I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation. We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

To quote one source: “They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.” prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...

The world learned today that you absolutely have to bully this dumb old asshole as a collective. Better late than never for them, but we better get used to being aggressively humiliated for the next few years.

Basically correct I think

“One way to read the occupation of Minnesota is as a flex — a demonstration of the government’s power and authority... I smell, on the other hand, a stench of desperation, an attempt to do with force what they can’t accomplish through ordinary politics.”

there is not one single Democrat anywhere on the national stage—not Pritzker, not AOC, not anybody—who comes within a million miles of the kind of uncompromising righteous fury I would want to see in a candidate

The history of civilian mass detention on the basis of identity without due process or recourse (which is how I defined concentration camps in my history of them) shows that it invariably leads to permanent harm—and typically significant loss of life as well. The longer it goes on the worse it gets.

Honestly if “fighting AGAINST taxing billionaires in 2026” has you crying “purity test” you need to really examine what your values actually are

I'll just say this as plainly as I can. This is disqualifying for anyone seeking to win the White House in 2028. That's not my opinion, that's just a fact. The Dem electorate wants change and that means we should focus on abolishing the billionaire class with 100% tax rates above $999 million.

Abolish ICE is the bare minimum every one of these goons should be sent to a penal colony to break boulders. Start with leaders and work your way down until there's no one left. Notify their employers they will be sanctioned. Notify their neighbors like they do with pedos. No re-entry into society.

Yeah I’m going to disagree with the idea being to “find other pathways” rather than being able to push them actually address the thing directly.

one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny

Will focusing his endless font of energy when it comes to being annoying towards ICE totally rules and I tip my cap. Someone buy that man a tank of gas

*posting on twitter* oh ho, I’ve made a wry observation. Better make sure a bunch of pedophiles see it

These are amazing exchanges. A Times reporter hypes Trump’s deranged NYT interview by complaining about the access they got from Joe Biden and then when faced with what he’s admitting, he pretends he’s not saying what he’s saying. Access journalism is cancer. Reporters shouldn’t be groupies.

For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.

7 Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election: Durbin Hassan Kaine King Klobuchar Shaheen Welch

Just a reminder that this administration has decided to deploy CBP on deportation missions *because* they have historically been more aggressive and violent. The violence is the point.

Holy fuck they actually did it

Every Democratic org and journalist outlet still on Twitter is an accomplice to child porn proliferation. Maybe like...get off the platform, especially if you're not even getting engagement. Why is there zero movement on this by any Dem lawmakers, Dem-aligned groups, or progressive activists

I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

I just watched two women get kidnapped right in front of me in Northeast Minneapolis. ICE is still terrorizing our city.

ICYMI: Avelo Airlines, based out of Houston, is cutting ties with ICE and won't run deportation flights barely a year after making a deal with the agency. Here's my report- www.chron.com/culture/arti...

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

“The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.“ Palantir will be used to identify domestic Trump critics soon enough.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning. “SAY HER NAME!” “RENEE GOOD!”

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

Wine moms have been right since 2016 but some people have unresolved parent issues and won’t forgive them for wearing cringe hats

counterargument: Boston Dynamics has been making the same four legged metal dog since the 90s with only marginal improvements. They can put a gun on it, sure. But if you threw marbles on the ground like a Looney Tunes character, it would fall over and kibby out on the floor

we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work

Incredible stuff

oil companies are worth $100 billion more than they were a couple days ago. there are reasons

Speaking of “why many women and others who aren’t cis white guys are feeling REAL reluctant to pivot to creating video at this EXACT point in history where AI makes it crazy easy for bad actors to steal and exploit our faces”

our media betters were more mad about Sarah Huckabee Sanders being turned away at a restaurant (and given free food for her trouble) than any of this shit

the people who helped get this guy elected should be treated like pariahs

I haven't been on X in years.. went into grok's replies. Almost INSTANTLY I see this. There are THOUSANDS of non-consensual fucking porn images being made of what looks like just scraped instagram photos. This is fucking horrific! What the fuck!!

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

if the Meidas Touch were a single internet post:

lol Schumer's response is literally to say this is a distraction from grocery prices. Beyond parody man.

We had a good run