The Crypt Corvus

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

"He cannot use a phone. He doesn’t know his address, he doesn’t know phone numbers, he can’t communicate, he can’t see. And they just left him.”

Yeah, shoutout to Carr for making Talarico a national figure.

Jon Stewart: Still a useless centrist decades later!

Yes: one of the things that has kept protests peaceful is that the insider/outsider dynamic was so pronounced. The feds were invaders; local and state police were separate and not really against us.

What we’ve seen in the last couple days feels like the sheriff and state patrol switching sides.

Homeland Security Spies on Reddit Users Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"

Homeland Security is monitoring anti-ICE Reddit posts, an intelligence bulletin leaked to me reveals:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...

The Evangelicals Who See Trump’s Viciousness as a Virtue At the National Prayer Breakfast, the president tested his audience’s commitment to Christian ethics.

Very informative article. I learned some things. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Exclusive: ICE's Secret Watchlists of Americans Sparta, Reaper and Grapevine track protesters, their friends (+ others)

🚨 I've obtained a list of secret watchlists the Department of Homeland Security uses to keep tabs on American citizens
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...

Exclusive: ICE's Secret Watchlists of Americans Sparta, Reaper and Grapevine track protesters, their friends (+ others)

ICE agent in a private chat with colleagues: "Ten versus one and somehow they couldn’t find a way to subdue the guy...They all carry belts and vests with 9,000 pieces of equipment on them and the best they can do is shoot a guy in the back?”
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Washington post article: ICE agents will have a security role during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. Officials say they are to support diplomatic security details and would not run any immigration enforcement operations.

they're gonna murder a biathlete

Sounds an awful lot like "I was only following orders."

She should read up to see how that worked out in Nuremberg.

Tell Congress: Freeze Funding for ICE! Congress has a critical government funding deadline on January 30th. It’s up to them to use it for good—by opposing additional funding for DHS without safeguards that rein in violent and lawless agent...

Congress has a critical government funding deadline on January 30th. It’s up to them to use it for good. Send an email to demand accountability and oppose additional funding for DHS without safeguards that rein in ICE’s violence and lawlessness:

act.standupamerica.com/letters/lett...

Sending @repilhan.bsky.social sincere admiration tonight.

Yeah, another in his long line of things that never happened so hard that it unhappened things that actually did.

This is the closest to midnight the clock has ever been.

What's that? Are the power-fantasies they cultivated not working out for them?

Excuse me while I borrow a scanning-electron microscope so I can locate an appropriately tiny violin.

Ugh, sorry for the typo, but I'm not deleting. Let us edit our posts, BlueSky.

Once again, we were warned, and once again, we did not heed as a society.

And the surveillance overreaches of that administration led directly down the road we're currently on that leads to things like "thought-crime." Imperialism needs an enemy, and Authoritarians always manufacture ones at home when they can't point enough fingers abroad.

Bush/Cheney laid the groundwork for this, and the post-9/11 military ramp-up and the Iraq-War led directly to the creation of DHS and ICE, and led to the glut of military equipment that eventually got fed into the hands of police departments across the nation.

he wholly predictable outcome of the so-called "War On Terror", and exactly the sort of development that far-sighted pundits were concerned about.

Vigils were held around Minneapolis and beyond Saturday night in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents.

Photo and video: Jeff Wheeler, Anthony Souffle, Simon Peter Groebner/The Minnesota Star Tribune.

This one remains on point and applicable.

The contingent of Transformers collectors who remain BIG-MAD that SS86 Megatron ended up as a tank rather than a gun should really watch and absorb this.

Eh, who am I kidding? They'd just shrug and keep on complaining.

OOF! Speedy recovery! 🤞