Patrick G. Eddington
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Out now: The Triumph of Fear: Domestic Surveillance and Political Repression from McKinley through Eisenhower. Order direct from GU Press & use code TGUF to get 30% off: https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-Triumph-of-Fear
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This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV.
The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
January 10, 2026 at 7:23 PM
This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV.
The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
Verbal threats, then an assault and attempted theft of this person's property. The sense of impunity among these imperial storm troopers is absolutely pervasive. Trump's America, 2026.
UNARMED WOMAN: “Shame on you.”
ICE GOON: “Have you not learned from the past few days?”
UNARMED WOMAN: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?”
ICE GOON: *VIOLENTLY SNATCHES HER PHONE*
(H/T @Mollyploofkins)
ICE GOON: “Have you not learned from the past few days?”
UNARMED WOMAN: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?”
ICE GOON: *VIOLENTLY SNATCHES HER PHONE*
(H/T @Mollyploofkins)
January 10, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Verbal threats, then an assault and attempted theft of this person's property. The sense of impunity among these imperial storm troopers is absolutely pervasive. Trump's America, 2026.
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UNARMED WOMAN: “Shame on you.”
ICE GOON: “Have you not learned from the past few days?”
UNARMED WOMAN: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?”
ICE GOON: *VIOLENTLY SNATCHES HER PHONE*
(H/T @Mollyploofkins)
ICE GOON: “Have you not learned from the past few days?”
UNARMED WOMAN: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?”
ICE GOON: *VIOLENTLY SNATCHES HER PHONE*
(H/T @Mollyploofkins)
January 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
UNARMED WOMAN: “Shame on you.”
ICE GOON: “Have you not learned from the past few days?”
UNARMED WOMAN: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?”
ICE GOON: *VIOLENTLY SNATCHES HER PHONE*
(H/T @Mollyploofkins)
ICE GOON: “Have you not learned from the past few days?”
UNARMED WOMAN: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?”
ICE GOON: *VIOLENTLY SNATCHES HER PHONE*
(H/T @Mollyploofkins)
Many say national Dems (overall) have no spine. The problem runs deeper--with some exceptions, the state & local level have the same problem. The reality is that none of them are made for this moment--by temperament or experience. But many of their citizens are made for this moment & show it daily.
Minneapolis - Border Patrol stops a protester following them, and tells the car it’s their “first and final warning” to quit.
January 10, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Many say national Dems (overall) have no spine. The problem runs deeper--with some exceptions, the state & local level have the same problem. The reality is that none of them are made for this moment--by temperament or experience. But many of their citizens are made for this moment & show it daily.
This is the way the American flag should be displayed for the balance of Trump's presidency.
Protesters were staged outside a hotel where ICE agents are believed to be staying and made noise for hours.
City: 30 arrests, some damage caused during raucous ICE protest in downtown Minneapolis
Protesters were staged outside a hotel where ICE agents are believed to be staying and made noise for hours.
bit.ly
January 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM
This is the way the American flag should be displayed for the balance of Trump's presidency.
Ike 1) signed the Communist Control Act into law, 2) greenlit FBI's COINTELPRO, 3) banned gays from government jobs, 4) accelerated the nuclear arms race via his "New Look" nuclear-centric military strategy, and 5) had the CIA to engage in regime change ops we're still paying the price for today.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
January 10, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Ike 1) signed the Communist Control Act into law, 2) greenlit FBI's COINTELPRO, 3) banned gays from government jobs, 4) accelerated the nuclear arms race via his "New Look" nuclear-centric military strategy, and 5) had the CIA to engage in regime change ops we're still paying the price for today.
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ICYMI: WaPo, on why ICE always has phones in their hands: to feed the social media beast.
@drewharwell.com
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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January 9, 2026 at 11:53 PM
ICYMI: WaPo, on why ICE always has phones in their hands: to feed the social media beast.
@drewharwell.com
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
@drewharwell.com
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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We're at the scene of a protest in downtown Minneapolis outside the Canopy by Hilton hotel, where ICE agents are believed to be staying. Photographer Alex Kormann estimates at least 1,000 people are in attendance.
