John Rogers
@johnrogers.bsky.social
TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
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ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It - defector.com/ice-agent-ki...
ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It | Defector
On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street. O...
defector.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:18 PM
ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It - defector.com/ice-agent-ki...
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The cycle we’re in is, the group that people want to be serving as an opposition party capable of stopping ICE have for more than two decades handed ICE power, money, and political legitimacy
January 7, 2026 at 9:01 PM
The cycle we’re in is, the group that people want to be serving as an opposition party capable of stopping ICE have for more than two decades handed ICE power, money, and political legitimacy
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small-government conservatism is when a guy in a mask who won't show you his badge shoots you through the window of your car while you're driving away from him
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
small-government conservatism is when a guy in a mask who won't show you his badge shoots you through the window of your car while you're driving away from him
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Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.
A witness shared this video with me showing an ICE officer shooting a driver in an SUV in south Minneapolis. DHS says the woman is dead.
ICE officer fatally shoots driver in Minneapolis
YouTube video by Minnesota Reformer
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January 7, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.
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important message to all bluesky users
January 7, 2026 at 7:53 PM
important message to all bluesky users
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Do not let the failures of prosecution post January 6th happen again. Every second you do not charge this person is a second the massive propaganda apparatus around the federal government will use to create a fog of lies to get him off. Arrest him immediately for killing an American citizen.
January 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Do not let the failures of prosecution post January 6th happen again. Every second you do not charge this person is a second the massive propaganda apparatus around the federal government will use to create a fog of lies to get him off. Arrest him immediately for killing an American citizen.
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Flat-out fucking murder, in broad daylight, by a federal agent.
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
January 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Flat-out fucking murder, in broad daylight, by a federal agent.
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"democrats are actively fighting" bsky.app/profile/kenk...
Meanwhile here’s Rubio and Schumer chopping it up today
January 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
"democrats are actively fighting" bsky.app/profile/kenk...
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Since Noem became head of DHS and ICE further reduced standards for joining the agency while White House officials such as Stephen Miller demanded enforcement quotas, there has been a huge uptick in horrendous violence from ICE. This was predictable, yet it remains shocking and unacceptable.
January 7, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Since Noem became head of DHS and ICE further reduced standards for joining the agency while White House officials such as Stephen Miller demanded enforcement quotas, there has been a huge uptick in horrendous violence from ICE. This was predictable, yet it remains shocking and unacceptable.
Thanks! And yaaaaaaaay fuck.
Just found out that Polymarket was taking bets on whether the U.S. would invade Venezuela. @johnrogers.bsky.social has been shown again to be 10 years too early with his show, The Player.
January 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Thanks! And yaaaaaaaay fuck.
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“DHS Says” is shorthand for “I want you to give the government that has lied since day one about everything, especially its secret police force, the benefit of the doubt”
Federal authorities say an ICE agent, “fearing for his his life” killed a protester during a confrontation Wednesday in south Minneapolis. A presence of federal law enforcement has sparked protesting near East 34th Street and Portland Avenue.
Live updates: ICE says agent, ‘fearing for his life’, kills protester in south Minneapolis
Witnesses reported a person was shot in south Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, amid a large presence of federal law enforcement officers. It was not immediately clear who may have been shot, or who m...
www.mprnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 6:09 PM
“DHS Says” is shorthand for “I want you to give the government that has lied since day one about everything, especially its secret police force, the benefit of the doubt”
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The video shows ICE agents removing the woman's body from the car & carrying her down the road, no ambulance. An onlooker tried to approach to help, identified himself as a doctor & ICE pointed guns at him.
January 7, 2026 at 5:55 PM
The video shows ICE agents removing the woman's body from the car & carrying her down the road, no ambulance. An onlooker tried to approach to help, identified himself as a doctor & ICE pointed guns at him.
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This is at least the third time I can remember where ICE accused someone of "weaponizing" their car against them, and they were lying the other two times
January 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
This is at least the third time I can remember where ICE accused someone of "weaponizing" their car against them, and they were lying the other two times
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The message here should be “we want the shooter.”
Minneapolis mayor is "demanding ICE to leave the city immediately."
