#Via ElieNYC / elienyc
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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Mother Bones
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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Mother Bones
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
@chadloder
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."
Maddad ☑️
in reply to Mother Bones • • •@mattdelong
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.
Mother Bones
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."
Mother Bones
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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in reply to cognitively accessible math • • •Kathmandu
in reply to cognitively accessible math • • •@geonz @atrupar
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.
Mother Bones
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."
Mother Bones
in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via functional mron
@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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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Alex Ip 葉清霖
@alexip718
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."
Mother Bones
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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mtp
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…
Mother Bones
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."
Mother Bones
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."
CJPaloma aka Aunt Tifa
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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in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via ashley fairbanks
@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."
Mother Bones
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."
Mother Bones
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."
Eric Lawton
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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Mother Bones
in reply to Eric Lawton • • •We know it
@AnnaAnthro
DB
in reply to Mother Bones • • •Babs E Blue #IStandW/Minnesota
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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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Mother Bones
in reply to Mother Bones • • •#Via Chad Loder
@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."
Chuck Darwin
in reply to Mother Bones • • •Prosecute #reneegood 's murderer
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •Mother Bones
in reply to Doreen32128 ready to rumble! • • •Mother Bones
Unknown parent • • •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?
Mother Bones
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!
Mother Bones
in reply to Quasit • • •@Quasit Yeah, and he would probably get a pardon, but 🤷🏻♀️
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in reply to Mother Bones • • •Mother Bones
in reply to Kim Possible • • •🌌
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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Unknown parent • • •Mother Bones
Unknown parent • • •@brad @RevPudDudley @chadloder
Oh true, I lost track of threads.
AND it's true that the 4th amendment goes out the window for just about any excuse.