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I think what's going on here is the Trump-ICE war on Blue America, the sheer awfulness of the imagery of it, is awakening in many people an anti-totalitarian instinct that Dems can speak to effectively. Rogan calling ICE "Gestapo" gets at this.
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 14, 2026 at 7:34 PM
I think what's going on here is the Trump-ICE war on Blue America, the sheer awfulness of the imagery of it, is awakening in many people an anti-totalitarian instinct that Dems can speak to effectively. Rogan calling ICE "Gestapo" gets at this.
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
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Quinnipiac gave me unpublished data from new poll and it finds huge, huge, huge percentages of young and working class voters have seen video of Minneapolis shooting.
Majorities of both disapprove of ICE. Pundits are getting the working class/immigration wrong:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
Majorities of both disapprove of ICE. Pundits are getting the working class/immigration wrong:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 14, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Quinnipiac gave me unpublished data from new poll and it finds huge, huge, huge percentages of young and working class voters have seen video of Minneapolis shooting.
Majorities of both disapprove of ICE. Pundits are getting the working class/immigration wrong:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
Majorities of both disapprove of ICE. Pundits are getting the working class/immigration wrong:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
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“You don’t want militarized people in the streets snatching up people," Joe Rogan said. "Are we really gonna be the Gestapo? Where’s your papers—is that what we’ve come to?”
ICE's horrors are achieving extraordinary penetration in info-spaces Dems need to reach:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
ICE's horrors are achieving extraordinary penetration in info-spaces Dems need to reach:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 14, 2026 at 7:15 PM
“You don’t want militarized people in the streets snatching up people," Joe Rogan said. "Are we really gonna be the Gestapo? Where’s your papers—is that what we’ve come to?”
ICE's horrors are achieving extraordinary penetration in info-spaces Dems need to reach:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
ICE's horrors are achieving extraordinary penetration in info-spaces Dems need to reach:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
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We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation.
January 14, 2026 at 4:18 PM
We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation.
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Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/ajco...
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/ajco...
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again we know this from our scholars who have studied tyrants and authoritarianism around the world for decades. We know exactly how this works and where we are going next
"We essentially have right-wing content creators guiding the hand of the Justice Department—and in some cases working there themselves."
On the pod, @melissagiragrant.com is really illuminating on Trump's rants, the DOJ rebellion, and plummeting support for ICE:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
On the pod, @melissagiragrant.com is really illuminating on Trump's rants, the DOJ rebellion, and plummeting support for ICE:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
Trump Tirades about Shooting Get Darker as Polls Turn Brutal on ICE
As new polling shows Trump is losing the argument over the Minneapolis shooting, the writer of a new piece on this horror explains how Trumpworld sees this as an opening to wage open war on Americans.
newrepublic.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:48 PM
again we know this from our scholars who have studied tyrants and authoritarianism around the world for decades. We know exactly how this works and where we are going next
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IMO it depends
➡️ If there's a realignment – Rs beaten so bad that the "nuke the government" crowd is unlikely to have power for decades – things bounce back quickly without major changes
IMO that scenario is unlikely, but possible
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➡️ If there's a realignment – Rs beaten so bad that the "nuke the government" crowd is unlikely to have power for decades – things bounce back quickly without major changes
IMO that scenario is unlikely, but possible
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bsky.app/profile/pars...
Assuming we fix *gestures broadly* how long do you think it takes to rebuild the DOJ/Attorneys offices/other justice apparatuses that have had large numbers of people leave over things like this?
January 14, 2026 at 2:56 AM
IMO it depends
➡️ If there's a realignment – Rs beaten so bad that the "nuke the government" crowd is unlikely to have power for decades – things bounce back quickly without major changes
IMO that scenario is unlikely, but possible
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bsky.app/profile/pars...
➡️ If there's a realignment – Rs beaten so bad that the "nuke the government" crowd is unlikely to have power for decades – things bounce back quickly without major changes
IMO that scenario is unlikely, but possible
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bsky.app/profile/pars...
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Biden was President. He had the agencies and the tanks. Not Roberts. Bidens job was to protect the country. When the people in the robes are giving someone a Get Out of Jail Free Forever card, Joe needs to be the President with the agencies and the tanks. Would that be "extrajuducial"? Absolutely
January 13, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Biden was President. He had the agencies and the tanks. Not Roberts. Bidens job was to protect the country. When the people in the robes are giving someone a Get Out of Jail Free Forever card, Joe needs to be the President with the agencies and the tanks. Would that be "extrajuducial"? Absolutely
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A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
He was bundled into the van & taken away.
Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”
I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
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Fun to think about how, say, Tim Russert would have reacted to Bill Clinton doing this. Or Jake Tapper if it was any Democrat at all.
Trump yells “fuck you” and flips off an auto worker in Michigan who yelled “pedophile protector” www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/t...
January 13, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Fun to think about how, say, Tim Russert would have reacted to Bill Clinton doing this. Or Jake Tapper if it was any Democrat at all.
