Sparky
@jesseroth.bsky.social
We're living in a Shakespearean tragedy
Trump Heads to Davos Amid Deep Worries About U.S.-European Alliance
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:55 AM
We're living in a Shakespearean tragedy
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pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
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Did not expect David to be writing about the dual state, but I agree with him.
I invoked it last month at workshop with respect to the boat strikes.
The administration has asserted a prerogative to kill outside the law abroad and now at home.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
I invoked it last month at workshop with respect to the boat strikes.
The administration has asserted a prerogative to kill outside the law abroad and now at home.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
Opinion | An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Did not expect David to be writing about the dual state, but I agree with him.
I invoked it last month at workshop with respect to the boat strikes.
The administration has asserted a prerogative to kill outside the law abroad and now at home.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
I invoked it last month at workshop with respect to the boat strikes.
The administration has asserted a prerogative to kill outside the law abroad and now at home.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
Remembering when I first read The Handmaid's Tale in 1985 and we all thought it was dystopian fiction
Hoo boy, First Amendment watch: The North Dakota Attorney General sent a cease-and-desist letter to an abortion fund for simply linking to @plancpills.bsky.social. AG claims the link constitutes promoting and facilitating access to medicine without a prescription under the state’s consumer fraud law
North Dakota AG orders abortion fund to remove links to medication companies from its website • North Dakota Monitor
The North Dakota Attorney General’s Office on Friday ordered a Fargo nonprofit to stop promoting certain abortion pill providers on its website.
northdakotamonitor.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Remembering when I first read The Handmaid's Tale in 1985 and we all thought it was dystopian fiction
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Today, Minneapolis had their annual Powderhorn Art Sled Rally. A community organized event that this time featured de-Icer sleds and bowling pins named for world leaders.
A very Minnesotan way to protest ICE. 😍🙌🏻
A very Minnesotan way to protest ICE. 😍🙌🏻
January 18, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Today, Minneapolis had their annual Powderhorn Art Sled Rally. A community organized event that this time featured de-Icer sleds and bowling pins named for world leaders.
A very Minnesotan way to protest ICE. 😍🙌🏻
A very Minnesotan way to protest ICE. 😍🙌🏻
THIS
I have a concrete suggestion in response to Trump and his gestapo’s “f**k you” to the rule of law: “Democratic senators and representatives should be flying to Minnesota now and standing together in a show of force and solidarity.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump Hates America
He shows it with his middle finger, literally, and by his daily attacks against American interests and our people. He must be defeated.
www.americaamerica.news
January 17, 2026 at 8:25 AM
THIS
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MN ICE watch is measurably de-escalating violence. Attraction to ICE for newbies is social approval & group power. Now, larger group meets them with social censure. They're using more agents (taken from elsewhere) to conduct relatively fewer arrests, lowering abductions there & beyond.
January 17, 2026 at 4:47 AM
MN ICE watch is measurably de-escalating violence. Attraction to ICE for newbies is social approval & group power. Now, larger group meets them with social censure. They're using more agents (taken from elsewhere) to conduct relatively fewer arrests, lowering abductions there & beyond.
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
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The NY Times concludes that the ICE agent who shot Renee Good was NOT hit by her car
“the visual evidence shows no indication that..Jonathan Ross, had been run over..It also establishes-millisecond by millisecond-how Mr. Ross put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place”
“the visual evidence shows no indication that..Jonathan Ross, had been run over..It also establishes-millisecond by millisecond-how Mr. Ross put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place”
January 16, 2026 at 5:57 AM
The NY Times concludes that the ICE agent who shot Renee Good was NOT hit by her car
“the visual evidence shows no indication that..Jonathan Ross, had been run over..It also establishes-millisecond by millisecond-how Mr. Ross put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place”
“the visual evidence shows no indication that..Jonathan Ross, had been run over..It also establishes-millisecond by millisecond-how Mr. Ross put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place”
"These cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution.” says Reagan-appointed judge. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
“I find it breathtaking that I have been compelled on the evidence to find the conduct of such high-level officers of our government — cabinet secretaries — conspired to infringe the First Amendment rights of people,” Young said.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
‘Unconstitutional conspiracy’: Judge slams Trump administration over targeted deportations
A Reagan appointee pointedly rebuked decisions by Trump, Rubio and Noem.
www.politico.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:10 AM
"These cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution.” says Reagan-appointed judge. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This might be my next protest sign
Look here, Beelzebub, you don’t do it
January 14, 2026 at 6:44 AM
This might be my next protest sign
#boycottTarget harder!
ICE and CBP agents arrested 2 U.S. citizens working at a Target.
Can you guess their ethnicity?
You can unfortunately because ICE is discriminating on skin color.
Working legally while brown gets you this in Trump's America.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
Can you guess their ethnicity?
