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This is why no chase policies are important and it is important to point out the police regulalry violate them.
www.washingtoninformer.com/dc-photograp...
www.washingtoninformer.com/dc-photograp...
Washington Informer Photographer Fatally Struck in Police Chase Near the White House
Remembering Aaron Marckell Williams, a talented photographer known for his work with The Washington Informer, tragically killed in a car accident.
www.washingtoninformer.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:49 PM
This is why no chase policies are important and it is important to point out the police regulalry violate them.
www.washingtoninformer.com/dc-photograp...
www.washingtoninformer.com/dc-photograp...
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If you’re interested in resisting liberal whitewashing of the fundamentally misogynist pro-natalist cause, I think my Bookforum piece is a good place to start. www.bookforum.com/print/3102/b...
January 13, 2026 at 5:57 PM
If you’re interested in resisting liberal whitewashing of the fundamentally misogynist pro-natalist cause, I think my Bookforum piece is a good place to start. www.bookforum.com/print/3102/b...
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There it is. This is all 'great replacement' crap. Plenty of young, energetic people in the world if what one is actually worried about is sustaining a population that lives longer due to medical advances.
Also, we should address aging care because that falls on the shoulders of the young, too.
Also, we should address aging care because that falls on the shoulders of the young, too.
The U.S. is forcing massive deportations of working-age people with jobs who're contributing to the safety net, while conservatives drape themselves in concern for an aging population.
This is entirely about nativism.
This is entirely about nativism.
January 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM
There it is. This is all 'great replacement' crap. Plenty of young, energetic people in the world if what one is actually worried about is sustaining a population that lives longer due to medical advances.
Also, we should address aging care because that falls on the shoulders of the young, too.
Also, we should address aging care because that falls on the shoulders of the young, too.
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This is Minneapolis:
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
January 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
This is Minneapolis:
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
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It is not just that they refuse to investigate the actual killer.
Minnesota DOJ prosecutors resigned after Trump appointees pushed to investigate the victim's wife.
Ghouls.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
Minnesota DOJ prosecutors resigned after Trump appointees pushed to investigate the victim's wife.
Ghouls.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
January 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
It is not just that they refuse to investigate the actual killer.
Minnesota DOJ prosecutors resigned after Trump appointees pushed to investigate the victim's wife.
Ghouls.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
Minnesota DOJ prosecutors resigned after Trump appointees pushed to investigate the victim's wife.
Ghouls.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
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This is our justice system now: guilt or innocence are determined based on political criteria, no investigation needed. DOJ pursues a former FBI Director, or Chair of the Federal Reserve on trumped up charges, but refuses to investigate a killer.
NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now
January 13, 2026 at 1:34 PM
This is our justice system now: guilt or innocence are determined based on political criteria, no investigation needed. DOJ pursues a former FBI Director, or Chair of the Federal Reserve on trumped up charges, but refuses to investigate a killer.
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None of the DoJ people who have been resigning over the last year are squishy liberals. Many likely would have served willingly in a DoJ run by legitimate, lawful conservatives. But this is an unhinged regime of crooks, sycophants, and morons.
Breaking News: Three Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the wife of Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent. The Justice Department sought to examine her supposed ties to activist groups.
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, quit after the Justice Department sought to examine the woman’s supposed ties to activist groups.
nyti.ms
January 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
None of the DoJ people who have been resigning over the last year are squishy liberals. Many likely would have served willingly in a DoJ run by legitimate, lawful conservatives. But this is an unhinged regime of crooks, sycophants, and morons.
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It’s wild because we’re supposed to believe the police can find anyone at anytime due to their incredible intelligence and detective abilities, but also they have to murder anyone who doesn’t allow themselves to be apprehended in that moment, or they’ll be gone forever.
…not murder them? right? not repeatedly shoot them in the face and murdering them. this doesn’t feel hard.
January 13, 2026 at 5:39 PM
It’s wild because we’re supposed to believe the police can find anyone at anytime due to their incredible intelligence and detective abilities, but also they have to murder anyone who doesn’t allow themselves to be apprehended in that moment, or they’ll be gone forever.
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The Daily had an interview with the MPD chief. They’re getting regular 911 calls because federal agents are leaving cars in the street after detaining people. Local officers are overwhelmed, feel ICE/BP are putting them at risk with dangerous tactics, unraveling progress made since George Floyd.
It's 10am in Minneapolis and rapid response is underwater, reports of chemicals deployed already.
As others have pointed out, the ratio of feds (with more arriving) to residents and square mileage here is extreme compared to what we experienced in Chicago.
We are in freefall.
As others have pointed out, the ratio of feds (with more arriving) to residents and square mileage here is extreme compared to what we experienced in Chicago.
We are in freefall.
January 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
The Daily had an interview with the MPD chief. They’re getting regular 911 calls because federal agents are leaving cars in the street after detaining people. Local officers are overwhelmed, feel ICE/BP are putting them at risk with dangerous tactics, unraveling progress made since George Floyd.
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Just spitballing here, but I think the founders probably wouldn't have approved of a President putting the entirety of a highly militarized federal government on a war footing against a state because he didn't like how they voted in the last election. But I'm sure John Roberts knows what he's doing.
Trump just posted that the "day of reckoning & retribution is coming" in Minnesota.
January 13, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Just spitballing here, but I think the founders probably wouldn't have approved of a President putting the entirety of a highly militarized federal government on a war footing against a state because he didn't like how they voted in the last election. But I'm sure John Roberts knows what he's doing.
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This sucks because this eventual ruling (we all know how this one's going to be decided by the far-right SCOTUS) is going to affect so, so, so much more than sports.
Starting a new thread for West Virginia v. BPJ because BlueSky is starting to time me out of the other one.
West Virginia bans trans athletes as well but this time it's been challenged by a minor.
Michael Williams, Solicitor General for West Virginia, is arguing on behalf of bigotry.
West Virginia bans trans athletes as well but this time it's been challenged by a minor.
Michael Williams, Solicitor General for West Virginia, is arguing on behalf of bigotry.
January 13, 2026 at 6:05 PM
This sucks because this eventual ruling (we all know how this one's going to be decided by the far-right SCOTUS) is going to affect so, so, so much more than sports.
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Protester is 21 yrs old. ICE agent dragged him and held his head down in his own pool of blood, mocked him about losing his eye. They fired pepper pellets at the HEAD of a witness recording the incident.
Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week...
www.latimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Protester is 21 yrs old. ICE agent dragged him and held his head down in his own pool of blood, mocked him about losing his eye. They fired pepper pellets at the HEAD of a witness recording the incident.
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Very much related: “MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advocates say it’s a clear violation of state law.”
January 13, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Very much related: “MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advocates say it’s a clear violation of state law.”
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BREAKING:
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
January 13, 2026 at 12:06 PM
BREAKING:
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
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The stated reason for ICE agents being in Minnesota is because of the ongoing fraud claims around daycare and other services.
The two prosecutors leading those investigations have now resigned in the wake of Renee Good’s shooting. Even the internal supposed logic of this deployment is falling apart
The two prosecutors leading those investigations have now resigned in the wake of Renee Good’s shooting. Even the internal supposed logic of this deployment is falling apart
January 13, 2026 at 5:58 PM
The stated reason for ICE agents being in Minnesota is because of the ongoing fraud claims around daycare and other services.
The two prosecutors leading those investigations have now resigned in the wake of Renee Good’s shooting. Even the internal supposed logic of this deployment is falling apart
The two prosecutors leading those investigations have now resigned in the wake of Renee Good’s shooting. Even the internal supposed logic of this deployment is falling apart
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Scott Adams is exemplary of a large group of Americans whose brain was not built to handle one (1) Black president.
January 13, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Scott Adams is exemplary of a large group of Americans whose brain was not built to handle one (1) Black president.
