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"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
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He's losing
Where I sit tonight -- probably the same place as a lot of you right now -- is in the path of the largest winter storm in years.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
"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
"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
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The Infrastructure Of Fear
Trump has accomplished what he failed to do in his first termMark Mansour (America’s Fractured Politics)
"And how could I judge you for the 600,000 of the world's most vulnerable people, mostly children, who have died since your President empowered an unelected billionaire and his gang of frat boys to indiscriminately and recklessly shut down our entire aid program overnight? You were just trying to save less than 1% of the federal budget so the downtrodden billionaires in our own country could get a tax break."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/19
And by the way, after defending what ICE has done to Liam yesterday, Catholic VP JD Vance addressed the March for Life in DC today — because he values the sanctity of human life, of course.
All human life.
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
/3
When I posted yesterday on social media about the use of Liam as bait by ICE, a young blond woman (so her profile photo shows her to be) whom I don't even know responsed with a laughing emoji and informed me that Liam and his father are pieces of s—t who deserve everything coming to them.
Evil.
That's the right word for this.
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
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"The only people who support ice tactics are whose who are willfully evil."
This is what Jess Piper concludes as a mother for 30 years who has raised five children, as she looks at the photos of little five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos being used as "bait" by ICE to entrap his family before he and his father are kidnapped and whisked away to Texas.
Evil.
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
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Mama
My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyond from a rural progressive point of view.Jess Piper (The View from Rural Missouri by Jess Piper)
"We use words like 'police state.' Then we see it happen. To watch is not the same as to experience it, of course. Of being afraid to leave your house. Or having a classmate, co-worker, or family member disappear. But the images make it more real. It removes any illusion that it could not happen here. It is happening here. We see it happening here, if we are willing to look."
~ Don Moynihan
#Minnesota #Trump #immigrants #ICE #PoliceState #occupation
/12
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Past the breaking point
The violent occupation of an American city is more than a warningDon Moynihan (Can We Still Govern?)
"My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence."
~ Greg Sargent
#Minnesota #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #immigrants #ICE
/11
Tomorrow's front page in Minneapolis Star Tribune:
"Court order didn't save toddler."
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
"They added that the faith leaders 'prayed together, sang songs and hymns, and shared stories of those who have been abducted by ICE while at work or commuting to and from the airport' in an effort to call on airlines companies – particularly Delta and Signature Aviation – to 'stand with Minnesotans in calling for ICE to immediately end its surge in the state'."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #clergy #resistance #solidarity
/21
"100 clergy members were arrested while protesting federal immigration enforcement outside Minneapolis-St Paul international airport today. They were arrested by members of the airport staff and local law enforcement, according to organizers."
~ The Guardian
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #clergy #resistance #solidarity
/20
Holly signs her brilliant screed with a cheeky and right-to-the-point,
"Your sister in Christ,
Holly"
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/19
"I should acknowledge that you can personally love people whom your chosen President scapegoats, stereotypes, and actively harms. I should give you more credit for all the mission trips you have taken to countries your President calls 'shitholes,' the economies of which he is crushing with policies that were discredited a century ago that also harm Americans."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/18
"I apologize for implying you are a racist because you voted for an administration that seeks to end all non-white immigration, expel even legal immigrants, revoke the citizenship of non-white people, is only admitting white 'refugees,' and violate the Constitution in pursuit of these goals."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/17
"I should acknowledge your feelings that the 2020 election was stolen despite no evidence of such being presented in over 60 court cases. Forgive me for not realizing that judgements in our society are made not in courts but by violent mobs, and that when the leader of the mob gets reelected President and then pardons everyone, that changes the official record."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/16
Holly Berkley Fletcher's brilliant non-apology disguised as an apology to her MAGA white Christian friends who claim she has offended them by speaking the truth about Trump is a must-read essay.
A sampler:
"I should acknowledge your feelings that the 2020 election was stolen despite no evidence of such being presented in over 60 court cases."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/15
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An apology to those I have offended
Friday "Fun" on a Thursday, for 23 January 2026Holly Berkley Fletcher (A Zebra Without Stripes)
A pastor is a leader of the militarized force terrorizing his community. A sex shop has transformed itself to help serve its neighbors. The words of Jesus to the religious leaders are fulfilled.
'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'”
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/14
"Later, I saw an article about a Minneapolis sex shop that pushed aside their adult toys and other products so volunteers can use the space to organize needs to help immigrants and other vulnerable people in the community."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/13
"There are two stories I’ve thought about in contrast with each other this week. The first was the Southern Baptist pastor in St. Paul, Minnesota, who is also the acting field director for the St. Paul ICE office."
~ Brian Kaylor
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/12
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Weekly Roundup: Jan. 23
Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. We published a report on a protest inside a church where a pastor is an ICE leader and broke the news about what was said during a worship service at the Pentagon.Brian Kaylor (A Public Witness)
"The U.S. Department of Justice quickly promised to press charges against the protesters and many pastors, with three individuals arrested on Thursday."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/11
"While ICE terrorizes people in the Twin Cities, the acting director for the St. Paul field office is also one of the pastors at a Southern Baptist congregation there. After learning about the dual roles of David Easterwood, a group of activists interrupted Sunday worship on Jan. 18 to protest ICE, Easterwood, and the church."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/10
"In 1845, a group of pro-slavery Baptists created the Southern Baptist Convention to defend enslavers serving as missionaries. One hundred and eighty years later, SBC leaders defend a pastor serving as an ICE leader."
~ Brian Kaylor
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/9
"Around 200 faith leaders fanned out across the city on Thursday (Jan. 22) to observe and document the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with some clergy confronting Department of Homeland Security agents, adding a visible religious presence to widespread efforts to counter the president’s mass deportation campaign in the region."
