Ron Hogan
@ronhogan.bsky.social
He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
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This is not a bad apple, this is not a rogue ICE officer, this is what ICE is, this is who they all are, this is who they are encouraged to be.
January 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM
This is not a bad apple, this is not a rogue ICE officer, this is what ICE is, this is who they all are, this is who they are encouraged to be.
This thread offers a meaningful lens through which to view Renee Nicole Good’s murder.
I wrote a book about ancient Christian martyrdom and this is really sticking with me
the stories of martyrs emphasized their righteousness and self-control in the face of state authorities who lacked both
early Christians sought to train themselves to replicate that way of being from the stories
the stories of martyrs emphasized their righteousness and self-control in the face of state authorities who lacked both
early Christians sought to train themselves to replicate that way of being from the stories
January 10, 2026 at 12:52 AM
This thread offers a meaningful lens through which to view Renee Nicole Good’s murder.
For some reason, I’m reminded of the story of how Robert Kraft lost his first Super Bowl ring to Vladimir Putin.
I hope Machado isn't allergic to boot leather.
The spirit of Quisling lives on, apparently.
The spirit of Quisling lives on, apparently.
January 10, 2026 at 12:05 AM
For some reason, I’m reminded of the story of how Robert Kraft lost his first Super Bowl ring to Vladimir Putin.
Well, GOOD.
The Washington National Opera is leaving the Kennedy Center.
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January 9, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Well, GOOD.
Now that Eric Adams has bounced to the other side of the globe, Hakeem Jeffries is New York’s latest top-ranked “This Fuckin’ Guy.”
"“We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters when asked about holding the Trump administration accountable."
Democratic Leaders Hesitant to Wage Shutdown Over Disagreements With Trump Administration
Democrats played hardball in the last round of government funding. This time, not so much.
www.notus.org
January 9, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Now that Eric Adams has bounced to the other side of the globe, Hakeem Jeffries is New York’s latest top-ranked “This Fuckin’ Guy.”
“As many predicted, Musk has turned X into the new Stormfront, an enormous radicalization engine for himself and for the broader GOP. The MAGA movement, of course, has radicalized with him.”
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
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religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 9, 2026 at 10:42 PM
“As many predicted, Musk has turned X into the new Stormfront, an enormous radicalization engine for himself and for the broader GOP. The MAGA movement, of course, has radicalized with him.”
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this opinion piece by a catholic publication should be read on every pulpit this Sunday
January 9, 2026 at 9:07 PM
this opinion piece by a catholic publication should be read on every pulpit this Sunday
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He didn't think a woman should be able to take a sharp tone with him, so he decided to kill her. Happens every day, but now it's government policy.
January 9, 2026 at 9:29 PM
He didn't think a woman should be able to take a sharp tone with him, so he decided to kill her. Happens every day, but now it's government policy.
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It's hard to watch the official Republican reactions to Renee Good's killing, without remembering how TX Gov Abbott just pardoned the convicted murderer of a Black Lives Matter protester.
The Republican Party itself wants open permission to murder Americans in the streets, as policy.
The Republican Party itself wants open permission to murder Americans in the streets, as policy.
January 9, 2026 at 9:12 PM
It's hard to watch the official Republican reactions to Renee Good's killing, without remembering how TX Gov Abbott just pardoned the convicted murderer of a Black Lives Matter protester.
The Republican Party itself wants open permission to murder Americans in the streets, as policy.
The Republican Party itself wants open permission to murder Americans in the streets, as policy.
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Law enforcement officers (and their defenders) are such cowardly babies.
The situations they say make them “fear for their life” should disqualify them for any kind of public service.
The situations they say make them “fear for their life” should disqualify them for any kind of public service.
January 9, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Law enforcement officers (and their defenders) are such cowardly babies.
The situations they say make them “fear for their life” should disqualify them for any kind of public service.
The situations they say make them “fear for their life” should disqualify them for any kind of public service.
