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Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.

Scoop: In an internal survey, CIA analysts report that politicization of intelligence is on the rise and affecting the objectivity of analysis. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

Trump's former attorney. "THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

lol. @jackdad19.bsky.social @fasteddie92.bsky.social

Are people still buying this nonsense? @fasteddie92.bsky.social

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

I’ve never been prouder to be a Minnesotan.

Right now, ‘nothing feels right’ in Minneapolis. An NBA basketball game is no exception www.nytimes.com/athletic/699...

Never forget the Minnesota GOP invited Nick Shirley here & plied him with intel, resulting in targeted harassment of innocent people and ultimately, this occupation.

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

New in PN: Kristi Noem's assault on the Fourth Amendment "The Department of Homeland Security deliberately confuses reasonable suspicion and probable cause in hopes that no one will notice that ICE and CBP are making illegal arrests as standard operating procedure."

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

Hearing reports that a man taken by ICE in Minneapolis died in federal custody.

Was just going over some old issues of The Racket and found this. I wrote it in July 2024, just after the Republican convention.

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

Boosting —hey @chriswarcraft.bsky.social & @lollardfish.bsky.social & @normcharlatan.bsky.social &the rest of you, can you also boost?

"the worst of the worst"

@jackdad19.bsky.social @fasteddie92.bsky.social

WITNESS: "I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further. That’s absolutely not what it was… ICE agents didn’t let anyone help her for 15 minutes, then medics couldn’t get through with their ambulance.”

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain

Video makes clear almost every word of this is a lie.

So, this should finally put to rest any delusions that there are decent people left in the US military who will stand up to illegal orders and protect democracy. The US military is now more likely to kill US citizens rather than help them. They are not our friends.

Who Controls AI Exactly? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-c...

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

Mpls Mayor Jacob Frey: "What we are seeing again & again is discrimination only to the extent that it applies to certain groups. So they're discriminating only as it applies to Latinos and Somalis ... you can't do that. You can't do that in Minneapolis. You can't do there anywhere in this country."

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...

This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't. It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...

I’ve seen enough…the Vikings had a massive miss on JJ McCarthy. He may eventually be a decent NFL QB, but he won’t be this year. They had a roster that could’ve contended with a decent QB. That decision will probably cost both Kwesi and KOC their jobs at the end of the season. As it should.

Stephen Miller said the Chicago building was “filled with TdA terrorists.” DOJ prosecutors have not filed criminal charges or shown evidence that anyone arrested in the raid belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social & @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Nigeria's elimination from World Cup qualifying means eight of the 10 most populous nations will not be at the tournament ❌ With the USA taking a host-nation berth, only one of the 10 countries with the world's biggest populations actually qualified 🤯

Yes, sadly it is real.

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, sex assaults in several states, FBI says FBI urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to local police

Fucking idiot. The US has won exactly ONE war post 1945. Everywhere else has been stalemate at best and outright defeat at worst. Now we want to invade a country of 250M ppl? And no, we won’t be greeted as liberators. We will send >1M soldiers needlessly to their deaths. @fasteddie92.bsky.social

The thing about making being "Woke" worse than being a Nazi is that the people who listen to you are going to conclude that being a nazi is ok, since unlike the former it has fewer social consequences among their peers

These guys were willing to take a bullet for their country, just not reduced retirement pensions? 🤷🏽‍♂️

The actual number of ppl to leave because of Mandami will be <100 households. Many thousands will *claim* this is why they left, but these are ppl planning on moving anyway for other reasons (retirement; better weather; lower taxes; etc)

This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.