January 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
We're at the scene of a protest in downtown Minneapolis outside the Canopy by Hilton hotel, where ICE agents are believed to be staying. Photographer Alex Kormann estimates at least 1,000 people are in attendance.
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Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."
January 9, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."
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The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
If they’re doing in Minnesota, they’ll do it anywhere else they deploy.
January 10, 2026 at 2:19 AM
If they’re doing in Minnesota, they’ll do it anywhere else they deploy.
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NEW: A federal judge has blocked an effort by President Trump to threaten election assistance funding for states who refuse to update their voter registration forms to include his preferred “documentary proof of citizenship” requirement.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 10, 2026 at 2:07 AM
NEW: A federal judge has blocked an effort by President Trump to threaten election assistance funding for states who refuse to update their voter registration forms to include his preferred “documentary proof of citizenship” requirement.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
January 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
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We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
January 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM
We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
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Attorney General Dan Rayfield says the Oregon Department of Justice will open a formal investigation into the Border Patrol shooting that left two people injured in Portland.
January 9, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Attorney General Dan Rayfield says the Oregon Department of Justice will open a formal investigation into the Border Patrol shooting that left two people injured in Portland.
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What if we covered Trump’s America the way Western media cover “authoritarian regimes” abroad?
@premthakker.bsky.social reports on an unarmed civilian killed by state agents — and the propaganda campaign that followed.
Read the full story: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...
@premthakker.bsky.social reports on an unarmed civilian killed by state agents — and the propaganda campaign that followed.
Read the full story: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...
January 9, 2026 at 6:53 PM
What if we covered Trump’s America the way Western media cover “authoritarian regimes” abroad?
@premthakker.bsky.social reports on an unarmed civilian killed by state agents — and the propaganda campaign that followed.
Read the full story: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...
@premthakker.bsky.social reports on an unarmed civilian killed by state agents — and the propaganda campaign that followed.
Read the full story: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...
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"I Married a U.S. Citizen!" Screams Man as ICE Agents Drag Him Away While He Was Working At Minnesota Target 1/8/26
January 9, 2026 at 3:48 PM
"I Married a U.S. Citizen!" Screams Man as ICE Agents Drag Him Away While He Was Working At Minnesota Target 1/8/26
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- The document giving ICE 80 million Medicaid patients’ data
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In politics, we rarely experience moments that offer true clarity on a given issue. This is one of those moments. The choice: lethal tyranny v. validating human lives and individual freedom.
January 9, 2026 at 7:43 PM
In politics, we rarely experience moments that offer true clarity on a given issue. This is one of those moments. The choice: lethal tyranny v. validating human lives and individual freedom.
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4th Cir. holds that it violated the First Amendment to convict Virginia man of soliciting treason for his inflammatory, disturbing, and deeply offensive post-9/11 statements which urged no concrete criminal plan or provide assistance to crime.
Huge case.
www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/144...
Huge case.
www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/144...
January 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
4th Cir. holds that it violated the First Amendment to convict Virginia man of soliciting treason for his inflammatory, disturbing, and deeply offensive post-9/11 statements which urged no concrete criminal plan or provide assistance to crime.
Huge case.
www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/144...
Huge case.
www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/144...
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In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
January 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
Awesome they did this PSA. Horrific that they had to do so because of the violent, unwarranted lethal actions of agents acting on the orders of a would-be dictator in the White House.
If you are a small business or property owner, you have the right to not allow ICE onto your property without a signed judicial warrant. Please come out to Central Ave to support our immigrant owned businesses and look out for your neighbors.
Know your rights: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...
Know your rights: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...
January 9, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Awesome they did this PSA. Horrific that they had to do so because of the violent, unwarranted lethal actions of agents acting on the orders of a would-be dictator in the White House.
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If you are a small business or property owner, you have the right to not allow ICE onto your property without a signed judicial warrant. Please come out to Central Ave to support our immigrant owned businesses and look out for your neighbors.
Know your rights: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...
Know your rights: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...
January 9, 2026 at 12:22 AM
If you are a small business or property owner, you have the right to not allow ICE onto your property without a signed judicial warrant. Please come out to Central Ave to support our immigrant owned businesses and look out for your neighbors.
Know your rights: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...
Know your rights: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...