Defund ICE! Renee Good and Jeffrey Pretti gave their lives defending democracy and fighting fascism. Hope Heather organizes more resistance in Maine and disrupts christofascists in churches.
Get rid of ice. They were created as part of the Homeland Security Act passed in 2002, because of September 11, 2001. Their mission has changed from why it was created, therefore making them useless and an obsolete agency. Get rid of them, abolish the agency, the words don't matter. The message is the same. trump has turned them into a domestic terrorist organization that works for him and against anyone with brown skin, anyone that dares to protest, which is our First Amendment Right, afforded everyone in the USA by The United States Constitution. trump and maga alike are also trying to take away our Second Amendment Right, claiming Alex Pretti had no business carrying a gun. He had every right, as is written in our constitution and is legal in the state of MN. They had no problem with guns at the US Capitol on Jan 6th, no problem with Kyle Rittenhouse carrying an AR15 style weapon. No problem with cops murdering Breonna Taylor, cops beating the shit out of Rodney King. There's so many instances of their hypocrisies. So I ask. Do the words really matter when the message is the same?
ICE funding has been sent to the Senate for approval. Sadly Susan Collins is the chair so a great deal of public outrage needs to quickly focused on the Appropriations Committee. Phone calls and emails, letters may be too slow. ICE must be defunded!
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We should recognize the sexual victimization of terrorized children by the Trumpstein Cult -- let's start calling it what it is -- is the direct ancestor of the terror the MAGAstapo is now unleashing on anyone who refuses to kowtow to the ChristoNazi theocracy. Thus the vital, know-our-enemy relevance of the full text of the Jane Doe lawsuit against Trump and Epstein -- later withdrawn in response to credible death threats against the plaintiff: https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf Please let us ensure this text is linked early (and therefore prominently) on as many Resistance sites as possible every day until the traitorous regime of ecogenocidal ChristoNazi pedophiles is no more. (I'll do my best to be responsible for this posting, but I am 85 years old and terminally ill, which means others need be ready to pick up the torch on days I am absent and after I am no more.)
Those outside Trump’s DC bubble are growing a spine; and a few more GOP are growing spines - even some big biz types are growing a spine vs Trump(ism).
The result? Trump is starting to distance himself -a little, but significantly- from ICE/tactics.
I loved 💠 The ATLANTIC’s article by Adam Serwer today, Excerpt:
— “ … something Stephen Miller, the Trump adviser, had written: “Migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”
In Minnesota, the opposite was happening. The “conditions and terrors” of immigrants’ “broken homelands” weren’t being re-created by immigrants. They were being re-created by people like Miller. The immigrants simply have the experience to recognize them.
The federal surge into Minneapolis reflects a series of mistaken MAGA assumptions. The first is the belief that diverse communities aren’t possible: “Social bonds form among people who have something in common,” Vance said in a speech last July. “If you stop importing millions of foreigners into the country, you allow social cohesion to form naturally.”
— Vance’s remarks are the antithesis to the 💠 neighborism of the Twin Cities, whose people do not share the narcissism of being capable of loving only those who are exactly like them.”
* I love the new terminology of ‘neighborism’ — esp after all the demonization of humanity during the Trump reign of terror.
Biologically speaking, diversity is essential to maximize environmental health. The absence of diversity leads ultimately to extinction. It is only because of patriarchy's ecogenocidal hatred of and distance from Nature -- particularly as manifest by Christianity -- that Oberst-Gruppenführer Miller is able to make such murderous, ultimately apocalyptic assertions. (Note the precursors to Miller's statements that appeared on Christian reader-boards in the early '70s: "Organic Is Satanic" and "Environmental Is Of The Devil," typically accompanied by the more ubiquitous Christian slogan, "God Hates Hippies.")
