Jimmy Smutek
@smutek.bsky.social
AuDHD Gen Xer, dad & husband, web developer & electronic musician, bleeping & blooping in Baltimore.
I mostly boost leftish & news stuff. Occasional posts about mental health or whatever.
Antifascist because fascism is wrong and bad.
I mostly boost leftish & news stuff. Occasional posts about mental health or whatever.
Antifascist because fascism is wrong and bad.
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Republicans have blocked every proposal to rein in ICE, but they're happy to let Democrats spend your tax money to equip ICE mercenaries with body cameras. Why? Because they know body cams won't restrain ICE any more than they do cops:
crimethinc.com/bodycams
Don't try to reform ICE. Abolish them.
crimethinc.com/bodycams
Don't try to reform ICE. Abolish them.
January 25, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Republicans have blocked every proposal to rein in ICE, but they're happy to let Democrats spend your tax money to equip ICE mercenaries with body cameras. Why? Because they know body cams won't restrain ICE any more than they do cops:
crimethinc.com/bodycams
Don't try to reform ICE. Abolish them.
crimethinc.com/bodycams
Don't try to reform ICE. Abolish them.
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Emergency action at 6pm TODAY - Saturday - at City Hall, 100 Holliday St. This morning, ICE agents murdered another person in Minnesota. After tens of thousands marched through the streets as part of a general strike yesterday to show resistance to ICE terror, this rogue agency killed again.
January 24, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Emergency action at 6pm TODAY - Saturday - at City Hall, 100 Holliday St. This morning, ICE agents murdered another person in Minnesota. After tens of thousands marched through the streets as part of a general strike yesterday to show resistance to ICE terror, this rogue agency killed again.
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The conservative intelligentsia and media-industrial complex has been publicly masturbating about getting to kill people for years now, they are orders of magnitude worse than even the MAGA base. Everybody knows this, it's just politically incorrect to say it.
miller is regularly blamed but vance is not held to any account at all for having started the chain of events that got us here
As JD Vance starts trying to play "nice Gestapo" to Steven Miller's "mean Gestapo," it's worth emphasizing that what's happening in Minnesota is a direct descendant of Vance's knowingly false racist demagoguery during the campaign. "Somalis are low-IQ thieves" is "Haitians are eating your pets."
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January 24, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The conservative intelligentsia and media-industrial complex has been publicly masturbating about getting to kill people for years now, they are orders of magnitude worse than even the MAGA base. Everybody knows this, it's just politically incorrect to say it.
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mwriston.darkroom.com
I'm opening up the print shop for purchases. 100% of sales go to CASA de Maryland to support their work organizing and defending immigrant communities. Your purchase helps provide a legal safety net against ICE overreach in Baltimore and the state of Maryland. (1/2)
I'm opening up the print shop for purchases. 100% of sales go to CASA de Maryland to support their work organizing and defending immigrant communities. Your purchase helps provide a legal safety net against ICE overreach in Baltimore and the state of Maryland. (1/2)
January 24, 2026 at 8:25 PM
mwriston.darkroom.com
I'm opening up the print shop for purchases. 100% of sales go to CASA de Maryland to support their work organizing and defending immigrant communities. Your purchase helps provide a legal safety net against ICE overreach in Baltimore and the state of Maryland. (1/2)
I'm opening up the print shop for purchases. 100% of sales go to CASA de Maryland to support their work organizing and defending immigrant communities. Your purchase helps provide a legal safety net against ICE overreach in Baltimore and the state of Maryland. (1/2)
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🚨 Minneapolis, MN 🚨 EVERYWHERE 🚨
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January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
🚨 Minneapolis, MN 🚨 EVERYWHERE 🚨
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The identities of members of Signal chats are being "doxxed" on the CSAM site.
Turn your socials private of temporarily deactivate.
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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This is who ICE murdered. A VA nurse who dedicated his life to helping critically ill veterans.
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:41 PM
This is who ICE murdered. A VA nurse who dedicated his life to helping critically ill veterans.
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They’re killing observers because they are threatened by them. the work these people are doing is profoundly brave. They’re all heroes.
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
They’re killing observers because they are threatened by them. the work these people are doing is profoundly brave. They’re all heroes.
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Ten-hut, Baltimore: the Nazis have sent reconnaissance in advance of invasion. projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/arrival-of...
Arrival of Right-Wing Activists in Baltimore Prompts Meeting Cancellations, Local Warnings
Residents are advised to avoid any verbal or physical confrontations with the individuals.
projectsaltbox.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Ten-hut, Baltimore: the Nazis have sent reconnaissance in advance of invasion. projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/arrival-of...
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Anti-Somali smear artist Nick Shirley has been sniffing around Baltimore. Starve his lie machine.
January 23, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Filmed by us
From inside Gaza
This is where families are living.
Wet ground , Cold wind, Fragile tents.
Winter here is not a season — it’s a struggle to survive.
If you can help, please don’t look away.
A small donation can mean warmth and safety.
Donation link in bio & here👇
gofund.me/81080627
From inside Gaza
This is where families are living.
Wet ground , Cold wind, Fragile tents.
Winter here is not a season — it’s a struggle to survive.
If you can help, please don’t look away.
A small donation can mean warmth and safety.
Donation link in bio & here👇
gofund.me/81080627
January 22, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Filmed by us
From inside Gaza
This is where families are living.
Wet ground , Cold wind, Fragile tents.
Winter here is not a season — it’s a struggle to survive.
If you can help, please don’t look away.
A small donation can mean warmth and safety.
Donation link in bio & here👇
gofund.me/81080627
From inside Gaza
This is where families are living.
Wet ground , Cold wind, Fragile tents.
Winter here is not a season — it’s a struggle to survive.
If you can help, please don’t look away.
A small donation can mean warmth and safety.
Donation link in bio & here👇
gofund.me/81080627
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8th circuit gives ICE go ahead to use force against peaceful demonstrators, a decision which will immediately lead to injury.
US appeals court pauses lower court order restraining immigration agents' use of force against Minnesota protesters
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals paused a lower court's order on Wednesday that had restrained federal immigration agents' use of force against peaceful protesters.
www.reuters.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:47 PM
8th circuit gives ICE go ahead to use force against peaceful demonstrators, a decision which will immediately lead to injury.
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watching sobbing teenagers getting pulled out of their cars by masked goons glowering at us through tiny slits in their fully-masked uniforms, brandishing weapons at the crowd, and launching huge amounts of teargas into parks and businesses to make their escape
January 21, 2026 at 9:53 PM
watching sobbing teenagers getting pulled out of their cars by masked goons glowering at us through tiny slits in their fully-masked uniforms, brandishing weapons at the crowd, and launching huge amounts of teargas into parks and businesses to make their escape
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People are homeless because they can’t afford rent.
There’s so so many reasons people can’t afford rent! All entrenched in legacies of racism & classism! But end of the day people are homeless because they can’t afford rent.
There’s so so many reasons people can’t afford rent! All entrenched in legacies of racism & classism! But end of the day people are homeless because they can’t afford rent.
Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.
“There Is No Place for Us”: A Sympathetic, but Skewed, Portrait of the Working Homeless
Brian Goldstone’s new book downplays the role of personal choices.
www.city-journal.org
January 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM
People are homeless because they can’t afford rent.
There’s so so many reasons people can’t afford rent! All entrenched in legacies of racism & classism! But end of the day people are homeless because they can’t afford rent.
There’s so so many reasons people can’t afford rent! All entrenched in legacies of racism & classism! But end of the day people are homeless because they can’t afford rent.
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Don't believe that every word out of the mouths of the federal mercenaries is a lie?
Here is “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino, dressed as a Gestapo officer, shamelessly declaring that ICE is "ethical and moral" and even "peaceful" days after his men senselessly murdered a soccer mom.
Scum.
Here is “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino, dressed as a Gestapo officer, shamelessly declaring that ICE is "ethical and moral" and even "peaceful" days after his men senselessly murdered a soccer mom.
