James Creechan
@jcreechan.bsky.social
Sociologist. Author of Drug Wars and Covert Netherworlds.
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things off the top of my head that i can think of that conservatives have called tyranny
- health care subsidies
- seeing pronouns in an email
- being suspended from a social media platform
- pride month
- baking a cake for a same sex wedding
- legal rulings against donald trump
- EV benchmarks
- health care subsidies
- seeing pronouns in an email
- being suspended from a social media platform
- pride month
- baking a cake for a same sex wedding
- legal rulings against donald trump
- EV benchmarks
Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
January 12, 2026 at 9:51 PM
things off the top of my head that i can think of that conservatives have called tyranny
- health care subsidies
- seeing pronouns in an email
- being suspended from a social media platform
- pride month
- baking a cake for a same sex wedding
- legal rulings against donald trump
- EV benchmarks
- health care subsidies
- seeing pronouns in an email
- being suspended from a social media platform
- pride month
- baking a cake for a same sex wedding
- legal rulings against donald trump
- EV benchmarks
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This is brutal 🤬
In Minneapolis, an ICE Goon point-blank pepper-sprayed a peaceful protester without any apparent reason. (1/12|26)
In Minneapolis, an ICE Goon point-blank pepper-sprayed a peaceful protester without any apparent reason. (1/12|26)
January 12, 2026 at 10:37 PM
This is brutal 🤬
In Minneapolis, an ICE Goon point-blank pepper-sprayed a peaceful protester without any apparent reason. (1/12|26)
In Minneapolis, an ICE Goon point-blank pepper-sprayed a peaceful protester without any apparent reason. (1/12|26)
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My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars:
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
How to build a radically truthful news outlet
The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.
www.stopthepresses.news
January 12, 2026 at 5:21 PM
My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars:
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
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Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
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Internal DHS training docs are correct: profanity-laden screaming at ICE agents is protected First Amendment speech
January 13, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Internal DHS training docs are correct: profanity-laden screaming at ICE agents is protected First Amendment speech
January 11, 2026
The news has seemed to move more and more quickly in the last week.
open.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
When facts don't matter...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 10, 2026
Yesterday, in an apparent attempt to regain control of the national narrative surrounding the deadly shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, Vice President J.D.
open.substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:56 PM
When facts don't matter...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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It breaks our hearts to have to say that CDC is no longer a source for evidence-based vaccine recommendations. 💔
But we are so proud of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for stepping up to protect kids. ❤️🩹
Childhood vaccine schedule from AAP 👇
downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...
But we are so proud of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for stepping up to protect kids. ❤️🩹
Childhood vaccine schedule from AAP 👇
downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...
January 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
It breaks our hearts to have to say that CDC is no longer a source for evidence-based vaccine recommendations. 💔
But we are so proud of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for stepping up to protect kids. ❤️🩹
Childhood vaccine schedule from AAP 👇
downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...
But we are so proud of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for stepping up to protect kids. ❤️🩹
Childhood vaccine schedule from AAP 👇
downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...
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BREAKING: ICE shooter identified as Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
www.startribune.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:12 PM
BREAKING: ICE shooter identified as Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
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I remember his “I smell sulphur” quip
Hugo Chávez predicted this. This war on Venezuela has been two decades in the making. (Quite a good summary from CodePink of what has gone on these past 20+ years in Venezuela and beyond.)
Hugo Chávez predicted this. This war on Venezuela has been two decades in the making.
Nuvpreet Kalra
open.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:59 PM
I remember his “I smell sulphur” quip
Coward
his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
www.startribune.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Coward
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AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
January 8, 2026 at 12:20 AM
AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
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“Kill someone else!”
After killing an innocent woman in Minneapolis Trump’s ICE goons are roughing up protestors and firing munitions into people’s faces.
Original video: www.instagram.com/reel/DTOAPs6...
After killing an innocent woman in Minneapolis Trump’s ICE goons are roughing up protestors and firing munitions into people’s faces.
Original video: www.instagram.com/reel/DTOAPs6...
January 7, 2026 at 7:26 PM
“Kill someone else!”
After killing an innocent woman in Minneapolis Trump’s ICE goons are roughing up protestors and firing munitions into people’s faces.
Original video: www.instagram.com/reel/DTOAPs6...
After killing an innocent woman in Minneapolis Trump’s ICE goons are roughing up protestors and firing munitions into people’s faces.
Original video: www.instagram.com/reel/DTOAPs6...
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Trump has gone completely mad.
Trump: "I have determined that, for the Good of our Country, especially in these very troubled and dangerous times, our Military Budget for the year 2027 should not be $1 Trillion Dollars, but rather $1.5 Trillion. This will allow us to build the 'Dream Military' that we have long been entitled to."
January 7, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Trump has gone completely mad.
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Here's the moment slowed down.
Watch the men in front of the car.
Watch the men in front of the car.
January 7, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Here's the moment slowed down.
Watch the men in front of the car.
Watch the men in front of the car.
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This would be a good moment for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that Trump has lost his mind and you don’t have to cover him like he’s normal anymore.
January 7, 2026 at 9:42 PM
This would be a good moment for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that Trump has lost his mind and you don’t have to cover him like he’s normal anymore.
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Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother of a 6 year old, was murdered by a federal agent today. Murdered and then blamed for her murder.
DHS agents are now a proven extrajudicial force that will kill you, for no reason at all, just because they can.
If there was ever a moment, it is now.
DHS agents are now a proven extrajudicial force that will kill you, for no reason at all, just because they can.
If there was ever a moment, it is now.
‘She was an amazing human being’: Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.
www.startribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother of a 6 year old, was murdered by a federal agent today. Murdered and then blamed for her murder.
DHS agents are now a proven extrajudicial force that will kill you, for no reason at all, just because they can.
If there was ever a moment, it is now.
DHS agents are now a proven extrajudicial force that will kill you, for no reason at all, just because they can.
If there was ever a moment, it is now.
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Mayor Frey just now to ICE at a press conference: “Get the fuck out of Minneapolis”
January 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Mayor Frey just now to ICE at a press conference: “Get the fuck out of Minneapolis”
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Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."
January 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."
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I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
I’m eating lunch, I’m having a panic attack, I’m charging my phone, and then I’m going back out to try and keep my neighborhood safe.
January 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
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New article by Citizen Lab senior legal advisor @sanstis.bsky.social 👉 "Civil society and access to justice: challenges of seeking remedy in the global fight against spyware"
Read it here: www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10....
Read it here: www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10....
www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca
January 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
New article by Citizen Lab senior legal advisor @sanstis.bsky.social 👉 "Civil society and access to justice: challenges of seeking remedy in the global fight against spyware"
Read it here: www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10....
Read it here: www-tandfonline-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10....
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1/ Trump’s own rhetoric and reported posture point toward a hemispheric dominance doctrine, explicitly framed in revived Monroe Doctrine terms (“Donroe Doctrine”).
January 4, 2026 at 4:38 PM
1/ Trump’s own rhetoric and reported posture point toward a hemispheric dominance doctrine, explicitly framed in revived Monroe Doctrine terms (“Donroe Doctrine”).
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“It’s like modern-day slavery.”
Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.
Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.
Former models for Donald Trump's agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally
"It's like modern-day slavery."
www.motherjones.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:33 PM
“It’s like modern-day slavery.”
Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.
Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.