FrankGinDC
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Highlight injustice, put oneself at risk, take the state violence while remaining nonviolent, generate images for the public, more see the undeniable injustice and grow more sympathetic, until state behavior changes.
That’s exactly how civil disobedience is supposed to work. Well done, Minnesota.
That’s exactly how civil disobedience is supposed to work. Well done, Minnesota.
January 27, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Highlight injustice, put oneself at risk, take the state violence while remaining nonviolent, generate images for the public, more see the undeniable injustice and grow more sympathetic, until state behavior changes.
That’s exactly how civil disobedience is supposed to work. Well done, Minnesota.
That’s exactly how civil disobedience is supposed to work. Well done, Minnesota.
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I am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes.
January 25, 2026 at 3:51 AM
I am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes.
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It is increasingly clear that stripping the Department of Homeland Security down to the studs — ICE, Border Patrol, all of it — is the minimum we must do when we regain power.
But we can’t afford to wait that long to rein in these agencies.
But we can’t afford to wait that long to rein in these agencies.
January 24, 2026 at 11:21 PM
It is increasingly clear that stripping the Department of Homeland Security down to the studs — ICE, Border Patrol, all of it — is the minimum we must do when we regain power.
But we can’t afford to wait that long to rein in these agencies.
But we can’t afford to wait that long to rein in these agencies.
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Stand up a revitalized State Defense Force, recruit and train from extant state employees and volunteer observers and put 10k+ bodies between ICE and their targets, with cameras piping directly to a state database for prosecutions.
Someone asked what I would do were I the governor of MN. I would hope I'd be like Lincoln: once coming to the realization that there was going to be no way out but war, with utter honestly as to the stakes, using all his powers of persuasion to communicate that there will be sacrifice....
January 25, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Stand up a revitalized State Defense Force, recruit and train from extant state employees and volunteer observers and put 10k+ bodies between ICE and their targets, with cameras piping directly to a state database for prosecutions.
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Something tells me some conservative professor is working on a theory of the 2nd Amendment that excludes ICU nurses.
January 25, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Something tells me some conservative professor is working on a theory of the 2nd Amendment that excludes ICU nurses.
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100%. If you want an alternative slogan you can go with "Abolish ICE before they kill again."
the only reason "abolish ICE" is seen as radical is that no one will say it but the far left. if every normie Democrat started saying it tomorrow it would move the overton window so far you'd have to squint to find it. my kingdom for leaders who understand they can shape public opinion.
Democrats officially going all in on the mealy mouthed “ICE needs training” narrative.
No. ABOLISH ICE.
No. ABOLISH ICE.
January 12, 2026 at 7:42 PM
100%. If you want an alternative slogan you can go with "Abolish ICE before they kill again."
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I’m completely fed up with elected Representatives saying shit like, “Republicans will tell you behind closed doors that they don’t agree with what ICE is doing”.
Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists.
Name them, record them, and make it public.
Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists.
Name them, record them, and make it public.
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
I’m completely fed up with elected Representatives saying shit like, “Republicans will tell you behind closed doors that they don’t agree with what ICE is doing”.
Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists.
Name them, record them, and make it public.
Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists.
Name them, record them, and make it public.
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Indeed.
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January 24, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Indeed.
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I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
January 24, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
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Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
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All I see is federal agents getting violent with residents, over and over, while Democratic leaders repeatedly tell those residents to calm down and not do anything in response. This is not sustainable.
January 24, 2026 at 7:09 PM
All I see is federal agents getting violent with residents, over and over, while Democratic leaders repeatedly tell those residents to calm down and not do anything in response. This is not sustainable.
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Tobias Kinter Bencosme, 44, of Miami, FL, is an ICE Supervisory Detention Agent who participated in the illegal home invasion and kidnapping of an elderly American citizen in St Paul, MN on 1/18/2026. Bencosme dragged the Hmong grandfather outside in the frigid air wearing only boxers and a blanket.