Scum.
January 16, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Don't believe that every word out of the mouths of the federal mercenaries is a lie?
Here is “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino, dressed as a Gestapo officer, shamelessly declaring that ICE is "ethical and moral" and even "peaceful" days after his men senselessly murdered a soccer mom.
Scum.
Here is “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino, dressed as a Gestapo officer, shamelessly declaring that ICE is "ethical and moral" and even "peaceful" days after his men senselessly murdered a soccer mom.
Scum.
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I am glad this is all helping make this more credulous for folks, but we as a society need to get past evaluating every situation like this minutely and agree that ICE as a system is killing, beating, and torturing people as its operating norms.
The focus should be on resistance and dismantlement.
The focus should be on resistance and dismantlement.
A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:
January 16, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I am glad this is all helping make this more credulous for folks, but we as a society need to get past evaluating every situation like this minutely and agree that ICE as a system is killing, beating, and torturing people as its operating norms.
The focus should be on resistance and dismantlement.
The focus should be on resistance and dismantlement.
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It's particularly galling to call for ICE to wear body cams when Renee Good's murder literally recorded the whole thing on his phone. He was so confident in his impunity as part of that organization that he recorded and allowed for the release of footage of him shooting a woman at point blank.
January 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM
It's particularly galling to call for ICE to wear body cams when Renee Good's murder literally recorded the whole thing on his phone. He was so confident in his impunity as part of that organization that he recorded and allowed for the release of footage of him shooting a woman at point blank.
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Another reminder that mutual aid is an act of resistance and revolutionary community building. Relearning how to be in community & care for each other is a radical act.
They have quite an operation going.
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
Minneapolis church has delivered more than 12,000 boxes of groceries to families in hiding
DHH church has hundreds of volunteers packing and delivering groceries to families who have been too scared to leave their homes during the immigration operation.
www.mprnews.org
January 16, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Another reminder that mutual aid is an act of resistance and revolutionary community building. Relearning how to be in community & care for each other is a radical act.
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NEW: A federal agent with ICE shot a man in Minneapolis last night. Immediately after the incident, neighbors and community members flooded the scene, chasing off the agents involved and uncovering sensitive operational details left behind by the agency. [Video]
ICE Shoots Second Person in Minneapolis, Community Responds - UNICORN RIOT
Minneapolis, MN – A federal agent with ICE shot a man in Minneapolis last night, marking the second shooting in the city committed by immigration enforcement agents since Trump’s administration launch...
unicornriot.ninja
January 15, 2026 at 10:57 PM
NEW: A federal agent with ICE shot a man in Minneapolis last night. Immediately after the incident, neighbors and community members flooded the scene, chasing off the agents involved and uncovering sensitive operational details left behind by the agency. [Video]
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On January 14, after ICE carried out yet another shooting in Minneapolis, a crowd chased them out of the neighborhood and gained control of their vehicles.
In this firsthand account, an anonymous participant describes what took place.
In this firsthand account, an anonymous participant describes what took place.
North Minneapolis Chases Out ICE
After ICE carried out yet another shooting in Minneapolis, a crowd chased them away and gained control of their vehicles. A firsthand account.
crimethinc.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:41 AM
On January 14, after ICE carried out yet another shooting in Minneapolis, a crowd chased them out of the neighborhood and gained control of their vehicles.
In this firsthand account, an anonymous participant describes what took place.
In this firsthand account, an anonymous participant describes what took place.
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Friends, this is Third Way. This is what they exist to do.
ICE may be shooting people in the face, sending people to concentration camps, and illegally occupying our cities but, apparently, the Democrats think saying, "abolish ICE" is "emotional" and politically "lethal."
January 13, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Friends, this is Third Way. This is what they exist to do.
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This is sickening.
Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says — Los Angeles Times
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week...
apple.news
January 13, 2026 at 3:12 PM
This is sickening.
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The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
January 12, 2026 at 2:24 PM
The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.