Brian Boucher™️
Staff reporter, ARTnews. Formerly staff writer: Artnet News, Art in America. Past contributor: New York Times, New York, Cultured, CNN, et many al.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
- Epstein discussed with Ross an idea for a show of photos of underage people called “Statutory.” www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
- It’s almost as though our government is run by a cabal of child pornographers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
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- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️FYI, Kristi Noem’s full initials are K.L.A.N.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JOURNALISTS, STOP SAYING “ACCORDING TO PEOPLE FAMILIAR.” FAMILIAR TO WHO?
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Key quote from the judge's order releasing Liam Ramos & his father: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."
- Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- As many have noted, they might not behave the way they do if they thought there was any possibility they would one day lose power and be in the minority, and they’ll take away your rights to hold on to their positions.
- Look, the world is crazy right now, so you need a diversion, right? Well, twenty years ago this month I published a @nymag.com article about a truly wild experience I had with a roommate. Check it out! nymag.com/news/feature...
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Wow -- incredible!!!
- Foley Square, New York, 4pm today. No Kings! No ICE! No KKK, no fascist USA!
- I’d rather be prepared. I ordered mine. I got maced by a cop once and I’d just as soon avoid ever feeling that sensation again, thank you very much. Thank you @sarahjeong.bsky.social! www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
- Days like this, I am incredibly thankful I get to be a writer. I talked to art-world people in Minneapolis. Here’s what they said. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
- “paid agitators”
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️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
- Yeah, and I hope all the people who couldn’t stand to vote for her are thinking about it too
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Don't let me catch you hating on Chuck Schumer on here. The man has been in office since 1980. I *think* he knows a little something about politics. Do not ask me what's happened to politics since 1980 please
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Holy shit, there's an open carry #2A protest of ICE happening in Douglas County Colorado -- a very wealthy and very red suburb county of Denver. (I lived there for 16 years.) The Trump Administration pissing off committed gun owners sufficiently for them to join the protests against ICE is wild.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️A reminder that Liam Ramos, the son of legal residents in Minnesota, is still being held in a Texas prison. A five year old little boy - and America’s global reputation - now scarred for life. (📸 Ali Daniel’s/AP)
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Kristi Noem and Kash Patel are right: Alex Pretti had no right to possess a gun during a protest. What if he had killed someone? by Kyle Rittenhouse
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️ICYMI, @repespaillat.bsky.social on not funding ICE: www.wnyc.org/story/rep-es...
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Friends, I’m once again asking you to donate. But not to me! @claireforny.bsky.social is a union organizer, democratic socialist and my former Assembly colleague running for Congress in NY-7. Chip in today: secure.actblue.com/donate/clair...
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️This five year old is still in jail
- Gross all around. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Holy shit.
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- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
- A favorite Marian Goodman memory: in the hallway between the two rooms of the gallery, there were two bathrooms. On the doors, in his classic font, Lawrence Weiner painted the words “us” and “them.” www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
- Good news for once
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Arrest ICE murderers now.
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- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
- Am I the only one who sees this book cover and thinks it’s about the George Packer you keep on hand in case of a crisis?
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.” What?
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force. w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...
- American art fans, take note! www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...
- I simply LOVE it, as a journalist (freelance until recently, no less), when people complain to me about paywalls. “I would humbly submit,” I say to them, “that some things are worth paying for.”
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️The worker, identified as TJ Sabula in the Washington Post, said “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️One thing I’d like to see is my senators and governor every day on tv at 5pm holding a press conference with video of every documented abuse that ICE is doing. Curate all of the witnessing we’re doing and show it to the press.
- They told us there was no such thing as monsters. They lied.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*
- Limitlessly disgusting, these people
- San Francisco is losing its only remaining private standalone art school. My latest for ARTnews. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
- Yeah, and the deadline to reveal all Epstein documents was December 19, and we see how well the government complied with that
- The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology." n.pr/4583d8f
- You can watch the powerful documentary “2,000 Meters to Andriivka,” set during Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive against Russia. It’s shortlisted for an Oscar. It’s remarkable. www.pbs.org/video/2000-m...
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- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Martin Wong, "Untitled (Statue of Liberty)," 1990
- “The ICE agent does not have immunity”
- In the wake of Renee Good's killing and news that the FBI excluded the state from her death investigation, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison are about to talk. Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/xr_HUHk...
- “We do have jurisdiction,” says Hennepin County Attorney
- In the wake of Renee Good's killing and news that the FBI excluded the state from her death investigation, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison are about to talk. Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/xr_HUHk...
- They’re doing far more dramatic and horrific things, but they’re also withdrawing from international cultural organizations: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️Breaking news: Federal agents shot and injured two people in Portland, Oregon, Mayor Keith Wilson said. He did not identify the agency involved but called on ICE to end operations in the city, citing the fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️ICE is killing American citizens the right way. by Ezra Klein
- FUCK ICE TO HELL.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️HULK SIGH.
- Reposted by Brian Boucher™️HULK LOVE HOW PEOPLE CALL TRUMP STUPID FOR CLAIMING HE WILL REDUCE HEALTH CARE PRICES BY SIX HUNDRED PERCENT AND OTHERS SAY “I AGREE ONE THOUSAND PERCENT”
- Venezuelan cultural figures have a profound mix of emotions in this historic moment: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
- A Paris art dealer was among those convicted of harassing French First Lady Brigitte Macron, falsely asserting online that she was born male. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
- Classic. theonion.com/this-war-wil...
- Pretty rich for a guy to threaten to invade Iran for violence to protesters when he himself asked if he could shoot protesters. www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1...
- More upset at Brown University after a rough year: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
- “Coconut milk, coconut water, uh huh, you still like to tell me they're the same, uh huh. Who’m I to say?”
- I’m listening to the swearing-in of the new New York mayor on terrestrial radio, with a tuner, and loving it. Yesterday I listened to some of my favorite vinyl records and a couple of days ago I watched some movies on DVD that I borrowed from the library. The future is bright.
- Thanks to Brian Alfred for having me on the Sound and Vision podcast to talk about some of the things that got us through a wretched year. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
- Here are a couple that come to mind. youtu.be/D8Ymd-OCucs?...
- What does the art market hold in 2026? ARTnews asked some insiders. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
- I love how, at 08:32 in the Netflix New Yorker documentary, Britt Daniel and Jim Eno of Spoon pop up in a “talk of the town” piece that flashes on the screen.
- "Erika Kirk is Mourning Her Husband the Right Way" by Ezra Klein
- Hey @daddyrussborris.bsky.social i was just enjoying your program and thought of this
- lololol what is the GOP equivalent of “Dems in disarray?” Repubs in riot? GOP in a jumble? Oh wait I know! Fascists in freefall! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
- Meet the new NEA boss, same as the old, unqualified partisan, ex-Heritage Foundation NEA boss. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
- A triumphant Annie DiRusso at TV Eye tonight.
- Don’t suppose any of my friends are going to the sold-out Annie DiRusso show tonight?
- Very pleased to have looked into the market for Ab-Ex master Joan Mitchell in her centennial year, for ARTnews. Check it aus! www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...
- Nota bene!
- Yet again I say, after Brown University:
