"The President of the United States has dispatched a masked, paramilitary force loyal to him over the Constitution to occupy an American city. One of those agents shot and killed a woman in broad daylight, and the federal government is not investigating the shooter. Instead, they are investigating the victim and her widow.

If this were happening in any other country, we would call it by its proper name: fascism."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #fascism
/2

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/can-democrats-stop-ices-reign-of

"This is no longer immigration action. This is state-sponsored terrorism. It is state-sponsored terrorism. It is a campaign of brutality. ... I don't think any city in America or any state has ever seen this type of lawless behavior by federal law enforcement."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #fascism #madman
/3

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trumps-war-on-minn-and-how-we-fight

"The masked ICE agent who shot Good at close range held his cellphone in one hand while firing his gun with the other, showing more interest in spectacle than fear. His video will be added to the DHS library of recordings to generate bloodlust among the type of recruits ICE seeks: Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, pardoned J-6ers, and basement-dwelling incels craving skin on skin action of any kind."

~ Sabrina Haake

#Trump #ICE #ReneeGood #JonathanRoss
/4

https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/ice-recruitment-uses-taxpayer-money

Don Moynihan writes,

"This piece comes someone living and working in Minneapolis, which is experiencing a de facto military occupation right now. They wish to remain anonymous out of concern that their government might retaliate against them for reporting on what life is like there now."

The whole essay is worth reading in full. Here's an excerpt:

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #fascism #madman
/5

https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-from-the-occupation

"People at risk of abduction are now understandably unwilling to leave home ─ meaning they can’t go to their jobs, and they can’t shop for food and other necessities. Affected kids don’t get meals at school. Local communities are organizing to feed hundreds … thousands? … of terrified families who are hiding from our federal government. Nearly everyone in these families is a U.S. citizen or otherwise legally in the United States."

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #fascism #madman
/6

"Federal agents abduct people and ask questions later; if your skin is not White, you are presumed guilty until proven otherwise. ...

In nearly all immigrant and Black and Latino neighborhoods, there are multiple attempted armed abductions of residents every day. (Such events also happen, albeit less frequently, in more economically privileged neighborhoods: Housecleaners, construction workers, etc. are the targets in those cases.)"

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #fascism #madman
/7

Marisa Kabas also offers from-the-spot testimony from Minnesota. Her piece features Alice Valentine, who was apprehended along with her girlfriend as they tried to monitor ICE brutality towards immigrants in St. Cloud. Valentine speaks of the racism combined with misogyny and homophobia she witnessed ICE enacting.

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #fascism #madman
/8

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/queer-trans-ice-protester-st-cloud-minnesota-alice-valentine

"Seeing the federal killing of a citizen activist is the first time many Americans have felt skin in the game of Trump’s mass-deportation regime.

But there’s another scandal that requires our attention. ICE horrors aren’t limited to snatching community members off the streets in violent arrests (using banned chokeholds) or brutalizing bystanders."

~ Tim Dickinson

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #fascism #madman
/9

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/what-is-ice-hiding-in-minneapolis

"The Trump administration is also notorious for its mistreatment of detainees as they’re being held for potential deportation.

The Whipple federal building in Minneapolis — where captured immigrants and protesters alike are being detained by federal authorities — is currently a black box. Members of Congress have been banned from oversight. Religious leaders have been blocked from ministering to those jailed there."

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #fascism #madman
/10

Robert P. Jones comments on the fact that many of the people of color the Trump regime and ICE are targeting in Minnesota are refugees brought here in the past by the US government to protect them from attack in their previous country:

"They've been here now for three decades, right?"

(I've lightly edited the transcript of the comments to remove filler words.)

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #fascism #madman
/11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwhNGgC_xAM

"They've been here now for three decades, right? Only to find themselves on the other end of a gun at the sort of instigation of the very government that said you can come here and be safe. This is just heartbreaking to me when you think about that's the country we've turned into. The one that people were running from is now the country we are."

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #fascism #madman
/12

Joy-Ann Reid talks with performer Rolanda Watts, who was recently in a taxi in Harlem that was stopped by ICE agents demanding to see the driver's papers. The driver told Watts that this has now happened to him three times. Watts says,

"What really pained me and brought me to the deepest tears was that this is our country now."

#Trump #ICE #racism #cruelty #violence #fascism #immigrants
/13

https://www.joyannreid.com/p/how-to-fight-insurrection-20-the

"This is the reality. I mean, to read about it, hear about it, think it's happening over there is one thing. But when it happens to you — and it will happen to you — you will be touched by this."

