So many different kinds of brutality

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

Abolish and/or dismantle the democratic leadership

Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night

How many journalists did Jeff Bezos fire while paying $40 million for an authorized Melania documentary

When people use AI to write things, their audiences use AI to read things. Safety regulations will end up being written by AI for some other AI to assess. But AI does not have skin in the game.

Umm… hard NO to this. Has this master of strategery learned nothing from Trump’s behaviour? No amount of appeasement nor pride swallowing will satisfy Trump. It just emboldens the next ask/demand. Firm resolve. Build what’s in our control. And stay the course as a sovereign nation. 🇨🇦

Oh he's so close! So close!

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A moment of silence that ends with someone shouting "fuck ICE!" and the crowd roaring in response

I’m not sure that’s my takeaway. My takeaway is more that this is terrifying and these people have crazy courage.

key local skill is remembering the difference between the DSA and the DSNY

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Occam’s Rube Goldberg device

The statement from Alex Pretti’s parents is just “tell the government to stop telling smirking, transparent lies about why it killed our son” which feels like a new low for our nation. This president and his toadies have brought us to our knees and must be driven out

They have honed their message, and it’s street violence and public executions. There is nothing more.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

I recommend not watching the videos, which are chaotic and gut-wrenching, and instead going through Bellingcat's analysis. This man appeared to be zero threat, while the officers were overly-aggressive, agitated, and clearly primed to used lethal force.

“Let’s do the fucking news”

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social EMERGENCY PROTEST TODAY. ICE just murdered another person in Minneapolis. Union Square. 4PM.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

"Just stay cool and don't make trouble until the midterms" is not going to cut it as an opposition response to a murderous regime whose masked thugs are killing people in the streets and then attempting to round up witnesses and destroy evidence.

There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.

Star Tribune confirms the man shot by ICE this morning is dead. ICE reportedly tried to order MPD to leave the scene but the chief of police refused and preserved the scene. BCA reportedly en route.

and their “leadership” wouldn‘t take a stand to compel them

The house and senate leadership of the democratic party needs to resign

If you’re to the right of Bill Kristol at this moment get off your ass.

Where is our national press? The government has been shooting at and harassing clergy for months. This used to be a red line. The reality is their red line moved, not yours. They’re cowards.

Canada is the largest market for US goods and services. This is insanity. It is also illegal. I think Canada and Europe should develop a trade version of NATO Article 5. Make an attack on any subject to a strong response from all. It’s the only way to shut down Trump. Markets must also spank him.

Dems are the HR of the United States. Not here to help, but here to give you false hope so you don’t form a union.

we should listen to our poets, they’ve thought harder about being human than most of us ever will

Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines. This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.

This is it, this is the thing.

in fact history teaches us the longer you try to turn around the Titanic, the harder it gets

Every single news cycle of the past 10 years

I genuinely think that a lot of Democratic elected are failing to meet the moment because they look at everything happening and they think, well, nothing bad can ever happen to me personally because I went to Harvard

The elites and institutions have folded but regular people haven’t

Had my weekly call with my colleague and friend in Kyiv. No heat, no power, sitting under blankets, just batteries and internet. ”But what can you do?”

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

Enthusiastically supporting an age limit of whatever Rahm Emmanuel is now

8am-7pm: horrors 7pm-10:30pm: sports!

Trump’s sudden about face on Greenland is an evergreen example of the fact that bullies often back down the moment you respond to their threats with resolve and force. They don’t like when the bullied fight back. I anticipate this will spur more resistance to Trump domestically by regular people.

Assuming there will be Canadian history books in the future - and there will be - Carney’s remarkable, made-to-stay-off-TV speech will be in them.

Call your reps. Let them know that if they vote for ICE funding, you will not vote for them ever again. Representatives need to feel the heat. NO on ICE funding. No excuses.

They shipped off a five year old wearing a hat with rabbit ears to detention in Texas.

Or someone busy triangulating their support for shutting this down against “moderate sentiment“

That’s quite enough Thucydides for one decade

I hope HootSuite is doing "trust-building" monitoring of their own brand, because this stench will stick to them forever. (Gift link!) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/6bbe4c1...

They called you grandpa and they were trying to get you to bed