Democrats' demand that Stephen Miller is fired as a condition of voting for ICE funding is one of the smartest moves they've made under Trump. Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.

Not from me, he’s not. Kind of permanently appalled by how many people in my field have lately been insisting that ‘never again’ only counts for some people, and that the Holocaust is a sacrosanct historical moment from which we must never, ever learn anything.

I usually don't release discarded draft versions but this feels like it might be useful today

They’re funding shock troops personally loyal to trump while allegedly being worried about trump’s threats to democracy. Bortac is going to arrest any democrat that wings a swing state in the senate and those assholes will like “oops. I didn’t see that coming!”

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

See, the “immigration crisis,” “border emergency” etc - it’s 100% made up. There is NO crisis except panicked, violently racist white people. That’s it. All this suffering and death is caused by that and only by that. The rest is bullshit: an excuse to grab power by a white supremacist regime.

lmao

my son is 2 and man. talk about TOS violations

Right, like the moderates think it’s “pragmatic” not to call for abolition or defunding. But they also don’t have any actual policy expertise for the technical tweaks and reforms. They are pie-in-the-sky reformists. They don’t have realistic goals.

“Abolish” or “defund” aren't within grasp in 2026. But where are: - End qualified immunity - Rewrite use-of-force so this crap isn't ruled “within policy” - Overturn July 8 mandatory detention memo - Reinstate TPS - Open up detention centers, enforce humane conditions He doesn’t even *ask* for it.

I disagree, it does change something. It increases the evidence that Alex Pretti's murder was a premeditated act which should INCREASE the charge against the ICE thugs who killed him. This is the pattern of right wing media. Every time they try to smear ICE's victims, they make ICE more guilty.

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez explaining why it’s actually okay she stole your catalytic converter:

Wil Wheaton sees Palestinians being massacred and thinks “hey let’s keep this under our hats.”

Wil Wheaton: Maybe we can keep funding this genocide indefinitely so that I don’t have to worry about politics and can go back to saying “remember that Nintendo game”

- any reform that doesn’t codify bivens and restrict officers’ civil and criminal immunities is not accountability. - bodycams are a fake reform. It’s easy for them to agree to when they’re already doing their own filming. - ending roving patrols and requiring warrants is good.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

Trump, ICE, and the GOP hate the US Constitution. They arrest, assault, and kill you for exercising your first amendment rights. They kill you for exercising your second amendment right. They completely disregard the fourth amendment all together. They hate our freedom. They hate America.

I encourage every conservative to follow the example of the lone penguin and die

James O’Keefe responds to a comment “Figured they (ICE protesters) were being paid…” O’Keefe: “No, it's more terrifying than that. It's not transactional. They actually believe in their cause. That truth is going to be hard for most people to understand or accept.”

As usual, the charlatans and mercenaries on the right are confused by the very idea of having principles

I think folks don’t make the distinction between AI/ML as an underlying technology (which does have some real uses) and Gen AI which is not useful at all for anything that actually matters until it is 99.99% accurate, and it never will be.

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

Tim Pool: “I’m not licking the boot. It’s my boot. I voted for it. I’m the one stomping…” This mindset is genuinely pathetic. It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it. /1

I'm going to print this image out and hang it on my wall because the idea that this exists should fill everyone with absolute boiling fucking rage every day.

if you’re Greg Bovino’s dog, Blondy (with a y) do not eat any treats he gives you tonight!

We could convince him that he needs to open the ark of the covenant and take a peak inside in order to secure popular support for his nazi agenda.

Anyone in Congress still backing this needs to wake up from the delusion that Trump’s immigration enforcement is about public safety. These were asylum seekers with an active court date, detained in a parking lot while trying to get medical care for their child.

Ask yourself: what possible purpose does this kidnapping serve other than bigotry and terror?

immigration status discrimination includes discriminating against immigrants and the immigrant-hunters. This is a particularly bad y version of the tolerance paradox

If any ice agents or opla attorneys have really bad morale and need some cheering up, shoot me a dm so I can tell you some things you can do

I like to eat a head of romaine lettuce by chomping on it top down like a carrot

Hey wait don’t they want everyone back in the office

We should repeal all of IRAIIRA. We can call it the “bipartisan bill clinton’s legacy erasure act.”

In light of the Administration's conduct over a range of areas, including its staffing of immigration courts, one of the demands on Congress should be reform of IIRAIRA to unambiguously allow greater federal court oversight of immigration detention (at minimum).

Reading that Sajid Javid piece about wanting to deport his parents and somehow it's even worse than the headline. This guy should have done what every other south asian with familial trauma has and just write a bad book of poetry called "under the mango tree" or something

ICE agents, cbp, ice-opla, and other federal agents are kidnappers and gestapo.

Holy cow they’ve lost Mumm-Ra

Is Trumpism something different, as in fascist, or something familiar, as in a US president? Yes, of course.

IIRAIRA is up there with AEDPA and PRWOA as the worst laws passed by any administration since the New Deal.

bill clinton "his immigration reform was really bad, though" haters vindicated

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

Wrote about him in TNR, prior to Renee Good. Remarkably similar incident. He’d just dropped off his kid. They rushed his car. He tried to flee. Cops then claimed he tried to run them over, despite video evidence to the contrary. Should’ve been a warning.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

I can’t get over this. These are our Ubermenschen? These people think they’re Siegfried and Arthur? They think they’re Achilles and Hector and Odysseus? These soft-ass freaks who are scared of whistles??

Our new supermen have only one weakness and it’s whistles

Whistles are violence, which is bad. However, actual violence against protestors and immigrants is fine.