Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”

Live shot of Greg Bovino leaving Minneapolis

From a FB post about Alex Pretti:

This is who they took from us. Let this fill you with incandescent fucking rage. Fuck ICE/CBP/DHS/DOJ. They ALL need to fucking hang.

The specific detail that gets me about Alex Pretti is that he became an ICU nurse in 2021. A year into the pandemic, he went toward danger, to where his help was needed most. He did the same thing today. They shot him for it.

this is it. this is the level. this is the standard for democratic officials. anything less is intolerable.

The whole interview is worth it

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

as clergy pray arrests begin. just let that sentence ring out, ring it loud

Elon Musk is donating $10 million to a Republican primary candidate in Kentucky. That’s more money than the vast majority of Americans will ever see — much less donate. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

WHOA

Watch this, then see update further down, that after all of this, ICE returned the man they dragged out of this house, as they discovered he was a US CITIZEN with no criminal record. This cannot be reformed. This must END. Everyone of these motherfuckers needs to be on trial for their crimes.

I struggle to understand why Minnesota's senators don't go nuclear and refuse unanimous consent on ALL MATTERS until the body demands answers—& withdrawal—from Minneapolis

Taking a Still Life Photography course, and these are from the first session earlier today. A lot of fun and a good mental break. #photography #stilllife OM System OM-5 and 25mm f1.2 Pro

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Thinking back to when a 2021 Minnesota jury convicted Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd where the deciding evidence to convict for them wasn't just that he used excessive force on an unarmed civilian on camera, but that he also denieded any potential life saving medical treatment for him.

This dude is intense and correct

The reality is that ICE and DHS actually CAN and ARE attacking people who are exercising their rights. I say this NOT to dissuade anyone from exercising those rights, but to challenge @tedlieu.bsky.social and other politicians to do more to protect those rights than post this kind of thing.

This moved me more than I was expecting. Give it a watch, link in the comments.

The man you see being drug away is my good friend Will. He’s a citizen, a veteran of Afghanistan a Purple Heart recipient. He was kidnapped by ICE today. @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social please. His wife doesn’t know what to do. He was simply standing in his yard.

I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks. IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against

NEW An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found: In many vehicle shooting cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.” 🧵

Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

ICE must be abolished. Some things can get so broken that there’s no fixing them.

Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, in her November 20 opinion in a case over the federal government’s treatment of protesters and press in Illinois, warned us — warned America — that Wednesday was coming. My overnight report at Law Dork:

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.

An off-duty ICE agent was just confronted in Minneapolis after people noticed a Nazi SS lightning bolt tattoo on his neck. If you’re proud enough to ink it on your neck, why are you running when people notice?

With news of yet another DHS shooting breaking, a reminder that DHS’s initial statements should not be trusted without further verification, given previous post-shooting statements which crumbled under further investigation. In addition, be wary of short context-free video clips shared virally.

Wrote up my thoughts on all the nonsense replies I've been getting falsely claiming that @schumer.senate.gov can't do anything and I should stop telling him to do more. There's a TON that he can do, as I outline in the piece. And he's doing basically none of it.

If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

Chicago!

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

your moment of zen

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

CBS has cancelled a story about the Christmas Nigeria bombings because Bari Weiss complained it implied that Nigerians are human beings without seeking an alternative perspective from Steven Miller.

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

Tired: Bury the Lede Wired: Bari the Story

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Statement on Kennedy Center Board Action: In 1964, Congress established the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as a living memorial to President Kennedy. Only Congress can change its name.

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team This is Chicago's only Black owned media outlet and a crucial part of ICE/CBP reporting during an actual emergency. Unacceptable/please free @thetriibe.com

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.