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What @… says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:
- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)
- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?
- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.
- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)
- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.
So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393

Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons
https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admin-new-bop-anti-trans-prison-policy

Maybe there is hope.
"All of the death rates were higher in states where more people claimed to pray daily. Only cancer and COVID-19 were correlated significantly with Trump’s percentage of the vote."
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1…

CZ returned to the US for the first time since his release from prison in 2024, to attend a WLF event at Mar-a-Lago attended by Brian Armstrong and others (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/pardon…

Wir sehen uns zum #Warnstreik nächste Woche!
#Dresden
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Hochschulaktionstag am 28. Januar 2026 in Dresden
Demonstration und Warnstreik für bessere Arbeits- und Studienbedingungen

No deja muy tranquilo que una persona con este razonamiento esté en la jefatura de cualquier gobierno, menos aún en uno con armas nucleares y que estš rodeado de advenedizos y lameculos https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mj5h6johygkjaoo3dg5q23lm/post/3mcr3a3wqq22f…

This is what social media (and the internet) exists for.
(Also glad that Rami has bridging turned on, so I can repost it here easily! 😁) https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jye22xkea3jqsabskhfec347/post/3mf3ngx67rs2k

Rami Ismail (رامي) (@ramiismail.com)
It's almost time for Ramadan, as Muslims tonight peered to the crescent moon to see if the month of Ramadan starts tonight or the day after. As with every year, I'm starting this thread so that people can ask questions, and learn about Ramadan from one person's perspective of it.

The New York Times wins three 2025 Polk Awards, including for its Trump coverage; The Boston Globe, ProPublica, AP, and Business Insider also won (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/business/media/george-polk-awards.html

The New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards
The Times was honored for its coverage of President Trump, the abuse of housekeepers and nannies in Saudi Arabia and brutality in New York prisons.

It’s ridiculously funny how much the Right is convinced that there’s a personality cult around Bill Fucking Clinton.
There wasn’t a personality cult around Bill Fucking Clinton in 1993. There sure as hell isn’t one NOW. Most living Democrats are probably not old enough to have ever voted for him. Millennials definitively didn’t.
I would bet money that Clinton was technically prosecutable. @…

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
In an obvious move to try to manipulate the narrative around the contents of the Epstein files, one of the few prominent figures whose face has NOT been redacted is Bill Clinton—and the Trump administration is signal boosting those images.

Police Identify Person of Interest in Brown, MIT Shootings | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/police-identify-person-of-interest-in-brown-mit-shootings