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i know this isn't exactly mindblowing but i'm fucking mad that it's easier to become an ice agent than to get a us visa slate.com/news-and-pol...
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:10 PM
i know this isn't exactly mindblowing but i'm fucking mad that it's easier to become an ice agent than to get a us visa slate.com/news-and-pol...
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This is why they mask. It isn’t about safety. It’s because they know that if decent people learn what they do, they’ll be social outcasts.
According to Jonathan Ross’s unnamed neighbor in suburban Minneapolis, he told her in 2020 that he was a botanist.
people.com/ice-agent-jo...
people.com/ice-agent-jo...
Minneapolis ICE Shooter Told Longtime Neighbor He Was a Botanist: 'I Had No Idea He Was an ICE Agent' (Exclusive)
ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, once told neighbors he was a botanist, a woman who lives nearby tells PEOPLE. 'I had no idea he was an ICE agent,' she...
people.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
This is why they mask. It isn’t about safety. It’s because they know that if decent people learn what they do, they’ll be social outcasts.
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Just ease immigration for 18-30 year olds.
Nobody really wants to hear this but the only even remotely palatable solutions to the "birthrate crisis" involve penciling in substantial technological change: artificial wombs, at least somewhat automated childcare, etc
January 13, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Just ease immigration for 18-30 year olds.
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i don't, like, *know* that Platner has significant campaign finance governance issues but i cannot actually see the candidate through the forest of red flags
Things I did not need to know from a political campaign: ""Graham has great sperm," Gertner said in the video. “The infertility was something that was part of my body.”"
Graham Platner on campaign hiatus to pursue pregnancy with wife in Norway
In a video on social media, Platner said a first attempt at IVF costs $25,000 in the U.S., while one IVF round in Norway costs $5,500.
www.newscentermaine.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM
i don't, like, *know* that Platner has significant campaign finance governance issues but i cannot actually see the candidate through the forest of red flags
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The hell you can't. Bovino is in Minneapolis because we made his life hell in Chicago. When they disobey court orders, document it. They're all quite aware of what most people think of them, or they wouldn't lie to their neighbors about what they do.
news.wttw.com/2025/11/18/d...
news.wttw.com/2025/11/18/d...
Detainee Population at Broadview ICE Facility Has Plummeted as Immigration Agents Leave Chicago
Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Johnson said there are currently only four people being held at the Broadview facility, a drastic reduction that comes weeks after detainees there testified they had be...
news.wttw.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
The hell you can't. Bovino is in Minneapolis because we made his life hell in Chicago. When they disobey court orders, document it. They're all quite aware of what most people think of them, or they wouldn't lie to their neighbors about what they do.
news.wttw.com/2025/11/18/d...
news.wttw.com/2025/11/18/d...
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that’s pretty much the crazification line
New poll finds that 28% of US adults believe the force used by the ICE agent in Minneapolis was justified.
January 13, 2026 at 4:16 PM
that’s pretty much the crazification line
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This is deeply weird revisionism of a guy who was always a bigot. The guy was doing holocaust denial 20 years ago when Dilbert was still very popular.
Scott Adams is dead. Without excusing or condoning anything he said, I think it was very hard for a lot of creative people, including him, to watch their entire art form collapse as newspapers stopped running comics, and that resentment was fertile soil for the reaction that he'll be remembered for.
January 13, 2026 at 4:57 PM
This is deeply weird revisionism of a guy who was always a bigot. The guy was doing holocaust denial 20 years ago when Dilbert was still very popular.
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Thinking it's increasingly bad that we have computer money that's only good for bribes and unregulated zookeeping.
gotta question who is throwing money into an nyc memecoin from the corrupt former mayor. that said, this is all part of the crisis of impunity we've got going on. far from the most important example but it's a death by 1000 cuts thing when everything is just grift & it feels like ppl get away w/ it
incredible if true
January 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Thinking it's increasingly bad that we have computer money that's only good for bribes and unregulated zookeeping.