Horrifying news just coming out this morning of armed and masked federal agents wrestling a man to the ground in Minneapolis and then shooting him several times. Reports I'm seeing in various places say that he has died.
There's video that caught the whole horrific scene.
See also https://bsky.app/profile/mattdelong.bsky.social/post/3md6ko5mfdk2a
"Tens of thousands of Minnesotans took to the streets today in bitter cold temperatures with wind chills of -20°F (–28°C) to protest the occupation of Minneapolis and St. Paul by federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Status Coup News interviewed a protester walking down the street holding a sign that said: 'CLASSIC NAZI BLUNDER: INVADING IN WINTER.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"He explained: '[T]here is a minority who is trying to create a post-law, orderless, lawless society, where their might makes right. And because, you know, they have guns and are willing to use them, they think they can suspend the Constitution, suspend habeas corpus…, suspend civil liberties, generally speaking.'"
"He continued: 'T]here was a memo that came out that said that they think they can break into people’s houses without warrants, you know, basically just like, trust us, which is, you know, fundamentally against the Fourth Amendment. And so if you look at the amendments, I mean, they’re trying to tear it down the First, they’ve gassed people, they’ve shot people, you know,'" (continued in /5)
(continued from /4)
'"hit people with beanbag guns and batons for exercising their First Amendment rights, they don’t want people to, you know, exercise their Second Amendment rights, and certainly their Fourth, but also the Fourteenth, you know, basically, they’re attacking the whole Constitution.'”
The interview Status Coup conducted with a protester, which Heather Cox Richardson transcribes in the thread above, is at the link below, starting at about the 1.04 mark.
David Nir talks with Aaron Rupar, who lives in Minneapolis and describes to Nir what it has been like living in a city occupied by lawless masked thugs. Nir states,
"This kind of collective punishment is absolutely part of the fascist playbook. It is something that Trump and Stephen Miller and Bovino all want."
#Minneapolis #Trump #StephenMiller #GregBovino #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/7
Aaron Rupar on a city — and state — engulfed by Trump's terror squads.
Rupar:
"Obviously we've had natural disasters, we've had, you know, different sorts of tragedies that have befallen communities, but when you're targeted by the government that is supposed to represent you for kind of pretextual reasons that are obviously very political in nature… It's a really, it's just really surreal to live through that. It's nothing that I expected to go through."
#Minneapolis #Trump #StephenMiller #GregBovino #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/8
"We should be filled with confidence in light of the example set by Minnesotans. But we must also be realistic. It will get worse before it gets better."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/9
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/minnesota-shows-us-the-way-forward
"Donald Trump has built what his first term only suggested-an interconnected infrastructure of fear aimed at mixed‑status families and immigrant‑heavy cities. It is not just hundreds of thousands of deportations with a goal of millions; it is the way government has been remade so that daily life itself is risky."
~ Mark Mansour
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #immigrants #fascism
/10
"Trump is privately frustrated that chaotic scenes and protests in Minnesota are undermining his immigration message, with aides scrambling to shift focus from clashes and a fatal ICE shooting to highlighting arrests of alleged criminals, even as polling shows growing public concern that ICE tactics have gone too far and risks mounting political fallout ahead of the midterms."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #immigrants
/11
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/important-update-trump-ignites-international
Good afternoon, everyone.
"He’s 'losing it,' as the saying goes. He is more and more visibly disconnected from the reality the rest of us, and the rest of the world, live in. They can still shoot him up with something that is not vitamin B and wheel him out in front of the public and the press and turn him loose to babble the lies that make him so happy to repeat over and over —" (continued in /13)
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #polls #ApprovalRating
/12
(continued from /12)
"he won the 2020 election that he lost; the prices of things like electricity and food and drugs and health care that everyone else knows are going up, he thinks are going down 400 or a thousand percent or whatever number he’s got stuck in his mind; he’s the greatest president ever, greater even than Washington and Lincoln; and on and on. But it’s not working, and he knows it, and his people know it."
