Soo
@soog.bsky.social
Loves Jesus, democracy, rule of law, truthtelling, extending to one another peace & hope. Ordained pastor, retired.
"In a way, the Trump administration has already started a civil war in which a set of leaders and citizens are behaving in a manner loyal to the historical traditions of our Constitution, and a president who believes ...
January 26, 2026 at 6:11 PM
"In a way, the Trump administration has already started a civil war in which a set of leaders and citizens are behaving in a manner loyal to the historical traditions of our Constitution, and a president who believes ...
"...it feels untenable to be ruled perpetually by people who’d murder us in the street and then slander us for it."
January 26, 2026 at 6:09 PM
"...it feels untenable to be ruled perpetually by people who’d murder us in the street and then slander us for it."
“Trump took Venezuela’s oil at gunpoint and gave it to one of his biggest campaign donors.” 50 million barrels is a mere 2 1/2 days’ worth of domestic consumption, but it would be well more than what Trump spent on his 2024 election campaign — a pot of patronage rather than a national investment.
January 26, 2026 at 5:42 PM
“Trump took Venezuela’s oil at gunpoint and gave it to one of his biggest campaign donors.” 50 million barrels is a mere 2 1/2 days’ worth of domestic consumption, but it would be well more than what Trump spent on his 2024 election campaign — a pot of patronage rather than a national investment.
"Miller, JD Vance, and the other ethnonationalists around Trump operate from a worldview dictating that modern levels of immigration profoundly threaten national social cohesion. They think this view is widely shared by a 'silent majority.'...
January 26, 2026 at 3:52 PM
"Miller, JD Vance, and the other ethnonationalists around Trump operate from a worldview dictating that modern levels of immigration profoundly threaten national social cohesion. They think this view is widely shared by a 'silent majority.'...
"Eventually, at some point, someone on the anti-MAGA side of this argument will cross a line. An ICE officer will be shot.
Then what? Well, first of all, they’ll make a martyr of this modern-day Horst Wessel. Maybe Kid Rock ...
Then what? Well, first of all, they’ll make a martyr of this modern-day Horst Wessel. Maybe Kid Rock ...
January 26, 2026 at 3:40 PM
"Eventually, at some point, someone on the anti-MAGA side of this argument will cross a line. An ICE officer will be shot.
Then what? Well, first of all, they’ll make a martyr of this modern-day Horst Wessel. Maybe Kid Rock ...
Then what? Well, first of all, they’ll make a martyr of this modern-day Horst Wessel. Maybe Kid Rock ...
"54% of voters oppose any increased budget for ICE’s enforcement and detention budget. And 65% support Congress holding rogue agencies and officers accountable for constitutional violations...." (ACLU poll)
January 26, 2026 at 3:34 PM
"54% of voters oppose any increased budget for ICE’s enforcement and detention budget. And 65% support Congress holding rogue agencies and officers accountable for constitutional violations...." (ACLU poll)
"Trump once treated reality as a marketing challenge. Now he treats it as a legal offense. His all-caps social media rants and bogus lawsuits don’t show confidence — they show fear that the party’s just about over."
January 26, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"Trump once treated reality as a marketing challenge. Now he treats it as a legal offense. His all-caps social media rants and bogus lawsuits don’t show confidence — they show fear that the party’s just about over."
"How many citizens being shot to death is worth this campaign of fear and its sporadic deportations?
It seems as though the answer is clear by now:
It seems as though the answer is clear by now:
January 26, 2026 at 3:01 PM
"How many citizens being shot to death is worth this campaign of fear and its sporadic deportations?
It seems as though the answer is clear by now:
It seems as though the answer is clear by now:
Big layoffs at the WaPo. "...[T]he revamp of the Opinion section cost the Post hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and now it looks like the staff will pay for it." More ways Trump ruined things
January 26, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Big layoffs at the WaPo. "...[T]he revamp of the Opinion section cost the Post hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and now it looks like the staff will pay for it." More ways Trump ruined things
"The implicit message is clear: The violence aimed at Minnesota citizens could stop if the state gives the administration the tools to subvert the next election — effectively trading one set of lies for another."--Beschloss
January 25, 2026 at 6:56 PM
"The implicit message is clear: The violence aimed at Minnesota citizens could stop if the state gives the administration the tools to subvert the next election — effectively trading one set of lies for another."--Beschloss
"When violence bursts onto the peaceful human condition, its face is flush with self-assurance. It displays on its banner and proclaims: 'I am Violence! Make way, step aside, I will crush you!' But ...
