Mark Orbiter

An extraordinary document. Read it.

“Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

Doom & Gloom From The Tomb Tom Verlaine - The Roxy, West Hollywood, California, October 17, 1981 Something very special to close out our Tom Verlaine appreciation week on Doom & Gloom (though there will probably be more next...

Tom Verlaine — three years gone! Please join me in listening to this killer SBD of the man in 1981, which was shared with D&G by an anonymous hero.

Half a billion on terrorizing citizens but we can’t have universal healthcare or basic income or affordable housing or public transit or

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

Here’s How Many ICE and CBP Agents Allegedly Preyed on Children Apparently the institutions are riddled with accused sex criminals.

ICE & U.S. Customs & Border Protection employed at least 30 people with sexual & violent criminal histories in recent years.

At least 20 agents committed offenses with underage victims. The bulk of abuse happened within the last two years.

This article includes names of the agents.

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here

> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility

that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

The gun is irrelevant. If he hadn't had a gun they'd make up another reason. They lie, so there's literally nothing you can do that won't make them invent an excuse for their public street execution. They lied about the last one. They lie about the ones they sent to El Salvador. They lie.

The Fox News response to the federal government execution of Alex Pretti sets a new level of depravity

“Fox News once postured as the patriotic opposition to purported government tyranny… Right now, its primary purpose is to explain to viewers why it is good that masked agents of the state are executing Americans on the street.”
- @mattgertz.bsky.social

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Hello I’m the ubermensch, my one weakness is whistles

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

I say this as a reminder to myself as much as anyone, but you probably did enough doomscrolling yesterday. Try to spend less of your day inflicting massive psychic damage on yourself.

Enjoy a film or book, watch a football game, listen to some music, do a puzzle or play a game with yr family.

My best to Dixie!

Yeah, man, & if you're not careful they'll just autoplay as you scroll by, leaving you with no choice. I finally figured out how to disable it on Bluesky.

DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter emerging from a cloud of tear gas that ICE agents fired into the streets of Minneapolis.

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

When you step back & think about it, it really feels insane that every so often we get snuff films beamed to these little magic rectangles we carry in our pockets, purses, wherever and then, seemingly inevitably, people will go on TV and lie about what we all saw.

Extremely funny that the champion of the revolutionary left/socialist boogeyman of Republicans everywhere is basically Leslie Knope.

Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

It is important to read writers like M. Gessen. They teach Americans what many are still having trouble grasping.

This is not just an unhinged president and untrained agency. Not “bad politics.” Not random.

It is a systemic approach followed by authoritarians the world over as they grasp power.

The only people calling them “paid protestors” are those who can’t fathom caring about your neighbors and your country so much that you’re willing to put your life on the line to stand up to fascist thugs.

James O’Keefe Facebook post l've been to a lot of hell Holes but being completely surrounded by 200 white communists in the autonomous zone in Minneapolis was probably the most terrifying sensation I've ever experienced. They are more organized than you can possibly imagine. You will not understand unless you go there.

These Minneapolis tourism ads are getting a little weird

1. Wasn’t at a protest
2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down
3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight

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I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.

not the point, but i can't get over how these homicidal he-man freaks speak with the squeaky tenor of the world's most soft-handed college republican debate nerd with "contrarian" in his twitter bio

Didn’t these assholes just cancel all the funding for MRNA vaccines that were being developed to treat cancers?

For every act of violence against observers captured on camera, there are a dozen Minnesotans doing the quiet quotidian work that keeps others safe. The occupying force can’t comprehend that. That is why they will lose.

Reddit post of the Aye, I Could Do That meme. From Know Your Meme: "Aye, I Could Do That refers to a scene in Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King in which, approaching the final battle, Gimli says, "I never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an elf." Legolas replies, "What about side by side with a friend?" to which Gimli replies, "Aye, I could do that." The scene was turned into an Object Labeling exploitable to show two groups, usually opposed, fighting against a common enemy." This post is a Bears fan saying "never thought I'd upvote a Packers post." "What about upvoting a fuck ICE post" "Aye, I could do that."

Our government's atrocities are bringing together Bears fans and Packers fans.

look at them. murderers itching to murder again but these people chose to stay, to film, to witness, to risk being next, to risk having their families targeted, their names dragged through the mud before their bodies are even cold. i wish they did not have to be brave but i'm grateful that they are.

Rauch, you're pretty late to the kegger, but go ahead & grab a cup. Don't forget to write yr name on it.

For some reason today, seeing Alex Pretti beaten, disarmed, then executed, I remembered how calmly cops took Dylann Roof and then went out and got him Burger King.

Repeating: NOW is a good time to shovel if you've switched from snow to sleet. 1-3" of sleet (which is many times heavier than snow) on top of this snow will make it MUCH harder to clear later.