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I think they could probably consolidate if they werent genuinely so insane about pushing unpopular policy. Like give them power for 4 years and maybe they figure out some way to rig the midterms, but its really hard to rig when you are losing by like 10 points
January 15, 2026 at 4:43 PM
I think they could probably consolidate if they werent genuinely so insane about pushing unpopular policy. Like give them power for 4 years and maybe they figure out some way to rig the midterms, but its really hard to rig when you are losing by like 10 points
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Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats
January 15, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats
anyway, the power of an elected official is to give lawful orders or to provoke clearly unlawful responses. both obligate them not to overtly coordinate with people taking an outside strategy. this is true whether or not their actual intent is to coordinate, and this is true of any official.
the insurrection act exists for when the agents of a state are in direct physical conflict with the agents of the federal government. that is not a misuse of the Act. it is what it is for.
so long as the state claims that it is not in conflict with the federal government, we can avoid this.
so long as the state claims that it is not in conflict with the federal government, we can avoid this.
people are demanding action without saying what they think the results will be.
January 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
anyway, the power of an elected official is to give lawful orders or to provoke clearly unlawful responses. both obligate them not to overtly coordinate with people taking an outside strategy. this is true whether or not their actual intent is to coordinate, and this is true of any official.
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This is just completely wrong. If they didn’t want media coverage they wouldn’t be producing sizzle reels, they’d be levying fines against business owners that employee undocumented workers
January 15, 2026 at 5:42 PM
This is just completely wrong. If they didn’t want media coverage they wouldn’t be producing sizzle reels, they’d be levying fines against business owners that employee undocumented workers
i think this is true but i think that it is worth first thinking through which officials need to exercise formal power versus which need to make headlines by going to jail. if the president of the city council goes to jail, that's good; if Walz does, probably bad.
we're going to need to see Dem leaders in the streets
"please stop" is not working and they see it as weakness
you want to help, governor? go on an ICE patrol in Stancil's Honda Fit
"please stop" is not working and they see it as weakness
you want to help, governor? go on an ICE patrol in Stancil's Honda Fit
January 15, 2026 at 7:35 PM
i think this is true but i think that it is worth first thinking through which officials need to exercise formal power versus which need to make headlines by going to jail. if the president of the city council goes to jail, that's good; if Walz does, probably bad.
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i think the important thing re: trump nattering about cancelling midterms is to take him seriously. he means it. it is our job to respond with "oh yeah? try it, bitch"
January 15, 2026 at 7:16 PM
i think the important thing re: trump nattering about cancelling midterms is to take him seriously. he means it. it is our job to respond with "oh yeah? try it, bitch"
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One of the most fundamental problems for dealing w/ ICE is the GOP provided years of ICE agent funding in the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
No govt shutdown will end that funding stream, and there aren’t 2/3s votes in each chamber to rescind the funding & override a veto.
Means resistance is what we have.
No govt shutdown will end that funding stream, and there aren’t 2/3s votes in each chamber to rescind the funding & override a veto.
Means resistance is what we have.
January 15, 2026 at 2:23 PM
One of the most fundamental problems for dealing w/ ICE is the GOP provided years of ICE agent funding in the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
No govt shutdown will end that funding stream, and there aren’t 2/3s votes in each chamber to rescind the funding & override a veto.
Means resistance is what we have.
No govt shutdown will end that funding stream, and there aren’t 2/3s votes in each chamber to rescind the funding & override a veto.
Means resistance is what we have.
just absolute mewling cowardice from one of the most chronic piss fountains in media. abloo abloo abloo i pretended to have more reasonable concerns about voting than a guy one generation away from not having the vote and got my nuts kicked back into my body cavity.
January 15, 2026 at 7:14 PM
just absolute mewling cowardice from one of the most chronic piss fountains in media. abloo abloo abloo i pretended to have more reasonable concerns about voting than a guy one generation away from not having the vote and got my nuts kicked back into my body cavity.
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The other thing is, in 2020, the locus of anger was internal, which is destabilizing. But this time, we ARE UNDER ATTACK. We are INVADED. All my neighbors are friends. All the feds are the enemy. No one wants to turn their rage on local streets or businesses; we are, specifically, protecting them.
January 15, 2026 at 5:18 PM
The other thing is, in 2020, the locus of anger was internal, which is destabilizing. But this time, we ARE UNDER ATTACK. We are INVADED. All my neighbors are friends. All the feds are the enemy. No one wants to turn their rage on local streets or businesses; we are, specifically, protecting them.
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One thing that people don't understand is that the community base opposing ICE is extremely committed to avoiding anything that could trigger rioting, I think largely because of the 2020 experience. Trump thinks he can redo 2020 but shoot the protesters this time, but Minneapolis isn't the same.
Ironically a lot of the base of Minnesota's activitists' response was laid as a result of the riots following Chauvin's murder of George Floyd. That's part of why I feel like this administration doesn't understand who they're messing with. The Twin Cities got organized in 2020 and remains so.
January 15, 2026 at 5:16 PM
One thing that people don't understand is that the community base opposing ICE is extremely committed to avoiding anything that could trigger rioting, I think largely because of the 2020 experience. Trump thinks he can redo 2020 but shoot the protesters this time, but Minneapolis isn't the same.
as an idahoan guy who has done voter protection on reservations in the era of True the Vote i do feel like i have something to contribute to the conversation about armed men at important precincts
January 15, 2026 at 6:47 PM
as an idahoan guy who has done voter protection on reservations in the era of True the Vote i do feel like i have something to contribute to the conversation about armed men at important precincts
it means literally nothing if one polling place is messed with. when it comes time for people to be sworn in or we make the country ungovernable. it is important that we reach this point because illegitimacy takes almost all.of Trump's guys off the board.
