Logan
@loganfbm.bsky.social
History podcast host. Public employee. Ex profesor de inglés en España. Social democrat. Free Palestine.
Reposted by Logan
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vowed to block a tax on billionaires, saying that a ballot proposal has already scared off tech leaders.
Gavin Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California
Gov. Gavin Newsom said he was working behind the scenes to block a proposed tax on billionaires’ wealth and was committed to defeating the measure if it reached the ballot.
nyti.ms
January 13, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vowed to block a tax on billionaires, saying that a ballot proposal has already scared off tech leaders.
Reposted by Logan
53% yes is one thing, but only 30% no, in the middle of a full court press to make that the party line, is brutal.
"Do you think the ICE agent should face criminal charges for shooting the woman in Minneapolis?"
All:
Yes: 53%
No: 30%
Yes Among:
Democrats: 90%
Independents: 54%
Republicans: 14%
YouGov / Jan 11, 2026
All:
Yes: 53%
No: 30%
Yes Among:
Democrats: 90%
Independents: 54%
Republicans: 14%
YouGov / Jan 11, 2026
January 13, 2026 at 12:49 AM
53% yes is one thing, but only 30% no, in the middle of a full court press to make that the party line, is brutal.
Reposted by Logan
This right here.
January 12, 2026 at 4:22 AM
This right here.
Reposted by Logan
Not remotely legal. Minnesota needs to arrest these thugs breaking down doors right now, before they start grabbing even more power
January 12, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Not remotely legal. Minnesota needs to arrest these thugs breaking down doors right now, before they start grabbing even more power
Reposted by Logan
Many authoritarians have messed with their country's central bank. The result is typically that inflation goes way up
January 12, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Many authoritarians have messed with their country's central bank. The result is typically that inflation goes way up
Reposted by Logan
This is going to force a lot of investors and powerful finance people to reckon with Trump in a way they have been desperately trying to avoid.
January 12, 2026 at 12:41 AM
This is going to force a lot of investors and powerful finance people to reckon with Trump in a way they have been desperately trying to avoid.
Reposted by Logan
It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
January 11, 2026 at 7:49 PM
It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
Reposted by Logan
Every day I’m glad I deleted my X account still encounter screenshots from there.
The wilful ignorance (there are videos online) and the Unamerican desire to live in a police state where people can be summarily executed by government officials is so abhorrent and alien to me.
The wilful ignorance (there are videos online) and the Unamerican desire to live in a police state where people can be summarily executed by government officials is so abhorrent and alien to me.
January 10, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Every day I’m glad I deleted my X account still encounter screenshots from there.
The wilful ignorance (there are videos online) and the Unamerican desire to live in a police state where people can be summarily executed by government officials is so abhorrent and alien to me.
The wilful ignorance (there are videos online) and the Unamerican desire to live in a police state where people can be summarily executed by government officials is so abhorrent and alien to me.
Reposted by Logan
Revisiting this thread as I hear Americans fantasizing about a new Pahlavi monarchy
On regime change and ignorance: As an intern in 2005, I took notes on an AEI event for Iranian dissidents, planning for "the day after" the invasion that Michael Ledeen still hoped would happen. What a mess. Elderly exiles with grudges; Pahlavi loyalists arguing with Lurs, Azeri, and Arab leaders...
Sad state of affair where Tucker is doing more effective pushback on an illegal and unnecessary war with Iran than the Senate minority leader.
January 9, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Revisiting this thread as I hear Americans fantasizing about a new Pahlavi monarchy
Reposted by Logan
this is quite a lie. but also it’s shameless hypocrisy. republicans at the state level have been trying for years to immunize those who use their vehicles to harm/kill protesters.
Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"
January 8, 2026 at 4:42 PM
this is quite a lie. but also it’s shameless hypocrisy. republicans at the state level have been trying for years to immunize those who use their vehicles to harm/kill protesters.
Reposted by Logan
Exclusive: I obtained testimony from the Dec. trial where Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, describes an incident in June where he smashed a car window, is dragged 100 yards, and tased a Guatemalan man 10 times.
"I feared for my life," he said.
"I feared for my life," he said.
ICE officer who killed Minneapolis woman said he 'feared for his life' while arresting another driver last year
In courtroom testimony obtained by MS NOW, Jonathan Ross said he was dragged more than 100 yards by car during a traffic stop.
www.ms.now
January 9, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Exclusive: I obtained testimony from the Dec. trial where Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, describes an incident in June where he smashed a car window, is dragged 100 yards, and tased a Guatemalan man 10 times.
