Dr. John Wagner
@drjohnwagner.bsky.social
Proud dad. Applied mathematician. Life scientist. Consummate inventor. Software engineer. Data nerd. Life-long foodie. Aspiring chef.
Progressive lefty taking refuge in a blue state with blue skies. #CT #Bsky
Progressive lefty taking refuge in a blue state with blue skies. #CT #Bsky
This is quite a listen.
The Boss is singing about ICE on the Streets of Minneapolis.
You won't hear this played at the Kennedy Center or on Fox News.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...
You won't hear this played at the Kennedy Center or on Fox News.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:54 AM
This is quite a listen.
HERO.
Omar: I instinctively tried to, like, punch him…, I was raised with three brothers who were older than me. You learn that maybe taking the first punch when somebody is bigger than you yields you better results.
January 29, 2026 at 9:52 AM
HERO.
The Trump Administration says that these officers feared for their lives.
January 26, 2026 at 7:03 PM
The Trump Administration says that these officers feared for their lives.
What Kat said.
Abolish ICE is not enough.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
January 26, 2026 at 6:42 PM
What Kat said.
Reposted by Dr. John Wagner
Today we will find out that Mike Johnson knows nothing about the shooting in MN.
January 26, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Today we will find out that Mike Johnson knows nothing about the shooting in MN.
The only correction I would makes is, there is no more "before it is too late". It has been too late for months now. Congress needs to act and to then make sure it never happens again. I support tribunals and unassailable sentences that can't be reversed by future presidential pardons.
January 26, 2026 at 6:39 PM
The only correction I would makes is, there is no more "before it is too late". It has been too late for months now. Congress needs to act and to then make sure it never happens again. I support tribunals and unassailable sentences that can't be reversed by future presidential pardons.
Today is a good day to remind your MAGAt and gun nut acquaintances and that the Trump Administration's agents took Alex Pretti's gun and then shot him 10 times.
Is it just me, or does it seem like a lot of MAGA cultists are abandoning ship over the 2nd Amendment issues surrounding the murder of Alex Pretti?
January 26, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Today is a good day to remind your MAGAt and gun nut acquaintances and that the Trump Administration's agents took Alex Pretti's gun and then shot him 10 times.
What George said.
“They are using the mechanism of armed officers with masks who are killing citizens to create disruption so they can use more force to eliminate the possibility they could be removed from office and suffer criminal sanctions for the crimes they are now committing”
January 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
What George said.
I think we call all agree now that that whole “states' rights” thing was literally never about anything other than wanting to own slaves. And that the second amendment was literally never about anything other than wanting to maintain slave-patrol militias to suppress revolts.
January 25, 2026 at 10:21 PM
I think we call all agree now that that whole “states' rights” thing was literally never about anything other than wanting to own slaves. And that the second amendment was literally never about anything other than wanting to maintain slave-patrol militias to suppress revolts.
Reposted by Dr. John Wagner
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
In his seminal work, Total Resistance, Major H. von Dach Bern makes assumptions that may apply to Switzerland, but definitely do not apply to the US: that gun owners will donate their weapons to the cause. Most US gun owners will always side with authoritarians and totalitarians, not the resistance.
January 25, 2026 at 6:16 AM
In his seminal work, Total Resistance, Major H. von Dach Bern makes assumptions that may apply to Switzerland, but definitely do not apply to the US: that gun owners will donate their weapons to the cause. Most US gun owners will always side with authoritarians and totalitarians, not the resistance.
There is no reforming Nazis. Abolish ICE. Prosecute them all.
I haven't been back from Texas for 24 hours, and there's 3 new reminders why we shouldn't fund DHS without reforms to force them to obey the law.
1. The arrest of little Liam Ramos
2. More brutal treatment of protesters in Minnesota
3. ICE claiming the power to enter our homes
1. The arrest of little Liam Ramos
2. More brutal treatment of protesters in Minnesota
3. ICE claiming the power to enter our homes
January 23, 2026 at 1:18 AM
There is no reforming Nazis. Abolish ICE. Prosecute them all.
The seven Democrats who sided with Republicans were Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Don Davis (N.C.), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.) and Vicente Gonzalez (Texas).
