Compassion Reigns Supreme
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ATP supporting “law enforcement” is tantamount to being against laws
Congressional Dems, are you against the rule of law?
Congressional Dems, are you against the rule of law?
January 22, 2026 at 12:56 AM
ATP supporting “law enforcement” is tantamount to being against laws
Congressional Dems, are you against the rule of law?
Congressional Dems, are you against the rule of law?
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If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power
To quote one source:
“They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”
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“They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
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January 21, 2026 at 8:46 PM
If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power
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I'm sorry if this sounds radical, but I don't think Dems should be voting to give this deeply unpopular, lawless, fascistic secret police force billions more dollars.
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
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January 21, 2026 at 9:44 PM
I'm sorry if this sounds radical, but I don't think Dems should be voting to give this deeply unpopular, lawless, fascistic secret police force billions more dollars.
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ICE taking the position that the Constitution is meaningless should put the nail in the coffin of any discussion around training
January 21, 2026 at 10:06 PM
ICE taking the position that the Constitution is meaningless should put the nail in the coffin of any discussion around training
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once SCOTUS made the decision to slow walk it, it was over, because the later things went the more costly it would have been for Republicans for Trump to be prosecuted.
I think the problem is that there was never an appeals-proof case, and you could not leave the fate of the republic up to SCOTUS, so time was more important than people gave it credit for.
I think my biggest break from this site's zeitgeist is I earnestly believe that the United States Government spent 2021-2024 trying to build a case strong enough to survive appeals and see Donald Trump die in prison, or in the alternative force SCOTUS to break the Constitution declare Trump a king.
January 21, 2026 at 10:22 PM
once SCOTUS made the decision to slow walk it, it was over, because the later things went the more costly it would have been for Republicans for Trump to be prosecuted.
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I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
![May 12, 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR: All ICE Personnel
FROM: Todd Lyons Acting Director
SUBJECT: Utilizing Form I-205, Warrant of Removal
On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to "ensur[e] the successful enforcement of final orders of removal." 90 Fed. Reg. 8443, 8444 (Jan. 20, 2025) (E.O. 14159). Essential to the removal of aliens subject to final orders of removal is the ability to locate and arrest them. To this end, certain supervisory immigration officers within both Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are authorized to issue an administrative warrant, Form I-205, Warrant of Removal (Form 1-205), for the arrest of an alien with a final order of removal. 8 C.F.R. § 241.2(a)(1). All U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and deportation officers are authorized to execute Forms 1-205. 8 C.F.R. § 287.5(e)(3)(iii) - (y)
Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose. Accordingly, in light of this legal determination, ICE immigration officers may arrest and detain aliens subject to a final under of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), or a U.S.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifrzrvaszfhj4bzhgtyvx3fm6ht4kc2zrwtvozijyxl3zxgp7vx6a@jpeg)
January 21, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
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AOC: The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming and everyone is pretending this is normal.
January 21, 2026 at 10:49 PM
AOC: The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming and everyone is pretending this is normal.
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This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 11:03 PM
This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
Having had to back down Trump is gonna need to kick someone
I would be scared at Columbia, CBS, ABC
I would be scared at Columbia, CBS, ABC
January 21, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Having had to back down Trump is gonna need to kick someone
I would be scared at Columbia, CBS, ABC
I would be scared at Columbia, CBS, ABC
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NEWS: Pentagon ordered active-duty soldiers with a military police unit in NC to prepare for possible deployment to Minneapolis, three people familiar told @ms.now
Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg
Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg
January 21, 2026 at 4:17 PM
NEWS: Pentagon ordered active-duty soldiers with a military police unit in NC to prepare for possible deployment to Minneapolis, three people familiar told @ms.now
Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg
Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg
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And herein lies the closing act of the tech billionaires’ plot.
Dump the useful idiot (Trump).
Replace him with Thiel’s groomed puppet (JD Vance)
Complete the tech coup.
Build the network state.
Dump the useful idiot (Trump).
Replace him with Thiel’s groomed puppet (JD Vance)
Complete the tech coup.
Build the network state.
June 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
And herein lies the closing act of the tech billionaires’ plot.
Dump the useful idiot (Trump).
Replace him with Thiel’s groomed puppet (JD Vance)
Complete the tech coup.
Build the network state.
Dump the useful idiot (Trump).
Replace him with Thiel’s groomed puppet (JD Vance)
Complete the tech coup.
Build the network state.
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for what its worth, neither Kalshi nor Polymarket have bets on Trump eating it today, so if his inner circle isn't doing insider trading on him dying, he's probably still with us
January 21, 2026 at 4:48 AM
for what its worth, neither Kalshi nor Polymarket have bets on Trump eating it today, so if his inner circle isn't doing insider trading on him dying, he's probably still with us
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When it happens I'm running the headline "Jeffrey Epstein's best friend dies" in my newsletter
January 21, 2026 at 5:17 AM
When it happens I'm running the headline "Jeffrey Epstein's best friend dies" in my newsletter
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AG Ellison: "If you're not gonna do an investigation, and you won't rely on other authorities to do an investigation, it sounds like you're trying to do a coverup."
