Brian Beutler
@brianbeutler.bsky.social
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Formerly: Crooked Media, TNR, TPM; www.offmessage.net/subscribe
Formerly: Crooked Media, TNR, TPM; www.offmessage.net/subscribe
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damn, terrible them not getting him immediate medical car after she ran him over. so wrong.
NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM
damn, terrible them not getting him immediate medical car after she ran him over. so wrong.
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“War powers resolutions are useful and welcome” but not enough.
@brianbeutler.bsky.social on how Ds must wage a multi front resistance including “refusing to fund” Trump’s regime especially the DHS and the Pentagon “until lawful governing is restored.” open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
@brianbeutler.bsky.social on how Ds must wage a multi front resistance including “refusing to fund” Trump’s regime especially the DHS and the Pentagon “until lawful governing is restored.” open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
January 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
“War powers resolutions are useful and welcome” but not enough.
@brianbeutler.bsky.social on how Ds must wage a multi front resistance including “refusing to fund” Trump’s regime especially the DHS and the Pentagon “until lawful governing is restored.” open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
@brianbeutler.bsky.social on how Ds must wage a multi front resistance including “refusing to fund” Trump’s regime especially the DHS and the Pentagon “until lawful governing is restored.” open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
lol!
I tried to get Truth Social's customized AI to admit that Trump's desperate interest in the Peace Prize was a function of insecurity.
January 16, 2026 at 3:04 AM
lol!
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A lot going on but at some point (preferably sooner than later) Janet Mills should tell Dem primary voters if she thinks Schumer should lead Senate Dems or not.
It's a consequential question -- growing more significant by the hour -- and if she wins it will be the first vote she casts. #MEpolitics
It's a consequential question -- growing more significant by the hour -- and if she wins it will be the first vote she casts. #MEpolitics
Just got this forwarded. Here are the talking points Schumer's team just emailed out to their allies TODAY - this afternoon.
The words "Minnesota" or "ICE" don't appear anywhere here.
The words "Minnesota" or "ICE" don't appear anywhere here.
January 16, 2026 at 1:32 AM
A lot going on but at some point (preferably sooner than later) Janet Mills should tell Dem primary voters if she thinks Schumer should lead Senate Dems or not.
It's a consequential question -- growing more significant by the hour -- and if she wins it will be the first vote she casts. #MEpolitics
It's a consequential question -- growing more significant by the hour -- and if she wins it will be the first vote she casts. #MEpolitics
Incredible.
ICE officer leaves ICE “battle plan” on the bus. This is the quality that virtually no screening and only 47 days of training gets you.
January 16, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Incredible.
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🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
January 15, 2026 at 11:03 PM
🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
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This shouldn't require saying, but we highlight polls at a time like this because 1) it's heartening to see the American people rejecting fascism, which inspires more to join; and 2) because Ds are under pressure from certain quarters NOT to engage, so we need to let them know what the people want.
January 15, 2026 at 10:43 PM
This shouldn't require saying, but we highlight polls at a time like this because 1) it's heartening to see the American people rejecting fascism, which inspires more to join; and 2) because Ds are under pressure from certain quarters NOT to engage, so we need to let them know what the people want.
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Yeah, the price of beef is a small annoyance. Not ever being able to own a house or condo is existential dread
Against affordability literalism. www.offmessage.net/p/indict-ice...
January 15, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Yeah, the price of beef is a small annoyance. Not ever being able to own a house or condo is existential dread
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The core truth of the Trump era, and the one that journalism is forbidden from stating out loud, is that Trump has gathered around him a constituency of the country's worst people.
That's what most distinguishes them -- not economic status, age, where they live, anything else. It's shittiness.
That's what most distinguishes them -- not economic status, age, where they live, anything else. It's shittiness.
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
The core truth of the Trump era, and the one that journalism is forbidden from stating out loud, is that Trump has gathered around him a constituency of the country's worst people.
That's what most distinguishes them -- not economic status, age, where they live, anything else. It's shittiness.
That's what most distinguishes them -- not economic status, age, where they live, anything else. It's shittiness.
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A thing I do not expect any office seeker to say, but which is true: In general, excluding certain high tech goods, nominal prices don't go down. You're never getting literally "lower prices." Or at least you'd better hope not, because if you DO see that it probably means the economy is fucked.
Against affordability literalism. www.offmessage.net/p/indict-ice...
January 15, 2026 at 9:51 PM
A thing I do not expect any office seeker to say, but which is true: In general, excluding certain high tech goods, nominal prices don't go down. You're never getting literally "lower prices." Or at least you'd better hope not, because if you DO see that it probably means the economy is fucked.
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Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
Against affordability literalism. www.offmessage.net/p/indict-ice...
January 15, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Against affordability literalism. www.offmessage.net/p/indict-ice...
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Schumer needs to go. Yes affordability is important and needs to be a part of it but people are scared/pissed as they watch there friends, loved ones and neighbors being assaulted, abducted and now killed by wannabe slave catchers/gestapo.
Wrote about this jarring juxtaposition in this week’s mailbag. www.offmessage.net/p/indict-ice...
