agent dragged him and held his head down in his own pool of blood, mocked him about losing his eye. They fired pepper pellets at the HEAD of a witness recording the incident.

now up to six resignations in D Minnesota. Metastatic and spreading quickly. Clearly one of 2-3 biggest scandals in DOJ history.

Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen announced that "If we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO, the Kingdom of Denmark, and the EU."

In any normal DOJ—Democratic or Republican—a shooting that looks this serious would trigger a searching civil-rights investigation. But this DOJ is obviously trying to insulate Jonathan Ross from accountability. And four senior career people couldn’t take it anymore. trib.al/J2H6eYN

Describing govt presence in Minneapolis as immigration related is just no longer accurate. Agents are arresting/assaulting citizens engaged in core 1stAmend-protected activity. If this were Iran or any other country, we'd call it what it is: a brutal govt crackdown on peaceful protest.