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"Turning their operations into a warped form of entertainment has almost certainly helped drive down Americans’ support for ICE since last summer," Kate Andrews writes. https://wapo.st/4qqs8wb
Opinion | The White House wanted an ICE spectacle. It backfired.
The shooting of Renée Good in Minneapolis may mark a turning point in public opinion.
wapo.st
January 19, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Two federal judges say it's time for the legal profession to reclaim its dignity.
Opinion | How the American Legal Profession Can Regain Its Dignity
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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rachelbitecofer.bsky.social
NEW with Cheri Jacobus

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes:
Democrats Need a Daily Truth Briefing

Plz share!

thecycle.substack.com/p/a-lie-can-...
A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes
Democrats Need a Daily Truth Briefing
thecycle.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
"In the immediate aftermath of the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis... an FBI agent in Minnesota conducted an initial review of the shooting and determined that sufficient grounds existed to open a probe into the actions of the officer who shot Good..."

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Stephen Miran's paper about the "Mar-a-Lago" accord argues for natural resources imperialism and predatory use of tariffs, pronouncing precisely the strategy that KGB analysts suggested in the late 1980s could be effective spun to destroy NATO and the Atlantic Alliance. Katie Martin discusses:
January 19, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
“…We are forced to consider Hitler, the Fuehrer, not as a personal devil, wicked as his actions and philosophy may be, but as the expression of a state of mind existing in millions of people…To remove Hitler may be a necessary first step, but it would not be the cure.”
patrickiber.bsky.social Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 14h
A passage from the 1943 OSS psychological assessment of Hitler, for your holiday mo(u)rning www.cia.gov/readingroom/...
PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION The world has come to know Adolph Hitler for his insatiable greed for power, his ruthlessness, cruelty and utter lack of feeling, his contempt for established institutions and his lack of moral restraints. In the course of relatively few years he has contrived to usurp such tre- mendous power that a few veiled threats, accusations or insinuations were sufficient to make the world tremble. In open defiance of treaties he occupied huge territories and conquered millions of people without even firing a shot. When the world became tired of being frightened and concluded that it was all a bluff, he initiated the most brutal and deva- stating war in history - a war which, for a time, threatened the com- plete destruction of our civilization. Human life and human suffering seem to leave this individual completely untouched as he plunges along the course he believes he was predestined to take. Earlier in his career the world had watched him with amuse- ment. Many people refused to take him seriously on the grounds that "he could not possibly last." As one action after another met with amaz- ing success and the measure of the man became more obvious, this amusement was transformed into incredulousness. To most people, it seemed inconceivable that such things could actually happen in our mod- ern civilization. Hitler, the leader of these activities, became generally regarded as a madman, if not inhuman. Such a judgment, concerning the nature of our enemy, may be satisfactory to the man in the street. It gives him a feeling of satisfaction to pigeon-hole an incomprehensible individual in one category or another and having classified him in this way, he feels that the problem is solved. All we need to do is to eliminate the madman from the scene of activities, replace him with a sane indivi- dual, and the world will again return to a normal and peaceful state of affairs. This naive view, however, is wholly inadequate for those who are delegated to conduct the war against Germany or for those who will be delegated to deal with the situation when the war is over. They can- not content themselves with simply regarding Hitler as a personal devil and condemning him to an Eternal Hell in order that the remainder of the world may live in peace and quiet. They will realize that the madness of the Fuehrer has become the madness of a nation, if not of a large part of the continent. They will realize that these are not wholly the actions of a single individual but that a reciprocal relationship exists between the Fuehrer and the people and that the madness of the one stimulates and flows into the other and vice versa. It was not only Hitler, the madman, who created German madness, but German madness which created Hitler. Having created him as its spokesman and leader, it has been carried along by his momentum, perhaps far beyond the point where it was originally prepared to go. Nevertheless, it continues to follow his lead in spite of the fact that it must be obvious to all intelligent people now that his path leads to inevitable destruction. From a scientific point of view, therefore, we are forced to con- sider Hitler, the Fuehrer, not as a personal devil, wicked as his actions and philosophy may be, but as the expression of a state of mind existing in millions of people, not only in Germany but, to a smaller degree, in all civilized countries. To remove Hitler may be a necessary first step, but it would not be the cure. It would be analogous to removing a chancre without treating the underlying disease. If similar eruptions are to be prevented in the future, we cannot content ourselves with simply remov- ing the overt manifestations of the disease. On the contrary, we must ferret out and seek to correct the underlying factors which produced the unwelcome phenomenon. We must discover the psychological streams which nourish this destructive state of mind in order that we may divert them into channels which will permit a further evolution of our form of civilization.
January 19, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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jentaub.bsky.social
This. Seems. Bad.
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12h
Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.”

