Paul G
@paulgoodman.bsky.social
All around awkward human being. He/Him. Videogame/tabletop game guy. Quite enjoyed Pacific Rim. Formerly @WMDogma from the bad place.
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ok I really love that this judge -- with whom I'm certain I'd disagree on much -- concludes his opinion by throwing the "you should be grateful" line back at the people who love to tell people that criticize them to say thank you instead
February 12, 2026 at 6:25 PM
ok I really love that this judge -- with whom I'm certain I'd disagree on much -- concludes his opinion by throwing the "you should be grateful" line back at the people who love to tell people that criticize them to say thank you instead
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The ICE List
“There were no attacks on members of the KKK—it was a boycott of them in public life, and then slowly the KKK disappeared.
That’s what we’re trying to do here, to allow the public to know which of their neighbours are involved in this.”
– ICE List Founder
bsky.app/profile/mria...
“There were no attacks on members of the KKK—it was a boycott of them in public life, and then slowly the KKK disappeared.
That’s what we’re trying to do here, to allow the public to know which of their neighbours are involved in this.”
– ICE List Founder
bsky.app/profile/mria...
February 12, 2026 at 2:43 PM
The ICE List
“There were no attacks on members of the KKK—it was a boycott of them in public life, and then slowly the KKK disappeared.
That’s what we’re trying to do here, to allow the public to know which of their neighbours are involved in this.”
– ICE List Founder
bsky.app/profile/mria...
“There were no attacks on members of the KKK—it was a boycott of them in public life, and then slowly the KKK disappeared.
That’s what we’re trying to do here, to allow the public to know which of their neighbours are involved in this.”
– ICE List Founder
bsky.app/profile/mria...
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we know this, but a reminder: anytime ICE CBP etc says they’re drawing down their presence in a city, it’s bullshit. whatever their numbers, lawless federal agents remain behind & still cause havoc & kidnap people. Also relocated agents just go somewhere else to destroy lives. Abolish ICE end DHS
February 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
we know this, but a reminder: anytime ICE CBP etc says they’re drawing down their presence in a city, it’s bullshit. whatever their numbers, lawless federal agents remain behind & still cause havoc & kidnap people. Also relocated agents just go somewhere else to destroy lives. Abolish ICE end DHS
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The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!
February 12, 2026 at 4:06 PM
The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!
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It is not a coincidence that the Minnesota occupation is “ending” right before the Senate is due to vote on funding for ICE.
The fascists want you to think it’s all over and to disengage, but I hope the strategy backfire as a whole country thinks, “Are they coming here next?”
The fascists want you to think it’s all over and to disengage, but I hope the strategy backfire as a whole country thinks, “Are they coming here next?”
February 12, 2026 at 4:03 PM
It is not a coincidence that the Minnesota occupation is “ending” right before the Senate is due to vote on funding for ICE.
The fascists want you to think it’s all over and to disengage, but I hope the strategy backfire as a whole country thinks, “Are they coming here next?”
The fascists want you to think it’s all over and to disengage, but I hope the strategy backfire as a whole country thinks, “Are they coming here next?”
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Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.
Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
February 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.
Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
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it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states
Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
February 12, 2026 at 4:11 PM
it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states
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Massive mission creep for ICE if they now see their actual job as going after community defense participants—and an alarming one considering they already murdered two such people.
He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
Homan: "Operation Metro Surge is ending. In the next week, we're going to deploy the officers here on detail back to their home stations or to other areas of the country where they're needed."
February 12, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Massive mission creep for ICE if they now see their actual job as going after community defense participants—and an alarming one considering they already murdered two such people.
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This is good. Very much need this kind of talk.
Walz: "The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here. There's going to be accountability on things that happened, but one of them is the incredible and immense cost borne by the people of this state. The federal government needs to be responsible."
February 12, 2026 at 4:24 PM
This is good. Very much need this kind of talk.
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Johnson keeps saying "trained activists" like he's saying "convicted murderers." This is essential to the right's project: if the left gets its shit together, that means its democratic participation is inherently illegitimate.
I wrote about this here: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-rights...
I wrote about this here: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-rights...
February 12, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Johnson keeps saying "trained activists" like he's saying "convicted murderers." This is essential to the right's project: if the left gets its shit together, that means its democratic participation is inherently illegitimate.
I wrote about this here: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-rights...
I wrote about this here: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-rights...
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Annnd there she goes, now that other people have done the real work and she thinks the crisis is over, running to the head of the parade
Minnesotans stood together, stared down ICE, and never blinked.
February 12, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Annnd there she goes, now that other people have done the real work and she thinks the crisis is over, running to the head of the parade
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Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych has been disqualified by the IOC from competing in the Olympics after wearing to practice a memorial helmet featuring images of Ukrainians killed by Russia in its war on Ukraine.
Despite being unable to compete, he has become a hero in Ukraine.
Despite being unable to compete, he has become a hero in Ukraine.
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@Ukraine
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Disqualified by IOC. Overqualified by dignity.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych has been disqualified by the IOC from competing in the Olympics after wearing to practice a memorial helmet featuring images of Ukrainians killed by Russia in its war on Ukraine.
Despite being unable to compete, he has become a hero in Ukraine.
Despite being unable to compete, he has become a hero in Ukraine.
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Looking forward to when the DoD loans CBP some surface-to-air missiles, leading to the accidental shoot-down of a civilian airliner.
According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.
February 12, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Looking forward to when the DoD loans CBP some surface-to-air missiles, leading to the accidental shoot-down of a civilian airliner.
