Concerned Citizen Dave
djl71.bsky.social
Concerned Citizen Dave
@djl71.bsky.social
Board / war game player and designer; personality assessment programmer and researcher. Star Trek & Hobbits. Dedicated to democracy. Read my free substack Synthesizing Sense.
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in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
January 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come
January 23, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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🤔

Trump was NOT looking for voter fraud, Trump was looking for ways to stay in Power.

Jack Smith
January 22, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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There's nothing "moderate" about voting to give billions more to Trump's lawless and murderous secret police force. This is a morally repugnant and politically reckless vote by members who embarrass and weaken the Democratic Party.
NEW: DHS appropriations bill funding ICE passes 220-207

7 Democrats voted YES on the bill:
- Jared Golden
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
- Henry Cuellar
- Tom Suozzi
- Laura Gillen
- Don Davis
- Vicente Gonzalez

One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie
January 22, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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This man is a hero who speaks the truth.
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
January 22, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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ICE
For @rawstory.com
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January 22, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 22, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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"ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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January 22, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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Folks need to get this clip out far and wide.
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
January 22, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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🚨ICE violently dragged a U.S. veteran out of her car near Minneapolis

ICE: Get out of the f*cking car!
Vet: You know I'm a Marine Corps veteran?
ICE: I don't care what you are!
[ICE drags her from car & then points taser at passenger]
ICE: "F*cking move I'll f*cking taze you!"
January 21, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Moulton: I have an idea for ICE funding: zero. That’s what ICE needs.
January 20, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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The only thing more pathetic than thinking you’re Trump’s ally is thinking that he won’t throw you under the bus next.

You will not defeat Trump with appeals to the rule of law or being nice. He doesn’t care about those things.

You defeat him like you do any bully: by punching back.
January 21, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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Our democracy is rigged for the billionaire class.

If you want to know why your wages are shitty and health care is too expensive and your kids’ school is falling apart - that’s why.
SCOOP: Elon Musk has cut a massive $10 million check to bolster an outsider, pro-Trump candidate running to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell.

The stunning gift is the biggest sign yet that Musk plans to spend big in the 2026 midterms.
Scoop: Musk shocks with $10 million donation in Ky. Senate race
It's the biggest sign yet that Musk plans to spend big for Republicans in the 2026 midterms.
www.axios.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
January 20, 2026 at 12:47 PM
I prefer to call it the Pact of Steal
Just cut to the chase and call it the Axis Powers Board.
January 19, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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Springsteen at an unbilled performance at a Parkinson’s benefit Sat. in NJ—

“…send a message to this President. And as the Mayor of that city has said, ‘ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.’ So this one is for you, and the memory of the mother of three and American citizen Renee Good.”
Promised Land - for Renee Good, Bruce Springsteen, Light of Day, 1/17/26, Count Basie Theater
YouTube video by MarcGlenRock
m.youtube.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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Bruce Springsteen dedicated a performance of ‘The Promised Land’ to slain ICE watcher Renee Good. He also called out ICE’s ‘Gestapo tactics,’ telling them to get out of Minneapolis.
Bruce Springsteen Dedicates Performance of ‘The Promised Land’ to Renee Good
Bruce Springsteen dedicated a performance of ‘The Promised Land’ to slain ICE watcher Renee Good. He also called out ICE’s ‘Gestapo tactics,’ telling them to get out of Minneapolis.
www.vulture.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:40 PM
The latest issue of Synthesizing Sense features @laurajedeed.bsky.social both for her outstanding investigative journalism on ICE recruitment procedures (or lack of same), and also for her compelling essay "How To Do Enough" which encourages us all.

davelelacheur.substack.com/p/synthesizi...
Synthesizing Sense, Vol. 54
An attempt to cut through the fog to see what is really happening and how it matters, through the lens of wargames, sports, history, scifi, and music.
davelelacheur.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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Still hard to believe that there are videos and witnesses to someone shooting a woman in the face three times. Yet the shooter has not been arrested even though the police know who and where he is.
January 17, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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Four GOP Senators.

At most four Repubs in the House.

Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
I can't repeat this enough.
I've said this before and I'll say it again.
It would only take a tiny handful of Republican Congress members or senators to stop the slide of America toward authoritarian fascism, but nope. They're all in.
January 17, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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block immediately everyone
January 16, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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🙃

This FB post is public.
January 16, 2026 at 11:24 PM