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Foreign Affairs Open Thread: Trump’s Biggest Crony / Fan Not Popular In Davos

by Anne Laurie| January 21, 20261:59 pm| 167 Comments

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At Davos, participants view Howard Lutnick, the US commerce secretary, as a buffoon, which he is. www.ft.com/content/e2ae…

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— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) January 21, 2026 at 10:08 AM

Everything Trump Touches Dies, part infinity — Howard Lutnick heckled at Davos dinner as Christine Lagarde walks out:

US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick was heckled at a World Economic Forum dinner in Davos, with European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde walking out during his speech.

The gathering on Tuesday night descended into uproar after combative remarks from Lutnick, according to several people present, with widespread jeering amid appeals for calm from BlackRock’s Larry Fink, the host of the event and interim co-chair of the WEF.

Lagarde was among the attendees who walked out during the speech, according to people familiar with the matter.

This year’s gathering in the Alps has the theme: “A spirit of dialogue.”

Lutnick told his audience that the world should focus on coal as an energy source rather than renewables, according to one person present, and made dismissive comments about Europe…

One chief executive present described the atmosphere as “tense”, while another said it was “noisy and spicy”.

One of the hecklers was Al Gore, the former US vice-president, according to two executives present…

Gore said: “I sat and listened to his remarks. I didn’t interrupt him in any way. It’s no secret that I think this administration’s energy policy is insane. And at the end of his speech I reacted with how I felt, and so did several others.” …

Fink told the FT before the conference: “We are living in a more polarising world. There’s more people talking at each other, not to each other.” He added: “It is my role to elevate everybody and have a serious conversation.”

US and EU relations are at a low ebb after the US president threatened to impose new tariffs on certain European countries if he is not allowed to “acquire” Greenland…

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Open Thread: What If Greenland Is A Distraction… for Trump?

by Anne Laurie| January 18, 20266:15 pm| 94 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Trump Crime Cartel

But the White House viziers are *very* invested! After all, it keeps the old man’s attention away from his current domestic failures…

Mobilizing to prevent a threatened U.S. invasion.

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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM

Over the past three days he has gone from "I am going to have my armies take Greenland and there's nothing anybody can do about it and if you say no you'll be sorry!" to "I'm gonna tariff you until you let me buy Greenland!"
That is a backoff. That is a *massive* backoff.

— Don't Fret. It Adores You (@seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social) January 17, 2026 at 12:06 PM

He's doing the same pattern he did with Canada- swan around making blithe military threats, freak out when the other party threatens him with serious shit, retreat to his tariff hugbox, then get his tariffs swiss-cheesed because special interests all twist his arm.

— Don't Fret. It Adores You (@seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social) January 17, 2026 at 12:08 PM

Also tariff otaku being forced to find his body pillow because being big and tough didn't work is actually a major climb down and as long as we remain in the realm of tariffs, this is a handle-able problem.

— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) January 17, 2026 at 11:54 AM

The person who ACTUALLY wrote "The Art of the Deal" called Trump a psychopath. And he's right!

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— Paul Rosenberg (@paulrosenberg.bsky.social) January 18, 2026 at 11:36 AM

On the ground in Greenland reut.rs/3YGzP5p

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— Reuters (@reuters.com) January 17, 2026 at 1:05 AM

‘Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard’: Republicans amp up their resistance to Trump’s Greenland push. GOP lawmakers are stepping up their warnings and engaging in diplomacy as the president's threats escalate. www.politico.com/news/2026/01…

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— Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 (@lesleyabravanel.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 12:50 PM

Politico finds it impossible to lipstick this particular reeking pig — “‘Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard’: Republicans amp up their resistance to Trump’s Greenland push”:

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… As Trump continually threatens to bring the Danish territory into the U.S. over the objections of key global allies and the island’s elected representatives, some GOP lawmakers are stepping up their warnings and engaging in diplomacy as Democrats prepare to put the other party on record opposing a military invasion.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) predicted members on both sides of the aisle would lock arms and require congressional signoff if it became clear Trump was preparing imminent military action.

