Greg Wasserstrom
@brain.rodeo
wokeness & dei enthusiast. photographer. queer/polyam. was wssrstrm on the other site.
📍philadelphia
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Just hours after Renee Good was shot, one member of Customs and Border Patrol’s elite tactical team on an adjacent street fired a less-lethal weapon five times in less than five minutes, with four shots aimed at the faces of protestors. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
Analysing One Federal Agent’s Use of Less-Lethal Launcher in Minneapolis
After the fatal shooting of Renee Good, Border Patrol agent "EZ-17" was filmed shooting less-lethal munitions at protesters five times in five minutes.
www.bellingcat.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Just hours after Renee Good was shot, one member of Customs and Border Patrol’s elite tactical team on an adjacent street fired a less-lethal weapon five times in less than five minutes, with four shots aimed at the faces of protestors. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...
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The lesson from the Press Secretary's disassembling here is that more journalists should take their adversarial obligations seriously. The question itself was strictly factual; the characterization he then offered was prompted by Leavitt herself. It's fair, and more importantly good, journalism.
Reporter: Renee Good was shot in the head and killed by an ICE Agent.
Leavitt: Why was she killed?
Reporter: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably
Leavitt: You’re a left-wing hack. You’re not a reporter.
Leavitt: Why was she killed?
Reporter: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably
Leavitt: You’re a left-wing hack. You’re not a reporter.
January 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The lesson from the Press Secretary's disassembling here is that more journalists should take their adversarial obligations seriously. The question itself was strictly factual; the characterization he then offered was prompted by Leavitt herself. It's fair, and more importantly good, journalism.
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And right on cue, Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act. Trump and Stephen Miller are deliberately trying to cause the rule of law and civil order to collapse in Minnesota for a reason. This is that reason.
January 15, 2026 at 4:06 PM
And right on cue, Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act. Trump and Stephen Miller are deliberately trying to cause the rule of law and civil order to collapse in Minnesota for a reason. This is that reason.
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Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations
January 13, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations
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Federal agents ram a man's vehicle demanding ID at Park/35th in Minneapolis today. The man says he was let go once they realized he was a US citizen. Crowd grew w/ agents then releasing tear gas & pepper spraying some along w/ press and their cameras.
More: chaddavis.photography/sets/ice-in-...
More: chaddavis.photography/sets/ice-in-...
January 13, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Federal agents ram a man's vehicle demanding ID at Park/35th in Minneapolis today. The man says he was let go once they realized he was a US citizen. Crowd grew w/ agents then releasing tear gas & pepper spraying some along w/ press and their cameras.
More: chaddavis.photography/sets/ice-in-...
More: chaddavis.photography/sets/ice-in-...
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I genuinely wonder whether Kamala Harris would be President today if Joe Biden had made NYT feel special.
This may be about the 10th story on this interview, probably the 4th or 5th that's largely about "NYT LOOK AT US!!!!"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
This may be about the 10th story on this interview, probably the 4th or 5th that's largely about "NYT LOOK AT US!!!!"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
January 12, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I genuinely wonder whether Kamala Harris would be President today if Joe Biden had made NYT feel special.
This may be about the 10th story on this interview, probably the 4th or 5th that's largely about "NYT LOOK AT US!!!!"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
This may be about the 10th story on this interview, probably the 4th or 5th that's largely about "NYT LOOK AT US!!!!"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
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Nah, it's time to start looking into their finances.
"It’s hard to be an opposition party when you refuse to oppose the blatantly illegal and immoral things being done by the opposition."
Schumer, Jeffries Refuse to Join Democrats' Growing Calls to Slash ICE Spending
The killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent sparks outrage as Democrats debate funding for the agency. Should they use their power to rein in ICE's violence? Progressive lawmakers demand action, but top Democrats seem hesitant. Is it time for a change in leadership to hold ICE accountable? #ReinInICE #EndViolence
www.commondreams.org
January 10, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Nah, it's time to start looking into their finances.
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The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
January 12, 2026 at 2:24 PM
The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.
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The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.
this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.
January 12, 2026 at 7:17 AM
The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.
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your very existence is troubling, enraging, and distracting as hell for some of the shittiest people on earth so no, i’m afraid you may not kill yourself rn
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
your very existence is troubling, enraging, and distracting as hell for some of the shittiest people on earth so no, i’m afraid you may not kill yourself rn
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This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
January 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
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It was a mistake not to prosecute the Nixon administration, it was a mistake not to prosecute the Bush administration, it was a mistake not to prosecute the first Trump administration, and it will be a FATAL mistake not to prosecute the second Trump administration.
