Federal prosecutors are investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly impeding immigration agents, sources told CBS News, an extraordinary escalation in the Trump administration's clash with Democratic leaders.
Warning: kissing fascist ass may result in liquid glass.
So my phone tricked me into updating to iOS 26 (nice one, asshats). And wow: it really is a case study in form over function. Gratuitous, meaningless aesthetics and motion. Decoration, not design. “Look what I can do!”
Oh well, if it gets me using my phone less, that’s a good thing, I guess.
But the next time you hear someone from Apple talking about design, please feel free to laugh in their damn faces. What a sad joke they’ve become.
This is what authoritarians do. This is what dictators and tinpot tyrants do. This is what Putin does. This is what Stalin did, before doing worse, but also worse. This is what Hitler did, before doing worse. Doing worse is next.
DOJ orders remove of anti-rape protections and rape statistics gathering in Federal prisons, and formally told prisons and jails they would not be held responsible for rapes of LGBTQ+ people:
"Ultimately it comes down to the Republican Party, the MAGA base they’ve radicalized, right wing media, and the oligarchs financing it all. They are the real problem. If Trump disappeared tomorrow, they’d be looking for someone else to carry out their fascist agenda."
"It’s past time that voices in the media describe this as what it is - the other “F word” fits the bill.
But while they are at it, how about openly talking about Trump’s open corruption, his deranged mental state, his dementia, and the need to have him resign or be removed from office ASAP?
Let’s also hear them admit this isn’t just a Trump problem."
"It’s striking how much the arguments that Trump is not a fascist have suffered in just the first few days of this year, in which we’ve plunged to new depths of national madness."
~ Michelle Goldberg
All those pundits and intellectuals who have played coy games about the use of the word "fascism" to describe Trump's plans for the US should be ashamed of themselves now.
"The neo part of it is like, it's not really neo. The neo's gone. I dropped neo yesterday. Full on old school Nazis, isn't it? Full on old school fashion."
"I'm just going to use the words we've been using here on Democracy-ish for years. You've got to use these words. A fascist regime. I'm not even going to use the word neo-Nazi. A Nazi regime that is literally quoting word for word Nazi talking points. Yeah, it's not really too neo."
It's been a week since we watched an ICE agent shoot and kill Renee Nicole Good and then mutter "f*cking b*tch" at her. It's time we talk about the misogyny that's baked into ICE enforcement.
"At that moment, that's an assertion by Yale Law School graduate that the rule of law has ended because there are unaccountable agents. This is pure fascism, right?
"When J.D. Vance came out and claimed that people who work for the United States government could do whatever they wanted and there could be no criminal prosecution of them, it's essentially an assertion. It's a version of Stephen Miller's assertion that the rule of law has ended in America."
"A 21-year old anti-ICE protester [Kaden Rummler] has been left permanently blinded in California after a Department of Homeland Security agent shot him in the face with a nonlethal round at point-blank range on Friday. …
Rummler’s aunt said he was left with a fractured skull and shards of plastic, glass, & metal stuck all throughout his eyes and face, & would have died if not for the 6 hours of surgery he went through."
"We are facing an absolute, there's only one word that I use to explain it but fascist, crackdown. ICE is a rogue agency. They're killing Americans in the street, going door to door. They are pointing weapons at people who pose no threat to anyone."
"The public outrage is not merely a reaction to a single tragedy. It’s a response to the realization that a shadow army is being mobilized on American streets, an army that is increasingly lethal, largely unaccountable, and fueled by a record-breaking budget. For many, the image of masked federal agents patrolling major U.S. cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York was once a dystopian fiction."
Did YOU know that there's a web site that documents the actions, statements, and plans of Trump and his regime that ape those of authoritarian regimes, thus posing a threat to US democracy? I didn't either, but THIS site started doing that in January 2025: trumpactiontracker.info/?
what’s permuting itself around in my head, part one:
I never got a chance to write an article about how much worse 2026 is going to be than 2025; it all got going with Trump’s invasion of Venezuela literally as I was getting to write it all out. But before I could, well, here we were, already ass-deep in it.
