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@ebongreen.bsky.social
· Nov 18
I couldn't fall asleep the night of Nov 7th because I was so upset at the election results. So I sat up in bed and wrote the following on another social media space. (There will be expletives.)🧵
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“The dominant faction within the Democratic Party is trying to stop ICE abolition instead of championing it. Every single official, consultant or journalist who joins onto that effort is a moral accomplice of Jonathan Ross, Greg Bovino, Kristy Noem and Donald Trump”
Inspiration and spiritual fortitude for a political fight we need to have.
Martin Luther King Jr. Warned About The Anti-Abolish-ICE Democrat
The heritage that valued order over justice during the civil rights movement animates the Democrat elected and consultant who wants to "retrain" a nativist death squad
www.forever-wars.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:47 PM
“The dominant faction within the Democratic Party is trying to stop ICE abolition instead of championing it. Every single official, consultant or journalist who joins onto that effort is a moral accomplice of Jonathan Ross, Greg Bovino, Kristy Noem and Donald Trump”
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I love recommendations in this column on how to build a radically truthful news outlet. The truth is, ethical journalists are required to resist passing along lies and obfuscations, even when lots of people believe them. ESPECIALLY when lots of people believe them. READ: https://loom.ly/rF9t36k
How to build a radically truthful news outlet
The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.
www.stopthepresses.news
January 19, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I love recommendations in this column on how to build a radically truthful news outlet. The truth is, ethical journalists are required to resist passing along lies and obfuscations, even when lots of people believe them. ESPECIALLY when lots of people believe them. READ: https://loom.ly/rF9t36k
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fantastic piece from my colleague @polgreen.bsky.social that gets at something i have been thinking about. what, exactly, is the administration's strategic goal in minnesota? what does "victory" look like for trump and miller?
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:41 PM
fantastic piece from my colleague @polgreen.bsky.social that gets at something i have been thinking about. what, exactly, is the administration's strategic goal in minnesota? what does "victory" look like for trump and miller?
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this is the most ridiculous thing
we could make life enormously less stressful and awful by simply Not Doing Any Of This
call off the ICE goons, rescind the tariffs, stop threatening Greenland
just stop it! problem(s) solved!
we could make life enormously less stressful and awful by simply Not Doing Any Of This
call off the ICE goons, rescind the tariffs, stop threatening Greenland
just stop it! problem(s) solved!
every single goddam crisis happening right now is self imposed
January 19, 2026 at 5:54 PM
this is the most ridiculous thing
we could make life enormously less stressful and awful by simply Not Doing Any Of This
call off the ICE goons, rescind the tariffs, stop threatening Greenland
just stop it! problem(s) solved!
we could make life enormously less stressful and awful by simply Not Doing Any Of This
call off the ICE goons, rescind the tariffs, stop threatening Greenland
just stop it! problem(s) solved!
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ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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“Paid agitators” is a line that goes wayyyy back, to at least the 1930s if not before
Conservative papers stated that many of the Bonus Marchers of 1932 were paid to be fomenting unrest
The recycled bullshit is terribly translucent - save for those who choose to believe the nonsense
Conservative papers stated that many of the Bonus Marchers of 1932 were paid to be fomenting unrest
The recycled bullshit is terribly translucent - save for those who choose to believe the nonsense
Rep. Byron Donalds: "These agitators -- who by the way are paid, folks. America, they are paid to do this kind of mess."
January 19, 2026 at 4:38 PM
“Paid agitators” is a line that goes wayyyy back, to at least the 1930s if not before
Conservative papers stated that many of the Bonus Marchers of 1932 were paid to be fomenting unrest
The recycled bullshit is terribly translucent - save for those who choose to believe the nonsense
Conservative papers stated that many of the Bonus Marchers of 1932 were paid to be fomenting unrest
The recycled bullshit is terribly translucent - save for those who choose to believe the nonsense
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“No recalibrated or sanitized version of the assault that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now, most prominently Minneapolis, is available to them or anyone else. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror: The policy is the terror, and the terror is the policy.”
Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn
So the president doesn’t like the “optics” of what ICE is doing. But there’s no such thing as sanitized, popular mass deportations—and this is by design.
newrepublic.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
“No recalibrated or sanitized version of the assault that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now, most prominently Minneapolis, is available to them or anyone else. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror: The policy is the terror, and the terror is the policy.”
