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Re: FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 7:53 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #116

SubiculumCode wrote: post #83

Keep your eyes on protecting the midterms from interference... re ICE / militias etc. I encourage governors to call up their State's National Guards to protect their State's electoral systems from Federal intrusion and extremist militia groups. This move is founded in the most republican of urges: State Sovereignty. (btw, I'd even consider that as a move in Minneapolis, right now).

Do you think the Minneapolis National Guard are willing to fire on ICE if ordered to do so? What do you expect the legal fallout of that situation to be?

> Do you think the Minneapolis National Guard are willing to fire on ICE if ordered to do so?

As curretly constituted, no. But it doesn't hurt to start contingency planning to build a force that is eventually loyal to its state and the Constitution over the men who hold the office at that time.

Re: FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

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Post by anigbrowl » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 7:53 PM UTC

woah wrote: post #144

dmschulman wrote: post #32

This is Nathanson's recent article (gift link) describing her work and the story that likely triggered the FBI's interest. Her reporting tells the stories of federal workers, she's not involved in any investigative work beyond interviewing current or former civil servants who feel helpless and lost now that the career that gave them purpose is no longer the same: wapo.st/49BQBrh One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal…

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Apparently. If you're scared of the government, this would be an entirely rational thing to do to safeguard the privacy of other people you know on Signal.

Re: FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 7:54 PM UTC

Ancapistani wrote: post #409

SubiculumCode wrote: post #83

Keep your eyes on protecting the midterms from interference... re ICE / militias etc. I encourage governors to call up their State's National Guards to protect their State's electoral systems from Federal intrusion and extremist militia groups. This move is founded in the most republican of urges: State Sovereignty. (btw, I'd even consider that as a move in Minneapolis, right now).

I'm very much present in "right wing circles", and I've seen exactly zero mention of "militias" being involved in anything whatsoever. They are just as politically radioactive as they've always been. Where are you getting this?

> They are just as politically radioactive as they've always been

J6ers attacking cops is currently being celebrated. That's an ad hoc militia. (Tarrio built an actual one.)

Re: FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

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Post by JCattheATM » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 7:55 PM UTC

afavour wrote: post #280

quietbritishjim wrote: post #150

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You are severely misreading why people flag posts about that discuss the administration (whether for or against): they are tiresome to read about, and it doesn't lead to productive interesting discussion (which is supposed to be what the vote buttons are for here). Politics isn't 100% off topic for HN but mostly I come here to get away from it and I'm sure others do too.

I understand the instinct to remove "politics" from HN but it's fuzzier than that. There were great HN-related conversations to be had around DOGE and what it was (purportedly) trying to achieve with automation, AI, replacing old code bases etc. There was a fascinating discussion about COBOL and what DOGE didn't understand and it immediately got flagged off the front page. Same thing recently with Grok and non-consen…

> There were great HN-related conversations to be had around DOGE and what it was (purportedly) trying to achieve

Were there? I just saw people blindly advocating and excusing their incompetence. The discussions were very polarized, not well thought out or supported with evidence, and not remotely productive. At least from what I saw.

Re: FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

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Post by FrustratedMonky » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 7:55 PM UTC

eszed wrote: post #450

HumblyTossed wrote: post #22

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Woah woah woah! I still haven't watched this. (I know, I know...)

Watch it. Best TV show I can think of, ever. By that I mean that the writing and acting and production values are top notch; it's entertaining throughout - some of the other greats are not ( The Wire falls down here, sometimes; Keislowski's Dekalog , likewise - though its best moments are better than anything else); and Andor nails its cultural moment, by being directly about, well, all of the Important Stuff we're t…

"makes the earlier stuff better."

This is an amazing feat.

if only every prequel could accomplish this.

Re: FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

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Post by anigbrowl » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 7:56 PM UTC

testing22321 wrote: post #388

riotnrrd wrote: post #259

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It takes an act of Congress to change the name. Trump just made one of his dictatorial proclamations.

It was originally named the department of war, and changing it to defence was just newspeak anyway. Of all the things trump has done, I actually like this one. At least he’s being honest about his intentions for what this department does.

That's irrelevant. the point is that Congress is the body with authority to decide, not the executive branch.

Re: FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

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Post by mikeweiss » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 7:58 PM UTC

mikeweiss wrote: post #34

lawn wrote: post #27

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Or they'll have ICE take them and they'll be deported or made to disappear. Some might even end up dying. That's how the US is right now.

That only works if they aren't U.S citizens... Which if they're working for the gov means they are. This administration is creative they will find other more 'legal' ways for retribution so the punishment sticks.

This clearly struck a nerve. What I was trying to say is I doubt they will use ICE for retribution here... My bet is they will use the FBI and simply arrest the sources. I'm aware ICE has detained U.S citizens and also killed citizens on the street.

Re: FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

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Post by codezero » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 7:59 PM UTC

dabluecaboose wrote: post #146

codezero wrote: post #99

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It took me 15 minutes to buy an AR-15 and a pistol in 2025, how did the left do this?

Well done! Step one is getting armed, and step two is training. There are a lot of good resources out there for non-right-wing shooters, such as InRangeTV.

Yep I practice and watch much of guntube.

Re: FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

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Post by anigbrowl » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 8:01 PM UTC

dabluecaboose wrote: post #56

alsetmusic wrote: post #31

It'd be real cool if all the second amendment (guns) people cared as much about the first amendment (free speech and freedom of press). "They're gonna take my guns away!" Yet that never happens. But people are being targeted for what they say, for disagreeing publicly. That's real. And a lot of "patriots" don't seem to notice or care.

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The American left is very much in favor of the second amendment. You seem to confusing it with liberal centrists, the sort of people who say 'violence is never the solution' and wrings their hands wondering why someone doesn't arrest bad actors in government.

Re: FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

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Post by toast0 » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 8:02 PM UTC

peab wrote: post #460

toast0 wrote: post #317

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A protest movement can't be very subtle. A clear and short message like "No ICE" or "ICE Out" is much preferable to "We would like an immigrations and and custom enforcement agency that respects people and the law, efficiently inspects imports, checks in on visa overstayers, pursues charges against business owners that have a business practice of not checking work eligibility of new hires, and works with competent, t…

but it's directionally wrong. It's like the BLM protests that had main messages of abolishing the police - those had terrible consequences [1]. "Reform" would be a better direction. [1] In 2020, during the height of the protests and the pandemic, low-income communities of color experienced the sharpest increases in firearm violence and homicides https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/firearm-deaths/index.html [2] Polls have…

> but it's directionally wrong.

A time honored protest chant is "hey hey, ho ho, [target of protest] has got to go." That's just how protests work --- don't like what someone or an agency is doing, march to get rid of them. Getting rid of them may not be achievable or desirable, but it resonates.

Given the number of high profile shootings related to totally unnecessary situations the agency has put its agents into with apparently zero preparation and training, it's not surprising that people want it to go. I don't remember this kind of thing when INS was doing activities with the same kinds of reported goals.