This is almost certainly correct. Stephen Miller was one of the creators of the immoral family separation policy-which still haunts hundreds of children to this very day At DHS, Kristi Noem is a brainless figurehead. Greg Bovino is a degenerate henchman But Stephen Miller is truly, despicably evil

Stephen Miller’s wife reacting this way to someone literally pointing out what the constitution says is pretty telling

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

I want to say this too: this victory was won because we had observers EVERYWHERE. ICE and CBP couldn't set foot in our city without cameras rolling. Much of the nation seemed determined to ignore our plight for weeks, but the avalanche of documentation we produced dragged the nation to us.

the thing about libertarianism is that 85 percent of it turned out to be totally hollow and hypocritical under Trumpism but than that last 15 percent has been a genuine force.

lmfao get wrecked

This is the question history will ask us.

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I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

two major mainstream news outlets lurched sharply rightward over the past year (CBS and WaPo), and both failed for the basic reason that the only business the new leadership understood was one where they generated literal nonsense to please barely literate billionaires

During the Soviet era, at times of govt instability, the state broadcaster would typically preempt scheduled broadcasts by airing performances of Swan Lake

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

After everything we’ve seen the past few days…are we feeling confident about this gang giving up power after the 2028 election?

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

these guys are LARPing like siege commanders talking about "supply lines" rightoids literally cannot comprehend the idea of a community caring for their own; these people live in Minneapolis their supply line is a five minute drive to the grocery store

Congress is not powerless. Democrats must unify around an actual agenda. 1. Vote no on DHS funding bill. 2. Repeal the multi-year $75 billion funding for ICE. 3. End qualified immunity for ICE agents. 4. Investigate and prosecute every single ICE agent who broke the law.

Need less ‘the call to heroism has inspired me to be who i was always meant to be!” narratives and more “this fucking sucks and I don’t want to be here but someone has to do it and goddamnit it looks like that’s me” narratives imo.

The National Basketball Players Association has released a statement on the killings in Minneapolis: “Following the news of yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a city that has been on the forefront of fight against injustices, NBA players can no longer remain silent”

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 think the story of this administration so far has been elite collapse and mass resistance

Live footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.

we will simply ramp up our degenerate murder spree if you keep calling us nazis

Patel is wrong. Only 16 states prohibit guns at protests & Minnesota is not one of them. Gun-rights extremists—like many in the trump admin—have fought against restrictions like these, calling them infringements on the Second Amendment right. giffords.org/lawcenter/gu...

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

I wonder how many people need to get killed in the street by masked agents of the state before conservatives stop pretending that they’re being oppressed by the existence of HR departments bsky.app/profile/shar...

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

I don’t see too many people talking about what an incredible accomplishment it was for MN officials and lawyers to get those affidavits and that motion written and filed and to get a Trump appointed judge to issue a TRO against the feds to stop them from destroying evidence - all in the same day.

I am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes.

if Trump were actively trying to impoverish and deskill the united states for the sake of our competitors, what would he be doing differently?

I get the impulse to push for more, harder, faster, but it's worth noting here: the lawyers for both the state and various other plaintiffs have been working their asses off at absolute breakneck speed today.

billionaire buys, kills newspaper. tale as old as time. we're not going to start to get things right in this country until we invest public money in the demcocratic technology of journalism.

Another photo for the 'Remember Who You Are' board: (photo by Jeff Wheeler for the Star Tribune, Jan. 12).

Even as the National Guard is deployed in a perimeter around half my neighborhood to try to prevent ICE’s campaign of violence from boiling over, ICE continues to send lurking cars of armed feds on patrol around the city and stage shows of force around the region. Insane. Unthinkable

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

New: Amid the escalating situation in Minneapolis, ICE posted in the Federal Register asking companies to provide info about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities” www.wired.com/story/ice-as...

they chucked the tea into the bay

This will not be stopped by some external force. There is no allied army coming for us to greet as liberators. It will be ended by Americans or not at all. No one is coming to save us from ourselves.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.

👀 GOP Homeland Security Chair Andrew Garbarino calls for an oversight hearing into ICE. Further evidence that Republicans see this situation slipping away for them?

Breaking: Sen. Chuck Schumer says Senate Democrats will vote to block the bipartisan spending package that would fund DHS and other parts of the government. "Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included."

“this ICE situation” is a wild way for any journalist to describe what has transpired

The videos don't lie. A man is dead, killed in cold blood. There is no conceivable justification for this intentional homicide. And make no mistake, that intentional, unjustified homicide was committed on behalf of Donald J. Trump.

This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.

AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."

Much like the Geneva Convention, nonviolence is often mistaken as a product of naive idealism when it is in fact very very much the product of clear-eyed pragmatism.