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Yes, this appears to be exactly what happened.
I think the FAA was sounding the alarm by announcing such an extraordinary NOTAM in order to attract public attention to the larger issue of CBP having this technology at their disposal.
A powerful flex by the FAA to try to ensure public safety.
I think the FAA was sounding the alarm by announcing such an extraordinary NOTAM in order to attract public attention to the larger issue of CBP having this technology at their disposal.
A powerful flex by the FAA to try to ensure public safety.
So, it appears that FAA made the right call (in frustration to force the issue?) on issuing a NOTAM because CBP was cowboying around with an anti-drone laser "on loan" from the DoD and nobody was coming clean in a timely manner about safety and fire control after they fired on some mylar balloons.
February 12, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Yes, this appears to be exactly what happened.
I think the FAA was sounding the alarm by announcing such an extraordinary NOTAM in order to attract public attention to the larger issue of CBP having this technology at their disposal.
A powerful flex by the FAA to try to ensure public safety.
I think the FAA was sounding the alarm by announcing such an extraordinary NOTAM in order to attract public attention to the larger issue of CBP having this technology at their disposal.
A powerful flex by the FAA to try to ensure public safety.
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Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.
BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
February 12, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.
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@schiff.senate.gov As a Californian, I am telling you that if you want my vote you need to follow Senator Markey's lead here. This administration is building concentration camps.
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
February 12, 2026 at 4:05 AM
@schiff.senate.gov As a Californian, I am telling you that if you want my vote you need to follow Senator Markey's lead here. This administration is building concentration camps.
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On this day in 1998 - The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Far Beyond The Stars" directed by Avery Brooks (Benjamin Sisko) premiered.
Rather than try and find a single quote, clip, thought...
I'm just gonna post the whole episode because it's that damn special. (1/15)
Rather than try and find a single quote, clip, thought...
I'm just gonna post the whole episode because it's that damn special. (1/15)
February 11, 2026 at 4:43 PM
On this day in 1998 - The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Far Beyond The Stars" directed by Avery Brooks (Benjamin Sisko) premiered.
Rather than try and find a single quote, clip, thought...
I'm just gonna post the whole episode because it's that damn special. (1/15)
Rather than try and find a single quote, clip, thought...
I'm just gonna post the whole episode because it's that damn special. (1/15)
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he was auctioning off memorabilia in order to try and afford treatment and now he's gone. fuck cancer for sure, but double fuck our broken healthcare system.
you deserved better, james. i am so sorry.
you deserved better, james. i am so sorry.
James Van Der Beek, who has been battling cancer, has died.
He was 48.
Per TMZ.
He was 48.
Per TMZ.
February 11, 2026 at 7:43 PM
he was auctioning off memorabilia in order to try and afford treatment and now he's gone. fuck cancer for sure, but double fuck our broken healthcare system.
you deserved better, james. i am so sorry.
you deserved better, james. i am so sorry.
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Khaless wept, if this isn't a fucking word.
"...that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity."
"...that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity."
We are hostile to anyone being less than supportive because we understand where this two step you're doing into transphobia leads.
And that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity.
And that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity.
February 12, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Khaless wept, if this isn't a fucking word.
"...that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity."
"...that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity."
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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WTAF:
“Defense Secretary Hegseth signed an agreement for the Pentagon to loan the directed energy counter drone platform to DHS”
Apparently CBP using DOD tech led to the FAA shutting down airspace over El Paso.
“Defense Secretary Hegseth signed an agreement for the Pentagon to loan the directed energy counter drone platform to DHS”
Apparently CBP using DOD tech led to the FAA shutting down airspace over El Paso.
February 11, 2026 at 11:52 PM
WTAF:
“Defense Secretary Hegseth signed an agreement for the Pentagon to loan the directed energy counter drone platform to DHS”
Apparently CBP using DOD tech led to the FAA shutting down airspace over El Paso.
“Defense Secretary Hegseth signed an agreement for the Pentagon to loan the directed energy counter drone platform to DHS”
Apparently CBP using DOD tech led to the FAA shutting down airspace over El Paso.
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Good summary and what I suggested hours ago was the most likely scenario.
It didn’t even occur to me that DOD would be stupid enough to give directed energy technology to the CBP though.
It didn’t even occur to me that DOD would be stupid enough to give directed energy technology to the CBP though.
So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA.
Sounds like Hegseth!
www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...
Sounds like Hegseth!
www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...
February 11, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Good summary and what I suggested hours ago was the most likely scenario.
It didn’t even occur to me that DOD would be stupid enough to give directed energy technology to the CBP though.
It didn’t even occur to me that DOD would be stupid enough to give directed energy technology to the CBP though.
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If you're in a games industry union and working on a live-service game, you probably need to get your CEO on the record committing to reserving enough funds to avoid layoffs at least X months after a GaaS release. IDK, I'm spitballing. But if they can't plan that far ahead on their own...
February 12, 2026 at 12:00 AM
If you're in a games industry union and working on a live-service game, you probably need to get your CEO on the record committing to reserving enough funds to avoid layoffs at least X months after a GaaS release. IDK, I'm spitballing. But if they can't plan that far ahead on their own...
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This degree of surveillance is a tell.
A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.
Just wow.
February 12, 2026 at 12:06 AM
This degree of surveillance is a tell.
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The woman in the bathrobe below is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social.
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 12, 2026 at 12:02 AM
The woman in the bathrobe below is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social.