and now i'm crying because he died while watching the most corrupt, awful people in the world destroy what he worked so hard at to build. i know build back better is a thoroughly [insert swear word] trope at this point, but they are the right words. we have to do it.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

An important point here: admin leave is a necessary and expected minimum response after someone has been fatally shot, even in cases in which there is no real question that it was justified. You just took a life. bsky.app/profile/toob...

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

Understand that 370 days ago even bringing a motion like this would probably have been treated as sanctionably frivolous Today it was granted ex parte

Even the Times is calling the DHS liars.

Stillframe breakdown 🧵of the murder

This is such an important point. That 5-year-old and his dad should never been detained in the first place! That's because they were already in the system and going through the legal process to seek asylum — and their arrest was seemingly just to juice ICE's numbers.

Particularly of note when the Trump admin has been highlighting the Iranian protests and the bravery of the Iranian resisters, even making noises about intervening. Every part of his regime seems to be pursuing their own paths.

We need to be having this conversation before anti-MAGA forces regain power. The immigration system was already broken, and already breaking people. We need a better vision or it will quietly backslide under unassuming officials making “uncomfortable choices in difficult situations” until numb to it

This is probably about as close as a legacy media news article is going to get to ridiculing the gross hypocrisy of the yellow snake crowd salivating for more treading.

Late on this, but it was very good. www.liberalcurrents.com/most-men-don...

AYFKM. One of the guys ICE/DHS claimed was living with the innocent US citizen they dragged into the snow in his underwear is currently IN PRISON and already had an ICE detainer on him. It's amateur hour at ICE, and the rights of American citizens are being impacted!

Anyone who argued against Confederate statues being removed but is not upset about all the ways this administration is literally erasing history has shown you who they are.

The ombudsman for Stars and Stripes, the deployed servicemember's paper of record, writes in its pages that the publication "is in peril of losing its editorial independence and becoming nothing more than a public relations arm of the Pentagon." www.stripes.com/opinion/2026...

We got to talk about the fact that the first target for this is a Black woman which a lot of people in the terminally online world we know these comms staffers (and others) inhabit represent a particular archetype of person who needs to be “humbled.”

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

We’ve learned that aerosolized lead can cause neurological and behavioral changes at exposure levels far below acute toxicity symptoms. What are the long term effects of handling and exploding lead bullets, especially at indoor ranges? www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Wow, basically a total cave by Trump. Nothing in here that couldn't have been accomplished over a lunchtime Zoom call between State Department and Pentagon staff at the deputy undersecretary level and their EU counterparts. This whole stupid monthslong drama literally could've been an e-mail. /1

Incredible, Greenland's PM is now refuting the one part of this that represented any change to the status quo ante. *GREENLAND PM: NOT AWARE OF TALKS ON MINERAL RESOURCES

One of the things I’m really struggling with about what’s going on in Minnesota is that if you describe what’s going on in plain, factual ways to someone who’s not paying close attention you sound completely, bugfuck crazy

"Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father. Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia"

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

This is the defining quality of Dem leadership. They think about political decisions not in terms of what they want to achieve but by worrying about and minimizing backlash. They are looking over their shoulder nervously at the audience ten times more intently than they’re watching the road ahead.

Starting a riot is how they intend to win the midterms. They want to scare middle America into giving them more power by showing them how the cities are violent. It isn’t just about the Insurrection Act. It’s about shifting public opinion through fear of other citizens.

Also, just reflect on how pathetic this is: going to maybe a half-dozen different gas stations and standing around with a heavily armed detachment, so you can go on x dot com and whine about how the mean Minnesotans yelled at you and wouldn’t let you use the bathroom, and must be crushed with force.

“What would people say if a Democrat did it?” is both boringly stale and very revealing. Democrats have to be consensus builders and offending one person at a rural diner means six days of nonstop coverage on Fox News. This guy doesn’t want a brave truth-teller, he wants Trump’s policies.

completely unironically, this is how we'll know

Pictured: “the worst of the worst”

A list of what Trump has done American science, medicine, and, public health. Most Americans have no idea that any of this has happened. That lag — the time it takes for people to realize what's being done to them — is what we have to survive. www.patreon.com/posts/148735...

Like Jesus Christ, just WW2 stuff happening over there in the corner

This is being dunked on for obvious reasons; but if it fails on party-line votes you’ve now put the GOP all on record as voting against funds for the police and local crime enforcement in favor of wildly unpopular federal thugs. This might be a decent wedge tactic.

More resignations of federal prosecutors are expected at the US Attorney's Office in Minnesota amid ongoing frustration over the Trump administration's response to the fatal shooting of Renée Good by an ICE officer.

NO

I owe the Canadians an apology for treating his previous threats as obvious bullshit, harmful in themselves as bullying insults, but self-evidently not going to lead anywhere. Can’t believe this has to be said, but I stand with Canada, with Greenland, with NATO. Your safety is not negotiable.

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

I probably won’t get my way unless I really beat you. And trust me, dear, if I started wailing on you, you wouldn’t be able to stop me. But don’t worry, I won’t. I know you were so worried. But I won’t have to, and I don’t want to hit you. It won’t get that far because you’re going to do it my way.

it's not a credible renunciation of violence because IT IS NOT a renunciation of violence AT ALL. it's a veiled threat of force. he's telling everyone that he does have the means to take it by force and could do it but he won't **if they just give him what he wants**.

None of the MAGA excited to see the executive finally act according to their power fantasies have thought through what happens if some future “woke” president declares a national emergency around something like climate change and claims an equally existential urgency to bulldoze ahead at all costs.

There are anti-ICE signs on every business, every streetlight, every blank wall, in half the windows. Everyone is wearing anti-ICE clothing. No one talks about anything else, at the bus stop, at work, at the bars and restaurants, at the store. Total unity around one idea: ICE OUT NOW

🧵 to read comments building on each other

Seriously. I mean, by all means leaflet and let the parishioners know the pastor is a bad guy, but you have to be pretty detatched from reality not to anticipate what a pointlessly counterproductive image this was going to be.

I'm not saying they shouldn't be confronted. Just that not every kind of confrontation is likely to produce a good result. People keep speaking like the only two options are "do nothing at all" and "play right into the religious persecution narrative they have going on"

is it Good when you as the increasingly unpopular security service are alienating the local police

The next Democratic president needs to use this on Day 1 to say that none of Trump’s second term was valid and therefore all of his EOs, tariffs, and appointments are void. Therefore our trans servicemembers are automatically reinstated and entitled to back pay and benefits, and so on.