Exactly this.
"Cancelling elections" probably doesn't and can't look like a light switch.
But what does it mean if one polling place in a key district is messed with?
What happens when it comes time for people to be sworn in.
"Cancelling elections" probably doesn't and can't look like a light switch.
But what does it mean if one polling place in a key district is messed with?
What happens when it comes time for people to be sworn in.
My thoughts exactly.
He can't snap his fingers and change law. But he can take actions, and is currently, that interfere with elections. And he is working on a ton of other options now too.
He can't snap his fingers and change law. But he can take actions, and is currently, that interfere with elections. And he is working on a ton of other options now too.
January 15, 2026 at 6:42 PM
it means literally nothing if one polling place is messed with. when it comes time for people to be sworn in or we make the country ungovernable. it is important that we reach this point because illegitimacy takes almost all.of Trump's guys off the board.
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this is the crux of it i think. i'm naive for not cowering in fear. if my grandfather had tried to vote for the first ten years of his adult life he could have been killed. i think i can deal with an ICE chud at my polling place.
January 15, 2026 at 6:13 PM
this is the crux of it i think. i'm naive for not cowering in fear. if my grandfather had tried to vote for the first ten years of his adult life he could have been killed. i think i can deal with an ICE chud at my polling place.
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meta-discursive comment: the incentives of social media where making an incorrect naive prediction is seen as much more embarrassing than making an incorrect cynical one are very bad.
January 15, 2026 at 6:19 PM
meta-discursive comment: the incentives of social media where making an incorrect naive prediction is seen as much more embarrassing than making an incorrect cynical one are very bad.
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We gotta decouple "taking seriously the idea that Trump is going to try to end constitutional government in America" from "we're doomed and nothing matters"
Of course the latter is toxic, and only serves Trump. But the former is just obviously true
Of course the latter is toxic, and only serves Trump. But the former is just obviously true
January 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
We gotta decouple "taking seriously the idea that Trump is going to try to end constitutional government in America" from "we're doomed and nothing matters"
Of course the latter is toxic, and only serves Trump. But the former is just obviously true
Of course the latter is toxic, and only serves Trump. But the former is just obviously true
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hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again
January 15, 2026 at 6:09 PM
hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again
really telling that these guys don't even advance a hypothesis
January 15, 2026 at 5:45 PM
really telling that these guys don't even advance a hypothesis
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this is the thing. this memo is exactly the kind of tortured fake language that people hate. "politician talk." just speak the truth from your gut and people will trust you more.
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every criticism of Democrats for sounding “academic” and “detached” could just as easily be leveled at this memo and the way it proposes that Democrats should talk
January 14, 2026 at 7:17 PM
this is the thing. this memo is exactly the kind of tortured fake language that people hate. "politician talk." just speak the truth from your gut and people will trust you more.
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the thing is that people should absolutely be demanding that Walz deploy the NG and also he absolutely should not do it at this point
January 15, 2026 at 5:38 PM
the thing is that people should absolutely be demanding that Walz deploy the NG and also he absolutely should not do it at this point
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Followed Norm for a while for mostly sports stuff, watching him do on the ground, real-time posting about ICE in his community has been harrowing.
I will say that this experience has really changed the way I think about a lot of historical events and the motivations and thinking of historical actors, especially those that history often reduces to passive victims, which is a little bit annoying tbh.
January 15, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Followed Norm for a while for mostly sports stuff, watching him do on the ground, real-time posting about ICE in his community has been harrowing.
his only power is to make people do what he tells them. the only power anyone else has is to not do that thing.
How many times in the last year has something happened that "the law prohibits" ?
He can't rename the Kennedy Center.
He can't demolish the Whitehouse.
He can't cancel an election...
He can't rename the Kennedy Center.
He can't demolish the Whitehouse.
He can't cancel an election...
January 15, 2026 at 5:29 PM
his only power is to make people do what he tells them. the only power anyone else has is to not do that thing.
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🚨 The European Commission confirms the EU's mutual assistance clause applies to Greenland.
"Greenland is part of the territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and therefore in principle covered by the mutual solidarity clause in art 42.7 TEU," a spokesperson tells @euronews.com.
"Greenland is part of the territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and therefore in principle covered by the mutual solidarity clause in art 42.7 TEU," a spokesperson tells @euronews.com.
January 15, 2026 at 4:45 PM
🚨 The European Commission confirms the EU's mutual assistance clause applies to Greenland.
"Greenland is part of the territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and therefore in principle covered by the mutual solidarity clause in art 42.7 TEU," a spokesperson tells @euronews.com.
"Greenland is part of the territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and therefore in principle covered by the mutual solidarity clause in art 42.7 TEU," a spokesperson tells @euronews.com.
i think people should be looking to the actions of Southern governors in resisting school integration as a model for Democratic public officials
January 15, 2026 at 5:24 PM
i think people should be looking to the actions of Southern governors in resisting school integration as a model for Democratic public officials
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I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.
January 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.
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huge crisis of the elite simply failing to believe in anything
January 15, 2026 at 3:42 PM
huge crisis of the elite simply failing to believe in anything