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An intrinsically unbelievable claim btw
From @404media.co,
“ICE has told lawmakers the app, called Mobile Fortify, provides a “definitive” determination of someone’s immigration status, and should be trusted over a birth certificate. “
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
“ICE has told lawmakers the app, called Mobile Fortify, provides a “definitive” determination of someone’s immigration status, and should be trusted over a birth certificate. “
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...
www.404media.co
January 19, 2026 at 3:13 PM
An intrinsically unbelievable claim btw
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I do not want to see any mealy-mouthed MLK remembrances from any Minnesota company that’s not doing shit about this ICE occupation.
January 19, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I do not want to see any mealy-mouthed MLK remembrances from any Minnesota company that’s not doing shit about this ICE occupation.
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“Just following orders” didn’t work at Nuremberg, and it won’t work now. Fuck this guy.
In an interview with @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social, Blas Nuñez-Neto wouldn't tell us his clients, but did say we should remember that ICE agents are people too. (Can't believe this quote below)
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
![Nuñez-Neto recommended that protesters understand that ICE agents are people, too.
“I think it would help both sides to appreciate the fact that that’s a human being across from you who may or may not want to do the things they’ve been ordered to do. In my long history being in and out of the Department [of Homeland Security], it is very often what makes the news are the terrible things that happen but what doesn’t get reported are the … stories about agents bringing toys into the border patrol station,” he said.
“We’re all human beings, many of them have families, many of them don’t want to be doing what they’ve been directed to do … so it would help us all to lower the temperature a bit. I’m angry too.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nztbvvo2gl4227zuxjf7gog3/bafkreia3sqpgq4ufvy746ld4tuadfwuf7ul4so6u2wjhf5oggd6kzxibtm@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
“Just following orders” didn’t work at Nuremberg, and it won’t work now. Fuck this guy.
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CM Chavez, to some of us olds around this town, you ARE one of our babies. Love you and the work you’re doing and the way you love this City.
January 18, 2026 at 10:51 PM
CM Chavez, to some of us olds around this town, you ARE one of our babies. Love you and the work you’re doing and the way you love this City.
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We're not talking enough about how much the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department run by Dawanna Witt is collaborating with ICE. Arresting at Whipple, working with ICE to arrest legal observers, failing to trespass ICE when not welcome in hospitals and schools. Shame.
January 19, 2026 at 3:10 AM
We're not talking enough about how much the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department run by Dawanna Witt is collaborating with ICE. Arresting at Whipple, working with ICE to arrest legal observers, failing to trespass ICE when not welcome in hospitals and schools. Shame.
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This, right here 🎯💯. I’ve been trying to communicate this to people, as a native 🇨🇦, for a year now. Again, the fact that this wasn’t immediately seen as a presidency-ending, beyond-the-pale thing for all 535 Congresspeople, the media, & the public is deeply ugly & shameful for us as a country.
Good rule of thumb for friends is to imagine if China decided to start loudly discussing taking Hawaii, and how quickly you'd see red, and how unfunny you'd find it, and how belligerent your reaction to it would be. That is how Europeans and Canadians feel about this rhetoric from the US.
January 19, 2026 at 4:21 AM
This, right here 🎯💯. I’ve been trying to communicate this to people, as a native 🇨🇦, for a year now. Again, the fact that this wasn’t immediately seen as a presidency-ending, beyond-the-pale thing for all 535 Congresspeople, the media, & the public is deeply ugly & shameful for us as a country.
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Schumer and Jeffries must step down from leadership if we have any hope to reform this country.
They are all part of the same club. They work for the corporate donors and all they want is restoration.
They won't fight b/c it's not in their interest.
It's so clear and yet still...
They are all part of the same club. They work for the corporate donors and all they want is restoration.
They won't fight b/c it's not in their interest.
It's so clear and yet still...
January 19, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Schumer and Jeffries must step down from leadership if we have any hope to reform this country.
They are all part of the same club. They work for the corporate donors and all they want is restoration.
They won't fight b/c it's not in their interest.
It's so clear and yet still...
They are all part of the same club. They work for the corporate donors and all they want is restoration.
They won't fight b/c it's not in their interest.
It's so clear and yet still...
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Just wanna make it clear for folks:
The same way Civil Rights protestors has hoses and dogs set on them? They're causing these life-changing injuries on purpose. They want to scare you off the streets.