The house passed the DHS funding bill with 7 Democrats voting yes…. Folks Democrats are the problem
January 22, 2026 at 11:33 PM
The seven Democrats who sided with Republicans were Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Don Davis (N.C.), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.) and Vicente Gonzalez (Texas).
I wonder if the Castle Doctrine would apply?
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 11:00 PM
I wonder if the Castle Doctrine would apply?
Police have been stopping people of colour with no cause and demanding to see their licenses to determine whether they belonged in white neighbourhoods for *checks notes* decades.
But if they're serious about it, they can stand up and protect those they serve. (They won't.)
But if they're serious about it, they can stand up and protect those they serve. (They won't.)
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 21, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Police have been stopping people of colour with no cause and demanding to see their licenses to determine whether they belonged in white neighbourhoods for *checks notes* decades.
But if they're serious about it, they can stand up and protect those they serve. (They won't.)
But if they're serious about it, they can stand up and protect those they serve. (They won't.)
I trust one of you will bang on my front door until I answer.
Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives.
Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.
Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.
January 21, 2026 at 8:28 AM
I trust one of you will bang on my front door until I answer.
Reposted by Dr. John Wagner
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
LOL For those who haven't been following...these fuckwits tried to build a university immune to cancellation, and then they started canceling people—internally, ideologically, and procedurally—once they had power.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
www.politico.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:45 PM
LOL For those who haven't been following...these fuckwits tried to build a university immune to cancellation, and then they started canceling people—internally, ideologically, and procedurally—once they had power.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
[inventory]
By JoJo
the car
maroon
stopped
the windshield
one mark
the driver’s window
two openings
four agents
standing
one gun
raised
lowered
another car
parked
left front fender
dented
the light pole
bent
on the street
three casings
brass
Author’s Note
Based on reported facts.
By JoJo
the car
maroon
stopped
the windshield
one mark
the driver’s window
two openings
four agents
standing
one gun
raised
lowered
another car
parked
left front fender
dented
the light pole
bent
on the street
three casings
brass
Author’s Note
Based on reported facts.
January 19, 2026 at 3:23 AM
[inventory]
By JoJo
the car
maroon
stopped
the windshield
one mark
the driver’s window
two openings
four agents
standing
one gun
raised
lowered
another car
parked
left front fender
dented
the light pole
bent
on the street
three casings
brass
Author’s Note
Based on reported facts.
By JoJo
the car
maroon
stopped
the windshield
one mark
the driver’s window
two openings
four agents
standing
one gun
raised
lowered
another car
parked
left front fender
dented
the light pole
bent
on the street
three casings
brass
Author’s Note
Based on reported facts.
Go home, Booker. You're drunk.
These elected Dems still don’t get it. @booker.senate.gov
January 18, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Go home, Booker. You're drunk.
I'll take SHIT THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN for $1,000, Alex.
This is a pretty severe escalation from CBS, just straight up lying like this.
BREAKING: The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good last week in Minneapolis, Jonathan Ross, suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident, according to two U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition.
January 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I'll take SHIT THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN for $1,000, Alex.
This. All this.
ICE is a terrorist organisation. They exist solely to produce terror.
ICE is a terrorist organisation. They exist solely to produce terror.
The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM
This. All this.
ICE is a terrorist organisation. They exist solely to produce terror.
ICE is a terrorist organisation. They exist solely to produce terror.
Reposted by Dr. John Wagner
The right is correct: we *are* coming for their guns. Very, very soon.
January 12, 2026 at 7:21 AM
The right is correct: we *are* coming for their guns. Very, very soon.
Pretty clear to me not nearly enough Nazis dropped through the trapdoor on October 16, 1946 to send a clear and unequivocal message.
This is a direct violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unreasonable searches and unlawful entry.
Nuremberg trials 2.0 will be required after this administration. History shows that systemic abuses carried out under the excuse of “just following orders” are still crimes.
Nuremberg trials 2.0 will be required after this administration. History shows that systemic abuses carried out under the excuse of “just following orders” are still crimes.
January 12, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Pretty clear to me not nearly enough Nazis dropped through the trapdoor on October 16, 1946 to send a clear and unequivocal message.