Charles Koppelman
@ckopp.bsky.social
Filmmaker with a feature documentary coming out about the Tom and Erika Girardi scandal. Another in the works about California wildfires and the photojournalists who cover them. California born and raised.
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Philidelphia DA Larry Krasner warns ICE: If an agent commits crimes in Philly, I will charge you. You will be arrested. You will stand trial, and you will be convicted in state or federal court and you will do your time. Donald Trump can't pardon you for a state court conviction.
February 4, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Philidelphia DA Larry Krasner warns ICE: If an agent commits crimes in Philly, I will charge you. You will be arrested. You will stand trial, and you will be convicted in state or federal court and you will do your time. Donald Trump can't pardon you for a state court conviction.
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I guess this didn't make it into the documentary.
January 31, 2026 at 10:25 PM
I guess this didn't make it into the documentary.
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At least one of the newly released Epstein file is already down.
This link no longer appears to work (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
It contained an FBI email chain outlining an allegation against Trump involving sexual activities with a child.
This is a screenshot from that email chain.
This link no longer appears to work (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
It contained an FBI email chain outlining an allegation against Trump involving sexual activities with a child.
This is a screenshot from that email chain.
January 30, 2026 at 6:07 PM
At least one of the newly released Epstein file is already down.
This link no longer appears to work (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
It contained an FBI email chain outlining an allegation against Trump involving sexual activities with a child.
This is a screenshot from that email chain.
This link no longer appears to work (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
It contained an FBI email chain outlining an allegation against Trump involving sexual activities with a child.
This is a screenshot from that email chain.
Can someone cross check them against the boogaloo boys and one percenter rosters?
January 29, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Can someone cross check them against the boogaloo boys and one percenter rosters?
In theater? That’s a military term.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 4:38 PM
In theater? That’s a military term.
Strange bedfellows doesn’t do this justice.
Holy shit, there's an open carry #2A protest of ICE happening in Douglas County Colorado -- a very wealthy and very red suburb county of Denver. (I lived there for 16 years.) The Trump Administration pissing off committed gun owners sufficiently for them to join the protests against ICE is wild.
January 28, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Strange bedfellows doesn’t do this justice.
Circular firing squad starts to take shape.
The blame game heats up:
A few days ago they were confidently smearing a murdered man as an “assassin” - now Noem is whining that it’s all Miller’s fault and Miller is blaming Customs and Border Patrol for bad info. They all need to go down.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/p...
A few days ago they were confidently smearing a murdered man as an “assassin” - now Noem is whining that it’s all Miller’s fault and Miller is blaming Customs and Border Patrol for bad info. They all need to go down.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/p...
Top White House aide Stephen Miller acknowledges possible breach of protocol before Alex Pretti’s shooting | CNN Politics
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said Tuesday that officials were evaluating why Customs and Border Protection agents in Minneapolis “may not have been following” proper protocol befor...
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January 28, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Circular firing squad starts to take shape.
Do Not Pass Go, and collect $50,000.
Fox's Brian Kilmeade at 6:15am: "What I would do is just bring Tom Homan in" to Minnesota.
Kilmeade at 7:15am: Send Homan!
Kilmeade at 8:10am: Send Homan!
Trump at 8:30am: Sends Homan
www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/m...
Kilmeade at 7:15am: Send Homan!
Kilmeade at 8:10am: Send Homan!
Trump at 8:30am: Sends Homan
www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/m...
Fox News said Tom Homan should be sent to Minnesota — 20 minutes later, Trump did exactly that | CNN Business
As MAGA media frets over the optics of the Alex Pretti shooting, Brian Kilmeade repeatedly floated a suggestion to the president over Fox’s airwaves on Monday.
www.cnn.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Do Not Pass Go, and collect $50,000.
Consider me spoken.
This is a turning point. Nobody wants what we’re seeing in Minnesota.
Speak up. In your workplace, in your community, in any forum you have.
Just emailing friends and coworkers and saying this is wrong is a powerful act. Expressing yourself to others. That is democracy.
Just don’t be silent.
Speak up. In your workplace, in your community, in any forum you have.
Just emailing friends and coworkers and saying this is wrong is a powerful act. Expressing yourself to others. That is democracy.
Just don’t be silent.
January 26, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Consider me spoken.
Keep going.
NYT coverage this weekend has swung widely between bold truth-telling and shameful both-sidesing. I suspect a civil war between editorial factions. DMs are open.
January 26, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Keep going.
Show me the… oh, never mind.
Something jarring about seeing Hillary Clinton and Tucker Carlson on the same speech program.
This is for a Saudi Real Estate conference starting tomorrow.
This is for a Saudi Real Estate conference starting tomorrow.
January 26, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Show me the… oh, never mind.
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Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.
In the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"
January 25, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
Paging Walmart. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.
ARKANSAS — The walkout follows an incident last week in which a bus of middle school students was mistakenly taken to an ICE detention facility
The students were supposed to visit [to a DHS] office to observe demonstrations including fingerprint analysis, digital forensics, and evidence collection
The students were supposed to visit [to a DHS] office to observe demonstrations including fingerprint analysis, digital forensics, and evidence collection
Bentonville students stage walkout after field trip bus taken to ICE facility by mistake
Bentonville students held a walkout after a middle school field trip bus was mistakenly taken to an ICE detention facility.
www.4029tv.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Paging Walmart. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.
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Republicans are incapable of this. The only answer is voting as many of them out of office as possible.
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
January 19, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Republicans are incapable of this. The only answer is voting as many of them out of office as possible.
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Totally stable genius
TRUMP TELLS NBC NEWS "NORWAY TOTALLY CONTROLS IT DESPITE WHAT THEY SAY” OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMPETITION
January 19, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Totally stable genius
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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
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A good mother trusts a onetime junkie who looks like he’s rotting and sounds like a 1922 jalopy trying to start on a cold morning.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr: "This idea that you should trust the experts, a good mother doesn't do that"
January 15, 2026 at 11:50 PM
A good mother trusts a onetime junkie who looks like he’s rotting and sounds like a 1922 jalopy trying to start on a cold morning.
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For all those who have been calling for a General Strike.
How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:39 AM
For all those who have been calling for a General Strike.
How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
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This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
So basically it’s a shakedown. All pretense removed: “The President is speaking about exerting maximum leverage with the remaining elements in Venezuela and ensuring they cooperate with the United States by halting illegal migration, stopping drug flows, revitalizing oil infrastructure…” (Reuters)
January 7, 2026 at 2:29 AM
So basically it’s a shakedown. All pretense removed: “The President is speaking about exerting maximum leverage with the remaining elements in Venezuela and ensuring they cooperate with the United States by halting illegal migration, stopping drug flows, revitalizing oil infrastructure…” (Reuters)
Trivia fact: PBS Frontline did the same number on Lowell. Different film subject (hint: he owned a Las Vegas casino) but for a similar reason.
seems like an appropriate week to watch this for the first time
December 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Trivia fact: PBS Frontline did the same number on Lowell. Different film subject (hint: he owned a Las Vegas casino) but for a similar reason.
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Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.