Jim Carroll
@jtccarroll.bsky.social
Editor, The Hot Screen; contributor at Flux
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I will be speaking at @powells.bsky.social w/ Nora Neus tomorrow at 7pm where we will talk about her new oral history of January 6th, 24-Hours at the Capitol, and the longstanding impact January 6th has had as those responsible head into positions of state power. Bring your questions!
January 14, 2026 at 4:12 AM
I will be speaking at @powells.bsky.social w/ Nora Neus tomorrow at 7pm where we will talk about her new oral history of January 6th, 24-Hours at the Capitol, and the longstanding impact January 6th has had as those responsible head into positions of state power. Bring your questions!
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People might argue that ICE is not recruiting quality agents.
But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy.
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy.
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
Opinion | ICE's violence is no accident
Alan Elrod: The killing of a woman by an immigration enforcement officer in Minneapolis was the raw application of Trumpist authoritarianism.
www.ms.now
January 10, 2026 at 9:31 PM
People might argue that ICE is not recruiting quality agents.
But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy.
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy.
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
My latest at @flux.community: Both the attack on Venezuela and the killing of Renee Good can be traced back to the president's embrace of lawlessness and violence unforgettably revealed five years ago. 1/
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The insurrectionary spirit of January 6 infuses the second Trump Administration
Both the attack on Venezuela and the killing of Renee Good can be traced back to the president's embrace of lawlessness and violence unforgettably revealed five years ago
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January 12, 2026 at 7:07 PM
My latest at @flux.community: Both the attack on Venezuela and the killing of Renee Good can be traced back to the president's embrace of lawlessness and violence unforgettably revealed five years ago. 1/
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In some ways the fact that Trump was able to imitate this criminal probe of the Fed is a bigger deal than the impulse itself. This isn’t just retaliation angst a foe like Comey or James. It’s a direct attack on key institution of the American Republic. As I said, it’s not a surprise but it shows …
January 12, 2026 at 2:24 AM
In some ways the fact that Trump was able to imitate this criminal probe of the Fed is a bigger deal than the impulse itself. This isn’t just retaliation angst a foe like Comey or James. It’s a direct attack on key institution of the American Republic. As I said, it’s not a surprise but it shows …
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"ICE has waged a recruitment drive drenched in war metaphors and martial imagery. The type of person sought...is someone with a fervor for guns and an eagerness to apply violence."
Good work by @aselrod.bsky.social putting shooting in context of MAGA's violent ethos:
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
Good work by @aselrod.bsky.social putting shooting in context of MAGA's violent ethos:
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
Opinion | ICE's violence is no accident
Alan Elrod: The killing of a woman by an immigration enforcement officer in Minneapolis was the raw application of Trumpist authoritarianism.
www.ms.now
January 8, 2026 at 2:30 PM
"ICE has waged a recruitment drive drenched in war metaphors and martial imagery. The type of person sought...is someone with a fervor for guns and an eagerness to apply violence."
Good work by @aselrod.bsky.social putting shooting in context of MAGA's violent ethos:
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
Good work by @aselrod.bsky.social putting shooting in context of MAGA's violent ethos:
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
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Bottom line is there's all KINDS of things your state and local officials and city attorneys could do to protect your community from ICE's ethnic cleansing campaign, *if* they really wanted to get creative.
You should be hounding your local pols about this constantly.
You should be hounding your local pols about this constantly.
January 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Bottom line is there's all KINDS of things your state and local officials and city attorneys could do to protect your community from ICE's ethnic cleansing campaign, *if* they really wanted to get creative.
You should be hounding your local pols about this constantly.
You should be hounding your local pols about this constantly.
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The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us.
Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Federal Agents Are Violating the Rights of Americans
ICE and the National Guard are acting with impunity.
www.theatlantic.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:10 AM
The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us.
Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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@radleybalko.bsky.social In this context, Rep Swalwell makes a good point here: The fact that the FBI is exonerating the Minneapolis agent before a real investigation, telegraphing that it will be a sham, only encourages this expectation of immunity:
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
January 9, 2026 at 4:02 PM
@radleybalko.bsky.social In this context, Rep Swalwell makes a good point here: The fact that the FBI is exonerating the Minneapolis agent before a real investigation, telegraphing that it will be a sham, only encourages this expectation of immunity:
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
newrepublic.com/article/2051...
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"The right of all people, including the Venezuelan people, is to be free. U.S. policy should help them liberate themselves, not exploit them as vassals or treat them as pawns."
Yep, @brianbeutler.bsky.social
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Yep, @brianbeutler.bsky.social
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30 Thoughts On The Illegal Venezuela War
No war for royal.
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January 5, 2026 at 7:05 PM
"The right of all people, including the Venezuelan people, is to be free. U.S. policy should help them liberate themselves, not exploit them as vassals or treat them as pawns."
Yep, @brianbeutler.bsky.social
www.offmessage.net/p/30-thought...
