semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

I keep seeing people asking why the police aren't arresting ICE or protecting people from ICE and I desperately need you to understand that the police aren't protecting you from ICE because protecting YOU is not and never has been their function and that's why we need to defund them.

That’s why dressing up as pikachu and frogs and blasting Yakety Sax at them through a loudspeaker is so effective! The authoritarian wants you to cower in fear. Turning their entire operation into a dipshit circus is the way.

Now let's link this to the fact that women are the fastest growing population in prisons and jails. The USA incarcerates more women than any other country period.

Lots of people talking about violence workers and gender violence, which is something that Black women have been trying to get white feminists to see for a long time. Violence workers cannot protect women, even white women, from violence.

"Defund the police" was the most sincere rallying cry for smaller government in modern politics.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

If you're wondering what kind of woman would marry Stephen Miller, here's your answer.

Our gov’t is not lost to us yet. But if people continue convincing themselves that elections don’t matter, like at least the last 5 election cycles, we are well on our way. Hawley just voted on a war powers resolution. Politicians are still forced to respond to citizen demands if ever so slightly

the IDF claims everyone it kills is Hamas ICE claims everyone it kills is tren de Aragua (brown skin) or antifa (white skin) two deadly organizations, two flimsy justifications

Oh wow, it’s true: time.com/archive/6718...

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

An ICE agent saying "I don't care" and preventing an innocent woman who's been shot from receiving medical care are not the words or actions of officers lawfully protecting themselves and the community. These are the words of sociopaths happy with murder.

Great thread. I will add one thing: it’s very clear that when ICE is going into a new city, it’s not going into a city who hasn’t learned. Organizers are sharing. They start and people already have every license plate number they’ve used and are tracking their vehicles on day one.

Every lawyer is terrified at having a client as stupid as JD Vance. Releasing video evidence of your client showing the victim swerving her hands frantically AWAY from your client. Your client saying, "fucking bitch," after he kills her. Her final words being, "I am not mad at you."

The fact that we have a federal agent filming with their cell phone with one hand and operating a fire arm with the other hand seems like it should be a bigger deal, no?

It may be lost on some folk that this guy and many others have been dreaming of killing a liberal soccer mom for years.

Try explaining that to NPR -- every time I give that feedback (when they frame with both-sides to things factually wrong) to @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social he falls back to "it's in the article in paragraph ten" -- they just don't want to get it. It's a choice. They need horse races & controversy

Good’s last words to the ICE agent: “That’s fine. I’m not mad at you.” His to her, after shooting her in the face: “Fuckin’ bitch.”

Charged with Contempt of Cop and summarily executed. He was getting in his car to leave until her wife called him “big boy” and told him to go to lunch. Then he walked in front of the car.

But they really do. They think that him dropping his phone to hold a gun is because she hit him. They think it's justified. They think it's evil that she was quote "smiling" when she hit him and that he was being distracted on purpose by her wife. The propagandists did their job.

1. The car he came out of was the white car that was IN FRONT OF HER CAR. 2. He circled it once before shooting. He begins to retreat to his vehicle until he gets pissed @ the wife & walks slowly IN FRONT OF THE CAR.

Alpha News is a far-right site run by the wife of the former head of the Minneapolis police union. Whoever leaked this to them thinks it makes Ross look good. Which is just astonishing.

Horrific video but we have to be wary of Alpha News. Their main investigative journalist has a book to “debunk” the left on George Floyd’s murder and has countless of BIASED reporting. Pls be aware of what we’re seeing in the news everyone.

The problem with asking Democrats to abolish ICE is not that they can’t so it’s pointless; it’s that they don’t want to and there are plenty of people who would rather not expose that.

me: I want cars to be seen as the deadly weapons they are monkey’s paw:

This guy, the guys who teach the "warrior mindset" for seeing every single civilian as a terrifying threat to be put down, the guys who are experts in sniping children, etc. That is what the training is and *has always been*

These guys will knock out all your teeth with their fists, then charge you with assaulting an officer because their knuckles are scratched.

Specifically, when Jonathan Ross punched out the car's window & attempted to tase the driver, he got his arm STUCK. That's why he was dragged when the panicked driver took off. You don't scare the person behind the wheel of a running car. You de-escalate until they calm down and cooperate.

So he is a repeat offender. He got away with it before and he knew how to get the results he wanted. It was the perfect PLAN. One that would incite violence. ACCIDENT? NOT!!

When Vichy liberal fucks say ICE just needs more training, *this guy* is literally the person that would be doing that training. Along with Israeli soldiers with the latest new tips and tricks for enforcing genocidal apartheid.

Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.

and the fact that it wasn’t pulled immediately after the grok CSAM incident says everything you need to know about the way “protecting children” is used as a justification for anything else. it’s never really about that at all. it’s all just power & capital.

Brazil banned twitter for like two minutes once and it seriously fucked up their user base for a second. It’s a dying old man and nobody wants to punch it.

Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.

The details are muddled but it does appear that the federal agents left the scene. I guess that's how it works now. Masked feds shoot people then leave the crime scene. That's what the shooter in Minneapolis did too. He did gesture to his buddies to call 911 first which was thoughtful.

The shooter who murdered the civilian today in Minneapolis had his phone recording the whole time.

ICE agent Michael Muscarella of Malden, MA has been seen in Minneapolis in November and December, and in Boston earlier this year. As always, we discourage the posting of personal information. We will also note that Michael Muscarella is a very common name.

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular. From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

WOMEN are doing the vast majority of the front-line organizing against ICE, the vast majority of the front-line reporting, the vast majority of the legal observing, the vast majority of the care work, the vast majority of the corking and safety volunteering. It's so often women who are being killed.

One of the many reasons "Abolish ICE" has been a popular refrain on the left — besides the fact that borders and border security means violence — is that ICE and CBP were always going to be the agencies that would become the SS.

Today is a great day to remember that a memo leaked from Pam Bondi that suggested charging people who film ICE with domestic terrorism. That’s how badly they don’t want to be filmed. Today is a perfect example of why. Everyone who filmed Renee Good’s murder has ensured the truth will out.

I understand this sentiment but you're not going to get that for the most part from journalists who make it to institutions like the NYT because those institutions filter for compliance.

You can walk from where the feds murdered Renee Good to where George Floyd called for his mother in about 15 minutes.

Worth noting that this grandfather suddenly so concerned about his grandson doesn't even know how old the kid is.

This is a lie and should not be spread. Renee Good has a wife, who was, horrifically, in the car with her when she was executed by the government. It is flatly untrue to assert that child has no one else in his life.

There are people who still don't understand that you can do everything right--you can do everything they tell you--and you will still be shot in the face.

Hi Angie! This you?

CNN graphics put the asterisk in the wrong place, it appears…

Context: A decade ago, Border Patrol agents had to be ordered not to put themselves in front of moving vehicles as a pretext to use deadly force www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...