I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

"Really hard criminals"

making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal

Don’t worry guys, everything is very cool and normal at the Wegman’s parking lot!

"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm." A must read.

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers https://theonion.com/ice-opens-new-supermax-detention-center-for-most-harden-1827838332/

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

1. Iron journalist rule: some people are authentic and some people aren’t. Farmers? Authentic. College profs? Not. There are around 1.9 million farms in America, and 1.5 million college teachers. Farmers aren’t authentic because there’s more of them. It's because journalists love cliches.

This is Callie. She is trained to accurately detect bowel cancer in order to provide rapid diagnoses through non-invasive testing. Some might call it lab work, but Callie is actually a sprocker spaniel. 14/10 incredible job, Callie (IG: medicaldetectiondogs)

Of all the things I’ve learned about Canadian aviation today, damn

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

It’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened

Where is this boy?

When you worship power, compassion will look like a sin.

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

www.foxla.com/news/super-b... incredibly enough, ICE is *still* going to the Super Bowl

On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.

I'm at a loss for words. I'm glad someone else has them.

“CBS Original” should go in the pantheon of oxymorons with “jumbo shrimp” and “military intelligence.” There’s nothing original about any of it, it’s all first responder p$&n. If that’s your thing, fine (and it’s obv many peoples’ thing) but the Model T assembly line look like improv in comparison.

It’s hard to overstate how freakish it is for law enforcement who just shot someone to be shuffled off to other assignments with no investigative period at all.

I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

Congress cannot fund a Department of Homeland Security that is unapologetically murdering Americans; running a "baby prison" in Texas for the purpose of traumatizing little kids; acting like the law and truth don't exist. We swore an oath to uphold the law.

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

We have reached the point where a judge literally has to order federal law enforcement officials not to destroy or mess with evidence from a homicide scene.

Tonight, on behalf of Minnesota law enforcement, I filed a lawsuit against DHS to prevent the destruction of evidence related to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. DHS is not above the law, and Alex sure as hell is not beneath it.

JFC

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

👇👇👇👇

I tend to think when the details of this finally come out, it will be a literal execution. As in the member of CBP thought the fact that there was a gun there would give him enough cover to unload his frustrations and take another human being's life. And there have to be consequences for that.

not for nothing but their '24 VP pick and his state are under complete, murderous siege and the Dem establishment can't even muster some united front to help their VP pick, their guy from 18 months ago, nevermind giving a fuck about the citizens. Depraved

I can’t get over the fact that the same political movement that thinks the government insisting a rancher pays his range fees is government overreach thinks peaceable assembly is worthy of a summary death penalty.

Video showing ICE agents taking phones from witnesses. Pink coat lady surrounded by goons

Don't expect any justice or accountability.

Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.

Who is old enough to remember conservatives being outraged at the federal governmemt for sending armed agents to deport a 6 year old Elián González? The 90s realy were a different time.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

I'm not asking for calm. I'm not asking people not to feel burning rage. I'm asking people not to entertain anything other than a political solution for political problems. I'm not trying to be a contrarian. I've seen a civil society devolve into violence and I don't want to see it here.

Started Going

It would happen no matter what. The US President is basically a Roomba. When he runs into opposition he turns and starts devouring in another direction. Sooner or later he always circles back, though.

ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...