Yep, @brianbeutler.bsky.social
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this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
My latest @flux.community: The Trump administration assault on Venezuela is a fundamentally corrupt and criminal betrayal of American ideals and the rule of law. The political counter-attack should be decisive and immediate. 1/x
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With Venezuela intervention, President Trump's lawlessness goes global
Attempting to clothe himself in the glory of military conquest while openly scheming to steal another country's oil, the president once again betrays his oath of office
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January 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM
My latest @flux.community: The Trump administration assault on Venezuela is a fundamentally corrupt and criminal betrayal of American ideals and the rule of law. The political counter-attack should be decisive and immediate. 1/x
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With Venezuela intervention, President Trump's lawlessness goes global
Attempting to clothe himself in the glory of military conquest while openly scheming to steal another country's oil, the president once again betrays his oath of office
Via: @jtccarroll.bsky.social
Attempting to clothe himself in the glory of military conquest while openly scheming to steal another country's oil, the president once again betrays his oath of office
Via: @jtccarroll.bsky.social
With Venezuela intervention, President Trump's lawlessness goes global
Attempting to clothe himself in the glory of military conquest while openly scheming to steal another country's oil, the president once again betrays his oath of office
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January 5, 2026 at 8:37 PM
With Venezuela intervention, President Trump's lawlessness goes global
Attempting to clothe himself in the glory of military conquest while openly scheming to steal another country's oil, the president once again betrays his oath of office
Via: @jtccarroll.bsky.social
Attempting to clothe himself in the glory of military conquest while openly scheming to steal another country's oil, the president once again betrays his oath of office
Via: @jtccarroll.bsky.social
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Too many Democrats don't grasp that the war on immigrants is also a war on non-white American citizens, and in favor of white supremacist rule over all. Opposing both should be non-negotiable. Via @jtccarroll.bsky.social
Failing to challenge Trump on immigration, Democrats have given MAGA free rein to redefine American identity
Too many Democrats don't grasp that the war on immigrants is also a war on non-white American citizens, and in favor of white supremacist rule over all. Opposing both should be non-negotiable.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Too many Democrats don't grasp that the war on immigrants is also a war on non-white American citizens, and in favor of white supremacist rule over all. Opposing both should be non-negotiable. Via @jtccarroll.bsky.social
"Flanked by renderings of the 'Trump class' battleships at sea, Trump said he would take an active role in their design."
And so the president continues his descent into vainglorious madness, this time via the prospect of gold-plated naval vessels.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/p...
And so the president continues his descent into vainglorious madness, this time via the prospect of gold-plated naval vessels.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/p...
President unveils new ‘Trump class’ fleet of battleships | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump announced a new “Trump class” of Navy battleships Monday, describing them as a superior war fighting vessel to replace an “old and tired and obsolete” US fleet.
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December 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Flanked by renderings of the 'Trump class' battleships at sea, Trump said he would take an active role in their design."
And so the president continues his descent into vainglorious madness, this time via the prospect of gold-plated naval vessels.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/p...
And so the president continues his descent into vainglorious madness, this time via the prospect of gold-plated naval vessels.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/p...
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December 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Definitely support @theunpopulist.net, which is doing great work explaining our slide into authoritarianism on a deep theoretical level while explaining what a future liberal alternative could look like:
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Democrats are hiding their 2024 postmortem, luckily, I was invited by the great @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social to talk about what Democrats have been doing wrong and where they can improve: plus.flux.community/p/democrats-...
Democrats won’t release their 2024 election autopsy, here is ours
Discussing ‘What Republicans Know’ on the Liberal Currents podcast Half the Answer
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December 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Democrats are hiding their 2024 postmortem, luckily, I was invited by the great @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social to talk about what Democrats have been doing wrong and where they can improve: plus.flux.community/p/democrats-...
"The White House announced today that the United States will be renamed "Trump United States.""
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/t...
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Kennedy Center to be renamed 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House says
The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts will be renamed the "Trump-Kennedy Center," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"The White House announced today that the United States will be renamed "Trump United States.""
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/t...
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i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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December 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
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ICYMI
Now that Trump has banned migration from 20 more countries, most in Africa, worth recalling this quote from Stephen Miller that we dredged up: "If you import the Third World, you become the Third World."
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
ICYMI
My latest @flux.community: The president's recent rant against Somalis spotlights a white nationalist vision to remake the U.S., and needs to be called out for the unforgivable hate speech that it is. 1/
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When Donald Trump attacks Somali immigrants, he attacks America
The president's recent rant against Somalis spotlights a white nationalist vision to remake the U.S., and needs to be called out for the unforgivable hate speech that it is.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
My latest @flux.community: The president's recent rant against Somalis spotlights a white nationalist vision to remake the U.S., and needs to be called out for the unforgivable hate speech that it is. 1/
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My latest at @flux.community : Democrats must insist that not just Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth but the Republicans who voted to confirm him are complicit with murder and possible war crimes off the coast of South America. 1/
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GOP pirates of the Caribbean
Democrats must insist that not just Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth but the Republicans who voted to confirm him are complicit with murder and possible war crimes off the coast of South America
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December 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
My latest at @flux.community : Democrats must insist that not just Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth but the Republicans who voted to confirm him are complicit with murder and possible war crimes off the coast of South America. 1/
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"Maybe it was blind luck that led this group of national security-oriented lawmakers to bait Trump into a debate over war crimes just as the Post was working up a story about potential war crimes"
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"Maybe it was blind luck that led this group of national security-oriented lawmakers to bait Trump into a debate over war crimes just as the Post was working up a story about potential war crimes"
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Mark Kelly's Double Tap
National security Democrats launched a preemptive strike on Trump's misuse of the military. Weeks later it's paying off in ways even they didn't predict. Or maybe they did.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Neon Liberalism #54: Join Samantha and guest Kori Schake, author of "The State and the Soldier," as they discuss the history of civil-military relations in America—and how that relationship is being pushed to the breaking point. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
Neon Liberalism #54: An Army Is a Dangerous Thing to Play With
Join Samantha and guest Kori Schake, author of The State and the Soldier, as they discuss the history of civil-military relations in America—and how that relationship is being pushed to the breaking p...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Neon Liberalism #54: Join Samantha and guest Kori Schake, author of "The State and the Soldier," as they discuss the history of civil-military relations in America—and how that relationship is being pushed to the breaking point. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...