~ Jack Jenkins
#Minnesota #ICE #DHS #clergy #rabbis #churches #immigrants
/8
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Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — The faith leaders, who hail from across the country and represent a range of religious traditions, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agents have been most active.Jack Jenkins (RNS)
Yesterday Catholic VP Vance defended the use of a five-year old boy in Minnesota as "bait" to entrap his family, and the detainment of that child by ICE.
It has just been announced that Vance has been invited to address the upcoming "March for Life" which purports to be about defending the sanctity of life and has strong support by Catholic and other Christian leaders.
#Trump #MAGA #JDVance #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #ProLife
/7
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Vice President Vance defends ICE detainment of 5-year-old in Minnesota
JD Vance visited Minneapolis as scrutiny mounted over the handling of immigration enforcement operations, including the detention of a 5-year-old boy., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
"Fox News did this. It is the feeder tube keeping MAGA alive, normalizing cruelty, dehumanization, and lies. Its role in the moral collapse of this country and the erosion of global trust cannot be minimized."
~ Nicole Wear
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #FoxNews
/6
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Nicole Wear | Friday and Company (@nicolewear) on Threads
“I guess my parents are Nazis now,” a dear friend said after yet another futile conversation defending ICE abuses with words like “illegals,” “criminals,” and “animals.” That’s when it hit me again: Fox News did this.Threads
"You're wondering what happened to your Sunday school teacher? What happened to your parents? What happened to your pastor? How are they getting behind this stuff and justifying it in some of the most, frankly, ludicrous ways imaginable?"
~ Tim Whittaker
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/5
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Right-Wing Delusions of their own Persecution | The Tim & April Show LIVE
Is MAGA aware of their religious double standards?Lincoln Square
"They have invested too much of themselves and their identity in Trump and what he stands for.
This moment, and what it reveals about American Christianity, will be studied for a long time to come."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/4
"It’s rather remarkable, really, to see tens of millions of Christians validate, to themselves and to one another, a political movement led by a malignant narcissist—who is driven by hate and bent on revenge, who mocks the dead, and who delights in inflicting pain on the powerless. The wreckage to the Christian faith is incalculable, yet most evangelicals will never break with him."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/3
"Huge numbers of American fundamentalists and evangelicals—not just cultural Christians, but also those who faithfully attend church and Bible-study sessions and prayer gatherings—prefer the MAGA Jesus to the real Jesus. Few of them would say so explicitly, though, because the cognitive dissonance would be too unsettling. And so they have worked hard to construct rationalizations."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/2
“'It has become virtually impossible to write a survey question about immigration policy that is too harsh for white evangelicals to support,' Robert P. Jones, the president of the Public Religion Research Institute, recently wrote."
~ Peter Wehner
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/1
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MAGA Jesus Is Not the Real Jesus
Trump is causing incalculable damage to the Christian faith, yet most evangelicals will never break with him.Peter Wehner (The Atlantic)
The Guardian interviews residents of the Twin Cities who are being pursued by ICE and who report that ICE is racially profiling people. Suleiman Adan states,
“It’s like you’re looking for game. It’s like you’re hunting; who can I prey on today? Right now, it’s like ‘to hell with the constitution.’"
~ Melissa Hellmann
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/22
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‘It’s like they’re hunting’: US citizens and legal residents report increase in racial profiling by ICE
Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has led some people to take drastic measures to ensure their safetyMelissa Hellmann (The Guardian)
"DHS did not contest the authenticity of the [leaked] memo [which claims that ICE has the right to invade homes without a warrant], which was signed by Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/21
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Secret Internal Memo Exposes the Scale of ICE’s Lawlessness
INSIDE: Renee Good ... Lisa Cook ... Hannah NatansonDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"When you think about this past year, for many Americans, it was one of just shock. The complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, individual rights, due process. ...
We have not seen this extreme escalation of activities from our law enforcement in my history."
~ Derrick Johnson, NAACP President
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/20
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Trump's Shocking First Year | NAACP President Derrick Johnson Joins Journalist Sarah Rumpf
"When you think about this past year, for many Americans, it was one of just shock. The complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, individual rights, due process."Lincoln Square
"Push the narrative, especially the narrative not just of the horrors, which is important for people to view, but also the narrative and the actions on the side of the people who are standing with and for each other, who are pitching in for their neighbors, who are actually standing up mutual aid and street by street, block by block ICE watches. We also need to be telling the story of the good people, the heroes."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #strike
/19
As Minnesotans organize a general strike tomorrow to oppose the ICE attack on their state — businesses closing, restaurants shuttered, schools shut down, etc. — Anat Shenker-Osorio tells the rest of us how we can support this:
"Be in solidarity."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #strike
/18
"It suggests a conspiracy within ICE leadership to deprive people of their civil rights—all while hiding the evidence, in the form of a written departmental memo, purporting to authorize the conduct."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/17
"Per a blockbuster report by the Associated Press, ICE agents have received actual secret instructions from their higher-ups to disregard established Fourth Amendment home protections. This is not just a violation of our cherished constitutionally guaranteed liberties."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/16
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The ICE Men Cometh… Illegally
A blockbuster whistleblower complaint reveals the secret internal ICE memo behind the brutal forced home entries we are seeing.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
"Federal immigration authorities under the Department of Homeland Security launched an ICE crackdown dubbed 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine as part of the Trump administration’s deportation push, prompting heightened concern in cities like Portland, where Mayor Mark Dion said residents are on high alert amid recent migrant arrivals."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #cruelty #Maine
/14
"While aggressive deportation tactics by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have garnered headlines, cuts to the admission of legal immigrants will have a profound impact on the country and millions of people.”
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #cruelty
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