Very interesting; thanks for sharing! Even though I was still fairly young growing up in the 60’s, I do remember hearing the Christian disdain/hatred for hippies and knew it was wrong : )
In Minneapolis and in other cities across the country, recent events suggest something important is happening. Sustained, peaceful public protest is beginning to shift outcomes. We are seeing de-escalation where escalation was once assumed, accountability conversations where silence previously prevailed, and institutional responses that would have seemed unlikely not long ago. These developments did not emerge from outrage alone. They came from persistence, visibility, and a refusal to abandon the public square. What we are witnessing is not disorder. It is democracy in motion.
American democracy was never designed to be self-sustaining. It does not run on autopilot, nor does it survive on tradition alone. It endures only when ordinary people insist, again and again, that power remain accountable to the public. Persistent, positive protest is not a threat to democracy. It is one of its most essential maintenance systems. It is how “We the People” keep the republic alive and how we improve it over time...
You've been running on autopilot for decades now and Trump has exposed the soft underbelly of your Constitution which urgently needs to be re-written in modern language. You have to dispel the myths about the resilience of your democracy if you're serious about dealing with the problems you have. 'We the People' simply doesn't work when 77 million Americans have voted for a dangerous clown as their president, some of them in three successive elections. Your country is hopelessly divided and your politics polarised.
Jose Ortega y Gasset once wrote "law is born fron despair of human nature" and your constitutional safeguards are all failing you. You need to re-write your Constitution and get rid of the Electoral College to ensure that this never happens again.
I'm wondering why no one talks about Obama's immigration policy that saw him called the deporter-in-chief. I just read 2 pieces from MPI and see his numbers without an armed, masked
invasion force. I'm constantly disgusted with Trump and his evil, cruel followers.
Thanks for your teachings, and the hope I find in your words.
Ah, mass deportations: another example of "change we can believe in," also of how the "Democratic" (sic) Party's service to the Plutocracy as the Fifth Column of the "Republican" (sic) ChristoNazi/NeoConfederate Party is almost always concealed by the mainstream media.
Giuseppe Sala, the mayor of Milan, said in a telephone interview that the Italian government should “say no to Trump.”
Mr. Sala added: “Bringing to Milan a militia which distinguished itself — this is not my opinion — with criminal acts, which kills, which enters in the homes of American citizens without authorization, I do not think that that is a good idea.”
Stephen Miller is the person most responsible for the fascist tactics ICE is using. In 2017 he worked on the Muslim Ban and Children Separation policies. He came up with the 3,000 immigrant detention quota per day for ICE. Even if Noem and Holman are removed, Miller will still develop the tactics that any new DHS secretary will follow. He’s gotta go.
It is a bit late for these "reasonable Republicans" to be finding their moral centers, after aiding and abetting the whole Trump project and letting him stack his Cabinet with sociopaths. Amazing how an up-coming election concentrates their consciences. Many doubtless hope a few noble statements will magically make everyone forget their long histories of enablement. It is our duty not to forget before November, and to throw them out of office.
I doubt it's merely the usual USian bi-partisan pre-election pretense of humanitarian concern; I suspect it is also realization by Trump and his High-Tech/ChristoNazi masters they have so antagonized the world, their trial as war criminals is no longer an impossibility. Which -- though please don't let such a far-fetched notion weaken our resistance -- may suggest the existence of a rumor known only to the politicians, no doubt concealed from the rest of us by some classification so far above Top Secret the designation's label is itself TS/Crypto, that the combined scientific genius of the nations leading the burgeoning anti-ChristoNazi alliance -- Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and France -- may have come up with a means to render the Unified Reich's nukes unusable.
I am disgusted that they only care about how their actions might impact their electability and ignore what is humane and good for the country. It's all about me me me, like a child.
Dear Mr.Moss, thanks for powering thru on the commentary. You sound like you have a bad cold and thanks for making sure The Letters from an American was read. I really look forward to these and I hope you feel better soon.
ICE has gotta go! TACO Trump is weaseling out of the hole he dug himself into, weasel that he is. Hopefully, Congress will introduce a separate bill removing ICE from the DHS and throw its slimy body under the legal bus by defunding it. Bondi's demand to send the voter files for Minnesota is a gross overreach of legal authority and yet another example of T's disregard for the Constitution.
