James Richards
@jmrichards3.bsky.social
He/him; sixstringdad (dad of twins); KY born songwriter/folk-rocker. Atlanta, Bklyn and the Carolina mtns. are home. PR + voiceovers are the day gigs.
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Watch this short video. And if you want this sort of thing happening in neighborhoods in America, vote Republican in November. But if you don’t believe this should be happening in America, vote Democratic. It’s that simple.
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Watch this short video. And if you want this sort of thing happening in neighborhoods in America, vote Republican in November. But if you don’t believe this should be happening in America, vote Democratic. It’s that simple.
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Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.
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It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
Boycott Hilton Hotels
January 11, 2026 at 11:42 PM
It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
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Your right to film
Visit www.PAXIS.app for the ChatGPT simulation of PAXIS to get the full details, but here’s a summary…
You have a First Amendment right to record law enforcement — including ICE agents — in public while they’re doing their jobs, as long as you don’t interfere with their activity.
Visit www.PAXIS.app for the ChatGPT simulation of PAXIS to get the full details, but here’s a summary…
You have a First Amendment right to record law enforcement — including ICE agents — in public while they’re doing their jobs, as long as you don’t interfere with their activity.
January 12, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Your right to film
Visit www.PAXIS.app for the ChatGPT simulation of PAXIS to get the full details, but here’s a summary…
You have a First Amendment right to record law enforcement — including ICE agents — in public while they’re doing their jobs, as long as you don’t interfere with their activity.
Visit www.PAXIS.app for the ChatGPT simulation of PAXIS to get the full details, but here’s a summary…
You have a First Amendment right to record law enforcement — including ICE agents — in public while they’re doing their jobs, as long as you don’t interfere with their activity.
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WATCH — @nikkiglaser.bsky.social : “The Golden Globe for best editing goes to… the Justice Department! And the award for MOST editing goes to CBS News.
Yes, CBS News: America’s newest place to See B.S. News.’”
Yes, CBS News: America’s newest place to See B.S. News.’”
January 12, 2026 at 1:36 AM
WATCH — @nikkiglaser.bsky.social : “The Golden Globe for best editing goes to… the Justice Department! And the award for MOST editing goes to CBS News.
Yes, CBS News: America’s newest place to See B.S. News.’”
Yes, CBS News: America’s newest place to See B.S. News.’”
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Insanity. This shit has to stop.
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Insanity. This shit has to stop.
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ICE was just going up & down central getting out their cars with pepper spray and guns, but we had so many legal observers it made a huge difference.
If you’re vulnerable at all we are asking you stay inside today & remember don’t open your door without seeing a judicial warrant signed by a judge.
If you’re vulnerable at all we are asking you stay inside today & remember don’t open your door without seeing a judicial warrant signed by a judge.
January 11, 2026 at 6:16 PM
ICE was just going up & down central getting out their cars with pepper spray and guns, but we had so many legal observers it made a huge difference.
If you’re vulnerable at all we are asking you stay inside today & remember don’t open your door without seeing a judicial warrant signed by a judge.
If you’re vulnerable at all we are asking you stay inside today & remember don’t open your door without seeing a judicial warrant signed by a judge.
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It is shameful that we have to talk about the President of the United States this way. But it is who he is. He is behaving exactly the way you would expect a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who was granted immunity by John Roberts to behave. Know your enemy.
January 12, 2026 at 1:46 AM
It is shameful that we have to talk about the President of the United States this way. But it is who he is. He is behaving exactly the way you would expect a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who was granted immunity by John Roberts to behave. Know your enemy.
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And this is why you chase ICE. Every minute these worthless thugs spend running from us is a minute they can’t be doing this.
Someone sent me this video of Trump’s goons in action today in the Twin Cities. The audio is disturbing.
January 11, 2026 at 11:38 PM
And this is why you chase ICE. Every minute these worthless thugs spend running from us is a minute they can’t be doing this.
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"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."
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 5:04 PM
"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."
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Noem is a liar and her agency is filled with liars. Receipts:
www.ms.now/opinion/kris...
www.ms.now/opinion/kris...
TAPPER: You called Renee Good a "domestic terrorist." Why did you not wait for an investigation?
NOEM: Everything I've said has been proven to be factual and the truth. This administration wants to operate in transparency.
T: What you said is not what happened
N: It absolutely is what happened
NOEM: Everything I've said has been proven to be factual and the truth. This administration wants to operate in transparency.