“If there was any sort of action that looked like the goal was actually landing in Greenland and doing an illegal taking … there’d be sufficient numbers here to pass a war powers resolution and withstand a veto,” Tillis said.

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) went further, predicting that it would lead to impeachment and calling Trump’s Greenland obsession “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”

The blunt public messaging comes as lawmakers try to reassure U.S. allies, including Denmark, in private. A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers are in Copenhagen Friday to try to drive home in person the message that military action does not have support on Capitol Hill.

“Greenland needs to be viewed as our ally, not as an asset, and I think that’s what you’re hearing with this delegation,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said after meeting with Danish and Greenlandic leaders there…

The pushback amounts to one of the most profound breaches yet seen between GOP lawmakers and the president in Trump’s second term. So far the Republican uneasiness over Trump’s brash foreign policy moves have not resulted in any successful steps to restrain him…

Democrats believe Greenland — sovereign territory belonging to a NATO ally — could be different. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, who co-authored the Venezuela measure and signaled a raft of new war-powers legislation, acknowledged to reporters Wednesday that prospects were dim that a veto-proof number of GOP senators would join Democrats’ efforts…

But even as more Republicans speak out about Trump’s Greenland ambitions, it’s not clear they could put preemptive guardrails on his actions in this Congress even if they wanted to. Instead, they appear to be hoping that Trump will read the writing on the wall and realize he doesn’t have support on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Democrats are vowing to introduce a spate of war powers resolutions, including on Greenland, in the coming weeks and months. Yet even Tillis, who predicted overwhelming support for such a resolution in the case of “imminent” military action, said he would not currently support a measure to stop Trump from using force in the region because it would “legitimize” a threat he doesn’t think is now real.

Instead, Tillis is using his megaphone as a retiring senator to launch broadsides against Trump’s top aides, whom he blames for some excesses of the administration. While a Greenland takeover might be supported by hard-line deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, Tillis said, “it’s not the position of the U.S. government.”That, he said, is “another reason I’m going to Copenhagen.”…

Any formal GOP pushback is certain to include Murkowski, a co-founder of the Senate Arctic Caucus, who introduced a nonbinding resolution Thursday with Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Bacon that would affirm the U.S. partnership with Greenland and Denmark. The resolution stresses the “mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity” and that any military action would need congressional authorization.

Murkowski, who also met with Danish diplomats in Washington this week before traveling to Copenhagen, said she would support a Greenland war powers resolution if it came to that. She also introduced a bill with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) that would prohibit the administration from using funding to unilaterally blockade, occupy, annex or assert control over Greenland or any other territory belonging to a NATO country…

While a war powers resolution can be fast-tracked to the floor, Greenland’s allies in the Senate can’t easily force a vote on the NATO measure or even the nonbinding resolution. And some Senate Republicans expressed skepticism that party leaders would let those latter measures go anywhere.

“I’m sure Thune will jump on it like a bad rash,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said.

⚡️ Russia welcomes Trump's tariffs on NATO allies over Greenland as 'collapse' of alliance.
"The transatlantic alliance is over," Kremlin economic negotiator Kirill Dmitriev said.

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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) January 18, 2026 at 9:38 AM

Look man. What can I tell you. Miller is just a fascist.
We're signatories to the UN Charter. The territorial integrity of States is legally guaranteed under the UN. It's also an attack on a NATO member. We're also signatories to a treaty for the defense of Greenland. None of this is up for debate

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— James (@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 11:06 PM

They don’t want Greenland.
They want to end NATO, and Greenland is just a way to do it.

