Ken Crimson
@asianpeakyblinder.bsky.social
Once a paratrooper, once a cop. Now just a geek about sports, fitness, sci-fi and 20th century rock music. Living behind enemy lines.
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It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”
Military archbishop: Troops could refuse orders on Greenland
Speaking to Britain's Sunday program on BBC, Archbishop Timothy Broglio reiterated that conscience could permit refusal of an unjust military order.
aleteia.org
January 20, 2026 at 1:24 AM
It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”
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Archbishop Broglio is, to put it extremely mildly, not generally viewed as one of the more liberal of the American bishops.
It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”
Military archbishop: Troops could refuse orders on Greenland
Speaking to Britain's Sunday program on BBC, Archbishop Timothy Broglio reiterated that conscience could permit refusal of an unjust military order.
aleteia.org
January 20, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Archbishop Broglio is, to put it extremely mildly, not generally viewed as one of the more liberal of the American bishops.
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It’s cold comfort right now but, if past is prologue, spectacles of violence committed by the state against sympathetic civilians—especially when captured on camera—were the beginning of the end for Bull Connor and Jim Crow, too.
January 14, 2026 at 1:46 AM
It’s cold comfort right now but, if past is prologue, spectacles of violence committed by the state against sympathetic civilians—especially when captured on camera—were the beginning of the end for Bull Connor and Jim Crow, too.
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ST. PAUL MAYOR: “We’ve received reports of ICE officers going door to door asking where the Asian people live… I myself have received advice to carry my passport with me because they may target me based on what I look like.”
January 19, 2026 at 10:52 PM
ST. PAUL MAYOR: “We’ve received reports of ICE officers going door to door asking where the Asian people live… I myself have received advice to carry my passport with me because they may target me based on what I look like.”
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ICE illegally grab a city snow plow driver: "He was detained because of his country of origin. He had every federal authorization. We do a criminal background check of all federal documents."
Sent 1,000 miles to Texas with a serious medical condition. (From Fox 9)
Sent 1,000 miles to Texas with a serious medical condition. (From Fox 9)
January 19, 2026 at 10:58 PM
ICE illegally grab a city snow plow driver: "He was detained because of his country of origin. He had every federal authorization. We do a criminal background check of all federal documents."
Sent 1,000 miles to Texas with a serious medical condition. (From Fox 9)
Sent 1,000 miles to Texas with a serious medical condition. (From Fox 9)
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Politicians are heavily invested in the Law Enforcement Baronial Class. Reforms and changes are all in the service of maintaining legitimacy for the police. So, ICE/ CBP must be cast as a bad apple, divided, and treated as anomalous, like a tumor to be expelled.
I’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops
January 19, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Politicians are heavily invested in the Law Enforcement Baronial Class. Reforms and changes are all in the service of maintaining legitimacy for the police. So, ICE/ CBP must be cast as a bad apple, divided, and treated as anomalous, like a tumor to be expelled.
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“…If senior officers—starting with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the heads of each service—follow Trump down this dark road, the officers and enlisted people below them will likely obey the chain of command. Such an outcome would be a tragedy, and potentially a global catastrophe.”
American officers know what Trump is planning, and their minds will rebel at directives to take everything they’ve prepared to do for years and apply it backwards, against the allies they have trained to work with and protect.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal
Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:01 PM
“…If senior officers—starting with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the heads of each service—follow Trump down this dark road, the officers and enlisted people below them will likely obey the chain of command. Such an outcome would be a tragedy, and potentially a global catastrophe.”
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Not the point, but even the FEDS think QI is a relevant issue for them!
Our legal system is so convoluted that even CBP agents can't keep straight which doctrine lets them kill with near-impunity.
It's a simple rule: For all intents and purposes, QI does not apply to the Feds!
Our legal system is so convoluted that even CBP agents can't keep straight which doctrine lets them kill with near-impunity.
It's a simple rule: For all intents and purposes, QI does not apply to the Feds!
I attended a Border Patrol recruitment event. By never saying “no,” I was corralled from standing near the recruitment table to having a completed application submitted on my behalf, and I received a tentative selection days later.
www.cltampa.com/news/at-st-p...
www.cltampa.com/news/at-st-p...
At St. Pete recruitment event, Border Patrol rep touts qualified immunity and early retirement
A DHS officer at The Hilton in St. Petersburg, Florida Jan. 13, 2026. Dubbed “The Green Monster” by some DHS officials, Border Patrol has a reputation as
www.cltampa.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Not the point, but even the FEDS think QI is a relevant issue for them!
Our legal system is so convoluted that even CBP agents can't keep straight which doctrine lets them kill with near-impunity.
It's a simple rule: For all intents and purposes, QI does not apply to the Feds!
Our legal system is so convoluted that even CBP agents can't keep straight which doctrine lets them kill with near-impunity.
It's a simple rule: For all intents and purposes, QI does not apply to the Feds!
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So basically Trump’s argument is that he only bothered talking about how much he supposedly wanted peace and performed substance-free publicity stunts to win a prize, but since that didn’t fool anyone he’s not going to bother with that charade anymore and will just invade Europe.
January 19, 2026 at 1:29 PM
So basically Trump’s argument is that he only bothered talking about how much he supposedly wanted peace and performed substance-free publicity stunts to win a prize, but since that didn’t fool anyone he’s not going to bother with that charade anymore and will just invade Europe.
