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11:27 AM · Jan 8, 2026
"The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good must be prosecuted for murder. He enjoys no immunity from state murder charges.
Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists."
thenation.com/article/society/…
Prosecute Renee Nicole Good’s Murderer | The Nation
The ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good not only can be held accountable for murder—he must be.smccroskey (The Nation)
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Greta Thunberg kidnapped on Gaza flotilla; videos show Israeli forces hijacking Madleen
Greta Thunberg, in a video posted on social media, said she and other members of the Freedom flotilla en-route to Gaza have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. This comes after the Daily Mail reported that several Israeli vessels surrounded the ship Madleen, prompting the crew to raise an alarm.
Thunberg shared a pre-recorded video appealing for international help. “My name is Greta Thunberg, and I am from Sweden,” she said in the clip. “If you see this video, we are being intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel. I urge all my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible.”
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Nope. If anything people should have been completely convinced by now that I am right over the past 20 months. The 'aircraft carrier' is the cheap excuse from the same guy who destroyed the US global reputation so Israel can do genocide.
Are we watching the US and Europe destroying their entire reputation so Israel can do a genocide or not? Nobody can explain this away with convenience factor. This genocide is in no way beneficial to the empire.
Christian Zionists such as Genocide Joe are indeed also a reason this is happening, but they too do not support Israel for any pragmatic cause which would benefit the empire such as being an aircraft carrier.
Countries such as Egypt, UAE and Saudi are infinitely more obedient than Israel which does things like the USS liberty and selling American secrets to Russia.
Isntreal is a military base masquerading as a country.
For Germany: Israel is an indulgence for the Holocaust.For the USA: Israel is an unsinkable aircraft carrier in a largely hostile region that is protected by international law.
For the rest of Western Europe: They are vassals of the US, so naturally they don’t want to piss of their daddy.
For everyone else: they don’t want to provoke the US either.
I have. Nobody seems to be able to explain why America is not stopping Israel from committing genocide.
Besides this, Israel is also probably the least reliable 'aircraft carrier' as it has turned on the US to collude with Russia many times in the past. And there is no doubt that Israel will gladly team up with China or Russia if the winds start blowing the other way.
This genocide is in no way beneficial to the empire.
They want the Gaza Marine Gas field. They don't want the financial risk of the Palestinian people attacking the facilities and transportation.
Then they would have cleansed all the Palestinians into Egypt at the start.
There is nothing worse for the reputation of Israel and the West than getting these types of headlines every single day because they had to be literal cartoon villains and shoot 30 Palestinians trying to find food at an aid point.
If this ends with the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, which it might, doing it at day 600 instead of day 30 makes absolutely no sense.
It is not the negative news, but the repetition of negative news which sticks in people's heads.
Do you mean governments or people?
People don't have much power here. Other than boycotts, what can people do?
For governments, Israel is fairly powerful. They have powerful lobbyists, and aren't shy to leverage claims of antisemitism against anybody who speaks up against Israel. In many cases, there's also the guilt over how jews were treated in WWII. This is one reason Germany is so incredibly pro-Israel. Then there's the fact that Israel is still more-or-less a democracy, which makes it unique in the middle east. It's the one country in the region pushing back against various Islamic fundamentalist goverments, movements and terrorist groups. Many countries don't want to lose that "friend".
And then there's spyware. Most of the best spyware in the world is produced in Israel. Some cynical people would say that countries don't want to lose access to the world's best producer of spyware. Some even more cynical people would say that that spyware has already been used on politicians and Israel is using it for blackmail. Who knows what the right level of cynicism is.
The American hegemony runs on soft power and American exceptionalism. Showing other nations that they can... starve women and children in a concentration camp... is not what I would call a "great showing of might".
Even the MIC sales in Gaza are not that huge. Ukraine is making the MIC tonnes more money while the Western hegemony fully believes it is doing the right thing.
Gaza is the dumbest and least significant hill to die on for the empire. But it dead set to die on it.
She had a pre recorded “please help us because IDF kidnapped us” video. They wanted this exact response and knew they would get it.
Even North Korea are less predictable than this.
Was gonna say, they’ve not been given any reason to care about international law.
Although, I swear I saw that the ICC put out a warrant for Bibi.
Nah this is not the hill you should be dying on. This is literally ahistorical non materialist analysis with a dose of antisemitism.
Where do you think the Israel lobby gets its funding lmao.
Good thing Sweden isn't Israel or else they'd have bombed their hospitals already.
there's no "legally" what, they enter Gaza territoral waters, only gaza has authority to regulate it's territorial waters.
Israel has no right to control Gaza's waters.
People KNOW! They are just racist and don't care about the victims in Gaza.
We need another approach. The world no longer cares how many bodies it pilles
Independence, sovereignty, just making it as hard as possible to kill and oppress.
Overall, never play by their rules. You will never get anything done by begging the psychopaths in charge to stop hurting you. Telling them how much you are suffering, only spurs them on. You can't count on democracy or the goodness of people either. There is no law and order.
Gaza is probably doomed. You have to prepare yourself to defend your own life.
Independence, sovereignty, just making it as hard as possible to kill and oppress.
That's not within the average joe and activists power to do
1 - She want too
2 - Israel has no right to arrest people in a ship in international water
There's better ways to kill yourself than being in the hands of Israel. It's such a cruel fate for someone like her.
She would have been more useful elsewhere too.
if you are going to die either way, might as well die fighting THE enemy, part of the ones that are behind nearly everything bad happening in the world
Those behind nearly everything bad happening in the world is the United Snake in the last half century . Not to whitewash Russian and China evilness in history
Dying for Ukraine or for Palestine or any other occupied land is a noble death that require lot of courage
So, she just chose one of two most cruel conflicts. Arguably, Palestinians face an even worse fate, with an extensive humanitarian crisis, than even the Ukrainians.
Why do you specifically choose Ukraine over Palestine?
No the US empire has many ties with other countries in order to allow their bases to be there.
USAID and all the other mass propaganda outlets and mainstream news networks have a purpose. Whitewash the empire.
If you are on Lemmygrad, that should be known to you.
Also, the empire just took the L from the Taliban. So in terms of hard power, nobody is really impressed anyways. A show of hard power would be if they got Ukraine to win the war. Not a genocide against women and children lmao
They abducted her in international waters. Don’t try to legitimize that. They stopped her on the basis of trafficking weapons to Hamas. Israel and Egypt acknowledge that stopping humanitarian aid in international waters is a violation of their treaty, and yet Israel did it anyways.
If you try to rationalize this type of behavior, what else do you rationalize?
You should look into the atrocities that have been committed at Israel/Us “aid” checkpoints, specifically the massacre of innocent, starving people.
I guess israel still gives some credit to international opinion and deemed the rich white brat a relevant human better kept alive.
there's also the guilt over how jews were treated in WWII.
How many are still alive? That excuse has long expired.
the region pushing back against various Islamic fundamentalist goverments
You can thank the CIA for that.
Because American soft power is getting destroyed. What do you think the 'rules based international order' theater was for? The entire illusion the empire crafted so carefully over the last decades has come crashing down.
Or maybe provide any evidence whatsoever for Israel colluding with Russia lol
military.com/history/jonathan-…
Another great example is Israel explicitly telling Europe they cannot send weapons their weapons Ukraine because they want to stay friends with Russia. Including putting it in the terms for the Israeli Pulse missile system. which many European countries are now buying. Nice ally lmao.
Jonathan Pollard Was One of the Most Damaging Spies in US History
Much of the intelligence Jonathan Pollard provided to Israel may have ended up in the Soviet Union.Blake Stilwell (Military.com)
Soft power failure does nothing to explain how the US would benefit from suddenly reversing course completely on Israel to oppose this specific genocide.
The article you posted contains no evidence at all to support your claims. At one point it says "Some of his disclosures are said to have ended up in the hands of the Soviet Union, which many believe were traded by Israel to the USSR in exchange for the continued emigration of Soviet Jewish citizens to Israel" but presents no evidence to support that, and links to another article that presents the same claim with also no evidence. Try again.
Ending the genocide does not mean opposing it. Israel orchestrating it in this way is the dumbest thing possible. Even Hitler had more tact during the Holocaust about hiding his genocide and that's not a compliment for Hitler.
The guy transfered military secrers to Russia.
Also newsweek.com/israel-flagged-to…
Israel Flagged as Top Spy Threat to U.S. in New Snowden/NSA Document
Israel was identified by the NSA as a security threat in several areas, including "the threat of development of weapons of mass destruction"Jeff Stein (Newsweek)
tiny amount of aid
This is like someone with a micropenis criticizing the genitals of a kitten.
Raping? Really? It's a war it's literally the thing we've been doing since the beginning of time.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual…
Again, it's a war we likely won't know the full extent of anything really but to take the basic assumption that any combatant force doesn't have rapists would be both contrary to history and basic statistics.