What?
Stephen Miller • @StephenM X.com Only federal officers are upholding the law. Local and state police have been ordered to stand down and surrender.
January 19, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
pro·jec·tion /prəˈjekSHən/—n, attributing your own unwanted feelings, impulses, or traits to another person, e.g., a bully projecting their insecurities.
January 19, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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whitehouse.senate.gov
Political cartoon; invading Greenland and blaming NATO worked for Putin.
January 19, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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realtuckfrumper.bsky.social
Trump admin plans to put nuclear plant on the moon
www.rawstory.com
Trump admin plans to put nuclear plant on the moon
twp.ai
January 19, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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atrupar.com
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding
January 19, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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ddayen.bsky.social
If DOJ is no longer investigating the murder of Renee Good they should have no problem relinquishing the investigation and all of the evidence to the state of Minnesota. And if they refuse, why couldn't the state sue the FBI for obstruction of justice?
January 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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aloysiushogan.bsky.social
Abolish ICE. They never existed prior to 2003 and we did just fine. They have morphed into a modern gestapo. Lawless without any accountability or oversight.

We know where all the Proud Boys and 3 percenters disappeared to…
January 19, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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pressley.house.gov
Abolish ICE.
Impeach Kristi Noem.
End qualified immunity.
January 19, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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butchanarchy.bsky.social
Calling for more ICE agent training is calling for more ICE funding, for a more efficient ethnic cleansing machine. They don’t need more training, they need to be destroyed.

ABOLISH ICE.
ABOLISH ICE.
ABOLISH ICE.
January 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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mcfaulmike.bsky.social
Greenland is a vanity project for Trump that would cost us a broken NATO and a stronger Putin, as I told @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
Time to put grandpa in a home I’m sorry GOP
January 19, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
The man claiming “Abolish ICE” will alienate voters is a former Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection official.

He also recommended that people remember ICE/CBP officials are “all human beings” and bemoaned the lack of stories about ICE/CBP bringing toys to the border.
ddayen.bsky.social David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 15h
The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant - The American Prospect
Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.
prospect.org
January 19, 2026 at 3:24 PM
dbdant.bsky.social
Abolish ICE - it's the right thing to do.
ddayen.bsky.social David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 15h
The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant - The American Prospect
Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.
prospect.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
🔥Greenland politician: “Trump doesn’t know about Greenlandic people. We don’t value💰/Kardashian lips/fake boobs… we won’t give up free health care & education… 🇺🇸are so greedy they’re trying to shoot their friends… Trump surrounds himself with white power— our rights would probably be taken away.”
January 19, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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adamjschwarz.bsky.social
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:

"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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motherjones.com
SCOOP: More resignations of federal prosecutors are expected at the US Attorney’s Office in Minnesota amid ongoing frustration over the Trump administration’s response to the fatal shooting of Renée Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
Minnesota US Attorney’s Office is bracing for a new wave of resignations
Prosecutors are alarmed by the administration's response to Renée Good's killing.
www.motherjones.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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ms.now
NEW @maddow.bsky.social: For Trump's opponents, a model for finding their fight to stop him

WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohs1...
For Trump's opponents, a model for finding their fight to stop him
YouTube video by MS NOW
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January 19, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
"Expanding candidate standing while continuing to restrict legislative standing appears to be yet another data point for the current Court’s inclination to limit legislative power especially when it’s being invoked in an attempt to rein in the executive branch."

New "One First" on #SCOTUS in Bost:
203. Legislative Standing and/After Bost
The theory on which five justices concluded that candidates for office have standing to challenge election rules is difficult—at best—to reconcile with the Court's hostility to legislative standing.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:38 PM