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January 19, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
January 19, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
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Dennis Allen knows he hasn’t been able to get any pressure with his front so he’s sending in the strength of this defense, the DBs, on all kinds of designer stuff to get to Stafford. So far it’s working.
January 19, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Dennis Allen knows he hasn’t been able to get any pressure with his front so he’s sending in the strength of this defense, the DBs, on all kinds of designer stuff to get to Stafford. So far it’s working.
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"Yelling at a Nazi" is super high up on the list of things that do not require an apology
"We've seen over a thousand percent increase in assaults on ICE officers, 8,000 verbal assaults on them...."
January 19, 2026 at 12:43 AM
"Yelling at a Nazi" is super high up on the list of things that do not require an apology
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This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
January 18, 2026 at 7:43 PM
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
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Appeasing Trump always produces the opposite result the appeasers are hoping to achieve. There are thousands of examples over decades, but somehow people still don’t get it. Bill Cassidy and Europe found out yesterday. Someone else will find out today, then another tomorrow.
January 18, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Appeasing Trump always produces the opposite result the appeasers are hoping to achieve. There are thousands of examples over decades, but somehow people still don’t get it. Bill Cassidy and Europe found out yesterday. Someone else will find out today, then another tomorrow.
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Trade agreements with Trump are worthless. Meaningless. If he hits a bad golf shot he will jump in his cart, grab his phone, and fire off a post revoking one, or changing one. It looks like that may finally be starting to sink in, although China seems to have known it all along.
January 18, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Trade agreements with Trump are worthless. Meaningless. If he hits a bad golf shot he will jump in his cart, grab his phone, and fire off a post revoking one, or changing one. It looks like that may finally be starting to sink in, although China seems to have known it all along.
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CBP treated him like this in front of his 5-year-old daughter, and then used facial recognition to confirm that he is, in fact, a citizen.
How much more in your face can it be?
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
January 17, 2026 at 9:22 PM
CBP treated him like this in front of his 5-year-old daughter, and then used facial recognition to confirm that he is, in fact, a citizen.
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Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.
January 17, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.
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Peter Karl Fellenz is an ICE deportation officer from Shakopee, MN. He participates in violent kidnappings and has terrorized Minneapolis for years. Please print and post this flyer to keep your communities safe. Somali, Spanish, and Hmong versions follow. #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE #MPLS
January 17, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Peter Karl Fellenz is an ICE deportation officer from Shakopee, MN. He participates in violent kidnappings and has terrorized Minneapolis for years. Please print and post this flyer to keep your communities safe. Somali, Spanish, and Hmong versions follow. #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE #MPLS
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A federal judge bars DHS and ICE agents in Minneapolis from using "pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools" against peaceful protesters. Federal agents there now also cannot stop vehicles that are following them at a safe distance. storage.courtlistener.com/rec...
storage.courtlistener.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:01 AM
A federal judge bars DHS and ICE agents in Minneapolis from using "pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools" against peaceful protesters. Federal agents there now also cannot stop vehicles that are following them at a safe distance. storage.courtlistener.com/rec...
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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.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
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There are also foreign actors with this goal who are VERY active in online environments.
We need to make this more explicit: The violence and civil collapse we're now seeing in Minnesota is by design. It's exactly what Trump and Stephen Miller want. MAGA is *all about* deliberately unleashing ethnic hatreds and violent antagonisms among Americans.
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 15, 2026 at 11:12 PM
There are also foreign actors with this goal who are VERY active in online environments.
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That’s what it is
I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.
January 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
That’s what it is
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“Psychologically Western.” In the Gilded Age, America’s elite embraced the pseudoscience of eugenics to justify their own sense of superiority and provide backing for racist and anti-immigrant policies. Pretty rich for Musk and his internet-broken brain to be judging the psyches of others.
January 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
“Psychologically Western.” In the Gilded Age, America’s elite embraced the pseudoscience of eugenics to justify their own sense of superiority and provide backing for racist and anti-immigrant policies. Pretty rich for Musk and his internet-broken brain to be judging the psyches of others.
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A much-discussed topic on here is how many pundits only assign agency to Democrats. (Not Ned, other people.)
Clear R role in MN cop-tracking/mocking. Seems very clear to me that the mass pardon of J6ers made it hard for Rs to credibly finger-wag about Disrespecting Law Enforcement.
Clear R role in MN cop-tracking/mocking. Seems very clear to me that the mass pardon of J6ers made it hard for Rs to credibly finger-wag about Disrespecting Law Enforcement.
Folks, Trump has brought the full force of ICE to bear on a mid-sized city and he can't even stop the demonstrations there. He's not going to be able to cancel the midterm elections by fiat or station his goons outside more than a handful of polling places.
January 15, 2026 at 1:48 AM
A much-discussed topic on here is how many pundits only assign agency to Democrats. (Not Ned, other people.)
Clear R role in MN cop-tracking/mocking. Seems very clear to me that the mass pardon of J6ers made it hard for Rs to credibly finger-wag about Disrespecting Law Enforcement.
Clear R role in MN cop-tracking/mocking. Seems very clear to me that the mass pardon of J6ers made it hard for Rs to credibly finger-wag about Disrespecting Law Enforcement.