#56 | Posted by Chantresse

You mentioned in an earlier post that you were here way back when, even before GracieAmazed. What happened to her? I haven't seen any posts by her when I've been posting recently.

What 70 year old man, who also happens to be a US citizen with no criminal record, would Jesus drag out of his house in only his underwear in the dead of winter because He didn't bother to verify his ID?:

FTA:

Most people want to live in peace. Raise their children. Do their work. Love their families. Leave things a little better than they found them.

Most people are good.

The criminals know this. That's why they work so hard to make you think you're alone.

That's why they suppress your reach on social media. That's why they demonetize videos about Epstein. That's why they run puff pieces about Marco Rubio while ICE shoots citizens. That's why they demand you apologize for noticing their crimes.

They need you to think you're isolated. They need you to think resistance is futile. They need you to think everyone else has already given up.

Because if you knew the truth"if you knew how many of us there are"they'd lose.

So what's the story here?
#5 | Posted by sentinel

US urges its citizens to flee Venezuela amid reports of paramilitaries

State department says armed colectivos' appear to be setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for Americans

The United States has urged its citizens to leave Venezuela immediately amid reports that armed paramilitaries are trying to track down US citizens, one week after the capture of the South American country's president, Nicols Maduro.

In a security alert sent out on Saturday, the state department said there were reports of armed members of pro-regime militias, known as colectivos, setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for evidence that the occupants were US citizens or supporters of the country. . . .

While many Venezuelan opponents of Maduro's regime have celebrated his capture by the US, government supporters have taken to the streets to denounce his rendition as an imperialist act of aggression.

Follow Up Post:

I'm trying to find followup video. I did learn that it wasn't the HIipanic woman's child but her husband who was in the car and who ICE dragged out of the car.

#52 - Wow. Just wow. We need a country of people like her.
#57 | Posted by YAV

Yeah, she really found her voice and her righteous angry. I can't believe this is what ICE is doing to our country. Just tearing it apart.

All hell is breaking lose in MN, and it is being directed by the highest levels of ICE:

emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social

As a reminder, here are texts Charles Exum wrote bragging abt shooting Marimar Martinez in Chicago on 10/4.

Exum yelled "Do something bitch" as he shot, first through windshield, then side window. ALSO a Greg Bovino deployment. ALSO a weapons instructor.

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Frey: "An individual from a car that was in the middle of a street was detained. ICE left the car in the middle of the street. The car wasn't even in park, so you got it just rolling down the street w/nobody in it. It could've hit anybody, including my own family. This is not about safety"

"I have no words except this: We are now a $$ithole country:"

To put the above video in context: an American city is under siege from ICE.

Sherrilyn Ifill
@sifill.bsky.social

The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.

ashley fairbanks
@ziibiing.com

if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don't even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it's basically my whole feed.

everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people"at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.

I have no words except this: We are now a $$ithole country:

Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com
Watch this.

Tim Onion
@bencollins.bsky.social

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

FTA:

Law enforcement trains you over and over again how to recognize a potentially life-threatening situation. There are very specific rules for when it's appropriate to deploy lethal force, and we've spent decades introducing new safeguards at the federal, state, and local level aimed at trying to ensure that "bad shoots" become less common. When they do happen, there are policies in place to help ensure irresponsible cops are held accountable.

Compare that to the reality we are now witnessing: Trump has encouraged his federal agents to act like an occupying force. In the bluntest possible terms, he has encouraged them to use maximum force against citizens, and has promised they will be shielded from any consequences for doing so.

If those unmasked ICE agents = If those masked agents!

Do I legally have to answer the door for ICE?
Serious question, because I don't intend to.
#10 | Posted by Zed

If those unmasked ICE agents come to my door in unmarked cars and wearing bulletproof vests labelled Police, I'm not answering the door. If they come back with the state police or the county sheriff in marked vehicles and a warrant, I will. Unwise? Unless a lawyer tells me otherwise, that's the plan.

Glad you're back posting now, Gal.
Terrible times, but necessary to oppose as best we can. Thanks!
#106 | Posted by Corky

Hey Corky, these are terrible times, and I fear they are only going to get worse. Yes, we must fight/resist the best we can. Sometimes that simply means speaking the truth as best we can.

Unfortunately instagram won't let us watch videos on their web site unless we download their app, which I refuse to do. Got a different source?
#104 | Posted by sentinel

I don't have instagram either. I clicked through the link in this article:

Too much testosterone with no place to go:

ChrisJustice
@chrisjustice01.bsky.social

ICE/CBP BORTAC Unit just brutally abducted 2 US Citizens/peaceful protesters at a protest for Renee Good near Minneapolis (1/9/26)

And, also, thanks for the update (from you and others) on Renee's dog.
#101 | Posted by A_Friend

You can see the dog sitting with Renee's wife in this video if you can stand to watch it:

Palestine vibes.
#98 | Posted by snoofy

Trump and Bebe aren't besties for nuthin.

Food for thought:

Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you."

That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

Becca Good writes about her wife, Renee Good:

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

Ross to Good: Quiet, Piggy. But with a gun.

#85 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday

Oops, sorry. Wrong thread.

"White women really do think they can get away with anything."

Only white women who have lived a quiet, non-violent life may think they won't be targeted by ICE. Any woman who has lived a different kind of life, or knows women who have, knows differently.

"Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them."
-Margaret Atwood, Hagey Lecture, Waterloo University, February 1982

"White women really do think they can get away with anything."

Only white women who have lived a quiet, non-violent life may think they won't be targeted by ICE. Any woman who has lived a different kind of life, or knows women who have, knows differently.

"Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them."
-Margaret Atwood, Hagey Lecture, Waterloo University, February 1982