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- 2024-01-28: New York Times Puts “Daily” Episode on Ice Amid Internal Firestorm Over Hamas Sexual Violence Article
- 2024-02-28: “Between the Hammer and the Anvil”: The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé
- 2024-03-04: Kibbutz Be’eri Rejects Story in New York Times October 7 Exposé: “They Were Not Sexually Abused”
- 2024-04-18: New York Times Brass Moves to Staunch Leaks Over Gaza Coverage
How many are still alive? That excuse has long expired.
It's not individual guilt, it's institutional guilt. In many other cases that's a good thing. We want German kids to grow up learning about the holocaust and thinking "we can't allow that to ever happen again". I don't think what's happening in Gaza could happen in Germany because of what Germans are taught growing up.
OTOH, in Israel they seem to only be taught that jews are victims and can never be perpetrators.
You can thank the CIA for that.
Yeah, they were involved. They were saving the world from the dangers of communism. Looking back, all the west really had to do was sit back and wait for the communist system to collapse. But, I wonder what the middle east would look like without the CIA's interference. It sure seems unlikely it would be a land of healthy, stable democracies. Look at all the places where the CIA didn't interfere. Countries ruled by strongmen is the rule rather than the exception.
But, however we got here, that has been Israel's traditional role. It was a democratic country with somewhat similar values to the west, nestled among Islamic Arab countries with very different values.
It's one example which was highly publicized.
If you're under the impression either side isn't raping you're absolutely fooling yourself. One side isn't actively in the process of genociding stick with that instead of whatabouting rape and murder since both sides do that in every war just generally in different degrees/quantities.
It's not a war crime, it was a warning bomb.
Fucking genocidal assholes
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We want German kids to grow up learning about the holocaust and thinking "we can't allow that to ever happen again".
I think they kind of overdid it 'cos know they activelly defend nazis...
You responded to it, you may not like it but it is a source. Sexual assault and rape are known factors in war, saying either side isn't is statistically improbable so add basic math to that source list.
I'm not saying either is good I'm just saying rape is a real weird attempt at moral high ground in a conflict both are accused of sexual assault and rape in. And if we're being tedious their question also implies the worth of the person is based on their job which is fun.
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Uh huh, don't let reality stop those dreams.
Both do and did boss, shitty point.
- Wikipedia is not a source
- The Oct. 7th rape allegations have already been debunked, for which I provided sources. And you claimed to have already known they were false.
- Then you said, “yeah well, rapes always happen in war, dummy,” as if anyone was arguing that they didn’t.
Trump’s tariffs are the reward for Berlin's spineless obedience. While German carmakers face ruin, its leaders beg for 'constructive dialogue' with the very empire strangling them.
This is what happens when a nation trades sovereignty for the illusion of Atlanticist 'alliance'. Those who bent the knee to Washington pay first with dignity, then with their economy.
nytimes.com/2025/04/03/busines…
#us #germany #economy #tarifs #geopolitics
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Elon hates them too. And they need the money more.
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via ElieNYC / elienyc
11:33 AM · Jan 8, 2026
"The case [c]ould be removed to federal court, but that just means the ICE agent would be prosecuted in front of a federal judge. State prosecutors would still handle the prosecution.
If the Feds want to file federal charges of their own, that would be a different thing, but I don't think they will."
Mother Bones
in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Misha Chicackalacky / spoketension
11:28 AM · Jan 8, 2026
"Minnesota investigators don’t even need the cooperation of feds to get to where they can file charges. They have the videos and witness statements, they’ll soon have cause of death from the medical examiner. All they need is the ID of the shooter which they can hopefully get from a civilian source."
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Mark Chadbourn
@Chadbourn
6:45 PM · Jan 9, 2026
"The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately."
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Chad Loder
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5:22 PM · Jan 9, 2026
"When juries started refusing to indict or convict activists on bogus charges, DHS shifted very quickly to shooting activists in the face. That is not a coincidence."
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Matt DeLong
@mattdelong
8:02 PM · Jan 9, 2026
"Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable."
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Our hearts are sad for the people of Minneapolis and that they have to live through this reign of terror by an American government police state.
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Brandon Friedman
@BrandonFriedman
8:45 PM · Jan 9, 2026
"There are at least 100 Minneapolis residents for every federal agent in the city right now. Political leadership needs to organize them before it's too late.
When I say 'before it's too late,' I mean they will eventually move to arrest Democratic leaders.
Stop telling people to remain calm and peaceful and give them a useful mission."
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
8:47 PM · Jan 9, 2026
"We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw 'multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over.' It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force."
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This is what that BBBill was for. Remember how they all the regular funding they could, and then pouring tons of money into a poorly-defined armed force under un-specified White House command?
That is how you budget for a prison state. No services, but lots of armed guards to control and intimidate the population.
