Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 22/03/2026semi regular reminder that the Mueller, She Wrote grifter used her COVID payroll assistance loan on a swimming pool and then never paid it back hope you see this you name searching scumbag 👍 131991281
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/03/2026The most sacred clause in the Constitution may be the war making clause. Our founding fathers are turning in their grave watching this Republican Congress allow one man lead us into a disastrous, incompetently run war. 10237891034
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/03/2026It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ... 827174642695
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/03/2026Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now." 233080453361
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialMelissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The State Department is considering withholding lifesaving assistance to people with HIV in Zambia as a negotiating tactic to force the government of the southern African country to sign a deal giving the United States more access to the country’s critical minerals. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...nytimes.comNo H.I.V. Aid Without More Access to Minerals: U.S. Ponders ‘Sticks’ Against Zambia 1012878
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialMike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...independent.co.ukAfghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim recordMohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family 6521311171
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Aviv Tatarsky. One of the most committed Jewish Israeli activists in defending Palestinians in the West Bank. Attacked by settlers viciously yesterday in Dir Istya where he was helping a Palestinian farmer. Israeli soldiers were there and did nothing. Every. Day. Photo: @nirhasson.bsky.social on X 10538196
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialWashingtonian @washingtonian.com · 13/03/2026Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”washingtonian.comThe Washington Post Is Using Reader Data to Set Subscription Prices. How Does That Work? - WashingtonianIf recent events have not compelled you to cancel your Washington Post subscription, then you might have been in for sticker shock at the dawn of your latest billing cycle. Many readers have been… 1761821908
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 13/03/2026When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.theguardian.comICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimonyUnder oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’ 216103406151
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialEffie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...newrepublic.comPalantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic PowerThey’re saying the quiet part out loud now. 33552522797
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialpaulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 11/03/2026@tommysiegel.bsky.social 015629
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/03/2026thank you, law nerds of reddit 🫡 ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/us-v-... 315021
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 08/03/2026After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and into less-developed areas. With @oregonian.compropublica.orgNike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of IndonesiaAfter moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and... 26284125
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/03/2026Much about the 'would the Framers be ok with gun rights for weed smokers' case is v funny but there is a serious part that hasn't gotten much attention The govt targeted this Muslim family, hit dude w/ these goofy charges, & detained him for months before trial ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/us-v-... 924063
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialNeil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right? 503171225953
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran. 308190133901
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialChristopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 25/02/2026AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases www.newscientist.com/article/2516...newscientist.comAIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulationsLeading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases 39230481287
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialmarymoriarty.bsky.social @marymoriarty.bsky.social · 21/02/2026This is disturbing. The Chief Justice of the MN Supreme Ct met with Homan, worked out an agreement, and never announced it publicly. ICE appeared to violate it days later by violently tackling a person in the Gov Center w/out a judicial warrant. We need transparency.startribune.comWhite House, Minnesota Supreme Court chief justice quietly negotiated deal over ICE enforcement in courtsFour days later, chaos unfolded inside the Hennepin County Government Center. 371317605
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Uhhhhhhhh, in 2016 you say 416841
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialChristopher Moltisanti Weighs In On Current Events @moltisantithots.bsky.social · 16/02/2026China's takin' over the world, T. They already got Chinese New Year's, next it'll be Chinese Columbus Day. 530640
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialCooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social 597235428215
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*. 515156997675
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers. 228128683405
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u... 17025921147
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialJon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 31/01/2026"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...mprnews.orgSt. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting residentThe police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in... 31668872373
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 27/01/2026really says a lot about the lack of conviction at the heart of the GOP that the party of God and Guns was completely subsumed by a guy who cares about neither 1245553
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 261120153986
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialbrent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 27/01/2026we are witnessing historic backpedaling here 452130142477
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE 470317077513
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty." 5763932338
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026 3444392054
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialMinnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 23/01/2026Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026 146100113921
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialJay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...startribune.comDetained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizureThe women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability. 33389294810
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialThomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory. 159152995804
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 22/01/2026This is horrifying beyond belief. No one in their right mind can see this and think it is ok. ICE is out of control. Don't let anyone look away and remind everyone that this Republican Congress could put a stop to this TODAY.washingtonpost.comICE detains four children from Minnesota school district, including 5-year-oldColumbia Heights Public Schools district officials accused ICE officers of using the 5-year-old “as bait.” A 10-year-old and her mother were also detained. 96366102
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/01/2026a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project 15690033019
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo! 9568522599
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people." 9615234513677
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 19/01/2026"Sometimes the behavior is simply bizarre. After an attempted abduction left a couple dozen observers standing on a neighborhood street, one ICE vehicle circled the block, broadcasting a looped audio recording of a woman screaming." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...nplusonemag.comICE vs. Everyone | Erin WestWhat we’re doing now is this: The trainings have evolved into street medic workshops on protecting yourself from chemical weapons and lessons on digital security; there’s a meet-up to sew reinforced u... 012453
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialHoward French @hofrench.bsky.social · 13/01/2026I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute. 814546995
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialDenise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Republican South Carolina state Rep. RJ May sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison today. 5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material. He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds. Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.lgbtqnation.comGOP lawmaker said trans people “harm” children. Now he's going to prison for child porn. - LGBTQ NationHe was caught sharing hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds. 20829701534
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialAnders @derzquist.net · 15/01/2026Minnesota is effectively in a 21st Century Bleeding Kansas situation 11711139
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so. 146102953946
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026It goes without saying that in the US you’re not supposed to have a masked secret police that snatches people off the streets without knowing if they’ve committed a crime. That’s about as basic a requirement for a democracy as exists. 302212607
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation. 4027141023
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 14/01/2026“The physical machinations of the occupation are nearly impossible to avoid. ICE stops people randomly on the street. ICE rams cars, sometimes through intersections, and sometimes pulls someone out and leaves the car right in the street.” www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...liberalcurrents.comSo, How’s the Occupation Going for You?What’s it like to live in America with a domestic military occupation? Minnesota has the answer. 211655
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 13/01/2026New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis. The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck. 23834141828
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."nytimes.comU.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane 14782765712098
Reposted by @tkgriffith.bsky.socialCharles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2026We showed former police and immigration officials videos of agents using chokeholds and other moves that can block breathing. They said agents are out of control. One said it’s “the kind of action which should get you fired.” @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.compropublica.orgWe Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off BreathingCivilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ... 511773
![May 12, 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR: All ICE Personnel
FROM: Todd Lyons Acting Director
SUBJECT: Utilizing Form I-205, Warrant of Removal
On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to "ensur[e] the successful enforcement of final orders of removal." 90 Fed. Reg. 8443, 8444 (Jan. 20, 2025) (E.O. 14159). Essential to the removal of aliens subject to final orders of removal is the ability to locate and arrest them. To this end, certain supervisory immigration officers within both Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are authorized to issue an administrative warrant, Form I-205, Warrant of Removal (Form 1-205), for the arrest of an alien with a final order of removal. 8 C.F.R. § 241.2(a)(1). All U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and deportation officers are authorized to execute Forms 1-205. 8 C.F.R. § 287.5(e)(3)(iii) - (y)
Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose. Accordingly, in light of this legal determination, ICE immigration officers may arrest and detain aliens subject to a final under of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), or a U.S.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifrzrvaszfhj4bzhgtyvx3fm6ht4kc2zrwtvozijyxl3zxgp7vx6a)
