SHell4747
@shell4747.bsky.social
A misanthrope no longer in Texas
I have no expertise, but I've been paying attention for a long time, does that count?
I have no expertise, but I've been paying attention for a long time, does that count?
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Read the argument today that people should try to influence the narratives on the other website rather than abandon it.
I respect the view but - you're not influencing anyone.
Legacy media views throttled to death. Someone gave this example.
@BBC - 2m followers. Meg IP. One retweet. 12k views.
I respect the view but - you're not influencing anyone.
Legacy media views throttled to death. Someone gave this example.
@BBC - 2m followers. Meg IP. One retweet. 12k views.
January 10, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Read the argument today that people should try to influence the narratives on the other website rather than abandon it.
I respect the view but - you're not influencing anyone.
Legacy media views throttled to death. Someone gave this example.
@BBC - 2m followers. Meg IP. One retweet. 12k views.
I respect the view but - you're not influencing anyone.
Legacy media views throttled to death. Someone gave this example.
@BBC - 2m followers. Meg IP. One retweet. 12k views.
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JUST IN: Trump administration opposes renewed, post-Good-shooting request for TRO limiting DHS tactics against immigration protesters in Minnesota. Preliminary injunction hearing set for Tuesday is soon enough, DOJ says. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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www.documentcloud.org
January 9, 2026 at 9:41 PM
JUST IN: Trump administration opposes renewed, post-Good-shooting request for TRO limiting DHS tactics against immigration protesters in Minnesota. Preliminary injunction hearing set for Tuesday is soon enough, DOJ says. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Congress can force ICE to release documents like these at any time, but doesn't because they do not do their jobs
ICE's use of force policy released under FOIA was almost completely redacted until it was accidentally released in court filing un-redacted. Read the full document here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
January 9, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Congress can force ICE to release documents like these at any time, but doesn't because they do not do their jobs
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this was honestly just a quick, throw away piece I banged out because we needed stuff to run on holiday. but cops are actually actors now and this is all a performance. www.wired.com/story/expire...
January 10, 2026 at 1:15 AM
this was honestly just a quick, throw away piece I banged out because we needed stuff to run on holiday. but cops are actually actors now and this is all a performance. www.wired.com/story/expire...
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If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.
January 10, 2026 at 1:34 AM
If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.
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at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
January 9, 2026 at 11:22 PM
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
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You lying piece of shit. I chaired the Minnesota DFL for all three of your runs here. I watched you lose. Three times. Minnesota never bought your con. And now, as Chair of the DNC, I’m looking forward to ending Trumpism for good in 2028 — not with lies, but with votes. Again.
Trump: "I feel I won Minnesota. I think I won it all three times. Nobody has won it since Richard Nixon won it many many years ago. I won it all three times in my opinion. It's a corrupt state ... I did so well in that state. The people were crying every time after."
January 9, 2026 at 10:06 PM
You lying piece of shit. I chaired the Minnesota DFL for all three of your runs here. I watched you lose. Three times. Minnesota never bought your con. And now, as Chair of the DNC, I’m looking forward to ending Trumpism for good in 2028 — not with lies, but with votes. Again.
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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
January 9, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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have overheard something similar in the smoking area at the industrial plant where i work today, also noticed the trump hat guy stopped wearing his trump hat this week
there are some very white working class dudes doing electrical work in the office next door and I just overheard one of them say “fucking paramilitary fucking shooting people in the street, did you see that shit?”
so I don’t think the PR is going over well
so I don’t think the PR is going over well
January 9, 2026 at 9:38 PM
have overheard something similar in the smoking area at the industrial plant where i work today, also noticed the trump hat guy stopped wearing his trump hat this week
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Renee Good: "It's ok dude, I'm not mad at you."
<ICE thug shoots & kills her>
Ice thug: "Fucking bitch."
So are we ready to talk about gender studies yet?
<ICE thug shoots & kills her>
Ice thug: "Fucking bitch."
So are we ready to talk about gender studies yet?
January 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Renee Good: "It's ok dude, I'm not mad at you."
<ICE thug shoots & kills her>
Ice thug: "Fucking bitch."
So are we ready to talk about gender studies yet?
<ICE thug shoots & kills her>
Ice thug: "Fucking bitch."
So are we ready to talk about gender studies yet?
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It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers.
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
January 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers.
