hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

Over 80,000 people joined us and our partners tonight because it's vital that we all know our First Amendment right to document and record ICE and other federal agents.

NBA is good on issues but not as good as the W

Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

Liam Ramos: 'Now I know my ABC's, aren't you very scared of me?' - POCHO www.pocho.com/liam-ramos-n...

All three living Democratic presidents have said nothing about any of this. I don’t mean just today, I mean any of it. Obama’s last two tweets are about basketball and wishing his wife happy birthday. Nothing on Renee Good who was murdered 17 days ago

Dave Guttenfelder is an amazing photojournalist who‘s most recently primarily focused on conflict photojournalism in Syria and Ukraine. Hes recently turned his talents to Minneapolis.

The beauty of this is that Guttenfelder is covering these men the way they have always wanted: dripping in tacticool gear, in action, looking down their sites at an enemy which surrounds them. In doing so, he reveals who they are. They imagine themselves heroes; he shows they are villains.

‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war

Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Current situation

They’re just gonna try to lie their way through it

This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country. The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Image description: A person stands on a snowy sidewalk in front of the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis, holding a large sign that says "You can't kill us all, we're always watching you, get the fuck out of our state, all power to the people."

Not that we don’t protest too — we do — but Renee Good and Alex Pretti (and those who witnessed and documented their executions) were legally observing ICE kidnappings and alerting their neighbors to ICE presence. It’s not a protest, it’s a public service. It’s how we’re protecting our neighbors.

Damn the soulless Nazis of Trumpism straight to Hell.

James Talarico: I want to ban corporate PACs. Ban Super PACs. Ban members of Congress from trading stocks. Ban gerrymandering. Overhaul the Supreme Court. Pass term limits. And require members of Congress to hold at least one annual town hall so their constituents can hold them accountable.

This is not what "we're supposed to do." You don't need a concealed carry permit in Texas. Texans do not have to show our IDs to police unless we are lawfully detained (reasonable suspicion) or arrested (probable cause). This guy would rather sacrifice his own rights than break the party line.

When was he supposed to do that? Between the bursts of pepper spray? Between the blows to his head?

He might as well say they are "just following orders."

I’m completely fed up with elected Representatives saying shit like, “Republicans will tell you behind closed doors that they don’t agree with what ICE is doing”. Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists. Name them, record them, and make it public.

this is the key problem with continuously executing random members of the populace: you can’t kill everybody, and the ones you don’t kill are more likely to start squaring with the possibility of it than fleeing in terror

With that mind, here’s some righteous leadership from someone who didn’t ask to lead bsky.app/profile/cjze...

My apologies to @sethmoulton.bsky.social I was apparently not familiar with your game, sir.

the agent who disarmed Pretti fired Pretti's gun into the ground @chadloder.bsky.social, note the pavement impact

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.

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

In light of this morning's events, I'm releasing this one a little earlier to the public (it had been behind my Patreon paywall). Several "This is the enemy" posters were produced, and this is based on the winner of the National War Poster Competition held during WW2.

There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.

Do not say anything here you don't want read back to you in court.

At 23 seconds, you see this fucker on the left with his gun out, firing at the man on the ground.

Jesus fucking Christ.

Gov. Janet Mills: "If they have warrants, show the warrants. In America, we don't believe in secret arrests or secret police."

reminder:

CNN put together a clip of JD Vance claiming ICE agents have "absolute immunity" followed by him two weeks later claiming "I didn't say that officers who engage in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity"

The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles,

“There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the [country].

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

One of the things that I think has been underreported this year is that ICE still deported a ton of people under Biden and Obama. The difference was that they were explicitly charged with finding and deporting violent criminals. But apparently ICE didn’t like that because it was hard.