Abolish ice is about to become a centrist position

Arresting every ICE employee would get more criminals off the streets then arresting all of the people ICE is targeting.

House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin asks Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem: "How many pardoned January 6th insurrectionists have been hired by your respective departments?" tinyurl.com/2uw598pa

Under his eye

Hey @democrats.org, @aoc.bsky.social is really damn good at the messaging we need.

Rhetoric does cause violence, you say? Lemme follow up with a question about Jan 6, cause I’m a responsible reporter…

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

lots of political space to convert those “not sures” into somewhat supports and those “somewhat supports” into strongly supports on eliminating ICE. also, with a funding battle coming up, plenty of political space to say “no government funding unless we claw back last year’s new ICE funding”

Abolish ICE should be more than just an activist slogan. Time to put meat on the bones. By the same token, we need Democrats who won’t run away from good policy, needed accountability measures, and crucial democracy protections simply because they’re scared of Republican lies.

First of all, good for her for calmly standing her ground and ignoring all the empty threats -- "we're gonna put you in the car and ID you!" -- until these goons give up and slink away. Second, the irony of masked agents of the state with no name plates demanding *other* people identify themselves?

I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history. The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership

This weekend’s activity: tutorial play through of Gandhi from @gmtgames.bsky.social. Great seeing how the nonviolent factions work in the COIN system. Can’t wait to bring this to my group.

Why does this fuck need a GoFundMe?

FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face

It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls. If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.

JD, Kristi, Bovine, this is why people call ICE Nazis.

They won't have the numbers to occupy the nation and force everyone to comply, and that's why they're engaged in such an aggressive show of force. They're hoping we all get cowed into submission and do their work of suppression ourselves. Once again, no. The mantra remains "fuck you, make me."

ICYMI: WaPo, on why ICE always has phones in their hands: to feed the social media beast. @drewharwell.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

There's this episode of Star Trek where Captain Picard is captured and tortured, and the main way that the torturer tries to break him is by showing him four lights, and telling him that there are five. There are four lights. This is not a post about Star Trek.

So to return to this: Mussolini had 200,000 blackshirts for the March on Rome in a country of ~35m. Hitler had 400,000 brownshirts in 1932 in Germany for a population of ~60m. So around 0.6% of the population. 0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million. They do not have enough goons.

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

death cult

NPR built a visual archive of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, showing exactly what happened through the lenses of the people who were there. In Chapter 5, we look at how Trump’s pardons, political messaging and use of power reshaped the public story.

I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea. This should not be a difficult concept.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

Their entire spiel was unapologetically about embedding AI agents in cars and other devices to push users to buy specific products. One example was filtering map suggestions for restaurants based on which companies had deals with SoundHound.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Critics want subtlety. Traumatized kids need clarity. Stranger Things doesn't win because it's subtle. It wins because it's not afraid to say the truth out loud to the people who need to hear it most. www.kameronhurley.com/we-are-the-s...

"You deserve to die if you disagree with us" is their position. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I’ll renounce my atheism if it means this asshole goes to hell

It’s absolutely the right call and fucking surreal that our public schools have to close because of the threat posed by OUR OWN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. I am beyond livid.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Seeing a lot of “conservatives” making jokes about the death of an innocent woman. isn’t that supposed to get you fired in America?

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

Disgusting desperate lies

If the President has seen a different video, he should release it. But the evidence available does not show an officer being run over or a justification for shots to be fired. The rush to excuse this shooting is expected but abhorrent. Gather the facts. Do your job.

He literally walks away.

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

"Ohio" (1971) - written by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. 🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9...

remains striking the extent to which trump quite loudly does not see himself as president of the united states and more as a clan leader for his supporters

Remarkable statement from an elected official.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Now that Trump says Venezuela will hand over 30-50 million barrels of oil, with proceeds of sales to be controlled by him, I want to reiterate: He's inviting our oligarchs to reap great riches by buying into his scheme of imperial hemispheric domination. newrepublic.com/article/2049...

Media literacy > training people to train their replacements

Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult apnews.com/article/fake...

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

Five years ago.

I'm writing a book on this stuff but it's amazing the degree to which these tech bros are pushing network states into the public consciousness. Gaza, Greenland, El Salvador, Guantanamo, Honduras, Ukraine, Venezuela. Seems like all Trump foreign policy comes with a side of Network State.