Renee Good had a pulse when EMS arrived. I’m not sure it would have made a difference if ICE had let that civilian physician render aid before EMS arrived, but now we will never know. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

To be clear: I strongly believe Ds giving ICE money for "training" and "body cams" will result in MORE violence from ICE. No. Never. Please call your reps today. bsky.app/profile/greg...

1943: Norwegian author Knut Hamsun gave his Nobel Prize medal to Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels during Germany's illegal occupation of Norway 2026: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gives her Nobel Prize medal to Donald Trump during USA's illegal occupation of Venezuela 🤔

All my years writing about rightwing movements, I've been insisting "Look, no matter how bad they are, they don't think of themselves as such. It's not like they're sitting around saying, 'Let's do eeeevil.'" Apologies--I was incorrect.

One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.

Of course they have. To save money. To appease staff who “don’t want to mask”. To downplay the pandemic. It’s cost countless lives. Never forget that hospital acquired Covid has a near 10% mortality rate. Patients shouldn’t have to choose between care and Covid.

He has a special "I got a present, I'm a special boy" face that he only uses for moments like this

Gavin Newsom is a slick-talking rich transphobic cop-loving dishonest opportunist. He takes his marching orders from billionaires. Newsom is a phony. I think most Americans can see right through him. I don't think he stands a chance in the general. He's Joe Lieberman with better hair.

Are we?

I hope nobody suggested pouring water all over their rental cars at night, because that would be awful

When law-and-order types point out that only a small percentage of people killed by police each year were unarmed, keep in mind that Renee Good will be classified as "armed."

Just got this forwarded. Here are the talking points Schumer's team just emailed out to their allies TODAY - this afternoon. The words "Minnesota" or "ICE" don't appear anywhere here.

Not sure who needs to hear this, but the Insurrection Act isn’t the same as “martial law.” It authorizes the molitary to engage in civil law enforcement. And not clear that even then, whether they can enforce state criminal laws

21-year-old activist injured by ICE: I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.

friendly reminder The things you believed were right yesterday are still right. They'll be right if they put you in jail. They'll be right if they shoot you. They'll still be right when these people are dead and dusted and gone. which they will be

People are DEMANDING that you oppose Trump's Gestapo and protect people from being shot in the face by their government.

Trump’s plan has been clear: terrorize Americans, attack them, shoot them in the face, and create as much chaos as possible — whatever it takes. Then use the chaos he manufactured to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don't understand US peeps going on about the Epstein files. You all know he's guilty already. He's got secret police kidnapping, attacking and killing people already. He's effectively resigned you from NATO and is threatening a war against the rest of us. It's not distraction.

Abolish Ice should be a centrist position

This is Dumpling. She got her very first sweater and promptly deactivated. 12/10 (TT: jmw495)

if you try to focus on Trump’s authoritarianism, Schumer will deflect and say people want us to focus on affordability. but when Zohran Mamdani made affordability the heart of his campaign Schumer refused to endorse him because they disagree about Israel. it’s all mealy mouthed bullshit.

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’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.

Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E." The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop." consequence.net/2026/01/drop...

and frequently in the past when such charges have been filed they've been later dismissed because they were made up bsky.app/profile/step...

The Insurrection Act is not "martial law." It doesn't displace civilian law, it doesn't suspend habeas corpus, it doesn't alter or suspend state and local government, and it doesn't make anything newly illegal. It allows using the military to enforce existing law, it doesn't change what the law is.

There’s an old saw about democrats being bad because they’re corrupted and kowtowing to donors. More and more I suspect it’s even worse than that: these fucking goobers are just like this. Schumer actually believes training stops violent goons from being violent goons.

Just Sunday, without a judge’s authorization, ICE agents rammed down the door of a woman’s home in Minneapolis and pushed their way inside. apnews.com/article/ice-...

Seems legit to me!

“Your papers, please”

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

And anyone who’s been paying attention already knows that even if you do have your papers on you, even if you immediately produce them, federal agents will frequently just not fucking care

It is time to go reread this essay from @scalzi.com from last June. whatever.scalzi.com/2025/06/03/w...

Deine Papiere, bitte

And there it is.

Patrick Henry, March 23rd, 1775

Ghost plates / patch swapping / mission-specific identities = covert ops / secret police

Nazis leaders didn't set up bank accounts in Switzerland because they were doing the right thing, but because they stole the wealth of millions and knew they might lose it in German banks if the Nazis were ever held accountable.

21st century nazis have made the 'are we baddies' sketch obsolete. It is very clear they know they're the baddies, and they love it. They think it's awesome. They worship evil, and are euphoric in disbelief that they're allowed to get away with it.

if you told people 10 years ago that WWIII is going to start with the United States invading Greenland they'd have started checking your pupils with a little flashlight

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

These dumb assholes are going to fumble the easiest bag once again.