EXACTLY SO. The point isn't to catch ineligible voters. The point is to threaten ELIGIBLE voters with the possibility they may be dragged away for any illicit reason or for none at all. It's voter suppression

Because ICE does ethnically & racially discriminatory "law enforcement" that often includes unjustified detentions, beatings & sometimes killings of American citizens. Their presence creates risk & will keep legitimate voters, especially voters of color, away from the polls. That is the strategy.

Steve Rogers says:

The point of putting ice in airports isn’t just to put ice in airports. It’s to normalize putting them anywhere as “extra security.” This will include polling places w/ long lines in minority communities, polling places in blue/purple districts, & anywhere else it “helps” the people deploying them.

Clearly, despite his claim, discipline didn’t teach him respect. So by inference…

That’s because it is a war

People should get paid to watch their own kids! Until 1997, this was a thing (it was a pittance!) but it was decided this created a disincentive for mothers to "work" (as opposed to, you know, raising their children, which is somehow... not work?)

If you were to show up at an airport in a tactical vest that said ICE on it and a temporary Punisher tattoo you get from a gumball machine you could do some real bad shit right now. Granted you'd have to cosplay as a guy with a lobotomy who can't do a pushup.

There’s a very good reason that doctors are not supposed to treat their close relatives and lawyers are not supposed to represent them — familiar bonds make people do extraordinarily stupid things, like commit federal crimes.

Losing my mind listening to Watson v. RNC. There is no uniform Election Day in the sense these people want. Put aside early voting; put aside military ballots. What about states with runoffs? Are all runoff election ballots invalid? This is a completely bananas interpretation of the law

Precisely

Something that seems to be (for some reason) under discussed: how can Iran possibly negotiate with the US/Israel at all right now? When your negotiation partners show flagrant disregard for international law and are willing to renege on any agreement, what is there even to negotiation on.

Trump could have sent any number of groups to the airports to help TSA. He chose ICE for a reason! Because it’s another opportunity for them to kidnap people! Airports are a great place to find people! You think ICE quotas are gonna disappear at airports??

The only 3 things we know for certain: 1) He lies constantly to get out of whatever fuck up of the day he has 2) He's the most ideologically flaky fuck who has ever existed 3) He thinks he is much much smarter than he is, and he's clearly a moron This is without even getting into his IDF bro

The formula is plainly absurd

Former California AG "Xavier Becerra is speaking out after he and three other Democratic candidates for governor were excluded from a debate at the University of Southern California at the end of this month."

I hope this treatment can be made available to every sickle cell patient.

And here it is with spaces for text so you can use it as a meme template:

Elon Is The Asshole

Too soon

That about sums it up

My sense at the time was that Mueller served Trump up to Congress on a silver platter and they blinked. There’s only so much a special counsel or any other authority can or should do on their own. But it’s obvious Congress needs rebuke and guidance to do anything. We still see it today.

the failure of Merrick Garland in dithering and adhering to norms that were no longer remotely adequate in the face of the threat of a Trump comeback is even more damning after watching what happened with Mueller

Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI:

Argh. Don’t make it about Saxon. This is believable ND behavior. The real question is why would Elon take his 20yo son? Did he know Saxon would not enjoy dining there? Or did he not know? Either way, EITA

This 🧵 👇🏼

Incredibly funny that the president of the United States can do this and retain command of the American Armed Forces, but I said it about a literal Nazi and got fired from a job writing superhero comics.

False. They were targeted for being insufficiently deferential to someone in death sufficiently useful to Trump. That isn’t the case here, where the person who passed was a Republican who when alive couldn’t manage to move fast enough to harm Trump

If you cannot condemn the Israeli government's war machine and Gazan genocide without resorting to basic bitch 101 antisemitism it's safe to say you probably don't have the chops for the subject. 😒

Please read this remarkable piece.

A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel. This sucks, man

Burnout leftist friend: “social democracy & new deal democrats are the moderate wing of fascism” me: “ok that’s ridiculous just look at Bernie Sanders” Sanders: “I LOVE THIS BLACKWATER MERCENARY WITH A NAZI TATTOO” me: “…” Burnout Leftist friend:

Who the fuck is supposed to believe this?

But it’s a million dollars if the DOJ subpoenas the phone records of a congress-critter

nothing better illustrates the desperate search for a media business model like a 50MB web page with a 90:10 ad-to-content ratio

It’s not antisemitic to hate Israel. I hate Israel. It is antisemitic to see someone with visual markers of being Jewish (eg wearing a kippah) and your first thought is “I hate Israel”.

Yes. Context absolutely matters. Shouting "Free, free Palestine" at, specifically, random Jews? Very, very bad. Shouting "Free, free Palestine" at people physically attacking your anti-genocide encampment? Go for it

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If the mission was so classified he can't talk about it, then what the fuck is he doing talking about it? See, this is Fake Shit Talker In The Bar territory.

I know a teenager who’d see this map as a challenge to try them all. And Fluffernutter is not weird but a wholesome meal any time of day.

The obvious way to handle this is to cover *everyone* regardless of service or lack thereof

Every single thing named after Cesar Chavez should be renamed for Dolores Huerta

Sorry but the secretary says the President says that's what he thought. We literally have no idea what the orange oaf actually thought or thinks; nor do we have any idea if there is any continuity of thought between then and now. What we know is KL is trashing him. So? He's out, good riddance. Fin

I just heard back from the reporter, and I am genuinely speechless. Is “we don’t care” the business model?

Look, even if you for whatever reason believe these are genuine and substantive concessions, what makes you lend any credibility to this administration that they won't just take the money and run? That's like... their whole deal!

He was a Catholic. Both of his parents were Catholic. His mom was ethnically French. His dad was the single most famous ethnically Irish person in human history. The Pogues posed in front of a picture of his dad on their first album. How was he a WASP?

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/