#Trump #ICE #racism #cruelty #violence #fascism #immigrants
/14

"The mission of cleansing violence is something the MAGA base loves. It’s a kinetic performance of the heart points of the MAGA movement: aggressive and violent retribution against domestic enemies — the whiny women, the lesbians and the gays, the international riffraff polluting the nation’s blood, the armies of complainers the elites call 'protesters.”'

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #ICE #racism #cruelty #violence #fascism #misogyny #homophobia #immigrants #MAGA
/15

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white-house-turns-out-people-think-ice-kinda-sucks

"President Trump’s team recently reviewed private GOP polling that showed support for his immigration policies falling. The results, reflected in public surveys, bolstered internal concern about the administration’s confrontational enforcement tactics."

~ Alex Isenstadt and Marc Caputo

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #ApprovalRating
/16

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/16/trump-polling-immigration-approval-rating-ice-noem

"The private polling suggested a rupturing of the coalition of independent, moderate and minority voters who were key parts of Trump’s victory in 2024. Such voters will play a big role in determining whether Republicans keep their slim House majority in November’s midterms."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #ApprovalRating
/17

"If Trump’s advisers are truly “suddenly” waking up to the fact that terrorizing the American people is unpopular, the question is, 'What took them so long to understand a fact so simple that a kindergartner could grasp the concept upon first hearing?'”

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #ApprovalRating #StephenMiller
/18

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trump-retreats-on-insurrection-act

"The answer, in large part, is Stephen Miller, who apparently harbors a deep hatred of immigrants—such as his grandparents and great grandparents, who immigrated to America in early 1900s."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #ApprovalRating #StephenMiller
/19

"The most stunning 🚨 for the Trump administration: ICE is now politically toxic. 2 in 3 independents and even 1 in 4 Republicans view it negatively.

Not sure a federal agency has ever become this radioactive this fast."

~ Matt McDermott quoted by Greg Dworkin

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #ApprovalRating #StephenMiller
/20

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/17/2363860/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Trump-s-stated-reasons-are-bullshit-needs-to-be-the-news-standard

"New polls released this week show U.S. voters breaking just 20-30% in favor of the way ICE is enforcing President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. Polls on things like zip-tying children during raids, detaining U.S. citizens, ICE agents wearing masks, &, of course, shooting and killing citizens such as Renee Good show a public that is moving dramatically away from the president on his once-best issue."

~ G. Elliott Morris

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #ApprovalRating
/21

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ice-is-a-70-30-issue-against-trump

#Congress is quietly rejecting almost all of the deepest #cuts to federal programs that #Trump requested for this year, turning back his efforts to slash #funding for #ForeignAid, #GlobalHealth programs, #scientific #research, the #arts & more in a bipartisan repudiation of his #spending plans.

#law #legislation #House

#Congress Is Spurning Many of Trump’s Planned #Spending #Cuts

Months after the partisan clash that led to the longest #shutdown in history, lawmakers have agreed on spending bills that look far different from what #Trump wanted.

#law #legislation #House #funding
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/congress-trump-spending-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

🚨🚨🚨🚨

#Trump says he may #punish countries with #tariffs if they don’t back the #US control of #Greenland

Trump suggested Friday that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland, a message that came as a Congressional delegation met Danish & Greenlandic lawmakers in Copenhagen & sought to lower tensions.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Denmark #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #InternationalLaw
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-greenland-us-trump-tariffs-c8c17c89cbc4ca9819eb728102d0a2b3?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-16-US+and+Greenland

RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/asia-c2h6qh4lz/-/a-0Jbg3wZ9RS-NIw0cQ6RvOw%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

to be fair, a big trade deal with #murica makes more likely that #trump will protect #taiwan against #china. not sure that is a good thing or not...

"Do I really want people like you—hanging out on beaches in El Salvador, not giving a shit about this country—to be the richest people in the world when the system collapses? Fuck that.

I’m still open to apologies. You have my number. I await your call."

#media #Trump #MAGA #TechBros #EconomicElites #greed #SiliconValley #broligarchy #crypto
/5

"Who claimed Trump was the peace president who doesn’t believe in war. You didn’t support Trump because of pronouns, cancel culture, or Hunter Biden’s laptop. You supported him because you were worried Kamala would regulate you. Because you were mad at Lina Khan. It was about your pocketbook. You chose greed, and now Americans are being gunned down in the streets by the man you called the lesser evil."

#media #Trump #MAGA #TechBros #EconomicElites #greed #SiliconValley #broligarchy #crypto
/4

Mike Brock addresses his "former friends in crypto and tech," who have inordinate influence on media framing and who affect not to know the extent of protest now against the Trump regime:

I wanted to address my former friends in crypto and tech directly. The ones who said I had Trump derangement syndrome. Who said Kamala would be worse."

