“This is not a left or right issue any more,” said Rose. “It is a question of whether we want to live in a democracy or under an authoritarian dictator.”

For our democracy to survive [we] must defend the right that kicked off this whole experiment.

Unless we’ve already decided 250 years is enough.

But it would be a mistake to compare ICE agents to the soldiers who served King George, said Hiller Zobel, an expert on John Adams.

“The correct analogy is to authoritarian regimes of the 20th century, in Germany and Italy... they have made themselves into a secret police."

Gutting the Fourth Amendment just as America marks 250 years of Independence is a little too on the nose, even for this administration.

Is the US Constitution woke now?

Once upon a time, the Republican party professed a devotion to that founding document that bordered on the religious.

Now, not so much.

It’s important to note that this is guy very much appears to be on-duty, which would make this a violation of the Hatch Act.

“Because of the help I got, I always think about what I can contribute back to my new country,” Yusuf Abdi said.

His new country is fast becoming a place that is no longer worthy of him.

So many immigrants buy into the stories America tells itself: That this is a beacon of freedom and opportunity, where hard work means a chance at a good life for them, and a better one for their children. A citizenship ceremony is the most American place on earth.

This is about ridding the country of as many non-white people as possible, no matter what it costs us now, and in the decades to come. One in five workers in Massachusetts is foreign-born. A quarter of those who work in education and healthcare are immigrants...we desperately need them.

This is an administration run by and for white nationalists. Official government comms parrot fascist slogans... trucking in imagery where all of the heroes are white, and wiping others from the record, including in museums and classrooms.

1.5 million Minnesotans voted for Trump in 2024. His retribution campaigns hurt them too, but ...perhaps they’re willing to pay the costs of slashed safety net programs, in addition to soaring grocery prices and insurance premiums, to enjoy the suffering of people they, too, abhor.

Administration officials suggest Good deserved to die. They’ve savaged the slain US citizen, calling her a “violent rioter,” a “terrorist,” and “deranged.” JD Vance told reporters Good’s killing was “a tragedy of her own making.”

It’s a wonder there haven’t been more deaths like this.

Let’s call this what it is. The president of the United States is waging a war against half of his own country.

Minnesota is just the latest and most violent front in a much wider campaign of aggression Donald Trump and his administration are conducting in blue states.

And I concluded that, even though she did something unspeakable, justice was not done in Sanders’ case.

I've written a seven-part series of columns on Sanders case, and the insanity defense in Massachusetts. I hope you'll take a look.

I read hundreds of pages of trial transcripts, police reports, and other court documents. I listened to phone calls and courtroom arguments, and watched video of her interrogation. I spoke to dozens of attorneys, mental health experts, and legal scholars.