The same way Civil Rights protestors has hoses and dogs set on them? They're causing these life-changing injuries on purpose. They want to scare you off the streets.
US federal forces blind two protesters shot in face with ‘less-lethal’ munitions
Kaden Rummler and Britain Rodriguez tell KTLA and LA Times of being shot at close range during California protest
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Kaden Rummler and Britain Rodriguez tell KTLA and LA Times of being shot at close range during California protest
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US federal forces blind two protesters shot in face with ‘less-lethal’ munitions
Kaden Rummler and Britain Rodriguez tell KTLA and LA Times of being shot at close range during California protest
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Just wanna make it clear for folks:
The same way Civil Rights protestors has hoses and dogs set on them? They're causing these life-changing injuries on purpose. They want to scare you off the streets.
The same way Civil Rights protestors has hoses and dogs set on them? They're causing these life-changing injuries on purpose. They want to scare you off the streets.
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The journalist who coined the phrase “the #GreatestMEdicalScandal of the 21st century” got interested in ME after this same psych lobby accused him of spreading Long Covid by writing about it. He was so taken aback by their absurdity that he investigated further:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 19, 2026 at 4:40 AM
The journalist who coined the phrase “the #GreatestMEdicalScandal of the 21st century” got interested in ME after this same psych lobby accused him of spreading Long Covid by writing about it. He was so taken aback by their absurdity that he investigated further:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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January 18, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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it's 100% what they expected. Conservatives think of Minneapolis' white people as scared of our neighbors, especially the immigrants. But that's because *they're* scared, not because we are. They cannot imagine being in a city with such diversity and enjoying it.
To those saying “nuh-uh, ICE picked Minneapolis because they WANTED the city to rise up as one against them” -
no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.
no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 19, 2026 at 2:21 AM
it's 100% what they expected. Conservatives think of Minneapolis' white people as scared of our neighbors, especially the immigrants. But that's because *they're* scared, not because we are. They cannot imagine being in a city with such diversity and enjoying it.
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I am a life-long, active DFLer in Minneapolis; lived here for 34 years. I work on campaigns and I have followed you, Simon, for almost as long. The state DFL party has actively attacked the Minneapolis DFL as being too leftist. The party LOVES to criticize and tone-police young city activists 1/
January 17, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I am a life-long, active DFLer in Minneapolis; lived here for 34 years. I work on campaigns and I have followed you, Simon, for almost as long. The state DFL party has actively attacked the Minneapolis DFL as being too leftist. The party LOVES to criticize and tone-police young city activists 1/
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Schumer is a liability and must be replaced
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 19, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Schumer is a liability and must be replaced
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St. Paul plow drivers should take direct action in retaliation to this.
Plow snow up higher than the eye can see at the Whipple building's entrance
Plow snow up higher than the eye can see at the Whipple building's entrance
Plow driver for the City of St Paul — with legal status and valid commercial drivers license — taken by ICE and sent to El Paso, TX.
youtu.be/tQ3l4OvriBw?...
youtu.be/tQ3l4OvriBw?...
St. Paul Public Works says worker illegally detained by ICE
St. Paul Public Works Director Sean Kershaw says one of the department's employees was detained by ICE agents last week.
The department says he was legally authorized to work in the U.S. by the…
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 12:39 AM
St. Paul plow drivers should take direct action in retaliation to this.
Plow snow up higher than the eye can see at the Whipple building's entrance
Plow snow up higher than the eye can see at the Whipple building's entrance
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You just described stop and frisk only they're including white people now
Being required to present proof of citizenship to someone not required to present proof they're actually law enforcement is one hell of a dichotomy
January 18, 2026 at 8:46 PM
You just described stop and frisk only they're including white people now
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question for all you folks out there who believe in police reform in Minneapolis - shouldn't MPD be investigating and arresting the person who assaulted a 6 month old baby and sent him to the hospital unconscious and unable to breathe?
January 18, 2026 at 10:23 PM
question for all you folks out there who believe in police reform in Minneapolis - shouldn't MPD be investigating and arresting the person who assaulted a 6 month old baby and sent him to the hospital unconscious and unable to breathe?
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Gabe here just woke up from a 30-year coma
January 18, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Gabe here just woke up from a 30-year coma