Jack Q
@jackq.bsky.social
Bisexual Satanist veteran who's really into Martin Luther King Jr.
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism."
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism."
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Jack Q
@jackq.bsky.social
· Jun 27
BREAKING: Parents win in a free exercise challenge to what the Supreme Court calls "LGBTQ+-inclusive" texts in a school. Alito, for the 6-3 court, reverses the Fourth Circuit in a case over a school district's lack of any parental "opt-out policy" over those texts. Sotomayor writes the dissent.
www.supremecourt.gov
The current track record for the "extremist position" being correct is pretty lopsided
Abolish ICE
Pack the court
Defund police
Arrest trump
These have all been proven to be the correct position.
Abolish ICE
Pack the court
Defund police
Arrest trump
These have all been proven to be the correct position.
Seeing the severity of everything happening in Minnesota makes me very concerned about what thousands of armed men will do when they come to believe they face prison if their dictator loses power.
NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force.
w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 17, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Seeing the severity of everything happening in Minnesota makes me very concerned about what thousands of armed men will do when they come to believe they face prison if their dictator loses power.
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This is bad. Like Reconstruction Era bad. www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
DOJ investigating Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents
Federal prosecutors are investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly impeding immigration agents, sources told CBS News, an extraordinary escalation in the Trum...
www.cbsnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:06 PM
This is bad. Like Reconstruction Era bad. www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
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The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session:
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
These will all go to 2026 referendums.
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
These will all go to 2026 referendums.
January 16, 2026 at 7:50 PM
The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session:
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
These will all go to 2026 referendums.
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
These will all go to 2026 referendums.
It's very funny that trump, a guy with a long history of using people and ditching them at the earliest convenience, can't see that Putin is using him and will ditch him at the earliest convenience. Trump thinks they're buddies, pals, that he's in the club. He isn't.
Trump/Krasnov is straining relations with European allies, which creates division within the alliance and benefits Russia's long-term goal of diminishing American hegemony in Europe.
Putin and Xi are laughing their asses off at us.
Putin and Xi are laughing their asses off at us.
January 16, 2026 at 10:28 PM
It's very funny that trump, a guy with a long history of using people and ditching them at the earliest convenience, can't see that Putin is using him and will ditch him at the earliest convenience. Trump thinks they're buddies, pals, that he's in the club. He isn't.
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The ICE guy I was tailing decided to show me he knows where I live. You can’t really see in the video, but as he drove past my place he reached out the window and pointed at my apartment. Real tough guy
January 16, 2026 at 8:13 PM
The ICE guy I was tailing decided to show me he knows where I live. You can’t really see in the video, but as he drove past my place he reached out the window and pointed at my apartment. Real tough guy
Uh, sure, the "left" isn't protesting because pro Iran is anti America or something. Hey, then why isn't the right out protesting in solidarity even after Trump has said he supports the Iranian protesters?
Not a single shred of evidence that these views are widely shared on the American left.
It's true that the Iranian uprising hasn't gotten a lot of attention but that's mostly because the Minneapolis ICE shit is so enraging, not because we support the regime. Come the fuck on.
It's true that the Iranian uprising hasn't gotten a lot of attention but that's mostly because the Minneapolis ICE shit is so enraging, not because we support the regime. Come the fuck on.
January 16, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Uh, sure, the "left" isn't protesting because pro Iran is anti America or something. Hey, then why isn't the right out protesting in solidarity even after Trump has said he supports the Iranian protesters?
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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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elected democrats who want their constituents to remain non-violent in their protests of these abuses must actually offer a path for ending the abuses non-violently. they currently are not as a party and it’s a major problem.
🚨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 11:07 PM
elected democrats who want their constituents to remain non-violent in their protests of these abuses must actually offer a path for ending the abuses non-violently. they currently are not as a party and it’s a major problem.
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Quit talking about Trump. Address everything, every issue to Miller and Vought. Make Trump irrelevant, his ego will not let him be out of the spotlight and you’ll see Miller and Vought removed and the rest of the administration collapse.
January 14, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Quit talking about Trump. Address everything, every issue to Miller and Vought. Make Trump irrelevant, his ego will not let him be out of the spotlight and you’ll see Miller and Vought removed and the rest of the administration collapse.
Has anybody talked about how the rural folks who don't like the big city elites telling them how to live because "they don't understand life out here in the country" are fine with sending troops into those cities to control their lives instead of reciprocating that sentiment?
Stage 5 pundit-brain is watching an innocent woman being killed by agents of the state and going, "hmm this says a lot about the urban-rural divide in America."
January 16, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Has anybody talked about how the rural folks who don't like the big city elites telling them how to live because "they don't understand life out here in the country" are fine with sending troops into those cities to control their lives instead of reciprocating that sentiment?
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The basic problem is that high-quality journalism is not a viable market product. If it is not protected from market forces, it will inevitably degenerate into the ragetainment that dominates these days.
Ragetainment is what, measured on a pure impulsive will-they-click-it basis, the public wants.
Ragetainment is what, measured on a pure impulsive will-they-click-it basis, the public wants.
January 16, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The basic problem is that high-quality journalism is not a viable market product. If it is not protected from market forces, it will inevitably degenerate into the ragetainment that dominates these days.
Ragetainment is what, measured on a pure impulsive will-they-click-it basis, the public wants.
Ragetainment is what, measured on a pure impulsive will-they-click-it basis, the public wants.
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Which types of welfare fraud are politely litigated between white collar lawyers, and which types of welfare fraud are used to justify an immigration purge and shutting off resources to the poor?
Kaiser Permanente, DOJ reach $556 million Medicare Advantage fraud settlement, the largest of its kind www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/k...
Kaiser Permanente, DOJ reach $556 million Medicare Advantage fraud settlement, the largest of its kind
Kaiser Permanente and the DOJ reached a $556 million Medicare Advantage fraud settlement, the largest of its kind.
www.statnews.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Which types of welfare fraud are politely litigated between white collar lawyers, and which types of welfare fraud are used to justify an immigration purge and shutting off resources to the poor?
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“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
–The Federalist Papers, Number 47
–The Federalist Papers, Number 47
January 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
–The Federalist Papers, Number 47
–The Federalist Papers, Number 47
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“The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.”
apple.news/Al_h29C6mTMi...
apple.news/Al_h29C6mTMi...
Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants — NPR
The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.
apple.news
January 14, 2026 at 2:55 PM
“The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.”
apple.news/Al_h29C6mTMi...
apple.news/Al_h29C6mTMi...
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One of the reasons it is really important to push back hard on the investigations against people telling the military not to follow illegal orders is because when he invokes the Insurrection Act he is presumably going to be ordering the military to do illegal things and we want people to speak out.
January 15, 2026 at 6:59 AM
One of the reasons it is really important to push back hard on the investigations against people telling the military not to follow illegal orders is because when he invokes the Insurrection Act he is presumably going to be ordering the military to do illegal things and we want people to speak out.
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JUST IN: New ACLU class action lawsuit in Minnesota seeks to bar ICE from stopping Latino and Somali residents without probable cause. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
JUST IN: New ACLU class action lawsuit in Minnesota seeks to bar ICE from stopping Latino and Somali residents without probable cause. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The opposition candidate in Uganda, Bobby Wine, is campaigning with a bulletproof vest and helmet because he's already been shot by police during his campaign. He won the last election but the president refused to step down so he is running again.
We can't even get someone who says "abolish ice"
We can't even get someone who says "abolish ice"
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
The opposition candidate in Uganda, Bobby Wine, is campaigning with a bulletproof vest and helmet because he's already been shot by police during his campaign. He won the last election but the president refused to step down so he is running again.
We can't even get someone who says "abolish ice"
We can't even get someone who says "abolish ice"
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In an interview yesterday with Reuters, President Trump boasted that he has accomplished so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.”
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 1:48 PM
In an interview yesterday with Reuters, President Trump boasted that he has accomplished so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.”
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
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Bro, they are closing schools because teachers need time to make virtual options for non-white students because lawless federal paramilitaries are terrorizing them.
Annnnnddddd St Paul schools are closing next week for 2 days to prepare for virtual learning options.
January 15, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Bro, they are closing schools because teachers need time to make virtual options for non-white students because lawless federal paramilitaries are terrorizing them.
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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.
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Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning.
I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.
I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.
January 15, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning.
I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.
I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.
Read an article that said the victim was shot *in the leg* and then ran. Hmmm.
Wanna bet they shot him while he was running away?
Wanna bet they shot him while he was running away?
Near Lyndale and 24th Ave in Minneapolis tonight, feds have reportedly shot another person.
Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured.
BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle. A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—MPD presence as well.
Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured.
BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle. A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—MPD presence as well.
January 15, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Read an article that said the victim was shot *in the leg* and then ran. Hmmm.
Wanna bet they shot him while he was running away?
Wanna bet they shot him while he was running away?
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I’d argue that it is key. Stealing a citizen’s phone is neither necessary nor proper for ICE agents to conduct their federal responsibilities. It is plainly unlawful conduct that local prosecutors could investigate and charge without Supremacy Clause problems getting in the way and no justification.
Not the key part of this story, obviously... but they *sold* his phone? WTF?
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 14, 2026 at 2:41 AM
I’d argue that it is key. Stealing a citizen’s phone is neither necessary nor proper for ICE agents to conduct their federal responsibilities. It is plainly unlawful conduct that local prosecutors could investigate and charge without Supremacy Clause problems getting in the way and no justification.
Damn if only they had allies who had agreed to help them out in such a situation.
January 14, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Damn if only they had allies who had agreed to help them out in such a situation.