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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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When I briefly worked on political campaigns, there was a saying I remember thrown about: “Democrats always refight the last election.“
January 15, 2026 at 5:01 PM
When I briefly worked on political campaigns, there was a saying I remember thrown about: “Democrats always refight the last election.“
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Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi comments on protests gripping his home country and says that while he is certain "this regime will fall," he worries it will unleash further cycles of violence.
Panahi's latest film is "It Was Just An Accident."
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/15/jafar_panahi
Panahi's latest film is "It Was Just An Accident."
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/15/jafar_panahi
January 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi comments on protests gripping his home country and says that while he is certain "this regime will fall," he worries it will unleash further cycles of violence.
Panahi's latest film is "It Was Just An Accident."
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/15/jafar_panahi
Panahi's latest film is "It Was Just An Accident."
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/15/jafar_panahi
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Same playbook as Chicago. I often reminded people that the Trump raids created recessions in Little Village, Pilsen, Belmont Cragin and a bunch more neighborhoods and suburbs that felt the chill.
The Trump administration’s blitz of immigration agents to Minneapolis and St. Paul has ground one of the largest metro economies in America to a halt, business owners and local leaders say. https://cnn.it/49UzJgC
January 15, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Same playbook as Chicago. I often reminded people that the Trump raids created recessions in Little Village, Pilsen, Belmont Cragin and a bunch more neighborhoods and suburbs that felt the chill.
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LOL. That assumes Democrats in Congress disagree with the rank cowardice of their leaders.
They don't. Schumer and Jeffries are there because they speak for most Democrats who want to talk about eggs and not ICE.
They don't. Schumer and Jeffries are there because they speak for most Democrats who want to talk about eggs and not ICE.
January 15, 2026 at 5:22 PM
LOL. That assumes Democrats in Congress disagree with the rank cowardice of their leaders.
They don't. Schumer and Jeffries are there because they speak for most Democrats who want to talk about eggs and not ICE.
They don't. Schumer and Jeffries are there because they speak for most Democrats who want to talk about eggs and not ICE.
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the most critical praxis here is to call Trump a humongous bitch ( i have a phd so this is real praxis )
January 15, 2026 at 5:27 PM
the most critical praxis here is to call Trump a humongous bitch ( i have a phd so this is real praxis )
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So you were a Paul Tsongas guy?
... the year it "went wrong" was 2000 when the Supreme Court appointed the president based on their partisan desires, and soon after that illigetimate president responded to a terrorist attack by attacking the wrong country and installing more SCOTUS justices.
... the year it "went wrong" was 2000 when the Supreme Court appointed the president based on their partisan desires, and soon after that illigetimate president responded to a terrorist attack by attacking the wrong country and installing more SCOTUS justices.
January 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
So you were a Paul Tsongas guy?
... the year it "went wrong" was 2000 when the Supreme Court appointed the president based on their partisan desires, and soon after that illigetimate president responded to a terrorist attack by attacking the wrong country and installing more SCOTUS justices.
... the year it "went wrong" was 2000 when the Supreme Court appointed the president based on their partisan desires, and soon after that illigetimate president responded to a terrorist attack by attacking the wrong country and installing more SCOTUS justices.
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This is not just the left, I assure you!
The left is obsessed with imagining that something even worse is coming around the corner rather than dealing with the current horrors we are facing. The threat of Trump “cancelling the midterms” is toothless compared to the threat of continuing to occupy cities and overthrow foreign governments.
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?
January 15, 2026 at 5:32 PM
This is not just the left, I assure you!
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America has always been an argument. An argument between a wealthy white few ready to kill or control the rest to seize more money & power and the bravest possible people determined to make the promise of life, liberty & yes happiness apply to all, no exceptions.
On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.
January 15, 2026 at 4:03 PM
America has always been an argument. An argument between a wealthy white few ready to kill or control the rest to seize more money & power and the bravest possible people determined to make the promise of life, liberty & yes happiness apply to all, no exceptions.
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Correct.
Dems/patriots should be straight-up committed to abolishing ICE.
We must never again have masked, armed, untrained, unscreened, embittered rogue agents patrolling our streets, destroying civil order rather than trying to maintain it.
Empowered by 'Kavanaugh stop' and 'Roberts waiver.'
Dems/patriots should be straight-up committed to abolishing ICE.
We must never again have masked, armed, untrained, unscreened, embittered rogue agents patrolling our streets, destroying civil order rather than trying to maintain it.