January 24, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Tobias Kinter Bencosme, 44, of Miami, FL, is an ICE Supervisory Detention Agent who participated in the illegal home invasion and kidnapping of an elderly American citizen in St Paul, MN on 1/18/2026. Bencosme dragged the Hmong grandfather outside in the frigid air wearing only boxers and a blanket.
We should take every last bit of ICE's kit and send it to the Ukrainians who need it and would put it to good use.
“We will not save our country in a courtroom,” Keith Ellison, Minnesota's Attorney General, said Thursday. “We have to fight them in a courtroom. We absolutely have to. But ultimately, this country will be saved by the people of the United States."
Minneapolis shows us the only way out
This year will decide the rest of our lives. And the people will decide it.
www.thefarce.org
January 24, 2026 at 12:16 AM
We should take every last bit of ICE's kit and send it to the Ukrainians who need it and would put it to good use.
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It’s currently operating totally outside of our constitutional rules. Habeas corpus , due process of law, equal protection, freedom of speech, 4th amendment protections against search and seizure, are all not being enforced in any common sense or meaningful way.
January 22, 2026 at 2:17 PM
It’s currently operating totally outside of our constitutional rules. Habeas corpus , due process of law, equal protection, freedom of speech, 4th amendment protections against search and seizure, are all not being enforced in any common sense or meaningful way.
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It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...
January 23, 2026 at 12:42 PM
It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to join the "Peace Board" — but could not attend today’s signing ceremony as he’s wanted by the ICC for war crimes.
January 22, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to join the "Peace Board" — but could not attend today’s signing ceremony as he’s wanted by the ICC for war crimes.
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This is the defining quality of Dem leadership. They think about political decisions not in terms of what they want to achieve but by worrying about and minimizing backlash. They are looking over their shoulder nervously at the audience ten times more intently than they’re watching the road ahead.
January 22, 2026 at 1:47 PM
This is the defining quality of Dem leadership. They think about political decisions not in terms of what they want to achieve but by worrying about and minimizing backlash. They are looking over their shoulder nervously at the audience ten times more intently than they’re watching the road ahead.
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Liam Ramos, a preschooler ICE detained the five-year-old Minnesota boy as he returned home from school and transported him to a detention center in Texas.
January 22, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Liam Ramos, a preschooler ICE detained the five-year-old Minnesota boy as he returned home from school and transported him to a detention center in Texas.
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LOL - Hakeem Jeffries providing real time example for @brianbeutler.bsky.social's hypothesis today.
The Democratic approach to building back power is:
1. Avoid contentious issues;
2. Pivot all discourse to unobjectionable appeals like costs;
3. Leave moral opposition to citizens of conscience, who have lost all trust in the party, but hope they vote Democrat anyhow.
Wrong top to bottom.
1. Avoid contentious issues;
2. Pivot all discourse to unobjectionable appeals like costs;
3. Leave moral opposition to citizens of conscience, who have lost all trust in the party, but hope they vote Democrat anyhow.
Wrong top to bottom.
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
On expecting a different result.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:25 PM
LOL - Hakeem Jeffries providing real time example for @brianbeutler.bsky.social's hypothesis today.
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They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:39 PM
They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
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High school hockey is great but you don’t focus on high school hockey during a fascist takeover of the biggest city of your state.
It makes it look like you think everything is fine.
It makes it look like you think everything is fine.
January 21, 2026 at 11:32 PM
High school hockey is great but you don’t focus on high school hockey during a fascist takeover of the biggest city of your state.
It makes it look like you think everything is fine.
It makes it look like you think everything is fine.
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We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”
January 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”
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This is what you do when you think rich donors will pick the 2028 nominee and not the party’s base btw
But he didn't get an invitation to Ben Shapiro's podcast.
Gavin Newsom sought Ben Shapiro out for Newsom's podcast, then got bulldozed on his own turf.
It's far, far more pathetic than going on Shapiro's podcast.
Gavin Newsom sought Ben Shapiro out for Newsom's podcast, then got bulldozed on his own turf.
It's far, far more pathetic than going on Shapiro's podcast.
January 16, 2026 at 4:23 PM
This is what you do when you think rich donors will pick the 2028 nominee and not the party’s base btw