Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

real soul of the nation stuff do you want a state made up of masked guys doing murder in the street or civil servants researching cancer at the va

It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.

i think the guy they murdered helped run research studies for the fucking VA

ICE is executing protesters the right way. by Ezra Klein

Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

"we need guns to protect ourselves from government tyranny." "like this, you mean?" "oh no, we love this tyranny. please sir daddy Trump may I have another?"

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Under this sort of regime, the constitution is largely conditional. The 2A is conditional on you having the correct beliefs.

Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.

Not only does ICE need to be abolished, but there should be publically aired tribunals for as long as it takes to hold every last one of these thugs accountable. No one, not even the people who file paperwork or handle payroll, should be immune from prosecution.

This brutality must end now and the agent who pulled the trigger must be held accountable to the full extent of the law.

Three apartments worth of people on their balconies here are heckling agents down below. One person has produced a white board that says "ICE can suck my dick." "Fuck you all! Kill yourselves!"

ICE's *official* position is concealed carry without brandishing is grounds for summary execution I didn't think we'd end up with the *2nd* Amendment in the divorce somehow

if that woman's video never gets published the assumption should be that the federal government destroyed evidence to protect their agents from accountability for murder

i do genuinely think we need to jail every single person currently working for ICE

BREAKING: Trump’s thugs just shot and killed a man in Minneapolis. Eyewitnesses are describing it as an execution. We cannot keep living like this and people can’t keep dying like this. Stop funding DHS. Impeach Kristi Noem. Hold these agents accountable.

the 45,000 gun deaths we suffer each year are just the price we pay to live in a society made safe from government tyranny by an armed populace

For this, the state decided to execute him.

On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.

To repeat: Abolish ICE.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

At least three people fired. The two agents who can be seen mag-dumping into a prone and defenseless victim at the end of the video both unholstered their weapons after the first shots. - [first shot] - [at least two more] - [two agents fire 6+ more times at the victim]

Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.

what if you could kill god and recreate the world. what if you watched the sweetest nicest single dad slowly become sephiroth. what if a printer put a gun to your head. what if "now neither of us will be virgins" were a devastating plot point. what if you read peak........ gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov

The irony is that I assumed if we got to the “show your papers/people getting kidnapped” stage I would leave the country and build a new life abroad. But morally I can’t leave my vulnerable neighbors to suffer alone. I try to remind myself many famous good figures in history were just regular folks.

Not willing to defend the position on its merits. This is real life! Policies have consequences! The consequences of "the government compelling action via its monopoly on violence is scary :(" is "kids get polio and are disabled for life". Vaccines should be mandatory, enforced by the government.

Absolutely. Paying people would be easier, but your kids are not your property and you do not have the right to endanger them and your community because you are stupid.

This is America the existing county, America the people, and America the promise.

maaaajor photo of our mayor from @alexkrales.bsky.social in which we learn Mamdani is an iced-coffee-in-winter guy HUGE win for that community, congrats!!! (thought it was dunkin, which stopped me in my tracks, but no I don’t think the straw is the right shade of orange)

Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans. Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror. Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.

This is mostly true, except for my favorite electronic music guy, Ryuichi Sakamoto, a guy cool enough to hold his own co-starring in a movie with David Bowie (while also scoring said movie).

I hate Gavin Newsom. The only Californians he even pretends to represent are cis white heterosexual middle-to-upper class right-leaning men.

Ah, the old trap: If gay people point out that equating oral sex with degradation is homophobic, we're scolds and language police, and that distracts from the real issue, which is that Newsom lacks any internal compass and says whatever he thinks will win him applause or agreement in the moment. >

I'm going to become a right wing podcaster but only about soap. Bar soap is traditional values. Liquid soap is a disgrace. Squirting goo on yourself from a little bottle. Western civilization is at risk because of this

"ending apartheid actually hurt black south Africans" man people will go on this app and say fucking anything and everything.

YEAH I GOT A REFUND ON MY MISSING 3 DOLLAR STICKER!!!!

If you go to them and say "Actually America is bad and you're bad for liking it," they're going to ignore you. If you say "America is a promise and is good & we have to fight to live up to it, let's punch Nazis like we did in WWII" then more of them will join you, which we need to stop the fascists

I just thought everyone should see this

it's good actually that liberals across the ideological spectrum are starting to remember what all that history actually stands for

1600 Pennsylvania Ave

Rep. @AOC: We have seen an explosion in AI images used to sexually harass victims and children. The creation of this content parallels the intention of physical assault, which is power and humiliation. Once this bill is signed into law, survivors will have the ability to hold abusers accountable

Yeah!!! That's my Congresswoman!!!

Nehls: I would like to quickly address the police officers from January 6th. And I can tell you that the fault does not lie with Donald Trump. It lies with the US capitol leadership team. Fanone: *Coughs: Go fuck yourself*

critical overload of posts where the only possible response is "ok?"

mom come pick me up, they’re debating the rhetorical aspirationality of the American experiment on the niche microblogging site

my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue