Jonathan Connelly
@jpconnelly94.bsky.social
A liberal in illiberal times. Fervent supporter of reform to Congress, the courts, and the imperial presidency to save our democracy.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"LMAO" said Gandalf. "Well it has."
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"LMAO" said Gandalf. "Well it has."
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Who’s next?
One demotion cannot detract from accountability.
Greg Bovino and Trump’s agents must still be held responsible for the killings and the damage they’ve done to America.
One demotion cannot detract from accountability.
Greg Bovino and Trump’s agents must still be held responsible for the killings and the damage they’ve done to America.
Greg Bovino Loses His Job
The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Who’s next?
One demotion cannot detract from accountability.
Greg Bovino and Trump’s agents must still be held responsible for the killings and the damage they’ve done to America.
One demotion cannot detract from accountability.
Greg Bovino and Trump’s agents must still be held responsible for the killings and the damage they’ve done to America.
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The only way DHS stops being a total menace is if Miller & Noem get the boot in favor of someone who will submit to Congressional oversight. The only way DHS stops being an un-American travesty is if it is dismantled altogether.
January 27, 2026 at 12:56 AM
The only way DHS stops being a total menace is if Miller & Noem get the boot in favor of someone who will submit to Congressional oversight. The only way DHS stops being an un-American travesty is if it is dismantled altogether.
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People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc
(GFM in next post)
www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
(GFM in next post)
www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
January 26, 2026 at 1:39 AM
People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc
(GFM in next post)
www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
(GFM in next post)
www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
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“For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:”
“For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:”
United States Declaration of Independence
“For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:”
United States Declaration of Independence
January 25, 2026 at 2:54 PM
“For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:”
“For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:”
United States Declaration of Independence
“For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:”
United States Declaration of Independence
“We’re springing to the call of our brothers gone before, shouting the battle cry of freedom. And we’ll fill our ranks with a million freemen more, shouting the battle cry of freedom.”
They cannot kill us all.
They cannot kill us all.
January 25, 2026 at 3:10 PM
“We’re springing to the call of our brothers gone before, shouting the battle cry of freedom. And we’ll fill our ranks with a million freemen more, shouting the battle cry of freedom.”
They cannot kill us all.
They cannot kill us all.
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Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
January 25, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
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"Down with the traitors, up with the stars"
photographer is Jeff Wheeler at the Star Tribune. guy with the flag is Curtis Evans, a Marine veteran.
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
"Down with the traitors, up with the stars"
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
January 24, 2026 at 7:22 PM
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
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Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
✅ @icegov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.
January 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM
You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
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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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Even in DC speak I’d take: “This agency is hopelessly politicized and has a broken culture of violence and unquestioning loyalty to Trump. Its duties will be reorganized and reassigned to other law enforcement agencies. ICE was an experiment started in 2003 and it has failed.”
January 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Even in DC speak I’d take: “This agency is hopelessly politicized and has a broken culture of violence and unquestioning loyalty to Trump. Its duties will be reorganized and reassigned to other law enforcement agencies. ICE was an experiment started in 2003 and it has failed.”
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The role of cars in our society results in a uniquely American way that state violence is enacted and justified. Renee Good is just the most recent.
If you work in any area of engineering, planning, or public admin, what we do is relevant to our current historical moment, whether we like it or not.
If you work in any area of engineering, planning, or public admin, what we do is relevant to our current historical moment, whether we like it or not.
FYI: Judge Ellis (Chicago ICE case) noted in November that video evidence shows ICE "brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."
January 11, 2026 at 8:30 PM
The role of cars in our society results in a uniquely American way that state violence is enacted and justified. Renee Good is just the most recent.
If you work in any area of engineering, planning, or public admin, what we do is relevant to our current historical moment, whether we like it or not.
If you work in any area of engineering, planning, or public admin, what we do is relevant to our current historical moment, whether we like it or not.
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430k of us vs. 2k of them, we're gonna win this
Cedar & 31st I think
Cedar & 31st I think
January 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
430k of us vs. 2k of them, we're gonna win this
Cedar & 31st I think
Cedar & 31st I think
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“I know, we’ll take this one American city, regarded as a hotbed of seditious sentiment, and subject it to a heavy-handed punitive crackdown. and that will cow the rest of the Americans into quiet submission and snuff out the embers of opposition at their source”
the ghost of General Thomas Gage:
the ghost of General Thomas Gage:
January 10, 2026 at 8:46 PM
“I know, we’ll take this one American city, regarded as a hotbed of seditious sentiment, and subject it to a heavy-handed punitive crackdown. and that will cow the rest of the Americans into quiet submission and snuff out the embers of opposition at their source”
the ghost of General Thomas Gage:
the ghost of General Thomas Gage:
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I didn’t even think of this but what Minneapolis is doing right now is literally modern minute men. And it’s true to the name: if anything happens, responders are on their way in well under a minute.
Boston was occupied by British troops in the summer of 1774. by September the inhabitants of Massachusetts had a system that could mobilize several thousand men in under 24 hours. by spring of 1775 that number was over ten thousand. this was with no comms except verbal and hand-delivered written
January 10, 2026 at 10:18 PM
I didn’t even think of this but what Minneapolis is doing right now is literally modern minute men. And it’s true to the name: if anything happens, responders are on their way in well under a minute.
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And at some point, people will decide that if the law doesn't protect us - or the mothers among us - it doesn't protect ICE agents either and the things people throw at them will stop being insults and snowballs.
And then we will be in a much darker place, as a country.
And then we will be in a much darker place, as a country.
January 10, 2026 at 1:48 AM
And at some point, people will decide that if the law doesn't protect us - or the mothers among us - it doesn't protect ICE agents either and the things people throw at them will stop being insults and snowballs.
And then we will be in a much darker place, as a country.
And then we will be in a much darker place, as a country.
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He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
January 9, 2026 at 11:25 PM
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
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The federal government claimed that the states have no jurisdiction to prosecute murders committed by its agents is the kind of thing the Founders would probably have done a whole entire revolution over
This is bullshit. They absolutely have jurisdiction.
Noem on Minnesota officials: "They have not been cut out. They don't have any jurisdiction in this investigation."
January 8, 2026 at 6:03 PM
The federal government claimed that the states have no jurisdiction to prosecute murders committed by its agents is the kind of thing the Founders would probably have done a whole entire revolution over
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ICE has terrorized communities across Maryland and our nation. It's why I am introducing legislation barring ICE officers from ever serving as Maryland police officers. www.wmar2news.com/local/delega...
Delegate proposes barring Trump hired ICE agents from ever becoming Maryland police officers
As Maryland's General Assembly prepares for their 2026 legislative session, a number of bills are already being proposed.
www.wmar2news.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:55 PM
ICE has terrorized communities across Maryland and our nation. It's why I am introducing legislation barring ICE officers from ever serving as Maryland police officers. www.wmar2news.com/local/delega...
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that crowd surrounding them and shaming them *even after they just watched ICE murder a woman in front of them* should legitimately strike terror into the heart of the admin, ICE and DHS specifically
January 7, 2026 at 10:49 PM
that crowd surrounding them and shaming them *even after they just watched ICE murder a woman in front of them* should legitimately strike terror into the heart of the admin, ICE and DHS specifically
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Tim Walz needs to order the MN state police to arrest this ICE agent:
That’s murder. Arrest him.
This is the video.
January 7, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Tim Walz needs to order the MN state police to arrest this ICE agent: