Anat Shenker-Osorio
@anatosaurus.bsky.social
Host of Words to Win By, a podcast about progressive wins around the world and how we achieved them. https://wordstowinby-pod.com/
Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.
Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.
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If you cannot make a case against a masked militia cell kidnapping and killing across America then you are not fit for elected office.
The argument against ICE isn't an especially difficult one to make politically in this moment. The issue is that people who substantively disagree with abolishing ICE prefer having a proxy fight about strategy to discussing that stance. Many such cases.
January 22, 2026 at 3:44 AM
If you cannot make a case against a masked militia cell kidnapping and killing across America then you are not fit for elected office.
If you will not fight to abolish, end, eliminate, pick your verb, this, you are not fit to represent anyone let alone swear an oath to protect and defend our nation and her people.
January 22, 2026 at 1:40 AM
If you will not fight to abolish, end, eliminate, pick your verb, this, you are not fit to represent anyone let alone swear an oath to protect and defend our nation and her people.
How does anyone vote to fund this?
Monsters capable of this must be stopped.
Monsters capable of this must be stopped.
January 22, 2026 at 1:11 AM
How does anyone vote to fund this?
Monsters capable of this must be stopped.
Monsters capable of this must be stopped.
They will do and say anything in pursuit of the ability to do and say anything, to anyone (billionaires excluded), anywhere.
"The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power." - @radleybalko.bsky.social
Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:44 PM
They will do and say anything in pursuit of the ability to do and say anything, to anyone (billionaires excluded), anywhere.
Exactly this. And mealy mouthed demands about "reform" or "retrain" muddy the most essential thing our messaging must convey: what ICE actually is and motives of the regime for making it so.
"This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism."
Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Exactly this. And mealy mouthed demands about "reform" or "retrain" muddy the most essential thing our messaging must convey: what ICE actually is and motives of the regime for making it so.
No Money for Murder.
No Funding for Fascism.
No Payout for Pedophiles.
No Funding for Fascism.
No Payout for Pedophiles.
The two most important things you could read today. They're both saying similar things in different ways.
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
January 21, 2026 at 3:09 AM
No Money for Murder.
No Funding for Fascism.
No Payout for Pedophiles.
No Funding for Fascism.
No Payout for Pedophiles.
Even our polite upstairs neighbors (sorry about this whole meth-lab situation down here) know that exhortations to make believe old orders are totally meaningless.
Mark Carney:
"Stop invoking the “rules-based international order” as though it still functions as advertised. Call the system what it is: a period where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as a weapon of coercion."
"Stop invoking the “rules-based international order” as though it still functions as advertised. Call the system what it is: a period where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as a weapon of coercion."
January 20, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Even our polite upstairs neighbors (sorry about this whole meth-lab situation down here) know that exhortations to make believe old orders are totally meaningless.
Always telling which studies authors select to confirm and lend credence to their priors. Especially when they ignore other data, by the very same scholars, that failed to replicate original claims.
www.damemagazine.com/2021/11/30/w...
www.damemagazine.com/2021/11/30/w...
January 20, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Always telling which studies authors select to confirm and lend credence to their priors. Especially when they ignore other data, by the very same scholars, that failed to replicate original claims.
www.damemagazine.com/2021/11/30/w...
www.damemagazine.com/2021/11/30/w...
Imagine if you took all of the city's potatoes and put them in a deep frier.
Then that would be delicious. And could be eaten inside people's rent controlled apartments.
Then that would be delicious. And could be eaten inside people's rent controlled apartments.
imagine if you took all the city's meat and put it in a freezer
January 20, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Imagine if you took all of the city's potatoes and put them in a deep frier.
Then that would be delicious. And could be eaten inside people's rent controlled apartments.
Then that would be delicious. And could be eaten inside people's rent controlled apartments.
Remember when the DCCC blacklisted consultants who had worked on a Dem primary challenge?
The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant - The American Prospect
Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.
prospect.org
January 20, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Remember when the DCCC blacklisted consultants who had worked on a Dem primary challenge?
Minnesota, like all the regime does, is a trial balloon and a message. Thank you to the absolute heroes who are putting their bodies on the line for all of us.
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 20, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Minnesota, like all the regime does, is a trial balloon and a message. Thank you to the absolute heroes who are putting their bodies on the line for all of us.
The purpose of politics is to enact an agenda, not to get into power merely for the sake of having your name on the door. Not to mention the fact that voters desperately want fighters not folders.
The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant - The American Prospect
Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.
prospect.org
January 20, 2026 at 3:29 AM
The purpose of politics is to enact an agenda, not to get into power merely for the sake of having your name on the door. Not to mention the fact that voters desperately want fighters not folders.
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Today can we have a rest from telling people subjected to the unrelenting brutality of this regime and ever targets of state violence economic & physical to be a little more polite in the expression of their pain & a little more tempered in requesting the boot come of their neck?
January 19, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Today can we have a rest from telling people subjected to the unrelenting brutality of this regime and ever targets of state violence economic & physical to be a little more polite in the expression of their pain & a little more tempered in requesting the boot come of their neck?
Today can we have a rest from telling people subjected to the unrelenting brutality of this regime and ever targets of state violence economic & physical to be a little more polite in the expression of their pain & a little more tempered in requesting the boot come of their neck?
January 19, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Today can we have a rest from telling people subjected to the unrelenting brutality of this regime and ever targets of state violence economic & physical to be a little more polite in the expression of their pain & a little more tempered in requesting the boot come of their neck?
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Papanazzi is just right out there! 😁
January 19, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Papanazzi is just right out there! 😁
On top of everything else, MN also contending with clout chasing grifters who descend upon regime repression & courageous resistance to try & video their way to clicks & cash. We need repeatable name for these villains.
I propose Nazirazzi.
I propose Nazirazzi.
January 19, 2026 at 4:37 PM
On top of everything else, MN also contending with clout chasing grifters who descend upon regime repression & courageous resistance to try & video their way to clicks & cash. We need repeatable name for these villains.
I propose Nazirazzi.
I propose Nazirazzi.
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Much like incentives for judges when enslavers kidnapped Black ppl in the north before the Civil War. Judges were paid more if they ruled a Black person was a “fugitive slave” & enslaved them vs. ruling they were a free Black person.
The systems are built to be maximize harm, beyond unjust laws.
The systems are built to be maximize harm, beyond unjust laws.
“Though ICE has never come close to meeting that daily goal, officers are rewarded for making arrests, even if the immigrants they take in are later released.” - Wall Street Journal with a good overview of ICE crimes. www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...
The Standoff That Has Turned Minnesota Into a Tinderbox
ICE agents with arrest quotas are colliding with angry Minneapolis residents, a compact city and a relatively small proportion of immigrants in the country illegally.
www.wsj.com
January 18, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Much like incentives for judges when enslavers kidnapped Black ppl in the north before the Civil War. Judges were paid more if they ruled a Black person was a “fugitive slave” & enslaved them vs. ruling they were a free Black person.
The systems are built to be maximize harm, beyond unjust laws.
The systems are built to be maximize harm, beyond unjust laws.
Exhibit I have lost count of why trying to echo their "rule of law" messaging is meaningless. The rulers make the laws as it suits them. We must stand for actual principles - justice, equal rights under law.
Ah yes, the new, “free markets and liberties”-focused Washington Post:
January 18, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Exhibit I have lost count of why trying to echo their "rule of law" messaging is meaningless. The rulers make the laws as it suits them. We must stand for actual principles - justice, equal rights under law.
Republicans are relentless in pursuit of their agenda without regard to law, morality or "electability." They're hell bent on rolling back the 20th Century, to them "great again" means total control in a few wealthy, white hands.
No one from the GOP Congressional majority does anything about all this because they're into it.
That's the Occam's razor explanation. Yet there's more focus on finding excuses for them. "No, you have to understand, honoring the Constitution is bad for their job prospects."
OK. So they're into it.
That's the Occam's razor explanation. Yet there's more focus on finding excuses for them. "No, you have to understand, honoring the Constitution is bad for their job prospects."
OK. So they're into it.
January 18, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Republicans are relentless in pursuit of their agenda without regard to law, morality or "electability." They're hell bent on rolling back the 20th Century, to them "great again" means total control in a few wealthy, white hands.
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The brave of us refuse to repeat history.
Walkout to free nyc and free America. ICE out. No slave patrol 2.0.
Walkout to free nyc and free America. ICE out. No slave patrol 2.0.
NYC students: time to take up the baton and walkout to free NYC and free America.
We refuse to be silenced, we refuse to repeat history.
Join the walkout this Friday at 11: bit.ly/nycstudentwalkout
We refuse to be silenced, we refuse to repeat history.
Join the walkout this Friday at 11: bit.ly/nycstudentwalkout
January 18, 2026 at 4:23 PM
The brave of us refuse to repeat history.
Walkout to free nyc and free America. ICE out. No slave patrol 2.0.
Walkout to free nyc and free America. ICE out. No slave patrol 2.0.
This is what I hear from everyone I've had honor of speaking to in MN: wake up full of cortisol, check local socials & text chains to see latest horror, get marching orders for where to stand guard/send food/pitch in, go out in winter gear, try & sleep. Repeat.
www.instagram.com/reels/DTocxx...
www.instagram.com/reels/DTocxx...
Marilee Bridget Thomas on Instagram: "•
This is heartbreaking, but also incredibly motivating. Yes, each and everyone can do “something” to oppose the regime. Or even three things!
@beingliberal
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5,934 likes, 594 comments - just_a_girl_in_the_universe on January 17, 2026: "•
This is heartbreaking, but also incredibly motivating. Yes, each and everyone can do “something” to oppose the regime. ...
www.instagram.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:15 AM
This is what I hear from everyone I've had honor of speaking to in MN: wake up full of cortisol, check local socials & text chains to see latest horror, get marching orders for where to stand guard/send food/pitch in, go out in winter gear, try & sleep. Repeat.
www.instagram.com/reels/DTocxx...
www.instagram.com/reels/DTocxx...
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"Immigration policy" is rules governing movement of people across border, how people can change status. Reasonable people can disagree on this.
Targeting & terrorizing, abducting & disappearing, murdering & beating people are crimes against humanity. "Immigration policy/enforcement" it ain't.
Targeting & terrorizing, abducting & disappearing, murdering & beating people are crimes against humanity. "Immigration policy/enforcement" it ain't.
January 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
"Immigration policy" is rules governing movement of people across border, how people can change status. Reasonable people can disagree on this.
Targeting & terrorizing, abducting & disappearing, murdering & beating people are crimes against humanity. "Immigration policy/enforcement" it ain't.
Targeting & terrorizing, abducting & disappearing, murdering & beating people are crimes against humanity. "Immigration policy/enforcement" it ain't.
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January 17, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval."
www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
January 17, 2026 at 4:51 AM
"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval."
www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
www.ms.now/opinion/minn...