I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws.
You know, like a democracy.
Nancy Mace, obsessed with her reputation on line, instructed staffers to set up burner accounts to defend her or boost her performance on a Reddit forum dedicated to the “Hottest Women in Congress," according to the staffers in a report.
"The motherboard is fried."
www.rawstory.com/nancy-mace-2...
i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
Arresting journalists doing their jobs, sending the DNI to raid election offices in GA, unleashing fed agents that kill Americans & then cover it up.
Trump’s authoritarian takeover is quickening. We must respond like the people of Minneapolis —peacefully but with fierce urgency.
cover of The Economist this week
US appeals court says Noem's decision to end protections for Venezuelans in US was illegal
Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules
Yglesias is the one being dumb about this. Trump was at -10 on deportations by May 2025 — a full month before Matt stood in front of a centrist Super PAC audience and said “bad groups” wanted Dems to talk about deportees. He ignored data until recent events made it impossible to
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a 'hell no.' We cannot give one more penny to Trump's ICE while its masked, poorly trained agents terrorize people across this country. It's time for the Senate to step up and stop ICE's violence."
Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens. www.wired.com/story/mobile...
I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/
(New piece)
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With Pamela Jo Bondi as AG, DHS agents won’t be arrested for knocking you to the ground for giggles—or murdering you for the hell of it—but YOU will be arrested if you slow them down while they engage in this thuggish and unconstitutional behavior.
Rand Paul: "When people watch that video and the government tells them, 'Well, he was assaulting the police officers,' nobody with any objectivity believes that. No American believes he was assaulting the officers. In fact, the opposite appears to be true. So we have to get some rules of the game."
Warnock: "You can't ask me to be an accomplice to the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. It's to make a butchery of my conscience."
If your 1st reaction to reading that CBP wants "quantum sensors" with an "AI database" for detecting fentanyl is confusion, well! I looked into it:
www.wired.com/story/cbp-wa...
Ignore the New York Times. Trump is *pretending* to "change course" in Minneapolis as a ruse. Little has changed on the streets. Trump is just feigning a change in tack to placate Congress members calling for hearings and to wait out the horrible PR nightmare ICE has created for the White House.
The whole memo shows they have no idea how the immigration system actually works. Also, these are the "don't talk immigration" ppl who emboldened Dems to cede the issue to Trump/Rs. I wrote 30+ memos (w/ data) since 2018 telling Dems go on offense on immigration... but sure listen to the white guy.
Someone tell Lady Dog Killer that "I was just following orders" didn't work at the first Nuremberg trials either.
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) is planning to fly to Minneapolis tomorrow. Ro Khanna flew in today.
We've been telling Dems to do this last week. You have to be in Minnesota. You have to be with the people. You have to stand next to Walz and Frey.
Coordinated effort, leadership, and pushback.
Bilingual Child Care & Education Center, Inc., Wildwood Road, Mahtomedi, MN, USA Description: ICE parked out front of daycare center
4416 Excelsior Blvd, St Louis Park, MN 55416, USA Description: Federal agents pulled into the parking lot, saw some running, they left a few minutes later. Unable to tell if someone was detained or what happened. They had their weapons out in the bank parking lot.
reported ICE activities in the Twin Cities this morning
-- terrorizing a daycare
-- drawing weapons outside a bank
Trump's job approval on immigration has gotten 2x worse since January 4, sliding from -5 to -10 in under a month. Now at a new low.
The president has also taken a pretty big hit across pollsters on deportations, mostly over the last 2 weeks gelliottmorris.com/data
“Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy WH Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, Trump must dismiss them," AFGE NP Kelley
WASHINGTON - Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: "Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. "Today, we demand accountability. "In the immediate aftermath of Alex's killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a "domestic terrorist." Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America's veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota. "Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex's needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
GOP is cooked
Like many of you, I have seen this video, and I'm demanding answers.
My team has reached out to ICE repeatedly and have yet to get clear answers.
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pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor:
"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
“Thank god. Thank god we have video [of the shooting]. Because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them, or something. It’s nonsense, people. It is nonsense and it is lies.” —Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz
update on his condition 👇
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
