This would be a really good moment for Democrats to start acting more like a political party than a Ponzi scheme.

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

I'm not being hyperbolic when I say any "when are Americans going to do something?" poster peddling that bullshit today need to be bullied off the internet. It's -15 in Minneapolis and folks are literally risking their lives to be in the street and protect their neighbors. How fucking dare you?

What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

Survivor of abuse here & “you are not responsible for the actions of your oppressor” is so extremely on-point & necessary to repeat over & over & over again until ppl finally internalize this truth.

Something Black people have been saying for ages.

god rn

Voters: If the Democrats won't do more to end ICE what is the point of them? Stephen Miller: Democrats are terrorists. Dem leadership: why are voters being mean to us?

all i have to say is that certainly the mind behind dhs' social posts, and the mindset of a lot of people in this admin, the online nazi mindset, is "there is a plague on this country we must eliminate and anyone who stands against us is a brainwashed race traitor," and theyre acting accordingly

It's a death cult, and it's always been a death cult, and they've treated us like we've fucking crazy for saying this for more than a decade. Even as they've killed and killed and killed and celebrated the killing.

(museum professional disclaimer: DO NOT ACTUALLY USE WW2 ERA GAS MASKS. most of them contain asbestos. go get yourself a new one at the hardware store.)

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

thinking about Mr. Rogers "look for the helpers" quote and I see the helpers and the helpers are being shot in the fucking head

Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.

Today's shooting happened because no one in power did shit about Jonathan Ross killing Renee Good. There are zero consequences for murdering people if you work for ICE. And they know it. And it'll happen again soon.

White Americans are learning once again that the *only* thing that has ever made you safe from fascism is being willing to sacrifice non-white people. That is your contract with white supremacy. "Give us someone else so it won't be you."

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

the "and you're surprised by this?" guys have never been less vital than they are right now

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF... New Angela Collier: what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain

Everyone who predicted this was deemed to be hysterical and it has turned out in reality to be far far worse

If you believe the US wants to bomb Iran because it cares if the Iranian people are free or not, I have a bridge to sell you.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

ok but we are sooooooo not letting them bring libertarianism back after this

Folks about to learn in real time how they ACTUALLY treated people during the Civil Dights movement and the Civil War

In the coming days you may be tempted to laugh and mock people in red states in catastrophic circumstances and I would like you encourage you to instead be a good person

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: The Cure The Pixies Jeremy Dutcher Blackalicious Slayer

It's so weird that Carney is like the median Progressive Conservative PM and his speeches are peppered with phrases that, in isolation, are truer shit than I've ever heard a politician say.

everyone needs to know it's -8° FAHRENHEIT (-22°C) with a -20° FAHRENHEIT (-28°C) windchill in Minneapolis/St. Paul right now. I don't want europeans assuming it's -8°C (17°F) which, depending on what the temperature was the day before, could almost be shorts weather in MN.

It's really important to note that ICE is absolutely in Texas right now. They have the cooperation of local cops and state troopers, as well as the cooperation of state and local governments. Texans are being terrorized by law enforcement every single day. And we are also resisting hard.

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

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

Really, really, really awful. If anyone steps up to run against her in the primary, I'm knocking doors for them, anything it takes. @gluesenkampperez.house.gov is positively gutless in a moment that demands courage. As boneless as any Republican. Such a disappointment.

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.

When someone tells you children’s programming in their day was nonpolitical, they are really saying they weren’t a very bright child.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

The thing about that child is there isn’t a single child in the world I’d be okay with this happening to. Not even their kids. The children are all ours, and to miss that is to dehumanize completely.

fellas, not many guys know this but being kind makes you more handsome.

This is great and likely true, but the most important thing is that we study it NOW and DISSEMINATE that shit.

Love to post about the important work you’re doing to empower victims of non-consensual sexual deepfakes on the website with the built-in child sexual abuse material generator

It's not an accident that they're choosing to go after/make an example of a Black woman, FTR

Buddy, right now America is in the ER with a cut carotid and metastatic pancreatic cancer and the folks who have the power to STOP THE FUCKING BLEEDING are shoving pamphlets in our face about chemotherapy

This shit is demonic. D-E-M-O-N-I-C (Millennial dog whistle.)

Here in Minneapolis, hundreds of clergy from all over the country have been deployed into the streets to participate in ICE/DHS watch. The hail from a range of religious traditions, and have come from all over. This particular group is in a heavily immigrant neighborhood.

It’s infuriating how many people claim to care about fictitious “child trafficking” conspiracies about trans people and Wayfair and Democrats but will miss, ignore, and distract from actual government agents kidnapping children in front of their very eyes

they are just lying when they say this is about arresting criminals they are abducting children. babies. they murder mothers, they kidnap children, they torture anyone who resists, and they call it "law enforcement" they are pure fucking evil

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.