RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115957125308834255
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Just to reiterate:
Trump admin are trying to give Senators an excuse, any excuse, not to block funding to DHS.
We need to make sure that doesn’t work. Don’t let up. Keep them all afraid.
@inthehands
#YouShouldBeAfraid is a hashtag to adopt, from Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) "Radicalized - A Short Story About Healthcare and Desperation"It's well worth the read, (about 20-30 minutes at most)
https://prospect.org/2024/12/09/2024-12-09-radicalized-cory-doctorow-story-health-care/
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They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“White House press secretary…seemed unusually defensive”
“avoided the kind of victim-blaming tirade that has become de rigueur for Donald Trump’s administration“
”called Pretti’s death a ‘tragedy’
“refused to endorse adviser Stephen Miller’s slander of Pretti”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/trump-analysis-white-house-alex-pretti-minnesota
@inthehands that body cam video must be really, really bad for DHS. Still, they can’t mention who are these awful people killing American parents’ children in the streets? Cowards and liars.
“But Leavitt did remark: Nobody here at the White House, including the president of the United States, wants to see Americans hurt or killed and losing their lives in American streets. We mourn for the parents. As a mother myself, of course, I cannot imagine the loss of life, especially losing one’s child”
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They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“For the past seven months, Bovino has been the public face of [ICE’s] traveling immigration crackdown”
“Bovino worked outside his agency’s chain of command and appeared to relish his role as a political actor”
“sudden demotion”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/
Archive link: https://archive.is/kvBDb
@inthehands I hope this is true!
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@inthehands
Bovino, "commander-at-*large*"?!?!I don't *want* to make a short joke. I really shouldn't. I'm trying not to.
But I just can't *be the bigger man*.
@ZenHeathen @inthehands neither can he!
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They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“top Republican candidate for Minnesota governor has dropped out of the race”
“‘I cannot support the…stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.’”
“‘National Republicans have made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota,‘ he said”
“calling ICE operations in the state an ‘unmitigated disaster’”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/republican-chris-madel-minnesota-governor-race-ice
@inthehands
Don’t stop. That’s how they got this far. They never stop pushing. In all directions. -
Yeah I doubt he'll retire
That's just a cover story to get attention off him for a while
These are *all* pathological liars
cc @inthehands
@FinchHaven @rubixhelix @inthehands
Or, he'll retire to the private sector
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They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“For the past seven months, Bovino has been the public face of [ICE’s] traveling immigration crackdown”
“Bovino worked outside his agency’s chain of command and appeared to relish his role as a political actor”
“sudden demotion”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/
Archive link: https://archive.is/kvBDb
Anyone else see his white power salute?
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@FinchHaven @rubixhelix @inthehands
Or, he'll retire to the private sector
@Maxfieldripken @FinchHaven @rubixhelix
Eventually he’ll retire to hell, where I hear ICE melts -
My latest calls included: “Fewer agents is not enough. More oversight is not enough. Demoting people is not enough. Destroy ICE and CBP. Wipe them out. Burn them, bury them, and salt the earth. Eradicate them like a cancer.”
@inthehands ICE DELENDA EST
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I'm in awe of what the Minnesota community is achieving. Thanks for all the thinking and sharing you're doing.. it's so important for folk right across the world at this time to understand what is happening, and to clearly see and hear that the solution is to build and support communities to stand together and resist this evil.
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They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“top Republican candidate for Minnesota governor has dropped out of the race”
“‘I cannot support the…stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.’”
“‘National Republicans have made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota,‘ he said”
“calling ICE operations in the state an ‘unmitigated disaster’”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/republican-chris-madel-minnesota-governor-race-ice
@inthehands Am I being jaded if I think that this will only mean that the Dems will now field the most right-wing candidate they can find?
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They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“For the past seven months, Bovino has been the public face of [ICE’s] traveling immigration crackdown”
“Bovino worked outside his agency’s chain of command and appeared to relish his role as a political actor”
“sudden demotion”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/
Archive link: https://archive.is/kvBDb
@inthehands Ernst Röhm called from 1934, he wants a word…
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They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“For the past seven months, Bovino has been the public face of [ICE’s] traveling immigration crackdown”
“Bovino worked outside his agency’s chain of command and appeared to relish his role as a political actor”
“sudden demotion”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/
Archive link: https://archive.is/kvBDb
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They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“top Republican candidate for Minnesota governor has dropped out of the race”
“‘I cannot support the…stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.’”
“‘National Republicans have made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota,‘ he said”
“calling ICE operations in the state an ‘unmitigated disaster’”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/republican-chris-madel-minnesota-governor-race-ice
@inthehands They shouldn’t be able to win in any race. What they have done and allowed to happen is beyond disgusting.
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They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“top Republican candidate for Minnesota governor has dropped out of the race”
“‘I cannot support the…stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.’”
“‘National Republicans have made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota,‘ he said”
“calling ICE operations in the state an ‘unmitigated disaster’”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/republican-chris-madel-minnesota-governor-race-ice
It might not be too late for democracy.
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It might not be too late for democracy.
@Soulshine
It is •definitely• not too late. One year in, we are still in the “consolidating power” of the authoritarian takeover — “still in” meaning it has •not• succeeded yet, implying it can still fail. And honestly, it’s looking •less• successful now than it did 6 months ago. -
@Soulshine
It is •definitely• not too late. One year in, we are still in the “consolidating power” of the authoritarian takeover — “still in” meaning it has •not• succeeded yet, implying it can still fail. And honestly, it’s looking •less• successful now than it did 6 months ago.It's only too late when enough of us decide it's too late.
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@Soulshine
It is •definitely• not too late. One year in, we are still in the “consolidating power” of the authoritarian takeover — “still in” meaning it has •not• succeeded yet, implying it can still fail. And honestly, it’s looking •less• successful now than it did 6 months ago.@inthehands @Soulshine We're still in the consilidating power phase, and the more pushback this gets the more the authoritarian coalition in power is fragmenting and infighting - they have gained ground in some areas, but lost it in others, and will lose more as the coalition fragments and as the dems and courts are forced to act more firmly against them.
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@inthehands @Soulshine We're still in the consilidating power phase, and the more pushback this gets the more the authoritarian coalition in power is fragmenting and infighting - they have gained ground in some areas, but lost it in others, and will lose more as the coalition fragments and as the dems and courts are forced to act more firmly against them.
@miss_rodent @Soulshine
Yes. Their increasing physical aggression is a sign of weakness, not of progress. I still stand by this now: -
@Soulshine
It is •definitely• not too late. One year in, we are still in the “consolidating power” of the authoritarian takeover — “still in” meaning it has •not• succeeded yet, implying it can still fail. And honestly, it’s looking •less• successful now than it did 6 months ago.Miller moved too fast. Possible he thought the whole move fast and break things tech approach would work. Maybe it was more of realization that midterms results did not look promising. And I can't discount that it is just arrogance that led him to believe he could do it in just a year.
