Dan Libertz

Can Minnesota pay Tom Homan $50,000 to get ICE out?

As a voter, you can make demands without gaming out the politics. Do people know this?

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

“We will only continue to fund evil if the evil people doing the evil read as marginally less evil”

every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com

Change seems impossible until it doesn't The killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis yesterday feels like a significant turning point in what was already an awful and authoritarian situation.

thought a bit about abolishing ICE, Democratic caution, and how this time the institutional change is probably the easy part
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/change-see...

People are rightly angry at the murders of Good and Pretti, and the fact they're on video in broad daylight surely contributes, but there's no avoiding how little mention of Keith Porter there is.

And ICE has shot or otherwise killed non-citizens, who are no less deserving of attention.

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

Family of man killed by off-duty ICE agent in LA demands charges: ‘The ache will never go away’ After Renee Good’s killing in Minneapolis, calls grow for accountability in the shooting of Keith Porter Jr on New Year’s Eve

Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off duty ICE officer on New Years Eve in LA.

The officer alleges Porter pulled a weapon on him but the family and other witnesses deny that.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Text messages and a moved SUV: How the government’s case against a Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent fell apart | CNN A wide grin was plastered on Marimar Martinez’s face Thursday as she thanked her attorneys outside an Illinois courtroom and told reporters, “I’m just blessed. I’m happy.”

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE.

They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.

They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.

He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.

A 🧵 of ICE abuse

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September.

They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.

If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

one of the few things ive done academically that i think "actually" matters involves this graph. people who are bad neighbors -- who reject immigrants, people of a different race or religion as neighbors -- want strong (anti-democratic) leaders and army rule.

people who are good neighbors do not.

if I were a Democratic strategist, columnist, or politician, I would simply not be outflanked by Bill Kristol and this guy

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Killing of Philando Castile - Wikipedia

Today I'm remembering Philando Castile, shot in 2016 by police in the Minneapolis suburbs after being pulled over for a broken brake light. "Sir, I have to tell you that I do have a firearm on me," he said. Ten seconds later one of the cops had shot him five times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign

"DHS has a recent history of making false statements about similar incidents" is a perfectly, objectively true factual statement and reasonable context to include in straight news reporting.

this guy just wanted to help defend his community and they murdered him for it and the highest officials in the nation are lying about what multiple camera angles are showing the nation

this cannot stand

This is about immigration enforcement like Montgomery was about transit policy

ICE thinks Minnesotans will eventually give up, it’s like they’re unfamiliar with Vikings fandom

I just feel like if my career was chasing down screaming children in the snow with the goal of throwing them in the back of my vehicle and taking them to a facility where they might die... I'd quit

Back at it. No ICE, no KKK, no fascist USA.

Huge numbers, cops sparse.

Marching now from union square

"Huge numbers, cops sparse"

This is the dream. For every demonstration in NYC. Let's hope this is how it's going to go in Mayor Mamdani's New York City.

The cops aren't necessary. Maybe they can handle traffic at major cross streets. But everything else is organized. 🤷🏼

“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me"...“We were willing to do for this man, this human, what they were not willing to do for Renee Good,” Zemien said.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

university admins were some of the first-movers in the new US regime of mass repression. so congratulations to various provosts and vice presidents for that.

Back in 2007 Fox News did a segment on how Mr. Rogers, who died in 2003, was "evil" & was the source of many of America's problems. Fun fact: Fred Rogers was a lifelong REPUBLICAN, but he was the sort of old school liberal Republican that Fox News was designed to eliminate. youtu.be/29lmR_357rA?...