T: What you said is not what happened
N: It absolutely is what happened
January 11, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Noem is a liar and her agency is filled with liars. Receipts:
www.ms.now/opinion/kris...
www.ms.now/opinion/kris...
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I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
January 10, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.
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Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested.
It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
mississippitoday.org
January 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested.
It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
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Perhaps, in all this darkness/oppression, the world could somehow find itself experiencing not an autocratic ascent but "a new birth of freedom;" and "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth" but rise while autocrats stumble and fall. Imagine.
January 11, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Perhaps, in all this darkness/oppression, the world could somehow find itself experiencing not an autocratic ascent but "a new birth of freedom;" and "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth" but rise while autocrats stumble and fall. Imagine.
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"Numerous studies show that immigration is not linked to higher levels of crime, but rather the opposite."
Source: Research articles cited in article at Brennan Center
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
Source: Research articles cited in article at Brennan Center
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
Debunking the Myth of the ‘Migrant Crime Wave’
Data does not support claims that the United States is experiencing a surge in crime caused by immigrants.
www.brennancenter.org
January 10, 2026 at 5:50 PM
"Numerous studies show that immigration is not linked to higher levels of crime, but rather the opposite."
Source: Research articles cited in article at Brennan Center
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
Source: Research articles cited in article at Brennan Center
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷
January 10, 2026 at 11:40 PM
And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷
Trump’s goons invading Minneapolis.
We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
January 10, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Trump’s goons invading Minneapolis.
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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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They have declared "war" on Americans.
It's right there in their recruitment, folks.
fortune.com/2026/01/08/f...
It's right there in their recruitment, folks.
fortune.com/2026/01/08/f...
Former ICE director warns 'wartime recruitment' tactics like influencer campaigns and $50,000 bonuses could attract the wrong kind of agents | Fortune
The Minneapolis shooting was the ninth since September.
fortune.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:58 PM
They have declared "war" on Americans.
It's right there in their recruitment, folks.
fortune.com/2026/01/08/f...
It's right there in their recruitment, folks.
fortune.com/2026/01/08/f...
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So an officer has his phone out recording obviously distracted, shoots a woman and calls her a “f’ing Bitch” and they think that HELPS the case?!?
January 9, 2026 at 8:20 PM
So an officer has his phone out recording obviously distracted, shoots a woman and calls her a “f’ing Bitch” and they think that HELPS the case?!?
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I think this person has the right take bsky.app/profile/soci...
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
I think this person has the right take bsky.app/profile/soci...
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Almost everything here is a lie
*Good's car was not blocking ICE vehicles - many drove around her
*She was followed directives to leave when they killed her
*The agent escalated the situation
Fox is de facto state media, but I don't understand why any media would quote her given her record of lying
*Good's car was not blocking ICE vehicles - many drove around her
*She was followed directives to leave when they killed her
*The agent escalated the situation
Fox is de facto state media, but I don't understand why any media would quote her given her record of lying
DHS official McLaughlin blatantly lies about Renee Good: "The deceased had been following our law enforcement throughout the day, stalking them. At the time of the incident, our law enforcement was outside their vehicle trying to get their vehicle out of the snow when she started harassing them."
January 9, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Almost everything here is a lie
*Good's car was not blocking ICE vehicles - many drove around her
*She was followed directives to leave when they killed her
*The agent escalated the situation
Fox is de facto state media, but I don't understand why any media would quote her given her record of lying
*Good's car was not blocking ICE vehicles - many drove around her
*She was followed directives to leave when they killed her
*The agent escalated the situation
Fox is de facto state media, but I don't understand why any media would quote her given her record of lying
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@governorwalz.mn.gov Use your state AG. FORCE the FBI and ICE to obey the law.
🎁 link Dan Rayfield is an absolute dog who has pushed back against the feds on many issues and Oregon is lucky to have him.
Oregon DOJ will investigate Border Patrol shooting in Portland
AG Dan Rayfield announced the investigation hours after Thursday’s shooting of a man and a woman near a Portland hospital.
www.oregonlive.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:43 PM
@governorwalz.mn.gov Use your state AG. FORCE the FBI and ICE to obey the law.
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Minneapolis City Council Member Jason Chavez: “I am here on behalf of my entire community, echoing the calls to arrest, to prosecute, and fire this ICE agent who murdered Renee Good, and to hold those complicit in this crime accountable.”
January 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Minneapolis City Council Member Jason Chavez: “I am here on behalf of my entire community, echoing the calls to arrest, to prosecute, and fire this ICE agent who murdered Renee Good, and to hold those complicit in this crime accountable.”