The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

I’ve gotten mild pushback on my blog due to my skepticism over AIs supposed complexity but I just keep being proven correct

They can’t figure out how to spend the extra $500 billion they gave themselves for the military, but cut our healthcare and food assistance because they said they couldn’t afford it.

84 years sounds like a long time. And I know in some ways it is. But it's also not that long. I still have living relatives who were in the camps and who were old enough to remember it. This isn't abstract or ancient history. It's part of the living memory I grew up with.

Complaining that following the Constitution will stop you from doing the thing you want to do is... an admission that what you want to do is unconstitutional. You swore an oath to defend the Constitution. You are violating that oath, Rep. Alford. Time to go home and let someone else do the job.

Reasonable suspicion of not being white.

I see we’re taking the Mike Johnson route of “I don’t know, I’m not aware of this” and tweaking it to “I don’t know, ask someone else.”

ICE has completely broken our social contract. They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations

A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social

I think it is important to emphasize that at no point has anyone suggested a policy or campaign of vengeance against white people. Reparations for past harms is the most radical proposal people can think of, they’re making all of this up in their own minds.

Sorry, kid, the government cancelled research into a cure for your disease. The man who swims in sewage and snorts cocaine in public restrooms said it's bad for you. Besides, there's no money now that we're locking up your friend's parents and the guys who mowed our lawn.

This is the kind of plan you would develop if you wanted to intentionally kill thousands through neglect and disease. Which, if you know history, was how large proportions of people in concentration camps died The malnutrition and disease killed millions.

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

The media moved on when trump said he had a new tone because as the constitution states the president is the editor in chief of all news outlets

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

How are the folks responsible for securing the border supposed to do that if they aren’t at the border? And since the border IS supposedly secured, what the hell are they running around doing.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

As best I can tell, no one actually has jobs so much as they have competing spheres of influence that are affected by the whims of dementia orange grampa.

we need every grain of sand in the gears. every single one.

Sometimes it’s light outside, but then it gets dark. It looks on its face to be magic. Can I prove it? No.

Ah, yes rural communities where everyone totally has high-speed internet access, smart devices, and the know-how to use them. Not that non-rural communities don’t also face those same hurdles.

People wander around public libraries and sexualize books on shelves. Why are they not being shunned by society for being so WEIRD? That behavior isn't normal.

Are we no longer allowed to know who the identities of public servants?

one thing you can say about jeffrey epstein is that he simply loved emailing

I just want to talk to a human…

Catherine O'Hara is as much of a "good in absolutely everything, no matter how good the thing itself was" actor as Philip Seymour Hoffman.

“Law enforcement kills too many people for us to investigate all of them” is a hell of a stance.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

“The Hamburglar has promised us he won’t steal any more hamburgers. We have his assurances that there will be no more robble robble”

second sitting black congressperson to be assaulted in the past week. all the violence seems to be coming from one side, and it ain’t ours

And yet there are Republicans who still won’t hold town hall meetings….

Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.

Second Democratic rep. this week that was assaulted.

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

Again, existing in the neighbor that you live in and daring to go outside in said neighborhood is not stating or joining a protest just because unidentified masked thugs are also there.

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...

load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society

Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting. More accurate terms: - observers - witnesses - volunteers - neighbors - residents - people

How dare people be outside in the neighborhoods they live in when random violent masked men decide to randomly pop up unannounced.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Brandishing is a legal term that means to display all or part of a firearm, or otherwise make its presence known to another person to intimidate them, regardless of whether it's directly visible to that person. Given the video, that's not what Alex Pretti was doing when he was shot & killed.

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

We had 50K people downtown yesterday, no ICE and zero incidents. ICE is the fucking problem.

Authoritarianism doesn’t announce itself. It arrives wrapped in “security,” “order,” and “law enforcement.” Minneapolis is being used as a proving ground. If we don’t stop this now, we may not get another chance.

A society functioning under law and order would not feature knee-jerk PR damage control from the government before all facts are gathered, but rather public reassurance that a thorough investigation will take place according to the law.

in some ways, seeing the video is irrelevant, because having to say or parse who is at fault, even when obvious, moves us away from the larger criminality that *none of this should be happening in the first place*.

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.