Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)
Magazine editor. Rugby old boy. Bike rider. Book geek. Bear. Proud resident of America’s Zion. Opinions my own.
- Hey guys, here’s a video for you of one of the tyrant’s thugs literally kicking a puppy.
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- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)Having literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.
- How much do our oldest allies no longer trust the United States? Well, this is the Queen of the Netherlands. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/w...
- The Cato Institute would like to remind you that American immigrants pay far, far more in taxes than they receive in benefits. Not that the regime’s plan of ethnic cleansing is motivated by actual numbers.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
- The fascists are going to lose.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)The French are taking none of Musk’s bullshit.
- Whether this ruling is respected is a critical test for the future of American democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)Meeting in solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio now - over 600 people and still growing.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)ICE stalked an elderly woman who works in homecare for her grandchildren on her way to pay her rent. They stopped her, broke her car window, and roughed her up enough to cause a concussion, bruised ribs, and a torn rotator cuff. Then found her passport in her purse and fled. gofund.me/b7afaa65e
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people. Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech. They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)The leader of the GOP in Tarrant County - Texas' third-largest county and the largest Republican-held county in America - has spent this week openly spewing racial slurs and mocking people who will lose access to food stamps on Nov. 1.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)Federal paramilitaries running up on the rooftops to fire irritants and flash bangs down into a peaceable assembly full of little kids
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)This is tear gassing protesters just for protesting. There is no threat, and the only danger presented is ICE behaving recklessly. There is no provocation; this is just straight up assault.
- Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)I was there, too, and recorded this as people left the scene. Hard to see in the video, but the baby in mom's arms was also crying with red eyes.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
- This is exactly, and I mean exactly, one of the arguments the Nazis made to get Germans to support the arrest, detention, and deportation of the Jews.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
- The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Everything the civil libertarians warned us about back when the Department of Homeland Security was formed in the first Bush administration has come true.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)How is Melania the only person with a bespoke font in the Epstein Files?
- This is the surveillance state. Speak out against the government and be punished.
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- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)The president if the United States is trying to rob taxpayers of billions of dollars. No help for you, he’s helping himself.
- A legal immigrant with no criminal record went to get his newborn baby a passport. Goons followed him, smashed the window of the car, spraying the baby with glass, and dragged him off.
- Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
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- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)Northfield Minnesota is home to Carleton College (where I went) and St Olaf. The town's motto is "Cows, Colleges, and Contentment." Also the site of Jesse James' last raid. Anyway it's about as bucolic a place as you can imagine. ICE isn't just terrorizing the Twin Cities.
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- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
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- So people know where to send flowers?
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)NEW: ICE abducted a father in Shoreline in front of his young son. Here's a chilling, firsthand account from the man who drove his car away from the scene, the abducted man's packed lunch still warm in the passenger seat www.theburnerseattle.com/post/ice-abd...
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- Donald Trump and his movement have empowered the worst people in America, encouraging them to be terrible humans. www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...
- They’ve shot another one.
- It’s been three days since Alex Pretti’s murder, and his killers are still at large and publicly unknown.
- They’re turning off the cameras in the camps.
- New: DHS now says that two weeks of missing surveillance footage from ICE's Broadview Detention center isn't "missing," it was never recorded in the first place and thus can't be produced in an abuse lawsuit. An utter shitshow: www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...
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- And he still went back out there. This man was an absolute hero.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.
- BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Spencer Windes (like “winds a yo-yo”)After Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a friend in Moscow was going to protests and getting detained at them. He typically got released with a court date and then fined. One evening an FSB guy visited him at his home to tell him he should stop going to protests. Police-state shit.
- ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
- The EU and India have been negotiating a trade deal for two decades. Now, thanks to our idiot tariffs, they’ve finally done it. The US will continue to be marginalized from the world economy. We gave the world a reason to shut the door on America.