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People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
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Agree with @paulwaldman.bsky.social here: Dems need to be wiling to say, at a minimum, that "ICE needs to be stripped down to the studs." They're going to get asked this question a lot, and they should articulate that as the consensus party position.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trump-is-p...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trump-is-p...
Trump Is Proving the Wacky Lefties Right
No blood for oil? Abolish ICE? What used to be far-left ideas are now just sensible responses to this administration.
paulwaldman.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Agree with @paulwaldman.bsky.social here: Dems need to be wiling to say, at a minimum, that "ICE needs to be stripped down to the studs." They're going to get asked this question a lot, and they should articulate that as the consensus party position.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trump-is-p...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trump-is-p...
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Said it a year ago and I'm saying it now. Governors in blue states should have been gaming this situation out as soon as Trump was fucking with FEMA money during the fires. This was always the end point.
"Gotta pay the king! No mechanism not to pay the king!" is not an answer.
"Gotta pay the king! No mechanism not to pay the king!" is not an answer.
I'm guessing if the government turns off things my federal taxes are paying for then I have a legal case to not pay my full federal tax bill
January 13, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Said it a year ago and I'm saying it now. Governors in blue states should have been gaming this situation out as soon as Trump was fucking with FEMA money during the fires. This was always the end point.
"Gotta pay the king! No mechanism not to pay the king!" is not an answer.
"Gotta pay the king! No mechanism not to pay the king!" is not an answer.
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Bad move by @gallego.senate.gov, saying this without telling people Trump has repeatedly been offered immigration "deals" and turned them down. In 2018 Dems offered him $25 billion for wall in exchange for Dreamers; he said no. Dems offered GOP big border bill in 2024; he told Rs to kill it.
January 13, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Bad move by @gallego.senate.gov, saying this without telling people Trump has repeatedly been offered immigration "deals" and turned them down. In 2018 Dems offered him $25 billion for wall in exchange for Dreamers; he said no. Dems offered GOP big border bill in 2024; he told Rs to kill it.
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People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.
SEOUL, Jan 13 (Reuters) - South Korea's special prosecutor on Tuesday requested the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.
January 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.
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Tbh Biden hoping the voters would save them in 2024 from having to actually do anything seems to be the status quo amongst the entire party today. They're all Bidening their responsibilities.
January 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Tbh Biden hoping the voters would save them in 2024 from having to actually do anything seems to be the status quo amongst the entire party today. They're all Bidening their responsibilities.
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Hakeem Jeffries is afraid of a bad poll, meanwhile the observers and neighbors here on the ground in Minneapolis are afraid of being beaten senseless, dragged into a car, and raced out of their neighborhood. They’re not yielding but he is. Consider new leaders, Democrats
January 13, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Hakeem Jeffries is afraid of a bad poll, meanwhile the observers and neighbors here on the ground in Minneapolis are afraid of being beaten senseless, dragged into a car, and raced out of their neighborhood. They’re not yielding but he is. Consider new leaders, Democrats
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NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now
January 13, 2026 at 4:15 AM
NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
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crazy how hard the administration is pushing on this
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 AM
crazy how hard the administration is pushing on this
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January 13, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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new york city is Real America. los angeles is Real America. chicago is Real America. minneapolis is Real America. seattle, portland, detroit etc etc. sick of this framing that it's otherwise. shut the fuck up
January 12, 2026 at 6:12 PM
new york city is Real America. los angeles is Real America. chicago is Real America. minneapolis is Real America. seattle, portland, detroit etc etc. sick of this framing that it's otherwise. shut the fuck up
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Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.
Big clash this afternoon between DHS agents and protesters in a residential street in Minneapolis, following a DHS agent hitting another vehicle. Tear gas was deployed in people’s yards and agents pepper prayed people.
January 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.
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Exactly. Typical swing voters don't sit in the middle and swing from left to right, they swing from one set of incoherent and ill-informed views to another.
Hence lots of Trump voters discovering tariffs in April 2025 and the general dismay with his immigration policies, both of which he ran on.
Hence lots of Trump voters discovering tariffs in April 2025 and the general dismay with his immigration policies, both of which he ran on.
what they *aren't* is particularly ideologically moderate, that's a self-serving lie from centrists. they much worse than that: ideologically incoherent, against bad stuff and in favor of good stuff hypothetically but with no underlying principles to guide them
January 12, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Exactly. Typical swing voters don't sit in the middle and swing from left to right, they swing from one set of incoherent and ill-informed views to another.
Hence lots of Trump voters discovering tariffs in April 2025 and the general dismay with his immigration policies, both of which he ran on.
Hence lots of Trump voters discovering tariffs in April 2025 and the general dismay with his immigration policies, both of which he ran on.
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All the talk of "balance" in journalism produced a culture where constant sane-washing of the right isn't just allowed, it's expected and required.
The news outlets that have so far covered this have omitted the description of the GoFundMe from the creator himself: "The stupid cunts wanna make a go fund me for the stupod bitch that got what she deserved i made one for the ice officer that did his job lets get this man some money." /
January 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
All the talk of "balance" in journalism produced a culture where constant sane-washing of the right isn't just allowed, it's expected and required.