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I missed the TikTok moment myself, but this is for my feiends who want to get off the bus:

"Hi, everyone. I know things are hectic as heck right now, but please be sure to fill out your timesheets every Friday by 5 p.m. Central. I can’t pay you unless I know your hours. Please also try to be accurate."

I have no doubt that Republicans would be willing throw Noem under the bus, to say "look, all fixed, let's move on." But the goal is to Abolish ICE. Removing Noem is just one step - don't let them get away with making it the only step.

The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.

Prince and the Revolution on my mind tonight. youtu.be/iGCIdHrRXW0?... "You're just a sinner, I am told Be your fire when you're cold Make you happy when you're sad Make you good when you are bad I'm not a human, I am a dove I'm your conscience, I am love..."

Somehow Bill Kristol has a clearer voice on this than Democratic leadership in Congress. The SS didn't need "better training". Bull Connor's men didn't need "better training". ICE and CBP: Rip it up, root and branch.

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

Witnesses are being taken to Whipple. From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”

Laugh/sob

💯 Every. Fucking. Word.

Jack Smith: “Trump didn’t “question” the election. He ran a criminal scheme to overturn it. Pressure state officials to ignore real vote counts. Manufacture fake electors in 7 states. Coerce his VP to break his oath. Send a mob to the Capitol to stop certification…” www.c-span.org/event/house-...

The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation..."

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

If you ever wonder why people struggle and fight before being put into the ICE van, it's because they know that where they are being sent, anything can happen to you. They know what every self defense class I've ever taken has taught: Secondary locations are always more dangerous.

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

This is the language of sexual assault. Imperialism and violence against women are hand in glove.

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2

I think the idea of people mailing thousands of trophies to the WH is fabulous

Seems relevant: In 1943, Knut Hamsun sent his Nobel Prize Medal as a gift to Joseph Goebbels, as a token of his admiration. Hamsun won the prize in 1920 for Literature, and was also a Nazi sympathizer and supporter of the German occupation of Norway.

Members of Congress should be openly stating right now that military action against Greenland will result in impeachment and removal of the President and the Vice President.

Could I love Tony Kushner more? After seeing this, It only reinforces my admiration.

The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

I don't want Greenland. I just want healthcare. Thanks.

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

We must stress: The only violence is coming from CBP/ICE. They are rioting in the face of sustained nonviolent protests by thousands of Americans across the country. They are today’s Alabama State Troopers at the Selma bridge. They are Bull Connor’s police with firehoses in Birmingham.

I think the misogynist contempt that’s evident as a motivation in the murder of Renee Good makes her killing by a state actor more similar to so-called private violence—eg domestic violence homocides—than some arguments that rely on a firm distinction between state and private violence can sustain.

...they never miss even the smallest opportunity to make it about them. L'etat, c'est moi.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Premiering a documentary about your (third) wife at the state theater you just named after yourself. Sure, that's normal in a democracy.

same. same.

its true.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

This is excellent reporting. So good to read long form, thoughtful and thorough journalism:

Its fun when your niece and nephew are now adults and you can introduce them to the finer things in life, like a beautifully made negroni.

Narcissists are so predictable.

Merry Christmas! 🎄✨ 🔭🧪🐡🎨

I'll take "This new movie is a classic example of fascist propaganda" for $500, Alex:

May their memories be for a blessing May we mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living, all of them

Trump’s America. Mubashir is a 20-year-old Minneapolis resident and a U.S. citizen. ICE assaulted him and grabbed him off the street anyway. Cruelty and incompetence, and an unlawful detention. A kidnapping. ICE gets to do this with zero accountability. 1/2

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

As a kid in New Orleans, we played "It" at recess instead of "Tag". Is this a southern thing or was it specific to New Orleans? Who else played "It"?

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

"AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too. "We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

loving some Gwedolyn Brooks today:

Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.

Any of my New Orleans peeps have a recomendation for a where to have a fun dinner on NYE? Possibly a late seating?