@jerryb5495.bsky.social
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Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
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Ike knew this.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
January 20, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Ike knew this.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
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It's a small thing, but it fills me with civic pride to walk through the giant park near my house and see Hmong families having cookouts, Somali parents pushing their laughing kids on the swings.
Like, here are people who've endured horrors, and my city has welcomed them in to build peaceful lives.
Like, here are people who've endured horrors, and my city has welcomed them in to build peaceful lives.
Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.
Insightful point here: Even if you take Trump seriously - he does not like the optics - they rested on an assumption that communities would welcome ICE as heroes, rather than showing the type of solidarity that Trump inherently cannot understand.
January 19, 2026 at 11:35 PM
It's a small thing, but it fills me with civic pride to walk through the giant park near my house and see Hmong families having cookouts, Somali parents pushing their laughing kids on the swings.
Like, here are people who've endured horrors, and my city has welcomed them in to build peaceful lives.
Like, here are people who've endured horrors, and my city has welcomed them in to build peaceful lives.
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"Not everything is about money."
It is. You may not like it, but it is. Money talks. It's a question of how the money is used. It's wrong to simply say "You can't afford groceries." You have to say "Money that could help you afford groceries is being used to shoot your neighbors dead."
It is. You may not like it, but it is. Money talks. It's a question of how the money is used. It's wrong to simply say "You can't afford groceries." You have to say "Money that could help you afford groceries is being used to shoot your neighbors dead."
January 20, 2026 at 2:34 PM
"Not everything is about money."
It is. You may not like it, but it is. Money talks. It's a question of how the money is used. It's wrong to simply say "You can't afford groceries." You have to say "Money that could help you afford groceries is being used to shoot your neighbors dead."
It is. You may not like it, but it is. Money talks. It's a question of how the money is used. It's wrong to simply say "You can't afford groceries." You have to say "Money that could help you afford groceries is being used to shoot your neighbors dead."
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Imagine if you just voted for Democrats.
January 18, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Imagine if you just voted for Democrats.
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The only force on Earth that can defeat Trump fascism is the American military. The men and women wearing uniforms of the American armed forces swore an allegiance to the US Constitution, not to Trump. They are the defenders of American democracy. This is an SOS to The Joint Chiefs of Staff.
January 17, 2026 at 5:37 PM
The only force on Earth that can defeat Trump fascism is the American military. The men and women wearing uniforms of the American armed forces swore an allegiance to the US Constitution, not to Trump. They are the defenders of American democracy. This is an SOS to The Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News, there's a development.
@brianstelter.bsky.social says the Inside CECOT report is to air tonight, "according to sources at CBS."
view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/176...
This part interested me most: "The promised interview did not materialize."
@brianstelter.bsky.social says the Inside CECOT report is to air tonight, "according to sources at CBS."
view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/176...
This part interested me most: "The promised interview did not materialize."
January 18, 2026 at 7:02 PM
If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News, there's a development.
@brianstelter.bsky.social says the Inside CECOT report is to air tonight, "according to sources at CBS."
view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/176...
This part interested me most: "The promised interview did not materialize."
@brianstelter.bsky.social says the Inside CECOT report is to air tonight, "according to sources at CBS."
view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/176...
This part interested me most: "The promised interview did not materialize."
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Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.
January 14, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.
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Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
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Last night, @nicollewallace.bsky.social & @oliverdarcy.bsky.social held a critical conversation about Hollywood's silence--moral vacuity, I'd say--in the nation's current dire crisis. Deadline White House, please, please post the video for all to see.
January 14, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Last night, @nicollewallace.bsky.social & @oliverdarcy.bsky.social held a critical conversation about Hollywood's silence--moral vacuity, I'd say--in the nation's current dire crisis. Deadline White House, please, please post the video for all to see.
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These are absolutely monstrous people
"Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"
"Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:04 PM
These are absolutely monstrous people
"Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"
"Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"
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I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
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Lost in all of this is the fact that this ICE surge into Minneapolis was so agents could target child care centers in a followup to MAGA influencers claiming all of them are Somali fraud operations
January 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Lost in all of this is the fact that this ICE surge into Minneapolis was so agents could target child care centers in a followup to MAGA influencers claiming all of them are Somali fraud operations
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The stakes have been raised. The Democrats have got to run on putting these people in prison. They have to. Jobs, food, all the rest, but shooting a mother in the head on a public street? None of this Garland stuff. "The full force of the government will be brought to bear" on this and similar.
January 7, 2026 at 9:57 PM
The stakes have been raised. The Democrats have got to run on putting these people in prison. They have to. Jobs, food, all the rest, but shooting a mother in the head on a public street? None of this Garland stuff. "The full force of the government will be brought to bear" on this and similar.
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For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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We set a $100k goal in December and hit it.
Oh what I would do with these kinds of resources.
Oh what I would do with these kinds of resources.
Really important for the left - and our donors - to understand the machinery they are building.
January 7, 2026 at 8:50 PM
We set a $100k goal in December and hit it.
Oh what I would do with these kinds of resources.
Oh what I would do with these kinds of resources.
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Really important for the left - and our donors - to understand the machinery they are building.
January 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Really important for the left - and our donors - to understand the machinery they are building.
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In a speech full of great lines this was an all timer.
"For too long those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty."
- Mayor Mamdani.
- Mayor Mamdani.
January 1, 2026 at 9:11 PM
In a speech full of great lines this was an all timer.
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Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
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This - which sounds to me like he substantially wrote it himself - is a more complete version of the statement from the other night, which means, in effect, "Move on me and none of us are getting out of here alive."
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This - which sounds to me like he substantially wrote it himself - is a more complete version of the statement from the other night, which means, in effect, "Move on me and none of us are getting out of here alive."
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No one ruthless enough to parlay 3am-college-paper-on-speed writing into national gigs & affairs with powerful men is this unprepared for a fairly soft interview. This is a shitty performance by someone trying to save her book's narrative - 'Young Woman Swept Up in the Current.'
@timmiller.bsky.social: "He's being nominated to HHS Secretary…You had information that you could have shared…and you didn't share anything about him. Why? Did you still love him?"
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
December 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
No one ruthless enough to parlay 3am-college-paper-on-speed writing into national gigs & affairs with powerful men is this unprepared for a fairly soft interview. This is a shitty performance by someone trying to save her book's narrative - 'Young Woman Swept Up in the Current.'
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There's a certain kind of acting you often (but not exclusively) see in students too smart for their own good - they know how the words should sound, they know where the gestures go, but they're empty. That's what you see here.
December 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
There's a certain kind of acting you often (but not exclusively) see in students too smart for their own good - they know how the words should sound, they know where the gestures go, but they're empty. That's what you see here.
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Excited to show you this feature from @emmarjanssen.bsky.social on why plutocracy is a driver of the affordability crisis. It manifests in a number of different ways: 🧵
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
Selling the Poor on Spending Like They’re Rich - The American Prospect
How plutonomy, premiumization, and social media squeeze the middle class.
prospect.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Excited to show you this feature from @emmarjanssen.bsky.social on why plutocracy is a driver of the affordability crisis. It manifests in a number of different ways: 🧵
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...