January 25, 2026 at 6:54 PM
"When violence bursts onto the peaceful human condition, its face is flush with self-assurance. It displays on its banner and proclaims: 'I am Violence! Make way, step aside, I will crush you!' But ...
"[In the gospel of John,] Jesus—his life, his message, his way of being human—enters a world already organized around domination, fear, scapegoating, and respectable lies. And the darkness can’t handle it." -Andrew Larsen
January 25, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"[In the gospel of John,] Jesus—his life, his message, his way of being human—enters a world already organized around domination, fear, scapegoating, and respectable lies. And the darkness can’t handle it." -Andrew Larsen
If the protestors are the dangerous ones, why are they the onky ones killed?
January 25, 2026 at 6:08 PM
If the protestors are the dangerous ones, why are they the onky ones killed?
Can't. It's always about the Big Lie with them.
trumpers defend a kid like Kyle Rittenhouse with an AR-15 going to another state to shoot, but freak out about a U.S. citizen Alex Pretti with a concealed carry permit who never fired a shot before ICE agents pepper sprayed and killed him.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
January 25, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Can't. It's always about the Big Lie with them.
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Not cowardice, complicity
The same day Trump's agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
The same day Trump's agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
January 25, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Not cowardice, complicity
The same day Trump's agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
The same day Trump's agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
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No the big corporations are funding it remember that the AT & T apples Amazon target T-Mobile Verizon they made it so we can’t boycott them they’ve boxed us in. Biden stood by the auto union workers and they went with Trump if there is ever a need for a bailout in the future I say let them fail.
January 25, 2026 at 3:11 PM
No the big corporations are funding it remember that the AT & T apples Amazon target T-Mobile Verizon they made it so we can’t boycott them they’ve boxed us in. Biden stood by the auto union workers and they went with Trump if there is ever a need for a bailout in the future I say let them fail.
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
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"let’s be clear: there is a US city living under occupation by fascist presidential secret police right now.” @vermontgmg.bsky.social
‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war
‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war
Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:19 AM
"let’s be clear: there is a US city living under occupation by fascist presidential secret police right now.” @vermontgmg.bsky.social
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1984
and Animal Farm...
and Animal Farm...
January 25, 2026 at 3:06 PM
1984
and Animal Farm...
and Animal Farm...
"We will take the criminals killing your people out of your city if you violate the Constitution and give us what we want in order to oppress you more. ..." isnt the merciful offer they're pretending it is.
January 25, 2026 at 2:38 PM
"We will take the criminals killing your people out of your city if you violate the Constitution and give us what we want in order to oppress you more. ..." isnt the merciful offer they're pretending it is.
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Minnesota's state FBI-like bureau is suing Noem. It says before pre-emptively declaring the killing righteous and abandoning the crime scene, feds took exclusive custody of evidence, including "apparently seized cellphones."
MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.
MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.
#1 in Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00628) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants (filing fee $ 405, receipt number AMNDC-12575332) filed by Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Filer requests summons issued....
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January 25, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Minnesota's state FBI-like bureau is suing Noem. It says before pre-emptively declaring the killing righteous and abandoning the crime scene, feds took exclusive custody of evidence, including "apparently seized cellphones."
MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.
MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.
Sec Noem needs to be fired (at least) for outrageous lying in her public statements.
January 25, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Sec Noem needs to be fired (at least) for outrageous lying in her public statements.
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Trump’s DOJ has weaponized ICE to unlawfully seize voter rolls.
#Trump
#DOJ
#ICE
#Minneapolis
#TrumpFail
Reminder: #ChoosePeaceNotChaos
#Trump
#DOJ
#ICE
#Minneapolis
#TrumpFail
Reminder: #ChoosePeaceNotChaos
January 25, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Trump’s DOJ has weaponized ICE to unlawfully seize voter rolls.
#Trump
#DOJ
#ICE
#Minneapolis
#TrumpFail
Reminder: #ChoosePeaceNotChaos
#Trump
#DOJ
#ICE
#Minneapolis
#TrumpFail
Reminder: #ChoosePeaceNotChaos