David Brooks: This is a war on blue states Bill Kristol: Abolish ICE Springsteen: ICE is the Gestapo Dems in Congress: Let’s talk body cams and QR codes

the minnesota occupation is, i think, already a political defeat for the administration, and i don't see how it eventually ends as anything other than a major political disaster

The really dumb stuff they get so excited about is sometimes welcome just because this dynamic is so funny:

haul Bovino’s ass in front of the judge every six hours to explain this shit keep hauling him in, hold him in contempt, make his life miserable until he tells his goons to cut it out

Total Twin Cities cultural victory. Everyone's going to be starting infoshops and co-ops again, eating nutritional yeast on shit

1️⃣ He didn't say that. 2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him. 3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling. 4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it. 5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented. 6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Abolish. Then Nuremberg

Deploying essentially all of your available resources to terrorize one city at a time, in a very large country with many big cities scattered across a continent, is not a sound strategy for regime consolidation.

The absolute accuracy of this.

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gonna make pissing a gameplay mechanic

Fucking RFK pseudoscience nonsense, all you’re gonna do is piss off everyone in the locker room after the game when you take your shoes off and the aroma of diaperchili wafts out

Anybody remember the kid with the tuba trolling the hell out of a white nationalist march with circus music?

"Verbal assaults" Poor snowflake need a safe space? Maybe content warnings for profanity when they start their shift?

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Look I know people always come at me when I say organized religion is a good cover and scam for evil people because they're preying on good people who have true faith and belief in their fellow man but yeah I meant it and here's a solid gold example.

It's noteworthy that the voice most often deployed by the GOP to speak on healthcare issues is the man the DOJ described as the biggest healthcare fraudster in US history, Sen Rick Scott (R-FL).

Can we hold this up to Walz later as him making a commitment to pursue prosecutions? Because if not, it's just him trying to take credit for things civilians were doing without his assistance.

Calls for people to film events in Minnesota reflect good intentions, but intention without process produces unusable evidence. Evidence collected for awareness & evidence collected for legal accountability are not the same activity. They require different standards, safeguards, and infrastructure.

In legal settings, how evidence is gathered and processed often matters more than what it shows. Poor process can render strong evidence useless. If people like Tim Walz ask citizens to document events, they inherit responsibility for defining where that material goes and how it is governed.

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

Person with traceable online presence going back decades: "this Newsom character seems like bad news." Tomasina_Cats1965.bsky.social with @ pfp who has only ever posted one other time, six months ago, to say they have valid concerns about trans kids: "The right is at it again 🙄"

just increasingly obvious that everything online Dems got excited about in casting Newsom as a “fighter” was simply the skilled efforts of a comms team who knows exactly what online Dems will fall for, while the man himself has a spine made of absolute tapioca pudding

People will do literally anything to avoid saying the American left was right

Pardon?

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

Huh I wonder why Booker didn't post this over here on this site? Is it because he knows people on here will point out that Ross was one of the people *doing the training* and that *there were already body cams that we've all seen the footage from*?

Stunning that the Dems this tweet was despairingly mocking are if anything even more convinced now that their repellent centrism is excellent politics that meets the moment, politely requesting "About 20% less fascism, please" because that is how they think the van squads should be run.

Jesus effing Christ. We have Mengele in the CDC. IMPEACH HIM NOW.

72% against. That’s like leprosy numbers.

Holy shit after decades of my ears perking up at the words "General Strike" only to check and see that there's no organization, just a call... We've got the real fucking deal! Spread the fucking word!

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

i know a few mutuals like this

Also just think about the massive morale battle happening when every single slip-up by any one of the ICE guys gets filmed by at least a dozen observers and becomes a Keystone Kops montage on tiktok within minutes. If a law was passed banning their masks, they'd all quit rather than show up to work

The city is fully mobilized against the invaders.

I'd like to point out that this amounts to more people working as observers in a single metropolitan area than the entire total of ICE personnel nationwide even after they more than doubled it. We ain't kidding when we talk about how we can take shifts while they get worn down with double overtime.

in all seriousness, this is a revolutionary dual power structure

It’s too bad all the Harper’s letter signatories all died in that awful fire or they would be furious

one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen

A big part of the current right wing belief system is that everyone is actually just as bigoted as they are, and are only pretending not to be as a public performance ("virtue signalling"). They genuinely thought once they started doing open racism, everyone would join in

Is this how aeromorphs reproduce?

Lol it just clicked to me now after doing some errands that the way that Minnesota Man account that was concern trolling about LGBT people responded to being asked if he was trans looks remarkably like he was offended at the idea

"Freedom of expression doesn't include FUN expression!" - Republican Activist Judges

(this is why one of Democrats' first priorities and a public commitment should be completely overhauling the federal judicial system to end this kind of nonsense)

Lol that first weird self-flagellating Newsom defender's last post before logging off was to ridicule the people saying that better things are possible. I don't know how to describe that behavior without unfairly insulting clowns by proximity to him.

If you think this is overthinking it, remember that "America First" is a KKK slogan and these goons are obsessed with "trolling" people with dogwhistle memes.

So how many Schumer Defenders are going to claim that better training would fix a goon bodyslamming someone from behind without so much as making their presence known, much less giving any instructions? And the pissbaby cowards needed to outnumber them 4-to-1 to even confront an unarmed dancer