#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #polls #ApprovalRating
/13
Truscott enumerates the ways in which Trump is losing:
He’s losing his health.
He’s losing supporters.
He’s losing Republicans in the House and Senate.
He’s going to lose the midterms.
He’s losing it with ICE.
He’s losing it internationally.
He’s losing it with Wall Street and Banks.
#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #polls #ApprovalRating
/14
"He's really upset. This [NYT-Siena] poll shows that he's essentially lost…. He's lost the consent of the governed. He's underwater 16 points in his approval in this poll. And of course, he wouldn't be truthing about it if it wasn't devastating.
You know, Trump needs approval. He needs affirmation. He's desperate for it. And when he doesn't get it, he throws a tantrum. And that's what we're seeing."
~ Andrew Wilson
#Trump #polls #ApprovalRating
/15
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/americans-hate-trumps-gestapo-behind
"Donald Trump has set his own ass on fire and he is rolling around on the floor."
"Liam is five years old. He wasn’t hiding and his family wasn’t evading the law. They entered through a legal port of entry and applied for asylum, checked in repeatedly with immigration authorities and did everything the United States asked of them — because that is what the law required."
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/16
https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-secret-ice-doesnt-want-you-to
"And because they did everything right, ICE knew exactly where to find them.
Agents didn’t have to investigate. They didn’t have to dismantle a criminal network or put themselves at risk. They simply showed up at a home and detained a preschooler whose backpack was still on his shoulders, despite having no deportation order and no allegation of criminality."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/17
"No one in this family is a criminal — least of all, a five-year-old boy.
But what ICE did was not an error. It was the policy working as designed."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/18
Jemar Tisby comments on the story of ICE using five-year-old Liam Ramos as bait to lure his family out of their house, then sending Liam and his father to Texas:
"You've lost the plot as a human being at this point."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/19
"You're using a 5-year-old to to bait other adults to come out and then you still detain the 5-year-old while another relative is there saying if you've got to take the father at least leave the child with us and then refuses to do that. Like you you've lost your humanity. What on earth?"
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/20
"Liam’s plain blamelessness, his innocence, the useless cruelty of his capture, the bald, shameless cynicism of his use as 'bait' to capture the adults who love him – these evidence an evil I was naive enough not to know about. I am not so naive anymore."
~ Moira Donegan
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/21
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/24/liam-ramos-ice-cruelty-minnesota
"It need not detract from the specificity of Liam and his suffering to say that his arrest and the photos of it that were released by the school that wants him back, are a potent symbol of what Trump’s ICE raids are doing, both to Minneapolis and to the country as a whole."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/22
"[Pictures of Liam used as bait by ICE] make plain the sheer sadism of ICE and their agenda, the smallness, cowardice and moral degeneracy of people who would arm themselves to the teeth and cover their faces in order to attack a child not yet big enough to tie his own shoes."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/23
"ICE is the worst of America, indeed perhaps the worst of humanity – a window into the corruption that is possible in the human soul. They are animals with the gall to call themselves men."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/24
"Feelings of precarity feed fascist movements.
Republican oligarchs bought that."
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/george-monbiot-behind-every-fascist-movement-there-is-a-billionaire/
https://www.monbiot.com/2023/09/20/shining-a-light/
https://www.monbiot.com/2020/02/11/the-roots-of-fascism/
https://publicintellectualsproject.humanities.mcmaster.ca/social-justice/the-seeds-of-fascism/
https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-ticking-bomb-of-crypto-fascism
https://www.salon.com/2023/01/03/americas-epidemic-of-loneliness-the-raw-material-for-fascism/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/09/usa.comment
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/30/from-frankfurt-with-love/
It is as if people are finally realizing why #MoscowMitch was paid to corrupt the courts by Koch Network.
Recreating a White Supremacist Constitution.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/mcconnell-the-gop-the-court/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/behind-mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-engineering-60-minutes/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/01/02/feature/conquerors-of-the-courts/
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/29/mcconnell-supreme-court-00144007
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/28/mitch-mcconnell-legacy-supreme-court-trump-obama
William Lindsey 
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