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
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This is an astonishing power in the hands of an agency that has proven, again and again, that it is willing to abuse its broad authorities and vast budget. This simply shouldn't be possible without a warrant and stringent guardrails. www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 9, 2026 at 9:41 PM
This is an astonishing power in the hands of an agency that has proven, again and again, that it is willing to abuse its broad authorities and vast budget. This simply shouldn't be possible without a warrant and stringent guardrails. www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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It's important to stay grounded in reality. 'Not a single one of them is telling the truth. They are flat out lying.' - @mmasnick.bsky.social attempts to help us stay grounded as ICE continues its Administration-supported & protected assault on the American people. www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/a...
Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder
Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her i…
www.techdirt.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:04 PM
It's important to stay grounded in reality. 'Not a single one of them is telling the truth. They are flat out lying.' - @mmasnick.bsky.social attempts to help us stay grounded as ICE continues its Administration-supported & protected assault on the American people. www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/a...
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Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his poison.
January 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his poison.
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Since last year, Trump admin planned what to do if ICE agents were accused of crimes (even murder):
Protect them “no matter what."
Trump laid out ways to retaliate:
—Refuse to hand over an agent
—Charge local officials with “obstructing"
—Threaten to cut off more funding
led by @swin24.bsky.social
Protect them “no matter what."
Trump laid out ways to retaliate:
—Refuse to hand over an agent
—Charge local officials with “obstructing"
—Threaten to cut off more funding
led by @swin24.bsky.social
Inside Trump’s Plans To Protect Killer ICE Agents ‘No Matter What’
Minnesota officials want to investigate ICE’s killing of a mother in Minneapolis. Team Trump has been planning for a moment like this.
zeteo.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Since last year, Trump admin planned what to do if ICE agents were accused of crimes (even murder):
Protect them “no matter what."
Trump laid out ways to retaliate:
—Refuse to hand over an agent
—Charge local officials with “obstructing"
—Threaten to cut off more funding
led by @swin24.bsky.social
Protect them “no matter what."
Trump laid out ways to retaliate:
—Refuse to hand over an agent
—Charge local officials with “obstructing"
—Threaten to cut off more funding
led by @swin24.bsky.social
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Starting to think that as society we didn’t consider how slippery the legalized gambling slope would be
January 9, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Starting to think that as society we didn’t consider how slippery the legalized gambling slope would be
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New column today:
zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...
zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...
January 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
New column today:
zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...
zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...
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This specific phrasing is very very common in these cases: officers say the escalation in violence is self-defense, that they “feared for their life” when a car was “weaponized" against them. From Cato's @foxmike90.bsky.social today: www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
Opinion | Renee Good wasn’t the first person shot in her car by ICE. The justification followed a familiar script.
Mike Fox: The officer who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis might never have to defend his actions before a judge or jury.
www.ms.now
January 9, 2026 at 12:36 PM
This specific phrasing is very very common in these cases: officers say the escalation in violence is self-defense, that they “feared for their life” when a car was “weaponized" against them. From Cato's @foxmike90.bsky.social today: www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
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I always thought the term "cosplaying" was overused until ICE/CBP started showing up everywhere. Look at this guy, does he think it's Fallujah? (It's a high school in Minneapolis).
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 8, 2026 at 3:33 PM
I always thought the term "cosplaying" was overused until ICE/CBP started showing up everywhere. Look at this guy, does he think it's Fallujah? (It's a high school in Minneapolis).
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
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The NYC mayor proposes cheaper housing and public transit & opposes genocide, and there's a dozen media outlets calling him a jihadist commie 24/7.
Trump is invading countries, has an ethnic cleansing/assassination crew and the Dems are still like "this is a distraction from the cost of groceries"
Trump is invading countries, has an ethnic cleansing/assassination crew and the Dems are still like "this is a distraction from the cost of groceries"
January 9, 2026 at 5:17 AM
The NYC mayor proposes cheaper housing and public transit & opposes genocide, and there's a dozen media outlets calling him a jihadist commie 24/7.
Trump is invading countries, has an ethnic cleansing/assassination crew and the Dems are still like "this is a distraction from the cost of groceries"
Trump is invading countries, has an ethnic cleansing/assassination crew and the Dems are still like "this is a distraction from the cost of groceries"
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Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
Advocates want legal action after man shot and killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge
Advocates argue that the off-duty ICE agent wasn't trained for the situation and should have called police and waited for them to arrive.
abc7.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
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I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.
Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children -
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:17 AM
I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.
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I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea.
This should not be a difficult concept.
This should not be a difficult concept.
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denounce the killing but offer no concrete pledges
www.independent.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 2:24 AM
I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea.
This should not be a difficult concept.
This should not be a difficult concept.