January 7, 2026 at 5:37 PM
The message here should be “we want the shooter.”
Abolish Ice, fire them all, and then prosecute everyone, based on every complaint. I don't care if it takes a decade. I want these people ten years from now afraid that their friends and loved ones will find out they worked for ICE.
If ICE can do this to a random woman in a car, they could and would absolutely do this to any elected official, journalists, human rights lawyer, or immigration advocate they deem to be an enemy of the regime
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Abolish Ice, fire them all, and then prosecute everyone, based on every complaint. I don't care if it takes a decade. I want these people ten years from now afraid that their friends and loved ones will find out they worked for ICE.
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Read the whole thing. It's good, I promise.
January 7, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Read the whole thing. It's good, I promise.
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keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense
After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
capitalbnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense
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one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
January 6, 2026 at 9:06 PM
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
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this is precisely what TPUSA has always been. they used to find professors to harass then use the right-wing media ecosystem to harass them (or get them fired), and now they have state power
a fucking pox on all the very concerned Harper's Letter people. this is in part on you.
a fucking pox on all the very concerned Harper's Letter people. this is in part on you.
Meet Savannah Hernandez, the law-and-order influencer from Turning Point USA. She posts, then ICE raids, by Amos Barshad. www.cjr.org/feature/sava...
Turning Point USA’s Savanah Hernandez on her journalistic position.
Turning Point USA’s Savanah Hernandez on her journalistic position.
www.cjr.org
January 7, 2026 at 2:23 PM
this is precisely what TPUSA has always been. they used to find professors to harass then use the right-wing media ecosystem to harass them (or get them fired), and now they have state power
a fucking pox on all the very concerned Harper's Letter people. this is in part on you.
a fucking pox on all the very concerned Harper's Letter people. this is in part on you.
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New: I spoke with a Colombian asylum seeker who was the victim of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ about what it was like to be racially profiled, abducted in front his family and held in ICE detention hours from home for more than a month—despite doing everything “the right way.”
This is Nick’s story.
This is Nick’s story.
The hell of being a target of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’
A Maryland man from Colombia describes his journey from detainment to incarceration—and miraculous freedom.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 7, 2026 at 1:05 PM
New: I spoke with a Colombian asylum seeker who was the victim of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ about what it was like to be racially profiled, abducted in front his family and held in ICE detention hours from home for more than a month—despite doing everything “the right way.”
This is Nick’s story.
This is Nick’s story.
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This anthropomorphized framing of Grok in the media (claiming that Grok has "apologized") only serves the interests of these tech companies. It gives the appearance that some entity has taken responsibility for what is happening, when in reality no one has.
Is anyone going to take accountability for this?
+ Bo Zangeles, Terrorgram, friction-maxxing, Chinese peptides, a political influencer reality show, Tinder 4 Nazis, Trisha Paytas congressional run, the addictive world of livestream fashion auctions
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January 6, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This anthropomorphized framing of Grok in the media (claiming that Grok has "apologized") only serves the interests of these tech companies. It gives the appearance that some entity has taken responsibility for what is happening, when in reality no one has.
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this is how every outlet should refer to X
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
this is how every outlet should refer to X
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At least a major news outlet is finally reporting on the fact that the farmwork exception to child labor laws exists, because basically no one knows it's even a thing, and you can't end something nobody knows exists.
this article is a good example of what i mean — literal kids work the orchards where the bulk of our oranges/lemons are grown, earning a piece-rate that can work out to less than minimum wage, and i genuinely don’t know what you or i can do about it even if it disgusts us. that’s shame
January 6, 2026 at 5:54 PM
At least a major news outlet is finally reporting on the fact that the farmwork exception to child labor laws exists, because basically no one knows it's even a thing, and you can't end something nobody knows exists.
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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this just so perfectly encapsulates the decades-long messaging failures by the dems
Republicans made welfare fraud in Minnesota the most important story in the country. Schumer turned a war for oil into a question about national security briefings.
January 6, 2026 at 2:01 PM
this just so perfectly encapsulates the decades-long messaging failures by the dems