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So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume
An unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.
January 31, 2026 at 9:52 PM
So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume
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#GVerse #Chicago It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti- #FuckICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
January 31, 2026 at 5:56 AM
#GVerse #Chicago It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti- #FuckICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
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New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
January 31, 2026 at 3:12 PM
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
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A caregiving social movement IS political.
The anti-ICE movement isn’t just about politics — it’s a caregiving social movement minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/30/t...
The anti-ICE movement isn't just about politics — it's a caregiving social movement • Minnesota Reformer
It’s a caregiving social movement based on relatedness and belonging.
minnesotareformer.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:40 PM
A caregiving social movement IS political.
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SHUT IT THE FUCK DOWN THEN!!!!
The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort underscore the gravity of this moment. This has never happened before in our history. We shouldn't pretend it's normal.
More reason for us to hold the line and demand a DHS budget that stops funding lawlessness.
More reason for us to hold the line and demand a DHS budget that stops funding lawlessness.
January 30, 2026 at 7:48 PM
SHUT IT THE FUCK DOWN THEN!!!!
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In Feb 2025, when pundits and others were saying that "no one was doing anything" and that the "resistance was dead," I clearly said that this was absolutely not true. I said AT THE TIME that the elites were complicit but the people WERE NOT. By mid Feb, Tesla Takedowns were starting... +
January 30, 2026 at 3:45 AM
In Feb 2025, when pundits and others were saying that "no one was doing anything" and that the "resistance was dead," I clearly said that this was absolutely not true. I said AT THE TIME that the elites were complicit but the people WERE NOT. By mid Feb, Tesla Takedowns were starting... +
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I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
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Or how about this headline — “American citizen arrested without cause after exercising his Constitutional rights.” Very important that government propaganda not become the default framing.
Don Lemon has been taken into custody after anti-ICE confrontation in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month. https://cnn.it/4roAO6t
January 30, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Or how about this headline — “American citizen arrested without cause after exercising his Constitutional rights.” Very important that government propaganda not become the default framing.
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The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 2:09 PM
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
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The state of american politics is that one major party wants to kill you while the other simply wants you to die
January 29, 2026 at 10:13 PM
The state of american politics is that one major party wants to kill you while the other simply wants you to die
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I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.
January 29, 2026 at 5:41 PM
I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.
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People are asking a lot “how is this happening?” It’s happening the way abolitionists have warned you for decades it’s happening — you can’t dehumanize whole groups of people, pay for their brutalization & not expect for more bounty hunters to come.
January 30, 2026 at 1:15 AM
People are asking a lot “how is this happening?” It’s happening the way abolitionists have warned you for decades it’s happening — you can’t dehumanize whole groups of people, pay for their brutalization & not expect for more bounty hunters to come.
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the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
Whatever the immediate fallout of the scandal, what is going to stick around is the impression it gives, of hapless idiots doing ridiculous things. And I think that seriously reduces the appeal of capitulating to these jokers.
March 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
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I know you all love The Fartlantic today because of that one article but please try to remember that they played an instrumental role in the rise of fascism in the US and you do not, in fact, have to hand it to them.
January 26, 2026 at 5:01 AM
I know you all love The Fartlantic today because of that one article but please try to remember that they played an instrumental role in the rise of fascism in the US and you do not, in fact, have to hand it to them.
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Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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I don't think @reuters.com posted it here, but I'm just kind of shocked that anyone working in media could have gone into the second Trump administration thinking, "I don't think in those first few days we understood what an organized agenda they had."
They made a 900-page playbook, Sally!
They made a 900-page playbook, Sally!
January 26, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I don't think @reuters.com posted it here, but I'm just kind of shocked that anyone working in media could have gone into the second Trump administration thinking, "I don't think in those first few days we understood what an organized agenda they had."
They made a 900-page playbook, Sally!
They made a 900-page playbook, Sally!
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i like that every time jd vance tries to tell a story about some awful thing that happened he just sounds like the softest dude on the planet. aw, poor baby, you mean you and your chud friends were locked in a restaurant?
January 26, 2026 at 12:45 AM
i like that every time jd vance tries to tell a story about some awful thing that happened he just sounds like the softest dude on the planet. aw, poor baby, you mean you and your chud friends were locked in a restaurant?
