Portland Police Press conference on the shooting of 2 Portlanders: -DHS said the victims had been involved with a shooting. Nope! -But they were def part of Tren de Aragua -actually no -But TdA is real and active in Portland -We can't name single crime TdA has been involved with in this city

In October, a poll showed Americans opposed it by a 2-to-1 ratio, and I'd imagine the numbers have only gotten worse since then.

Imagine the jokes these guys are gonna tell while they count all that wrongful arrest money.

It’s really important not to lose your humanity in this era. The people who have forfeit theirs, who celebrate and participate in dehumanization, will take generations to deprogram. Feel your emotions out loud. Do not allow anyone to silence or shame you for feeling human ways about fascism.

ICE needs to be taken apart, brick by brick, and we need to salt the earth.

They're always lying but they are most especially lying if they are talking about gangs

Oh sorry, I haven’t been online that much tonight, I’ve been forced to help organize a safety patrol at my kid’s daycare, because ICE stopped by today.

I am honestly kind of stunned in a hopeful way that they did this

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

If the CBP / ICE double their gun violence incident count every day for the next week, we will be up to a 9/11 of state sanctioned death by January 20th.

Council about to resume.

There is an unconfirmed rumor circulating. Wait for official sources on this.

Everyone is okay at City Hall right now. More will be shared asap.

Fuck man I coulda made a lot of money on this

We call this “heightening of contradictions” and it is a strong indicator of productive forces coming into conflict with exploitative forces.

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

I better not see state legislators taking ish about city council dysfunction when y'all failed to fund transportation 😐😂 don't play with me, glass houses 😜😏

Portland City Council musings / juicy bets for the scumbags to make money on the outcomes: Peacock “babysitting on committees” argument is v compelling. Committee assignment feels like a clear attempt to hold back progressive power when there are -more progressives on council than any other bloc-.

It isn’t hard to interpret most of the moves billionaires are making as preparation for the collapse of the US into state blocs. It’s not a generous interpretation and it’s a stated goal of Curtis Yarvin to balkanize the United States.

Further evidence that “libertarian” like “free speech absolutism” and a ton of other identities held on the right are simply masks. And behind them? Monsters, my dudes. People who forgive the police for murdering innocents and scold elected officials for saying “fuck.”

The last six seconds of that Trail Blazers game has aged me 10,000 years.

Hey guys, just woke up from a century long coma, quick question: is it usually good when the fascist politician starts talking about an ethnic group as a “problem?” That’s good and normal right?

Imagine insulting a public official by telling them they … care too much about policy? Have a perspective?

Finally, it's wrong AS A MATTER OF ETIQUETTE. Entering a total stranger's discussion and leading with your private anxiety is as off-putting in social media replies as it would be in real life. If you wouldn't interrupt a stranger at a party to announce that America is doomed, don't do it here.

Second, and probably most importantly, it's tactically wrong. "No point discussing political opposition to fascism, there won't be elections anyway" cedes victory to your enemies. It's defeatism and nihilism.

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

“in america, you deserve to be murdered by the state if you have gender pronouns in bio”

These people will fire and deport you for insufficiently glazing Charlie Kirk but openly celebrate killings against perceived ideological enemies.

Ah yes, the Kavanaugh stop. A brief law enforcement encounter that lasts a mere *checks notes* 25 days.

ICE is killing American citizens the right way. by Ezra Klein

This is really frustrating, as a person who would like equal time among candidates in this race. At the same time I’m skeptical that minds are not already made up here in a deadlock.

Yes, killing peaceful protesters is a sign of tyranny. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/t...

The intermission music on Portland City Council meetings is full on acid jazz. If I am elected Council President, we will secure the song rights to Wait and Bleed by SlipKnot, to improve this deficiency, and all councilors will be required to wear a SlipKnot mask in one full public session per year.

I think the other key thing to remember is that Noem, Lewandowski, and Miller are deliberately under-training and mis-training these officers, which underscores that they should be facing massive legal liability for the foreseeable results: i.e., homicides of innocent Americans.

Any one of us could be shot or kidnapped because an ICE agent doesn’t like the look of us. Are you prepared to be murdered in cold blood while “news” sources repeat the claim you were “weaponizing your vehicle” trying to leave your driveway? They want you to accept that. They want to make it normal

I did this quickly, and would probably better have said “non graphic” - but there is no way to share the photographic truth of this incident without it being violent. ICE martyred a woman today and they’re trying to blame her for their own actions.

I watched the murder video so you don’t have to. I will post non-violent screen shots and describe what is happening. Ignore this thread to avoid seeing the screenshots entirely. A woman was murdered by ICE in cold blood.

If philanthropy cares about systems change they should be funding a new system where people aren’t lied to 24 hours a day

Outstanding data, a lot of dem aligned operatives are in complete denial about this stuff and how effective it is

The text faded to the paywall at the same rate as my eyes would have glazed over anyway

Portland: on 12/23, ICE kidnapped Ronneak, the overnight caretaker of a disabled boy in my daughter’s school. Ronneak was abducted while transporting another client, who he couldn’t even take home. Every abduction is a disgrace to democracy, humanity, human dignity, or even basic decency. Shame!

This is why it annoys me when people try to make it seem as if this is how things have always been. There was a time when greater literacy and reading as a part of everyday life for people of every class was a national mission. Then it changed drastically and now we’re here.

From my column of nearly a year ago, a reminder that Trump’s Greenland gambit is an attempt to steal an indigenous nation that is working toward its own independence: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/08/o...

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

If you're on the Death Star, nobody cares that you only did it for the college money

This sucks but I think non-Americans being justifiably angry at Americans for what the American government is doing and threatening to do, and Americans experiencing that anger and frustration personally in ways that are unpleasant, is probably an important part of any path back to stability

Lmao this is the sort of state media bootlicking we have always heard makes China / North Korea a personality cult or whatever. American authoritarians and their little Eichmanns and Goebbelses in media can out-prostrate anyone in the world.

It should alarm a lot more people that the battlefield is global, there are no more rules of engagement, and there isn’t even a pretense of forging a national consensus around the conflicts anymore because the powerful no longer care if they’re popular. Chilling sign of what’s to come for democracy.