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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 4:10 PM

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Foreign Affairs Open Thread: Denmark Has Friends — Does Trump?

by Anne Laurie| January 15, 20261:58 pm| 81 Comments

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I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

— Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) January 14, 2026 at 6:59 PM

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen:
"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."
"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

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— Adam Schwarz (@adamjschwarz.bsky.social) January 13, 2026 at 2:50 PM

They'll stick to an official line of not explicitly saying it, keep all the face-saving off ramps open, it can be spun as doing what he asked for. But this is an actual for-real military deployment in response to a fear of an American invasion. Soldiers to defend themselves from us, the rogue state.

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— Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) January 14, 2026 at 7:22 AM

NEW and WOW: Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, and Canada are sending troops to Greenland amid continued threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to annex the territory, multiple outlets reported. www.newsweek.com/greenland-ge…

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— Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) January 14, 2026 at 2:59 PM

Ah, the “but I REALLY need it” exception to “thou shalt not steal”.

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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) January 14, 2026 at 7:28 AM

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Thursday Morning Open Thread

by Anne Laurie| January 15, 20267:11 am| 301 Comments

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Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.

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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) January 13, 2026 at 6:44 PM

In spring 1940, Americans opposed intervening in Europe. Then France fell & they almost immediately supported intervening in Europe

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— Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST (@chathamharrison.bsky.social) January 14, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Every Democrat adopting the position that we must abolish ICE wouldn’t have gotten you this kind of shift, there has to be an event for it to break through to the general population and you and I on the Politics Arguing Website aren’t the general population.

— Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.online) January 14, 2026 at 8:44 AM

That having been said, because politics is timing, now is the time to start hammering that message while people are agreeing with you to associate yourself with it.

— Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.online) January 14, 2026 at 8:45 AM

New @puck.news:
Public support for ICE is collapsing — trending down even before the Minnesota shooting — and powerful eyewitness videos are the reason why
puck.news/support-for-…

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— Peter Hamby (@peterhamby.bsky.social) January 13, 2026 at 8:59 PM

Peter Hamby, of Puck, searching for his pony in the stinking pile…

Earlier this week, Dan Bilzerian, the bearded hedonism influencer and gun-loving poker chud—no one’s idea of a progressive—launched an unexpected verbal attack on ICE following the deadly shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. “I don’t believe the ICE agent’s life was in danger,” Bilzerian posted on X. “I think he went into the interaction angry & it was a bad shoot. I don’t care if she was a blue hair liberal, this isn’t about the right & the left. This is about government tyranny & overreach. I don’t trust the government.” The last sentence is an understatement: Bilzerian routinely posts conspiracy theories, antisemitic memes, and rants from Candace Owens. Like most occupants of the manosphere, Bilzerian would be hard to pin down on any kind of conventional left-right spectrum. But he said Good didn’t deserve to die. “If you’re more afraid of liberals than your government, then you aren’t paying attention,” he added…

These comments don’t signal any kind of widespread anti-Trump mutiny over ICE on the right, and no prominent Republican has crossed the president on the issue. Still, the observations of these loudmouth podcasters reflect something real in the public mind: The eyewitness video of the Minneapolis tragedy has broken through to normies, who don’t like what they see. This week, a poll from The Economist and YouGov found that a mind-boggling 69 percent of Americans had seen the clip. If extrapolated, that would imply a total viewership larger than last year’s Super Bowl—for a video of a masked federal agent shooting a woman three times.

Of those who saw the clip, a majority (50 percent) said the shooting was not justified. Most say that the ICE officer, Jonathan Ross, should face criminal charges. Only 30 percent of Americans said the killing was justified, putting the Trump administration decisively on the wrong side of public opinion. Importantly, the poll found that 47 percent of Americans believe ICE is making the country less safe, compared to just 34 percent who say it’s making the country safer…

To say explicitly what is now obvious: Americans do not like ICE. Period. In just a single year, ICE’s reputation has collapsed so dramatically, and so quickly, that it would be a punchline if not for ICE agents’ tragic, real-world behavior. After Trump’s inauguration, ICE had a +16 net favorability rating with Americans, according to YouGov. Now, the agency is underwater with a –14 point favorability rating. That’s a 30-point swing since last January, an unheard-of political collapse.