"I feared for my life," he said.
"I feared for my life," he said.
Reposted by Logan
The case involved Ross punching out a man's window and tasing him while he attempted to drive away; the man shook him off his car, giving Ross injuries that required 33 stitches. The man called 911 to report that he'd been assaulted by ICE and was later convicted of assault on a federal officer.
January 9, 2026 at 3:28 AM
The case involved Ross punching out a man's window and tasing him while he attempted to drive away; the man shook him off his car, giving Ross injuries that required 33 stitches. The man called 911 to report that he'd been assaulted by ICE and was later convicted of assault on a federal officer.
Reposted by Logan
Reposted by Logan
The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
January 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM
The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.
Reposted by Logan
As called on Miami Spanish radio:
January 9, 2026 at 4:35 AM
As called on Miami Spanish radio:
Reposted by Logan
Cops are much less than 1% of the US population and yet they're responsible for about 8% of all homicides every year
Police killed at least 1,292 people in the United States in 2025. There were only six days with zero police killings last year. Source: mappingpoliceviolence.org.
January 9, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Cops are much less than 1% of the US population and yet they're responsible for about 8% of all homicides every year
Reposted by Logan
Weird how all the people who tried to get everyone fired for saying anything about Charlie Kirk's murder that wasn't donning sackcloth and smearing ashes on their head have suddenly revisited their opposition to celebrating a murder, isn't it?
January 8, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Weird how all the people who tried to get everyone fired for saying anything about Charlie Kirk's murder that wasn't donning sackcloth and smearing ashes on their head have suddenly revisited their opposition to celebrating a murder, isn't it?
Reposted by Logan
Isn't there a word for a leader who thinks there are no meaningful legal constraints on his or her power and that "My own morality. My own mind" is "the only thing that can stop me"?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Isn't there a word for a leader who thinks there are no meaningful legal constraints on his or her power and that "My own morality. My own mind" is "the only thing that can stop me"?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Reposted by Logan
I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
January 8, 2026 at 5:35 AM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
That is called murder when they do that.
Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.
Reposted by Logan
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
Reposted by Logan
Folks look at you Iike you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then it’s Wednesday.
Presidentialism, & the post-WWII imperial presidency now being fully weaponized by the authoritarians, was a grave mistake:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Presidentialism, & the post-WWII imperial presidency now being fully weaponized by the authoritarians, was a grave mistake:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Folks look at you Iike you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then it’s Wednesday.
Presidentialism, & the post-WWII imperial presidency now being fully weaponized by the authoritarians, was a grave mistake:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Presidentialism, & the post-WWII imperial presidency now being fully weaponized by the authoritarians, was a grave mistake:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Reposted by Logan
The incessant need to justify the regime's actions is so absolutely pathetic.
According to DHS' own guidelines, lethal force is prohibited against a moving vehicle unless strictly necessary.
It is not true that the cops are allowed to kill you if you don't stop.
torontosun.com/news/world/i...
According to DHS' own guidelines, lethal force is prohibited against a moving vehicle unless strictly necessary.
It is not true that the cops are allowed to kill you if you don't stop.
torontosun.com/news/world/i...
WARMINGTON: Despite sad outcome, ICE not to blame in Minneapolis
If you run your vehicle toward a cop who has his gun out of holster, you are going to get shot, as was the case in Minneapolis. More.
torontosun.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:32 AM
The incessant need to justify the regime's actions is so absolutely pathetic.
According to DHS' own guidelines, lethal force is prohibited against a moving vehicle unless strictly necessary.
It is not true that the cops are allowed to kill you if you don't stop.
torontosun.com/news/world/i...
According to DHS' own guidelines, lethal force is prohibited against a moving vehicle unless strictly necessary.
It is not true that the cops are allowed to kill you if you don't stop.
torontosun.com/news/world/i...
Reposted by Logan
After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.
January 8, 2026 at 1:36 AM
After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.
Reposted by Logan
Not super fun to think about the degree to which literal brain damage is setting the American agenda at the moment
“I believe Greenland has massive strategic benefits for the United States,” John Fetterman wrote.
Dem Senator Breaks Ranks to Support Trump’s Takeover Plan
John Fetterman said he supports the Trump administration’s bonkers push to take over Greenland.
trib.al
January 8, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Not super fun to think about the degree to which literal brain damage is setting the American agenda at the moment