There is an ICE office in Bloomington, MN, where people with pending deportation cases do monthly check-ins. In this office, there is a desk. On this desk, there is a placard. It reads, "Throw Kindness Around Like Confetti." The cognitive dissonance is breaking my brain.

“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”

They held him like this for 100 days.

This is actually extremely noteworthy.

Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.

This bill is going to harm millions of Americans right now but we won’t know the true toll for years. It’s time for Democratic leaders, donors, and organizations to use their dollars to fill the gaps Trump is creating: fund clinics, stock food banks, protect communities.

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

We all need a place where we feel safe… Goodnight everybody. Sweet dreams.

Funny that, innit?

Make this go viral.

It's the 50th anniversary of this report which revealed things like: the CIA's assassination attempts of leaders across the world, attempts at mind control, domestic surveillance, and collaboration with the mafia. It also probed illegal break-ins, blackmail, and surveillance done by FBI.

The way the ICE officer, who looks like a middle-aged guy who's probably been doing the job for years, just casually tosses off that line... My guess would be that he felt he was doing her a favor; he was being reasonable within the bounds of his orders. But it's the orders that are unreasonable.

Even if you only care about citizens and not people living here since they were teenagers, this does incredible harm to two American citizens and helps no one at all. Except Miller and other ghouls who get off on violence to dark skinned people. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

I wrote quite a lot about how the left’s hateful rhetoric fueled the killings of the healthcare CEO and Israeli embassy staffers. I’m going to either ignore this weekend’s assassinations in Minnesota or maybe write something both siding them.

Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

The Department of Defense was created to protect us, but who is going to protect us from THEM?

"We didn't cross the border; the border crossed us" goes hard. Abolish ICE.

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

Yesterday at Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in Seattle barriers were built with scooters and bikes in front of the buildings garage exit. This comes as it was announced today that ICE will be deploying tactical teams to 5 cities in the US to assist in “mass deportations”

Let This Radicalize You Chapter Six:

You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary

Avoid the violence/nonviolence debate. It’s a trap. The only thing that matters is what actions lead to more justice and less harm. Inaction and complicity in the face of brutal oppression is the worst form of violence. Never forget it.

Will they be goose-stepping in that parade?

The Lord of the Rings films are older than ICE. The Matrix is older than ICE. Legally Blonde is older than ICE. We're not talking about a venerable American institution. We're talking about post-9/11 Patriot Act overreach. Claw that power back. Destroy ICE.

The people complaining that immigrants need to seek citizenship "the right way" get very quiet when ICE kidnaps those same people on their way to immigration hearings.

“Firing back”

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

Don't forget it

Another big point being missed: between deployments, daily work, and duty, being pulled away from your family for 2 months for a political stunt never sits well with the troops. Same with that stupid parade, marching in the hot sun for a draft dodger who never served.

"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

“Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.”

the people putting themselves on the line to run off these thugs truly are the best of us

I feel like this is easier to ignore in some places than others, but American citizens have been at war with “their” police forces for decades and I don’t know how to get people to understand that a lethal occupying force has never and will never keep us safe

I can’t compete with this

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

This case seems egregious, and it reeks of retaliatory prosecution (that a senior Fed prosecutor resigned today, seemingly over this, adds to that impression). But also? Police overcharge like this ALL. THE. TIME. Like saying YOU assaulted THEM when you bled on them bc THEY punched YOU.

In Chicago they also almost arrested a court interpreter.

When what you’re doing is definitely legal, justified, and on the up and up….