January 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Schumer needs to go. Yes affordability is important and needs to be a part of it but people are scared/pissed as they watch there friends, loved ones and neighbors being assaulted, abducted and now killed by wannabe slave catchers/gestapo.
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It means: we’re not going to identify or correct easily verifiable falsehoods expressed by right-wing actors on our programs, and we’re going to spin this as “trust” rather than an abdication of our most basic function as journalists.
Been reading this over and over and can't for the life of me understand what he's even trying to say. This is a lot of words to say... nothing.
January 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
It means: we’re not going to identify or correct easily verifiable falsehoods expressed by right-wing actors on our programs, and we’re going to spin this as “trust” rather than an abdication of our most basic function as journalists.
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Brian is on the nose about Democratic strategists who are too busy "looking at their spreadsheets" to seize upon the outrage in the streets.
Wrote about this jarring juxtaposition in this week’s mailbag. www.offmessage.net/p/indict-ice...
January 15, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Brian is on the nose about Democratic strategists who are too busy "looking at their spreadsheets" to seize upon the outrage in the streets.
Wrote about this jarring juxtaposition in this week’s mailbag. www.offmessage.net/p/indict-ice...
January 15, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Wrote about this jarring juxtaposition in this week’s mailbag. www.offmessage.net/p/indict-ice...
Kind of a shame that so few of the most ambitious Senate Dems want to rise in leadership (rather than become governor or president) and the few who do are under Schumer’s wing.
It's extraordinarily rare for a political event to break through to such a widespread degree as this. Dems should seize on it! This is resonating big time in exactly the info spaces that Dems struggle to reach, as I try to argue in this piece:
This is incredible: 81% of working class and 83% of young voters have seen video of Renee Good's killing, per new data I've obtained. Majority of working class disapproves of ICE enforcement. ICE brutality is breaking through big time.
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 15, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Kind of a shame that so few of the most ambitious Senate Dems want to rise in leadership (rather than become governor or president) and the few who do are under Schumer’s wing.
Past time for Dem govs to create a mechanism or lead a movement aimed at withholding blue-state federal tax dollars. No straightforward way to do this, but it’s a solvable problem.
The insult added to injury is that the most productive parts of the country are being forced to finance their own occupation and brutalization.
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
January 15, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Past time for Dem govs to create a mechanism or lead a movement aimed at withholding blue-state federal tax dollars. No straightforward way to do this, but it’s a solvable problem.
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Low on the priority list right now, but I think we need to assume that absolutely every public asset that can be stripped & sold for parts over the next three years will be, and the assets parked in some offshore account.
Trump Is Reportedly Funneling Money From Venezuelan Oil Sales To a Bank Account in Qatar
Trump Is Reportedly Funneling Money From Venezuelan Oil Sales To a Bank Account in Qatar
President Donald Trump is funneling proceeds from the sale of Venezuelan oil to a bank account in Qatar, Semafor reported on Wednesday.
The post Trump Is Reportedly Funneling Money From Venezuelan Oil Sales To a Bank Account in Qatar first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
January 15, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Low on the priority list right now, but I think we need to assume that absolutely every public asset that can be stripped & sold for parts over the next three years will be, and the assets parked in some offshore account.
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You know, if this is okay—the President can take funds and park them in a foreign slush account—then we really don't need a wealth tax. The next Democratic President can simply seize money from right-wing billionaires and park it offshore, free from "seizure" by Congress and the courts. 🤷♀️
Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
January 15, 2026 at 4:48 AM
You know, if this is okay—the President can take funds and park them in a foreign slush account—then we really don't need a wealth tax. The next Democratic President can simply seize money from right-wing billionaires and park it offshore, free from "seizure" by Congress and the courts. 🤷♀️
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Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
January 14, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
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NEW: The Bureau of Prisons won't explain why Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a cushy facility after she met with Deputy AG Todd Blanche. So we filed a FOIA request for documents on this—and now we're suing (thanks to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—@rcfp.org).
Mother Jones sues the Bureau of Prisons for Ghislaine Maxwell records
Why was Jeffrey Epstein's procurer transferred to a cushy prison?
www.motherjones.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:46 AM
NEW: The Bureau of Prisons won't explain why Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a cushy facility after she met with Deputy AG Todd Blanche. So we filed a FOIA request for documents on this—and now we're suing (thanks to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—@rcfp.org).
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Good call to action: “You have an absolute right to peacefully film ICE agents as they conduct their activities...Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans – not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution."
mn.gov/governor/new...
mn.gov/governor/new...
January 15, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Good call to action: “You have an absolute right to peacefully film ICE agents as they conduct their activities...Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans – not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution."
mn.gov/governor/new...
mn.gov/governor/new...
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so much to cover right now, but a thread i just want to throw out there from my reporting is that the car rental market in minneapolis is reportedly totally screwed up right now because ICE has cleared the inventory. rental companies should have to answer for supplying vehicles used in terror.
January 14, 2026 at 8:59 PM
so much to cover right now, but a thread i just want to throw out there from my reporting is that the car rental market in minneapolis is reportedly totally screwed up right now because ICE has cleared the inventory. rental companies should have to answer for supplying vehicles used in terror.
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This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.
January 15, 2026 at 12:58 AM
This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.