Empowered by 'Kavanaugh stop' and 'Roberts waiver.'
ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
January 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Correct.
Dems/patriots should be straight-up committed to abolishing ICE.
We must never again have masked, armed, untrained, unscreened, embittered rogue agents patrolling our streets, destroying civil order rather than trying to maintain it.
Empowered by 'Kavanaugh stop' and 'Roberts waiver.'
Dems/patriots should be straight-up committed to abolishing ICE.
We must never again have masked, armed, untrained, unscreened, embittered rogue agents patrolling our streets, destroying civil order rather than trying to maintain it.
Empowered by 'Kavanaugh stop' and 'Roberts waiver.'
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Ahead of time, you first have to turn on full encryption on your devices, it’s not that cumbersome—a good guide here:
January 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Ahead of time, you first have to turn on full encryption on your devices, it’s not that cumbersome—a good guide here:
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The deck is stacked in about 10 different ways to give extra power and money to rural areas, but it's never enough. Right wing propaganda continues to tell them they are out upon victims powerless against the mighty cities.
Stage 5 pundit-brain is watching an innocent woman being killed by agents of the state and going, "hmm this says a lot about the urban-rural divide in America."
January 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
The deck is stacked in about 10 different ways to give extra power and money to rural areas, but it's never enough. Right wing propaganda continues to tell them they are out upon victims powerless against the mighty cities.
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ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
January 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
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SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.
Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.
Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
www.404media.co
January 15, 2026 at 2:05 PM
SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.
Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.
Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.
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Obama was quite good at this. he was against Iraq in 2003 even though that was very unpopular at the time, but in 2008 that won him the primary against HRC
More Dems need to think about skating to where the puck will be not where it is.
All indications are Trump's brain has turned to mush and no one around him will even try to control his worst impulses.
He will just get way crazier and more evil and unpopular by November.
All indications are Trump's brain has turned to mush and no one around him will even try to control his worst impulses.
He will just get way crazier and more evil and unpopular by November.
January 15, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Obama was quite good at this. he was against Iraq in 2003 even though that was very unpopular at the time, but in 2008 that won him the primary against HRC
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Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.
January 15, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.
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Roth is always well worth reading, but this is one of the Roth essays where you think to yourself, yeah, people trying to understand this era are gonna be reading this 40 years from now
January 15, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Roth is always well worth reading, but this is one of the Roth essays where you think to yourself, yeah, people trying to understand this era are gonna be reading this 40 years from now
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yeah that is another thing. they are not authentically curious about rural white people, they just want some MAGA chud they can condescendingly sanewash as a way to discipline city liberals bsky.app/profile/awry...
what pisses me off to no end is that I live in a super rural area in MN, I’m a middle aged white man, but they always find these chuds to speak for me. Here’s a thought, maybe don’t go to the bar at 10am on a weekday and expect to find deep thinkers.
This whole article is a fucking insult
This whole article is a fucking insult
January 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
yeah that is another thing. they are not authentically curious about rural white people, they just want some MAGA chud they can condescendingly sanewash as a way to discipline city liberals bsky.app/profile/awry...
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This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.
Another critical piece of missing context in this story: tax dollars flow from the MSP metro to rural Minnesota. People in the city subsidize the lifestyles of people living in the country minnesotareformer.com/2023/12/04/t...
January 15, 2026 at 3:48 PM
This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.
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At a moment when Trump is cutting child care, blocking disaster aid and targeting Colorado, Regent Callie Rennison voted to give the GOP — including some of the most partisan and extreme Republicans in Colorado — control of CU’s Board leadership. (1/2)
January 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM
At a moment when Trump is cutting child care, blocking disaster aid and targeting Colorado, Regent Callie Rennison voted to give the GOP — including some of the most partisan and extreme Republicans in Colorado — control of CU’s Board leadership. (1/2)
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Young people don’t like fascism.
Enten: "Trump has just fallen off a cliff when it comes to Gen Z. Trump's net approval in February of 2025 was +10. It's a drop of 42 points to -32. My goodness gracious."
January 15, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Young people don’t like fascism.
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People know ICE is making us less safe. And they support major reform.
January 15, 2026 at 3:56 PM
People know ICE is making us less safe. And they support major reform.
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Right here on this (1.1 million following) maga Christian facebook profile, posted yesterday
January 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Right here on this (1.1 million following) maga Christian facebook profile, posted yesterday