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The 15+ NYC @indivisible.org & allied groups who rallied at @schumer.senate.gov's home & office DAILY LAST WEEK (even in a blizzard!) now hold >1K signed letters from voters.
We urge Chuck to declare the **specific, feasible demands** with broad consensus support to curb ICE or vote NO on DHS $$.
We urge Chuck to declare the **specific, feasible demands** with broad consensus support to curb ICE or vote NO on DHS $$.
January 26, 2026 at 4:03 PM
The 15+ NYC @indivisible.org & allied groups who rallied at @schumer.senate.gov's home & office DAILY LAST WEEK (even in a blizzard!) now hold >1K signed letters from voters.
We urge Chuck to declare the **specific, feasible demands** with broad consensus support to curb ICE or vote NO on DHS $$.
We urge Chuck to declare the **specific, feasible demands** with broad consensus support to curb ICE or vote NO on DHS $$.
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NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend.
This is Alice's story:
This is Alice's story:
Queer trans ICE protester in small Minn. city recounts agents' violence and humiliation
Alice Valentine of St. Cloud was pepper sprayed and jailed by ICE for trying to protect immigrant neighbors.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 16, 2026 at 6:58 PM
NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend.
This is Alice's story:
This is Alice's story:
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Yes, voting against ICE funding is the morally right thing to do. But you can be the most heartless political consultant bastard out there - cutting ICE is still the smart play. That Schumer/Jeffries are silent right now is political malpractice (and morally reprehensible, if you care about that).
New poll from Navigator also with an incredible result; the largest drop in support for ICE since June was actually among *Republicans*, 25% of which now say they have an unfavorable opinion of the agency.
January 15, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Yes, voting against ICE funding is the morally right thing to do. But you can be the most heartless political consultant bastard out there - cutting ICE is still the smart play. That Schumer/Jeffries are silent right now is political malpractice (and morally reprehensible, if you care about that).
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If you see federal agents pulling into your driveway, reporters, power down your electronic devices ASAP.
That's the advice from @runasand.bsky.social, via @columjournreview.bsky.social
www.cjr.org/news/hannah-...
That's the advice from @runasand.bsky.social, via @columjournreview.bsky.social
www.cjr.org/news/hannah-...
January 15, 2026 at 4:40 PM
If you see federal agents pulling into your driveway, reporters, power down your electronic devices ASAP.
That's the advice from @runasand.bsky.social, via @columjournreview.bsky.social
www.cjr.org/news/hannah-...
That's the advice from @runasand.bsky.social, via @columjournreview.bsky.social
www.cjr.org/news/hannah-...
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also: it’s incredible there appear to be so many more people seriously contemplating and demanding we abolish ICE, and I think *that* significantly motivates the scolding about “messaging” and “timing” and fantasies of inoffensive focus-grouped messaging when a real crisis is at hand
January 16, 2026 at 1:11 PM
also: it’s incredible there appear to be so many more people seriously contemplating and demanding we abolish ICE, and I think *that* significantly motivates the scolding about “messaging” and “timing” and fantasies of inoffensive focus-grouped messaging when a real crisis is at hand
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the people who got everyone here including the tv lawyers, pathetic pundits & consultants, and feckless elected officials are the sources of "don't take the bait." So maybe don't listen to them about anything.
January 16, 2026 at 11:51 AM
the people who got everyone here including the tv lawyers, pathetic pundits & consultants, and feckless elected officials are the sources of "don't take the bait." So maybe don't listen to them about anything.
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in other words, the more we demand we abolish ICE, the more other people will tell us that’s unpopular, or unstrategic. that’s why they are saying that: because it is becoming popular, and it is strategic (if your goal is “end ICE violence,” not “protect some Democrats from taking a stand on ICE”)
January 16, 2026 at 1:17 PM
in other words, the more we demand we abolish ICE, the more other people will tell us that’s unpopular, or unstrategic. that’s why they are saying that: because it is becoming popular, and it is strategic (if your goal is “end ICE violence,” not “protect some Democrats from taking a stand on ICE”)
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12 years later, Democrats are proposing the same bullshit.
January 16, 2026 at 8:22 PM
12 years later, Democrats are proposing the same bullshit.