We will not be cured of the ChristoNazi cancer until it is surgically excised, preferably by trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity by some incorruptible international court. To do that, not only must we behead the venomous serpent; we must also haul its entire still-muscularly writhing length out of the snake-hole the ChristoNazis have made of our national capitol.
From the New Republic: "In the wake of yet another citizen being shot and killed in broad daylight by Donald Trump’s roving militia, the White House is now attempting to deflect blame by accusing Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar of fraud.
Trump announced the so-called investigation on Truth Social Monday morning, claiming that there was no way the Democratic lawmaker could have so much money. “The DOJ and Congress are looking at ‘Congresswoman’ Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars,” he wrote. “Time will tell all.”
"This accusation is coming from the same man who raked in at least $1.4 billion in the last year alone—at the American people’s expense."
Defund ICE! Renee Good and Jeffrey Pretti gave their lives defending democracy and fighting fascism. Hope Heather organizes more resistance in Maine and disrupts christofascists in churches.
I wrote a poem as a tribute to Pretti: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/jeffrey-pretti-poem
We really need better messaging than ‘defund’ or ‘abolish’, if we’ve learned nothing else from their failings in the past.
Why is the ChristoNazi onslaught so relentlessly effective? Because it is the fulfillment of a multi-generation, bi-partisan scheme more than a century in the making. To discover the carefully hidden poisonous roots of Trump's "Unified Reich," go here: https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-25-2026?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=205274486
Get rid of ice. They were created as part of the Homeland Security Act passed in 2002, because of September 11, 2001. Their mission has changed from why it was created, therefore making them useless and an obsolete agency. Get rid of them, abolish the agency, the words don't matter. The message is the same. trump has turned them into a domestic terrorist organization that works for him and against anyone with brown skin, anyone that dares to protest, which is our First Amendment Right, afforded everyone in the USA by The United States Constitution. trump and maga alike are also trying to take away our Second Amendment Right, claiming Alex Pretti had no business carrying a gun. He had every right, as is written in our constitution and is legal in the state of MN. They had no problem with guns at the US Capitol on Jan 6th, no problem with Kyle Rittenhouse carrying an AR15 style weapon. No problem with cops murdering Breonna Taylor, cops beating the shit out of Rodney King. There's so many instances of their hypocrisies. So I ask. Do the words really matter when the message is the same?
ICE funding has been sent to the Senate for approval. Sadly Susan Collins is the chair so a great deal of public outrage needs to quickly focused on the Appropriations Committee. Phone calls and emails, letters may be too slow. ICE must be defunded!
He’s Throwing Them Under the Bus
Soon ICE will be moving on
Where they will do less harm
With the midterms only a few months away
The party is growing alarmed
Minneapolis turned up the heat
Bovino’s been pushed to the street
He and Barbie have both become
A HUGE liability
It’s time for Trump to adjust
He’s throwing them under the bus
Hoping that Homan’s Stash of Cash
Has faded to ashes and dust
With dissension in the ranks
He needs to cover his flanks
Declare it a win—start over again
Instead of sending in tanks
Dimming His Shooting Star
She stares with nary a blink
When reporters force her to think
Now straining to raise a botoxed smile—
Minneapolis on the brink
ICE Barbie Kristi Noem
(The subject of this poem)
Was the leader of South Dakota until
She made D.C. her home
Our borders under attack
For her there was No Going Back
With millions of immigrant puppies roaming
Our streets in vicious packs
Something had to be done
Enforced at the end of a gun
To track them down in churches and courts
To scatter them, all on the run
But now she’s gone too far—
This boss of the border czar—
DHS is a mess, and Trump must address it
By dimming his shooting star
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Trump and his KA followers only want what they see as ways to increase their wealth and, especially for Trump, their ego satisfaction! 🤮
We should recognize the sexual victimization of terrorized children by the Trumpstein Cult -- let's start calling it what it is -- is the direct ancestor of the terror the MAGAstapo is now unleashing on anyone who refuses to kowtow to the ChristoNazi theocracy. Thus the vital, know-our-enemy relevance of the full text of the Jane Doe lawsuit against Trump and Epstein -- later withdrawn in response to credible death threats against the plaintiff: https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf Please let us ensure this text is linked early (and therefore prominently) on as many Resistance sites as possible every day until the traitorous regime of ecogenocidal ChristoNazi pedophiles is no more. (I'll do my best to be responsible for this posting, but I am 85 years old and terminally ill, which means others need be ready to pick up the torch on days I am absent and after I am no more.)
