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Mark Carney with Canadian flags to the side walks through a doorway

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Monday that Mark Carney was "very aggressively walking back" some of the remarks to Trump—

Carney said on Tuesday: “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president — I meant what I said in Davos"

I got my very first fitting in Victoria's Secret. It was very affirming experience.

One person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona The individual is in custody and receiving care, according to law enforcement.

Breaking per NBC News — CBP has shot and critically wounded another person, this time in Arizona. Very few details available at this time.

folks, here’s a feel-good story we can all get behind: Obergruppenführer Greg Bovino — everyone’s favorite bite-sized homunculus — is being sent to a big farm upstate where he’ll have lots of room to run around and pepper spray all the other dogs.

LET'S BE CLEAR: DEMENTED DONNY NEEDED A FALL GUY TO TAKE THE BLAME FOR HIS OWN FUCK-UP IN MINNEAPOLIS. BUT STILL, IT'S SATISFYING TO SEE THAT ARROGANT MICRO-NAZI GREG BOVINO FALL FROM GRACE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY MAGNIFICENT POST IN WHICH I LAY IT ALL OUT. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4qHkVb8

Ending Birthright Citizenship Would Let ICE End Democracy A radical conservative case currently before SCOTUS portends a terrifying political police state ready-made to deport political enemies I haven't slept well in weeks, I'm sure I'm not alone in this. ...

Busy content day from me:

For my newsletter, I wrote about why the SCOTUS birthright citizenship case and ICE's terrorism has kept me up at night for weeks.

www.burnsnotice.com/ending-birth...

A wonderful piece. It's also something that kind of hurts for me to read, because these are spaces I desperately needed as a teenager...but wasn't lucky enough to find for many, many years.

And I genuinely, truly and non-trollingly, understand concerns about threats to officers in question, but in every single other law enforcement shooting I've covered, authorities name the individual(s) involved. This is just the baseline of public accountability.

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

if Tom "Cava Bag" Homan is your emergency crisis comms guy, you're fucked

I will go further and say that people using the "r"-word are hoping that bringing it back opens the door to bringing back the "n"-word, and is strongly correlated with the people who want to carve off trans rights as a stepping stone to claw back gay rights in general

The goal of fascism within a liberal state is it ultimately will violently reestablish a status quo of power. It will eventually fail, and in its wake, liberals will step in and claim “we beat facism, all is better now” while inheriting and sustaining this new status quo of social hierarchy.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

In Wisconsin alone, which is not a center of any ICE activity as of right now, I was able to find 22 named persons who appear in news stories or public records with no record of violent crime, some of whom are citizens, detained or deported by ICE.

Duckworth on Senate Republicans: "I gotta be honest with you. When I talk to a few of my colleagues, they had not even seen the videos. It's almost like they put blinders on. They're uneasy."

Saving History for the Future at Auschwitz-Birkenau How the memorial and museum plans to continue its mission of preservation after the last Holocaust survivors pass away.

"Anyone who is passingly historically literate has seen pictures of the faces and read the stories of victims of the Holocaust. But this is a different order of experience."

@cfhervey.bsky.social on not forgetting the Holocaust:

A drawing of Alex Pretti carrying an old person wrapped in an American flag. He is saying - ‘Don’t worry. I’ve got you.’

If this doesn’t tug at your heart, make you well up with sadness, you are not human.

Lots of scrambling today by the terrible regime.

I want to argue that our goal should be to get Miller removed, that has to be the focus. Noem, Bovino, etc are all just middle managers. The architect of the terror regime is Miller.

A thread:

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‘All-out assault on our democracy:’ Bondi’s Minnesota blackmail letter draws righteous fury from state election leaders “This isn't leadership. This is blackmail," Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said. "This is the way organized crime works."

🚨BREAKING: State election leaders and voting rights advocates across the country are blasting U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for exploiting the killing of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis by a federal immigration officer to “blackmail” Minnesota into handing over access to its unredacted voter rolls.

She needs to be REMOVED 🤬

Hey, this Bovino thing is a pathetic attempt to make all these horrors the fault of one guy, and it would be a serious, serious crisis if people fell for it. ICE needs to be abolished, bc this - terror, murder - are what it exists for. Nothing else. This is just an attempt to mollify us. Stay angry

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.

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And Pahlish, also MN based, have Melt Ice for sale and the proceeds go to the family of Renee Good.

ICE Out - Fundraising Nail Polish **Shipping Update** Shipping will continue once more ingredients have arrived for this polish. Orders should go out in about 2 weeks. Ice Out is a blurple based polish with a blue/aqua shift and pink ...

If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund

BREAKING: A federal judge is weighing Attorney General Pam Bondi’s blackmail letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as evidence that the administration is using the presence of armed federal agents as coercion to achieve policy goals. trib.al/Vm5nYNk

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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.

As Eli notes in the follow-up posts, last year Trump fired all the Biden appointees from the board of the US Holocaust Museum and replaced them with a bunch of Trump toadies. It's really gross that the org is throwing a fit like this. It's so obviously political.