This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

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wonder if they know that for the rest of us this would be like winning the lottery

Boy I hope so, I want to do some looting

The institutions yearn for fascism; they long to be freed from the unbearable yoke of liberty.

I hadn't seen this photo from the ICE protests in Broadview. This is Rev. David Black from Chicago. He's been regularly protesting at the Broadview ICE facility.

Elon Musk can escape a lot of accountability but he cannot escape knowing that he caused this thousands upon thousands of times over

the 'cancel' part of 'cancel culture' was also lifted from Black culture and promptly weaponized against any effort to obtain social accountability in defense of marginalized people

If I were a billionaire I’d finance so many Rod Dreher biopics. Werner Herzog Rod Dreher documentary. Noah Baumbach Rod Dreher dramady. Wes Anderson stop motion Rod Dreher movie.

yeah people who work professionally in politics can’t say this for a variety of reasons, but I’m just some guy so I can: by now the data shows that Trump has a lot of marginal low-turnout voter support, persuading them to *not vote* is basically as good as getting them to switch.

it’s less flattering to your self-image to see yourself effecting change by getting dumb assholes who don’t pay much attention to politics to sit this one out rather than mobilizing the forgotten, but end of the day points on the board are all that count.

I understand, as a professional politician, Casten has to say this, but an angry left, construed broadly, would be useful politically, albeit harder to control. "Being the mom" & managing Republicans' feelings hasn't worked, while it's clear anger towards them really throws them off their game.

That's not even true though. Trump isn't immortal. Nobody will (probably) ever run against Trump again. There's no need to change their minds to defeat Trump in an election because Trump literally will not be a choice available to them in any future election.

Cambodian General Staff: this is the last thing those imperialist Kardashians will expect

this shit is so embarrassing

Third time (at least) Trump has made a joke or light of killing fishermen, and Vance did it too. They’ve made joking about killing fishermen an effing talking point.

This is why Republicans are going home instead of even bothering to schedule a vote, because Schumer's history and his signals both make it abundantly clear that he's going to cave as soon as possible. Stop doing this! Have you never negotiated anything in your life?

Truly astonishing that the policies advocated here are defined as ‘hard left’. It’s basic social democracy. The right has become so extreme it now sees common sense policies as ‘hard left’. This explains the destruction of British society

I’m fine with this personally but then I haven’t spent the last several decades mocking safe spaces

yeah a minor irony is that what they want is more like expanded safe spaces for discussion

THESE PROUD, STUBBORN FUCKING MORONS ARE GOING TO KILL US. THEY LITERALLY DON'T CARE IF WE DIE. THEY WILL WATCH THE PLANET BURN AND OUR FAMILIES DRAGGED OFF TO CAMPS BEFORE ADMITTING THEY WERE JUST FUCKING WRONG

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

It is, first of all, astonishing to me that anyone can believe this as an adult American. To me the real education has been how many people there are who seem really to *believe in nothing*, and how little people like that can actually be trusted to maintain a Republic

The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list

He, truly, is their George Floyd, and in that respect, you can see how the right views the left; they think this is what we're like

yeah I think this is a good metaphor for the tension between people who do longer term activism and the more normie types who join in moments of unrest and momentum like the present. warriors who regard the conflict as a part of their identity, vs. soldiers who want to win and fucking go home.

so much of this shit "should you register for protests", "is it good to have the US flag at them" is just people wanting to be given some kind of deference as Protest Elders\Veterans in a little subculture of people who enjoy doing this shit, and for the most part..no. Can't gatekeep mass politics

Seeing a lot of people say Trump deleted this post. He didn’t, he just edited it to include Lindsey Halligan’s full name. The post is still up on Truth Social.

Trump makes the case to his personal attorney-turned-AG that she is not pursuing his politicization of the DOJ aggressively enough; time to prosecute his enemies, evidence be damned

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Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

Dude

Great googly moogly

I've never related more to Superman than when I found out he had a dirtbag cousin who took advantage of his generous nature

Legal weed, cheap cocaine, fentanyl everywhere, has anyone checked on the meth business lately? Are they doing okay? Seems like it might be hard times for those guys.

While it's funny, it's really stupid that Trump still thinks Asylum Seekers have been released from insane asylums.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Great Spiro Agnew's Ghost, Batman

I will donate to any Dem who adopts COME AT ME BRO thought

Not the point here but damn that Kansas one is a masterwork of obscurantism

The entire Trump presidency is a 4chan trolling operation

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Attempts to curb freedom of speech are ever so fashionable right now, aren’t they? Here’s one we can do something practical to counter.

My most Gen X complaint is that this question ignores our existence.

The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!

If you're a WH reporter and Trump hasn't insulted and threatened you yet, you must not be very good. Better step up that game.