Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.

There's honestly been some pretty good news coverage tonight on TV regarding today's events. It's not a coincidence. Like half a dozen prominent Democrats finally came out this afternoon and said ICE is terrorist trash led by a secretary who should be impeached and it flipped the whole narrative.

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

About time somebody tried.

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!”

Bravest motherfuckers you've ever seen. They just saw a neighbor get murdered and still out there. Maybe let's see some local officials with the power to arrest show as much backbone as these voters PAYING YOUR FUCKING SALARY

"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret. But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.

"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

Consider this in light of Trump's disgusting statement. They're awful, awful, awful politicians. It genuinely will not take much to tear them to pieces

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

“In another video, a person wearing the same outfit as the distraught woman can be seen leaning over a bloodied body in the driver’s seat of the SUV.”

Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

they’ve got to arrest and prosecute this guy there isn’t another option here if the feds won’t let them then force that confrontation and don’t back down this guy murdered someone in cold blood on video in the middle of the street, you have to bring him to justice

An American hero.

Masked ICE agents, it seems, are now killing American citizens on American streets. Any Democrat who doesn’t support abolishing ICE should be instantly primaried and run out of the party. This is non negotiable. You cannot support the continued existence of this fascist murderous secret police.

Response to an NYT request for use of video of the ICE murder. Iconic.

endorse watching one of the many videos of Minnesota volunteers bringing the spirit of Gettysburg to this, not the cold blooded murder

It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Meanwhile here’s Rubio and Schumer chopping it up today

they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in—like, his midriff was on her bumper—and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” [the witness] said. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

YOU DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES GOTTA HAND IT TO A BUNCH OF FUCKING EUGENICISTS

They're doing this so they can call any government program that isn't ICE or the military "rife with fraud" and thus illegitimate. They are trying to manufacture consent to say any entitlement — from Medicare to social security — must be canceled because of extreme edge cases. Don't fall for it.

Danish guy gets it

Maybe it's just me but it seems like the administration is on a bender and what they are high on is their own supply.

Wrote up my thoughts on all the nonsense replies I've been getting falsely claiming that @schumer.senate.gov can't do anything and I should stop telling him to do more. There's a TON that he can do, as I outline in the piece. And he's doing basically none of it.

OUR ENEMIES IN THE ARCTIC REGION?!?

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

Truth.

I have to admit to being so fucking naive that I thought *enough* Republicans would turn on Trump after the coup. It was clear a few weeks later that was wrong. It just speaks to the unreality made possible by RW and social media.

If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban. And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

Lot of people yelling recently "but we don't have the votes!" True! That doesn't mean "immediately quit." (Also not what propter is saying here, to be clear.) It means create a spectacle, make things cause celebres, make the Republican position untenable. Create bargaining position and force votes.

My obsessions and areas of expertise (other than Bruce, baseball etc): “The Dick Van Dyke Show”; videos where people go thrifting and garbage picking; me thrifting and Buy Nothing-ing; “The Music Man”; jigsaw puzzling, but only horizontal ones because my arms are too short to reach the top.

This is a great piece by one of the best indie journalists out there.

"The issues" are not immutable. Americans do not come out of the womb arguing about trans girls in Division III volleyball. The issues are what you make them. The issues are what you're loudest about. Create the conversation around these murderers' war crimes, don't equivocate, and don't let up.

Yup.

Sad news, of course, but also smart. Shutting it down instead of simply pausing/freezing it prevents Republicans from seizing control in the meantime and creating another "zombie" right wing media outlet. Now if they want to do that, they have to start all over again. They're too lazy for that.

Read the whole thread. Gregg is right. It’s NOT a question of “experts disagree.” I’ve been working in medicine, medical journalism or global health for 32 years & know a LOT of health professionals—I do not know a *single one* who supports RFK Jr’s dangerous dismantling of the US vaccine system.

Is the basis for the anti-Covid-vaccine/anti-vaxxer/MAGA/MAHA freakout simply that these people are a bunch of pissbabies who are afraid of needles? Because it sure seems that way.

Bari Weiss' CBS News tried to push a much more openly transphobic terminology and coverage. The correspondent who pushed for this is reportedly Jan Crawford. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Draw up the articles of impeachment.

It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis. This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.

Keep hope alive.

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