ABrockwell @aebrockwell@qoto.org

”It has been clear for a long time, to anyone willing to see, that the people running the federal government—Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino and more—are monsters. It has been equally obvious that ICE and the Border Patrol are now filled with sadistic thugs. Yet many people—almost the entire GOP, everyone serving in the Trump administration, some Democrats, a significant part of the media—were too cowardly to admit the obvious.”
—Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/monsters
#trump #miller #noem #bovino #ice

#GiftArticle

Yes, It’s #Fascism

Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many & too strong to deny.

By Jonathan Rauch

#Trump #UnitedStates #democracy #Constitution #law
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/america-fascism-trump-maga-ice/685751/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxfkcmlWcc1rtoivHvxtVB5E

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,_detentions_and_deportations_of_American_citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration

#USpol #USpolitics

The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man."

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

The situation in Minneapolis is not like anything we’ve seen before.

It’s not just an uptick in raids.

It is a full-scale military occupation, confronting you wherever you go.

You can’t drive more than a couple blocks without seeing roving bands of cars with tinted windows containing masked men in full military equipment:
helmets, balaclavas, long guns, tactical equipment, crowd control munitions.

They pull up to bus stops, leap out, grab a brown person, shove them in the car, then speed away.

They don’t check papers.

Some people have been held in detention centers for weeks before it came out that they were US citizens.

We are witnessing a #racial #pogrom.

Democrats needing to message on affordability as the country endures a brutal authoritarian takeover is tragic. Take it from someone who lives in occupied Minneapolis. Our problems go deeper than prices.

Mind boggling af.
#FucktRump
#FuckMAGA

You can’t detain a 5 year old child.

If a masked man grabs a kid off the street and puts him in an unmarked car… that’s kidnapping.

If that child is then sent to another state? That’s trafficking.

Language matters here.

What happened to Liam Ramos should outrage us all.

#uspol
#liamramos #minnesota #abolishice

Renee Nicole Good’s family have released preliminary autopsy details.

It’s bad.

She was shot three times and the first two shots were non lethal.

One to her forearm and one to her right breast which missed all major organs.

She could have survived that.

Jonathan Ross was well outside the path of the vehicle at that point and leaned into the driver’s side window to deliver the third shot.

It went through her left temple and exited the right side of her head.

It was murder. Plain and simple.

Every ICE agent who failed to render aid should be charged as an accessory, and Ross should be arrested immediately.

The government must stop covering for killers.

#abolishice #reneenicolegood #minnesota #immigration #uspol

“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobbit, 1937

What if the push alerts were “Trump stumbles through major speech, not knowing the diff between Iceland/Greenland; rants about political enemies (both real and imagined); as world watches in horror” instead of this?

“We have become a country where people are disappeared by a paramilitary force that hunts them down in their apartments, on city streets and country roads.”

"We have become a country where a person can be summarily executed in public for protesting that paramilitary force.”

"We have become a country whose federal government deploys military and paramilitary forces in the streets of its major cities, terrorizing the residents in the guise of protecting them.” (1/2)

This is pretty broad but thank you every open source developer who makes my computer awesome

One of my oldest and best friends posted a hell of an account of life in Minneapolis right now.

This whole thing rings so true. “A series of snapshots,” she says — and every one of us here is accumulating our own heavy stack of such snapshots.

Original post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1T31r4jeeX/

1) The big question for any #Irish or #EU political party is why any of them are still on #X ?

Why would any political party opposed to #billionaire capture of #SocialMedia platforms post anywhere other than a decentralized platform?

The toxic #SiliconValley stack can be escaped. #Mastodon is an obvious exit ramp, based in #Europe. Why aren’t all elected officials there?

The #NewsMedia will follow

@Ciarancuffe #Mastodaoine #IrishPolitics #EUPolitics

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41771657.html

This mad king message from Donald Trump has now been confirmed by many very reliable sources to be real. Unbelievable:

The Event: ICE storms local grocery store, aggressively flipping over every shopping cart with a toddler in it.

The Headline: Radicalized Mothers Bring Children To Violent Riot.

I lost a friend over my article about the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

He was angry I called out the underlying misogyny.

He was mad I didn’t give ICE the benefit of the doubt.

He made it personal.

He told me my “stupid clown hair” is why people don’t take me seriously

Everything he said to me was dripping with disdain and misogyny.

There was no debate.

There was no respectful disagreement.

In under five minutes he had attacked my intelligence, my politics, my appearance and my writing.

This is not normal behaviour.

He literally proved my point.

Had I taken the bait I’m convinced that I would have been called a “f*cking b*tch” by the end of the conversation.

This is what MAGA is doing to men.

It’s emboldening them.

It’s validating their bigotry.

I assume this person was always hateful and misogynistic on some level … but now he no longer feels he has to hide it.

He literally said as much.

He said “I never told you in the past because I wasn’t allowed. Now I am.”

Why is he allowed to tell me now??

Why does he feel justified in lashing out with rage and insults over something that has nothing to do with him?

It’s because of what happened to Renee Nicole Good.

We all watched a woman get shot in broad daylight and there’s been zero consequences

We’ve watched rapists, pedophiles and abusers go free for years.

Every woman who’s ever experienced abuse knew exactly what Jonathan Ross meant when he said “f*cking b*tch”

He didn’t fear for his life.

He was enraged she didn’t fear for hers.

My friend was enraged I dare speak out for a “lesbian leftist”.

He was enraged I didn’t remain silent, complicit and demure.

He was apparently also enraged I didn’t realize he hated my hair and change it to please him.

Make no mistake, there is a war against women going on.

This regime wants to make us “less than”.

They want us afraid.

They want us in the home serving our husbands and having children.

They want us seen and not heard.

They don’t want us resisting.

Which is why we must keep speaking out.

We must refuse to go back.

My life is better off without this person in it, and thankfully I can walk away.

Not everyone can.

Speak up if you see someone being hurt.

Protect your friends and neighbours.

Challenge misogynistic talking points.

Demand justice for Renee Nicole Good.

Don’t cower. Don’t be afraid. Don’t give up.

#reneenicolegood #abolishice #uspol #fascism #ableism #misogyny