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These overwhelmingly bad poll numbers are an embarrassment for the Trump administration, which has long made immigration its calling card and has allocated tens of billions of dollars to ICE via the One Big Beautiful Bill. Americans continue to trust Republicans more than Democrats on matters of immigration, but ICE’s conduct—captured in thousands of viral videos—has been so egregious that Americans now view it as something separate and more sinister than just federal immigration enforcement. Indeed, the agency is so loathed that 46 percent of Americans now support “abolishing ICE,” YouGov found. That’s right: “Abolish ICE”—the radically toxic left-wing slogan that was once popular only in Bushwick bars—has gained steam in recent weeks. Even 14 percent of Republicans support disbanding the agency. (That said, few Democratic politicians are willing to go there. Even the liberal Minnesota Democrats at the center of the shooting, Mayor Jacob Frey and Attorney General Keith Ellison, are condemning ICE overreach without saying the agency should be eliminated.)…

But it’s not just Minnesotans documenting this. Everyday citizens all over the country are racking up hundreds of millions of views with on-the-ground videos, and seem increasingly willing to film ICE agents on job sites, at traffic stops, and even on their doorsteps—even while being threatened at gunpoint. It’s a scrappy, diffuse content campaign against the Trump media machine, which likes to turn ICE arrests into highly produced hype videos that look as if they were produced by an SEC football program.

Indeed, in light of the polling, it seems possible the White House might even be hurting their cause by endlessly promoting ICE. After all, the data suggests that the more Americans see, the less they like. Progressive content creators I spoke to this week reported a surge in views on their posts, and at Crooked Media, home to Pod Save America, YouTube content on ICE overperformed their typical engagement after the Minnesota shooting, staffers told me. At MeidasTouch, the progressive media outfit, co-founder Ben Meiselas also said that views on ICE-related content are surging, thanks in part to a partnership they launched with Status Coup, an independent reporting outlet that’s been livestreaming protests on the ground in Minneapolis…

Of course, mockery isn’t going to stop ICE agents from doing their work, and it might even embolden them. But the communal shaming of the agency, waged with smartphones, has clearly blossomed into something more than just a dopamine hit for social media users documenting the drama. It’s actually changing public opinion—a small reminder of a time, only a decade or so ago, when social media had the promise of bringing strangers and citizens together instead of tearing them apart.

Once again, Tricia is wrong.
www.pbump.net/o/where-ice-…

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— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) January 14, 2026 at 10:20 AM

Five videos and five charts that distill ICE's position at the moment. www.pbump.net/o/where-ice-…

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— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) January 14, 2026 at 10:12 AM

Every over-the-top statement from Miller, Homan, etc. should be heard as "this was supposed to be easy, I imagined everyone cowing in fear, it's very frustrating that they're not."
Minnesota protestors aren't just helping their community, they're bogging down the regime, protecting other cities too.

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— Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) January 14, 2026 at 12:29 PM

@adamzyglis.bsky.social

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— Xela Hart (@xelahart.bsky.social) January 13, 2026 at 6:10 PM

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: ‘Investigating’ Renee Good

by Anne Laurie| January 13, 20266:47 am| 232 Comments

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The USA somehow lost the ability to be mildly annoyed and it turns out there being a middle ground between "I like this person" and "This person must be publicly executed in front of their loved ones" was load bearing for human civilization.

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— Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) January 12, 2026 at 2:33 PM

At nearly 1,200 events across all 50 states and DC, Americans honored Renee Nicole Good and mourned all the lives ICE has taken and destroyed. #ICEOutForGood

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— Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) January 12, 2026 at 8:16 PM

for the second time today, Leavitt calls Renee Good "a lunatic" and then she storms away from reporters

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 12, 2026 at 1:32 PM

BREAKING: Minnesota and Twin Cities sue the federal government to stop ICE enforcement surge after the fatal shooting in Minneapolis.

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— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) January 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM

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NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting – At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now/news/doj-civ…

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— MaddowBlog (@maddowblog.bsky.social) January 12, 2026 at 11:15 PM

Dark, dark stuff. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u…

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— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) January 12, 2026 at 8:06 PM

Gift link:

Federal investigators assigned to the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman are looking into her possible connections to activist groups protesting the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement, in addition to the actions of the federal agent who killed her, people familiar with the situation said.

It seems increasingly unlikely that the agent who fired three times at the unarmed woman, Renee Nicole Good, will face criminal charges, although that could change as investigators collect new evidence, the people added.

On Sunday, President Trump described Ms. Good and her wife, Becca Good, as being “professional agitators,” adding that the authorities would “find out who’s paying for it.” He offered no evidence to support his claims.

The decision by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department to scrutinize Ms. Good’s activities and her potential connections to local activists is in line with the White House’s strategy of deflecting blame for the shooting away from federal law enforcement and toward opponents they have described as domestic terrorists, often without providing evidence.

Justice Department officials under Mr. Trump have long maintained that investigating and punishing protesters who organized efforts to physically obstruct or disrupt immigration enforcement is a legitimate subject of federal inquiries. But casting a broad net over the activist community in Minneapolis, former department officials and critics of the administration said, raises the specter that forms of political protest traditionally protected by the First Amendment could be criminalized…

In a statement issued to The Associated Press, Becca Good suggested that the two women took part in some sort of protest on the day of the shooting.

“On Wednesday, Jan. 7, we stopped to support our neighbors,” she said. “We had whistles. They had guns.”

But even though investigators have not made public a specific allegation that anyone aside from Ms. Good and her wife were involved in an encounter with federal agents that day, the Justice Department is still planning to examine a wide group of activists who took part in the neighborhood watch activities, believing they were “instigators” of the shooting, the people familiar with the inquiry said.

On Thursday, for example, Mr. Vance said that Ms. Good had interfered with a law enforcement operation, likening her actions to other acts of violence against immigration officers…

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Graphic Images

by Anne Laurie| January 10, 20266:24 am| 315 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Shitty Cops, Trump Crime Cartel

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— Mike Luckovich (@mluckovich.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM

this is not the beginning of the end, but it’s the beginning of the next chapter

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) January 10, 2026 at 12:56 AM

Jeffries: "The killing of Renee Nicole Good was an abomination, a disgrace, and blood is clearly on the hands of those individuals within the admin who have been pushing an extreme policy that has nothing to do with immigration enforcement connected to removing violent felons from this country"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 8, 2026 at 10:39 AM

I don't think their policy of murdering innocent mothers in the street is having the intended effect.

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— "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux (@bretdevereaux.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 8:42 PM

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The throwing of snowballs reminds me of the Boston Massacre.

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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 7:33 AM

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— David Dixon (@dixondaver.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 4:29 PM

Michael de Adder

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— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 8:35 AM

"We had whistles. They had guns."
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0…

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— Cake or Death (@johngcole.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 12:50 PM

… Becca Good expressed gratitude for the wave of support and called for honoring Macklin Good by living her values and coming together “to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love.”

“The kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind,” Becca Good said.

Here’s the full statement from Becca Good:

First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family.

This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind. In fact, kindness radiated out of her.

Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow. Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole…

On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns.

Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.

We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve. We thank you for ensuring that Renee’s legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love.

During her remarks in a House hearing, Jasmine Crockett became emotional while arguing with members of the GOP. Crockett pleaded, "Can you not have a little bit of humanity?”

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— dharmalee3??? (@dharmalee3.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 1:07 AM

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread)
1. Pat Bagley

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— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 8:35 AM

Now that's a headline

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— David Allsopp (@doublehelix.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM

My "they just hate women" theory keeps getting more evidence than I ever wanted

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— Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST (@chathamharrison.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 11:35 AM

The White House wastes no time gaslighting the American people
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/ice-shoots…

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— Ann Telnaes (@anntelnaes.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM

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Open Thread: Tim Walz Is Angry

by Anne Laurie| January 7, 20267:28 pm| 101 Comments

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Tim Walz: "What we're seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines, and conflict. It's governing by reality today and today that recklessness cost someone their life. I've reached out to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and I'm waiting to hear back … I'm angry."

