@marshstars.bsky.social
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The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.
January 11, 2026 at 12:42 AM
The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.
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Please be aware that contrary to their fundraising ads, @forwardblue.bsky.social has no relationship with the No Kings mobilizations, no record of doing anything in support, no inside information, and is ignoring requests to cease advertising that suggests they are involved.
January 10, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Please be aware that contrary to their fundraising ads, @forwardblue.bsky.social has no relationship with the No Kings mobilizations, no record of doing anything in support, no inside information, and is ignoring requests to cease advertising that suggests they are involved.
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First the Shooting. Then the Lies.
The Trump administration has perfected the smear campaign.
By Adam Serwer
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The Trump administration has perfected the smear campaign.
By Adam Serwer
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First the Shooting. Then the Lies.
The Trump administration has perfected the smear campaign.
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January 10, 2026 at 7:54 PM
First the Shooting. Then the Lies.
The Trump administration has perfected the smear campaign.
By Adam Serwer
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The Trump administration has perfected the smear campaign.
By Adam Serwer
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I wrote up my analysis of what Ross's movements and actions reveal about whether or not he had a "reasonable belief that he was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury" (the legal standard). I list 7 crucial moments that suggest he did not. asharangappa.substack.com/p/friday-rou...
Friday Round Up! 1/9/26
It was a bad shoot.
asharangappa.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:57 PM
I wrote up my analysis of what Ross's movements and actions reveal about whether or not he had a "reasonable belief that he was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury" (the legal standard). I list 7 crucial moments that suggest he did not. asharangappa.substack.com/p/friday-rou...
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Unless I’m missing it, the December order barring ICE from illegally denying Members of Congress access at any time to their facilities has not been stayed.
ICE was violating the text of the law, now defying a court order.
ICE is incompatible w democratic governance. (CBP too.)
ICE was violating the text of the law, now defying a court order.
ICE is incompatible w democratic governance. (CBP too.)
January 10, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Unless I’m missing it, the December order barring ICE from illegally denying Members of Congress access at any time to their facilities has not been stayed.
ICE was violating the text of the law, now defying a court order.
ICE is incompatible w democratic governance. (CBP too.)
ICE was violating the text of the law, now defying a court order.
ICE is incompatible w democratic governance. (CBP too.)
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Read @asharangappa.bsky.social and see through careful expert analysis why this was murder
open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
Friday Round Up! 1/9/26
It was a bad shoot.
open.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Read @asharangappa.bsky.social and see through careful expert analysis why this was murder
open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
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The Gestapo didn’t wear masks. These abusive shitbirds do. Because ultimately they‘re cowardly trash.
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
The Gestapo didn’t wear masks. These abusive shitbirds do. Because ultimately they‘re cowardly trash.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: “If you got nothing to hide from, then don't hide from it. Include local experts in the process. We've got nothing to hide from here. All we want in Minneapolis is justice and the truth."
January 9, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: “If you got nothing to hide from, then don't hide from it. Include local experts in the process. We've got nothing to hide from here. All we want in Minneapolis is justice and the truth."
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Holy cow: TRUMP LEAKED THIS MORNING'S PAYROLL NUMBERS.
At 8:20pm last night he posted a photo of a briefing he received from his CEA. It reveals market-moving numbers that were officially released at 8:30am this morning.
(Note: CEA receives the data—confidentially—on Thursday evening.)
At 8:20pm last night he posted a photo of a briefing he received from his CEA. It reveals market-moving numbers that were officially released at 8:30am this morning.
(Note: CEA receives the data—confidentially—on Thursday evening.)
January 9, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Holy cow: TRUMP LEAKED THIS MORNING'S PAYROLL NUMBERS.
At 8:20pm last night he posted a photo of a briefing he received from his CEA. It reveals market-moving numbers that were officially released at 8:30am this morning.
(Note: CEA receives the data—confidentially—on Thursday evening.)
At 8:20pm last night he posted a photo of a briefing he received from his CEA. It reveals market-moving numbers that were officially released at 8:30am this morning.
