If you understand that having too much money and power rots people's brains and souls because no one can ever say no to them without consequences then you understand why a groveling chatbot programmed to agree with everything someone says is detrimental to their mental health

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

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Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.

I thought about this a lot when we were all pushing to get kilmar abrego garcia released. I'm glad we got him back but literally NO ONE should be sent to CECOT. They should have ALL been brought back. Never accept an inch. Never accept their framing. Bring everyone back and abolish DHS.

So keep pushing. Anything short of ICE’s abolition isn’t nearly enough. And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.

The problem with symbolic compliance isn’t just that they fall short of ending violence. It’s also that people duped by the symbols will switch sides to defend the oppressor, emboldening them to become more violent and violate more civil rights than before.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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.

It'll be sooner than that, but I'm begging people not to take the inevitable bait. If you haven't already blocked Politico, Axios and Semafor, I highly recommend doing so, as it'll lower your blood pressure considerably.

The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.

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HOWEVER I shall not be letting up on any elected Dems who are like "welp we took care of that guy, mission accomplished," and try to move on you in it now motherfuckers we are pulling out this tree down to the ROOTS

May his retirement be very, very long and may he never sleep more than an hour of it. May he wake up sweating to find his only company is the silence of vengeful ghosts. Also may a Minnesota tick give him a red meat allergy, because he seems like the type who would absolutely melt down.

Yea, lets just say a lot of folks are not taking this well.

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‘The people are being charged with keeping the peace, asked to stand firm against the federal agents who are disrupting it. This is a sick form of double taxation — your paycheck gets docked so that a guy in a mask can beat you up while you try to calm him down.’

The "he's just one guy" contingent clearly didn't have this *specific* guy terrorize your community. So shut the fuck up if those of us that did are perhaps elated to see him actually take a fall.

Let people celebrate that a ghoul got got instead of immediately pointing out that the fascist fucks are still everywhere, the work isn't finished, etc etc. We know. We get to spike the football too.

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They are going to scapegoat Bovino in an attempt at saving Noem and Homan. Hope Bovino enjoys being a fall guy.

Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?

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Which does not mean backing off, but pushing harder. All these people need to go to prison, at the least. We learned from Jan 6 that we need to jail everyone right up to the top, or they just come back after being pardoned by the worst president in American history.

Of course he does. Is this a joke? He defended the guy who killed Good. He’s told multiple people that he thinks protesters should be attacked. He told people at a rally to rough someone up. He’s said nothing as ICE has hurt people for months. He doesn’t get to walk away from this now.

I don't ever want to be rude to a cashier, so I need companies to understand there are reasons a woman might not want to say her phone number out loud to get points. Please don't fight me when I politely ask to type it in the card machine. Dude said JUST TELL ME YOUR NUMBER thrice at Kroger. And

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

Damn.

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My husband didn't know, so I'll repeat it here: Border Czar isn't a real job. Tom Homan has a fake job with a fake title. It also means that he wasn't confirmed by anyone in Congress. (Trump tried to confirm Homan in 1.0 but he failed bc Homan was too corrupt even pre-cava bag.)

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The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

The head of AI coming out as a "classical liberal" should alarm you because he's basically admitting that Alex Pretti is the ONLY kind of human that in the past couple years clears his standard for commentary He's not pissed at the force he's pissed the social algorithm sorted wrong

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one of the reasons everybody hates late arrivals from the right or even the center is they're all weepy little idiots who want to be coddled and forgiven and make it everybody else's problem. shut up, figure out how to help fix what you broke, and stop writing thinkpieces

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Thousands of abuse victims have seen what happens when their abuser gets a little therapy and then weaponizes the therapy buzzwords against the victim. The Trump regime is a raping, pillaging abuser. More training will just make them worse.

The Feds never left Los Angeles. Don’t forget us. Solidarity with Minneapolis and all communities under siege by federal pigs. Keep fighting. Hold the line.

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I guess the post I was responding to has been deleted. In any case my point holds. They “left“ Chicago in the sense that they have fewer people here, but they are still abducting people and terrorizing neighborhoods. Minnesota is not safe. No one is safe as long as ICE & BP are still rampaging.

They want to give Dems a path to voting pro DHS funding. We cannot let the spineless people in Congress take the bait. Remember that Chicago just had a horrific fall, which involved them shooting at people & killing Silverio. they're still here &then they went into Minneapolis with triple the troops

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THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets. They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

All of this happened with basically no help from elected officials of the opposition party. This was entirely the people.

All resistance grifter accounts are to be blocked on sight and this is another one you have to silo off

A lot of the “alt gov” accounts are scams or pushing civil war but this one is really bad.

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