Today, I wanted to talk about subverting this year’s elections – a work already in progress – but we should probably start with what’s most loudly and visibly in front of us this week before going into that.
The first thing you have to remember – the first thing you have to keep in mind – is that the US Government is now a white nationalist government. Straight up. Little hedging or pretence remains; it’s a white nationalist government, and don’t try to tell me otherwise when the Shitweasel is openly condemning the civil rights movement and
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what’s permuting itself around in my head, part one:
I never got a chance to write an article about how much worse 2026 is going to be than 2025; it all got going with Trump’s invasion of Venezuela literally as I was getting to write it all out. But before I could, well, here we were, already ass-deep in it.
Today, I wanted to talk about subverting this year’s elections – a work already in progress – but we should probably start with what’s most loudly and visibly in front of us this week before going into that.
There aren’t 100 million immigrants at all in the United States, much less ones from the “third world.” But if you take all immigrants (of all races) and all non-white American citizens, and yes, that includes those who have citizenship by by birth and add those numbers up…
…that’s right about 100,000,000.
They know that, of course. So given that, I have to assume that’s who they’re saying to get rid of. Everyone not white and every immigrant.
They’re literally propagandising for a mass ethnic purge of 100,000,000 people, most of whom are US citizens of colour.
(As an aside, why is anyone still on X? Particularly given all this? Why? Was it not obvious enough before? How about now that it’s an AI child porn generation site? Is that obvious enough? Seriously – WHY IS ANYONE STILL THERE?! If you are, get the fuck off X. For good. Now. I’m sick of excuses, get off of X, right the fuck now. If you have followers you care about, lead them off too. Now.)
But I digress.
The DHS “X” account is an official US government account owned and maintained by the Department of Homeland Security, which runs ICE. It’s not some unofficial fan club, it’s literally the US government in control of it, and they’re posting white nationalist propaganda.
The “100 million” post is only one example of such propaganda; thereare many others. Not only have they not taken down this particular piece of white nationalist propaganda, when I started writing this, it was still pinned to the top of the account. They weren’t hiding it, they were highlighting it.
They’re proud of it. It’s the goddamn goal. They are telling you it’s the goddamn goal. When will people listen?
(This is, by the way, what every single person who didn’t do everything they could to get Harris into the Presidency brought us, and amongst the many things I will never forgive are those people who sneered, jeered, and slandered me, accusing me of being pro-genocide, all for doing what was absolutely necessary to keep literal fascists out of the White House. And so they played saboteur, buying into bullshit, discouraging voting, depressing turnout, and now look where we fucking are.)
But again, I digress. I digress a lot, lately, I admit.
So. As MAGA leadership is white nationalist, DHS is also white nationalist. As DHS is white nationalist, ICE is white nationalist.
Remember again that ICE is DHS’s enforcement arm, their national semi-secret police intended to execute DHS policy. Their street white nationalism is the implementation of the political white nationalism.
One way you can tell is their recruitment of white nationalists, often using literal Klu Klux Klan language. “Defend Your Culture,” which is big in their advertising, was literally a KKK slogan, and the “culture” of the Klan was white supremacy through violence. I assure you, the white supremacists don’t miss it – Proud Boy leadership started telling their membership to sign up months ago, and I promise you that they are, where they can. The people they recruit will be onboard with the agenda.
(See also how the Republican Party’s MAGA wing – when it was only a wing, and not the whole party – gave the Proud Boys a quiet tryout as a militant street action wing, a kind of enforcement brigade without official status. It didn’t work out; the PB were too undisciplined and too independent. This is their solution. Their explicitly political recruitment, targeting the far-right of the GOP base, helps make the connection clear.)
They’re only starting with this purge of actual undocumented people.
