The sanctioned government narrative of the Minneapolis shooting diverts wildly from video footage of the incident shared online. www.wired.com/story/maga-t...

Literally the opposite of what happened. Check out this NYT breakdown here www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

“Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday.”

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Excited to teach a new course on Authoritarianism through Film, in which we explore what narrative films say about how authoritarianism is lived/experienced. Up first: Brazil (1985), which reminds us that an innocent-seeming typo can prove deadly in authoritarian bureaucracies.

I know it’s not surprising anymore but this is just blatantly racist rhetoric. These bozos are laughing because they feel they don’t have to hide their contempt for black people and immigrants anymore

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

What happened in Minnesota today becomes far more likely when the people with power don’t have the moral fiber or courage to do what’s right even at their own risk and when they look down at those around them as lesser and unworthy of dignity or humanity 7/7

It is incomphrensible to Trump or Miller that someone would risk their life to try and keep a neighbor safe, that they would do so nonviolently, and that they would be mourned and remembered for it.

8 January 1925 | Polish Jewish man, Jose Guzman, was born in Warsaw. He emigrated to France. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 6 March 1943. He did not survive. --- ▶ Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

I am outside Roosevelt now, my daughter goes there. Talked to staff, ICE was in a car pursuit of someone and they crashed and went up on school property. Teachers formed a circle around the person to protect them. Ice releases tear gas and took two people

Kristi Noem is a stone-cold liar who has zero credibility. There is nothing to suggest the shooting of an unarmed woman in Minneapolis was justified. This heinous killing must be criminally investigated to the full extent of the law.

We are getting reports of Border Patrol activity near Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis that happened during dismissal time today. Bystanders say officers shoved, tackled bystanders and handcuffed 2 school staff

Trump's fascist goons have been treating the simple fact that immigrants exist inside the US as a national emergency justifying the suspension of the Constitution & rule of law all along, & Trump wants a fascist re-do of 2020. Everything they've done has been trying to recreate those conditions

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

We all saw it. That video left absolutely no question as to what happened. Guess we're about to find out if Jacob Frey is gonna do his job or if he's just gonna get likes for a curse filled presser and then disappear

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

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

I too have watched the video. There's nothing graphic in the visuals, thankfully. But this is straight-up, no defenses, not really questionable murder

As reply thread notes, ICE agent has the gun at driver's head point blank while she is reversing *away* from him. Sounds like driver says "im trying to turn around". And obviously no riot in progress.

this poem is in my head every moment of every day now

probably a good day to turn off autoplaying video; as noted in the comments, this sometimes is reset by updates/reinstalls

6 January 1945 | A German Jewish woman, Edith Frank, the mother of Anne and Margot Frank, died at the German camp #Auschwitz from exhaustion. It happened 3 weeks before the Red Army liberated the last prisoners of the camp and 10 days before Edith's 45th birthday.

Jan. 6, 2021:

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

When I was 23, I saw a bunch of really cute velvet furniture on the side of the road, totally nice. Took it in and a year later a friend’s new gf came to my house and it turns out I’d stolen her entire living room while she was moving.

The perfect two sentence story.

Using the American military for personalist plunder

Is this even on the news tonight? It would have been a nonstop, perhaps presidency-ending scandal if Barack Obama or Joe Biden had done this. Lost now, since the other two stories (the WH Orwelling 1/6/21 & Trump musing about invading Greenland) are even further beyond the pale.

It's this image, such a casual expression of hate, that will always be what January 6 was (and is) about to me.

If any one person saved our republic during the 21st century it was Eugene Goodman and I am sure that he hasn’t been thanked enough.

lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"

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

As it turns out the second amendment doesn't provide us with any usable tools for dealing with tyranny, but universal basic income and universal healthcare sure as shit would. The secret is to remove fear from the populace, not instill it.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

“U.S. District Judge Stephen J. Murphy III wrote that the facility is “infested with mold” that eats through brick and metal, drips from ceilings, and falls from air vents.”

Danish PM Mette Fredriksen: “I have to say this very directly to the United States: it makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the US to take over Greenland . . . I would therefore strongly urge the US to stop threats against a historically close ally.” www.ft.com/content/daae...

one thing that good leadership can help prevent is these rough vibes. it remains painfully obvious we have a vacuum of national leadership on our side

absolutely bizarre to see a violent, rogue american regime, which is threatening military attacks on a bunch of major trading partners and close allies, and openly fantasizing about hitler-style wars of territorial conquest, covered in the tone of horse-race political commentary

Venezuela seems like less of a war or invasion than a Viking plundering campaign from the Middle Ages. They surprise attacked, they stole stuff, they killed some people, they kidnapped the king, they left. It’s medieval—which makes sense because we’re rewinding to before the Treaty of Westphalia.

“I do not defend Maduro. I point at him. But I also refuse to accept that a global power can appoint itself as a moral judge while its history is written in interventions, sanctions, and broken countries.”

It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.

YES. DRAW SOME FRICKIN’ LINES IN THE SAND. Formally, loudly, state the blunt facts about this as a group, with force. Expose the reality of this. Without that, it’s just consensus.

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

“When the United States treats regime change as a discrete military option rather than a whole-of-government, generational commitment, it repeats mistakes we have made very recently and ignores lessons we have paid dearly in blood, treasure, and reputation to learn”

A functioning Congress will have articles of impeachment drafted by the end of the day. Our Congress will just go to social media to basically say “We don’t like this, but what are you gonna do?”