Jay Marcellus

First Draft: Reforming Trump's Gestapo? As Congress weighs guardrails for Trump’s fascist military police, lawmakers vote to allow themselves to overturn the president’s tariffs.

“Democrats are trying to impose guardrails on how Trump’s fascist paramilitary force looks and operates, and how Trump can deploy his fascist paramilitary force, when the truth is that his fascist paramilitary force must be eliminated.”

From First Draft:
zeteo.com/p/reforming-...

Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.

This regime and its masked militia are bullies and cowards. Those who move heaven and earth to make a better life for their families, neighbors protecting neighbors, everyday people blowing whistles and delivering food — those are the #BraveofUS

Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Brave of US will free America from this cowardly MAGA murder regime

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

i’m not particularly attached to “abolish ICE” as a slogan but as a policy it’s mandatory

Once again I am in awe of the strength and bravery of the people of Minneapolis.

Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.

Personally I've moved so far past anger at most Dem politicians in this moment beyond a couple local exceptions. Disdain & contempt are the closest terms. Just fundamental inability to rise to the moment while refusing to get out of the way for someone who might.

It's Walkout Week! Ask questions & get ready with Q&A office hours, Walk Out for a #FreeAmerica, find out what comes next at the mass call, and join in solidarity with Minnesota on Friday:

Links down below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Hi it's me, author of "Fuck Unions: Why Dems Need To Destroy Those Dirty Sweaty Hogpeople" back with my latest book, "Gone Woke: How Democrats Lost Their Connection To The Working Class"

It’s SO irritating!

not getting shot in the face by a government thug after dropping your kid off at a school is a kitchen table issue, probably the most talked about issue at kitchen tables right now honestly

Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she ‘nurtured kindness’ On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she nurtured kindness On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

From a place of unimaginable pain, Renee and Becca Good's humanity shine through.

Becca's statement:
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good Online detectives are inaccurately claiming to have identified the federal agent who shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minnesota based on AI-manipulated images.

NEW

Social media is being flooded with AI-altered images claiming to "unmask" the ICE agent involved in yesterday's shooting in Minnesota.

AI cannot do this, but people are already sharing names of people they believe are the shooter.

www.wired.com/story/people...

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

Process critiques of monsters actually help the monsters. This type of criticism is like saying the real problem with Godzilla was that jay walked.

The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.

I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Green felt with a felt hanukiah and 2 lit felt candles + shamash (it’s night 2 in Australia)

We’re traveling (in Australia 😢) so did a celebration in felt

Fellow gamers,

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pretty clear a big part of the mainstream media-led backlash to #metoo is the number of people in media who take advantage of and abuse others.

they made it seem like it's about fairness, but they just didn't want to face any real consequences for their behavior.

Stop saying the cop was assaulted by a sandwich

You have to use the passive voice. The officer was impacted by a sweet onion chicken teriyaki of unclear origin

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.

Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

The tragic fate of the pundit