Virginia Scharff
@vscharff.bsky.social
Historian, novelist, gardener, cook
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The more info we get about this raid, the worse it becomes. ICE had NO valid warrant (administrative warrants do not authorize forceful entry into a home), the guy's sole prior conviction was a since-dismissed drug charge from 2008, AND he had checked in with ICE just days earlier.
Immigration attorney: The arrest "during a Minnesota immigration crackdown that the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever, was a “blatant constitutional violation,” since the agents did not have a proper warrant..." www.minnpost.com/public-safet...
Attorney: No proper warrant for Minneapolis man's arrest in home
The arrest of Garrison Gibson came in a city increasingly on edge after an immigration agent shot and killed Renee Good last week.
www.minnpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:21 PM
The more info we get about this raid, the worse it becomes. ICE had NO valid warrant (administrative warrants do not authorize forceful entry into a home), the guy's sole prior conviction was a since-dismissed drug charge from 2008, AND he had checked in with ICE just days earlier.
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What is happening in Minneapolis is a fascist shitshow, writes Dave Zirin, but there is also mass grassroots resistance. The latter story should be told and celebrated, too.
https://bit.ly/4sJaV2G
https://bit.ly/4sJaV2G
A Minneapolis Teacher Wants the Whole Country in the Streets
Dan Troccoli, a public middle school teacher, says everyone should start “emulating” Minneapolis’s resistance to ICE and the Trump regime.
bit.ly
January 15, 2026 at 10:20 PM
What is happening in Minneapolis is a fascist shitshow, writes Dave Zirin, but there is also mass grassroots resistance. The latter story should be told and celebrated, too.
https://bit.ly/4sJaV2G
https://bit.ly/4sJaV2G
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We're getting breaking word that Trump is a huge bitch.
January 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM
We're getting breaking word that Trump is a huge bitch.
Thank you, @drewmagary.bsky.social for saying exactly what I feel.
Viciousness deserves viciousness in return. Fuck these murdering pieces of shit. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
JD Vance is a piece of s—t
We can't let the vice president off the hook.
www.sfgate.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Thank you, @drewmagary.bsky.social for saying exactly what I feel.
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I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens
All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October
All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October
January 15, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. I can't sneeze or cough bc it's dangerous to. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
January 15, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. I can't sneeze or cough bc it's dangerous to. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
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If everyone who opposed the president's secret police was a paid protestor the economy would be rocking
ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid.
And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
relevant to the debate over whether we should keep funding DHS without reforms and accountability for how out of control their spending is
January 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
If everyone who opposed the president's secret police was a paid protestor the economy would be rocking
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The Insurrection Act is not "martial law." It doesn't displace civilian law, it doesn't suspend habeas corpus, it doesn't alter or suspend state and local government, and it doesn't make anything newly illegal. It allows using the military to enforce existing law, it doesn't change what the law is.
January 15, 2026 at 7:16 PM
The Insurrection Act is not "martial law." It doesn't displace civilian law, it doesn't suspend habeas corpus, it doesn't alter or suspend state and local government, and it doesn't make anything newly illegal. It allows using the military to enforce existing law, it doesn't change what the law is.
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Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car"
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
January 15, 2026 at 8:22 PM
"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car"
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
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The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
January 15, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
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Any one of us could be detained for hours by ICE despite being a U.S. citizen.
Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be the next to be brutalized by ICE for speaking out.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be the next to be brutalized by ICE for speaking out.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
January 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Any one of us could be detained for hours by ICE despite being a U.S. citizen.
Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be the next to be brutalized by ICE for speaking out.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be the next to be brutalized by ICE for speaking out.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
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Los Lobos + Jerry Garcia + Bob Weir playing “This Land Is Your Land”
Apropos of all that’s happening.
youtu.be/YECF0wUNqVQ?...
Apropos of all that’s happening.
youtu.be/YECF0wUNqVQ?...
Los Lobos, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir - This Land Is Your Land
YouTube video by Los Lobos
youtu.be
January 14, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Los Lobos + Jerry Garcia + Bob Weir playing “This Land Is Your Land”
Apropos of all that’s happening.
youtu.be/YECF0wUNqVQ?...
Apropos of all that’s happening.
youtu.be/YECF0wUNqVQ?...
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the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?
Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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Congratulations, Justice Kavanaugh.
January 15, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Congratulations, Justice Kavanaugh.
No more chaos. Bring back reason.
Remember all of the SAMHSA grants on mental health and substance abuse that RFK Jr. canceled yesterday?
Funding is restored.
Funding is restored.
24 hours of chaos as mental health grants are slashed then restored
For 24 hours, it was unclear which mental health and addiction programs would survive and who would still have jobs when the dust settled.
www.npr.org
January 15, 2026 at 6:04 PM
No more chaos. Bring back reason.
