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AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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I wonder if the fallout from the video out of Minneapolis played a role in the whistleblower leaking this.
Besides everything else, "an incursion of armed agents who forcibly removed a U.S. citizen from a residence without presenting a warrant or allowing him to show identification" is simply incompatible with US civil liberties.

In America's political imaginary, this is the very definition of tyranny.
ICE Arrest of a Citizen, Barely Dressed, Sows Fear in Twin Cities
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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The Laken Riley Act got this whole brutal machine jump started. You would think some of these Democrats would have the baseline decency to at least apologize.
January 22, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
January 21, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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Looks like Senator Blumenthal's office worked with the whistleblowers, and has already put out a letter to the Trump admin demanding answers.

Congress MUST act. This is a five alarm fire for our basic rights under the law. bsky.app/profile/blum...
I’m demanding Sec. Noem provide an explanation for this abhorrent policy & that my Republican colleagues hold hearings & join me in demanding the Trump Admin answer for this lawlessness. 6
January 21, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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At a time of unprecedented daily scandals, this this whistleblower complaint, and the memo it reveals for the first time, breaks through for me as beyond the pale.

It's the federal government conspiring in secret to subvert the Fourth Amendment.

Read it here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
s3.documentcloud.org
January 21, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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In a sign of how explosive ICE knew this secret memo would be, one whistleblower says he was only allowed to read the memo and was barred from taking written notes, and warned that employees had been punished for disagreeing.

At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach the illegal memo!
January 21, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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In short, this secret memo explains SO MUCH of what we've been seeing over the last months, including this raid of a home in Minneapolis where ICE officers presented no judicial warrant before breaking in the door.

Turns out they were secretly told they don't need one!
January 21, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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This is the Trump administration trashing the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution in pursuit of its mass deportation agenda.

Worse, a footnote to this memo suggest they won't even rule out authorizing home invasions with no judicial warrant for people not even ordered removed!
January 21, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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The memo cites no legal authority, only a further secret DHS's General Counsel (replaced in the early days with a Trump loyalist) opinion saying administrative warrants filled out by an ICE officer are sufficient to break into homes of people ordered removed.

Here's what such a warrant looks like.
January 21, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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Chillingly, the whistleblower says that ICE trainers were directed (no paper trail?) to train all of ICE's new recruits that these administrative warrants authorize breaking into peoples' homes, even though DHS's own training materials still make clear that's illegal!
January 21, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.

It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
January 21, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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Patty, a woman observer in Minneapolis, was abducted from a car by federal agents today. She was released and talked about her experience in custody.

An agent said, "You guys gotta stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead."

[@statuscoupnews.bsky.social Please clip this for Bsky?]
January 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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This is what’s happening to immigrants doing it “the right way” in Trump’s America.

We have been told about it happening here in Tennessee.

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Leavitt claims that Trump has secured "nearly $9 trillion" in investment to the US (our entire GDP is about $30 trillion so yeah, no)
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Capitalism is a Frankenstein’s monster bringing war, environmental crisis & economic ruin for working people.
We need a party that won't bow down to capitalists & warmongers. We need a socialist revolution.
We're Revolutionary Workers. What We Stand For:

www.revolutionaryworker.org/publications...
What We Stand For - Revolutionary Workers
The world today has entered a deadly spiral of war, environmental catastrophe, deepening inequality, and widespread economic and political disorder. Revolutionary Workers is fighting to build the…
www.revolutionaryworker.org
November 24, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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"Democrats are looking to scapegoat working-class voters, telling them they are racist and sexist for not supporting Harris, while themselves undoubtedly preparing to make further overtures toward the erstwhile Republican establishment." -Kshama Sawant

Read now: www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/15/t...
The Democrats Deserved to Lose 1,000 Times Over
What happened in this year’s election was not some kind of flowering of American fascism, but a rebellion against a hated, out-of-touch Democratic Party
www.counterpunch.org
November 24, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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Gaza: Families smashing through walls to escape a genocide, mothers screaming in terror, children fleeing through blood-soaked streets. The cycle of bombing and displacement never ends.
Escaping through the walls in Gaza
This is the story of one family, and their desperate attempts to flee to safety under the bombardment of Israeli tanks. It is but one story among millions.
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November 17, 2024 at 10:00 PM