risa dickens
@risadickens.bsky.social
Writer | editor | podcaster @missingwitches | cancer dancer| yowling into the void.
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NEW: Court records obtained by @wired.com show that an FBI agent's testimony contradicted claims Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good, made under oath in December; the testimony also raises questions about Ross following his training. This is by @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
FBI Agent’s Sworn Testimony Contradicts Claims ICE’s Jonathan Ross Made Under Oath
The testimony also calls into question whether Ross failed to follow his training during the incident in which he reportedly shot and killed Minnesota citizen Renee Good.
www.wired.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:14 PM
NEW: Court records obtained by @wired.com show that an FBI agent's testimony contradicted claims Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good, made under oath in December; the testimony also raises questions about Ross following his training. This is by @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
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Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented constitutional crisis in American history, & then…two words:
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented constitutional crisis in American history, & then…two words:
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NEW: "Let’s call this “investigation” what it is: a targeted attack meant to smear Powell’s name, and force him to resign prior to the end of his term."
MAGA Comes for Jerome Powell
The Trump administration is so over this whole “Fed independence” thing.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
January 12, 2026 at 11:00 PM
NEW: "Let’s call this “investigation” what it is: a targeted attack meant to smear Powell’s name, and force him to resign prior to the end of his term."
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
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one of the smarter things that Miller has done is understand that personnel is policy, and by taking the federal law enforcement apparatus away from legitimate police work to odious but legal work you are attriting the people that non-fascists want in those places when the illegal orders come
January 12, 2026 at 11:02 PM
one of the smarter things that Miller has done is understand that personnel is policy, and by taking the federal law enforcement apparatus away from legitimate police work to odious but legal work you are attriting the people that non-fascists want in those places when the illegal orders come
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🚨"We've got a Honduran here"
A SWARM of Border Patrol agents violently invaded a Minneapolis gas station—crushing car windows, tackling and brutalizing drivers, and taking several. We've confirmed at least one of them was U.S. CITIZEN Lalo Rios Meza.
A SWARM of Border Patrol agents violently invaded a Minneapolis gas station—crushing car windows, tackling and brutalizing drivers, and taking several. We've confirmed at least one of them was U.S. CITIZEN Lalo Rios Meza.
January 12, 2026 at 5:24 PM
🚨"We've got a Honduran here"
A SWARM of Border Patrol agents violently invaded a Minneapolis gas station—crushing car windows, tackling and brutalizing drivers, and taking several. We've confirmed at least one of them was U.S. CITIZEN Lalo Rios Meza.
A SWARM of Border Patrol agents violently invaded a Minneapolis gas station—crushing car windows, tackling and brutalizing drivers, and taking several. We've confirmed at least one of them was U.S. CITIZEN Lalo Rios Meza.
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Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.
January 12, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
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NYT: Trump's appointees to the court of appeals vote for the Trump admin 92% of the time (113 for 12 against)-a much more lopsided split than judges appointed by other Republican Presidents (68% for 32% against) or Democratic Presidents (27% for 73% against).
(& he's doing wildly illegal things)
(& he's doing wildly illegal things)
January 11, 2026 at 1:08 PM
NYT: Trump's appointees to the court of appeals vote for the Trump admin 92% of the time (113 for 12 against)-a much more lopsided split than judges appointed by other Republican Presidents (68% for 32% against) or Democratic Presidents (27% for 73% against).
(& he's doing wildly illegal things)
(& he's doing wildly illegal things)
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Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
January 10, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
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These 10 companies stand to rake in $1 billion by 2027 by helping ICE track down and round up immigrants.
Cashing in on cruelty.
Cashing in on cruelty.
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deporta
theintercept.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
These 10 companies stand to rake in $1 billion by 2027 by helping ICE track down and round up immigrants.
Cashing in on cruelty.
Cashing in on cruelty.
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Whenever Kristi Noem's DHS kills somebody they have detained or hold in custody, their victim is instantly attacked as a criminal. Know who else did this? Study the way the Nazis announced deaths in concentration camps in the period up to 1938. This is morally depraved conduct, as Pope Leo says
Career criminal, illegal alien in ICE custody passes away at local hospital
ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.
www.ice.gov
January 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Whenever Kristi Noem's DHS kills somebody they have detained or hold in custody, their victim is instantly attacked as a criminal. Know who else did this? Study the way the Nazis announced deaths in concentration camps in the period up to 1938. This is morally depraved conduct, as Pope Leo says
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More neo-Nazi content by DHS.
