@kristinzas.bsky.social
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For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.
Classic Democratic no-win. All of them voted against the OBAA, which supercharged ICE funding and hiring. But they won't say they'd "abolish ICE" so they'll get yelled at (mostly by people who'll vote for them in the midterms after threatening not to).
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
January 9, 2026 at 2:50 AM
For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.
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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously:
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 AM
The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously:
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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It was never defensible to stay on X especially after 2024, but now that it’s a CSAM generator it’s just completely unconscionable to stay
“X must be held accountable. But I now have to ask, why are so many people still there? Why are MPs still posting there? Why are organs of the British government still using a site one of its own ministers just condemned in such clear moral and legal terms? Why are other governments?”
The New Epstein Island Is Right In Your Pocket: It’s Time To Abandon Elon Musk’s Paradise of Abuse
It has long been time to leave X. Now, it’s essential.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:15 PM
It was never defensible to stay on X especially after 2024, but now that it’s a CSAM generator it’s just completely unconscionable to stay
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Horrible violence against a protester in California: www.latimes.com/california/s...
January 14, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Horrible violence against a protester in California: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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"“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.
ICE in St. Paul: Man roughly detained at gas station, Border Patrol chief jeered in Midway Target
Videos and photos show a prevalence of federal agents in St. Paul recently.
trib.al
January 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
"“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.”"
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I know the doctor who ICE blocked from helping Renee Good. (I won’t identify him since he hasn’t chosen to identify himself.) I’m glad to see this part of ICE’s crime get more attention.
“Can I check a pulse?” yelled the bystander, standing across Portland Avenue from Renee Good’s lifeless body inside her crashed SUV, video footage of the exchange shows.
“No,” an agent replies. “Back up.”
“I’m a physician!”
“I don’t care.”
“No,” an agent replies. “Back up.”
“I’m a physician!”
“I don’t care.”
‘I’m a physician,’ he said. ‘Don’t care’ was the reply.
Bystander medical assistance was declined during the restraint-related death of George Floyd, and now after the shooting of Renee Good.
bit.ly
January 12, 2026 at 2:22 PM
I know the doctor who ICE blocked from helping Renee Good. (I won’t identify him since he hasn’t chosen to identify himself.) I’m glad to see this part of ICE’s crime get more attention.
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Friday: EU finalizes Cono Sur trade deal.
Monday: EU finalizes deal with China.
I wonder if Art of the Deal guy will notice he's the only one who can't make a deal?
Monday: EU finalizes deal with China.
I wonder if Art of the Deal guy will notice he's the only one who can't make a deal?
China said it has reached a deal with the European Union on exports of Chinese made electric vehicles to the bloc. The EU will be issuing guidelines on minimum pricing for Chinese auto exporters, the Commerce Ministry in Beijing said.
China says it has a deal with the EU on steps to resolve their dispute over EV imports
China says it has reached a deal with the European Union on exports of Chinese made electric vehicles to the bloc.
bit.ly
January 12, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Friday: EU finalizes Cono Sur trade deal.
Monday: EU finalizes deal with China.
I wonder if Art of the Deal guy will notice he's the only one who can't make a deal?
Monday: EU finalizes deal with China.
I wonder if Art of the Deal guy will notice he's the only one who can't make a deal?
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At some point it would probably also be good to reflect that maybe "soldiers doing door to door raids" was fucked up and bad when our government did it in other countries, too, even if various legal clever-bootses have fancy arguments for why that wasn't as unconstitutional as when it's in the US.
January 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
At some point it would probably also be good to reflect that maybe "soldiers doing door to door raids" was fucked up and bad when our government did it in other countries, too, even if various legal clever-bootses have fancy arguments for why that wasn't as unconstitutional as when it's in the US.
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JPOW literally said
January 12, 2026 at 12:37 AM
JPOW literally said
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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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Folks at the top will try to characterize our protest as anti-American, but we know better. There’s nothing more American than speaking up when the rights and freedoms of people are trampled upon.
For Renee Nicole Good, for all of us, I’ll say it loud and clear: No more ICE.
For Renee Nicole Good, for all of us, I’ll say it loud and clear: No more ICE.
January 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Folks at the top will try to characterize our protest as anti-American, but we know better. There’s nothing more American than speaking up when the rights and freedoms of people are trampled upon.
