Or better yet, the Dems can do the equivalent of a vote of no confidence and replace Schumer. There's absolutely no reason he should be the minority leader when he refuses to listen to the people.

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

You can conclude that these people simply do not understand how negotiating works - that you start by shooting for the moon and force them to talk you down to something like this, extracting pain for every concession - or that they just don't want more than this.

The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.

Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go. Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go. Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go. As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

It’s common and sort of understandable to see Miller as this evil genius. Important to remember he’s actually a complete fucking moron who, when he got a chance, immediately engineered a PR disaster that shitcanned Trump’s best-polling issue. Always the way with these types.

One of the points of Altemeyer's research on authoritarian personality types is that they tend to exhibit much higher degrees of social conformance sensitivity. They really care about what's normal and they really care about both feeling and being perceived as normal.

El Centro region under Bovino’s command has had one of the highest use of force rates among Border Patrol. Allowing him to return and retire is not accountability. Lord help us if he runs for sheriff somewhere.

Remember (as someone reminded me last week...) Bovino had claimed in court that he doesn't run his own social media accounts, even though it seemed pretty clear that he did.

The fascism & lawlessness has to end for any for any sort of government funding to be supported by anybody (ideally) & one would expect the Dems as opposition party (😑).

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

The only difference between Homan and Bovino is that Homan understands that you keep the human rights violations out of public sight so people have plausible deniability to say “they didn’t know” later

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

Bovino was not just following orders but he’s no rogue - like everyone in this murderous lawless admin he must be held totally responsible for his words and deeds & that should not get any higher ups off the hook but have the opposite effect. He served as he was let go: at the president’s pleasure.

Henchman demoted. Boss still directing things from (what's left of) the White House. Miller must go.

Our failures to follow through on January 6th accountability are tied, historically and politically, to our abandonment of Reconstruction. We can't make a "let's look forward, not backward" mistake again.

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.

Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.

“These people are willing to do what they're doing not merely because they are sociopaths - which they are - but also because they are cowards.”

If I sent a letter saying I would continue to inflict violence and murder on a community unless that community made legal concessions to me, I would go to prison. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Winnipeg (AP) - Mass anti-regime protests broke out near the capital of the United States' restive province of Minnesota today after the president's elite Republican Guards murdered a civilian.* *If we covered ourselves the way we cover other countries.

Healthy paranoia is smart. But moving infrastructure of this scale and complexity from one corporate entity to another is inherently risky and difficult to adequately pre-test. A prior ${JOB} moved their whole Office 365 domain between directories. No other changes. It took 2+ weeks to stabilize.

Situation to keep watching obviously, but there were app-wide outages yesterday that people assumed were politics-specific when they couldn't get their politics posts up.

This is exactly right from @barryfriedman1.bsky.social and @stevevladeck.bsky.social . Creating a federal cause of action is a must--but it's the longterm strategy. In the meantime, local police and prosecutors should be building their cases *now*

Good morning team. National opinion is already against ICE.

Notable: though he describes being diagnosed with TBI and Bipolar Disorder and the challenges of those, he still takes full responsibility for his actions and the hurt he has caused. “I aspire to earn your forgiveness.” This is what a way back looks like.

They keep talking about "cooperating with immigration enforcement" as if convoys of troops randomly interrogating and detaining people across the city and attacking bystanders with chemical weapons is just a totally normal part of how law enforcement works that we're all used to.

I do sympathise with this thought, really I do, the "*now* you get it?" responses absolutely put a barrier up against future people changing their minds, but also I have to look at the last decade and think "none of this was a deal breaker - *none* of it - until now"

We call for a deescalation of tensions from both sides, the murderers and the people being murdered

We are now seeing the highest gold and silver futures prices ever. This links directly to heavy speculation against the US dollar based on a sense that the US is now experiencing its worst economic misadministration in the period after World War II.

It's not just that these professional politics observers somehow failed to spot the obvious rise of American nativist thuggery. It's how much energy they devoted to arguing the real problem was the volume, tone, and vocabulary of those raising the alarm about it.

This escaped containment so I’m limiting replies on this. Not one reply has bothered to read my second and third posts, in which I make it very clear that I am *not* saying training is the problem. (I’d allow open replies on those if I could.) Try to be thoughtful readers. (Rude gets a block.)

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day

leading to: 4) A spasm of violence in which MAGA aligned forces are assumed to win because 5) The MAGA types firmly believe that they are a) in the majority, b) have all of the guns and c) all liberals are weaklings. There are, of course, a lot of very obvious problems there. These guys are fools.

Other folks have already noted much of this, but I think the MAGA 'theory of victory' here is: 1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which 2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that 3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...

Actually, 23 Republicans in Congress could make America much safer *right now* if they had any moral courage left. (Also, most of these “demands” are lies or illegal under state and federal law.)

One thing the Minneapolis police have become VERY good at is deescalation. If there’s an angry crowd, the police basically evaporate. If you walk a few blocks you’ll see them, but they’ve learned being invisible calms things down. ICE does the opposite: floods in troops and starts shooting

“A society cannot make a man a monster[….] But it can give him the excuse to become one.” James Islington, The Strength of the Few

in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission

The @wsj.com in an editorial wrote today: "...Pretti attempted, foolishly, to assist a woman who had been pepper-sprayed by agents" According to the WSJ, it's "foolish" for a nurse to assist a person in medical distress. Incredible www.wsj.com/opinion/time... (gift link)

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

Let me try to articulate what I think the central economic issue of the current moment really is.

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

I’m fairly high-info, and I didn’t know half the details in this. “CBP officers and Border Patrol agents commit crimes at an equal or even greater rate PER CAPITA than the population of undocumented immigrants do in the United States”. Also, they only get 47 days of training. Yes, that’s why.

This makes me think of that 1990 interview Trump did with Playboy where he admitted that when it came to Tiananmen Square, he was rooting for the tanks.

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

I will never not be angry that so many people voted for the moral abyss that is JD Vance rather than this obviously, authentically decent man.

Gov. Walz: "What side do you want to be on? The side of an all-powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace, and kidnap its citizens off the street, or the side of a nurse for a VA hospital who died bearing witness to such government?"