You don't have to believe that the fascists are competent enough to suppress voting everywhere in 2026 or 2028. You just have to believe that they can depress minority turnout in 5-10 cities to affect entire Senate races & the Electoral College. 2024 was decided by 120K votes in 3 states, after all.

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And as the experts told us from the start, there's no way you can try to do "mass deportation" without creating and sustaining that culture.

On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.

The double cognitive load of a) the President is deranged, and nobody in power acting he's deranged is stressful, and b) there are millions of Americans who get their news from media sanewashing the President, so they don't *know* he's deranged, so they think *we're* deranged, is ... fun.

We have to get rid of Jeffries and Schumer. We have to. It’s unendurable that these men are the most prominent Democrats of the moment. They are two of the most broadly undistinguished men I could imagine in politics, zero fire, zero fight, zero zeal, machine politicians with sinecures.

I wouldn't be surprised if they've worked something out to protect against this.

Mamdani's quote about "ending mediocrity" from his acceptance speech is something i think about often. he's not just talking about crybullying racist right wingers, but the mealy-mouthed, cowardly professional class that is forever unwilling to take a moral stand and has helped push to this moment

I have one request for everyone outside the United States. Stop being polite to us Americans. Tell us what you really think.

Democrats have no obligation to support a bill that not only funds the dystopian scenes we are seeing in Minneapolis but will allow DHS to replicate that playbook of brutality in cities all over this country.

what if instead of DHS we funded millions of baby killdeers? 🪶 🐣

It’s been this way forever, or at least since the Iraq war. The lowest professional dividend was in seeing things correctly from the get go.

I can't recall a time in my life when the Senate's Democratic leader was so embarrassing and pathetic.

Please watch this video by @jamellebouie.net. For all the @democrats.org afraid to challenge ICE, once you realize, admit that ICE is the modern-day equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan, the question is not if, but how to abolish this agency. youtu.be/WptX5i2_O1U?...

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i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

Seeing an OF creator charge $21 for a 5-minute video where she gets *almost* naked, all while Pornhub is a free click away, will disabuse you of that notion real quick.

I don't understand what need there is for *any* immigration enforcement agency if their job is really to "go after criminals." "Criminals" are already the target of law enforcement agencies in general, so what value is added by tacking "immigration" onto the agency name?

Yaasss! I really really want the 2026 primaries to all be contests of escalating rhetoric about what they're going to do humiliate and handicap ICE and other MAGA actors. I 👀 you, @ericswalwell.bsky.social

Also, post like they're watching from their own little sock puppet accounts. Which means don't get got fedposting. But DO make sure you keep roasting how pathetic and doomed these little assholes are

It's particularly galling to call for ICE to wear body cams when Renee Good's murder literally recorded the whole thing on his phone. He was so confident in his impunity as part of that organization that he recorded and allowed for the release of footage of him shooting a woman at point blank.

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

The media is chock full of people who a) allegedly share the left's broad goals, and b) are distressed that the left is Doing It Wrong, pursuing its goals in some misguided way, but puzzlingly c) do not put their superior wisdom to work accomplishing those goals in a better way!

This. And also, it’s important to understand that a lot of this is substantive disagreement framed as strategic disagreement. Many, if not most of those who oppose “Abolish ICE” just think it would be a bad idea to abolish ICE.

It rocks that everyone at CBS News is blabbing www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

As usual, the story here isn't about "divides" or cosmopolitan elites looking down on rural populations. It is about radicalization. This woman wants violent vengeance for things that did not happen.

People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.

Yes, ICE is struggling to recruit and dropping standards. But the abuses we've seen on the streets are coming from long-serving agents. Jonathan Ross was a 10-year ICE veteran and a firearms instructor. The problem with ICE isn't J6ers. It's with the agency itself, and the people directing it. 6/

the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.

We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad. This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.

this is a very good sign

I mean it's true. They do not oppose social programs because they don't like paying taxes (though they don't like paying taxes) but because they oppose social programs from first principles. A social safety net makes it harder for them to exploit, enslave and rape people bsky.app/profile/gbaj...

I think this is missing the fact that there is probably a concerted effort to depress activism via bot/troll accounts that spread doomerism in replies to posts encouraging activism.

If they're blocked from conducting legally sanctioned oversight by 25 armed ICE officers, they need to go back with 50 U.S. marshals. They can't just fucking give up and say "oh well, guess we're not allowed to do our jobs".

This morning in Minneapolis, an ICE vehicle got stuck on an icy hill in a residential neighborhood. Agents had to push the vehicles out, some almost slipping in the ice themselves.

For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.

If she's not the next Speaker the party has entirely fucked up.

Agree. There should never have been a DHS. (Argued that at the time.) Nor the "Patriot" Act. Every Democrat, every actual patriot, should start with abolishing the modern gestapo that is "ICE."

senator, we all appreciate your trip to el salvador but 'no new funding' isn't good enough - we need everyone at "abolish ice"

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

every single official in a city invaded by ice thugs needs to do the exact same thing

It’s hard to find but you have to click on “report a problem” in tiny text.

I recommend submitting a complaint.

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

In an even remotely healthy political system and culture - and everywhere else in the democratic world - January 6 would have been a dealbreaker: The end of Trump as a major political figure. He would have been convicted, shunned, banished - everyone associated with him ostracized from public life.

If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.

the most braindead kind of take in these situations. we've had the unquestioned power to turn most countries into glass parking lots for most of our lifetimes. who on earth is still impressed by this?