Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

The Trump regime’s escalation in Minneapolis is by design. The shortest path to an authoritarian regime was always Trump’s mass deportation campaign. It requires authoritarian infrastructure. And it provokes a response that they then portray as “insurrection”- a pretext for seizing more power.

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

Excellent. I can’t think of a more primary-worthy Democratic Senator.

i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.

So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away. Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.

I see we’re at the, “C’mon, the Alabama state troopers were really being treated disrespectfully at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Also, a couple of them got scratches that day,” level of ICE apologetics.

Here's an update on this story. There were 6 children injured & hospitalized. A child's car seat was flipped over from the impact. The baby stopped breathing! #ICELawlessness & savagery endangers our communities. Ask your neighbors if they think this is freedom. www.fox9.com/news/6-child...

His 6 month old stopped breathing! HIS SIX MONTH OLD STOPPED BREATHING! A father was getting his kids out of the neighborhood because it was unsafe & ICE threw flash bangs & tear gas at his car with children & a baby inside! His 6 month old stopped breathing & all the children were hospitalized!

Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.

CALL TO ACTION: DOJ won’t investigate Renee Good’s killer, but they ARE investigating her widow. This is horrifyingly wrong. Make your voice heard by calling DOJ’s civil rights office at (202) 514-3847. Together, we can make a difference. #justiceforrenee #begood youtube.com/shorts/Ef4p9...

If you think this is just “online-radicalized protesters,” you’re not paying attention. People have seen the videos: folks dragged from cars, tear-gassed, kids pulled off the job. Prosecutors are resigning, cops aren’t being investigated, and somehow the victims get labeled “terrorists.”

Abolish ice is about to become a centrist position

What could Hakeem Jeffries and the Dem leadership including @whipkclark.bsky.social do? This. They could do this. This is being done against the wishes of the Dem leadership.

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

@aoc.bsky.social has this exactly right.

Donald Trump is scared out of his mind that Republicans are going to lose the House in the midterms, if not sooner given how fast things are unraveling, which is why he’s accelerating his authoritarian and fascist plans at a pace we’ve never seen before. This isn’t confidence, it’s panic.

Trump has: - Illegally & unconstitutionally attacked Venezuela - Provided Netanyahu with $12B in arms sales - Given Argentina's president a $40B bailout - Approved the sale of jets & tanks to Saudi Arabia - Given Qatar an Air Force facility in Idaho America first? Really?

Jim Jordan spent two years interviewing dozens of Google, Meta, and Amazon executives specifically seeking evidence of government coercion. Every single witness contradicted his censorship claims. @noupside.bsky.social

“They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats.” “The 2020 election was stolen.” “January 6th was Nancy Pelosi’s fault.” “She’s a domestic terrorist.” “I’ll lower grocery prices on day one.” “No new foreign entanglements.” Lies. All lies.

Renee Good’s last words were to ICE agent Jonathan Ross: “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.” Then Ross shot Renee three times in the face. As she was dying, his last words to her were: “Fucking bitch.” And JD Vance thought that exchange exonerated ICE. That says it all.

"The notion that Donald Trump claims this is somehow making the country safer is absurd. It’s making the country more dangerous… The domestic terrorists are ICE!"

This would be a great question to pose to the White House. If you believe that federal officers can kill individuals who disobey their orders, does that mean you think the Capitol Police should have opened fire on January 6th? Do you think Ashli Babbitt deserved to die and others should have too?

The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Amazing to me that Donald Trump has not been asked once to comment on this insanely Neo-Nazi post from his Homeland Security department, nor asked who are the 50 to 60 *million* US citizens that his DHS say they want to ‘deport.’

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

Fox News claims to be airing the "entire video" -- but they're cutting off before the officer says, "fucking bitch."

Best moment of the NBA season:

This is the classic response of a psychopathic and fascist political leader.

BINGO from Janet Mills: My problem with Susan Collins is that she never does the right or hard thing the first time when it’s needed most – only when it serves her politically – and we always pay the price. Once again, she is a day late and a dollar short.

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

Six reasons why Trump’s attack on Venezuela was very wrong:

Trump, Noem, and this entire criminal administration must be held accountable by Congress for their myriad crimes against the public. It is the solemn constitutional and moral duty of all members of Congress to exercise their legal authority to remove them from executive office.

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

Expertly done by Mehdi. Worth the watch.

When The Spectator ran the same lie, and I asked THEM for a correction, their editor said they wouldn’t correct — because Matt Taibbi and the Free Press intern had said these things were true, and that was their sourcing. Right wing media is about laundering bs for your friends.

Bari Weiss's Free Press website ran this screed by Matt Taibbi defending his lawsuit against a book author. But the Free Press apparently never reached out to the author. Even though Weiss spiked that 60 Minutes piece for not reaching out to enough Trump officials www.thefp.com/p/matt-taibb...

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

1984 stuff here. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

Even after all these years—after the missed opportunities to set American politics on a better course, the relentless cowardice of those who could have resisted Trump’s return to power, & the pervasive abdication of constitutional duty—it is still shocking to see *this* on the White House website.

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.