charles decker

born in Hennepin County, graphic design, politics, music, transit, gardening, photography, mac tech, things that make me smile. Tweets are my own.

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[JB Pritzker @JBPritzker]

Trump on his White House ballroom:

❌ “I’m paying for it.”
❌ “100% by me and some friends.”
❌ “Free of charge.”
❌ “Zero taxpayer dollars.”

Now, MAGA Republicans want YOU to pay for it. Trump didn’t just lie to your face — he left you the $1 billion bill.

[Chey Cab @CheyCab]

Gross. Give me small Swiss subsidized dairy farms that engage in sustainable practices and high level animal care and comfort.

And that also aren’t big disease risks.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

OMFG!

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

No, you imbecile. That’s a 98.33% drop. No math besides make-believe math makes it 600%.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

How about some new sanctions on Russia instead of on Minnesota?

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

“We were just trying to get him medication… But he was already gone.”

Last week, the internationally renowned Indigenous chef Sean Sherman told reporter Nate Halverson that federal agents detained one of his employees on his way to work. The agents said his co-worker matched the description of someone they were looking for, and asked for documents to confirm his identity. By the next day, Sherman said, his employee was already out of Minnesota. He was discovered to be in Texas.

“Our employees are not criminals,” Sherman told Nate in the Twin Cities. “They don’t have police records and they’re just here to come to work. We’re literally a nonprofit trying to serve healthy indigenous food to people. We shouldn’t have to worry if we’re going to have guns pulled on us on the way to work at all, but this is our reality.”

Sherman said his team tried to intervene. “We were just trying to get him medication,” he added. “But he was already gone. And like, how do we get his medication to Texas now?”

Sherman also pointed to a troubling historical resonance at Fort Snelling—the area where people are now being brought and detained in the Twin Cities: This is not the first time it has been used as a detention site. Fort Snelling is where Dakota prisoners following the 1862 Dakota uprising were brought and detained before being forcibly relocated down the river to the Crow Creek Reservation in what is now South Dakota.

“It’s just more salt in the wound,” Sherman said.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

ICE agents act like they have no oversight because Republicans in Congress and Trump gave ICE $75 BILLION in the Big Ugly Bill (by cutting health care funding).

But Congress has the power to claw back those funds to stop ICE’s violence.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

ICE is no longer an immigration enforcement agency. It has become Trump’s domestic army.

If my “conservative” colleagues truly believe in small government, they should join us in demanding an end to masked federal agents terrorizing communities across this country.

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

[Chey Cab @CheyCab]

Mpls woman who had her face scanned, got a notification three days later that her Global Entry and TSA Pre had been revoked.

[Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep]

Yesterday, when the government used taxpayer dollars to blast a full-volume narrative about the man federal agents had shot on the street, I remembered a quote from Lincoln.

He said that if you attack someone’s character without knowing if it’s true, that is the same as a lie.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

He had a permit to carry

He was legally exercising his 2nd Amendment right.

He did not draw the weapon.

He was filming when they approached him.

They had taken his weapon from its holster before they shot him.

It was murder.

[Chey Cab @CheyCab]

Breaking: There’s no way Americans can continue to look the other way unless they themselves are morally compromised.

I’ve seen more conservative clients open their eyes and join the resistance in the last two weeks, than in the last decade combined. Which gives me hope.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Congress must stop the violence by ICE, not bankroll it.

I’m a NO on the funding bill for DHS and ICE coming to the Senate this week.

As Trump’s masked, untrained agents terrorize our communities, we should not give a penny more to this rogue agency.

[Chad Hartman @ChadHartmanShow]

BCA Superintendent Drew Evans confirms his team had a signed warrant, but DHS prevented his team from the crime scene. This is beyond unacceptable and insulting. So when supporters of the President say they want a full investigation, unless they call this out, they are frauds

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Americans are being killed in the street by their government. Our Constitution is being shredded and our rights are dissolving. Resist.

Senate Dems should block ICE funding this week. Activate the National Guard.

We can and must stop this.

[Matt O'Brien @ObsoleteDogma]

Real cops don’t cover their faces. ICE are just January 6th with a badge.

[Angela Conley @D4Commish]

ICE murdered someone on 26th & Nicollet today, 1/24/26. The killing will not end. What I just witnessed was cold blooded murder. Get them out. Get them out now. Expect to be gaslit about this murder just like you were when they executed Renee Good.

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

There has been another shooting involving federal agents in Minneapolis and I am working to get more information. I will update as soon as possible. To the Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress who have stood silent: Get ICE out of our state NOW.