Angus Johnston
@angus.bsky.social
CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
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The risk of malfeasance in the November election is real, and serious. But the Trump administration doesn't have a magic wand.
It has tools of repression. And we have tools of resistance.
It has tools of repression. And we have tools of resistance.
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I personally don't tell people who have been fighting their hearts out daily for weeks not to celebrate wins of any size. I certainly don't do that when I've been nowhere near the place where the fight has been happening and have done little more than make some donations from miles away.
January 27, 2026 at 3:37 AM
I personally don't tell people who have been fighting their hearts out daily for weeks not to celebrate wins of any size. I certainly don't do that when I've been nowhere near the place where the fight has been happening and have done little more than make some donations from miles away.
A lot of people out there worried that the Trump administration isn't going to give us sufficient repulsive outrages to keep us united and passionate in our resistance, and I gotta tell you, that's not a thing I'm worried about.
We celebrate our wins. The road ahead is long.
We celebrate our wins. The road ahead is long.
January 27, 2026 at 3:33 AM
A lot of people out there worried that the Trump administration isn't going to give us sufficient repulsive outrages to keep us united and passionate in our resistance, and I gotta tell you, that's not a thing I'm worried about.
We celebrate our wins. The road ahead is long.
We celebrate our wins. The road ahead is long.
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The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:18 AM
The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.
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Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.
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This is happening! An NH friend of mine lives just across the river from Maine and works over there sometimes. He said the locals are already picking out ICE agents at restaurants and bars, on the streets and at stores to berate them and run them off. Mariners will just say people are "from away"
Hey, let’s go to Maine in the dead of winter, a time of year that certainly won’t make us more recognizable to a populace that has the ability to spot an out-of-stater from 500 yards away.
January 27, 2026 at 1:34 AM
This is happening! An NH friend of mine lives just across the river from Maine and works over there sometimes. He said the locals are already picking out ICE agents at restaurants and bars, on the streets and at stores to berate them and run them off. Mariners will just say people are "from away"
Fun to see the preternaturally wet Michael Nouri on The Pitt tonight.
January 27, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Fun to see the preternaturally wet Michael Nouri on The Pitt tonight.
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Feds are trying to use coercion to stop ICE watch activity in Maine:
“The volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them.”
“The volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them.”
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, was abducted in Minneapolis. He died in ICE’s El Paso detention camp 8 days later on Jan 14.
ICE calls it suicide.
They didn’t send his body to the El Paso County ME who just classified another “suicide” at that camp a homicide. They sent him to an army medical center.
ICE calls it suicide.
They didn’t send his body to the El Paso County ME who just classified another “suicide” at that camp a homicide. They sent him to an army medical center.
Family questions federal investigation of Nicaraguan migrant’s death at Camp East Montana
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The lawyer representing the family of the third detainee to die at Camp East Montana said the family is skeptical that he may have committed suicide. As we previ…
www.borderreport.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, was abducted in Minneapolis. He died in ICE’s El Paso detention camp 8 days later on Jan 14.
ICE calls it suicide.
They didn’t send his body to the El Paso County ME who just classified another “suicide” at that camp a homicide. They sent him to an army medical center.
ICE calls it suicide.
They didn’t send his body to the El Paso County ME who just classified another “suicide” at that camp a homicide. They sent him to an army medical center.
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New Noem impeachment co-sponsors today: AOC, Neguse, DelBene, Garcia, Scott (Va.), Horsford, Hayes, Landsman, Peters, Norton, Auchincloss, Latimer, Crow, Soto, Walkinshaw, Meng, Ruiz, Castor, Ross, Levin, Cisneros
It's at 140 — nearly 2/3 of the caucus @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/01/26/k...
It's at 140 — nearly 2/3 of the caucus @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/01/26/k...
House Democrats' support for impeaching Kristi Noem surges after Minnesota shooting
The latest batch includes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and several swing-district, moderate and leadership members.
www.axios.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:37 PM
New Noem impeachment co-sponsors today: AOC, Neguse, DelBene, Garcia, Scott (Va.), Horsford, Hayes, Landsman, Peters, Norton, Auchincloss, Latimer, Crow, Soto, Walkinshaw, Meng, Ruiz, Castor, Ross, Levin, Cisneros
It's at 140 — nearly 2/3 of the caucus @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/01/26/k...
It's at 140 — nearly 2/3 of the caucus @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/01/26/k...
Trump's approval rating is at its second-term low, and dropping.
President Trump’s Approval Rating: Latest Polls
Track the latest approval rating and polls on Americans’ approval of President Trump.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Trump's approval rating is at its second-term low, and dropping.
Maine, right now:
Live updates: Free to access
* More than 200 in Maine arrested by ICE so far, DHS says
* Asylum-seeker taken by ICE had no criminal history in Maine, attorney says
* Wife of detained man says he was moved despite habeas petition and judge’s order
* More than 200 in Maine arrested by ICE so far, DHS says
* Asylum-seeker taken by ICE had no criminal history in Maine, attorney says
* Wife of detained man says he was moved despite habeas petition and judge’s order
Live updates: More than 200 in Maine arrested by ICE so far, DHS says
The uptick in federal immigration activity in Maine continues to unfold after a 2nd U.S. citizen was fatally shot in Minnesota.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Maine, right now:
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The regime obviously thought they'd be able to take out a few dozen scary-queer-weirdo Antifa types in black masks and then successfully cow the rest of the Coastal Elite Liberal class into terrified silence: they were not expecting "totally fearless mass nonviolent resistance by entire cities."