You can unfortunately because ICE is discriminating on skin color.
Working legally while brown gets you this in Trump's America.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...
January 11, 2026 at 11:52 PM
#boycottTarget harder!
Republican SCOTUS justices own Nicole Good's murder and every murder of an unarmed civilian to come from unleashing America's Hitler. #ICEout
This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV.
The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
January 10, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Republican SCOTUS justices own Nicole Good's murder and every murder of an unarmed civilian to come from unleashing America's Hitler. #ICEout
This is terrifying. These are Trump's paramilitary, no different than Hitler's SS, and no one is safe.
"Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
This video was filmed yesterday in St. Louis Park, MN — a nearby suburb of Minneapolis. I do not know the person who filmed it, but this incident is very clear and terrifying example of what has been happening here over the past week or so.
This video was filmed yesterday in St. Louis Park, MN — a nearby suburb of Minneapolis. I do not know the person who filmed it, but this incident is very clear and terrifying example of what has been happening here over the past week or so.
January 10, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is terrifying. These are Trump's paramilitary, no different than Hitler's SS, and no one is safe.
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If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.
January 10, 2026 at 1:34 AM
If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.
re-upping this for no particular reason. Happy 1939! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Donald Trump’s Hitlerian logic is no mistake | Sidney Blumenthal
The former president claims to have never read Mein Kampf. But his use of blood and soil rhetoric is deliberate
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
re-upping this for no particular reason. Happy 1939! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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❌📢NO TRUMP NO TROOPS 📢❌
Emergency mobilization against National Guard deployment in New Orleans
Rally at 5:30pm by the gates of Armstrong Park followed by a march through the French Quarter.
Be prepared to travel light because the National Guard is searching bags.
Emergency mobilization against National Guard deployment in New Orleans
Rally at 5:30pm by the gates of Armstrong Park followed by a march through the French Quarter.
Be prepared to travel light because the National Guard is searching bags.
January 2, 2026 at 3:00 AM
❌📢NO TRUMP NO TROOPS 📢❌
Emergency mobilization against National Guard deployment in New Orleans
Rally at 5:30pm by the gates of Armstrong Park followed by a march through the French Quarter.
Be prepared to travel light because the National Guard is searching bags.
Emergency mobilization against National Guard deployment in New Orleans
Rally at 5:30pm by the gates of Armstrong Park followed by a march through the French Quarter.
Be prepared to travel light because the National Guard is searching bags.
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Let’s finish the job
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
January 2, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Let’s finish the job
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🚨 USPS Postmark Change Alert 🚨
“Your mailbox date ≠ official postmark date”
What to do:
1️⃣ Mail early.
2️⃣ Ask for a manual postmark at drop-off.
3️⃣ Use electronic filing/payment whenever possible.
Spread the word! This will affect voting IMMEDIATELY.
Credit to @cjnlegalnurse for the vid
“Your mailbox date ≠ official postmark date”
What to do:
1️⃣ Mail early.
2️⃣ Ask for a manual postmark at drop-off.
3️⃣ Use electronic filing/payment whenever possible.
Spread the word! This will affect voting IMMEDIATELY.
Credit to @cjnlegalnurse for the vid
December 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🚨 USPS Postmark Change Alert 🚨
“Your mailbox date ≠ official postmark date”
What to do:
1️⃣ Mail early.
2️⃣ Ask for a manual postmark at drop-off.
3️⃣ Use electronic filing/payment whenever possible.
Spread the word! This will affect voting IMMEDIATELY.
Credit to @cjnlegalnurse for the vid
“Your mailbox date ≠ official postmark date”
What to do:
1️⃣ Mail early.
2️⃣ Ask for a manual postmark at drop-off.
3️⃣ Use electronic filing/payment whenever possible.
Spread the word! This will affect voting IMMEDIATELY.
Credit to @cjnlegalnurse for the vid
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It’s a white nationalist Christmas! www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
Trump ordered 2 new federal holidays for Christmas week: Here's what to know
Mail will still be delivered on Dec. 24 and 26, but some offices will be closed.
www.ctinsider.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It’s a white nationalist Christmas! www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
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Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!
Tell Congress: Require ICE to unmask and display clear identification
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!
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Texas faces a power grid overload due to a surge in demand from Al
Utility CEO on the data center crunch: America's 'check engine light' is on and 'no one's going to pay attention until it breaks down' | Fortune
"We are telling policy makers the warning lights are on," Exelon CEO Calvin Butler told Diane Brady at Fortune Brainstorm AI in San Francisco.
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December 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Texas faces a power grid overload due to a surge in demand from Al
I know there are more important things to be mad at @nytimes.com for, but this burns me.
December 24, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I know there are more important things to be mad at @nytimes.com for, but this burns me.