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Today’s retreat is absolutely an attempt to take pressure off of Congress to rein in ICE so that a funding package can get through. That pressure has been effective. We can celebrate Minneapolis’ win but we need to keep the pressure on. They’re not going to stop forever.

If the judge is against her, perhaps a friendly hacker could help out.

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

The agents who beat and then killed Alex Pretti after they took his gun - they were wearing body cams. That did not stop them. Unmasking them might. Not every time. But it might stop some of them. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Maple Grove, MN - Protesters beginning to arrive outside of the hotel for a noise demonstration. One demonstrator is hoisting a sign that says “bye, bitch!”

In a just legal system, for government actors to say "we didn't collect/lost/mishandled evidence (such as video)", would be treated as an admission of guilt on all counts.

The Senate bill is rooted in the idea that we just need to get BP/ICE "back to" only terrorizing people we deem worthy of being terrorized, and not White people. The exact problematic understanding people have been trying to warn against... While a lot of White people insisted that concern was silly

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

We should have all known that the moment progressives pulled out their own guns and the black panthers were back in the news defending their communities, that would be the time for common sense gun control. Not 20 some school shootings back, don't be silly.

This is also the same Greg Abbott who pardoned the guy who murdered a George Floyd protester in 2020.

I hope Bovino gets more company under that bus real soon

Yes. And it isn't just a "suggestion"; it's a declaration.

Disappointing to see people on here talking about their ideal ICE/CBP reforms. It is a terrorism organization that is conducting terror campaigns. Abolish. At minimum. That's it.

Great book 📚!

A "pause" is temporary.

Thread. King County puritans are at it again.

If I were made dictatrix, I would dismantle the entire surveillance state except for condemning everyone involved in creating it to one huge panopticon prison for life without parole, with every square centimeter under intrusive surveillance, livestreamed to the internet, permanently.

Breaking per NBC News — CBP has shot and critically wounded another person, this time in Arizona. Very few details available at this time.

They're retreating. It's time to advance. Resignations, prosecutions. Motherfucking tribunals.

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

I've noticed a growing tendency to say "law enforcement" instead of "cops", "a cop", "a gang of cops", "a gang of goons", etc. "Law enforcement" is a concept, not a person or persons. "Law enforcement" cannot be shot; indeed, it can only be "attacked" in legislatures.

Bought myself Letterboxd for luddites.

The topic was which fictional characters would be anti ice, and i Inadvertently broke someone's brain when I said Kirsten's grandkids would be anti ICE, she was an immigrant (It was an elder millennial joke about one of the first American girl characters. She moved from Sweden to Minnesota, iykyk)

The word "rogue" suggests that Bovino was acting on his own rather than simply following his orders, which is what he was actually doing. Just like any other cop, which is what he is.

Went to my local library this morning to do a bit of research for my current book project and my goodness such a life-affirming space! There was an adult being taught to read on the next table, children enjoying story time, countless people taking out books. So grateful for our libraries ❤️

They aren’t backing down. They’re just threatening people in other cities. Still illegal. Still unconstitutional. Even if they haven’t yet backed it up by shooting someone in the face.

These employees were perfectly happy to work for the company when its evil was being directed at sex workers. These are not decent, moral people; they just don't like being spotlighted.

ICYMI: I looked through a published archive of Boston newspapers from the 1760s, when British troops were stationed in the city. The accounts read remarkably similar to what's happening in Minneapolis. radleybalko.substack.com/p/two-cities...

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

The guy genuinely gave a shit. And the empathy vampires murdered him for it.

Victim. The VICTIM'S attorney.

This is why we celebrate the Boston Substack Party, when the patriots wrote strongly worded pamphlets about tea.

got new art put up today! my nephew won this painting ‘snerks’ in a raffle and i’m absolutely in love with it 🥰 artist: sacred layers by aviuk, an inupiaq artist from utqiagvik, alaska

the president has declared war on an american state and the leaders of the opposition wont shut the fuck up about retraining the stormtroopers