Those outside Trump’s DC bubble are growing a spine; and a few more GOP are growing spines - even some big biz types are growing a spine vs Trump(ism).
The result? Trump is starting to distance himself -a little, but significantly- from ICE/tactics.
I loved 💠 The ATLANTIC’s article by Adam Serwer today, Excerpt:
— “ … something Stephen Miller, the Trump adviser, had written: “Migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”
In Minnesota, the opposite was happening. The “conditions and terrors” of immigrants’ “broken homelands” weren’t being re-created by immigrants. They were being re-created by people like Miller. The immigrants simply have the experience to recognize them.
The federal surge into Minneapolis reflects a series of mistaken MAGA assumptions. The first is the belief that diverse communities aren’t possible: “Social bonds form among people who have something in common,” Vance said in a speech last July. “If you stop importing millions of foreigners into the country, you allow social cohesion to form naturally.”
— Vance’s remarks are the antithesis to the 💠 neighborism of the Twin Cities, whose people do not share the narcissism of being capable of loving only those who are exactly like them.”
* I love the new terminology of ‘neighborism’ — esp after all the demonization of humanity during the Trump reign of terror.
Very true words. Thank you. Our diversity IS our strength and creates strong communities who look out for each other.
Biologically speaking, diversity is essential to maximize environmental health. The absence of diversity leads ultimately to extinction. It is only because of patriarchy's ecogenocidal hatred of and distance from Nature -- particularly as manifest by Christianity -- that Oberst-Gruppenführer Miller is able to make such murderous, ultimately apocalyptic assertions. (Note the precursors to Miller's statements that appeared on Christian reader-boards in the early '70s: "Organic Is Satanic" and "Environmental Is Of The Devil," typically accompanied by the more ubiquitous Christian slogan, "God Hates Hippies.")
Very interesting; thanks for sharing! Even though I was still fairly young growing up in the 60’s, I do remember hearing the Christian disdain/hatred for hippies and knew it was wrong : )
In Minneapolis and in other cities across the country, recent events suggest something important is happening. Sustained, peaceful public protest is beginning to shift outcomes. We are seeing de-escalation where escalation was once assumed, accountability conversations where silence previously prevailed, and institutional responses that would have seemed unlikely not long ago. These developments did not emerge from outrage alone. They came from persistence, visibility, and a refusal to abandon the public square. What we are witnessing is not disorder. It is democracy in motion.
American democracy was never designed to be self-sustaining. It does not run on autopilot, nor does it survive on tradition alone. It endures only when ordinary people insist, again and again, that power remain accountable to the public. Persistent, positive protest is not a threat to democracy. It is one of its most essential maintenance systems. It is how “We the People” keep the republic alive and how we improve it over time...
https://essayx.substack.com/p/this-is-what-democratic-resistance
You've been running on autopilot for decades now and Trump has exposed the soft underbelly of your Constitution which urgently needs to be re-written in modern language. You have to dispel the myths about the resilience of your democracy if you're serious about dealing with the problems you have. 'We the People' simply doesn't work when 77 million Americans have voted for a dangerous clown as their president, some of them in three successive elections. Your country is hopelessly divided and your politics polarised.
Jose Ortega y Gasset once wrote "law is born fron despair of human nature" and your constitutional safeguards are all failing you. You need to re-write your Constitution and get rid of the Electoral College to ensure that this never happens again.
And here for the forces of Liberation is a legal, non-violent weapon said to have proven extremely effective in the battles of Portland: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n0kd!,w_568,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb28deee-afca-41b1-ba93-aa5111f4cf3b_1170x841.jpeg (With thanks and a salute to Adrienne.)
