Imagine a paramilitary gang kills 2 observers over 2 weeks, then shows up at your home to say, "You, observer, we know where you live." That's a death threat. If it happened to me or a colleague when I was a human rights observer in N. Ireland, we would've lodged complaints with three govts.

Republicans didn’t like the IRS and so they defunded it. Republicans didn’t like the Dept of Education so when they had a chance they blew it up. The whole country hates ICE and @schumer.senate.gov is giving us lame, weak, poll-tested pablum. Seize the moment, my man!

trump wants to kill you. whether it’s an ICE agent shooting you, a cancer drug trial being defunded, increased air pollution, or defunding safe streets funding, the one universal thread in all of their policies is that they think the very idea of making the world a better place is a liberal hoax

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

His role is to undercut any movement and crush the energy. Did it in 2020, did it for the Gaza protests, and he’s going to do it again.

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it according to a recent YouGov poll. Wouldn’t it be great if Democratic leadership actually represented the desires of most Democrats?

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

Schumer is a conservative masquerading as a liberal. He’s there for the benefit of Wall Street. Nothing else.

I'm gonna add to this that the Dems had ZERO to do with the Bovino firing. It was the tireless work of the good people of MSP standing strong, filming and writing the news with their first hand accounts. The press tried to both sides it. They WANTED to. But the citizens of Minnesota ended this guy

Patel can go to hell. Prosecute the murderers. This isn’t over.

Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?

Certainly appears moms with whistles won the Battle of Minneapolis.

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The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

All of this happened with basically no help from elected officials of the opposition party. This was entirely the people.

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Citizens organically organize against tyranny. What a surprise. MAGA chuds use military language to describe it because that’s their life experience: military takeover. That’s how they view governing.

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

Quote from article: “Real cops don’t wear masks”

Evelyn Normielib (D-AZ)

This gets better when you know that Mayes was literally a Republican until 2019. And not just as a private citizen. She held statewide office as a Republican for 7 years.

Here’s an idea. Stop acting like the Gestapo.

I don't think @reuters.com posted it here, but I'm just kind of shocked that anyone working in media could have gone into the second Trump administration thinking, "I don't think in those first few days we understood what an organized agenda they had." They made a 900-page playbook, Sally!

according to bluesky, working for ice is a protected class against discrimination lol

They want to kill peaceful US citizens they disagree with. Beware of Palantir.

Maybe his daughters told him he was a fascist

One activist told me they had been spraying pepper spray into air vents to get it into peoples closed cars bsky.app/profile/mark...

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

The murder of Alex Pretti might prove to be a political turning point for the GOP. It should be a turning point for Dems, too. For the current leadership, and the consultant-industrial complex, which just fatally endangered the careers of seven members who chose to put morality last.

A hearing is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. CT (10 a.m. ET) on the state of Minnesota's request to halt the ICE surge in the Twin Cities. I'm covering the proceedings remotely. From the state's memo: buff.ly/ub2bHso

Saw this and it’s just wild

🔥MINNESOTA MAN to @stoneskynews.bsky.social : “The mood is anger. We’re angry with our federal government for invading us for no good reason other than Trump wasn’t backed here— it’s a violent, brutal fascist administration. Trump’s a terrible bully. We’re defending this place against him.”

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

Politico is serving fascism like cowards. We all saw the videos.

I know people are on this already, just want to amplify that none of these MN corporations are willing to even *mention* ICE and some have been extremely cooperative with them. Target is a huge offender there. I think redoubling on #BoycottTarget + telling them why helps. bsky.app/profile/prem...

and an additional fuck you to everyone who said we were overreacting during the patriot act and creation of DHS.

Hey hey doj, how people have you killed today?

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

Literally EVERYTHING else aside: Officers involved in shootings - even shootings that everybody agrees were justified - always take time off to emotionally process their experience, go to therapy, process it. Sending somebody right back out says "this is an everyday part of your job, expect it."

Photo by me

This country is in crisis because of its reckless and deranged leadership, something a majority of Americans are coming to understand. That is worth stating plainly and clearly in an editorial. It does not require both-sides-ism, false equivalence, blame-shifting, or rhetorical ass-covering. x

Greg Brockman, OpenAI's COO, donated $25m to a MAGA Superpac, spare me finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...

i feel for all the radical centrists out there now confronting the fact that their ideology was the one built in a bubble and formed by groupthink. with enough exposure to facts and logic they will, some day god willing, catch up to the left

The hypocrisy is nihilism. MAGA chuds are nihilists.

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.