Jim Boyd
@bjboyd.bsky.social
America isn’t a color; it’s a value.
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WTF Target?
If you needed another reason to boycott Target, this is it
If you needed another reason to boycott Target, this is it
January 11, 2026 at 8:57 PM
WTF Target?
If you needed another reason to boycott Target, this is it
If you needed another reason to boycott Target, this is it
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The State of Minnesota is a separate sovereign, entitled to enforce its own laws. Feds are certainly entitled to conduct a parallel investigation, but not to freeze out state investigators.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/09/p...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/09/p...
What’s behind the highly unusual move to block Minnesota officials from investigating ICE shooting | CNN Politics
Mutual distrust between federal and state authorities derailed plans for a joint FBI and state criminal investigation into Wednesday’s shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer, leading to the...
www.cnn.com
January 11, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The State of Minnesota is a separate sovereign, entitled to enforce its own laws. Feds are certainly entitled to conduct a parallel investigation, but not to freeze out state investigators.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/09/p...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/09/p...
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Saying the officer who committed murder is a murderer is dangerous, but it's OK to claim that his victim was a domestic terrorist who literally ran him over.
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Saying the officer who committed murder is a murderer is dangerous, but it's OK to claim that his victim was a domestic terrorist who literally ran him over.
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This is absolutely what happened.
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
January 10, 2026 at 1:03 PM
This is absolutely what happened.
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He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
January 9, 2026 at 11:25 PM
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
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Congratulations to John Roberts bsky.app/profile/larr...
Isn't there a word for a leader who thinks there are no meaningful legal constraints on his or her power and that "My own morality. My own mind" is "the only thing that can stop me"?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
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January 8, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Congratulations to John Roberts bsky.app/profile/larr...
For 27 years I worked as the #2 editor at the Star Tribune editorial pages. We were fierce for truth. The Strib editorial page today is a disgrace. There is no editorial speaking for the newspaper as an institution, no condemnation of Trump and Ice. This is not leadership.
January 8, 2026 at 1:57 PM
For 27 years I worked as the #2 editor at the Star Tribune editorial pages. We were fierce for truth. The Strib editorial page today is a disgrace. There is no editorial speaking for the newspaper as an institution, no condemnation of Trump and Ice. This is not leadership.
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This is the best of the videos, I think.
A witness shared this video with me showing an ICE officer shooting a driver in an SUV in south Minneapolis. DHS says the woman is dead.
ICE officer fatally shoots driver in Minneapolis
YouTube video by Minnesota Reformer
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January 8, 2026 at 2:22 AM
This is the best of the videos, I think.
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Worth noting that Minnesota Public Radio is NOT doing that. They're interviewing people on the ground, chasing down witnesses and facts, and treating ICE statements with the appropriate amount of skepticism.
Sigh. The NPR national news brief at the top of the hour mentioned the shooting and simply cited the DHS statement.
I truly don't think mainstream journalists in the U.S are prepared to cover state violence
January 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Worth noting that Minnesota Public Radio is NOT doing that. They're interviewing people on the ground, chasing down witnesses and facts, and treating ICE statements with the appropriate amount of skepticism.
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Renee Nicole Good. Say her name. The other side is massing in body to turn her into a terrorist, and her case into a casus belli. Your voice is needed NOW.
January 8, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Renee Nicole Good. Say her name. The other side is massing in body to turn her into a terrorist, and her case into a casus belli. Your voice is needed NOW.
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The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
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Basic media literacy: there are multiple clips out there showing this shooting, mostly up close and unobstructed (except by the car itself). Trump’s social media post includes a clip from far away, through trees, and slowed to super slow motion.
Those are *choices*
Those are *choices*
January 7, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Basic media literacy: there are multiple clips out there showing this shooting, mostly up close and unobstructed (except by the car itself). Trump’s social media post includes a clip from far away, through trees, and slowed to super slow motion.
Those are *choices*
Those are *choices*
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Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis
January 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis
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There is video of the shooting of a woman by ICE in Minneapolis circulating that shows an ICE agent repeatedly shooting her at point blank range while she tries to drive off. There was no obvious threat to any ICE agent.
January 7, 2026 at 6:26 PM
There is video of the shooting of a woman by ICE in Minneapolis circulating that shows an ICE agent repeatedly shooting her at point blank range while she tries to drive off. There was no obvious threat to any ICE agent.
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A US citizen has apparently been shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis. I’m gathering information, but the situation on the ground is volatile.
ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.
ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
A US citizen has apparently been shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis. I’m gathering information, but the situation on the ground is volatile.
ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.
ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.
On Greenland, here’s how insane Trump is: Greenland belongs to Denmark. Both Denmark and the US are founding members of NATO. Article 5 of the NATO Treaty says that an attack on one member is an attack on all. So by treaty, the United States is bound to defend Greenland/Denmark from Trump.
January 5, 2026 at 12:58 PM
On Greenland, here’s how insane Trump is: Greenland belongs to Denmark. Both Denmark and the US are founding members of NATO. Article 5 of the NATO Treaty says that an attack on one member is an attack on all. So by treaty, the United States is bound to defend Greenland/Denmark from Trump.
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My position on impeachment is the same as it was six months ago: Impeachment is first about driving public attention to Trump’s crimes and corruption.
Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort.
Performative public investigations matter.
Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort.
Performative public investigations matter.
Why push for impeachment?
Because politics is an exercise in moving public opinion as much as counting votes in the senate.
The Jan 6 Hearings were not a criminal proceeding against Trump that would end in jail, but they focused public attention.
Performative public investigations matter
Because politics is an exercise in moving public opinion as much as counting votes in the senate.
The Jan 6 Hearings were not a criminal proceeding against Trump that would end in jail, but they focused public attention.
Performative public investigations matter
January 4, 2026 at 9:14 PM
My position on impeachment is the same as it was six months ago: Impeachment is first about driving public attention to Trump’s crimes and corruption.
Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort.
Performative public investigations matter.
Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort.
Performative public investigations matter.
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Been pretty clear for awhile. Trump’s only complaint about the Iraq War was that the US didn’t “take the oil”
MAGA's supposed "anti-interventionism" is actually pro-pillage and pro-plunder.
Trump says Venezuela's oil wealth "goes also to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country"
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Been pretty clear for awhile. Trump’s only complaint about the Iraq War was that the US didn’t “take the oil”
Wondering: Was the kidnapping of Maduro an order that military leaders had a legal obligation to refuse?
January 3, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Wondering: Was the kidnapping of Maduro an order that military leaders had a legal obligation to refuse?
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The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.
A Criminal Empire
The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream
www.forever-wars.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.
January 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.