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Trung Le Nguyen
@Trungles
8:24 PM · Jan 9, 2026
"Local assisted living facilities are taking additional security measures because the residents don’t want their care to be interrupted when ICE abducts their staff. Schools are closed for the safety of students, faculty, and staff. There is no facet of society or stage of life unaffected."
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@fiveburger
8:07 PM · Jan 9, 2026
"yeah they’re just grabbing random people at bus stops there is absolutely no attempt to even give the pretense that this is about immigration anymore. it is absolutely just a military occupation."
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47 and pals have declared war on 75% of the American population and 100% of all non-citizens.
No wonder they wanted the name change from DOD to DOW!
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9:07 PM · Jan 9, 2026
"Please understand what it means when journalists are evacuating their family members out of town.
In any other country, we would be approaching 'foreign sanctions' territory."
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
9:17 PM · Jan 9, 2026
"Amy Klobuchar: 'There are now more ICE agents in Minnesota than there are police officers combined in Minneapolis and St. Paul. So they are outnumbering our own local police officers out on the streets.' "
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •You know, I'd be inclined to take Klob. more seriously if she stopped approving Trump's nominees to the federal judiciary and pursuing window dressing legislation. Read the fucking room.
MN needs more from its milquetoast moderates elected into office.
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Minnesota Star Tribune / startribune.com
12:03 AM · Jan 10, 2026
"The Minneapolis Police Department has declared tonight’s protest outside a downtown hotel an unlawful assembly, calling it a public nuisance, and ordered the crowd to disperse."
startribune.com/ice-raids-minn…
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Jay / jdbatts79
8:28 AM · Jan 10, 2026
"The elephant in the room is that mayors and governors across the country have very good reason to question the loyalty and allegiances of the state and local police forces and that’s one of the impediments to doing anything about the current occupations."
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Andrew Lawrence / ndrew
8:40 AM · Jan 10, 2026
"if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement."
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •if only millions of people had said continuing to throw tons of money at cops while so many of them brutalize civilians is stupid.
If only millions of people would have protested the brutality evident in far too many cops that are allowed to stay cops.
Someone really should have spoken up about civilian lives mattering.
oh wait, millions did.
If only the party many of those millions belonged to had really represented the will of the people.
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@ziibiing
9:12 AM · Jan 10, 2026
"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."
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Sherrilyn Ifill
@Sifill
9:47 AM · Jan 10, 2026
"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."
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Nick Bednar / nicholasbednar
11:29 AM · Jan 10, 2026
"I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade."
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •If the police have the power to make such a declaration, you're living in a police state.
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in reply to Eric Lawton • • •We know it
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Ed Burmila /edburmila
8:34 PM · Jan 9, 2026
"If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved."
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Chad Loder
@chadloder
4:17 PM · Jan 9, 2026
"It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers."
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing."
[Image is of multiple masked agents carrying large plastic storage bins in a snowy residential yard.]
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@chadloder
5:00 PM · Jan 9, 2026
"Fleeing the scene of a crime.
Destroying a crime scene.
Seizing direct evidence and then refusing to provide it to the MN Attorney General's office.
Refusing to make the shooter or ANY witnesses available for questioning.
Masked men clearing boxes out of the shooter's house.
Nothing to see here."
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in reply to Claire, The Ultimate Worrier • • •tasket
in reply to Mother Bones • • •Why would ICE — which prides itself on using license plate and facial recognition databases — target a vehicle owned by American citizens?
Are they pretending that the vehicle was reported stolen?
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in reply to tasket • • •Quasit
in reply to Mother Bones • • •Unfortunately the DOJ can federalize the case and take it out of State hands. At which point Trump can pardon him and double jeopardy applies.
I wish I was kidding!
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in reply to Quasit • • •@Quasit Yeah, and he would probably get a pardon, but 🤷🏻♀️
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •unfortunately, G. W. Bush's gov't got a bill rider pushed through back in the early 2000's that quietly just took deployment of the National Guard out of governors' hands – declaring that the President (not even Congress) had the power to activate or deploy any NG unit to anywhere in the country without that governor's consent; a privilege formerly reserved for periods of declared war only (ha), and I believe restricted only to using them as an expeditionary force.
Many of us tried to raise a stink about that bill at the time but Democrats completely went along with it because 9/11. ICE and DHS were created right around the same time, and those who saw the writing on the wall then were largely ignored. The groundwork for this moment was laid many years ago and people got mad at us for saying it. And Democrats did nothing at best, at worst actively supported these moves.
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Oh true, I lost track of threads.
AND it's true that the 4th amendment goes out the window for just about any excuse.