if you try to focus on Trump’s authoritarianism, Schumer will deflect and say people want us to focus on affordability. but when Zohran Mamdani made affordability the heart of his campaign Schumer refused to endorse him because they disagree about Israel. it’s all mealy mouthed bullshit.

The weakness of American elections is that it’s really 3,000 separate lightly coordinated elections. The strength of American elections is that it’s really 3,000 separate lightly coordinated elections.

january 6th was a mob of people attacking a single, lightly defended location in order to stop a centralized process of vote counting. for a midterm election, the comparable thing would be about 150,000 january 6ths across the entire united states.

1. He wants to 2. It’s plausible he’ll try 3. His people would support it 4. But it’s vastly harder and more complicated than people are suggesting and can’t be done by his fiat

I get the feeling that many establishment Democrats are convinced the vote of one White dude in rural Pennsylvania counts for more than the vote of a Black woman in Philly AND a gay man in Pittsburgh.

This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.

The primary functions of civilization, the reasons why everyone started doing it, is because in civilized society it's a lot easier to: - defend raids - raise kids - grow food - contemplate the mysteries of the universe MN had a civil society before ICE came to town. ICE destroys civil society.

This leads me to believe that up until this meeting, Trump absolutely thought it was "hole milk."

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

Abhorrent. A stain on American medicine that a document kike this was ever created.

remember when centrists confidently asserted that dems should avoid talking about immigration because it was a GOP 80/20 issue

Usually bored of the digging up GOP quotes from 2016 thing but this is a particularly good one

A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country

Poland failed to win the Hitler team over

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Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.

“We saw what y’all did to Target and we don’t want that smoke.” - Chipotle

Hoskinson: "You've collapsed crypto from a public perception, to crypto equals Trump equals bad .... Crypto equals corruption. It's a wealth transfer mechanism for Trump and his friends." www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...

Among other signs how badly out of touch Third Way is here, Ken Martin has been railing against ICE in ways he clearly has no intention of walking back. In Jan 2025, centrist Dems picked Martin over more radical choices (e.g., Faiz Shakir) for DNC chair. Overton window has well and truly shifted.

I’d argue that it is key. Stealing a citizen’s phone is neither necessary nor proper for ICE agents to conduct their federal responsibilities. It is plainly unlawful conduct that local prosecutors could investigate and charge without Supremacy Clause problems getting in the way and no justification.

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

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over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

So, if I'm reading this right: 4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer, and 6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow. (HT @benjaminkabak.com)

Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.

Trump is complaining that Bondi isn't doing enough to prosecute his political enemies -- including those involved in the 2016 election and the 2020 election. This is going to get worse. Much worse. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Greenlandic Parliament member: We have rare earth minerals. Also the ice sheet is melting, so there's going to be a new route. I think it's more about our resources than for national security as Trump claims. They don't see us as a people with our own right to self-determination.

Prosecutions for murder & torture will be needed to save our democracy, & those may need to come first. But 2nd & 3rd waves (there will be waves) will be for crimes like this: corruption & negligence on a generational scale. We must make it our business to punish violence whether it is fast or slow.

some of these guys feel that they're showing remarkable restraint by passing up murders they're entitled to commit

did something happen

a rather significant portion of the founding was based on “no guys like Donald Trump in particular” they really specifically wanted to avoid this type of know-nothing demagogue

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

I have been as impressed by the normal people of this country as I have been disgusted by elite institutions and every bit of optimism I have that we are going to make it comes from that

For right-wingers who want to preserve any sort of public career in a post-Trump reality without being constantly haunted by their past disgrace, "Renee Good's murder is a bridge too far for me" is one of the easiest off-ramps in the world. I think we should take note of who declines to use it.

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

The ICE agent who shot Marimar Martinez in Chicago tried to goad her out of her car. He said “do something b*tch” and shot her 5 times. The ICE agent who shot Nicole Renee Good did the same thing. Stood right in front of her vehicle and yelled “f*cking bitch”. They hate women & it shows.

I wonder if anyone will revisit their charitable interpretations of Elon’s definitely-not-a-Nazi-salute

There are no rules, they don’t actually care about respect, decorum, bipartisanship or debate, and only pretend to do so to browbeat you into submission. Nothing is going to change until more people realise that and respond accordingly; including to the media and politicians who have failed them.

This is it. This is endgame shit.

No one should die seeking safety. Yet in 2025, ICE custody became deadlier than it had been in decades. This is not normal. It is not acceptable. We will keep pushing for dignity, due process, and an immigration system grounded in humanity.

Former Secret Service Agent: Firing a weapon at a moving vehicle is a high-risk, very dangerous option. The rounds could ricochet. Once you potentially neutralize the driver, that vehicle becomes an errant vehicle. It could go into crowds. An independent investigation is critical.

Great success story for salmon restoration. “If you (un)build it they will come” is at least partially true for this resilient species. Climate change remains the bogeyman www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...

there is no reason to vote for anything or move any process along at all until the lawlessness ends, at minimum

There is absolutely no reason for Dems to vote for GOP nominees, to facilitate the smooth operation of Congress, nor to withhold impeachment of the President and his appointees. Do it all.

Murder is the intentional killing of another human being without legal justification.

Make it viral.

Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock? Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.