Jen Deaderick 🗃️ (She/Her)

The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.

Anti-vaxxers and anti-public health folks also love the Gadsden flag, but Christopher Gadsden, creator of flag, was a commissioner in Charleston in charge of keeping weekly records of smallpox cases, hiring guards to quarantine them, and levying heavy fines on any who wantonly spread the disease.

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

I love that Colbert is using the his final days on the evil CBS/Paramount to interview and promote organizers, scholars and activists taking on Trump and authoritarianism. It’s very satisfying.

And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.

A graphic comparing two quotes: "Fuckin' bitch." ICE agent after Renee Good was shot and killed two weeks ago. "Boo hoo." Federal agent after a man was shot and killed today.

These monsters are sick.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

There is one word in the English language that explains what Minneapolis is experiencing right now: tyranny.

We are under assault by a tyrannical government and its little jackbooted commandant. We are going to keep fighting, and we will win, stand with us.

Facebook reminds me that on this day in 2017 a woman turned to me in the veg section of Sainsbury's and said "hopefully now we've left the EU we can have loose carrots that aren't wet"

Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.

ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

You are not imagining it!!! Agents have been more aggressive and more emboldened, quicker to fly into a rage. And the community being more organized/prepared to confront them bc they've seen this play out in other cities = feds know they have even less time to execute a kidnapping

In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters

"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, lived in Minneapolis. He was captured on Jan. 6 and flown to Camp East Montana, where the ACLU has reported widespread torture, and where a man died after being beaten by ICE guards three days earlier. He now becomes the sixth person to die in ICE custody in 2026.

He’s walking on the street inside a huge phalanx of thugs. This doesn’t project strength. He’s afraid of us.

Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino marches through Minneapolis surrounded by federal agents, shouting at American citizens.

This isn’t about deporting “the worst of the worst.” It’s about deliberately sowing fear and chaos in cities that oppose the Trump regime

ht: @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

Lengthy Twitter exchange that ends with John Ganz calling Richard Hanania a total piece of shit

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‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s…

Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.
www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

major universities to reduce, or even freeze, hiring. Jobs within the federal government have dried up. The private sector, where demand for economists has been intense in recent years, has pulled back."

WSJ: "Economists will tell you that it is a tough time for people entering the job market. They can relate: It is the worst market young economists have faced in memory. The economics job market is getting buffeted by a confluence of forces. Worries about federal funding have led many

This is a tacit admission that they’re investigating Good, not the agent

Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests

I know attention is on the US/Greenland, and it’s hard to get proper news from Iran, but this from @christinalamb.bsky.social estimates at least 16,000 people have been killed and over 300,000 injured. Many (most?) victims are thought to be under the age of 30
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...

THE FOURTH AMENDMENT DOES NOT PROTECT THE GOVERNMENT'S RIGHT TO MAKE ARRESTS

Live: Protesters square off in Minneapolis amid police presence Confrontations started around noon as large and visible presence of city police officers and Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies monitored downtown Saturday.

Counterprotesters vastly outnumber influencer Jake Lang's anti-Islam group in downtown Minneapolis. bit.ly/4qlze56

📷️: Alex Kormann

Right-wing influencer Jake Lang is stuck in a window recess against Minneapolis City Hall.

He’s soaked with freezing water after counterprotesters hurled water balloons at him. bit.ly/4baGhJn

Suspect arrested after a fire destroys the only synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, 6 decades after a KKK bombing | CNN A suspect has been arrested after a fire tore through Beth Israel, the only synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, on Saturday, leaving the congregation forced to rebuild from the ashes — again.

1967, this Mississippi synagogue was bombed by the KKK. Now, it’s been burned to the ground. Suspect arrested: www.cnn.com/2026/01/11/u...

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

Prompting this response:

www.cbsnews.com/news/denmark...

Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social I "The purpose of entitlements is not to spend as much as possible," the Editorial Board writes. "It is to make sure the truly vulnerable get the help they need without becoming dependent on government handouts. Scrutinizing food stamp rolls is a small step in that direction."

No. No. No.

Punitive processes make narrowly targeted programs *less* efficient and *more* costly. Because more scrutiny requires more bureaucracy.

Punitive processes also make it *less* likely that people will get aid for which they qualify. Because of the roadblocks and stigma scrutiny creates.