As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

When a whistleblower’s lawyer gives you a deadline and cites the statute, that is not posturing. That is the last stop before Congress. And they just pulled the trigger.

Suddenly, the Second Amendment is an optional thing for the Republican Party.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.

Our partner @evidentmedia.org has also published a short video on our analysis here: www.youtube.com/shorts/ETSQd...

Analyzing one federal agent’s use of less-lethal launcher in Minneapolis (Graphic content warning)

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Just hours after Renee Good was shot, one member of Customs and Border Patrol’s elite tactical team on an adjacent street fired a less-lethal weapon five times in less than five minutes, with four shots aimed at the faces of protestors. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

Analysing One Federal Agent’s Use of Less-Lethal Launcher in Minneapolis

After the fatal shooting of Renee Good, Border Patrol agent "EZ-17" was filmed shooting less-lethal munitions at protesters five times in five minutes.

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At this point, these are just thoughts.. but Trump gave them all the reasons to have these

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

There is a larger question here about how people view and relate to their country and how this impacts people's perception of the state over a longer time horizon. Not to be melodramatic, but this is literally not the country I thought I was fighting for.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Also useful for what has reportedly happened in Portland with another DHS-related shooting.

On the Media@onthemedia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Tips for following coverage of protests in Minneapolis:

🚨 ""News Hour" has learned senior administration officials today told members of Congress the proceeds from the sale of Venezuelan oil would not go into the U.S. treasury, but to private banks. That's according to five bipartisan congressional officials"

White House says U.S. will control Venezuelan oil industry 'indefinitely'

The Trump administration escalated its pressure on Venezuelan oil, seizing two tankers and declaring it intends to “indefinitely” sell the country’s oil. The administration's rhetoric has also include...

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We’ve also updated our animated map of the positions of agents and vehicles during the incident here with new footage published by @cnn.com that shows the shooter closer to a white SUV prior to the shooting bsky.app/profile/bell...

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 7mo ago

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

A member of our Discord first spotted this detail which was then explored further by @godin.bsky.social. Discussion continues within the Server, which you can join via this link: discord.com/invite/belli...

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45 seconds after the shooting, in the same video, the camera app appears to be visible on the agent’s phone as he walks away from Good’s vehicle.

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

Even if Kash Patel's FBI doesn't care, making this act of explicit cover-up advances the overall political goal of thwarting authoritarian takeover, by making the Feds look more and more and more toxic.

Also, re: the BCA pulling out: Even if its harder, the BCA (and MPD, and everyone else) should keep investigating because of POLITICS. PUBLICLY investigate, make it clear it's bc the FBI is covering things up. Hold daily pressers about progress and publicly shame the FBI.

So this isn't great, but as the FBI itself acknowledges, it cannot "take over" investigations from local actors. Which means the MPD retains the full authority to investigate a murder that happened on non-federal MN land, even if it pisses off the FBI.

If a crime is committed that is a violation of local, state, and federal laws, does the FBI “take over” the investigation? | Federal Bureau of Investigation

No. State and local law enforcement agencies are not subordinate to the FBI, and the FBI does not supervise or take over their investigations. Instead, the investigative resources of the FBI and state...

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R.S.Knight@rsgreen30.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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We are a country whose Constitution, according to the Supreme Court, gives our own presidents immunity for crimes committed while in office, but we will prosecute presidents of other countries for alleged crimes and invade them to execute arrest warrants.

Trump campaigned on an “America First” platform. Now he wants to "run" Venezuela? 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Health care is collapsing. Housing is unaffordable. Trump should address these major crises at home and end his illegal military adventurism abroad.

"Trump has not even a fig leaf of legal authority for his attacks on Venezuela." Yep. That this is illegal is the point. As with January 6, his sexual assaults, his frauds, and every other crime, the point is to demonstrate that he is above the law. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise

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In addition to being illegal, immoral, and murderous, this makes us less safe as Americans both abroad and here www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run the Country’ After Capture of Maduro

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It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

From Jay Kuo on Facebook: "So apparently, if you take a redacted Epstein files document and simply copy and paste the text into another document, you can see the entire unredacted text in many cases (not all, some I tried didn’t work.) Sleuths: Get on it before they figure out a workaround! 😆"

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.