“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”

This is honestly one of the worst fucking tweets I've ever seen. You can simply not create ridiculous, offensive strawmen to defend some guy with a Nazi tattoo who you'd never heard of three months ago.

Is it going to come out that Graham Platner was hooking these guys up with the really good coke?

Given how much the left has pushed back hard on any Nazi imagery and has called deserving people Nazis for their conduct, the hypocrisy of letting a guy get through with a Nazi tat would completely ruin that line of attack forever. For-ev-er.

There are rumors that they change plates daily, FWIW

CA 6SAZ067. It was seen kidnapping people on Whipple just north of Montrose just before 1.

(from the inbox) Bikes were essential to ICE watching and rapid response on the north side today, helping people better locate feds in traffic. In this anonymized video, cyclists tail masked agents in a white Denali with Georgia plates through Rogers Park:

When asked how they felt about seeing ICE abduct someone right outside their building, the man working from home at the time told us: "That’s a man that’s been detained [...] how we feel is small potatoes compared to the actual victims."

Agents chased two workers in this ^ incident. Neighbors tell us one made it on to the roof and hid under a tarp until they left. They say feds had to have either jumped the fence or kicked the gate in for access.

West Ridge this morning, 11:37am— Neighbors witnessed Border Patrol agents arresting a man who's been building a new staircase on their building. "Wait, this is private property," the woman recording says. "No, it's not," the agent replies, covering his face with his jacket.

As most are aware by now, ICE is slamming the north side today. They've been seen in Andersonville, Rogers Park, West Ridge, Edgewater + Evanston. Several people abducted, agents still active. Shared with permission—rapid response whistle team at Bryn Mawr & Broadway this morning.

At some point today amidst threatening rapid responders, detaining a citizen and abducting people, red beard here changed his clothes. Blue hoodie in Edgewater. BP uniform in Albany Park.

man some of you guys have the survival instinct of a fucking water balloon 1. Platner is probably going to drop out 2. This almost certainty isn’t going to be the worst thing that come out if he stays in

look on the bright side, their mad dash to get this stupid ballroom built by skipping all of the safety and engineering considerations provides us with the possibility of the funniest end to this admin that could ever happen

Once again, if the administration had a good story to tell on the law or the facts, it would be telling it—including to Congress. But it doesn’t. These lawless premeditated killings are exactly what they look like.

"The authoritarian internationale is real" is one of things that pisses off the most annoying people in the world

Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.

It really bums me out when academics beat around the bush when talking to the media. Trump is not "going a long way toward making Congress irrelevant," he is violating the plain text of the Constitution and illegally usurping powers he does not have.

I’m glad he’s removing it but sorry dude you don’t get to play the “insinuating that I knew what my tattoo meant is disgusting” card ever, even if other people weren’t telling reporters the opposite

I am a leftist! Who supported Platner up until recently! I am not a DNC schill. Just a few days ago DNC heads on here were blasting me for pointing out Mills' age. Enough of the tribalism, 2016 was 9 years ago!

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

The average American millennial man has been a neocon, a pacifist, a liberal, a libertarian, a communist, a nazi, a member of the Arrow Cross, a Royal Ulster Constabulary Member, a Provo, a Black Hand activist, a Tatenokai, where were we going with this again

Well, ya know what they say. It takes a Nazi to beat a Nazi. Fucking repugnant.

1. outrageous and offensive 2. speaking as someone who's spent eight years running an organization with a very clear rule that "when the primary's over we get behind the winner, no matter what", I do not think centrist Democrats understand the pandora's box they are unleashing with this bullshit

the fuck

Matty floating abolishing birthright citizenship as the compromise position should give you a sense of what the key groupchats and intellectual circles are contemplating, and it's not exactly positive! And the far right is very likely to the UK, France, Germany, and Italy within the next decade.

The Israeli/UAE model, where you can rule over tens of millions of people without any kind of legal status, seems less like a holdover from colonialism, any more like the bleeding edge of the future, where shrinking Western populations want captive labor pools.

I know I have a reputation as a doomer but I genuinely try not to talk about this because I think it's just too fucking grim to even think about; we're looking at a new international consensus in favor of the population relocation efforts of the 1920s-1930s, except with even less reason or logic.

I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.

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at some point they have to find a better way to do gender than “men today are worried they might experience a consequence or inconvenience; how can democrats expect to win them back if I, a man, experience a consequence or inconvenience”

Black is perhaps a special case because she was born into the upper echelons of the American white supremacist movement and still managed to disentangle herself at considerable personal cost. Someone who comes to fascism as a convert is a different story, even if they renounce it later.

That’s called burying the lead

And not for nothing—this is the same guy who said women need to not get so drunk they get assaulted. And he was espousing that shortly after the time when he got so drunk he got a Nazi tattoo. Authoritarianism is built on “rules for thee not for me.”

“win back men”

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

The absolute insanity of fielding reports/blurring videos of kidnappings and sightings from an explosion of Border Patrol agents in your own neighborhood in Chicago while also getting news of an ICE agent shooting another fed in LA and then logging on to see them IDing delivery workers in NYC

Every single Democratic member of the US Senate, except for one, signed onto a letter demanding that President Trump reinforce his publicly stated opposition to Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank. You can guess which one didn't sign.

me running for office and getting cancelled for my tattoos because dragon age 2 is considered a bad video game

this is actual mad king shit

The liberals were the ones who supported Mills and were trying to ratfuck Platner just a day ago. We are busy.

you’ll all feel really silly when we find out janet mills has an isis flag tramp stamp

You should interrogate why you want avatars of your dads (who you all hate) to run for office.

Honestly I don't and shouldn't care about some random American election, so damn me for opining at all, but I think what the Platner drama shows (which is interesting) is that a certain Type of masculinity remains a social get out of jail free card even for alleged progressives.

Anyone who tells you that it's "normal" to have a "Nazi phase" is someone who is telling you that they themselves have had a Nazi phase. Recognize that red flag.

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

Getting a totenkopf in the first place is bad. Not getting a coverup or removal as soon as you realized is even worse. Claiming to be into history enough to say you’d rather fight in small wars because they’re more interesting while not recognizing a totenkopf on your own chest is damning.

It is super cool how many ppl in the online left are eager to tell on themselves this morning

If people affiliated with the campaign have to fall back on stuff like this in October in the year prior to the election, you're toast, pack it in.