Roy Edroso
@edroso.bsky.social
Village Voice, Reverb Motherfuckers, etc. https://edroso.substack.com
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Personally if I was Anne Boleyn I’d be far more upset that someone made a musical about my head getting cut off
January 19, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Personally if I was Anne Boleyn I’d be far more upset that someone made a musical about my head getting cut off
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Protecting people is my job. No one—not this administration, not ICE—will keep me from doing it.
I sat down with @newyorker.com to talk about why I’m not backing down in the face of political intimidation.
I sat down with @newyorker.com to talk about why I’m not backing down in the face of political intimidation.
January 19, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Protecting people is my job. No one—not this administration, not ICE—will keep me from doing it.
I sat down with @newyorker.com to talk about why I’m not backing down in the face of political intimidation.
I sat down with @newyorker.com to talk about why I’m not backing down in the face of political intimidation.
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The other day I bitched that people always forget LaMonica McIver in their list of politicized prosecutions.
The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees
LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.
www.newyorker.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:25 PM
The other day I bitched that people always forget LaMonica McIver in their list of politicized prosecutions.
The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Blanche won’t investigate the killing of an innocent woman on camera but they’ve got all hands on deck for a church service being interrupted
January 19, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Blanche won’t investigate the killing of an innocent woman on camera but they’ve got all hands on deck for a church service being interrupted
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Prior to Trump, I always thought someone could do a cutting satire of US politics with a show about a president who loses his mind while in office, and the lengths to which his party will go to justify and defend his increasingly insane pronouncements.
We’re living in that show.
We’re living in that show.
Christ. We all suspected this. But the narcissistic cockalorum actually put his “if you don’t give me the Peace Prize I’ll start waging wars” threat in writing.
The petulant pillock is literally ready to kill people because he didn’t get his Special Prize.
The petulant pillock is literally ready to kill people because he didn’t get his Special Prize.
mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
January 19, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Prior to Trump, I always thought someone could do a cutting satire of US politics with a show about a president who loses his mind while in office, and the lengths to which his party will go to justify and defend his increasingly insane pronouncements.
We’re living in that show.
We’re living in that show.
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ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Every time Trump breaks the clear letter of the law, the NYT and WaPo write a story about how he’s “pushing boundaries” or “testing the limits of his authority”
He's not Chuck Yeager, guys. He's a crook.
He's not Chuck Yeager, guys. He's a crook.
January 19, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Every time Trump breaks the clear letter of the law, the NYT and WaPo write a story about how he’s “pushing boundaries” or “testing the limits of his authority”
He's not Chuck Yeager, guys. He's a crook.
He's not Chuck Yeager, guys. He's a crook.
Key phrase, for me: "Privately, [Weiss] has expressed alarm at many of the Administration’s actions, a person close to Weiss told me." When you look at the entirely rightwing, MAGA effect she's had on everything she touches, this can only be taken as ass-covering. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News
The network’s new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself with a billionaire class more willing than ever to indulge Donald Trump.
www.newyorker.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Key phrase, for me: "Privately, [Weiss] has expressed alarm at many of the Administration’s actions, a person close to Weiss told me." When you look at the entirely rightwing, MAGA effect she's had on everything she touches, this can only be taken as ass-covering. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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imagine if you took all the city's meat and put it in a freezer
imagine if you took all the city's meat and put it in a freezer
January 19, 2026 at 8:40 PM
imagine if you took all the city's meat and put it in a freezer
Also videos of the feds using chemical weapons on protestors have been published SINCE this appeared. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in Minnesota, Then Backtracks
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Also videos of the feds using chemical weapons on protestors have been published SINCE this appeared. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
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"it is believed"
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January 19, 2026 at 6:13 PM
"it is believed"
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Again, Trump is dying. But his demanding Greenland as a substitute Nobel isn't any more ridiculous or "insane" than accusing Barack Obama of faking his own birth.
Lesson 5 Birther Movement Film Clip
YouTube video by Life Stories
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January 19, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Again, Trump is dying. But his demanding Greenland as a substitute Nobel isn't any more ridiculous or "insane" than accusing Barack Obama of faking his own birth.
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This is a great example of state officials stepping up to ensure compliance with the law, if the feds won’t do it. Maine secy of state @shennabellows.bsky.social finding a way of restricting ICE illegal conduct wgme.com/news/local/m...
Maine pauses undercover license plate requests amid ICE concerns
According to the Secretary of State’s Office, Maine plates will not be used for "lawless purposes."
wgme.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:48 PM
This is a great example of state officials stepping up to ensure compliance with the law, if the feds won’t do it. Maine secy of state @shennabellows.bsky.social finding a way of restricting ICE illegal conduct wgme.com/news/local/m...
