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Every few weeks we get a story like this and it always fizzle out. Stephen Miller is in control. Let's not pretend otherwise. Even when Brooke Rollins convinced Trump to *publicly* say he'd back off of some raids, it took Miller just 48 hours to browbeat Trump into changing his mind.
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 16, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Every few weeks we get a story like this and it always fizzle out. Stephen Miller is in control. Let's not pretend otherwise. Even when Brooke Rollins convinced Trump to *publicly* say he'd back off of some raids, it took Miller just 48 hours to browbeat Trump into changing his mind.
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Rick McKee @rmckee.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Rick McKee @rmckee.bsky.social
It is absolutely fucking hilarious that the Venzuelan ghoul gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize like unironically that is sending me
January 16, 2026 at 3:06 AM
It is absolutely fucking hilarious that the Venzuelan ghoul gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize like unironically that is sending me
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You're telling me a woman was forced to give up her trophy to a biological male
María Corina Machado on her meeting with Trump: “I presented the president of the United States with the Nobel Peace Prize”
January 15, 2026 at 9:53 PM
You're telling me a woman was forced to give up her trophy to a biological male
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This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.
Another critical piece of missing context in this story: tax dollars flow from the MSP metro to rural Minnesota. People in the city subsidize the lifestyles of people living in the country minnesotareformer.com/2023/12/04/t...
January 15, 2026 at 3:48 PM
This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.
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If these monsters were trained, being outnumbered by crowds would be less effective.
As it is, they have absolutely no fucking clue what to do and they are getting run out of every situation they force themselves into.
Dems calling for training are just pushing more, worse violence.
As it is, they have absolutely no fucking clue what to do and they are getting run out of every situation they force themselves into.
Dems calling for training are just pushing more, worse violence.
January 16, 2026 at 1:05 AM
If these monsters were trained, being outnumbered by crowds would be less effective.
As it is, they have absolutely no fucking clue what to do and they are getting run out of every situation they force themselves into.
Dems calling for training are just pushing more, worse violence.
As it is, they have absolutely no fucking clue what to do and they are getting run out of every situation they force themselves into.
Dems calling for training are just pushing more, worse violence.
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This is driving me crazy. Rogan did not call ICE the gestapo. He said he can see why people say that, after saying that Renee Good was crazy and he can see the other side of the argument that Somalians were being mass imported to rig elections and “hijack democracy.”
January 15, 2026 at 10:50 PM
This is driving me crazy. Rogan did not call ICE the gestapo. He said he can see why people say that, after saying that Renee Good was crazy and he can see the other side of the argument that Somalians were being mass imported to rig elections and “hijack democracy.”
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Republican South Carolina state Rep. RJ May sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison today.
5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material.
He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.
5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material.
He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.
GOP lawmaker said trans people “harm” children. Now he's going to prison for child porn. - LGBTQ Nation
He was caught sharing hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Republican South Carolina state Rep. RJ May sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison today.
5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material.
He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.
5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material.
He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.
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mfs posting "general strike now!" we can't even get you to stop supporting Amazon and Starbucks
January 12, 2026 at 5:56 PM
mfs posting "general strike now!" we can't even get you to stop supporting Amazon and Starbucks
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there's going to be a temptation to say that she had this coming but the reality is that this is about a billionaire misogynist pedophile eugenicist asserting himself over a woman and the products of her reproductive labor to rob her of child by using the courts he has contracted into his service.
January 12, 2026 at 5:38 PM
there's going to be a temptation to say that she had this coming but the reality is that this is about a billionaire misogynist pedophile eugenicist asserting himself over a woman and the products of her reproductive labor to rob her of child by using the courts he has contracted into his service.
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And this is why you chase ICE. Every minute these worthless thugs spend running from us is a minute they can’t be doing this.
Someone sent me this video of Trump’s goons in action today in the Twin Cities. The audio is disturbing.
January 11, 2026 at 11:38 PM
And this is why you chase ICE. Every minute these worthless thugs spend running from us is a minute they can’t be doing this.
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If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
January 11, 2026 at 9:28 AM
If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
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Future historians are going to have make up all sorts of complicated and structural reasons to explain the collapse of NATO and the Arctic War of 2026 because the truth is just way too stupid to believe.
January 11, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Future historians are going to have make up all sorts of complicated and structural reasons to explain the collapse of NATO and the Arctic War of 2026 because the truth is just way too stupid to believe.
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The guy who first dressed as Portland Frog, a major symbol of our protest and then other national protests, has been arrested while peacefully protesting. Prints of this painting by Simran Gleason are being sold to support his defense. www.simrangleason.com/prints/p/por... #pdx #protest
January 10, 2026 at 8:46 PM
The guy who first dressed as Portland Frog, a major symbol of our protest and then other national protests, has been arrested while peacefully protesting. Prints of this painting by Simran Gleason are being sold to support his defense. www.simrangleason.com/prints/p/por... #pdx #protest
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Granted I’m biased but I actually don’t think that looking like a lesbian should justify summary executions.
January 11, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Granted I’m biased but I actually don’t think that looking like a lesbian should justify summary executions.
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Republicans somehow managed to sprint from “we’re trying to protect women in sports” straight to defending a woman being shot in the head three times at point blank range for trying to drive away from a masked thug.
January 10, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Republicans somehow managed to sprint from “we’re trying to protect women in sports” straight to defending a woman being shot in the head three times at point blank range for trying to drive away from a masked thug.
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Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz died in ICE custody earlier this week. His daughter-in-law has set up a GoFundMe to raise $1.4k to cover the expense of returning his body to Honduras. Please help if you can.
Donate to Luis Beltrán yanez cruz, organized by Karen pineda
hola.. me llamo Karen nuera del fallecido Luis Yanez el falleció el día de hoy ala 1 am el estaba… Karen pineda needs your support for Luis Beltrán yanez cruz
www.gofundme.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz died in ICE custody earlier this week. His daughter-in-law has set up a GoFundMe to raise $1.4k to cover the expense of returning his body to Honduras. Please help if you can.
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I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is
January 7, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is
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Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.
January 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.
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The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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January 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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none of them. they all played games on the bones of dead slaves in Qatar, they don’t care. if you’re expecting a show of humanity from international soccer, you’re going to be badly disappointed
Who will be the first country to announce a boycott of the FIFA World Cup?
January 8, 2026 at 2:59 AM
none of them. they all played games on the bones of dead slaves in Qatar, they don’t care. if you’re expecting a show of humanity from international soccer, you’re going to be badly disappointed
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The murdered woman's glove compartment is filled with stuffed animals.
January 7, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The murdered woman's glove compartment is filled with stuffed animals.
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someone in the comms office needs to sit down for two seconds, read the first part of this again, think about how absolutely fucking batshit it is, and try again with the rest of it
they’re threatening a military takeover of greenland! what the fuck!
they’re threatening a military takeover of greenland! what the fuck!
The White House is laser focused on threatening a military takeover of Greenland.
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
January 7, 2026 at 4:34 PM
someone in the comms office needs to sit down for two seconds, read the first part of this again, think about how absolutely fucking batshit it is, and try again with the rest of it
they’re threatening a military takeover of greenland! what the fuck!
they’re threatening a military takeover of greenland! what the fuck!