It also sounds like at least some of them thought the cameras wouldn't matter because they were assuming that a couple of public executions would cause all of the resistance to run and hide.
January 26, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The regime obviously thought they'd be able to take out a few dozen scary-queer-weirdo Antifa types in black masks and then successfully cow the rest of the Coastal Elite Liberal class into terrified silence: they were not expecting "totally fearless mass nonviolent resistance by entire cities."
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I know I keep saying this but it's just neighbors helping neighbors, using whistles and Costco runs, because we don't like to see our community torn apart.
January 26, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I know I keep saying this but it's just neighbors helping neighbors, using whistles and Costco runs, because we don't like to see our community torn apart.
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By the way, if I didn’t make it clear enough: of COURSE white supremacy is core to this, because for the same reasons, they can’t conceive of genuine multiracial solidarity
“It never occurred to them that an Alex Pretti existed” is inextricable from his whiteness
“It never occurred to them that an Alex Pretti existed” is inextricable from his whiteness
January 26, 2026 at 6:14 PM
By the way, if I didn’t make it clear enough: of COURSE white supremacy is core to this, because for the same reasons, they can’t conceive of genuine multiracial solidarity
“It never occurred to them that an Alex Pretti existed” is inextricable from his whiteness
“It never occurred to them that an Alex Pretti existed” is inextricable from his whiteness
Schwalm is right about one thing: What's unfolding in Minnesota is resistance, not protest.
It's peaceful resistance, but it's resistance. And it's growing.
It's peaceful resistance, but it's resistance. And it's growing.
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Schwalm is right about one thing: What's unfolding in Minnesota is resistance, not protest.
It's peaceful resistance, but it's resistance. And it's growing.
It's peaceful resistance, but it's resistance. And it's growing.
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"And when you at war, you need a fucking enemy. And pretty soon, damn near everybody on every corner is your fucking enemy. And soon the neighborhood that you're supposed to be policing, that's just occupied territory"-Bunny Colvin, The Wire.
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 6:03 PM
"And when you at war, you need a fucking enemy. And pretty soon, damn near everybody on every corner is your fucking enemy. And soon the neighborhood that you're supposed to be policing, that's just occupied territory"-Bunny Colvin, The Wire.
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With that, Judge Menendez adjourns and says a ruling might take time, not because it's unimportant.
"It's because it's extremely important that I'm going to do everything in my power to get it right."
"It's because it's extremely important that I'm going to do everything in my power to get it right."
January 26, 2026 at 5:50 PM
With that, Judge Menendez adjourns and says a ruling might take time, not because it's unimportant.
"It's because it's extremely important that I'm going to do everything in my power to get it right."
"It's because it's extremely important that I'm going to do everything in my power to get it right."
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Judge:
"I have all of these quotes in the record. You're telling me that I'm reading them wrong."
That the surge isn't to coerce a change of the policies but to make up for the policies' harm
"What do I have in the record to show that the surge is to make up for the harms caused by the policies?"
"I have all of these quotes in the record. You're telling me that I'm reading them wrong."
That the surge isn't to coerce a change of the policies but to make up for the policies' harm
"What do I have in the record to show that the surge is to make up for the harms caused by the policies?"
January 26, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Judge:
"I have all of these quotes in the record. You're telling me that I'm reading them wrong."
That the surge isn't to coerce a change of the policies but to make up for the policies' harm
"What do I have in the record to show that the surge is to make up for the harms caused by the policies?"
"I have all of these quotes in the record. You're telling me that I'm reading them wrong."
That the surge isn't to coerce a change of the policies but to make up for the policies' harm
"What do I have in the record to show that the surge is to make up for the harms caused by the policies?"
Lawyer for the Trump admin, in federal court, deploying the "I haven't seen that post" line when confronted with Trump's lawless statements.
Judge Menendez asks about Trump's quote: "Your day of retribution is here." She asks what she's supposed to do with that.
Mayers says he hasn't seen that Truth Social post.
Mayers says he hasn't seen that Truth Social post.
January 26, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Lawyer for the Trump admin, in federal court, deploying the "I haven't seen that post" line when confronted with Trump's lawless statements.
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sir or ma'am, not considering things that suck is not a problem I'm suffering from
January 26, 2026 at 5:13 PM
sir or ma'am, not considering things that suck is not a problem I'm suffering from
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Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
January 23, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
Me: *exhortatory post*
Folks in my mentions: Have you considered that everything sucks?
Me: Yes. Yes I have.
Folks in my mentions: Have you considered that everything sucks?
Me: Yes. Yes I have.
January 26, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Me: *exhortatory post*
Folks in my mentions: Have you considered that everything sucks?
Me: Yes. Yes I have.
Folks in my mentions: Have you considered that everything sucks?
Me: Yes. Yes I have.
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every place they go will be more organized, more agile and more connected than the last. and will also have a uniqueness to its' city and people that will create a sense of community and connection that can be built on
January 26, 2026 at 4:55 PM
every place they go will be more organized, more agile and more connected than the last. and will also have a uniqueness to its' city and people that will create a sense of community and connection that can be built on