ShadowStar
@shadowstar2025.bsky.social
Fascism has come to the U.S.
No one is coming to save us. Not Congress, not our elected officials, not the courts, not law enforcement, not the military.
If we get out of this, it will be because of everyday citizens.
No one is coming to save us. Not Congress, not our elected officials, not the courts, not law enforcement, not the military.
If we get out of this, it will be because of everyday citizens.
History repeats itself. Unless we stop it.
Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder.
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register
Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants
www.al.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:43 AM
History repeats itself. Unless we stop it.
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Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
January 17, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
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My last two shots before my world went dark.
January 17, 2026 at 9:55 PM
My last two shots before my world went dark.
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
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I LOVE YOU WARD 9.
At the Powderhorn Art Sled Rally in Minneapolis, bowling pins with the names of politicians (Erdogan, Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, etc.) sledded down then were demolished by a big, slow-moving ball.
January 17, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I LOVE YOU WARD 9.
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When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways
The top 10% now account for nearly half of all consumer spending.
January 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM
When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways
Safety 👇
Protect yourself from tear gas: N95s aren’t enough. Use half- or full‑face respirators with P100+OV filters, eye protection, no contacts.
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Respirators: www.crisisreadymedia.org/masks
Stay safe, be brave, fight for what’s right ✊💚.
Safety tips: phr.org/our-work/res...
Respirators: www.crisisreadymedia.org/masks
Stay safe, be brave, fight for what’s right ✊💚.
Preparing for, Protecting Against, and Treating Tear Gas and Other Chemical Irritant Exposure: A Protestor’s Guide - PHR
Deceptively known as “less-lethal,” these weapons can in fact cause severe injuries and even death when used with excessive force. Physicians for Human Rights has worked extensively on the health impa...
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January 17, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Safety 👇
Maybe I’m crazy or something but I don’t think this should be the new status quo for American media.
NYT publishes audio of Karoline Leavitt threatening CBS over its Trump interview: “He said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...
‘We’ll Sue’: White House’s Warning to CBS Is Sign of a New Media Status Quo
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Maybe I’m crazy or something but I don’t think this should be the new status quo for American media.
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Yeah folks should be wearing that face recognition disruptive makeup.
Held: Many of the ICE agents that drive by have their phones up to the window..I don’t know why, but part of the lawsuit you alluded to earlier alleges that ICE is using an app that can take a picture of a face, identify it, and store it for 15 years.
January 17, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Yeah folks should be wearing that face recognition disruptive makeup.
This is what we get for SCOTUS giving him presidential immunity.
Sorry. Has someone said this?
1) Trump can’t impose tariff unilaterally
2) Trump has no $$ to buy Greenland
3) Trump has no authority to leave NATO
1) Trump can’t impose tariff unilaterally
2) Trump has no $$ to buy Greenland
3) Trump has no authority to leave NATO
January 17, 2026 at 9:29 PM
This is what we get for SCOTUS giving him presidential immunity.
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🚨"They tackled me right over there and sprayed it right into my eye; I got hit from behind and went to the ground. I don't even know why they tackled me," -photographer attacked and gassed by ICE tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social . LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 9:18 PM
🚨"They tackled me right over there and sprayed it right into my eye; I got hit from behind and went to the ground. I don't even know why they tackled me," -photographer attacked and gassed by ICE tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social . LIVE NOW ⬇️
OMG this is the best! 🤣
If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
January 17, 2026 at 9:05 PM
OMG this is the best! 🤣
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Joke’s on us, usually he has to pay $1,000 an hour on a fetish site to get this treatment.
Right-wing influencer Jake Lang is stuck in a window recess against Minneapolis City Hall.
He’s soaked with freezing water after counterprotesters hurled water balloons at him. bit.ly/4baGhJn
He’s soaked with freezing water after counterprotesters hurled water balloons at him. bit.ly/4baGhJn
January 17, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Joke’s on us, usually he has to pay $1,000 an hour on a fetish site to get this treatment.
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Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
French troops deploying to Greenland because the United States might try to take it over.
Today in 2026 sentences.
Today in 2026 sentences.
