A core conservative belief is that the cops can gun down anyone they want to on the street, based on vibes. Meanwhile, they call socialists "authoritarian".

this exact same dynamic is now playing out with CSAM

Respectfully, leaving abusive situations is not “letting the abuser win”. It’s a common, but deeply problematic way to frame any kind of abusive or hostile environment. “Just keeping taking the abuse” is deeply misogynistic

This is exactly right. They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now. Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.

This is an "administrative warrant". It's not signed by a judge and is therefore unlawful. ICE agents carry stacks of these around in their cars and just fill them out on the fly. Make sure everyone knows what this looks like, as they have already started going door-to-door in some neighborhoods.

once trump’s corporate backers actually are *afraid* of massive foreign retaliation they will start clogging up the group chats demanding trump back down. and he will listen, because ultimately this stupid game has only gone on because of elite complicity

Like I’ve been saying: I think one of the big political stories of the year is going to be non-conservative Christians getting loud.

www.thenation.com/article/acti... Hit them where it hurts them - boycotts can work

After killing Renee Good, ICE fascists in Minneapolis have now arrested and detained 4 members of Oglala Sioux Tribe. ICE HAS ARRESTED AND DETAINED INDIGENOUS AMERICANS. These ICE fascists are not here to keep us safe, but to advance white supremacy. Defund and abolish ICE permanently.

The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

/8 A huge part of what makes it very hard to convict Jonathan Ross for murder was baked into America generations before Trump was President. That’s the primary factor that lets law enforcement kill with impunity, not Trump. Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

Lmao

California could do this today if our state assembly passed an emergency bill and @gavinnewsom.bsky.social had the cojones to sign it.

I hate that no one has the heart and spine to make Law & Order: Internal Affairs.

Been thinking about this the last few days: bsky.app/profile/adam...

there are some very white working class dudes doing electrical work in the office next door and I just overheard one of them say “fucking paramilitary fucking shooting people in the street, did you see that shit?” so I don’t think the PR is going over well

There are at least 100 Minneapolis residents for every federal agent in the city right now. Political leadership needs to organize them before it's too late. Stop telling people to remain calm and peaceful and give them a useful mission.

I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...

not for the first time I note these guys pulling shit that would have gotten you extremely killed in any actual insurgency situation

Legit thought this was The Onion

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

It is tremendously clarifying that to see the same people who spent decades screaming about “government tyranny” every time Dems tried to expand healthcare or reduce the number of mass shootings cheer the literal occupation of American cities by armed federal agents who shoot people in their cars

You heard the president! Land back. Whew that settler empire will be just like a bad dream behind us.

Denmark prepares for invasion.

His father, who for some reason was talking to the media, was going on about what a good conservative Christian the murderer was. Which kinda tells you everything you need to know about what being a good conservative Christian entails.

I wonder if Cuba's internal instability is connected to foreign interference? No, it's the Cubans who are wrong!

Struck by how Noem and McLaughlin say "weaponized the vehicle" instead of the simple, monosyllabic "tried to hit him with her car," which is a concrete assertion the evidence does not support. "Weaponized the vehicle" is abstract. The humans disappear. The car was made to do... something. 1/6

the Dem leadership either agrees with Trump and likes him, or they are the most incompetent people in world history. take your pick

The man who literally wrote the book on the use of vehicles as ramming weapons says any claim Good used hers as such is false, and that her execution, followed by the false claim, is "death squad behavior."

This is what Dem leaders need to understand. The murder yesterday and the shootings today in Portland are the result of POLICY. This is exactly what they intend. If you collaborate with the GOP in any way, blood is on your hands too.

Nice. I was wondering when libs and leftists would pick up the gadsden flag.

got a phone call from my father tonight, first asking how we were doing here in portland, and second, ranting about how he saw people killed at kent state, and third he and his extremely religious wife talking about renee good as a martyr, these people are late 70s oklahomans

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

If not prison then re-education camps. Have them do trail maintenance in Nat'l Parks during the day and sit in classrooms in the evening.

We can either have states that prosecute murders of their residents by federal agents, or we can have an unchecked federal goon army free to murder despite the law. We can have an opposition party that votes against arming and funding these goons, or we can have cowed opposition in name only.

It's not just a case of "do better Democrats" - it's now minutes to midnight. The small-d democratic pushback to authoritarian terror must be clear and unflinching and unabashed. Taking that line is not only the right thing to do, it's a self-fulfilling solution for terrified voters.

If this is the dilemma we have after decades of declining opportunity and terminal suburban-brain w/ a festering media environment, fine. Our house is rotting and it's gonna take a lot to fix it. It's only a no-win if we're cravenly refusing the task of showing leadership for change - the 1st step.

Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.

For any night owls familiar with the histories of racial categories in the US census, c. 1910. The middle entry is for an Indian girl, in a deaf school in PA, and while her fellow students were enumerated as "W" for White, I can't quite make out what she is being enumerated as. Any thoughts?

Holy fuck they actually did it

I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea. This should not be a difficult concept.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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oh god this can't be real

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable