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Waddya mean? There will be lots of jobs in the middle of nowhere at the gulags. /sarcasm. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Don’t doubt that he enjoys making his staff look like buffoons. I bet he enjoyed watching her debase herself. He’s a sick f*ck.

I’m not sure why, or perhaps I haven’t seen it, someone hasn’t posted video of him talking, overlaid with audio of a hitler or goebbels speech. In German of course.

Write it down. Tell the story of this time in your own words. All too soon, people will try to re-write history, their own complicity in these horrors will be scrubbed away. But take a pen, take to the keyboard. And write. Remember for the rest of us.

The president and all his rancid enablers really demand the creation of a new word that means “shocked but not shocked, but still shocked, but also totally NOT shocked, yet somehow still shocked, also always appalled, forever and eternally appalled by the endless abhorrence, and now I scream.”

Print out a poster-sized version and carry it with you.

Opinion | Walmart became a trillion-dollar company by evolving The world’s largest private employer refused to compromise on profits. That paid off for workers.

Actually, @washingtonpost.com editorial board bootlickers, Walmart became a trillion dollar company by taking $6.2 BILLION in government subsidies in the form of public assistance for their employees who make sub poverty wages. wapo.st/4rwMjIT

People are going to have to drag the democrats to the right place on immigration and ICE just like they had to drag them to the right place on opposing the Iraq war and impeaching Trump. It’s fucking exhausting to have a party that refuses to do the right thing right away,

This whole thread. But especially this.

@gregsargent.bsky.social if you saw @maddow.bsky.social ‘s report on Monday what struck me is that some of these proposed prison camps would be 2 to 3 times the size of the surrounding area. Gaming out the services needed points to how poorly & dangerously they would be run.

Republican voters don’t have to plead with their elected leaders to do what they want as much as Democrats do

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

No , we want ICE abolished. We want Noam, Miller, Bondi, et. al., jailed. We want the corruption to stop. We want the looting of taxpayer money to stop. We want appeasement by dem leadership to end. And we want Tr*mp to keep his grubby hands off our national monuments.

Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says Whether over "a deal" on Greenland or a "pivot" on ICE, we need far more skepticism

"The news media doesn’t seem to know how to bring anything other than wide-eyed credulity to Trump's utterances, even after all the lies and deceit of the past decade."

Great @sulliview.bsky.social takedown of coverage of "pivot" on ICE and Greenland:
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dear-media...

🚨 Pritzker: The monsters responsible for unleashing this havoc on American cities, whether they were firing at civilians in the streets or calling the shots from their cushy offices in Washington, need to be investigated and prosecuted.

Interesting suggestions for a supercharged Dem opposition to Trump from @brianbeutler.bsky.social here:

www.offmessage.net/p/the-goal-m...

Stephen Miller Paid Latino Thugs to Murder Alex Pretti - emptywheel Stephen Miller can only sustain his myth of white self-reliance by hiding the faces of those who murder white men in the streets of Blue cities.

Stephen Miller Paid Latino Thugs to Murder Alex Pretti

emptywheel.net/2026/02/02/s...

The increasing number of billionaires in every new release of the Epstein files are another reminder that billionaires shouldn't exist because they're immoral, exploitative hoarders and the world would be better if we abolished every one of them.

Billionaires: the only minority destroying humanity.

@davidfrum.bsky.social

I am so here for this thread.

This is absolutely something Dems should do.

January 30, 2026 As the American people continue to express their fury over the violence of federal agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere, officials from the Trump administration today tried to shift the public narrativ...

January 30, 2026

Note: This post said "WE" have to do this. Not, "Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries" have to.

You are part of the "we" here.

Very good. Thanks, Governor.
www.mass.gov/news/governo...

Hi Ho!

@emptywheel.bsky.social comment should be considered a creative challenge 👇
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That’s good because the Blimpies (‘s?) in the UK in the early 80’s made the nastiest burgers I’ve ever had.

It’s about time.

This is fabulous and thorough. Citizens in every state should create a video like this for multiple bad acts of the administration.