Sitting in my car in a parking lot, singing along with Bob Weir and Phil Lesh from their 2018 duo tour doing “Touch of Grey.” We will get by🎶
January 15, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Sitting in my car in a parking lot, singing along with Bob Weir and Phil Lesh from their 2018 duo tour doing “Touch of Grey.” We will get by🎶
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.@PabloReports: Stephen Miller seems to be operating sort of as a shadow president at this point. Is there any legal liability he could face at the end of this presidency?
Ryan: There’s going to be legal—and I think criminal—liability for multiple members.. certainly Stephen Miller.
Ryan: There’s going to be legal—and I think criminal—liability for multiple members.. certainly Stephen Miller.
January 15, 2026 at 5:13 PM
.@PabloReports: Stephen Miller seems to be operating sort of as a shadow president at this point. Is there any legal liability he could face at the end of this presidency?
Ryan: There’s going to be legal—and I think criminal—liability for multiple members.. certainly Stephen Miller.
Ryan: There’s going to be legal—and I think criminal—liability for multiple members.. certainly Stephen Miller.
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France is our first and oldest ally.
The fact that they are sending troops to fight against us should actually fill every American with horror and shame.
The fact that they are sending troops to fight against us should actually fill every American with horror and shame.
January 14, 2026 at 10:41 PM
France is our first and oldest ally.
The fact that they are sending troops to fight against us should actually fill every American with horror and shame.
The fact that they are sending troops to fight against us should actually fill every American with horror and shame.
This conversation is so illuminating. And this year, we should celebrate the nation we have become, since 1776 and indeed, since 1965. This country belongs to all of us, and we are here to defend each other.
Stephen Miller's core project is to unmake the world created by the 1965 act ending racial quotas on immigration. Really enjoyed talking to @simonwdc.bsky.social about our recent report on Miller's worldview and how Dems can make a big case against it:
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/greg-sarge...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/greg-sarge...
Greg Sargent On Stephen Miller's Dark Vision For ICE And The Breakdown Of The Rule Of Law In Minnesota
Afternoon all.
www.hopiumchronicles.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:41 PM
This conversation is so illuminating. And this year, we should celebrate the nation we have become, since 1776 and indeed, since 1965. This country belongs to all of us, and we are here to defend each other.
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Stephen Miller's core project is to unmake the world created by the 1965 act ending racial quotas on immigration. Really enjoyed talking to @simonwdc.bsky.social about our recent report on Miller's worldview and how Dems can make a big case against it:
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/greg-sarge...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/greg-sarge...
Greg Sargent On Stephen Miller's Dark Vision For ICE And The Breakdown Of The Rule Of Law In Minnesota
Afternoon all.
www.hopiumchronicles.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Stephen Miller's core project is to unmake the world created by the 1965 act ending racial quotas on immigration. Really enjoyed talking to @simonwdc.bsky.social about our recent report on Miller's worldview and how Dems can make a big case against it:
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/greg-sarge...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/greg-sarge...
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By using brutal force against Americans, ICE has given Democrats a chance to change how voters think about immigration. Will they take it?
An extra post recapping new numbers about ICE out this week:
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ice-is-a-7...
An extra post recapping new numbers about ICE out this week:
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ice-is-a-7...
ICE is now a 70-30 issue — against Trump
By using brutal force against Americans, ICE has given Democrats a chance to change how voters think about immigration. Will they take it?
www.gelliottmorris.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM
By using brutal force against Americans, ICE has given Democrats a chance to change how voters think about immigration. Will they take it?
An extra post recapping new numbers about ICE out this week:
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ice-is-a-7...
An extra post recapping new numbers about ICE out this week:
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ice-is-a-7...
I'm with Raffi.
dear God, help me stay in courage so I can help all who fight 🇺🇸 fascism.
help me stand with sane patriots who love liberty. 🔔 #Antifa
help me stand with sane patriots who love liberty. 🔔 #Antifa
January 15, 2026 at 5:19 PM
I'm with Raffi.
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One thing to note in my chart below is that I have Congress in the center, because, as usual, all the powers the President in this arena has are statutorily granted. They could fix it *today* if they wanted to, just like with tariffs, immigration, qualified immunity, etc., etc.
Not sure who needs to hear this, but the Insurrection Act isn’t the same as “martial law.” It authorizes the molitary to engage in civil law enforcement. And not clear that even then, whether they can enforce state criminal laws
January 15, 2026 at 3:28 PM
One thing to note in my chart below is that I have Congress in the center, because, as usual, all the powers the President in this arena has are statutorily granted. They could fix it *today* if they wanted to, just like with tariffs, immigration, qualified immunity, etc., etc.