❗️An initial group of 🇫🇷French mountain troops has arrived in 🇬🇱Greenland to prepare for the reception and deployment of the main contingent. French authorities have stated that additional land, aviation, and naval units will be dispatched in the coming days.
January 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
“Did this turn out the way you wanted it to?”
“No.”
😂
“No.”
😂
🚨BREAKING: Minneapolis protesters shut down a hate march led by right-wing agitator Jake Lang. "How do you spell Nazi?!?" anti-ICE protesters chant. LIVE NOW⬇️
January 17, 2026 at 7:55 PM
“Did this turn out the way you wanted it to?”
“No.”
😂
“No.”
😂
I have know someone that will snap at me if I let a single “fuck,” slip in their presence. Yet they often say the most racist hateful things about others & try to justify it in God’s name. An often target is “Those Somalians,” because “They don’t believe in God.”
Well God believes in them.
Well God believes in them.
Growing up, I thought that the commandment not to take God’s name in vain was about saying goddamn, but this is what that commandment was talking about. Keep God’s name out of your mouth when you do your disgusting fascist deeds.
January 17, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I have know someone that will snap at me if I let a single “fuck,” slip in their presence. Yet they often say the most racist hateful things about others & try to justify it in God’s name. An often target is “Those Somalians,” because “They don’t believe in God.”
Well God believes in them.
Well God believes in them.
Saving the evidence while being brutally attacked.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Saving the evidence while being brutally attacked.
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Not a peep on Martin Luther King, JR. day made this past week.
The only communication I saw pushed was yesterday, “Focus on the fundamentals: FY26 agency priorities.”
For awareness, Jan. 19th is still listed as a fee free day for Federal Holiday memorializing King:
www.fs.usda.gov/visit/passes...
The only communication I saw pushed was yesterday, “Focus on the fundamentals: FY26 agency priorities.”
For awareness, Jan. 19th is still listed as a fee free day for Federal Holiday memorializing King:
www.fs.usda.gov/visit/passes...
January 17, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Not a peep on Martin Luther King, JR. day made this past week.
The only communication I saw pushed was yesterday, “Focus on the fundamentals: FY26 agency priorities.”
For awareness, Jan. 19th is still listed as a fee free day for Federal Holiday memorializing King:
www.fs.usda.gov/visit/passes...
The only communication I saw pushed was yesterday, “Focus on the fundamentals: FY26 agency priorities.”
For awareness, Jan. 19th is still listed as a fee free day for Federal Holiday memorializing King:
www.fs.usda.gov/visit/passes...
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The Episcopal Church is on fire, and calling out ICE, the court system, and asshole transphobes. And with terrific graphics. A++ fuck ICE
www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/o...
"These prayers are not a replacement for action"
www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/o...
"These prayers are not a replacement for action"
January 16, 2026 at 5:34 PM
The Episcopal Church is on fire, and calling out ICE, the court system, and asshole transphobes. And with terrific graphics. A++ fuck ICE
www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/o...
"These prayers are not a replacement for action"
www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/o...
"These prayers are not a replacement for action"
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New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
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The Companies Behind ICE
Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
readsludge.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
What he said!👇
"We're protesting fascists even when it's cold as hell; they had about 17 police officers show up—not to protect us from the Nazis 30 feet away but to put out our fires," -ICE protester tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social as police put out their fire in -9 degree wind chill. LIVE NOW⬇️
January 17, 2026 at 2:02 AM
What he said!👇
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January 17, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
I’m beginning to think they’re taking being called nazis and brownshirts as compliments.
You are on the ground, however this seems to have happened today. Are they just dispersed?
January 17, 2026 at 1:38 AM
I’m beginning to think they’re taking being called nazis and brownshirts as compliments.
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BREAKING: Judge enters TRO blocking feds from interfering with or arresting peaceful protesters in Minnesota. Judge Kate Menendez, Biden appointee. Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
January 17, 2026 at 1:02 AM
BREAKING: Judge enters TRO blocking feds from interfering with or arresting peaceful protesters in Minnesota. Judge Kate Menendez, Biden appointee. Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...