AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed? CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed

I can't even keep up with the lies in Jim Jordan's opening statement, but I find it interesting that he's complaining about toll record warrants obtained by a judge, while this administration has determined judicial warrants aren't needed to enter our homes.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

ICE detained a 5-year-old child in Minnesota to use as “bait.” An innocent child. America, let this sink in. This is what the government is doing right in front of our eyes.

Relevant story in Private Eye about Ethiopian runners being denied entry to the US to attend the U20 world cross country championships in Florida. The team are the current the world champions. It's a big ask. England and Scotland footballers shouldn't attend the World Cup.

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

state-sponsored child trafficking

Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Terrorizing families (From @thejfreakinc.bsky.social )

I’m tired of being talked down to by people like this. They are doing the Elon Musk Mars In 2 Years bit but have tied the entire U.S. economy to a bespoke compliment generator. It’s time to start talking about these AI mutants like delusional babies.

Honestly. There is no easy fix to <waves in GenX> alla this. But a starting place could be to address the CRIME of Citizens United. Corporations are NOT people. Money is NOT speech. And the place we're in right now? Owes a LOT to those two things being perverted by Citizens United.

This video of Willie playing electric guitar with Jimmy Buffet on a song written and made famous by Bob Wills is one of the best videos in existence. youtu.be/ASy3iGXhq-c?...

Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.

what do you MEAN Al Gore heckled Lutnick at Davos

Jones: You want to go through a list? Go through the list of perverts who hang out at Mar-A-Lago. Go through that list.

Reminder: The VP of the United States lies. About everything. EVERYTHING

Jones: All you do is keep people fearful because you get paid 45 million a year to keep people fearful so they don’t pay attention to the CEOS taking their healthcare. You don’t care about the American people. You want them to be afraid of immigrants because all you have is fear.

South Korea's high court struck down its abortion law 7 years ago. The gov't is still trying to pass a new law, with disagreement over gestational limits. But why do they even need a law? Canada has had no law or gestational limits since 1988 and everything's fine. Abortion is healthcare.

Do I like that it takes white cops for so many white folks to hear this? No. No I do not. Am I a tiny bit hopeful the increased volume that results in could be significant in moving the needle? Yes. Do I recognize all the complexity being flattened in the previous two statements? Absolutely.

I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood.

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

Me pitching a train ad campaign

John Birch Society having a totally normal moment.

This is us.

Thread.

people.com/nj-girl-foun... "6 years old... walking by herself on the street, crying, crying out for her dad, asking, 'Where's Papi? Where's Papi?'..."

A joke for the history buffs.

That thread feels like a summary of the US political landscape except the bus hasn’t stopped.

DHS caught lying again 🤥

Ellison: This is the essence of dictatorship. It’s the essence of it. And we’ve got to get over the idea that this couldn’t happen here. Not only could it happen here—it’s happening here.

Protest is totally understandable against ICE and related violence. Also, hyper local civilian protection is not protest. It's people protecting people from violence. It's neighbour protecting neighbour.

Blanche won’t investigate the killing of an innocent woman on camera but they’ve got all hands on deck for a church service being interrupted

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i wish i could still buy things at the prices i used to complain about

"But when I landed in Minneapolis and saw the size, scope and lawlessness of the federal onslaught unfolding here, I understood that Good’s killing was emblematic of its true mission: to stage a spectacle of cruelty upon a city that stands in stark defiance of Trump’s dark vision of America."

The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Men who defend Jonathan Ross for murdering Renee Good are not safe to be around. End those relationships.

Now more than ever, we're a two timing, back stabbing, and disloyal nation without integrity.

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Was there some kind of sportsball tonight?

That is som “The Pope is from Chicago” shit.

Still hard to believe that there are videos and witnesses to someone shooting a woman in the face three times. Yet the shooter has not been arrested even though the police know who and where he is.

There is an area in the ICE detention center in Minneapolis designated specifically for American citizens. Contemplate that for a minute.

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

I really don't like to say it, but it's time for all American allies to force close ALL American military bases in their respective countries. Maybe that would send a powerful enough message to the Felon in chief.

This is the sixth death in ICE custody in 18 days. This isn’t enforcement, it’s a system that cages people, outsources care, and shrugs when they die. Abolish ICE.