I’m not reading too much into this. This fucking tweet has 14 words, and 88 characters with spaces.

Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.

I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes: these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Step 1: Create street violence Step 2: Blame enemy group for street violence Step 3: Brutally oppress enemy group in the name of ending street violence Step 4: Tell goons to provoke less violence for a sec Step 5: "You have to give us more power so we can prevent street violence in the future."

block immediately everyone

I can't believe we are being forced to live through these times led by a man who has somehow remained in charge of this party in spite of the fact that the only American people he listens to are his imaginary friends who mostly vote for Trump.

I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.

To hear the Oglala tribal president tell it, they are withholding the men and any information about them until the Oglala sign some kind of agreement with ICE

No! The criticism of the Dems isn't that they never win elections, it's that they don't use power to solve the problems that got us here. Elite impunity, concentration of wealth, the unitary executive. Winning is only step 1

The Supreme Court only cleared the way for Kavanaugh Stops four months ago and ICE now openly engages in violent racial profiling, snatching anyone who looks non-white and treating them as presumptively guilty of a crime. Remarkable how quickly our liberties can be crushed when courts go along.

i did not conceptualize this behavior as a sexual assault on the world, but apparently i was supposed to fucking gross

one of the things a lot of technocrats don't get about Star Trek is that the future of Star Trek? it can be *right now* we don't need spaceships, we don't need replicators, we just need a society that is built for humans and not...um... Technocrats

repeal the Homeland Security Act of 2002

I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them. But this one hit today. And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon. fascism wrapped in our own flag

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

the democrats are right we should focus on kitchen table issues. for example there is a guy at my kitchen table who wants to shoot me in the face with a gun

the thing about “ICE needs training” is that Jonathan Ross was a ten year DHS vet and a firearms instructor he’s the kind of guy they get training from the whole institution is rotten, throw it out

Slightly diminish a band: Bismuth Zeppelin

I have some congresspeople who follow me, so I'll just throw this out there: As a taxpayer, I would actually prefer that you *not* continue to fund the fascist military machine that is being used to kill and kidnap people from our communities.

When juries started refusing to indict or convict activists on bogus charges, DHS shifted very quickly to shooting activists in the face. That is not a coincidence.

Abolish and prosecute ICE is the moderate position.

Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Do not help them manufacture consent. It doesn’t matter if the foreign leader is good or bad, right or left wing, democratically elected or a dictator. The President ordering the invasion of a foreign country to abduct their leader violates US and international law; and, that’s all that matters.

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Specifically, a protest song about how the sons of the rich were able to avoid fighting, like fighting-age Donald Trump who got four deferments for being in college and another for bone spurs.

we wouldn't need a new year if they didn't keep making them shittier and shittier all the time

any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

Thread. This is a crucial thing for non-Christian Americans to understand. Most Christian Nationalists think it’s an act of kindness on their part to tell you that you will be going to hell if you don’t convert. It’s incomprehensible to most of them that they’re being bigots.

The Diversity Visa program is the only way to legally immigrate to the United States without having immediate family already here, credible fear, an employment-based visa, or half a million dollars or more to invest in a US-based business.

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.

The first American known to undergo gender reassignment surgery did so in 1951. People with gender-crossing identities have existed in many cultures as far back as we can check—to antiquity. This is a campaign of hate against a vulnerable group. It’s dictatorshit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi...

This is why no one intelligent should back newsom. His actions are being used as a cudgel to ban trans care

Reject any motherfucker who tells you we need to abandon a vulnerable population or person. They’re either a fascist or a fascist-in-waiting.

Oh, sure. If I’d only known the actual cost of treatment, I would have just chosen to not get leukemia last year. I mean, what the actual fuck?

Alex, give me "Why do voters thinks 'both sides' are corrupt for $600."

He shouldn’t just be pushed out as the House Democrats’ leader; he needs to be primaried out of his seat entirely. Just a complete waste of a deep blue seat.

I named my fists Weyland and Yutani because they do not give one single fuck about your safety.

DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey. This isn’t controversial. A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

Just fyi if any consultants are reading it takes some of the bite out of the president calling for members of Congress to be executed when said members use the opportunity to send out fundraising texts