Jerod Poore
@jerod23.bsky.social
Retired curmudgeon. Former mad overlord of CrazyMeds, Fringe & SciFi editor for FactSheet5, big iron coder, and zine publisher.
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One problem Democrats face is that the job of chief electoral strategist (Schumer) is increasingly incompatible with being party leader (also Schumer). Both roles matter, but if you can't use your platform as leader to say what's right because you're too into the game, you don't belong in the job. >
January 20, 2026 at 5:55 PM
One problem Democrats face is that the job of chief electoral strategist (Schumer) is increasingly incompatible with being party leader (also Schumer). Both roles matter, but if you can't use your platform as leader to say what's right because you're too into the game, you don't belong in the job. >
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Masked and heavily armed members of the gang known as "ICE" are roving the streets, causing schools to take protective measures to keep students and staff safe from gang activity...
Schools are usually shut down because of natural disasters. ICE is an unnatural disaster.
ICE is terrorizing schoolchildren in the Twin Cities again today
January 20, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Masked and heavily armed members of the gang known as "ICE" are roving the streets, causing schools to take protective measures to keep students and staff safe from gang activity...
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“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
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We have an entire class of Democratic "leadership" that has been told that it's dangerous and extreme to say this, and that does not understand that what Democrats want is for their leaders to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. That should not be as big an ask as it apparently is.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
We have an entire class of Democratic "leadership" that has been told that it's dangerous and extreme to say this, and that does not understand that what Democrats want is for their leaders to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. That should not be as big an ask as it apparently is.
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He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:53 PM
He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.
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Minnesota police chiefs calling for an end to "Kavanaugh Stops" now that it's affecting their own off-duty officers.
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Minnesota police chiefs calling for an end to "Kavanaugh Stops" now that it's affecting their own off-duty officers.
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People who were right about the need to divest from policing and criminalization are not platformed in the MSM. The ones platformed are former prosecutors, cops, and pundits who know nothing. Those people keep telling you about "training" and "new tech" "solutions." It's pathetic.
January 20, 2026 at 7:22 PM
People who were right about the need to divest from policing and criminalization are not platformed in the MSM. The ones platformed are former prosecutors, cops, and pundits who know nothing. Those people keep telling you about "training" and "new tech" "solutions." It's pathetic.
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just thinking about ICE eating at a Mexican restaurant before they rounded up and kidnapped people.
January 20, 2026 at 8:31 PM
just thinking about ICE eating at a Mexican restaurant before they rounded up and kidnapped people.
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Following my reporting on ICE's bounty hunter program, Rep. Krishnamoorthi has introduced legislation to ban the practice outright krishnamoorthi.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
krishnamoorthi.house.gov
January 20, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Following my reporting on ICE's bounty hunter program, Rep. Krishnamoorthi has introduced legislation to ban the practice outright krishnamoorthi.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
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Stephen Miller Reminds Picky-Eater Son That There Starving Kids In Basement https://theonion.com/stephen-miller-reminds-picky-eater-son-that-there-starving-kids-in-basement/
January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Stephen Miller Reminds Picky-Eater Son That There Starving Kids In Basement https://theonion.com/stephen-miller-reminds-picky-eater-son-that-there-starving-kids-in-basement/
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It is NOT mental illness. I wish people would stop saying this. He is making CHOICES. Mental illness is not a choice. All this does is demonise the mentally ill, those who are often brutally oppressed by this government
How mentally ill does trump have to be before he's removed from office?
January 20, 2026 at 9:40 AM
It is NOT mental illness. I wish people would stop saying this. He is making CHOICES. Mental illness is not a choice. All this does is demonise the mentally ill, those who are often brutally oppressed by this government
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The "better training will solve things" line is BS. As concentration camp scholar Andrea Pitzer explains, Hitler's Germany *also* had problems with abuses in its developing concentration camp system. Their answer was to put the SS in charge. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-a...
January 20, 2026 at 2:41 PM
The "better training will solve things" line is BS. As concentration camp scholar Andrea Pitzer explains, Hitler's Germany *also* had problems with abuses in its developing concentration camp system. Their answer was to put the SS in charge. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-a...