You are right Michael. This is what democracy looks like.
I'm wondering why no one talks about Obama's immigration policy that saw him called the deporter-in-chief. I just read 2 pieces from MPI and see his numbers without an armed, masked
invasion force. I'm constantly disgusted with Trump and his evil, cruel followers.
Thanks for your teachings, and the hope I find in your words.
Ah, mass deportations: another example of "change we can believe in," also of how the "Democratic" (sic) Party's service to the Plutocracy as the Fifth Column of the "Republican" (sic) ChristoNazi/NeoConfederate Party is almost always concealed by the mainstream media.
Test ballon part 2: A U.S. Militia in Milano
Giuseppe Sala, the mayor of Milan, said in a telephone interview that the Italian government should “say no to Trump.”
Mr. Sala added: “Bringing to Milan a militia which distinguished itself — this is not my opinion — with criminal acts, which kills, which enters in the homes of American citizens without authorization, I do not think that that is a good idea.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/world/europe/italy-ice-olympics.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Stephen Miller is the person most responsible for the fascist tactics ICE is using. In 2017 he worked on the Muslim Ban and Children Separation policies. He came up with the 3,000 immigrant detention quota per day for ICE. Even if Noem and Holman are removed, Miller will still develop the tactics that any new DHS secretary will follow. He’s gotta go.
It is a bit late for these "reasonable Republicans" to be finding their moral centers, after aiding and abetting the whole Trump project and letting him stack his Cabinet with sociopaths. Amazing how an up-coming election concentrates their consciences. Many doubtless hope a few noble statements will magically make everyone forget their long histories of enablement. It is our duty not to forget before November, and to throw them out of office.
I doubt it's merely the usual USian bi-partisan pre-election pretense of humanitarian concern; I suspect it is also realization by Trump and his High-Tech/ChristoNazi masters they have so antagonized the world, their trial as war criminals is no longer an impossibility. Which -- though please don't let such a far-fetched notion weaken our resistance -- may suggest the existence of a rumor known only to the politicians, no doubt concealed from the rest of us by some classification so far above Top Secret the designation's label is itself TS/Crypto, that the combined scientific genius of the nations leading the burgeoning anti-ChristoNazi alliance -- Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and France -- may have come up with a means to render the Unified Reich's nukes unusable.
I am disgusted that they only care about how their actions might impact their electability and ignore what is humane and good for the country. It's all about me me me, like a child.
where have you been for the last half a century?
Dear Mr.Moss, thanks for powering thru on the commentary. You sound like you have a bad cold and thanks for making sure The Letters from an American was read. I really look forward to these and I hope you feel better soon.
ICE has gotta go! TACO Trump is weaseling out of the hole he dug himself into, weasel that he is. Hopefully, Congress will introduce a separate bill removing ICE from the DHS and throw its slimy body under the legal bus by defunding it. Bondi's demand to send the voter files for Minnesota is a gross overreach of legal authority and yet another example of T's disregard for the Constitution.
We will not be cured of the ChristoNazi cancer until it is surgically excised, preferably by trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity by some incorruptible international court. To do that, not only must we behead the venomous serpent; we must also haul its entire still-muscularly writhing length out of the snake-hole the ChristoNazis have made of our national capitol.
Breaking the law is breaking the law...
From the New Republic: "In the wake of yet another citizen being shot and killed in broad daylight by Donald Trump’s roving militia, the White House is now attempting to deflect blame by accusing Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar of fraud.
Trump announced the so-called investigation on Truth Social Monday morning, claiming that there was no way the Democratic lawmaker could have so much money. “The DOJ and Congress are looking at ‘Congresswoman’ Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars,” he wrote. “Time will tell all.”
"This accusation is coming from the same man who raked in at least $1.4 billion in the last year alone—at the American people’s expense."
From republicans we are hearing a lot about how they are concerned about reelection but not enough about lies and lawlessness.
Thank you, Michael Moss! You sound like you’re maybe getting a cold. Please rest up, stay warm and drink lots of fluids.