#media #Trump #MAGA #TechBros #EconomicElites #greed #SiliconValley #broligarchy #crypto
/3

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/it-was-about-your-money

Timothy Burke writes about how easy it is for the hard right to manipulate the media into adopting hard-right framing, and why this happens so easily:

"The punditry never really sees—or at least admits—how they’re being worked into a new framing, and about how that working reveals how many of them have no deep values or beliefs that anchor them to some basic propositions on right and wrong, good and bad, generative and destructive."

#media #Trump #MAGA
/1

https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/the-news-window-dressing

"And very few of them will ever take note of how or why they moved from weeks of solemn pronouncements about the wrongness of calling a group of people deplorables to indifference to the wrongness of a daily torrent of vile abuse directed at the majority of the country."

"That working reveals how many of them have no deep values or beliefs that anchor them to some basic propositions on right and wrong, good and bad, generative and destructive": this is the heart of it.

#media #Trump #MAGA
/2

The crypto industry's bet on Trump is collapsing in real time.

Charles Hoskinson—Ethereum co-founder and Cardano creator who vocally supported Trump in 2024—now says Trump made US crypto "worse than under Biden." He's demanding Trump's crypto czar resign and claims he personally lost $2.5B.

What happened?
• Trump's $TRUMP memecoin crashed 80%, destroying bipartisan support for legislation
• The CLARITY Act (crypto's key regulatory bill) is stalled in Senate
• Most crypto tokens fell 40-50% since Trump took office
• Record government shutdown paralyzed Congressional work

The irony: crypto leaders courted Trump expecting a boom. Instead they got memecoins, political toxicity, and legislative gridlock.

Hoskinson's assessment is devastating: "We thought the government would pump our bags. Instead they pulled a rugpull scam on us."

@molly0xfff has been tracking crypto's Trump pivot—and now the retreat: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113816642891387994

Sources:
📰 https://www.benzinga.com/crypto/cryptocurrency/26/01/49835190/trumps-crypto-czar-should-resign-if-crypto-bill-doesnt-pass-in-q1-says-cardano-founder-charles-hoskinson

📰 https://www.livebitcoinnews.com/cardano-founder-slams-trump-over-u-s-crypto-policy-shift/

📰 https://www.coindesk.com/news-analysis/2025/11/07/since-trump-s-election-crypto-has-experienced-a-wild-year-long-ride

📰 https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/11/crypto-lawmakers-are-preparing-to-try-again-on-major-bill-what-can-happen-next.html

#crypto #cryptocurrency #Trump #CLARITY #regulation #Ethereum #Cardano

Comer’s relentless efforts to force them to testify reflect his overall approach to his panel’s #Epstein inquiry. As the chair of the #House #Oversight Cmte, #JimComer has sought to shift the focus from #Trump’s ties to the convicted sex offender & his admin’s decision to close its investigation into the matter without releasing key information. Instead, he has sought to shift the spotlight onto prominent #Democrats who once associated with Epstein & his longtime companion #GhislaineMaxwell.

In a letter that touched on #Trump’s #immigration crackdown, his use of the #DOJ to prosecute his enemies & even #Republicans’ opposition to extending #healthcare subsidies, the #Clintons accused #JimComer of potentially bringing #Congress to a halt to pursue a politically driven process “literally designed to result in our imprisonment.” [they’re not wrong]

#law #Epstein

Welcome to the VladXiDonocracy. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

#Trump #Putin #XiJinping #HumanRights #democracy

Alt...

Cartoon showing a monument with golden statues of Trump, Putin and Xi Jinping, each holding up 1/3 of the world. The pedestal of the monument reads:'World Order. Est. MMXXVI'. Riot police stand around, looking menacing, while people fearfully walk around the monument. On the side of the pedestal graffiti reads 'Democracy + human rights'. A woman is running away, having dropped a can of spray paint on the ground; she is being chased by two riot police men waving batons. In the background, a man is pushing a garbage container with the UN logos and the EU flag in it.

People are lost in External Politics

Personal Politics is for the way -
which includes external BUT DOESN'T GET SUCKED IN and endlessly distracted.

