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I’m no fan of Mayor Wilson, but yeah, SHAME! QUIT YOUR JOB! SHAME!!!
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Portland Mayor Statement on Federal Use of Chemical Munitions at Peaceful Protest
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson: "Our nation will never accept a federal presence where agents wield deadly force against the very people they are sworn to serve."
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February 1, 2026 at 6:46 AM
I’m no fan of Mayor Wilson, but yeah, SHAME! QUIT YOUR JOB! SHAME!!!
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Everyone seems eager to celebrate the departure of Greg Bovino, but I worry that it’s not so much a function of recognizing that the policy is a failure as much as he failed to successfully execute the policy.
January 27, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Everyone seems eager to celebrate the departure of Greg Bovino, but I worry that it’s not so much a function of recognizing that the policy is a failure as much as he failed to successfully execute the policy.
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M. Gessen: “It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.” [nytimes.com]
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
Minneapolis has made it plain.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:42 PM
M. Gessen: “It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.” [nytimes.com]
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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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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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We must unconstitutionally impose more taxes on Americans because the threat of illegal aggression against a heretofore American ally hasn't worked out as smoothly as we imagined.
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 4:57 PM
We must unconstitutionally impose more taxes on Americans because the threat of illegal aggression against a heretofore American ally hasn't worked out as smoothly as we imagined.
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A reminder that you now live in a country that has concentration camps & multiple classes of citizenship & party-affiliated paramilitaries knocking door-to-door hunting groups it doesn’t like, & we told you this would happen if people didn’t go to jail & weren’t barred from office for trying a coup.
January 16, 2026 at 3:00 AM
A reminder that you now live in a country that has concentration camps & multiple classes of citizenship & party-affiliated paramilitaries knocking door-to-door hunting groups it doesn’t like, & we told you this would happen if people didn’t go to jail & weren’t barred from office for trying a coup.
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This is Minneapolis:
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
January 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
This is Minneapolis:
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.
Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
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Did ICE have a bring your child to work day?
January 12, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Did ICE have a bring your child to work day?
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I'd love to see a reporter ask rank-and-file ICE agents if they understand that the administration is clearly hoping one of them gets killed out there.
"Are you ready to give your life to become a meme pushed by incels on Twitter for a couple days?"
"Are you ready to give your life to become a meme pushed by incels on Twitter for a couple days?"
The White House surely wants to see one of these ICE crackdowns lead to violent pushback. They've got untrained unqualified goons acting with impunity. It seems deliberately designed to provoke an incident.
But do the goons get this? Do they know the big plan is to get a couple of them killed?
But do the goons get this? Do they know the big plan is to get a couple of them killed?
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, said agents told her in the truck that if she didn’t watch herself “they were going to pull me over to the side of the road and give me this OC,” law enforcement shorthand for pepper spray.
January 9, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I'd love to see a reporter ask rank-and-file ICE agents if they understand that the administration is clearly hoping one of them gets killed out there.
"Are you ready to give your life to become a meme pushed by incels on Twitter for a couple days?"
"Are you ready to give your life to become a meme pushed by incels on Twitter for a couple days?"
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GO COVID!
I’ve only yelled that one other time when you know who got it.
I’ve only yelled that one other time when you know who got it.
The leading cause of death among ICE officers? COVID-19.
How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
www.motherjones.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:51 AM
GO COVID!
I’ve only yelled that one other time when you know who got it.
I’ve only yelled that one other time when you know who got it.
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Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.
January 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.
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Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
January 8, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
when you’re really into the band so you get to the venue early enough to get a spot down front but you’re tall and feel bad about blocking other people so you keep telling short people they should get in front of you and by the headliner’s second song you have migrated 2/3 of the way back to the bar
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
when you’re really into the band so you get to the venue early enough to get a spot down front but you’re tall and feel bad about blocking other people so you keep telling short people they should get in front of you and by the headliner’s second song you have migrated 2/3 of the way back to the bar
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Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯
October 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯
Today in the war ravaged hellscape of Portland I witnessed hundreds of people running through downtown, fleeing with only the clothes on their backs. Oh, wait. Nevermind, that was just the Portland Marathon.
October 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Today in the war ravaged hellscape of Portland I witnessed hundreds of people running through downtown, fleeing with only the clothes on their backs. Oh, wait. Nevermind, that was just the Portland Marathon.
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War-ravaged Portland
September 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
War-ravaged Portland
Now that Antifa has been declared a major terrorist organization, will the Feds be rounded up the WWII veterans who served in Europe? They waged armed war against fascism!
September 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Now that Antifa has been declared a major terrorist organization, will the Feds be rounded up the WWII veterans who served in Europe? They waged armed war against fascism!
Strange times when I find myself agreeing with Rand Paul….
September 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Strange times when I find myself agreeing with Rand Paul….
Among other things, I’m looking forward to having a President who realizes that it’s inappropriate for the President to wear a baseball cap unless they’re throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at an MLB season opener.
September 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Among other things, I’m looking forward to having a President who realizes that it’s inappropriate for the President to wear a baseball cap unless they’re throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at an MLB season opener.
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🚨BREAKING: Two members of the Fulton County, Georgia Board of Commissioners defied a court order and blocked the appointment of two election deniers to the county board of elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Fulton County Dems Defy Court Order, Block Appointment of Election Deniers
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
🚨BREAKING: Two members of the Fulton County, Georgia Board of Commissioners defied a court order and blocked the appointment of two election deniers to the county board of elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Seriously, how are protesters in D.C. not walking around offering free Subway footlongs to the Feds and National Guardsmen occupying their city? Can we make that a thing?
August 14, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Seriously, how are protesters in D.C. not walking around offering free Subway footlongs to the Feds and National Guardsmen occupying their city? Can we make that a thing?
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I’m not sure the problem here is bad faith. The fascists were quite honest about being fascists. The problem is overrating the value of winning a debate with people who are much more interested in normalizing their ideas than persuading.
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How Liberalism Sabotages Itself
Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.
www.offmessage.net
July 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m not sure the problem here is bad faith. The fascists were quite honest about being fascists. The problem is overrating the value of winning a debate with people who are much more interested in normalizing their ideas than persuading.
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