Treading These Down, Here

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

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— Philip Cowley (@philipjcowley.bsky.social) January 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM

Life in Occupied America

What life is like in the Twin Cities these days.

Revolver Pondering

Two of the Night Guards are back:

I'm not a big fan of the L-frames as carry guns. They are large guns. I was hoping that, if they brought back the Night Guards, they'd either bring back the 315 or a Model 12 with the sights of the .32/.38 "ultimate carry" series.

Still, I'd like to at least see one of these.

ICE Violates People's Rights Every Way They Can

During the second Trump administration, the population of migrants held at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities has exploded — from below 40,000 in January 2025 to over 73,000 today. Under the law, ICE is required to provide necessary medical care for this population.

While ICE employs some of its own medical staff, it often uses third-party providers. ICE’s Buffalo Federal Detention Facility, for example, houses over 500 detainees and has no doctor or dentist on staff.

ICE, however, has not paid any third-party providers for medical care for detainees since October 3, 2025. Last week, ICE posted a notice on an obscure government website announcing it will not begin processing such claims until at least April 30, 2026. Until then, medical providers are instructed “to hold all claims submissions.”

It is basic law and basic humanity that if someone is in custody, the custodial organization is responsible for their care. Denying medical care is not just a violation of a prisoner's rights, it's a crime against humanity. People get arrested and charged every freaking day for denying care to their animals; ICE refuses to treat human beings with the same level of care and concern that society demands from pet owners.

This will all come to an end one day for ICE. Fair warning, guys:

We the people of the United States, the ones who still believe in the rule of law and due process, outnumber those who don't.

Mark my words: We will be coming for you, from ICE Barbie and Temu Himmler all the way down to you anacephalic masked goons on the street

Sixty Years Ago, the Right Did the Same Thing

Sixty years ago, the Klan murdered a white woman who was helping civil rights marchers. And the FBI worked to smear her.

MLK Day Tip for the GOP -- Updated

Just shut the fuck up. Keep Martin Luther King Jr.'s name out of your fucking mouths. There is nothing that he championed which your party supports.

The GOP is the party of rich dudes who use racism and hatred to get white dudes at the bottom of the economic pile to not focus on the people with their boots on their necks and instead blame minorities and women for the point that they don't automatically go to the head of the line.

So Republicans: Shut the fuck up. Spend the day ironing your white tobes and making sure that the eyeholes in your masks line up.

And Trump went full racist.

Donnie Hates Minnesota, and That Is Reciprocal

People there are not at all happy about unaccountable untrained Federal goons running around their streets with automatic weapons.

Late last Wednesday night, I was standing on a street corner in the Hawthorne neighborhood in North Minneapolis when I witnessed an extraordinary confrontation. A federal agent marched up a narrow residential sidewalk flanked by modest bungalows, kitted out in gear fit for the battle of Falluja: full body armor, military boots and camouflage fatigues and helmet, with a heavy machine gun slung by his side. His carriage was erect, his gaze fixed straight ahead, seemingly oblivious to the crowd of protesters who blew whistles and shouted curses as he passed, enraged that one week after Renee Good was gunned down by an ICE agent, another civilian had been shot by ICE in their city.

Suddenly, the tense scene dissolved into slapstick. The federal officer slipped on a patch of ice and tumbled to the ground. A raucous roar of laughter and jeers erupted from the protesters surrounding him. He scrambled to his feet and marched on. But a few seconds later one of the protesters shouted, “He dropped his magazine!”

Temu Nosferatu seems to be intent on triggering violent response to the predations of Federal goons. It's not an exaggeration to say they are acting like the Gestapo, engaging in full-on racial profiling. ICE grabbing people because they look foreign is like the Gestapo grabbing people because of the shapes of their noses.

CBS- Whitewashing History

CBS News(max) ran a story about the reintroduction about the reintroduction of bison in Illinois and whitewashed the cause of them being extirpated two centuries ago.

That's pretty fucking weak tea.

Awaiting These Down, Here

In the 1930s, the NKVD would pull up in воронок/voronok (black marias, an unmarked black prison car) and would raid an apartment or building and targeted people would disappear. ICE is doing the same thing, but during daylight hours, and indiscriminately.

— David, Host of The Cold War (@coldwarhost.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 4:42 PM

Even Neo-Cons Hate ICE

"Bloody Bill" Kristol, one of the strongest voices for Chimpy's Iraq War, hates ICE >

If a diehard statist like Kristol is advocating abolishing ICE, then Temu Nosferatu is losing his war.

Meanwhile, this comment seems on point:

To recap: the two major parties refuse to rein in the reign of a demented sociopathic king who daily is marching us into both World War III and the next Civil War simultaneously because a Black president once made fun of him and also the Special Boy wasn't given the Shiny Golden Medal he covets.