If you write a story featuring the first chancellor of Germany, that’s Ottofiction.
If you write a story featuring a Ford Fiesta, that's autofiction.
If you write a story featuring a Greek cheese, that’s fetafiction.
January 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
If you write a story featuring the first chancellor of Germany, that’s Ottofiction.
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Renewal means we should look increasingly less like Empire … not more like it.
America is not "Christian" culture.
If our idea of becoming more like Christ makes us look more like Caesar or “normal” culture … we’ve chosen to become more like Barabbas, not Christ.
America is not "Christian" culture.
If our idea of becoming more like Christ makes us look more like Caesar or “normal” culture … we’ve chosen to become more like Barabbas, not Christ.
January 9, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Renewal means we should look increasingly less like Empire … not more like it.
America is not "Christian" culture.
If our idea of becoming more like Christ makes us look more like Caesar or “normal” culture … we’ve chosen to become more like Barabbas, not Christ.
America is not "Christian" culture.
If our idea of becoming more like Christ makes us look more like Caesar or “normal” culture … we’ve chosen to become more like Barabbas, not Christ.
“[Liberals] may find it scary that Congress has appropriated tens of billions of dollars to hire ten thousand ICE agents who will constitute an army of Trump loyalists empowered to purge our nation of brown people. But you, liberals, Democrats, must recognize that you teed this up for them.”
The Consequences of Rejecting "Defund the Police"
Political cowardice is paid for in blood.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:34 AM
“[Liberals] may find it scary that Congress has appropriated tens of billions of dollars to hire ten thousand ICE agents who will constitute an army of Trump loyalists empowered to purge our nation of brown people. But you, liberals, Democrats, must recognize that you teed this up for them.”
“I am troubled by the reality that millions of my fellow citizens do not want to live in a free and democratic society, but rather desire a totalitarian one that tells them what to do, what to think, and what is real. I don’t know how we salvage a nation of people who want to be lied to.”
The Regime's Demand: Believe Them, Not Your Own Eyes
A mother gunned down by ICE in Minnesota. Rioters attacking the capital. The Trump regime doesn't want you to believe what you just saw.
www.throughline.news
January 9, 2026 at 4:03 AM
“I am troubled by the reality that millions of my fellow citizens do not want to live in a free and democratic society, but rather desire a totalitarian one that tells them what to do, what to think, and what is real. I don’t know how we salvage a nation of people who want to be lied to.”
“This is the context for ICE’s development into a 21st American version of Benito Mussolini’s Fascist militia: a body that proves itself through violence and is loyal to a leader with a cult of personality.”
Renee Nicole Good, Enemy of the State
Authoritarians do not accept the democratic ideas of peaceful assembly or legal observation, and anyone can become an enemy of the state
lucid.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:30 AM
“This is the context for ICE’s development into a 21st American version of Benito Mussolini’s Fascist militia: a body that proves itself through violence and is loyal to a leader with a cult of personality.”
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YES!!!! Good job, everyone!!
After months of boycotts, Spotify has confirmed ICE recruitment ads are no longer running on the platform.
Live and learn, corporate America, we vote with our wallets
as well as our voices and ballots.
Live and learn, corporate America, we vote with our wallets
as well as our voices and ballots.
January 9, 2026 at 1:42 AM
YES!!!! Good job, everyone!!
ICE agents strike me as the kind of guys who are glad to have legitimate cover for hanging around public bus stops creeping on minors.
My roommate is a teacher and has reported that ICE has been hanging around Septa stops and depots in the interest of abducting kids on their way home because they aren’t allowed to enter schools. They claimed to be part of a “Septa Strike Force” which does not exist. Boost if you can.
ICE is in Philly posing as Septa workers
January 9, 2026 at 3:09 AM
ICE agents strike me as the kind of guys who are glad to have legitimate cover for hanging around public bus stops creeping on minors.
