This is dystopian… and not just because they’re dressed like a scene from the handmaids tale. These are mostly children. This is where Liam Ramos is being held. They’re screaming “let us out” and protesting the brutal conditions. These kids are braver than every ICE thug holding them hostages

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

This is such a disturbing idea. Setting aside that you can't do immigration work in someone else's country, the government using them as private protection is wild. The implications are staggering. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fucking boo

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

If you’re Dems, please coalesce around Stephen Miller not having a job anymore.

We're not stuck in a holy war with these guys, we're up against a growing hoard of Warhammer nerds who are satire resistant.

Oh. Found the LRAD. In Minneapolis. Being used on Americans. By their own militarized state police forces. That we all pay for. www.reddit.com/r/NextGenReb...

hell yea neil, thanks for banging out the tunes

Cinema

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

I apologize for the notes app screenshot, but I had a chunk of thoughts that I wanted to get out without a thread. Fuck ICE.

it is both true that firing bovino doesn’t change a whole lot in terms of policy and also true that they have put a lot of money, time and effort into trying to make him the “never back down, fuck you, we own this place” face of the operation, and unceremoniously kicking him to the curb is a retreat

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Bovino is still wild to me as the most nailed on “tertiary antagonist” looking dude I have ever seen. This man is central casting for “imperial officer” in any sci fi. He is 100% the guy here to make sure the village pays its share of the tribute.

Abbot had the state guard commit a war crime under biden (they put razor wire in the rio grande), so him having public doubts means they are seeing polls and freaking out

They had a chance to print (sic) sycophant and they blew it.

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Is it bad when an entire political movement in charge of a nation’s government is afflicted with poaster’s madness

i say this as someone with at least a mild background in cybersecurity — tiktok is now trump/fedgov spyware. you need to delete your account and app ASAP. just because the app isn‘t open doesn’t mean they won’t be harvesting your personal data to target you. queer folx get the fuck off that app

This is actually...idk a quietly huge story to me haha. Geoff Keighley altering plans of devs around having content for his show is like...deeply unethical lmao.

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

The rest of it is even funnier

wake up babe, a new magic: the gathering archetype is hitting the uk

funny how people call for a general strike after a nurse gets murdered and it's united who calls for "peace and cooperation"...

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

‪It's funny how this reminds me of Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown: militarized policing organizations literally can't understand non-hierarchical action (whatever its goal) and if you explain it to them they reset after five minutes and go back to asking who's in charge

it is impossible to miss the difference between the names you see in newspaper headlines and the names you don't see in newspaper headlines

the future for every ICE agent

transvestigating the Leviathan

me to me, every time i look out the window

I wholly understand that "socialist" "communist" and "Marxist-Leninist" are all terms with slightly different referents but it remains crazy to me how in Fox News-ese it's basically saying "warlocks" "orcs" and "goblins"

More from historian Thomas Zimmer's thread. In short, MAGA atrocities will shrink their support. But even when the WSJ & FOX plead with him to moderate, Trump will use more outrages & violence bc that's all he knows. Our simple rule remains: DO NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE.

Resisting the might-makes-right order, in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba and Greenland. Boycott, divest from, or exclude from contracts these complicit US companies.

In a democracy, the government is accountable to citizens. Trump officials believe citizens are accountable to them, on penalty of death.

My toddler ran into the middle of this battle and was instantly liquefied by a stray Draco Meteor

trump has probably destroyed the minnesota republican party for the duration

the thing about her is she has exactly one skill which is telling people with more money than her that they are right and everyone else is stupid and it's a skill that gets you the gig but doesn't help you keep it at all

While I prefer to be abstract with my art, this is the time to take the direct approach.

this is more transparent than the cop in a hawaiian shirt who asked me if i sold any "paraphernalia" at the hookah lounge i worked at

A war correspondent who says Minneapolis reminds him most of the Arab Spring, which he witnessed firsthand. Vivid portrait of decentralized resistance in the US, & the persistence of community organizing after George Floyd’s murder & the continued hypernormalization of trauma on our schoolchildren.

At about 1m20 the most non-elite US mall ninja shows up with a bafflingly seemingly self inflicted bleeding nose, tucks a shotgun under his taint before tossing a munition canister god knows where, then starts shooting at journalists. If you saw this in a war videogame you’d think it was broken.

in case you missed it, I WAS ON NPR TALKING ABOUT COW TOOLS THIS MORNING AND YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT:

being heckled at a restaurant for being in the gestapo and being beat up by 6 gestapo agents, bear sprayed, and shot 8 times with zero accountability is equivalent to these freaks