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"America’s problems are solved problems. Universal healthcare is not some utopian fantasy. It is Tuesday in Toronto. Affordable higher education is not an impossible dream. It is Wednesday in Berlin," writes @adambonica.bsky.social. Great piece. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l...
The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls
On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.
data4democracy.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:16 PM
"America’s problems are solved problems. Universal healthcare is not some utopian fantasy. It is Tuesday in Toronto. Affordable higher education is not an impossible dream. It is Wednesday in Berlin," writes @adambonica.bsky.social. Great piece. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l...
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ICE just abducted a city council staffer during a routine immigration appointment days after the murdering an American citizen in cold blood.
Nothing that’s happened is a mistake. No lives or values are sacred to this fascist regime. Abolish ICE & hold them accountable.
Nothing that’s happened is a mistake. No lives or values are sacred to this fascist regime. Abolish ICE & hold them accountable.
January 13, 2026 at 2:28 AM
ICE just abducted a city council staffer during a routine immigration appointment days after the murdering an American citizen in cold blood.
Nothing that’s happened is a mistake. No lives or values are sacred to this fascist regime. Abolish ICE & hold them accountable.
Nothing that’s happened is a mistake. No lives or values are sacred to this fascist regime. Abolish ICE & hold them accountable.
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Abolish ICE.
Can't be negotiated.
If a Democrat is running who still supports it they must be primaried.
Can't be negotiated.
If a Democrat is running who still supports it they must be primaried.
January 13, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Abolish ICE.
Can't be negotiated.
If a Democrat is running who still supports it they must be primaried.
Can't be negotiated.
If a Democrat is running who still supports it they must be primaried.
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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
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This is a wonderful illustration of the many ways we rely upon a functioning, competent government every day. We might miss it when its gone.
if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story I’ve been working on for the last few months where I tried to single-handedly take on every government function myself is now online! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well.
My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms
www.theatlantic.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:27 PM
This is a wonderful illustration of the many ways we rely upon a functioning, competent government every day. We might miss it when its gone.
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it's incredible how if you put this entire dialog into the Left Behind series, it would basically work, but instead it's just IRL MN
!["Sir! This is a warning!" the agent yelled as he punched the man's vehicle window. "Stop f—king following us! You are impeding operations! This is the United States federal government!"
"I live over here," the driver explained. "I got to get to my house."
"This is your warning!" the officer exclaimed.
"I serve the Lord; go to church," the resident replied.
"I will arrest you!" the officer threatened.
"Don't make a bad decision," another agent warned.
"I serve the Lord," the driver repeated. "Not a draft-dodging coward."
"Let these people go to church," the driver added. "Let these people serve the Lord and worship."
"You're not going to like the outcome of this, sir," the first officer said. "I guarantee that... Did you not learn from what just happened [when Renee Good was killed]?"
"Learn what?" the driver asked. "I serve the Lord, not a draft-dodging coward. I can't believe you'd take orders from a draft dodger."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreibjwvcxk2ptdafgbwfhk4rjalweyoz3d55gl72qhwhiudhu6aywcm@jpeg)
January 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
it's incredible how if you put this entire dialog into the Left Behind series, it would basically work, but instead it's just IRL MN
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One story you can tell about the first quarter of the 21st century is "intermittant but escalating radicalization and mass protest among American liberals and left along axes of economic, racial and ecological justice, which are now increasingly pulling more people from the center"
January 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
One story you can tell about the first quarter of the 21st century is "intermittant but escalating radicalization and mass protest among American liberals and left along axes of economic, racial and ecological justice, which are now increasingly pulling more people from the center"
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You notice how thousands and thousands of cops aren't coming out to condemn Jonathan Ross for senselessly killing Renee Good?
This is what people mean by "all cops are bastards". If this were any other profession, the entire group would condemn it. With cops it's the reverse, they all justify it.
This is what people mean by "all cops are bastards". If this were any other profession, the entire group would condemn it. With cops it's the reverse, they all justify it.
January 12, 2026 at 4:33 PM
You notice how thousands and thousands of cops aren't coming out to condemn Jonathan Ross for senselessly killing Renee Good?
This is what people mean by "all cops are bastards". If this were any other profession, the entire group would condemn it. With cops it's the reverse, they all justify it.
This is what people mean by "all cops are bastards". If this were any other profession, the entire group would condemn it. With cops it's the reverse, they all justify it.
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What ICE/BP is doing to Minneapolis is awful.
And it's taking everything they have. By population, Minneapolis is America's 45th largest city.
Keep both in mind at once: the regime's desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, and they'll act on it, but their capacity to do so is limited.
And it's taking everything they have. By population, Minneapolis is America's 45th largest city.
Keep both in mind at once: the regime's desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, and they'll act on it, but their capacity to do so is limited.
January 12, 2026 at 5:08 PM
What ICE/BP is doing to Minneapolis is awful.
And it's taking everything they have. By population, Minneapolis is America's 45th largest city.
Keep both in mind at once: the regime's desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, and they'll act on it, but their capacity to do so is limited.
And it's taking everything they have. By population, Minneapolis is America's 45th largest city.
Keep both in mind at once: the regime's desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, and they'll act on it, but their capacity to do so is limited.
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“Speaking across generations is vital. Those of us engaged in revolutionary political work have to unite all different kinds of people, including people of different ages.”
