our country was founded by outlaws

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.

That means me, my wife, my kids, my mom. That means a lot of really excellent people that I know and respect. If we don’t unite and stop this, they will eventually come for all of us. Because fascism has to have an enemy at all times or it falls apart.

He’s lied in court under oath multiple times. Just the perjury charges alone would do the job.

i don’t think they understood how big this bear they poked is gonna be

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looking at reddit.com/r/all right now is wild. 80% of the posts are anti ice from every kind of subreddit like NBA, climbing, nursing, batman, catbongos and music

This is a conversation for later, but after this disaster is over, let’s destroy the idea that rural conservatives are the lone authentic expression of American identity. The people keeping this country from ruin are non-white urbanites, lesbian moms, bisexuals with stick & poke tattoos of frogs.

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act

1. Abolish DHS 2. Repeal the USA PATRIOT Act 3. End domestic surveillance 4. Impeach Pam Bondi, Todd Blache, Greg Bovino 5. Prosecute ICE members that injured or killed people 6. Release everyone imprisoned by ICE immediately 7. Repatriate or return anyone deported under ICE

You’re watching the administration lose control of the narrative in real time. The more they show their supporters that they don’t give a shit about their gun rights, the worse it gets. I’ve seen over a dozen right-wing commentators call out the propaganda. That’s progress.

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

I am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes.

man.

One of the Spineless Seven democrats who voted for ICE funding this week, now feigning outrage:

the fact that the NRA is offering even this incredibly mild level of resistance is significant. People do not like what they are seeing.

My wife and I had this conversation tonight. I told her I'm pausing my practice so I can do community service full time until this is over. She said, basically, nothing can happen to you, I need you to be safe. All I could say back is that nowhere is safe, none of us are safe, so long as ICE is here

it’s pretty insane to think about how the dumbest most violent pieces of shit in the country have been given the message that they can kill with impunity if they join this one government agency

Bondi is the appointed and confirmed Attorney General. That means the official policy of the US DOJ is to use militarized law enforcement to harass, arrest, kidnap, and kill innocent civilians in an effort to force a state government to comply with federal policy demands.

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE. They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon. They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times. He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”. A 🧵 of ICE abuse

The past few days have confirmed for me something I’ve long believed: the American political system is terminally fucked, but the American people are not. Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority.

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

Whoever you are, I imagine you are as furious & heartbroken as I am. We are living in time of baffling horror, a dark night of this nation’s soul. Whatever you do to push back this long night, I wish you Godspeed. Wherever you are, I hope you manage to hang in there, let the emotion out, & stay safe

Sup Chuck? Hakeem? You spineless fucking cowards. You look like nazis compared to Bill fucking Kristol! Are you fucking kidding me?! @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Bill Kristol sees this shit clearly. I don't know how so many elected Democrats don't.

People did similar coverage for Renee Good and I do absolutely believe that it makes a difference. It reaches a lot of low-info voters who don’t consume much political media, and it isn’t framed as political news coverage. it’s framed, correctly, as coverage of an innocent person’s murder

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Bari Weiss doing a bang up job of sucking up to fascists. Walter Cronkite and James Murrow are doing backflips in their graves.

Two and half minutes. That’s all the time the CBS Evening News thought today’s events in Minneapolis were worth. Not even time to tell viewers what Alex Pretti did for a living. The winter storm got 8 minutes. NBC Nightly News spent 8 minutes, nearly half the show, on Pretti’s killing

Yup

remember when an armed group of right-wing insurgents seized and occupied federal land for weeks and only one of them got shot after literally charging at an officer with his handgun drawn?

A TN State Trooper trains for 17 weeks. A 2026 ICE recruit gets 47 days. 47 days is not enough to learn constitutional law, firearms, and de-escalation. When training is cut for quotas, the 4th and 5th Amendments are the first things to go. #AbolishICE #Constitution

The horrors ICE is engaging in isn’t fake news. Lawyers are giving very specific accounts of people following the asylum process. School staff and neighbors witnessed arrests. Even law enforcement says ICE is ignoring due process, racially profiling citizens, and holding people in awful conditions.

This is really something. Mark Warner, one of the more moderate and cautious senators in the Dem caucus, says he'll vote No on ICE funding:

who can forget the famous Boston Tea Party, in which a bunch of Boston's Finest gathered to sip on some tea after cracking the skulls of some dirty hippies who dared protest the King

I have been ruminating on something like this for a while. Finally put pen to paper (or finger to touchscreen).

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And the fact that the government is blatantly lying about it without shame: THAT is also part of the story. Write about that.

I have some information forthcoming on that as well as ICE’s failure to report certain things and it is not good.

ICE is so awful it’s radicalized Chuck Schumer

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I'm not trying to downplay the harm of a madman waving a gun around on a global stage, but ultimately if they want the madman disarmed they need to help us make sure there are elections in 2026 and 2028

I'm not a sports person but it feels like we really should be asking European allies to push for a boycott of all sporting events hosted in the US, very much including the World Cup. And it should be explicitly in response to human rights violations, not just IR horrors.

I will immediately resign from my corporate gig and take the attendant pay cut if a future D POTUS offers me a DOJ spot persecuting members of this Administration

There we go: “It should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear… That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived.” Gift link:

Hey blue states — STOP sending the federal government ANY tax dollars until Trump and his goons are all imprisoned.

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.