I don't know why everyone makes fun of this guy, he seems pretty tuned in to me
The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”
January 19, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I don't know why everyone makes fun of this guy, he seems pretty tuned in to me
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I think that people who immigrate in order to live the life that is best for them are incredibly brave. I just wish America could someday be the country they came to, rather than fled.
‘I was afraid for my life’: the transgender refugees fleeing Trump’s America
Fear, abuse and eroding rights for trans people have created a hostile environment in the US – can they claim asylum in the Netherlands?
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I think that people who immigrate in order to live the life that is best for them are incredibly brave. I just wish America could someday be the country they came to, rather than fled.
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It's cool that these guys just use pepper spray casually now, against people who are wholly within their rights, without a moment's hesitation. Several shots of them using it as they climb into their cars and drive away, not even a pretense of urgency or need. Just a parting "fuck you" to them.
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 4:44 PM
It's cool that these guys just use pepper spray casually now, against people who are wholly within their rights, without a moment's hesitation. Several shots of them using it as they climb into their cars and drive away, not even a pretense of urgency or need. Just a parting "fuck you" to them.
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THE MAN THEY TOOK WRAPPED IN A BLANKET IS A U.S. CITIZEN.
This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.
This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.
Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket.
He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.
Notice the suppressors
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He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.
Notice the suppressors
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January 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
THE MAN THEY TOOK WRAPPED IN A BLANKET IS A U.S. CITIZEN.
This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.
This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.
I guess they keep trotting this dumb crook out to appease those few remaining MAGA choads who want to pretend Tubby doesn't hate black people.
But using Donalds and Scott Turner as spokesmen is in itself, like his former Ye alliance, a massive racist insult.
But using Donalds and Scott Turner as spokesmen is in itself, like his former Ye alliance, a massive racist insult.
Rep. Byron Donalds: "These agitators -- who by the way are paid, folks. America, they are paid to do this kind of mess."
January 19, 2026 at 3:40 PM
I guess they keep trotting this dumb crook out to appease those few remaining MAGA choads who want to pretend Tubby doesn't hate black people.
But using Donalds and Scott Turner as spokesmen is in itself, like his former Ye alliance, a massive racist insult.
But using Donalds and Scott Turner as spokesmen is in itself, like his former Ye alliance, a massive racist insult.
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The reason the “paid protestor” accusation is so popular is that these are people who cannot imagine doing something because it’s right, to stand up for a principle, talking to other people like that.
Rep. Byron Donalds: "These agitators -- who by the way are paid, folks. America, they are paid to do this kind of mess."
January 19, 2026 at 3:18 PM
The reason the “paid protestor” accusation is so popular is that these are people who cannot imagine doing something because it’s right, to stand up for a principle, talking to other people like that.
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"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:21 PM
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Decent but not as good as Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in the original series
January 19, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Decent but not as good as Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in the original series
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People here are outside patrolling their neighborhoods in this, trying to keep their neighbors safe from lawless armed masked goons. Armed with whistles and vests, they are essentially fighting a war against their own government and its ethnic cleansing campaign.
January 19, 2026 at 12:43 PM
People here are outside patrolling their neighborhoods in this, trying to keep their neighbors safe from lawless armed masked goons. Armed with whistles and vests, they are essentially fighting a war against their own government and its ethnic cleansing campaign.
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Harmett Dhillon absolutely knows this is bullshit, but is doing it because she’s a loyal member of a criminal regime who wants to be AG.
Harmett Dhillion threatens Don Lemon: "Imagine you have a bank robbery that's being planned by a number of criminals ... and then a podcaster says, 'Let me embed myself in here and come along for the ride and livestream the crime.' That would not be protected by the 1st Amendment."
January 19, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Harmett Dhillon absolutely knows this is bullshit, but is doing it because she’s a loyal member of a criminal regime who wants to be AG.
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I've harped on congressional war powers for a long time and we do need to fix all that, but threatening to invade Greenland while ranting at Norway about the Nobel Peace Prize and imposing trade sanctions on NATO is more the kind of thing you can only fix by not having a literally insane president.
January 19, 2026 at 8:35 AM
I've harped on congressional war powers for a long time and we do need to fix all that, but threatening to invade Greenland while ranting at Norway about the Nobel Peace Prize and imposing trade sanctions on NATO is more the kind of thing you can only fix by not having a literally insane president.