Feminist scholar-activist Barbara Smith shares crucial advice on political organising and building solidarity across borders.
Feminist scholar-activist Barbara Smith shares crucial advice on political organising and building solidarity across borders.
Answering the Call to Fight Injustice: An Interview with Barbara Smith
Barbara Smith is one of the leading intellectuals and activists who developed the traditions of Black feminism. A part of a group of Black lesbian
www.counterpunch.org
January 11, 2026 at 3:30 PM
“Speaking across generations is vital. Those of us engaged in revolutionary political work have to unite all different kinds of people, including people of different ages.”
Feminist scholar-activist Barbara Smith shares crucial advice on political organising and building solidarity across borders.
Feminist scholar-activist Barbara Smith shares crucial advice on political organising and building solidarity across borders.
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Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
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I often disagree with Yglesias but I think this is largely right. There is a lot of resistance to Trumpism (which I cheer). But they‘ve made structural changes that are hard to dislodge and broken lots of things that are difficult to fix.
Rooting them out is going to be a long slog.
Rooting them out is going to be a long slog.
I don’t want to tell people to give up hope or despair, but I think a lot of my disagreements stem from being fundamentally less optimistic than this about the current trajectory which probably features the GOP holding the senate and courts getting increasingly MAGAfied ahead of 2028.
Between the popular backlash to ICE brutality and Jerome Powell‘s statement, we are getting more and more signs that Trump is failing to consolidate an authoritarian regime
January 12, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I often disagree with Yglesias but I think this is largely right. There is a lot of resistance to Trumpism (which I cheer). But they‘ve made structural changes that are hard to dislodge and broken lots of things that are difficult to fix.
Rooting them out is going to be a long slog.
Rooting them out is going to be a long slog.
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"ICE intends to make Minneapolis the test case for what Pelley and Smith literally prayed for decades ago—an America purged of its demographically “impure” elements." www.liberalcurrents.com/return-of-th...
Return of the Silver Shirts
In ICE's invasion of Minneapolis, an echo of a dark past.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:16 PM
"ICE intends to make Minneapolis the test case for what Pelley and Smith literally prayed for decades ago—an America purged of its demographically “impure” elements." www.liberalcurrents.com/return-of-th...
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There is a time and place for everything, and the moment when a demented authoritarian strongman is attempting to take over one of the last remaining independent institutions in the U.S. is, frankly, not the moment for your aCtUaLlY CeNtRaL BaNk iNdEpEnDeNcE Is HiStoRicAllY cOnTeStEd take.
January 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM
There is a time and place for everything, and the moment when a demented authoritarian strongman is attempting to take over one of the last remaining independent institutions in the U.S. is, frankly, not the moment for your aCtUaLlY CeNtRaL BaNk iNdEpEnDeNcE Is HiStoRicAllY cOnTeStEd take.
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I wrote about a fake child care scandal, the connection to the murder of Renee Good, and the right-wing vengeance ecosystem.
The Moral Panic Machine in Minnesota
From a child care scandal to a state-sponsored murder
stringinamaze.net
January 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I wrote about a fake child care scandal, the connection to the murder of Renee Good, and the right-wing vengeance ecosystem.
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once again: ICE is operating as if they have a general warrant, the specific type of warrant the founders were most concerned about when drafting the 4th Amendment
Not remotely legal. Minnesota needs to arrest these thugs breaking down doors right now, before they start grabbing even more power
January 12, 2026 at 12:29 AM
once again: ICE is operating as if they have a general warrant, the specific type of warrant the founders were most concerned about when drafting the 4th Amendment
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y'all Kristi Noem absolutely deserves to be impeached but please, please be wary of Dems who try to use an impeachment vote on Noem (fine, but not gonna end in removal) as a substitute for action on ICE funding (real, hits them where it hurts)
January 10, 2026 at 7:06 PM
y'all Kristi Noem absolutely deserves to be impeached but please, please be wary of Dems who try to use an impeachment vote on Noem (fine, but not gonna end in removal) as a substitute for action on ICE funding (real, hits them where it hurts)
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it’s telling that he almost certainly knows he is being recorded. He’s speaking to us, too. it’s a threat.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 4:09 PM
it’s telling that he almost certainly knows he is being recorded. He’s speaking to us, too. it’s a threat.
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Repressive occupying forces often believe that a few acts of horrifically unjustified violence will get the public to forfeit freedom and kowtow to them, especially if the violent is well publicized. But it usually does not work that way.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Repressive occupying forces often believe that a few acts of horrifically unjustified violence will get the public to forfeit freedom and kowtow to them, especially if the violent is well publicized. But it usually does not work that way.
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The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
January 10, 2026 at 9:15 AM
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
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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”
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Reminder that “Say her name” was developed specifically to call attention to murders of Black women
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Reminder that “Say her name” was developed specifically to call attention to murders of Black women
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Renee’s name is very public and well known. The entire reason behind the origin of Say Her Name was that police violence against Black women was being erased and suppressed, while the names of men killed by police violence were well known. So not only is it appropriative it also doesn’t apply!
January 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Renee’s name is very public and well known. The entire reason behind the origin of Say Her Name was that police violence against Black women was being erased and suppressed, while the names of men killed by police violence were well known. So not only is it appropriative it also doesn’t apply!
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The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 3:25 PM
The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”