Keith Bolek

NEW: In the Soviet Union, the leaders counted on the public becoming cynical & apathetic about their brazen lies & obvious corruption. As I write in my OUR LAND newsletter, Trump wants America to slip into the same fog.

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Elon Musk Will Be Deposed Over What He Did With DOGE The former DOGE head will have to answer for what happened at USAID.

A federal court cleared way for us @democracydefendersfund.org to depose Elon Musk over the unconstitutional shutdown of USAID

Our case now moves into discovery

As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN

The Trump administration is trying to erase Black history anywhere it can. trib.al/dTV4CTg

Anonymous Park Service officials told Mississippi Today that they were being ordered to make incredibly political omissions to the brochure that accompanies the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument.

Final Schedule F rule published: in defiance of the vast majority of public comments, it commits to further politicizing government, removing anyone the Trump administration dislikes.

public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02375.pdf

According to FOX 9, a Minneapolis federal judge demanded to know why DOJ is missing deadlines & AUSA Julie Le said, "The system sucks, this job sucks" & asked to be held in contempt so she could sleep.

PACER shows she got assigned to defend the govt in 88+ cases since Operation Metro Surge started.

Not another fucking dime for this. Not one single penny. Your body cam BS ain’t gonna cut it, Chuck

A timeline of major general strikes in the U.S. People have participated in collective work stoppages to raise the pressure on employers for more than 150 years.

Marketplace (owned by my company APM) going full Teen Vogue here on general strikes.
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jesus christ

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, MO.

Judge blocks US gov’t move to end deportation protections for Ethiopians

Judge blocks US gov’t move to end deportation protections for Ethiopians https://aje.news/5l15ro

A mural depicting Fela Kuti during an Afrobeat exhibition in Lagos.

🇳🇬 Nigeria's Afrobeat king Fela Kuti will this weekend be posthumously recognised by the Grammys with a Lifetime Achievement Award, becoming the first African artist to receive the distinction.
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We’re in a dark chapter of American history when the government targets those who document injustice instead of those who commit it.

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists.

Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.

All Black. All doing their jobs.

The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

Thousands of obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left.

Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

We, the employees of the NLRB, are calling on members of Congress to reject the Senate’s proposed funding deal unless it includes meaningful reforms for ICE and CBP’s operations.

Our Union has never endorsed a government shutdown before. But we believe we have no other choice.

ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.

ICE claims “Operation Catch of the Day” targets “the worst of the worst.” So why did agents ambush an asylum‑seeking father with no criminal record, spray glass over his newborn, and abandon his wife on the roadside? This is not public safety. It’s terror.

When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?

Conservatives in 2018: Dumb libs think words are violence

Conservatives in 2026: Loud noises ARE LITERALLY VIOLENCE OMGGGGG

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“The People of Minnesota Are Stronger Than the Federal Government That Seeks to Break Us” The legal system empowered Trump’s ICE rampage. It is people who have the power to stop it.

'If we're going to honor the fight in Minnesota & reject Trump’s authoritarianism, it’s not enough to require ICE wear body cameras when they’re shooting us. We must reimagine the systems that got us here'

get their asses Council Member @mollycoleman.bsky.social
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ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.

ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

Gonna suggest the least restrictive setting for a five year old is with his kindergarten, learning his letters and having a ball at recess. You know, like a five-year-old normally would.

If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.

The civil rights movement called its protests "demonstrations" because they were meant to demonstrate to the general public just how evil the status quo was and how depraved its defenders were.

ICE is actually worse than Connor -- he had to be goaded into overreaching, they're doing it on their own

A federal judge effectively ordered the U.S. government not to cover up evidence that it illegally executed a civilian, at the request of local prosecutors seeking to investigate federal agents for murder.

Don’t want to overstate things but it feels reminiscent of the run-up to the Civil War.

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District court declarations:
- Webb: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Witness 1 (filming): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Video note: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Witness 2 (doctor): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.