Newsom's already calling for a joining of hands with the Nazis and let atrocities be bygones.
January 11, 2026 at 1:43 AM
It was a mistake not to prosecute the Nixon administration, it was a mistake not to prosecute the Bush administration, it was a mistake not to prosecute the first Trump administration, and it will be a FATAL mistake not to prosecute the second Trump administration.
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To be clear: members of the US Congress are carrying out lawful functions, backed by a Court order that they are not to be prevented in so doing, and ICE are drawing weapons on them to prevent them.
They are, in other words, threatening to shoot US legislators for acting lawfully.
They are, in other words, threatening to shoot US legislators for acting lawfully.
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.
@zeteo.com
@zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
To be clear: members of the US Congress are carrying out lawful functions, backed by a Court order that they are not to be prevented in so doing, and ICE are drawing weapons on them to prevent them.
They are, in other words, threatening to shoot US legislators for acting lawfully.
They are, in other words, threatening to shoot US legislators for acting lawfully.
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US policy on protests in Iran somewhat different from policy on protests in US: “On Friday, the US repeated that killing protesters would be met with a military response.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Iran medics describe overwhelmed hospitals as protests in 14th day
Health workers in Tehran report being overwhelmed by injured on Friday night as security forces and demonstrators clash.
www.bbc.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:03 PM
US policy on protests in Iran somewhat different from policy on protests in US: “On Friday, the US repeated that killing protesters would be met with a military response.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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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.
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Sen Chris Murphy wants to require warrants and ban masks as a requirement for more ICE funding. WHY ARE YOU GIVING THEM FUNDING HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING.
January 10, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Sen Chris Murphy wants to require warrants and ban masks as a requirement for more ICE funding. WHY ARE YOU GIVING THEM FUNDING HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING.
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The fundamental lie that immigrants are more criminal than American-born people is the fuel for the whole enterprise — and that enterprise is as strong as it is because Democrats have consistently helped *also* fuel this lie.
So now Dem senators are just espousing MAGA talking points about ICE?
January 10, 2026 at 10:33 PM
The fundamental lie that immigrants are more criminal than American-born people is the fuel for the whole enterprise — and that enterprise is as strong as it is because Democrats have consistently helped *also* fuel this lie.
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taken with efforts to break the city economically, minneapolis is in a soft civil war w/ the federal govt
"The question that you're basically asking is, can our cops arrest them? From a legal perspective, yes. From a practical perspective...they have bigger guns than we do." That's where we're at.
Look out for @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social!
Look out for @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social!
January 10, 2026 at 10:35 PM
taken with efforts to break the city economically, minneapolis is in a soft civil war w/ the federal govt
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since it's the chatter this morning, @kimkelly.bsky.social from 2020
There’s No Room for Police Unions in the Labor Movement
No other union employees are allowed to kill other human beings.
www.teenvogue.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:07 PM
since it's the chatter this morning, @kimkelly.bsky.social from 2020
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At some point we all need to realize that the Republicans don't have a healthcare plan after all this time because they don't want there to be a healthcare plan. They just want you to die if you can't afford not to.
Brian Kilmeade thought boasting about the Republican's lack of a healthcare plan makes Democrats look bad. Republicans have had 16 years to come up with an alternative to the ACA and so far they've come up with nothing.
January 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
At some point we all need to realize that the Republicans don't have a healthcare plan after all this time because they don't want there to be a healthcare plan. They just want you to die if you can't afford not to.
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He shot her in the head, then called her a “fucking bitch.”
That isn’t self defense, it’s an angry execution.
That isn’t self defense, it’s an angry execution.
January 10, 2026 at 5:15 AM
He shot her in the head, then called her a “fucking bitch.”
That isn’t self defense, it’s an angry execution.
That isn’t self defense, it’s an angry execution.
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You cannot tell voters that this regime is an existential threat one day and aid and abet it every other day. Either you're lying or you are complicit, neither of which makes you fit for office.
7 Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election:
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Shaheen
Welch
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Shaheen
Welch
January 10, 2026 at 12:49 AM
You cannot tell voters that this regime is an existential threat one day and aid and abet it every other day. Either you're lying or you are complicit, neither of which makes you fit for office.
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Please understand what it means when journalists are evacuating their family members out of town.
In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory
In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory
We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
January 10, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Please understand what it means when journalists are evacuating their family members out of town.
In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory
In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory