Mayor Frey has been doing tons of interviews to advocate for ICE getting the fuck out of his city this week.

In this interview with The Bulwark he encourages artists, musicians and other performers to please come to the city and do their acts as planned and to support the protests while in town.

He points to the economic damper this fascist cop surge will have on the city and says his job is to enable as many of these sorts of events to be help despite oppression.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/anne-applebaum-and-jacob-frey-using

Anne Applebaum and Jacob Frey: Using Lies to Justify Violence

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says ICE descended on his city with hopes of rounding up undocumented Somalis.

The Bulwark

Frey mentions that ICE now accounts for 50% of the city's gun crime.

He expressed major concern that ICE agents (2,275) in the city now far outnumber the around 600 local cops. The concern is clearly visible on Frey's face when I speaks of the numerical superiority of the ICE/CBP cop surge.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/anne-applebaum-and-jacob-frey-using

#JacobFrey #FuckICE #ICEOUT

Tim Walz has also stayed in the media cycle and is trying to keep the pressure up on ICE to leave. He spoke out yesterday explaining how the actions of ICE against Renee Good were unjustified.

He draws the conclusion that if ICE can do that to Renee then immediately go harass high school educators that these same sorts of incidents could become common in our schools.

Walz says that's a red line for him and he'll fight like hell to keep ICE away from kids.

#timwalz #Minnesota #FuckICE

Tonight thousands of everyday people in Minneapolis are holding noise demos at the hotels ICE is staying in.

It's our 1st admenment right to make sure ICE gets a horrible night of rests every night until they get the Fuck OUT!

Update - local cops arrested 30 people according to @UnicornRiot during this night of protests.

#ICEOUT #MPLS #FuckICE #ChingaLaMigra

An OTG update earlier today from the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minnesota shows workers fortifying the building to make it easier for CBP+ICE agents to keep protesters from slowing down their deportation processing operations.

In other clips large shipments of jersey barriers and barbed wire were seen being offloaded.

The feds are clearly planning not to leave MPLS as requested.

📸 BGOnTheScene via Twitter

#BishopHenryWhippleFederalBuilding #MPLS #minnesota #ICE

Despite the horror of Renee Good's murder, politicians telling ICE to get the fuck out and growing protests, ICE continues to abduct people in and around MPLS.

In this incident I think from today in St Paul Minnesota (not sure of the date OP privated) a family ordered DoorDash only to have their dasher followed to their home by ICE.

The family attempts to protect the woman and call local cops(as instructed by politicians) local cops tell them they will arrested if they don't comply fully 🚨

The above video account of ICE chasing a DoorDash into a customer's home is hear breaking.

The woman filming explains that she is a native a American and for lack of a better word they all sound scared shitless by what happened to Renne Good.

The family had kids in the home and the demand that ICE put down their guns.

The only thing the sheltered Hispanic woman had to threaten these militarzed federal cops with is her tears.

#StPaul #FuckICE #DoorDash #ICEOUT #minnesota

There's a lot of revolutionary joy in the streets of Minneapolis tonight.

#MPLSProtest #minneapolis #minneapolisICE #ICEProtest #NoiseDemo

Watching live streams, the scene at the entrance to the ICE hotel is noisy af.

The crowd is peaceful but LOUD, they have shown a ton of respect for the hotel security personnel.

Bands and drummers filtered through the crowd to setup shop right in the doorway.

After a bit an ICE cop emerged at the door to stand with security and crowd got a LOT less friendly.

(apologies, my screencap didn't catch audio)

#NoiseDemo #MPLSProtest #ICEProtest #minneapolisICE

The 2 and half hour long live stream I had been watching just ended abruptly with this as the last frame.

Protesters appear to have been let in a side door and several have filed in.

They encountered two closed (but unclocked doors) and debated entering further.

Some young boys can be heard warning the crowd that their could be ICE cops on the other side setting a trap and most exited. Many others took their place then the streamer ended the stream likely to protect ppl's identities.

When the stream resumed the citizen journalists were outside of the hotel facing off with local MPLS riot cops.

The local cops are now threatening to forcefully disperse the noise protests.

The local cops are now protecting ICE, as predicted.