(Note: CEA receives the data—confidentially—on Thursday evening.)
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It follows that Trump leaked the most market-moving economic numbers that exist.
I have no idea how illegal this is, or if the law even matters any more.
But I do know this: It's unprecedented. No White House has ever before leaked such important market-moving numbers. No serious country does this
I have no idea how illegal this is, or if the law even matters any more.
But I do know this: It's unprecedented. No White House has ever before leaked such important market-moving numbers. No serious country does this
January 9, 2026 at 3:40 PM
It follows that Trump leaked the most market-moving economic numbers that exist.
I have no idea how illegal this is, or if the law even matters any more.
But I do know this: It's unprecedented. No White House has ever before leaked such important market-moving numbers. No serious country does this
I have no idea how illegal this is, or if the law even matters any more.
But I do know this: It's unprecedented. No White House has ever before leaked such important market-moving numbers. No serious country does this
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Trump to NYT: I have a psychological illness that makes me want to steal an allied country.
NYT: Stealing allied countries is the same thing as protecting the West.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/09/a...
NYT: Stealing allied countries is the same thing as protecting the West.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/09/a...
Annals of Sanewashing: NYT Labels Trump's Confession of Psychological Unfitness as Leadership - emptywheel
The NYT committed literal sanewashing in the latest of its series of stories bragging that four journalists got to watch Trump ramble for two hours: It described Trump's pathological need to possess t...
www.emptywheel.net
January 9, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Trump to NYT: I have a psychological illness that makes me want to steal an allied country.
NYT: Stealing allied countries is the same thing as protecting the West.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/09/a...
NYT: Stealing allied countries is the same thing as protecting the West.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/09/a...
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This exchange demonstrates the facial rec software that @josephcox.bsky.social has been reporting on for months.
Anyway, when I think about which Americans today are channeling the aspects of the Am Rev that I think are worth cherishing and perpetuating, it's people like this uber driver in Minneapolis who peacefully but forcefully gave Greg Bovino and his goons the what for. youtu.be/5QM2hqcfOis?...
"You want my ID??" Bovino and CBP Checks Citizenship at Minneapolis Airport
YouTube video by FREEDOMNEWS TV - NATIONAL / SCOOTERCASTER
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January 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
This exchange demonstrates the facial rec software that @josephcox.bsky.social has been reporting on for months.
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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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"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret.
But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
January 7, 2026 at 9:09 PM
"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret.
But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
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This is *definitely* how you behave when you're trying to bring every resource to bear, rather than trying to cover up the unlawful behavior of your own personnel.
According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation).
Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.
Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe.
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:40 PM
This is *definitely* how you behave when you're trying to bring every resource to bear, rather than trying to cover up the unlawful behavior of your own personnel.
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via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook
January 8, 2026 at 3:53 PM
via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook
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Of course.
The head of Minnesota's state investigations agency says the U.S. attorney's office has cut off its access in the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent. https://to.pbs.org/4qD81KW
Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on investigation
An unidentified ICE officer fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in the head on Wednesday while she was in her car in a residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis.
to.pbs.org
January 8, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Of course.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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The @apnews.com getting rightly savaged for this headline
January 8, 2026 at 2:32 AM
The @apnews.com getting rightly savaged for this headline
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NYT and WSJ have become more blunt recently in their reporting against Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:50 PM
NYT and WSJ have become more blunt recently in their reporting against Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
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Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
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A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.
They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead.
The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.
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In this NYT piece the disenfranchisement of black voters is given a few perfunctory paraphrases while the writer lays it on thick about how the rural whites in California are big mad about redistricting. It’s bias and too many of these people wanting to do creative writing combined.
A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.
They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead.
The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
December 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
In this NYT piece the disenfranchisement of black voters is given a few perfunctory paraphrases while the writer lays it on thick about how the rural whites in California are big mad about redistricting. It’s bias and too many of these people wanting to do creative writing combined.
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What did DOGE do?
Not much saving, it turns out.
Not much saving, it turns out.
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
What did DOGE do?
Not much saving, it turns out.
Not much saving, it turns out.