1 ➡️ Be personal on Mastodon and create #Trust, (Build up yourself and similar individuals)

2 ➡️ Add Your own #Creativity etc along the way... (Build something else within Mainstream #Politics - usually a regular circle of chats solves the 'What do we build with who we have here'

Personal Politics
+ Practical endeavors
= Better than following the #ShitShow

What you are thinking and DOING (at the same time) is better then hammering your brain with #Trump and #USPol #UK #news etc / ad infinitum

⬇️ Boost if you agree ⬇️
#PersonalPolitics ☑️
#PracticalPolitics ☑️

Hackers are developing open-source tools like OUI-SPY and crowdsourced maps (deflock.me, alpr.watch) to detect and counter ICE's automated license plate readers and surveillance cameras. 🔍
These counter-surveillance efforts aim to protect communities from mass tracking, though legal risks remain. ⚖️

@eff

🔗 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Data #Security #Rights #OpenSource #Policy #DigitalRights #Tech #Ethics #Freedom #Hackers #Hacking #ICE #USA #US #Trump #DonaldTrump

from the Might As Well Make It Official Department: the trump family's stablecoin business #WorldLibertyFinancial has applied for its own bank charter

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260107876750/en/World-Liberty-Financial-Announces-that-WLTC-Holdings-LLC-has-Submitted-an-Application-for-a-National-Trust-Bank-Charter-to-Issue-and-Custody-USD1-Stablecoins

#WLFI #Trump #stablecoin #crypto #corruption #banking #finance #USD1

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World Liberty Financial Announces that WLTC Holdings LLC has Submitted an Application for a National Trust Bank Charter to Issue and Custody USD1 Stablecoins

#Europe draws red line on #Greenland after a year of futilely trying to pacify #Trump

While many European leaders’ reactions to the #Venezuela raid were muted, there have been forceful rebukes about the Trump admin’s greediness on Greenland.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Denmark #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #oil #minerals #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #greed #InternationalLaw
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/07/trump-us-europe-greenland/

For the last year, European friends-turned-frenemies of the #UnitedStates have delicately navigated one shock after another, hoping for the best as #Trump threatened to lay waste to the #GlobalOrder.

When Trump scolded #NATO #allies, lambasted #Ukraine’s president, laid on #tariffs & framed ratified #treaties as conditional deals, the go-to play by #Europe was to placate—with #military #spending pledges, #trade concessions, disciplined summits, in language scrubbed of #morality or judgment.

It wasn’t always elegant, or dignified, but the policy of strategic acquiescence seemed to be working, *sort of*. #US arms kept flowing to #Ukraine, an all-out #trade war was averted & #Trump deigned to say some nice things about #NATO.

Then came the strikes on #Caracas, explosions that echoed in capitals around the world. Governments that spent years preaching #restraint, legality & #multilateralism found themselves scrambling for words to express unease without triggering #Trump’s fury.

The precarious strategy of managing #Trump, rather than confronting him, looked more exposed when the president & his inner circle revived their talk of “getting” #Greenland & even floated the idea of #military action. To European ears, it sounded less like bluster than a retrograde worldview now backed by unvarnished American might: #power over process, #leverage over #law, #loyalty conditioned on utility.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #law #sovereignty #InternationalLaw

“It’s approaching a full-on existential crisis,” said Mujtaba Rahman, managing director for #Europe at political risk consultancy #Eurasia Group. “It could be far greater than #Russia invading #Ukraine because Russia is an adversary. Now, it’s the guarantor of European #security undermining European security.”

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #US #Greenland #Denmark #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #NaturalResources #sovereignty #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

Where many European leaders’ reactions to the #Venezuela raid were muted, caveated or outsourced to #legal abstractions about the #UNCharter, European leaders on Tuesday came out with uncommonly forceful rebukes about the #Trump admin’s greediness on #Greenland.



#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Denmark #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #oil #minerals #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

The PM of #Denmark, a #NATO member, said a #US action on #Greenland, a territory of the kingdom of Denmark for >300 years, would be the end of the #alliance. Leaders of #France, #Germany, #Italy, #Poland, #Spain & #Britain closed ranks with Copenhagen, issuing a joint statement that Greenland’s future is a matter for “Denmark & Greenland, & them only.”

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #NaturalResources #sovereignty #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

#Denmark & #Greenland have stated emphatically, & repeatedly, that the huge #Arctic territory — sparsely populated with 59,000 mostly #Indigenous residents & boasting potentially rich deposits of #RareEarth #minerals — is not for sale. Greenland is officially designated as an #autonomous region, & residents say they have no intention of living under the yoke of a new #colonial ruler.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #law #sovereignty #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

#Trump, posting on Truth Social on Wednesday, seemed to bristle at suggestions that he was endangering #NATO, boasting that he had pressured #allies to raise spending. “Most weren’t paying their bills, UNTIL I CAME ALONG,” Trump wrote. “I, respectfully, got them to 5% GDP, AND THEY PAY, immediately. Everyone said that couldn’t be done, but it could, because, beyond all else, they are all my friends.”

#delusional #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Greenland #Denmark #Europe #InternationalLaw