I said white supremacist talking points would go mainstream by 2025, and I hoped I was wrong.
Here we are.
I said white supremacist talking points would go mainstream by 2025, and I hoped I was wrong.
Here we are.
January 11, 2026 at 1:44 AM
More neo-Nazi content by DHS.
I said white supremacist talking points would go mainstream by 2025, and I hoped I was wrong.
Here we are.
I said white supremacist talking points would go mainstream by 2025, and I hoped I was wrong.
Here we are.
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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 White House would like us to forget this, but we will not.
January 4, 2026 at 9:41 PM
The White House would like us to forget this, but we will not.
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At midnight, 20 million Americans will see their healthcare costs skyrocket because Republicans refused to extend tax credits that help working people afford care.
Trump promised he’d lower prices on day 1, but this & his tariff tax have done the opposite.
A terrible way to start 2026.
Trump promised he’d lower prices on day 1, but this & his tariff tax have done the opposite.
A terrible way to start 2026.
December 31, 2025 at 10:43 PM
At midnight, 20 million Americans will see their healthcare costs skyrocket because Republicans refused to extend tax credits that help working people afford care.
Trump promised he’d lower prices on day 1, but this & his tariff tax have done the opposite.
A terrible way to start 2026.
Trump promised he’d lower prices on day 1, but this & his tariff tax have done the opposite.
A terrible way to start 2026.
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For now, the most important thing you can do is submit a public comment about the harm these proposed rules would cause. Your comments may not ultimately sway this transphobic regime, but they will be very important for future lawsuits. 👇
Submit Public Comments
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December 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
For now, the most important thing you can do is submit a public comment about the harm these proposed rules would cause. Your comments may not ultimately sway this transphobic regime, but they will be very important for future lawsuits. 👇
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Pretending people are MS13/TDA, shipping them to a gulag without any process, and it’s all part of a cover up of actual MS13 gang members. My god.
Per Jose Olivares on X, here is a likely quid for the CECOT pro quo. Trump is dropping criminal charges against multiple serious MS-13 leaders we are currently trying to prosecute.
Many of them are “inconvenient” to Bukele, as they previously admitted to working with him before the truce broke.
Many of them are “inconvenient” to Bukele, as they previously admitted to working with him before the truce broke.
May 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Pretending people are MS13/TDA, shipping them to a gulag without any process, and it’s all part of a cover up of actual MS13 gang members. My god.
A different guy in the radiation wait room told me that when we worship thats for us, for our mental health or sense of self or whatever. But it’s not for God. Only what we do for others is for God.
May 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A different guy in the radiation wait room told me that when we worship thats for us, for our mental health or sense of self or whatever. But it’s not for God. Only what we do for others is for God.
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republicans are doing the most backroom deal, dead of night, reckless rush job imaginable on this bill. The absolute maniacal desire they have to rip away health care and take food away from kids in order to give their ultra wealthy buddies a fat pay day.
May 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
republicans are doing the most backroom deal, dead of night, reckless rush job imaginable on this bill. The absolute maniacal desire they have to rip away health care and take food away from kids in order to give their ultra wealthy buddies a fat pay day.
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Let me put this another way.
Poilievre spent 8.8M$ of our money in his “role as opposition leader”.
We paid him $8.8M to oppose Ukraine, dental care, childcare, pharmacare…
We paid him $8.8M to oppose ourselves.
WTF are we doing?!
#cdnpoli
Poilievre spent 8.8M$ of our money in his “role as opposition leader”.
We paid him $8.8M to oppose Ukraine, dental care, childcare, pharmacare…
We paid him $8.8M to oppose ourselves.
WTF are we doing?!
#cdnpoli
May 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Let me put this another way.
Poilievre spent 8.8M$ of our money in his “role as opposition leader”.
We paid him $8.8M to oppose Ukraine, dental care, childcare, pharmacare…
We paid him $8.8M to oppose ourselves.
WTF are we doing?!
#cdnpoli
Poilievre spent 8.8M$ of our money in his “role as opposition leader”.
We paid him $8.8M to oppose Ukraine, dental care, childcare, pharmacare…
We paid him $8.8M to oppose ourselves.
WTF are we doing?!
#cdnpoli
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Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
May 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
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"Tonight we ask all who believe in democracy the best of our American experience, to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring." - Bruce Springsteen 👏
May 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"Tonight we ask all who believe in democracy the best of our American experience, to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring." - Bruce Springsteen 👏
