He's directing traffic. He steps inbetween ICE and two women who are being harrassed by them (one of whom was shoved to the ground for no reason), raises his hands and turns away from them and says "Okay! Okay!" to indicate he isn't going to be aggressive, at which point they start with pepper spray

I can’t talk during moments like this because I get super Irish about it and immediately want raw vengeance. that and I am reminded that the reason we are here is America has a stupid two party system and the side apparently representing equity and sanity are a pack of useless careerist cunts

anyone legitimately hungry for change in this country would be wetting their fucking lips at the state of affairs. but there is absolutely no desire for that. the party is run by middle managers with media training and lobbyists they need to appease. we're on the shop floor, just along for the ride

Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.

As someone who has been in negotiations with Schumer: YOUR CALLS TO HIS OFFICE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER NOW. You are not wasting your time, our goal is achievable, but Schumer requires constant pressure, constant pressure....

as much as people might relish the fantasy of pushing back with guns, that's going to end up getting a lot more people killed. we need total defunding and dismantlement followed by trials of everyone involved but the dems are cowards

there is some level of gleeful participation in state-sponsored brutality at which i think people forfeit their humanity. this isn't banality of evil stuff, people "just doing their jobs." they enjoy it. they only understand and respect physical violence and terror

Norm isn't the Mayor of Minneapolis but he's doing more than the Mayor of Minneapolis and he's willing to give up more than the Mayor of Minneapolis so if we ever get back to voting again, we need to remember who deserves to lead and who should pay for allowing this to happen

It's already demoralizing to be a federal thug, a barely sentient ogre. Nobody likes or respects you. But then you go to work in -19 weather thinking surely today you'll get a break from people yelling at you. But no there they are. They're not even cold

imagine showing up to your office job and there's a crowd of people in the lobby heckling you every morning. "no one likes your emails" "your tie is ugly" lol. anyways i think everyone who works for ice should kill themselves

"We are out there in every place they are, showing them that every person in this city is one of our own, that there is no such thing as other people’s children, that collectively we are not afraid of staring them in the eye," @erikhane.bsky.social writes from Minneapolis.

Democrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.

There's no daylight between the Gestapo and ICE. None. Murdering kidnapping, raping, child molestation, trafficking, beating innocent people. If you have a Rep who isn't calling to abolish immediately then they work for the Gestapo. Anyone who tells you that you're overreacting is one of them too

Everyone talking about what you're gonna do for MN after this. I am once again asking if you can get us out of the ocean we're drowning in before you start talking about buying us a boat.

"A federal magistrate judge rejected that warrant, noting that Good was already dead and could not be considered a suspect for a warrant." They killed her, exonerated her killer without an investigation, then tried to illegally investigate her.

ICE has detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis, despite a judge ordering the baby’s release.

Save me The Courts. I am but a lowly Senate Minority Leader. This chud is gonna pass the funding bill

I don’t know, ICE taking babies off the street and imprisoning them seems like a kitchen table issue.

i'm sorry but unless you literally move vaccine refusers to a giant island away from society where they physically cannot come into contact with anyone else, "pressure of social exclusion" is not an answer to the question of vaccine policy

Oh was this sort of thing not covered in the initial training

lol yeah China was the problem

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

Hey if you have a problem with the White House sharing A.I. generated photos of their political enemies great reminder to not also do that

fucked up that polymarket is a horseman of the apocalypse instead of an online storefront where you can buy three-pronged strap ons so you can dick down all of your partners at once

As far as I can tell, Congress’ job is to call what the White House is doing illegal and then rubber stamp its budget

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

When this is all over I hope every ICE agent’s life is an endless nightmare of tension and inconvenience.

I want these fuckers prosecuted. I will not vote for a candidate who shies away from this.

"They drag people out of their houses at any hour of the day and night…families are torn apart. Men, women, & children separated…children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” - Anne Frank, 1942

Eating these is a billion percent more artistic and meaningful and impactful than them existing on a gallery wall, unchallenged!! Fuck yeah art

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

ICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies.

Screenshots of some of the documents found in looted ICE vehicles from one of the livestreams before it got turned "private" on YouTube (after the other one already was). Share widely and make sure the genie can't go back in the bottle.

Fox 9 just reporting there was a dad not involved in anything trying to get his 6 kids out of the neighborhood and ICE threw a flashback at his car and they were taken to the hospital? Did I get that right?

"ICE agents suck and should be prosecuted, and ICE should have its funding cut" is now the majority sensible moderate centrist popularist abundance third way blah blah blah position. Anyone who says otherwise—as many 'data-driven' 'liberal' pundits still do—is really just MAGA without the hat.

I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.

no actually i don't think more training for the roving extrajudicial death squads is a good idea what the fuck is wrong with you

ICE was trained by the IDF btw

man it's so awesome that state force can apparently only ever be deployed against people protesting cruelty and never against the ones causing the cruelty

I think one major issue online right now is we aren't fresh out of ideas for dealing with this, we're running low on things you should say publicly

I am more and more convinced that right-wingers are like this because they surround themselves with sociopaths to the point they don't know when they're broken inside because they're the same as the people they are regularly around. Traumatized people traumatizing their kids.

the lesson here is clear; don't leak this shit to the NYT and Wapo. leak it to Marisa Kabas. Then the NYT will rush to publish without crediting her.

the calculation here was that one US life is worth infinite numbers of Venezuelan lives. also they of course didn't want to cross the administration or get yelled at by the right. 1

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

I miss when you could go on a weird forum.