The crowd is now cursing out the local cops and saying the are supporting ICE too much.

#ACAB #FuckICE #MPLS #minneapolis #YesALLCops

It sounds like the crowd became aware that the local cops were arriving right as the hotel side door was opened.

The vast majority of the crowd felt it was a trap and sounds like the local police did not have to physically remove anyone from the hotel bc the crowd had heads up they were about to get kettled.

#BeWater

The local cops appear to have just completed securing the entrances of the hotel and now are forming a road block to keep demonstrators away from the hotel.

Notably the local cops are armed primarily with knight sticks, pepper balls and other "non-lethals" (they still dangerous tho).

So far I've seen no local cops carrying rifles.

#minneapolisICE #minneapolisProtest #MPLS #FuckICE

Every so often a snowball is thrown at the cop line.

There is ZERO reaction from these local cops, its as if snow balls and noise demos are not a lethal threat. These cops are clearly on their absolute best behavior, its not much but compared to ICE (and local cops in 2020) these guys appear to be doing their best to not unnecessarily threaten or intimidate the crowd.

It's wild, watching ICE I fully expect everyone to get gassed for them snowballs.

Not long after the police lines were formed the protests resumed marching and is now several blocks away.

The local cops now seems to have to decide between guarding the ICE hotel vs tailing the protesters and it looks like they're gonna stay at the hotel and make sure those evil goons get a quite rest of their night.

Sounds like the protest has dispersed for the night.

From what I saw on streams the protest tonight in Minneapolis was very peaceful with protesters occasionally enganging in civil disobeiance by being loud in hotel lobby's.

Not that protests need to be any of those things to be valid forms of struggle against oppression.

From witness statements on the streams it appears that both state and local cops were on tap to put down the protests and took active steps to encourage the crowd to disperse.

I'm not sure why dispersal was so important. I totally get keeping the crowds out of hotel lobbies but I really think if the Mayor and Governor meant what they say they should not be attempting to disperse a simple noise demo. Even if it goes late.

In fact they should make a point to NOT protect ICE at all anymore.

The situation is clearly already out of control with respect to ICE being told by every level of local governement to leave Senator Amy Klobuchar has joined the chorus as well.

Listen carefully and you'll see that Klobuchar, just like Mayor Frey and Governor Walz is keeping an eye on the tactical situation.

They ALL are aware that their local cops are already out numbered and out gunned by ICE.

They are talking about literal battle when they talk like this.

#Klobuchar #ACAB #minnesota

The crisis facing the US is extremely serious.

A DC cop, Michael Fanone, who was nearly killed at the US Capitol on January 6th says that a couple "F" bombs and foul language from the Mayor and Governor are NOT enough to stop what's coming. Fanone retired from the force after Jan 6 bc he refused to serve with fascists sympathizers.

He predicts that Americans will have to begin excersizing their 2A rights bc strong words are not enough to stop ICE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fanone

#MichaelFanone

Many people might hear J6 cop Fanone's encouragement for folks to embrace their 2A rights and think he's talking about some Rambo shit I really don't think that's what he's talking about.

In this clip a few ICE agents enter a McDs that has a couple armed security.

The gaurds proactively tell ICE to leave.

Throughout the encounter ICE NEVER touches them, speaks in a whisper AND left empty handed.

Unarmed guards would have been cursed at, beat and arrested along with the migrants.

So when noise demos get's dispersed under threat of force from the F bomb dropping Mayor it makes me REALLY question which form of protest would be more effective at actually denting ICE's abduction numbers?

A couple noise demos? Mountains of broken bones, bruises and trauma from tailing ICE around?

Or just passing a lot of laws that make it easier for targeted communities to obtain firearms and CCW licenses and making stand your ground legal against illegal ICE raids

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/115869243330511898

nullagent (@[email protected])

From witness statements on the streams it appears that both state and local cops were on tap to put down the protests and took active steps to encourage the crowd to disperse. I'm not sure why dispersal was so important. I totally get keeping the crowds out of hotel lobbies but I really think if the Mayor and Governor meant what they say they should not be attempting to disperse a simple noise demo. Even if it goes late. In fact they should make a point to NOT protect ICE at all anymore.

PartyOn

I know the Mayor and Governor would probably say that they HAD to put down the protests bc otherwise these poor hotels, stuck between a rock and a hard place, would have to suffer the direct economic consequences of their windows being vandilaized all the time and local property values dropping from constant protests.

And I'm just like.... THATs actually the Free Market at work.

They need to get the fuck out the way and let these companies face consequences.

There's only worse options.

If we can't even for ONE NIGHT ensure that ICE has an impossible time sleeping and that letting them stay LITERALLY means economic ruin for EVERYONE involved then noise demos simply won't be allowed to even attempt to work.

These stats are staggering. The abductions are basically continuing unabated.

EVERY level of our government's systems are being weaponized to find soft targets to abduct when they are most isolated and we're not able to respond in time.

https://www.ice.gov/statistics

So anyways, ICE/CBP is playing in everyone's face in light of the threat to deploy National Gaurds against them.

The day after Walz made the threat to call the NG the commander of CBP Gregory Bovino staged a photo op at the Minnesota State Capitol which the right wing has been joking he'll soon be in command of.

I've never in my life seen this type of blatant disregard for the political norms of the US.

This is what Bovino did to mourn Renee Good's death.

#GregoryBovino #FuckBovino

"Haven't you learned?"

The ICE goon asked of two women observering him harass someone.

In a viral video from yesterday two women in Minneapolis who were observing ICE/CBP operations from their vehicle had their phone snatched from them. The CBP cop used intimidating references to Renee Good's murder this week alluding to the fact he hoped to find an excuse to shoot them.

📸 milaisconfused44 via TikTok

https://www.tiktok.com/@milaisconfused44

#minneapolis #FuckICE

There's ALSO a viral videos suggesting that the women were disappeared by ICE.

Thankfully this is NOT true both are home safe today according to the original poster's updates this morning. Mirrored below.

Jeeeze, ICE continues to do everything in their power to inflame the situation to the highest degree.

Posting white supremacist song references just fash all the way down over there.

https://social.seattle.wa.us/@divestspd/115872482014480582

#ICE #FuckICE #CBP

DivestSPD (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Fun fact: this is the title of a white nationalist song. It’s the same one the Proud Boys were singing in that clip that got Jonathan Choe fired from KOMO. That’s how far the Overton Window has moved in a few years

Seattle Social

Mayor Jacob Frey spoke today about the shifting landscape of ICE+CBP's aimless illinformed hunt for "illegals".

Frey describes ICE initially showing up hoping to snatch Somalian-Americans but quickly discovered the vast majority are actually US citizens.

Finding it hard to deport Somalian's Frey says the feds then turned to harassing the Hispanic community.

#minneapolisICE #MPLS #JacobFrey #FuckICE #ChingaLaMigra

According to @UnicornRiot there were 30 arrests at the noise demo protests at ICE's hotels on the 9th in Minneapolis.

Video from St. Cloud Minnesota show's a couple ICE agents attempting to grab a Somali American, emphasis on attempt, and having a hundred community members IMMEDIATLY surround these shitty federal cops.

These pigs were obviously massively outnumbered and run off with their tails between their legs.

📸 somalisnaps via IG

#FuckICE #StCloud #minnesota #minnesotaICE #CommunityDefense #MeltICE

2014.

Check the date.

"US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them"

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/us-border-agents-intentionally-stepped-front-moving-vehicles-justify-shooting-them/

#FuckICE #FuckCBP #CBP #ICE #ACAB

US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them

An internal review of the US Border Patrol raises serious questions about the agency’s use-of-force policy.

The Nation

Making good on JD Vance's threats, ICE is now going door to door.

Of course they don't have warrants, or ANY legal reason to be busting down these doors.

Why would they need that?

#minnesota #ICE #CBP #minneapolisICE #FuckICE #ACAB

The paper the federal cops presented was NOT signed by a judge and so it was not in any way legal for them to bust down this door with armed men.

This was a flagrant violation of the US Constition.

#ICE #FuckICE #ACAB #minneapolis

Meanwhile, TikTok has been hot on the case of doxxing the shit out of murderous cop Jonathan Ross and dragging his personal life filth (as the tiktok'ers do).

But as I've said from the start, this was all typical American cop work.

Turns out, Ross was a 10yr veteran federal officer and was responsible for TRAINING many other immigration & customs cops.

As this tiktok says, "Ross wasn't a failure of the system, he was the system"

#ReneeGood #JonathanRoss #ACAB #Fuck12 #FuckICE

Basically within an hour or two of Jonathan Ross's name getting out bc of Kristi Noem's dumb comment, I saw all of his PII leaked online.

Lately, rumour has it the feds had to whisk him away and cleared out his house.

Streamer "Robby Roadstreamer" whose frequently been seen at protests on the east coast heckling National Gaurdsmen, CBP and ICE agents alike was seen in Minneapolis this morning being violently arrested by federal cops.

This is the moment of protesting that demoralizes the shit out of cops.

On the one hand they get to be all tough and arrest this streamer for standing around.

On the other hand, he'll prolly be out tomorrow doing the same antics 😂

https://www.youtube.com/user/robbyroadsteamer

#RobbyRoadstreamer

I've seen basically a never ending stream of videos of people just doing the mildest things to annoy these federal goons gaurding ICE into making "catch & release" arrests.

In one video an older guy just drives his car right into the fed building driveway, parks. Casually gets out to hold up a protest sign to an immediate volley of pepper balls and mace as cops run over to arrest him and beat back the cheering crowd.

Arrests like this waste DHS/ICE resources and lower cop moral.

Keep it up!

New video making the rounds today from Minnesota depicts an ICE agent falling on ice then entering a porta potty with a female kidnapping victim.

#ICE #FuckICE #ICEOUTThatPortaPotty

Today Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison announced the state's lawsuit against DHS to end the surge of federal cops into Minnesota.

He points out making arrests in the state's sensitve locations is illegal and a violation of State's rights:

- Courts
- Churches
- Schools
- Funeral Homes

The full length press conference is below 👇🏿

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN7yB7FtDqE

#minneapolis #minnesota #StPaul #FuckICE #ICEOUT #KeithEllison #JacobFrey #KaohlyHer

Mayor Jacob Frey spoke of the intentional political targeting of Minneapolis.

He points out the conservative states have FAR more illegal alieans. Meanwhile Minneapolis has HALF the national rate of undocumented residents.

Frey acknowdleged the flood of feds outnumbering local cops.

Lastly this is cost his city a TON economically. Millions of police overtime have already been spent.

#JacobFrey #minneapolisICE

The full text of Minnesota's lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security can be read below.

This suit was entered into US District court of Minnesota and if I'm reading the court calendar correctly they will be a motion hearing on Wednesday.

There's some VERY alarming instances of police violence directed against State's attorney who happened to witness an ICE arrest first hand.

#CourtWatch #MinnesotaICE #KeithEllison

https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communications/2026/docs/00190_DHS_Complaint.pdf

#FuckICE #DHSLawsuit

Just finished reading most of the Minnesota v. DHS lawsuit and its just a massive constitutional violation wrapped in police violence and state's rights infringement.

Each offense more shocking than the last.

At the end of the day the AG of Minnesota is asking for very reasonable relief.

That the ICE/CBP surge END and that anytime ICE/CBP do have legit warrants they need to follow basic police procedures like respecting the constitution.

https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communications/2026/docs/00190_DHS_Complaint.pdf

#CourtWatch #FuckICE

Another major story today are the internal communications leaked by ICE agents showing that while Kristi Neom and Bovinio are brash in public, internally they are struggling to maintain the moral needed to staff their surge operations.

This stuff is important because those agents who've been deploy are going to want a break from being called murders (probably in just another week or two).

And that means people need to ship in so they can ship out for time off.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigration-agents-terrified-by-ice
#FuckICE

Immigration Agents Terrified of ICE Backlash After Shooting

Leaked documents show Border Patrol needs volunteers for Minneapolis surge

Ken Klippenstein

Only problem is they are already struggling to get more agents to op-in to this braindead mission now that they all know they will 100% be seen as murderers.

So now there's ICE cops turned leakers spelling this all out. The leakers say they are scared, afraid for their safety and affraid to follow the first wave of dumbasses who deployed to Minneapolis.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigration-agents-terrified-by-ice

#FuckICE #minneapolis #F12 #ICE #CBP #KenKlippenstein

Immigration Agents Terrified of ICE Backlash After Shooting

Leaked documents show Border Patrol needs volunteers for Minneapolis surge

Ken Klippenstein

So anyways, share these videos of ICE falling on their asses.

ICE on ICE violence is good for everyone.

As the 2020 Seattle protests proved statistically, constant protests, online mockery, the physically demanding labor of being a fascist pig and the constant never ending resistance really hurts their feelings.

#FuckICE #ICEonICE

At the federal facility in Minneapolis today protest has been non-stop. Its night time on a monday its forecasted to be 26 F and people are staying warm by screaming at ICE under the glow of fireworks.

📸 Brendan Gutenschwager

https://linktr.ee/BGOnTheScene

#minneapolis #minnesota #minneapolisICE #FuckICE #DoNotComply

There's also a umm... unmistakable air in the US right now that a SERIOUS line has been crossed.

Dude says he's not waiting for the ballot box, he urges his fellow Americans to show up armed to more ICE interactions. He says he's choosing the bullet box instead.

And so as I a bit of a student of history, US civil rights, bussing and just being Black in a America ummm I really think the average American is starting to sound a lot more revolutionary than they used to.

ICE has REALLY fucked up.

When I say the average American is pissed the fuck off at ICE I mean it.

You got content creators trying to make cuties content, buying all the wares from a Hispanic road side vendor somewhere in the US to hand out to passersby.

Instead of the adorable-core video he was going for, the poor sap came face to face with a car full of ICE agents on their way to abduct someone.

Kid risks his safety and freedom to curse those shitheads out.

This didn't used to be the sort of thing that would trend.

Yea, the TikTok chicks who used to binge day-in-the life videos until they needed their quarterly social media cleanse+international travel vlog tour, yea they are ALSO out here cursing out ICE agents and hyping up the other girlies to also curse out ICE agents.

These sorts of voices mirror a lot of the things I think a lot of Americans are thinking. To me I see a whole new generation of activists being born and trying to figure shit out.

How to get justice and accountability?

Because the vibes this week are pretty fucked.

We all know DHS/ICE/CBP/FBI/DOJ are all playing in our face. They have no intention to run a legit investigation into Renee Good's murder.

Today video was posted showing Good's car being transported down the highway without any sort of car cover or wrap to preserve evidence.

The window was clearly open and not sealed prompted many people to question if this is a sign of carelessness on the FBI's part?

#FBI #ReneeGood #DHS #CBP #FuckICE #F12

The DOJ put it in black and white.

The Civil Rights Division, who has holistically had the job of investigating dirty cops after they murder someone, refused to take the case.

When long time prosecutors offered to fly out to investigate the crime scene they were TURNED AWAY.

The person in charge of the case is Harmeet Dhillon. She was Trump's 2020 campaign legal advisor while he claimed voter fraud. Now a head of Civil Rights @ DOJ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmeet_Dhillon

#DOJ #HarmeetDhillon #CivilRights

Important to note, many communities across the country are seeing a surge in ICE+CBP activity.

Notably new ICE tactics being talked about in West Virginia where ICE is working with local and state cops to setup at what look like DUI check points only to harass people about their status.

There's also rumors of ICE using toll booths in WVa to check plates to search for vulnerable people to target quite literally down the road.

#WV #WestVirginia #ICETactics #EastCoast #FuckICE #F12 #ACAB

In WA state I'm hearing rumours that ICE did some door-to-door knocking the past two days throughout the state.

Of course Portland is still also dealing with the recent attempted murder of two of their residents.

Today the Luis David Nino-Moncada who was shot alongside his wife by border patrol last week was charged for daring to survive.

Many many Americans are seeing and feeling this surge.

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/12/border-patrol-shooting-portland-charges/

#WA #PNW #Portland #LuisDavidNinoMoncada

Man shot by Border Patrol in Portland released from hospital, charged with assaulting federal officer

The two people shot in Portland last week by U.S. Border Patrol face criminal charges, court filings released Monday show. Both have been released from the hospital and into federal custody.

OPB

So this is leading many former service members to say a lot of the same things.

ICE is proviking a reaction.

That reaction, could be so large no one and no army will be able to contain it,

This vet directly talks about how a conflict between the American people and ICE (and whoever else Trump sends in) would feel for ICE just like being in Afghanistan did.

An unwinnable war that harms all who dare to occupy ANY ordinary human populace.

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/115868135620223531

And when you start to do the math its pretty staggering.

Minneapolis is currently afflicted by 3k (they're sending another 1k) rouge feds.

They only have 600 cops.

The populace is 400k Americans.

Gun ownership is estimated at 45% of Minneapolis households.

If even 1-5% of housholds decided to violently oppose ICE with force, they would outnumber ICE on day one.

I can see why the vet above says ICE will loose if Americans stop being peaceful.

Back to the lawsuits, the State of Illinois also announced they will be suing DHS over CBP+ICE conduct in Illinois & especially Chicago.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is zeroing in on ICE breaking state laws, like plate swapping

They launched a hotline to report ICE swapping car license plates.

You see ICE using stolen plates?

Call or email the state of Illinois today!

https://www.ilsos.gov/news/2026/january-12-2026-giannoulias-joins-illinois-attorney-general-and-chicago-in-a-lawsuit-against-the-us-department-of-homeland-security-for-swapping-or-altering-license-plates.html

#CourtWatch #Illinois #chicago #chicagoICE #FuckICE #AlexiGiannoulias

The full text of Illinois' lawsuit against DHS can be found below 👇🏿

Much like other state's suits Illinois' Attorney General Kwame Raoul laz delivered a case detailing sprawling abuses of state sovereignty and operating without regard to the fundamental rights promised in the constitution.

There's even a section titled: "Boarder Patrol's Occupation of Chicago"

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:va6c2:17bce349-bea7-4b29-b0de-cf1e2e6dc3e5?viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover

#CourtWatch #IlinoisICE #chicago #ChicagoICE #FuckICE #CBP #DHS #KwameRaoul

This lawsuit is possibly even more damning than Minnesota's.

Illinois AG Kwame Raoul laid out what ICE/CBP are technically allowed to do when operating in the interior of the country.

Largely ICE needs a warrant or very clear probable cause to detain or question a person. They typically need to know long in advance who it is they are their to detain.

Instead of that very individualized enformecent ICE is doing cartoon evil shit, like patroling on a gunboat for papers.

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:va6c2:17bce349-bea7-4b29-b0de-cf1e2e6dc3e5?viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover

The document shows a shift at ICE towards lawless roving patrols.

There's obviously no requirement for American citizens to carry proof of citizenship at all times.

But not only is ICE demanding proof of citizenship while pointing guns at people they are also demanding biometric scans of faces and even fingerprints without a warrant or even probable cause!

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:va6c2:17bce349-bea7-4b29-b0de-cf1e2e6dc3e5?viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover

#ICE #Privacy #Biometrics #surveillance #MobileFortify

One especially ridiculous case, ICE agents abducted a US citizen walking home from the gym.

The agents put a citizen into handcuffs and dragged him into an unmarked car that had no license plates at all!

Once in the car they scanned his face using the DHS app MobileFortify.

The feds insist that they should be able to keep biometric scans of citizens obtained forcefully in roving raids like this one.

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:va6c2:17bce349-bea7-4b29-b0de-cf1e2e6dc3e5?viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover

#MobileFortify #DHS #ChicagoICE #FuckICE #ChingaLaMigra #CourtWatch

@nullagent Feels like a setup. Say that happens, don't you think Trump already has the next move planned?

I for one hope that the politicians and lawsuits can sort things out.

But the clock is now ticking and this all rides on a pretty heavily armed country of people voluntarily remaining peaceful in the face of massive, inescapable provocations.

@collectifission

@collectifission @nullagent Trump is senile and with each passing day it's more obvious. The problem is court of fash clowns surrounding him, but they are factionalised, they may have a plan, hell, they probably have plans the coincide in the intent to provoke a situation for a self-coup, but the moment Trump is gone they will start the stabbing party because <fascism doesn't understand peaceful transitions of power>, and with insurgencies you know how they start, not how they end.
@nullagent If Americans stop being peaceful, an awful lot of people are going to have to stop and think about which orders they follow..

