@corvus1970
Rational romantic mystic cynical idealist. “I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me” - Rudyard Kipling For more, timewinds.blogspot.com, https://letterboxd.com/Corvus1970/, https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/29400289-corvus
Now, I'd take this with at least one grain of salt, but I really, REALLY wouldn't put it past this particular brand of crazies. I mean, come on, Christian Nationalism is running rampant in Washington.
Anyway, hoo-fucking-BOY.
Looks like CNN is getting its hits in before the deal is done and everything changes.
"He cannot use a phone. He doesn’t know his address, he doesn’t know phone numbers, he can’t communicate, he can’t see. And they just left him.”
Yeah, shoutout to Carr for making Talarico a national figure.
Jon Stewart: Still a useless centrist decades later!
Yes: one of the things that has kept protests peaceful is that the insider/outsider dynamic was so pronounced. The feds were invaders; local and state police were separate and not really against us.
What we’ve seen in the last couple days feels like the sheriff and state patrol switching sides.
Homeland Security is monitoring anti-ICE Reddit posts, an intelligence bulletin leaked to me reveals:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...
Very informative article. I learned some things. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
🚨 I've obtained a list of secret watchlists the Department of Homeland Security uses to keep tabs on American citizens
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...
ICE agent in a private chat with colleagues: "Ten versus one and somehow they couldn’t find a way to subdue the guy...They all carry belts and vests with 9,000 pieces of equipment on them and the best they can do is shoot a guy in the back?”
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
Washington post article: ICE agents will have a security role during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. Officials say they are to support diplomatic security details and would not run any immigration enforcement operations.
they're gonna murder a biathlete
Sounds an awful lot like "I was only following orders."
She should read up to see how that worked out in Nuremberg.
Congress has a critical government funding deadline on January 30th. It’s up to them to use it for good. Send an email to demand accountability and oppose additional funding for DHS without safeguards that rein in ICE’s violence and lawlessness:
act.standupamerica.com/letters/lett...
Sending @repilhan.bsky.social sincere admiration tonight.
Yeah, another in his long line of things that never happened so hard that it unhappened things that actually did.
This is the closest to midnight the clock has ever been.
What's that? Are the power-fantasies they cultivated not working out for them?
Excuse me while I borrow a scanning-electron microscope so I can locate an appropriately tiny violin.
Ugh, sorry for the typo, but I'm not deleting. Let us edit our posts, BlueSky.
Once again, we were warned, and once again, we did not heed as a society.
And the surveillance overreaches of that administration led directly down the road we're currently on that leads to things like "thought-crime." Imperialism needs an enemy, and Authoritarians always manufacture ones at home when they can't point enough fingers abroad.
Bush/Cheney laid the groundwork for this, and the post-9/11 military ramp-up and the Iraq-War led directly to the creation of DHS and ICE, and led to the glut of military equipment that eventually got fed into the hands of police departments across the nation.
he wholly predictable outcome of the so-called "War On Terror", and exactly the sort of development that far-sighted pundits were concerned about.
Vigils were held around Minneapolis and beyond Saturday night in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents.
Photo and video: Jeff Wheeler, Anthony Souffle, Simon Peter Groebner/The Minnesota Star Tribune.
This one remains on point and applicable.