January 21, 2026 at 1:30 AM
AG Ellison: "If you're not gonna do an investigation, and you won't rely on other authorities to do an investigation, it sounds like you're trying to do a coverup."
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abolish ICE is the moderate position, so is “hunt ICE down and make them wish they were never fucking born”
January 21, 2026 at 2:35 AM
abolish ICE is the moderate position, so is “hunt ICE down and make them wish they were never fucking born”
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Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."
January 21, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."
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The entire chain of command behind this atrocity should be brought before #Congress and investigated. #ICE is a lawless agency emboldened by a criminal president.
We must #abolishICE & dismantle its immigrant concentration camps.
There is no reform to the state-sanctioned violence ICE creates.
We must #abolishICE & dismantle its immigrant concentration camps.
There is no reform to the state-sanctioned violence ICE creates.
January 8, 2026 at 2:59 AM
The entire chain of command behind this atrocity should be brought before #Congress and investigated. #ICE is a lawless agency emboldened by a criminal president.
We must #abolishICE & dismantle its immigrant concentration camps.
There is no reform to the state-sanctioned violence ICE creates.
We must #abolishICE & dismantle its immigrant concentration camps.
There is no reform to the state-sanctioned violence ICE creates.
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The NBA (majority owner of the WNBA) has promised the players a percentage of net revenue.
As I write, it seems like the percentages are imaginary. That is not surprising. The NBA also imagines a new definition of net revenue (that isn't in any textbook!).
wagesofwins.substack.com/p/hard-to-ne...
As I write, it seems like the percentages are imaginary. That is not surprising. The NBA also imagines a new definition of net revenue (that isn't in any textbook!).
wagesofwins.substack.com/p/hard-to-ne...
Hard to Negotiate with Imaginary Numbers and Imaginary Words
On December 31st, ESPN reported the following about the offer being made by the NBA (i.e.
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January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
The NBA (majority owner of the WNBA) has promised the players a percentage of net revenue.
As I write, it seems like the percentages are imaginary. That is not surprising. The NBA also imagines a new definition of net revenue (that isn't in any textbook!).
wagesofwins.substack.com/p/hard-to-ne...
As I write, it seems like the percentages are imaginary. That is not surprising. The NBA also imagines a new definition of net revenue (that isn't in any textbook!).
wagesofwins.substack.com/p/hard-to-ne...
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Elon Musk is donating $10 million to a Republican primary candidate in Kentucky.
That’s more money than the vast majority of Americans will ever see — much less donate.
Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
That’s more money than the vast majority of Americans will ever see — much less donate.
Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
January 20, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Elon Musk is donating $10 million to a Republican primary candidate in Kentucky.
That’s more money than the vast majority of Americans will ever see — much less donate.
Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
That’s more money than the vast majority of Americans will ever see — much less donate.
Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
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Domestic politics are horrific right now and likely will be for the next 5-10 years, but I'm quite optimistic that the collapse of Trumpism will lead to a rebirth of American political institutions that will get us closer to the democratic principles we like to believe we were founded on.
January 21, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Domestic politics are horrific right now and likely will be for the next 5-10 years, but I'm quite optimistic that the collapse of Trumpism will lead to a rebirth of American political institutions that will get us closer to the democratic principles we like to believe we were founded on.
I am afraid to ask Amy’s stand on ICE funding
She’s been awful quiet and is somehow even less authentic than TheHaircut
She’s been awful quiet and is somehow even less authentic than TheHaircut
January 21, 2026 at 12:02 AM
I am afraid to ask Amy’s stand on ICE funding
She’s been awful quiet and is somehow even less authentic than TheHaircut
She’s been awful quiet and is somehow even less authentic than TheHaircut
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Senator Chris Van Hollen is also a No on the DHS funding deal, his spox confirms to me.
My statement on funding DHS:
The proposed Appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security released today puts no meaningful constraints on the growing lawlessness of ICE, and increases funding for detention over the last Appropriations bill passed in 2024.
The proposed Appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security released today puts no meaningful constraints on the growing lawlessness of ICE, and increases funding for detention over the last Appropriations bill passed in 2024.
January 20, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Senator Chris Van Hollen is also a No on the DHS funding deal, his spox confirms to me.
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New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
January 20, 2026 at 11:13 PM
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
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“ICE isn’t the Gestapo.”
“I am not a crook”
Keep up this messaging, Republicans
“I am not a crook”
Keep up this messaging, Republicans
January 20, 2026 at 11:16 PM
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo.”
“I am not a crook”
Keep up this messaging, Republicans
“I am not a crook”
Keep up this messaging, Republicans
THIS
(Fie upon wet brained centrist Dems)
(Fie upon wet brained centrist Dems)
Plus they’re already on tape murdering someone, and there is no accountability. What is the point of more cameras? Gotta watch 20 different angles of the next murder and not prosecute that guy either?
January 20, 2026 at 9:54 PM
THIS
(Fie upon wet brained centrist Dems)
(Fie upon wet brained centrist Dems)