For Renee Nicole Good, for all of us, I’ll say it loud and clear: No more ICE.
For Renee Nicole Good, for all of us, I’ll say it loud and clear: No more ICE.
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This is the way and every single Democrat should be on board.
It won't get anywhere before the midterms, but it will make the midterms easier for Democrats to win and easier to take action on these promises once they do.
Be the party of accountability. Own that space, starting now.
It won't get anywhere before the midterms, but it will make the midterms easier for Democrats to win and easier to take action on these promises once they do.
Be the party of accountability. Own that space, starting now.
January 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
This is the way and every single Democrat should be on board.
It won't get anywhere before the midterms, but it will make the midterms easier for Democrats to win and easier to take action on these promises once they do.
Be the party of accountability. Own that space, starting now.
It won't get anywhere before the midterms, but it will make the midterms easier for Democrats to win and easier to take action on these promises once they do.
Be the party of accountability. Own that space, starting now.
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Kristi Noem is on my list of Trump cabinet officials whose impeachment and removal I will fight for if elected including Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Noem, Pam Bondi, RFK Jr., Linda McMahon, and John Radcliffe.
This is the way and every single Democrat should be on board.
It won't get anywhere before the midterms, but it will make the midterms easier for Democrats to win and easier to take action on these promises once they do.
Be the party of accountability. Own that space, starting now.
It won't get anywhere before the midterms, but it will make the midterms easier for Democrats to win and easier to take action on these promises once they do.
Be the party of accountability. Own that space, starting now.
Rep. Angie Craig: "We're gonna move forward to impeach Kristi Noem"
January 11, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Kristi Noem is on my list of Trump cabinet officials whose impeachment and removal I will fight for if elected including Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Noem, Pam Bondi, RFK Jr., Linda McMahon, and John Radcliffe.
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yes! a good number of MAHA-approved products are just repurposed waste from beef production
i'm not saying this as anyone who knows anything about health; i'm saying it as someone who is an alleged expert in interest group politics: the American beef industry is all over MAHA, wellness, and podcast spaces.
remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
New federal dietary guidelines give federal approval to beef tallow, a fat that both cardiologists and the U.S. government told Americans to avoid for nearly half a century.
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM
yes! a good number of MAHA-approved products are just repurposed waste from beef production
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They have declared war on America, and they won't leave.
January 11, 2026 at 1:41 AM
They have declared war on America, and they won't leave.
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You are doing the right thing. It sucks to be under siege but you are under siege. And you won't be free while these law enforcement agencies continue to exist.
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 11, 2026 at 12:09 AM
You are doing the right thing. It sucks to be under siege but you are under siege. And you won't be free while these law enforcement agencies continue to exist.
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Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
January 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
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Wow at this 2019 @radleybalko.bsky.social piece. The NYPD tried to use the "vehicle was a deadly weapon" excuse for excessive force
The video showed the officer was never in danger. Not only was the victim ruled innocent--the officer got convicted of perjury
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/201...
The video showed the officer was never in danger. Not only was the victim ruled innocent--the officer got convicted of perjury
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/201...
Opinion | Video completely undercuts former NYPD officer about alleged assault
A Brooklyn man faced 10 years in prison for driving his car at a police officer — but it never happened.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Wow at this 2019 @radleybalko.bsky.social piece. The NYPD tried to use the "vehicle was a deadly weapon" excuse for excessive force
The video showed the officer was never in danger. Not only was the victim ruled innocent--the officer got convicted of perjury
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/201...
The video showed the officer was never in danger. Not only was the victim ruled innocent--the officer got convicted of perjury
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/201...
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A lot of businesses serving ICE agents in the Twin Cities are going to be in for a rude awakening. I already have a list of businesses that I will never patronize and I’m sure a bunch of others do, too. I know this info is being collected, but I haven’t even seen campaigns to share anything yet.
January 10, 2026 at 11:34 PM
A lot of businesses serving ICE agents in the Twin Cities are going to be in for a rude awakening. I already have a list of businesses that I will never patronize and I’m sure a bunch of others do, too. I know this info is being collected, but I haven’t even seen campaigns to share anything yet.
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It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
January 10, 2026 at 3:28 PM
It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”