Every person I know who's ever worked for or with federal law enforcement in any capacity has confirmed this. Border Patrol has been run by and almost entirely staffed with demented white supremacists for its entire existence (since 1924).

but a widely respected Moron said not to campaign on this

so you’re a low-level agent of a state apparatus responsible for a high-profile incident of unjustifiable violence. never fear: your boss is a capricious layabout whose defining characteristic, aside from disloyalty, is his annoyance at anything that distracts him from looking at a hole in his lawn

Holy crap. This is the most damning video yet. It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face. Murder.

Turns out the answer is “It should be legal to carry a gun in public”

Both the ones here and the multiple third-country torture camps they're shipping people to. Between what's almost certainly underreported in the domestic ones they're running, plus third countries, plus the boat strikes, it is fairly likely they have already murdered into the hundreds of people.

democrats voted to require freddy krueger to wear a glove with three claws instead of four. why aren’t you happy. why aren’t you grateful

sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings

i fear the democratic party dream of making it 1995 again forever may now be impossible to achieve

This is about immigration enforcement like Montgomery was about transit policy

the dumbest part of all of this is how predictable it was that conservatives would defend ICE executing random people for expressing the 1st and 2nd amendments rights would be

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

one could argue that the issue is they finally did find their spines

I would argue there is a throughline here with every Palestinian in Gaza being called a terrorist

Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

The most ideologically and morally neutral thing I can say about the Democratic party, particularly its institutional electeds and infrastructure, is that they are not temperamentally built for this moment. Before other factors, any serious opposition they could offer would be against their nature.

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

"people who wrote about covid school lockdowns causing harm to kids should be writing about minnesota's schools being closed" yeaaahhhhhhh but like. we knowwwwwwww they won'ttttttt. and we knooooowwwww why

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

This guy just needs more training

nine years old

Deporting people to Iran right now, as body bags line the street, is an immoral, inhumane, and unjust act. That ICE is still considering carrying out the flight this weekend is a sign of an agency and an administration totally divorced from basic human rights. www.ms.now/news/trump-d...

They know their audience has an insatiable appetite for seeing black women humiliated for exceeding their station, so when it didn’t happen they used AI to complete the fantasy bsky.app/profile/nyti...

inescapable conclusion is we have no laws, just cops

Ok but have you considered that the Democrats wanted it to pass

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.

Hey can someone subtract 7 from 220 and add it to 207, I’m not real good at math.

this is not a tiktok it is a documentary

ICE is underwater with noncollege whites, god damn

There is no redeeming this, no amount of training that can fix the rot at the heart of this institution. Any Democratic official that votes to give this agency a penny is betraying our country.

the tension between the "this is not who we are" set vs the "this is exactly who we are" set (tabling the "who do you mean we" thing for now) i do think misses out on the "who we pretend to be" angle. i do think it's probably at least somewhat bad that we've completely stopped pretending

It’s so interesting that the comet pizza-Q-Anon folks have disappeared just as their deeply held concerns about a widespread elite child trafficking conspiracy has been proven correct

I think this is right. So much of how they’re going about this, from the needless brutality to the masks and unofficial gear, really only makes sense if the calculated goal is to provoke violence against ICE agents.

The most disturbing new trend in ICE behavior is agents escorting legal observers who are out patrolling our neighborhoods to their home, stopping, exiting the vehicle and pointing at their house. The message they're sending is pretty clear.

Two hairdressers and a stylist working full-out for 90 minutes before his speech at The Dracula Ideas Summit to make this guy look as absolutely fucked up as possible. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Massive hats off to everyone who dedicated their energy in the months after October 7th to attacking the UNRWA, discrediting the UN, and dismissing, sanctioning, intimidating the ICJ and ICC. Amazing work.

I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.

Immigration officers are caught on video violating policy, training, and settled law pretty much every day. The administration just cheers them on. What makes anyone think they're going to implement any of these "guardrails?" They think de-escalation is woke. This is just giving them more money.

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

fascinating to compare how Wall Street reacts to the possibility that a socialist might have some power somewhere versus how it reacts to the concrete reality of a literal madman tearing down the American-led post-WWII global order

When I was in school we’d have posters of Shaq and Vince Carter drinking milk and now it’s like hey want to see this weird looking person who gets paid to make your uncle racist

Who are the Venezuelan immigrants Trump sent to CECOT? Last July, we published a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador. These are their stories.

Danish parliamentarian fresh on the scene doing better retail politics than any American Democrat

Remember right after ICE murdered Renee Good when they shot a second person, this time in the leg? They put out an elaborate story about the man assaulting ICE agents, ramming them, etc. Only one problem: it was all a lie, as shown by multiple videos and the transcripts of calls to 911. ICE lies.

This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.

Not headline news. No real fuss by Democratic leaders. No calls to censure. No pushback. No questions asked of GOP leadership by the press. Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.