The date is notable. I didn't know evidence, data, and information could be gathered and comprehensibly analyzed so fast!
January 8, 2026
"FOP Stands with ICE"
Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police Condemns Rhetoric
(Minneapolis, MN) The Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police stands with the men and women of Law Enforcement across the country. Over the past month, while Federal law enforcement has been doing their job in Minnesota, political and community leaders have condemned and vilified them.
The hateful and anti-law enforcement rhetoric by Mayor Frey and other politicians have made their jobs and those of local and state law enforcement more difficult and dangerous. The job of law enforcement is difficult and dangerous enough without the agitation by leaders in our state and communities.
When citizens are accused of a crime, they are given the presumption of innocence as afforded by due process. When there is an incident involving law enforcement, politicians and activists immediately condemn those involved and are scrambling for sound bites. They do not afford them the same due process but rather convict them in a public court of opinion while an investigation is barely beginning.
The Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police condemns these attacks on law enforcement and calls on politicians and leaders to stop the anti-law enforcement rhetoric and to ask for calm while the facts come out. πΊπΈ #FOPSTRONG National Fraternal Order of Police
I just realized something that's shocking to me. I've hardly seen his name at all at Bluesky since the murder in Minnesota. My hunch is that his murder is too painful for the libs to think about. They don't want to remember how liberalism itself is an utter failure when it comes to social justice. If you speak about the arc of the moral universe bending toward justice but it's all rhetoric - just what is it you actually believe in? It's kinda hard to be morally superior when your cherished belief system has fundamental defects about righteousness.
And I've seen jokey comments like "The police are like ICE. Maybe the defund the police people were right?" And I've seen defund discussed in passing but not in discussed in a serious way. Not even once. The character count limit means if somebody wants to talk more than just social media kibitz - they link to an article. I can't say I'm surprised about not seeing links about Floyd or defund. But I am disheartened.
I see post after post like this.
I don't know how that poster defines himself. My hunch is he uses the Bluesky catchall phrase "progressive" which implies he's to the left of Schumer but not really that far way. That account is a go-to lib for me. He has about 100k followers and he seems to have a bog-standard Bluesky lib POV zeitgeist. To even begin to fix the "intolerable situation" radical action is needed. Will Bluesky support any radical candidates for state or federal office in this years elections? Will he? I assume the answer is a big "no".
Maybe some of them will support a mayoral candidate who is to the left of them and then brag about it like their guy like he's their own local mini-Zohran.