This is particularly offensive when Fox News, in order to support the regime’s domestic terrorism narrative, has gone all in on characterizing Good as a lesbian separatist throwing her pronouns in the world’s face.
Still seeing Renee Good described as having a child (she had three children) now “orphaned,” still, tonight, and her wife described as “a person who said in a video that she was her wife.” Her IG had a 🏳️🌈 emoji!! Her ex-husband even acknowledges her “current partner” (AP).
apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com/article/ice-...
January 9, 2026 at 3:04 AM
This is particularly offensive when Fox News, in order to support the regime’s domestic terrorism narrative, has gone all in on characterizing Good as a lesbian separatist throwing her pronouns in the world’s face.
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The only reason we know ICE agent Jonathan Ross is the person who murdered Renee Nicole Walker is because Kristi Noem alluded to a previous incident and reporters started digging.
Kristi Noem effectively "doxxed" the perp.
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
January 8, 2026 at 8:03 PM
The only reason we know ICE agent Jonathan Ross is the person who murdered Renee Nicole Walker is because Kristi Noem alluded to a previous incident and reporters started digging.
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Hey, a quick hint for anyone trying to follow the news in Minneapolis from out of state: if you add ?utm_source=gift to any Star Tribune URL, it'll let you read it.
Also, some reliable local outlets that are both better and free:
www.mprnews.org
www.minnpost.com
sahanjournal.com
Also, some reliable local outlets that are both better and free:
www.mprnews.org
www.minnpost.com
sahanjournal.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Hey, a quick hint for anyone trying to follow the news in Minneapolis from out of state: if you add ?utm_source=gift to any Star Tribune URL, it'll let you read it.
Also, some reliable local outlets that are both better and free:
www.mprnews.org
www.minnpost.com
sahanjournal.com
Also, some reliable local outlets that are both better and free:
www.mprnews.org
www.minnpost.com
sahanjournal.com
Evangelical conservatives, is this your king?
President Trump declared on Wednesday evening that his power as commander in chief is constrained only by his “own morality,” brushing aside international law and other checks on his ability to use military might to strike, invade or coerce nations around the world.
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Evangelical conservatives, is this your king?
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Every one of these announcements reads to me as "we don't have enough people and supplies to occupy more than one city at a time"
Also: " Border Patrol officials also plan to send all nonlethal weapons housed in Chicago to Minnesota, according to the documents."
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
January 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Every one of these announcements reads to me as "we don't have enough people and supplies to occupy more than one city at a time"
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4/ TL,DR: The life of one stranger, of one hurting person, of one outcast ... is worth more than any nation and any man-made society. Something better awaits us.
January 8, 2026 at 9:19 PM
4/ TL,DR: The life of one stranger, of one hurting person, of one outcast ... is worth more than any nation and any man-made society. Something better awaits us.
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STOP ASKING THEM RHETORICAL QUESTIONS. They will never not choose the most evil rhetorical answer.
Walz: "I asked Secretary Noem how she would've felt had President Biden sent 2,000 troops into Rapid City, South Dakota, and she said she would've welcomed them. I leave that for the folks of South Dakota to determine."
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
STOP ASKING THEM RHETORICAL QUESTIONS. They will never not choose the most evil rhetorical answer.
“To get all James Scott up in here, will we be persuaded to simply stop caring about things that aren't legible to The Online, even as those things continue to, indisputably, occur?
Yes. [And] we should all be very worried about this.”— @faineg.bsky.social
Yes. [And] we should all be very worried about this.”— @faineg.bsky.social
Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI
The Internet and AI are encouraging more and more people to deny reality itself. Here's why that's bad.
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
January 8, 2026 at 6:37 AM
“To get all James Scott up in here, will we be persuaded to simply stop caring about things that aren't legible to The Online, even as those things continue to, indisputably, occur?
Yes. [And] we should all be very worried about this.”— @faineg.bsky.social
Yes. [And] we should all be very worried about this.”— @faineg.bsky.social