I hope smart people are quietly brainstorming how to continue this country if/when the GOP is voted out of power because there's no going back. The destruction is already too overwhelming. It's going to take some very creative thinking and a lot of nerve to do it. Is there an FDR in the house?

NEW: Trump declares we are in a "non-international armed conflict" with "unlawful combatant" drug cartels. There are notably no designated terrorist organizations at the center of the conflict. Could he use this to justify deportations under the Alien Enemies Act? apnews.com/article/trum...

How can you claim to be fighting cartels and scrap the task force that specializes in fighting cartels??

I keep thinking about the ICE officer cackling and saying “fuck them kids” while zip tying together naked children ripped from their homes in the middle of the night. Evil. Just pure evil

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

The government has effectively been shut down for months as Trump has destroyed checks and balances, usurped the power of the purse from Congress, and unleashed an authoritarian nightmare throughout the country. Why would any Democrat vote for any continuing resolution that allows this to continue?

"Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said." www.wbez.org/immigration/...

That ICE Raid in Chicago, on the apartment building, is just Blackwater all over again. This time in the US! COMPLETELY ILLEGAL! UNCONSTITUTIONAL! THIS NEEDS TO END IMMEDIATELY!

Might want to check that Far-Right slush fund...I mean "Sovereign Wealth Fund"

I wonder, if like in Nazi Germany, those that were deported or left Germany, before the activities linked to the Holocaust started, we're the lucky ones.

Go figure, the party commiting the most waste and fraud, in recorded history, is claiming they are trying to prevent waste, fraud, abuse by denying people healthcare.

🚨 “They put black people in one van and immigrants an another… Trucks and military style vans were used to separate children from their parents.” THIS. IS. HAPPENING. People need to see this. We all need to see it. Nobody gets a pass here. Please share with your networks. 1/2

BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.

They can call it whatever they want, but by setting up a "Unified Command" to handle crowd control at Broadview, the Cook County Sheriffs and the Illinois State Police are performing security work for ICE—something that is not supposed to happen in this state.

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Fascists don't need to worry about military leadership not following lawful orders. They don't really need the military at all. They will just form a paramilitary force, separate from the US military apparatus. What do you think they planned on doing with all that money they allocated?

We can start calling ICE- Whitewater

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

I wonder, if like in Nazi Germany, those that were deported or left Germany, before the activities linked to the Holocaust started, we're the lucky ones.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

The American Gestapo is dragging Americans out of bed and handcuffing them with no warrant to try to convince you that brown people are hurting you rather than the truth which is that white male child rapists are selling America for parts to oligarchs and don’t care who gets stomped. #GOPFascism

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

This is an Epstein shutdown.

CUOMO: I'm not used to seeing naked propaganda on a government website. Are you worried about violating the Hatch Act? TURNER: We're not worried at all. This is about letting the American people know what's going on. C: It's not true. That's why I'm bringing it up. That's why it's propaganda.

ICE will be at the Super Bowl. That’s been confirmed. So, what now? Will players boycott? (Not likely). Will Bad Bunny boycott (Maybe). Will Americans do nothing? (HIGHLY LIKELY).

Anyone else finding it kinda hard to get work done as our country descends into fascism?

Yesterday, we asked Illinois residents to contact their elected officials to ask them to stand up to ICE and join us for a press conference at Broadview this Friday morning. Guess what? It’s working. An alderperson just called me to let me know a constituent emailed her and she will be attending.

Go figure, the party commiting the most waste and fraud, in recorded history, is claiming they are trying to prevent waste, fraud, abuse by denying people healthcare.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones: "In New Hampshire we do not provide health insurance for illegal immigrants, we have never done that, and you are just wrong."

Might want to check that Far-Right slush fund...I mean "Sovereign Wealth Fund"

If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.

That ICE Raid in Chicago, on the apartment building, is just Blackwater all over again. This time in the US! COMPLETELY ILLEGAL! UNCONSTITUTIONAL! THIS NEEDS TO END IMMEDIATELY!

ICE agents have been abducting our neighbors, brutalizing protesters, and operating with impunity. Tomorrow I will be speaking alongside other local leaders at 1930 Beach St in Broadview, IL. Tell your elected officials to take a stand alongside us.

I know Blackwater operations when I see them. Because this is EXACTLY how they operated in Iraq! Now it's in Chicago! This is WRONG!

Elizabeth Warren: "The president said 'I am going to impose a lot more pain on my fellow American citizens. I'm going to impose a lot more pain on people in NY who need to use those tunnels so I can get my way politically.' To me, that is a place to stop & say, then we're ready to fight about this"

Question: If a POTUS was actually a Russian asset with the specific intent of destroying the military power, market strength, social unity, economic hegemony & global influence of the United States from within, what would that person do DIFFERENTLY than what that asshole is doing right now?

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

"The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves." Jane Goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall, the legendary animal rights advocate, has died at 91.

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall

THE WORLD SUFFERED A LOSS TODAY

Oh Lord please watch over David Attenborough for a few more years. I couldn't take Goodall and Attenborough passing away in the same year. 🙏

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

So the Fascists did their little Fascist Off-Broadway show in front of Top Brass and 9/10 reviews are BAD! SO SAD!

And after 40 minutes of cringe-Thunderous applause from the generals! Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗

I was born in the Nixon Administration. That's Wilson in the UK. I remember the Ford Administration. That's the second Wilson in the UK. I have seen some really stupid government shutdowns. This is far and away the stupidest, most malicious, most inexcusable shutdown of my lifetime.