@nullagent Saying a lot of the same things myself in my essay coming out tomorrow.

(Went up on Patreon late Sunday night. That was not a good draft tho', I really need to do better. But fuck these are hard to write.)

(I think they're fool enough to _want_ that reaction, and I _do_ think they want martial law.)

@nullagent I think there's one thing he's missing, though - and that's with national guard. He brings in National Guard from _Texas_ to Minnesota and Wisconsin, he brings in National Guard from, I dunno, Florida or Alabama to Cascadian states, I don't think they'll have all that much hesitation to follow illegal orders, because I _don't_ think they see us as being of the same country. Not _really_. Not as _real_ Americans.

I mean, you're already seeing that play out some this weekend. I think it's going to be less of a restraining factor than he does.

Or maybe most of those people are already in ICE, and we'll get more normal people. That would be lovely. But I don't believe in it right now.

@nullagent

I remember reading an article by a British soldier in Afghanistan. What moved him to write was catching sight by chance of the face of a Taliban fighter. A day or two later he saw the same man, out shopping at a market with his wife and family. It was an epiphany - the soldier suddenly realised that he was trying to fight a war against the people themselves - and that it was unwinnable.

@nullagent yeah except as you noted not a single country the US invaded was half as gunned up as the US is. Insurgency looks very different then, with a violence escalation counted in days, not years. Other than the assassination of top figures, the road to peace would involve the kind of introspection the US is the LEAST capable of in the world, especially when structures of change (education, media etc...) are owned by warmongers (tech bros, billionaires).
@nullagent I was just thinking that the revelation of torture in 2002 made the populace and their supporters extremely hostile. This is that.
@nullagent
Still is a miracle (in a positive way) to me that no one started to use some of the millions civilian owned arms.
MUCH respect for that.
On the other hand it's a question of the #Toleranceparadoxon
My concern is about apparently existing troops and commanders who are willing to follow unlawful orders.
#project2025 won't stop at national guards. They will send in troops at some point, with way more power.
The difference to foreign countries:
Surveillance/datas are way more complete.
@nullagent i'd say, time to revive The Weather Underground and start fighting back.

RE: https://spore.social/@springdiesel/115890917655268464

@nullagent I think @springdiesel was describing something like this earlier today, with Mississippi police stopping them at multiple points for mysterious reasons.

here's her thread:
https://mastodon.social/@springdiesel@spore.social/115890917812853585

@nullagent

Unbelievable… the tyrant has surrounded himself by sock puppets and bootlickers. This is how fascism also worked in the 1930s…

The democratic system is failing.

@nullagent fucking

preach

yeah i'm wanting to scream fuck you allll the time

@nullagent the train in the background saying "we're hiring" (I'm choosing to interpret we as the revolution) is a nice touch
@nullagent There's special interest to make people go violent against ICE agents.

The claim that the above video clip is AI was first started by Alex Jones. Do you really believe Alex Jones over Status Coup News?

The above clip was originally live streamed by a reporter for Status Coup News. The same individual is seen in many other live streams (emphasis on the fact I've seen this man over multiple days on multiple streams by various sources)

Here's a clip where he's in the background holding a sign consistent with his interview.

https://x.com/StatusCoup/status/2009693357413372234/video/1

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@nullagent I don't know what Alex Jones said, but the results of AI checks are obvious.
@nullagent Alt text: an ICE officer running and then falling on ice, then running back to their car. A bunch of people are recording
@nullagent Thank you for adding alt text to your posts, really appreciate it :)

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keep the pressure up, give these #ICE pig nazis the treatment they deserve.

name and shame them, if possible

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> "There is genuine fear that indeed ICE’s heavy handedness and the rhetoric from Washington is more creating a condition where the officers’ lives are in danger rather than the other way around."

It's interesting that, embedded in this statement from someone who thinks he is being eminently reasonable, is the underlying assumption that everyone around the officers' lives should be in danger.