Giving them more training won't make them more peaceful. It'll just make their brutalization more polished and effective.

The regime-affiliated oligarchs who bought up Twitter, the Washington Post, CBS, and TikTok didn't do so to turn a profit. They are taking control of the media to limit the public's ability to resist authoritarianism and oligarchy. If they run the outlets into the ground, that's fine.

There’s no reason for a law enforcement function to exist at ICE or CBP beyond manning border crossings. The remainder of the criminal justice system can handle those functions.

It’s certainly not an answer to everything but abolishing ICE and restricting the Border Patrol to patrolling the border feels like it would go a long way.

Maybe other disagree, but I think it's important that we frame this as a humiliating loss for them. Bovino is leaving with his tail between his legs. Trump has lost. ICE is defeated. Because they can't accept humiliation, and it will cause them to overstep again.

To my Republican colleagues who know better but remain silent in the face of mounting violence and corruption, I ask this sincerely: why did you come to Congress? Was it to defend the Constitution, the rule of law, and the people you represent, or to look the other way when it becomes inconvenient?

This is a very good starting list of demands

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 can’t believe their plan of shooting people in the face and bombing their homes hasn’t proven more popular

How many years have we been watching gun nuts open carry semiautomatic rifles into, like, a Dunkin' Donuts as a statement against government control? And they're now silent over a citizen being murdered by federal agents and then blamed for legally carrying a firearm?

Arrest Bovino for obstruction of justice

Get Off Tik Tok

This at the end of the day is what’s at stake? If the protections afforded by the Constitution cannot be defended against a belligerent executive and a submissive Congress then what is the value of the Constitution?

Every administration, every faculty senate, every board of trustees who forced their institutions to bend the knee over this shit should immediately be fired. Their presence dishonors the profession and the institutions they supposedly serve.

CNN calling Tom Homan "well respected" and "not as hardline as Bovino" is an interesting choice. The dude took a $50,000 bribe in a fucking Cava bag and says all the same fascist shit as Bovino and Noem.

“If your state doesn’t help us we will be forced to murder its citizens” is an argument that only works on people who are already subnormal bootlickers.

He stated “Mass Deportations Now” a million times during the campaign. He’s glorified violence against people who don’t agree with him about a hundred times over the last decade. If you were unable to connect the dots thats on you.

I don't care how narrow your district is and how many times you've won reelection, you're just not a very good politician if you couldn't see where this was all headed last summer, let alone last week

To paraphrase an infamous post, what did people think "mass deportations now" meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?

they should all be living in little hovels in the woods because they fear being literally tarred and feathered if seen in public. it's a sign of the decadence and decay of our social order that instead they continue to live lives of excess

Nope. If you didn’t realize “Mass Deportations Now.”was going to result in a terror campaign then that’s on you. If you thought raising tariffs would lower prices, then you don’t get credit for being wrong. You don’t need to be praised for identifying your mistake and correcting it. Be an adult.

Noem-Bondi-Trump are doing domestic terrorism

News professionals have completely lost their industry to opinionslop correspondents.

This world would be a much better place if carrying a gun without an ID was grounds for an extrajudicial execution

There’s really not any analysis needed. He was carrying, a fed saw the gun while tackling him, yelled “GUN” then everyone opened fire on him. It’s murder in the simplest fucking way.

So its constitutionally protected to carry a firearm. Constitutionally protected to protest the government. But illegal to combine those two? Bug eyed fucking clown

I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.

The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.

We need to repeal every law shielding govt officials from accountability for wrong doing

This time we need to kill the Nazis before they take the cowards way out

I hope that Democrats realize what’s happening in Minnesota is also a dry run for what the regime has planned for the midterms.

just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now

Taxing billionaires out of existence is a necessary part in implementing an anti-fascist regime

if I were a Democratic strategist, columnist, or politician, I would simply not be outflanked by Bill Kristol and this guy

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...

Arrest the officers for obstruction of justice. Otherwise we’ve deemed federal agents above the law

Any D that votes for these bills should submit their resignation immediately after the vote closes. Admit you’re not up to the job in this moment and get the fuck out of the way.

Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win

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.

it is a sign of the total absence of trump from political decision making that they are letting this guy go out and say stuff that dramatically worsens their political position

Bro I can't wait until somebody strings Kegseth up on a streetlight, i will bake cookies for the occasion

You can’t “we need our guns” your way to perpetuating school shootings while “he had a gun” your way to justifying public executions. A nurse. Someone who’s actually saved lives.

Super-rich chatgroups (and their own posts) have shown they have a whole universe of petty / inexplicable / bigoted / eugenicist grievances that they consider sufficient cause to justify burning down the rule of law, civil order, and international stability that made them rich in the first place.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

I can’t believe it’s liberals that now need to say this to a conservative government

Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.

ICE agents killed a man and are disappearing the witnesses.