"It is criminal to..." "It is illegal to..." "The law says they can't..." Yep, we know. They're engaging in brazen lawlessness. The problem is our system just won't deal with it for some deeply perturbing reason...

So I'm coming around to the idea of equal representation coupled with proportional representation. But in my thoughts, the equal representation chamber (the Senate) is massively neutered from what we have now. No law making power whatsoever. Only confirmations, and that's it.

Are we ever going to learn Alex Pretti's murderer's name? If not, this is it. Secret police is 100% here. Not sure what else you need as clear indicators that America has become a fascist nation. And no, it didn't happen overnight. It surely took longer than a year. 50 years. It took 50 years.

Double standards. Nothing to see here. These people threatened BLM protestors, remember? That is acceptable use of 2A. Remember, the 2A is just another government tool used to oppress women and minorities. I haven't seen it used, literally (I'm using that word correctly), in any other way.

Democrats are so afraid of being seen as left wing, every accusation from Republicans about being "radical leftists" drags the party to the right. The rest of the world can see we just have two right wing parties. The leftists in this country really need to just let the Dems go.

Trump didn't just create a secret police. All the ingredients were already there when he took office. He just empowered ICE with weapons and cash and essentially turned them into his secret police. Since 2002, we've been warning about government overreach and now we're reaping what we've sewn.

You guys should have uninstalled TikTok when it was a Chinese tool to worsen our society. Look at Chinese TikTok vs American TikTok and tell me the damage isn't deliberate.

I call my senators / congresswoman often. It's my duty, and it's not difficult *at all*. What's actually difficult about it is pushing through my resentment. These are folks I pay *really well* to be decent. And I resent having to PLEAD with them to do be decent. It makes me feel crazy.

If I were not involved, I would be listening to some say, "No violence, that is what they want" and thinking, isn't that just what "they" would want us to think? Violence works. Terrorism works. That's why they are doing it. Everything is a negotiation. Fear is leverage. Have no fear. Instill it.

Magic: The Gathering, a social game that somehow attracts the most anti-social people into the fold. You'd think a game that forces human to human interaction would foster more positive outcomes in this area. Weird.

The only reason why "take everything" decks irritate me is, when people eventually leave because they came to play with their stuff, the winning player whines about how "my deck doesn't function without opponents". Well, think about that if you're going to build a pile that people scoop to.

I hope we don't end up in a George Floyd Justice in Policing Act situation where Dems propose ineffective or counter-productive reforms that assuage the media but don't fix anything. But everyone who failed then is still in charge now so that should be the default expectation until proven otherwise.

ICE must be destroyed.

"We need to be bringing down the temperature," say republicans, who continue to fan the flames with their heated rhetoric.

Republicans, using violence and force, saying the violence and force will continue until the resisting stops. Republican wives, are you okay? That's some real abuser shit, fyi.

James David Vance, the border you are worried about us no where near Minneapolis. But you knew that, didn't you? You disingenuous twat waffle.

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

Okay. Time to call your democratic senators and tell them that Bovino’s demotion and humiliation WILL NOT SUFFICE to fund DHS.

They offered Bovinos head up on a silver platter 😂🤣 don’t be excited this is merely damage control! They’re killing too many whites now so the administration had to do something!

John Fetterman was a huge mistake and is a case study in why we need a recall system in this nation. Bless his heart, but a stroked out Senator who ran on a completely different platform than the one who is enacting is just nonsense. We deserve better.

Pam Bondi, girl, you talk too much.

just have to say I am genuinely tired of hearing the take that Republicans are afraid of Democrats taking power again because “they would go to prison”, like what shred of evidence do you have of any legal accountability from the past decade of lawless nascent-to-full blown fascism?

i hope people understand now why kamala’s loss was devastating to so many people, this country is in an awful state

Idk why we keep wasting time on Johnson. He knows nothing, move on. Write him down as the most useless Speaker in history (including McCarthy) and just move on. Assume he knows nothing at all times. Report as if he doesn't. He'll just say he doesn't when asked anyway.

What's this? Balls on republicans? No fucking way.

Black Lives Matter, regardless of what you think.

Protesting for Black Lives: "Go in there an shoot a protestor or two! The system will protect you." Protesting against ICE: "You must comply with the law (of which we just made up), or we will execute you." Are we waking up to the reality of the Second Amendment yet? How it's only used against us?

All 10 shots were fired AFTER they removed the gun from Pretti’s waist. Every single shot was fired after he was disarmed.

"Voting won't save the country!" - guy who didn't vote in 2024 or any election since turning 18 Yes, good, you're so smart! If only we could match your intellect!

How do you forgive a nation that hated having a black president so much, it's given us a decade of Trump and has essentially regressed us, socially, to the 1960s?

This is why the right "wins" in this country. We had to listen to Hunter Biden nonsense for years even though nothing came of it. Trump's kids are literally grifting, and "leftwing" politicians and news are silent on the whole thing. Yep, we've got (and always had) a right wing country.

Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those

It was about controlling a minority population. Never about overthrowing a government. Unless that government is majority minority, then the NRA might rise up then. They wanted to when it was just Obama, lol. "Tyranny is when minorities more are successful than me!" - them, probably

People who say we need the 2A to overthrow the government are kinda slow. That was never the intent of the 2A, and you'd know that if you just studied (or bothered to remember) the Whiskey Rebellion. The 2A is an apparatus to help white men maintain power over minorities. That's all it ever was.

Glad I relentlessly mocked Charlie Kirk's pathetic life when he died. The exact same way the Federal Government is mocking the dead victims of ICE. Fuck anyone who clutched pearls over Kirk, and also, fuck Kirk, and his trashy wife.

So. To date, I have seen ONE Dem Rep in Congress call for ICE to be abolished. Ilhan Omar. Not defunded. Not trained and restrained. ABOLISHED. Are there any others? If so, post them and let's get a count on the number of Dems in Congress.

Remember when badmouthing Charlie Kirk (yo, fuck him, btw, glad he's gone) got people fired? We'll, conservatives are now showing us that it was always an "own the libs" move as they endlessly and viciously mock the victims of ICE violence. With no one losing their jobs over it. Yeah.

For anyone thinking "The NRA has a come to Jesus moment" lmfao. Look at who you desperately try to prop up.

@ajc.com I'm paying for news, not the opinions of a bigot like Buddy Carter. You should really think about how you print his trash, especially since he wrote his opinion to sound like it's the AJC's opinion. Buddy Carter, you trash human being, learn some compassion.

Pointing out the hypocrisy only matters if a largely white and comfortable electorate demand better. Otherwise, this shit society they've created is what we have.

White people: "wE dOn't KnoW WhaT To Do tO dIsMantLE fasCism" Well, if you listened to us as we studied a history you have the fortune of having and knowing, we could have stopped this. The attitude with which a majority of white Americans view this moment in is disheartening. I'm tired.

"Dems brought us to this point." Dems aren't in power, dummy.

I'm sorry, I thought this was America. I thought I had a right to bear arms. Turns out, the 2A isn't a "right to bear arms" but rather a "right to bear arms for the express purpose of killing minorities" You can't even *possess* a weapon around a cop without dying. Glad we got that all cleared up.

I swear… Some people really should start to consider that, perhaps, nothing is a “distraction” and fascism is just bad all around.

The people who vehemently defend the DNC and say “why don’t progressives and leftists start their own party instead of whining?” The donor class makes sure any actual progressive/leftist political movement is squashed because they’re a direct threat to their existence. Hope that helps!

This cruelty must end and those that perpetrated it must be brought to justice.

Cats are on a "need to know" basis, that is, they need to know everything.

I'm just so tired of it. White Americans give me shit for "doomerism", but shit has been bleak for me and people like me for close to 350 years. Your privilege is showing.

Making you say the pledge every day in grade school is part of what this machine did to create this situation.

Federal agencies are *trying* to warn the public about the massive winter storm. Official social media posts, however, are being denied because warning about ICE is not allowed. How juvenile this administration is.