mz
@zwirnm.bsky.social
Just trying to get a hang of this thing. Same handle on the other site.
If you create an untrained, ignorant, brutal, secret police force, it’s hard to be surprised when you get brutality, ignorance, and chaos out of your secret police force.
Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 25, 2026 at 3:29 PM
If you create an untrained, ignorant, brutal, secret police force, it’s hard to be surprised when you get brutality, ignorance, and chaos out of your secret police force.
Read this after I shoveled
Repeating: NOW is a good time to shovel if you've switched from snow to sleet. 1-3" of sleet (which is many times heavier than snow) on top of this snow will make it MUCH harder to clear later.
January 25, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Read this after I shoveled
Someone who never found a problem that he couldn’t immediately make drastically worse.
"Hegseth’s apparent desire to get involved in the Minnesota debacle is dangerous not only to the lives of innocent Americans, but to American democracy itself," @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
Pete Hegseth Should Sit This One Out
By inserting himself into the situation in Minnesota, the secretary of defense is only making things worse.
bit.ly
January 25, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Someone who never found a problem that he couldn’t immediately make drastically worse.
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Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23.
📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ
📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ
January 23, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23.
📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ
📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ
Weird framing for a general strike driven by labor and activism, but sure, the businesses are often closing in sympathy.
January 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Weird framing for a general strike driven by labor and activism, but sure, the businesses are often closing in sympathy.
what an utter sleazeball
Vance in MN: "It's really cold outside. We in the Trump administration want to deport criminal aliens who are sex offenders. It takes a certain level of committed to sex offender criminal aliens to stand outside in -40 temperatures and attack the vice president, but they're committed to the bit."
January 23, 2026 at 3:21 PM
what an utter sleazeball
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Full story: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — The faith leaders, who hail from across the country and represent a range of religious traditions, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agent...
religionnews.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Full story: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
It's kinda victorian-era gothic horror, isn't it?
the president slowly physically decaying and manifesting what appears to be some kind of stigmata on his hand while becoming more insane and evil would be dismissed as a hacky writing device
January 22, 2026 at 11:00 PM
It's kinda victorian-era gothic horror, isn't it?
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Look, we've had no shortage of signs and portents
January 22, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Look, we've had no shortage of signs and portents
wait, I don't have to shovel snow because I'm over 50? Or I do have to, because I am familiar with it? I am so confused.
If you get snow this weekend and aren't familiar with it — or even if you are — shoveling is very tough work. This is a decent list of dos and don'ts… but I'd add don't do it *at all* if you're over 50. It's very hard on the heart, especially in extreme cold.
stjosephshealth.org/healthy-you/...
stjosephshealth.org/healthy-you/...
How to Shovel Smart and Save Your Spine This Winter - St. Joseph's Health
Read on and learn how to shovel snow safely without straining your back or risking injury. Follow these tips for a pain-free winter.
stjosephshealth.org
January 22, 2026 at 6:37 PM
wait, I don't have to shovel snow because I'm over 50? Or I do have to, because I am familiar with it? I am so confused.
For this Administration, destroying the artistic heritage of the New Deal while liquidating public property for profit probably counts as a twofer.
wapo.st/4a5NCsq
wapo.st/4a5NCsq
The stunning art trove hidden in a D.C. building marked by Trump for disposal
Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government’s Cohen Building has been called “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” Advocates fear these works could be at risk.
wapo.st
January 22, 2026 at 3:33 PM
For this Administration, destroying the artistic heritage of the New Deal while liquidating public property for profit probably counts as a twofer.
wapo.st/4a5NCsq
wapo.st/4a5NCsq
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At least 100 rabbis and other Jewish leaders are expected to join the growing coalition of clergy gathering in Minneapolis on Thursday (Jan. 22) and Friday to protest the massive show of force by federal immigration agencies in Minnesota in recent weeks.
religionnews.com/2026/01/21/t...
religionnews.com/2026/01/21/t...
US rabbis head to Minneapolis to join protests to counter ICE raids
(RNS) — At least 100 rabbis and other Jewish leaders are expected in Minneapolis on Thursday and Friday (Jan. 22-23) for massive coordinated action by clergy in response to violent Minneapolis ICE…
religionnews.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:00 AM
At least 100 rabbis and other Jewish leaders are expected to join the growing coalition of clergy gathering in Minneapolis on Thursday (Jan. 22) and Friday to protest the massive show of force by federal immigration agencies in Minnesota in recent weeks.
religionnews.com/2026/01/21/t...
religionnews.com/2026/01/21/t...
Minnesota secession to Canada increasingly attractive
The House of Representatives voted to allow mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota, reinvigorating plans to build a major mining project there. The measure also requires Senate approval.
House votes to repeal ban on mining near Boundary Waters wilderness in Minnesota
Opponents say pollution from a copper and nickel mine in Minnesota would contaminate the Boundary Waters, the most-visited wilderness area in the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Minnesota secession to Canada increasingly attractive
Suspect this series of events is repeated multiple times each day in the Twin Cities.
(Content warning: ICE violence)
At around 1:40 this afternoon, I witnessed federal agents with ICE and CBP arresting a US citizen after hitting her car from behind, and then kneeling on the head of a legal observer in the snow, preventing breathing and bloodying their face.
At around 1:40 this afternoon, I witnessed federal agents with ICE and CBP arresting a US citizen after hitting her car from behind, and then kneeling on the head of a legal observer in the snow, preventing breathing and bloodying their face.
January 21, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Suspect this series of events is repeated multiple times each day in the Twin Cities.
DHS/ICE to Constitution: drop dead.
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 9:59 PM
DHS/ICE to Constitution: drop dead.
Pangolins.
January 21, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Pangolins.
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INBOX: Air Force One (tail number 29000), which was carrying President Trump from Washington, D.C. to Davos, Switzerland, appears to be turning back. (h/t @PollTracker2024/X)
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January 21, 2026 at 3:30 AM
INBOX: Air Force One (tail number 29000), which was carrying President Trump from Washington, D.C. to Davos, Switzerland, appears to be turning back. (h/t @PollTracker2024/X)
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The story about the mutual self-immolation of the self-described "free speech university" UATX is as unsurprising as it is schadenfreudealicious.
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 21, 2026 at 2:46 AM
The story about the mutual self-immolation of the self-described "free speech university" UATX is as unsurprising as it is schadenfreudealicious.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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January 20, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
January 20, 2026 at 11:13 PM
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
Counting the misspellings on signs at the Walkout Against Fascism.
So far 1x FASISM and 1x FACISM.
So far 1x FASISM and 1x FACISM.
January 20, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Counting the misspellings on signs at the Walkout Against Fascism.
So far 1x FASISM and 1x FACISM.
So far 1x FASISM and 1x FACISM.
Love to see the abstract art represented
January 20, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Love to see the abstract art represented
Curt Cignetti doesn't look any happier after blocking a punt for a touchdown than after eating a mediocre turkey sandwich.
January 20, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Curt Cignetti doesn't look any happier after blocking a punt for a touchdown than after eating a mediocre turkey sandwich.
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New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 12:29 AM
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
Utter madness
In a text message over the weekend, President Trump told Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Store, that since being denied the Nobel Peace Prize, he no longer felt obliged to “think purely of Peace.”
Read the full text messages between the two leaders here. nyti.ms/4r1eHTd
Read the full text messages between the two leaders here. nyti.ms/4r1eHTd
Read the Texts Between Trump and Norway’s Prime Minister
In the exchange on Sunday, Norway’s leader sought to “de-escalate” the growing conflict over Greenland and Mr. Trump’s latest tariff threat.
nyti.ms
January 19, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Utter madness