These 153 Democrats deserve a huge amount of criticism for voting for this bill, and have earned primary challenges for doing so. But this bill is not the sum total of Trump's agenda, and accusing them of being "in lock step with Trump's agenda" is defeatist hyperbole.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...

This is a pretty severe escalation from CBS, just straight up lying like this.

BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each. If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.

Black women who go to church are the backbone of the Democratic Party. The party cease to exist without the political organization of these women. But do tell me more Ezra Klein about how the white guy who looks like you is the avatar of liberal Christianity.

Not the key part of this story, obviously... but they *sold* his phone? WTF?

I think what we're seeing here unfortunately isn't an emerging, new party consensus, so much as an illustration of the fact that the division between business-as-usual Dems and meet-the-crisis Dems in Congress is far from identical to the division between centrist Dems and progressive Dems.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

preview says 3, as of now the headline is updated to 6

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Just spitballing here, but I think the founders probably wouldn't have approved of a President putting the entirety of a highly militarized federal government on a war footing against a state because he didn't like how they voted in the last election. But I'm sure John Roberts knows what he's doing.

Can't we just send them to El Salvador or Sudan?

Other people go have a drink after a loss like this but Aaron Rodgers is going to go out there and get measles

My guess is that the person who wrote that Facebook post doesn't sympathize and identify with the police who guarded the Capitol on 1/6/21 and doesn't blame Ashli Babbitt for her death.

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

See "Premature Anti-fascism" (being against fascism too early, e.g. during the Spanish Civil War) It could actually get you blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and '50s.

Refusing to distinguish between truth and falsehood is what the NY Times pays its political reporters the big bucks for. Ya gotta admit, it's not always an easy job.

Jonathan Ross worked for Border Patrol before ICE

"Pink Slime: The Secret Food That Gave Our Paleolithic Ancestors Their Health and Long Lives"

Understand: these incidents are not an example of a failure of training, they are an example of a successful understanding of the true mission of ICE. ICE knows full well that it's the new SS, and that it exists to terrorize and abuse citizens into silent compliance. No training can fix this.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis or we WILL lock up our own citizens

These two have got to go. Recent polling has shown that nearly 70% of Democrats support _abolishing_ ICE, let alone cutting its funding. They are wildly out of step with our party's grassroots.

They won't have the numbers to occupy the nation and force everyone to comply, and that's why they're engaged in such an aggressive show of force. They're hoping we all get cowed into submission and do their work of suppression ourselves. Once again, no. The mantra remains "fuck you, make me."

Doomerism isn't just factually wrong, it's also actively politically harmful. And it is among the things I block people for.

But if someone buys an Academy Award statue off Ebay, can they still call themselves an Oscar winner? Asking for a friend.

In fairness, he kidnapped the president of Venezuela for the only person he's ever done anything for in his miserable life: himself.

We have, over the course of generations, set up paid, uniformed fascist Fifth Columns in every American state and city. Turns out that many Americans don't understand this and that pointing it out is tremendously politically unpopular. That's a huge political challenge.

TCM's self-appointed role in our political drama has always been about obscuring the difference between the American left and the American right. Nothing has apparently changed in that regard. As someone once noted, there's a reason he's not called Thomas Thinkerton Williams.

if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

Perhaps a federal government shutdown shouldn't just be a negotiating method employed by Congressional Democrats when this continuing resolution runs out. Perhaps shutting down the federal government should be the goal.

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*. workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...

Quite possibly, he shot her in the head because he had explicitly been trained to shoot her in the head.

if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed. everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.

“imagine a cheery BBC news report in 1938 breezily asking "which countries could be in Hitler's sights after the Sudetenland?"

Yes. Look at its goddam name, to begin with. "Homeland" was a word previously associated with other countries' regimes that we liked to pretend we had a broad political consensus against.

Democrats who want to abolish ice should start introducing legislation to roll back the creation of DHS. It was a specific post 9/11 law that combined previously extant functions into a single new department. Let’s start getting that model legislation out there. (Is it already?)

But what if "Defund the Police" polls badly!?!?!? Democrats have spent more time in the last half decade denouncing and clutching pearls over that slogan than dealing with the problem that it is addressing.

The utterly pathetic weakness of so many American elites, exposed over and over this past year. But it might be hard. But there’s some risk. But it might not work… So let’s forfeit everything we supposedly value without a fight. That’ll do it! Thankfully, many regular Americans aren’t like that.

Luckily, AI totally solves this problem! /s

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That's because Fox News believes in civility! /s

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

36 people have died at ICE's hands in the past year may of these deaths did not happen on camera, but it does not make them any less horrifying and unacceptable this is a list of their names, where they lived before being abducted, and a link to crowdfunding if i can find it

I think what we're seeing is that the number of right-wingers who take this off-ramp will be vanishingly small. One of the things we need to do to dig us out of this mess is have a very extensive program of denazifaction.

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

Road report: -I haven't done anything on Xitter since Nov 2024. -Via someone's account, recently trawled through the main news feed. It actually is shocking. Between the Grok-generated sexploitation, and white-supremacist cheerleading, that's most of the feed. No "real" org should be there.

For right-wingers who want to preserve any sort of public career in a post-Trump reality without being constantly haunted by their past disgrace, "Renee Good's murder is a bridge too far for me" is one of the easiest off-ramps in the world. I think we should take note of who declines to use it.