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We're still okay for making sauce.
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January 18, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…
January 19, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…
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Republicans hate the troops
A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.
Army veteran says ICE agents detained him for hours without access to phone or his attorney
A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.
www.kare11.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Republicans hate the troops
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What Schumer is telling you here is that his strategy is just to whine about how bad things are. That's it. Just whine, and hope that wins the midterms.
Replace this man. Come on. He's done.
Replace this man. Come on. He's done.
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
Zero Chucks Left to Give
Chuck Schumer now sees a path back to the majority. Can he manage his way through it?
www.thebulwark.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:37 AM
What Schumer is telling you here is that his strategy is just to whine about how bad things are. That's it. Just whine, and hope that wins the midterms.
Replace this man. Come on. He's done.
Replace this man. Come on. He's done.
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"Abolish ICE" is the moderate position. "Try everyone involved in ICE for crimes against humanity" is the progressive one.
A third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says.
Third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says
Camp East Montana on Fort Bliss in El Paso is one of the largest ICE detention centers in the country.
nbcnews.to
January 19, 2026 at 9:01 PM
"Abolish ICE" is the moderate position. "Try everyone involved in ICE for crimes against humanity" is the progressive one.
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It's a problem that actual elected officials post on social media as if they are powerless observers and commentators.
January 19, 2026 at 10:14 PM
It's a problem that actual elected officials post on social media as if they are powerless observers and commentators.
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Gonna buy a drone remote and stand around at protests looking at the screen and then looking at ICE and then looking up in the sky panicked and then looking around everywhere.
Note I will not also be buying a drone, just the remote, so I will not be breaking any law. (Which I have never done.)
Note I will not also be buying a drone, just the remote, so I will not be breaking any law. (Which I have never done.)
January 20, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Gonna buy a drone remote and stand around at protests looking at the screen and then looking at ICE and then looking up in the sky panicked and then looking around everywhere.
Note I will not also be buying a drone, just the remote, so I will not be breaking any law. (Which I have never done.)
Note I will not also be buying a drone, just the remote, so I will not be breaking any law. (Which I have never done.)
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ICE has always functioned as a terrorist organization. Their sole purpose is nativist violence. It is profoundly shameful that the United States allows them to exist at all.
I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood.
January 20, 2026 at 6:06 AM
ICE has always functioned as a terrorist organization. Their sole purpose is nativist violence. It is profoundly shameful that the United States allows them to exist at all.
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ICE is presuming Diaz died from suicide. Notice the familiar response? It's never ICE's fault when someone dies in detainment or in their presence. Reminds me of the🤥 🍊 💩. 👺
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Second man dies at Texas ICE detention facility in two weeks
Victor Manuel Diaz was found unresponsive at Camp East Montana in what ICE officials call ‘presumed suicide’
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:40 AM
ICE is presuming Diaz died from suicide. Notice the familiar response? It's never ICE's fault when someone dies in detainment or in their presence. Reminds me of the🤥 🍊 💩. 👺
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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“Native citizens are being stopped, detained, and threatened despite presenting valid tribal identification and proof of U.S. citizenship. Across all three regions, the pattern is the same: ICE treating Native identity itself as grounds for suspicion.”
popularresistance.org/from-minneap...
popularresistance.org/from-minneap...
From Minneapolis To Arizona, ICE Targets Native Peoples - PopularResistance.Org
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has escalated a nationwide campaign of racial profiling and arbitrary detention against Indigenous people, seizing members of federally recognized tribes in Minnesota, Arizona, and Oklahoma in what tribal leaders are denouncing as open treaty violations and a direct attack on Native sovereignty. What began earlier this month with mass arrests in Minneapolis has now spread across state lines. Native citizens are being stopped, detained, and threatened despite presenting valid tribal identification and proof of U.S. citizenship.
popularresistance.org
January 19, 2026 at 1:49 PM
“Native citizens are being stopped, detained, and threatened despite presenting valid tribal identification and proof of U.S. citizenship. Across all three regions, the pattern is the same: ICE treating Native identity itself as grounds for suspicion.”
popularresistance.org/from-minneap...
popularresistance.org/from-minneap...