{"id":1650,"date":"2026-01-22T19:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:47:42","slug":"1650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"Noah Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noahpinion.blog\/p\/why-are-federal-agents-gunning-down\">https:\/\/www.noahpinion.blog\/p\/why-are-federal-agents-gunning-down<\/a> Noah Smith writes about the Minnesota ICE killing soon after the event, where he makes the point that\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u201cWhen a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep your life\u201d is a perfect description of an authoritarian police state.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In the course of the argument he includes a (still frankly shocking) list of documented assaults by ICE against civilians, gathered over the course of \u201ca couple of days\u201d from X. \u00a0The rhetorical impact of the length of the list was what stuck with me from reading the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.noahpinion.blog\/p\/why-are-federal-agents-gunning-down Noah Smith writes about the Minnesota ICE killing soon after the event, where he makes the point that\u00a0 \u2018\u201cWhen a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep your life\u201d is a perfect description of an authoritarian police state.\u2019 In the course of the argument he includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}