It is undeniable now that none of it was ever real. No policy position a Republican has ever spoken, no belief they have ever claimed about a philosophical stance, no value or ideal they have espoused has ever been true. Not one word. They have only ever believed in fourteen words.

Democrat leaders should be in Minnesota right now, standing side by side with Walz and Frey and the community. They need to show solidarity and a united front. They must say Abolish ICE. They won't but they should. Trump is going to unleash hell on that state.

This is the way. Any 2028 Dem candidates need to start saying that on Day One: (1) all ICE agents fired; (2) pensions/benefits defunded; (3) forced to pay backpay as restitution to victims; and (4) only way to avoid prison is to become a cooperating informant

this is all downstream of the idea that some americans are more real than others. it’s a manifestation of the basic and fundamental logic of authoritarian populism. we will not heal ourselves until we understand that this kind of thinking - and this kind of rhetoric - is anathema to any free society

If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed. Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.

"we'll look weak and out of touch" ICE is underwater with non-college whites including 41% "strong disapprove" there's no polling to hide behind, if you're not willing to fight here it's because you don't want to, not because it's a losing fight

Press needs to start referring to her as Reverend Nekima Levy Armstrong, I am learning, not from any media organizations unfortunately

Yes, famously, the lesson of the Titanic was that ships turn slowly, and not dangerous hubris of rich men.

yes, Dems are 100% ok with it. if they weren’t, they wouldn’t have voted for it dozens of times or tried to hit Republicans from the right for not being “serious about the border” during the 2024 election or be totally abdicate fighting against it now. but they did all that, they’re social fascists

I think about this almost every day

As someone who spent the last 15 years working with aging brains & dementia, I can't stop thinking about this. It is gerontocracy: leaders who are substantially older than most of the adult population. When did we accept this? The new generations can't show up because the old generations never left.

"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it.

kidnapping a 5 year old to bait his father and then shipping them thousands of miles away should put you in prison, yes, but it should also cause every friend and family member you have ever had to permanently reject you in disgrace, and if they don’t, they share your shame

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

(4) If you are arrested, you simply must do the following: - Identify yourself - Prove or attest to your citizenship - Invoke your 5th Amendment rights and demand your lawyer - Literally do not say a single thing besides the above. Do not talk shit, do not mouth off. There's time for that yet.

Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us

May have mentioned that while there may be few procedural options, in the lead up to the Civil War Charles Sumner was caned on the Senate floor and while I never understood that before it makes perfect sense now and I would support it.

We really need a fed law that makes it nearly impossible for federal law enforcement officers to dress like this. Not just the masks, all of it. And those who do cannot be dispatched absent some sort of statutorily-defined exigent circumstances, set at a high bar. No routine work like this. Ever.

I was in high school when ICE came into existence. I remember it happening. Anyone my age or older can remember a time before ICE, and it really wasn’t that different! It’s not a radical policy proposal because the department didn’t really change policy, just created a new culture of cruelty.

If toxic empathy exists, this is what it looks like.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I teach high school, can confirm.

Yes in thunder. My syllabus statement:

This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could

Violence may not be the answer, but I fear it is sometimes the solution.

The limitations of his office notwithstanding it is in fact important to have a mayor, and behind him a series of affiliated parliamentarians and councilors, who will say this and say it repeatedly.

I live an hour outside Minneapolis and the local Facebook pages are all just conservatives bitching that their favorite cheap buffet restaurants don’t want their workers kidnapped. They feel entitled to treats and want the employees to suffer at the same time. It’s casual cruelty, nothing else.

There are people in Minnesota who are violating the law, and it's the people who are flash-banging babies, shooting people who pose no threat, and deploying tear gas against peaceful crowds. The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.

They aren't specialists in violence they're just dicks the government gave badges to, don't mythologize being a thug because you're scared of loud noises

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

It may be shocking to learn, but books predate 2022

Progressives HAVE been weighing in. -universal health care -streamlining immigration processes -universal basic income -more funding for childcare But no one wanted to listen.

People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.

they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it

My sign today.

The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!" The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."

Hey, I know a lot of you use Discord. You need to get on this survey and make it damn clear to them that this would be the absolute wrong direction. The last thing we need is the slop-spewing environment-chewing plagiarism bots invading there, too. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?

We aren't going to get more freedom by lying down and making our backs available for treading upon so they don't get their boots dirty, and they won't be satisfied with anything less.

250 years ago today, Thomas Paine published his greatly influential Common Sense, which helped catalyze the American Revolution. “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

My love language is reading the phrase "love language", looking it up, discovering it's some American Christian thing, saying aloud "who am I, Billy Graham?" and watching the movie "Ronin" (1998, Directed by John Frankenhiemer) instead.

Amen.

A little good news today. For the first time since December 2000, the entire state of California is no longer either entering or recovering from a drought! That's 25 years of drought conditions. www.drought.gov/states/calif...

I WANT LEADERS AS ANGRY AS WE ARE

Democrats who monotonously invoke the cost of living to avoid addressing other crises also tend to be the same Democrats who oppose any serious policies to address the cost of living

Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican. He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.

I come from the philosophical school of LeVar Burton’s Reading Rainbow. Literacy is connected to freedom and it’s connected to an inner dignity. I want everyone to have that. This is not about who reads the most books or whatever else. This is about extending the possibility of freedom.