{"id":58360,"date":"2026-01-08T00:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58360"},"modified":"2026-01-08T00:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:06:17","slug":"open-thread-january-8-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/08\/open-thread-january-8-2025-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 8 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, as I am pretty sure everyone knows, an ICE agent shot a woman in the back of the head three times while she was in her car, attempting to get away\/out of the way. She died instantly. The car continued to move (Malcolm Nance described this as “Dead Woman Driving”) and crashed into some other vehicles. The air bag inflated and was covered with blood. I can now confirm she was a US citizen. The Root<\/a> shared her name and a link to a very moving obituary<\/a>, as well as a slow-motion video with labels of what happened when. Nameless saw this before I did, and posted a comment with three NSFW headlines quoting the mayor of Minneapolis on yesterday’s OT to which I responded with everything I knew at the time. Tim Walz has now given a statement<\/a> on public safety, together with the Director of Public Safety and the Colonel of the Minnesota National Guard.<\/p>\n

This from The 19th reminded me that fairly recently I saw that someone (I assume a male MAGA) was complaining that anyone who says “toxic masculinity” is really saying that all masculinity is toxic. I thought “Yeah, right – just like saying “counterfeit money” is saying that all money is counterfeit.” I suppose that not even all male ICE agents enjoy toxic masculinity, but there surely seem to be a lot of them.<\/p>\n

From Common Dreams<\/a>. The nerve of Stephen Miller saying that we have to act like thugs in order to support “the free world.” The U.S. can’t support the free world in any way when we aren’t even a part of it any more.<\/p>\n