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We do not accept the de facto violations of the Constitution. No matter how many times they violate it, they cannot do these things. “But they are!” is a form of doomerism. Don’t accept it. Don’t accept the regime’s frame of reference.
January 14, 2026 at 4:11 PM
We do not accept the de facto violations of the Constitution. No matter how many times they violate it, they cannot do these things. “But they are!” is a form of doomerism. Don’t accept it. Don’t accept the regime’s frame of reference.
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Perhaps Lieu should have said that ICE cannot *legally* do these things (acknowledging that they are currently happening regardless) but it remains the case that a lot of people do not fully understand their rights and when they are being violated. It needs to be stated over and over.
January 14, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Perhaps Lieu should have said that ICE cannot *legally* do these things (acknowledging that they are currently happening regardless) but it remains the case that a lot of people do not fully understand their rights and when they are being violated. It needs to be stated over and over.
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Yes, you live in that country now
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Yes, you live in that country now
January 15, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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There is a word to describe people who disrupt regular societal functions, like education and healthcare, by making people afraid to do anything.
[It rhymes with errorist.]
[It rhymes with errorist.]
ICE's "presence is terrifying medical staff and raising concerns about patient care, according to five nurses at HCMC hospital in Minneapolis who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs."
Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE agents appear at Twin Cities hospitals, alarming health care workers
Health care workers in the Twin Cities report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are entering hospitals with detained individuals, leaving some medical staff terrified and concerned ...
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 8:30 PM
There is a word to describe people who disrupt regular societal functions, like education and healthcare, by making people afraid to do anything.
[It rhymes with errorist.]
[It rhymes with errorist.]
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A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it.
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
January 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
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This and withholding funding are the authoritarian’s toolbox that the regime has settled on.
The latest escalation:
Senator Says Prosecutors Are Investigating Her After Video About Illegal Orders www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
Senator Says Prosecutors Are Investigating Her After Video About Illegal Orders www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
Senator Says Prosecutors Are Investigating Her After Video About Illegal Orders
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
This and withholding funding are the authoritarian’s toolbox that the regime has settled on.
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Iran and Denmark playing “Wabbit Season/Duck Season.”
All the signals are that a U.S. attack on Iran is imminent, a Western military official tells Reuters
Seeing reports of flights diverting near Iran, Tehran may possibly be closed based on some reports from contacts.
Seeing reports of flights diverting near Iran, Tehran may possibly be closed based on some reports from contacts.
January 14, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Iran and Denmark playing “Wabbit Season/Duck Season.”
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ICE is like, 25k tops, not all of whom are field agents
January 14, 2026 at 10:35 PM
ICE is like, 25k tops, not all of whom are field agents
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Think my opinion of Knausgaard has gone up over time just because calling your memoir My Struggle is a troll move but since then he has not made a living as a provocateur/troll
January 14, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Think my opinion of Knausgaard has gone up over time just because calling your memoir My Struggle is a troll move but since then he has not made a living as a provocateur/troll
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Minneapolis is in a very real sense taking the sins of the American electorate onto its own shoulders
January 14, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Minneapolis is in a very real sense taking the sins of the American electorate onto its own shoulders
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I know some have been a little unnerved at the aggressive following and noisemaking tactics of the observers. What they don’t realize is that it’s necessitated by what ICE is doing. You have seconds and you need as many eyes on them as possible, and as many people trying to get key info as possible.
January 14, 2026 at 2:41 PM
I know some have been a little unnerved at the aggressive following and noisemaking tactics of the observers. What they don’t realize is that it’s necessitated by what ICE is doing. You have seconds and you need as many eyes on them as possible, and as many people trying to get key info as possible.
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I know we aren’t all fans of the police here but the difference between this and an ordinary police arrest or detainment is night and day. There’s no “You’re under arrest” and then sitting in the car while they ask questions. You are simply disappeared in seconds. No record of what happened.
January 14, 2026 at 2:36 PM
I know we aren’t all fans of the police here but the difference between this and an ordinary police arrest or detainment is night and day. There’s no “You’re under arrest” and then sitting in the car while they ask questions. You are simply disappeared in seconds. No record of what happened.
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They don’t know who they’re taking because:
-they don’t talk to them
-they’re random pedestrians
It is literally indistinguishable from a kidnapping when you see it, except there are so many of them, and they are more heavily armed and armored than any kidnapper would ever be.
-they don’t talk to them
-they’re random pedestrians
It is literally indistinguishable from a kidnapping when you see it, except there are so many of them, and they are more heavily armed and armored than any kidnapper would ever be.
January 14, 2026 at 2:33 PM
They don’t know who they’re taking because:
-they don’t talk to them
-they’re random pedestrians
It is literally indistinguishable from a kidnapping when you see it, except there are so many of them, and they are more heavily armed and armored than any kidnapper would ever be.
-they don’t talk to them
-they’re random pedestrians
It is literally indistinguishable from a kidnapping when you see it, except there are so many of them, and they are more heavily armed and armored than any kidnapper would ever be.
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Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
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Upgrading the "How Fucked Are We" level to "The Neocon Newspaper Shows Signs of Critically Reevaluating Reagan."
January 14, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Upgrading the "How Fucked Are We" level to "The Neocon Newspaper Shows Signs of Critically Reevaluating Reagan."
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Critical support to NATO in its struggle against NATO imperialism. No blood for a base we already have.
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Critical support to NATO in its struggle against NATO imperialism. No blood for a base we already have.
"the fear that is engendered by the thought that someone really might destroy one’s soul...a citizen of Lyon, on his way to help exterminate the Calvinists...would no doubt have said that he was taking back his city, taking back his culture, taking back his country, fighting for the soul of France"
January 14, 2026 at 1:54 AM
"the fear that is engendered by the thought that someone really might destroy one’s soul...a citizen of Lyon, on his way to help exterminate the Calvinists...would no doubt have said that he was taking back his city, taking back his culture, taking back his country, fighting for the soul of France"
It is, as a friend called it, a Swiss cheese essay, a lot of holes in it but amazing
January 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
It is, as a friend called it, a Swiss cheese essay, a lot of holes in it but amazing
Unpaywalled web.archive.org/web/20160208...
Fear
There are always real dangers in the world, sufficient to their day. Fearfulness obscures the distinction between real threat on one hand and on the other the terrors that beset those who see threat e...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Unpaywalled web.archive.org/web/20160208...
Easy to see, in clips of ICE, Robinson on Leviticus: "'The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight'...Now...there are numbers among us who have weapons that would blast that leaf to atoms, and feel brave as they did it, confirmed in their alarm by the fact that there are so very many leaves"
January 14, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Easy to see, in clips of ICE, Robinson on Leviticus: "'The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight'...Now...there are numbers among us who have weapons that would blast that leaf to atoms, and feel brave as they did it, confirmed in their alarm by the fact that there are so very many leaves"
I think Robinson is right to call it fear, not paranoia, which has different connotations and leads down different paths
January 14, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I think Robinson is right to call it fear, not paranoia, which has different connotations and leads down different paths
You swallow one conspiracy theory you end up buying all of them
January 14, 2026 at 1:46 AM
You swallow one conspiracy theory you end up buying all of them
"Who can [prove], after all, that the Christians did not turn the gods against Rome, that the Cathars did not kill souls, that witches did not cast spells, that Jews did not poison wells, that Gypsies did not steal infants?"
January 14, 2026 at 1:45 AM
"Who can [prove], after all, that the Christians did not turn the gods against Rome, that the Cathars did not kill souls, that witches did not cast spells, that Jews did not poison wells, that Gypsies did not steal infants?"