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— NewsCurrentNow (@newscurrentnow.com) January 7, 2026 at 6:00 PM

It looks like Tim Walz is not playing.
"I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard… these National Guard troops are our National Guard troops. Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight."

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— The Editorial Board (@editorialboard.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 5:46 PM

Walz: "It's beyond me that apparently from the federal government, the Homeland Security director herself, has already determined who this person who, what their motive was, and they hadn't even been taken out of the vehicle. We're not living in a normal world."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 7, 2026 at 4:14 PM

Tim Walz: "Our administration is going to stop at nothing to seek accountability and justice. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is working on the investigation."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 7, 2026 at 4:06 PM

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he has issued an order to prepare the state's National Guard while urging peaceful protest after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a woman in her car during operations in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
abcnews.go.com/US/ice-relat…

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— Lauren Ashley Davis (@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 6:02 PM

Full video of Walz’s statement at the link:

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… Walz and the Minneapolis mayor are disputing the government’s claims surrounding what led up to the shooting, which killed a 37-year-old woman who has been identified by city council members as Renee Nicole Good, a resident of the city.

“We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever,” Walz said during a news conference, decrying the shooting as “preventable” and “unnecessary.”

According to Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, the woman was allegedly “attempting to run over our law enforcement officers” when an ICE officer fatally shot her Wednesday morning…

Following the shooting, a large crowd gathered in the area, which is less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed in May 2020.

The governor said he has issued a “warning order” to prepare the Minnesota National Guard, saying there are soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed “if necessary,” while urging “peaceful resistance.”…

“I want Minnesotans to hear this from me: The desire to get out in the protest and to speak up to this administration of how wrong this is, that is a patriotic duty at this point in time, but it needs to be done safely,” he said.

“I feel your anger, I am angry. They want a show, we can’t give it to them,” Walz said.

A Minnesota National Guard spokesperson said following the briefing that it is “conducting necessary preparations to assist state authorities in protecting property and ensuring public safety if so ordered,” and that there has not been an official request for support yet…

The Minneapolis mayor, however, at an impassioned news conference, said that he saw video of the incident and claimed the agent’s actions were not self-defense.

“This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying — getting killed,” Mayor Jacob Frey said.

Frey said it does not appear the victim was driving her car toward the agent and using her car as a weapon. She was a U.S. citizen who was “an observer” and was “watching out for our immigrant neighbors,” according to Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez.

Frey said his message to ICE is to “get the f— out” of Minneapolis.

“We’ve dreaded this moment since the early stages of this ICE presence in Minneapolis,” Frey said…

Walz: "We get no coordination. They don't tell us they're coming. They don't say why they're sending the largest deployment in American history to Minneapolis. They're not making us any safer. We don't have any of that coordination. They should be talking to us."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM

Walz on the "total chaos" of ICE: "After this person was shot, federal agents are milling around, touching the vehicle at a crime scene — I don't know what to tell you."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 7, 2026 at 4:17 PM

Tim Walz: "I want Minnesotans to hear this from me. The desire to get out and protest and to speak up to this administration of how wrong this is — that is a patriotic duty at this point in time. But it needs to be done safely."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 7, 2026 at 4:10 PM

Walz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 7, 2026 at 4:19 PM

Tim Walz isn’t asking Donald Trump, “Have you no decency?” because he suddenly expects Trump to develop a sense of decency.
He’s asking because his own sense of decency has been so deeply offended.
This is something we want in our leadership. In fact, in times like these, it is vital.

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— Department of Angela (@angelaisms.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM

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Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

When we show up, we win.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Let there be snark.

The lights are all blinking red.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

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