Initially moving against undocumented workers – already an expansion after promising to only go after “violent criminals” – they’ve been generating new “illegals” since day one. They’ve been making people applying for refugee status into “illegals,” arresting them as they show up for entry interviews and appointments and court dates. They’re making people here with longstanding legal status “illegals,” breaking promises and revoking already-signed papers, often breaking the law to do so. The leadership are explicitly looking for ways to “de-naturalise” people, and going after the very explicit, very intentional birthright citizenship guaranteed by the US Constitution.
They’re openly setting up the concentration camps they need for such a mass expulsion. They brag about it. They’ve published the structure of how they’ll work.
It is, as it was always intended to be, a mass ethnic purge. It is, to use their word, “wartime” in America. And yes, they will get to citizens, unless we stop them before they can.
As with any such purge, it will be bloody. It already is bloody, of course, with ICE beating down citizens they have no authority to arrest and occasionally just murdering people in the streets. Good was not the first, she was just the most recent, and the first that looked like she could turn up at a MAGA rally. That whiteness is what’s made the difference in popular reaction. But it will get far, far bloodier – which is exactly what MAGA leadership want it to become.
It will not stop in hotspots. Vance also says he wants ICE agents going door to door all across America. They’ve been doing that this past weekend in Minnesota, sweeping through neighbourhoods. Yes, of course they include citizens in that door-to-door, and yes, it’s government terrorism. They don’t care if it’s your property, they don’t care that you’re an American, they threaten to smash down your door if you demand to see a warrant and they threaten you with prosecution if you stand up for your rights.
Do I have an example on video? Of course I do. The terror you see and hear from this American family in their own home is what they want. Listen, you’ll hear them tell the family with infant child that if they make ICE wait for a warrant they’ll smash the door down. Listen, you’ll hear them threaten the family with Federal charges for not letting them in right the fuck now.
But stand your goddamn ground, and have your whistles, and get your neighbourhood out and loud. If you don’t know what the whistles are, find out, and if you hear them, learn to respond. This particular neighbourhood did. And, being mostly cowards, ICE left – for now. But they’ll seethe, and take it out on someone else later.
They want violence, they want fear, they want and have basically received permission to spill blood. None of that is compatible with a republic, but MAGA doesn’t really want that either.
I’m further pretty sure that MAGA leadership does want resistance, however. Underneath it all, it sure seems clear to me that Trump and Vance and Miller et al are salivating to use the Insurrection Act and declare martial law. Trump’s been openly talking about it since his first term, just like he’s talked about how it’d be “good” for America to have a “president for life.” He wants dictatorial power and he wants it bad, because he knows it’s the only way the party survives the 2026 elections, and without the party, he’s vulnerable.
He knows his movement is starting to come apart. He knows everyone not in his movement is done with his shit. So he’s going to do whatever he can, with absolutely no limits, to stay in power. That includes false prosecutions against political opponents, that includes declaring war on allies, that includes declaring war on citizens (as above), and yes, that does include subverting, stealing, or just trying to overturn the 2026 elections.
That last part can’t be surprising, can it? Are we going to pretend it’s a surprise, when he tries? It’s what he did in 2020, and he didn’t go to jail, so why wouldn’t he try it again? It’d only be surprising if he didn’t try. So, I think it’s clear that he will.
I have some thoughts on how it’ll go. You can figure them out for yourself if you paid attention in 2020, because basically it’s the same plan. But this mess of an article is already too damn long, so that’ll have to wait. We’ll call that part two.
And if you’ve made it down this far through this absolute mess of an article, good job. Because holy crow, it is a mess. But that doesn’t make me wrong. Moments in history like this are messy, too.
So get organised and get used to turning out, because all this is going to keep getting worse. If there’s no ICE around, today’s a Tesla Takedown day; you might join an existing protest, or start a new one. I’ll see you again in a couple of days with part two.
Over the weekend, Germany's fascist minister of the interior, Alexander Dobrindt, visited Israel and Netanyahu to "learn from Israel".
That fascist fuck Dobrindt wants a partnership with Israel (and got it) to learn how to deploy the surveillance tech that Israel uses against Palestinians, against the German population. 🤬
After Dobrindt spent the past days inciting clueless German centrists and "moderates" against imagined radical leftists. After a recent blackout in Berlin, Dobrindt again accused "leftists" (anyone who isn't a Nazi) of being terrorists.
Netanyahu was very happy with the meeting, and called Israel and Germany "natural partners".
All while the equally fascist and utterly incompetent German chancellor Friedrich Merz was in India, courting the right-wing Indian prime minister Modi who is spreading hatespeech against the Muslim minority in India.
Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt und Israels Regierungschef Netanjahu unterzeichnen »Sicherheitspakt« in Jerusalem. Deutsche Behörden wollen von Israels »Erfahrungen« lernen.
My wife and I have been brand-loyal Hilton customers for many years, but that just ended. I just told them to cancel our Hilton Honors membership. I based my email to them mostly on the template here indivisiblesf.org/blog/2026/1/… with some minor changes. If you are a Hilton Honors member you should do the same. I'm not going to patronize a business which has made it clear that it sides with the Nazis. #politics #USPol #fascism #boycott #Hilton #HiltonBoycott
We support businesses that refuse to cooperate with ICE. It is infuriating that not only is Hilton openly cooperating with fascists, but also retaliating against one of their subsidiaries for refusing to cooperate.
There are more protests through the weekend. Find yours. Turn out. We need numbers, and we will need numbers - building numbers - from here on out.
Basically, GET USED TO TURNING OUT ON SHORT NOTICE.
It's going to be important. I've got some ideas about what they're going to try to do to hold onto power, not based their history to date. It's going to take a lot to stop them, and we're going to have to be ready. I'll probably wrote about them over on @solarbird but you can follow that from here if you want.
So the Bothell protest was pretty decent given less than 24 hours notice. (It didn't show up in the list until late afternoon yesterday.) A little bigger than the "no war in Iran" protests during Cheeto's first term? And that had some lead up to it.
The side of my sign I built specifically to shock the conscience (see replies) succeeded in shocking at least _some_ consciences. To wit, I saw one full mouth-drop gape of horror when it hit, and, get this:
I had a _cop_ see it, look grim, nod, and wave approval from their patrol car.
This one's different, folks. It's different for the wrong reasons, but it's still different. And that's good.
Chief O’Hara said the #FBI & the #Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension had taken control of the #crime scene. He said an investigation would take place, but it was unclear which agency would investigate—or whether both would. [pray it’s not the FBI]
Chief Brian O’Hara of the #Minneapolis #police said his officers went to the scene after being told that federal agents had fired shots. The woman who was shot had a head wound, he said, & was pronounced dead at a hospital.
A federal officer shot & killed a person in #Minneapolis on Wednesday during an #immigration “enforcement” operation, #DHS said. The #shooting came as the #Trump admin intensified a crackdown on “illegal immigration” in #Minnesota.
The astonishing story of the aristocrat who hid her #Jewish lover in a sofa bed – and other #German rebels who defied the #Nazis
There were Germans who defied the Third Reich from the very start and throughout the Nazi #dictatorship. In the immediate aftermath of the #war, one allied investigator estimated that, during the 12 long years of Nazism, 3 million Germans had been in and out of #prisons or concentration camps for crimes of dissent, sometimes punished for nothing more than a #critical remark.
From a diplomat who embraced the exiled Albert Einstein to a schoolteacher who helped ‘non-Aryan’ students flee, these remarkable individuals refused to bend the knee to Hitler – only to be dramatically betrayed. What made them risk it all?
AP: Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence
"...Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967...."
You can't make this up. Nicholás Maduro, the President of a sovereign nation, who was taken from his own country by US military troops who bombed his capital and captured him and his wife at gunpoint, is being charged with "Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices".
