San Patricio Brigade

San Patricio Brigade

@behan.bsky.social

Chicago guy w/Irish ancestors. Adtech, Motion Pictures, Lit, Music and Progressive politics. I have friends everywhere.

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Layoffs over the last year: UPS: 48,000 Amazon: 32000 Intel: 27,159 Microsoft: 15,387 Nestle: 16000 Verizon: 15000 Google: 12000 Chevron: 8000 Paramount: 7000 Walmart: 7000 P&G: 7000 Estée Lauder: 7000 Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts don’t create jobs, they create profits.

Moneybags Homan. Next man up.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social

The Trump administration is painting Border Czar Tom Homan as a less extreme and more professional alternative to the leadership of the recently removed Border Patrol head, Greg Bovino, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. But his record tells a much different story.

The blame game has commenced. Dracula vs. Cosplay Barbie. Hope they kill each other.

HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com

The blame game heats up: A few days ago they were confidently smearing a murdered man as an “assassin” - now Noem is whining that it’s all Miller’s fault and Miller is blaming Customs and Border Patrol for bad info. They all need to go down. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/p...

This is why we travel.

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social

So Greg Bovino is back to his post at USBP in El Centro. There are many lovely hardworking Americans in El Centro but at a place to be it is not to everyone’s taste. I had a hearing in El Centro and drove there the night before because you can’t get there in the morning…../1

People on the streets in Minneapolis and Chicago and LA and the Portlands MN and OR and many other cities are winning the battle to save Democracy. My main worry now is that the Vichy Dems (Schumer, Durbin, Jeffries) will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

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It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

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NEW: Police officers are being told to “be as vague as permissible” about why they are using the Flock surveillance system in order to not leak sensitive information via public records requests, according to records obtained using a public records request.

404media.coPolice Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use FlockThe documents show law enforcement sees themselves as being consistently and universally under threat from the people it is supposed to protect.

It's nice that Chris Murphy will say this on a podcast and all, but if he's not actively working to throw out the Vichy Dems like Durbin and Schumer, it will be all for naught. He can have a nice told-you-so moment when the Dems flush the midterms down the toilet, but not much else.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Sen Chris Murphy warns Dems: "If people don’t see us fighting on something as existential as whether we condone the federal government murdering our own citizens, there will be a mass withdrawal from politics altogether." On the pod, Murphy lays it all out so well: newrepublic.com/article/2057...

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Man who works in sewer wonders why there's all this shit down here.

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social

Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com "In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this." Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social

The Chicago Way.

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

I burn my mouth on pizza a lot. Some say it’s because I fail to learn from my mistakes but I believe it’s because I’m an optimist and refuse to live in fear.

MN sport teams? As if I need another reason to hate the Vikings and Twinkies. Bunch of cowardly jagoffs. Did they poll the players? And are the players aligned with this BS? Ownership is okay with their fans being murdered in the streets. That's no way to grow the base.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

60+ CEOs release letter on "recent challenges" creating "tragic loss." Call for "immediate deescalation of tensions and for state, local and federal officials to work together to find real solutions." No mention of ICE. Signers include Target, UnitedHealth, Cargill, General Mills, MN sport teams

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We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

It's really distressing the extent to which in all of this Silverio Villegas González, the first man to be murdered by ICE in the streets, has been almost completely forgotten Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Nobody is buying what this jagoff is selling.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Was Alex Pretti armed when he was shot? BOVINO: Um, again, the investigation is going to uncover all those facts Q: If you are investigating, isn't it possible this was a bad shooting? BOVINO: I haven't concluded anything

Sorry, but my senator is @durbin.senate.gov , a man who has nothing to protect, but would still rather write strong letters than do anything real lest he make his good friends on the other side of the aisle angry.

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org

ICE and CBP death squads are killing innocent people, terrorizing our communities, and violating our constitutional rights — and the House just voted to give them more money. Demand that your senators use their upcoming vote on the DHS funding bill to rein in the regime’s secret police.

They shot him in the back. 3 times. I remember when that was the dictionary definition of coward.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Videos verified by The New York Times show the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday was holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him. At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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We’ve covered lots of losing local teams on the back page of this paper. But none with a record as bad as the Chicago DOJ during Operation Midway Blitz: 0 convictions 11 charges dropped 3 no-billed cases 1 jury acquittal

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Just an ICE agent trying to catch his flight

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

A friend sent me this video: A car crashed into the Delta Airlines baggage check-in area at Detroit Metro Airport

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Pretty illuminating that while HHS is trying to do this unethical experiment on Africans, they're also treating its health institutions with utter disrespect.

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com

U.S. health officials insisted it was still on. African health leaders said it was cancelled. A hotly debated study on hepatitis B in Guinea-Bissau is indeed halted, as I reported last week. Here's my latest: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

I still haven't figured out why people who write for a living call what is clearly kidnapping, a detention. Call it what it is.

Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social

Earlier today masked men exited an unmarked car with tinted windows and pulled a smash-and-grab on a Portland-based civil engineer -- a UMaine grad in the country on a work visa. (No criminal record.) Federal agents? Foreign terrorists? How would anyone be able to tell the difference? #MEpolitics

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Proud to be a member of this union. Proud to have built up this union.

Sarah Lazare@sarahlazare.bsky.social

As tomorrow's Minnesota-wide shutdown gathers momentum, here are some of the less visible ways workers and unions are helping each other survive to fight another day, by delivering food to workers hiding in their homes with the lights off. My report from Minneapolis.

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A hideous, unbelievable insult to our allies, who suffered a full third of the war dead in Afghanistan. And this from a soulless swine who knows everything about using his bone spurs to stay all the way back, entirely off the front lines. Every day, he shames the United States as a nation.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

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This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

When a jagbag builds a team you can be sure it will be nothing but jagbags.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com

US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” is dominated by Western billionaires and pro-Israel figures tasked with overseeing his 20-point plan for Gaza. We look at who has been included ⤵️ 🔗: aje.news/xugwit | #Infograph

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1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

popular.infoICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatmentICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months

I used to care about this kind of thing, but I've come around to the idea that they've made themselves irrelevant. Their complicity will be dealt with.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

it's bizarre to see both CNN and CNBC run with chyrons reporting that Trump said he won't "use force" to take Greenland, when the comments in question were clearly a threat to take Greenland by force. How naive are we at this point?

This gutless pantywaste can't stand up to a third class podcaster. Who does he think he's kidding?

Governor Newsom Press Office@govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov

>> @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom to world leaders and billionaires at Davos: It’s time to buck up. Stop being complicit. Have a backbone. Trump will play you for fools.