Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

Reagan-appointee Judge Young on Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio: “These cabinet secretaries have failed in their duties to protect the Constitution.”

DOJ argues against a judge imposing any remedy for the govt violating the rights of student protesters. Judge Young scoffs he found two cabinet members — Noem and Rubio — acted in concert to violate their 1A rights. "No remedy! ... You’re telling me there’s no remedy?!"

Christ

It's the content regime. Think like reality TV or pro wrestling -- to keep their audience, it's gotta be hyped before it's unveiled.

I think things like this may be the bit that hasn't quite broken through yet People are thankfully mostly reacting how you'd hope when they see vids of the state violence, but I'm not sure if people realize aspects like this

We said “with liberty and justice for all” every morning of our public schooling like we meant it. We weren’t asking permission.

It’s tough to say “actually this is totally legal if you think about it,” when it’s a 1 year old getting hit with pepper spray for fun.

“Like yes. Technically the head of the Proud Boys got pardoned and now is a member of the president‘s internal security services. But the adults are still in control.” “Mister CIA, I am having the part of my brain that understands English surgically removed so I no longer have to hear this.“

No doubt the Very Serious People are reassuring the allies a US-NATO war is unthinkable but the thing is the last 27 things we promised them were unthinkable got thought. At some point, our reassurances start to sound a tad hollow.

holy shit they drove out BORTAC

Minneapolis tonight.

How about we try being a little more proactive with this one, Thom?

oh so they were actually impersonating the FBI

before I go to bed, I feel obliged to emphasize how tonight’s rampage in northern Minneapolis was, by no exaggeration, a glorified episode of klan night riding by federally deputized groypers. Yes, DHS always had these people but the difference now is that they’re in charge and with a $175B budget.

My red lines for hitting the streets to protest every day until he's dead are: -- attacking NATO -- a domestic massacre

If the feds keep escalating, they may learn first hand that their behavior so far has been suffered only by the grace of the people.

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

the valiant defenders of Minneapolis secured an absolute *haul*

Oh my god lmao

These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country

Absolutely hilarious someone was really worried that disbanding ice would release “specialists in violence” lol

The American tendency to think “everything will be fine no matter what I do politically” has led us to this moment. The underlying American assumption that political activity and reality are on difference planes of existence is forcing us to stare total destruction in the face. I hate this shit.

If Trump attempts to invade Greenland the odds of him getting [redacted] goes up by 50%

I am righteous rage incarnate. Fueled by nothing but raw love.

If there isn’t a Democratic landslide in the midterms and 2028 you should just stick a fork in the United States. We’re done. We’re a hubristic ultra-powerful Hungary on a crash course to becoming indistinguishable from Putin’s Russia. It’s over.

It’s so depressing being in my early 30s right when my country decides to throw it all away for nothing. Perfectly old enough to comprehend how bad it is compared to the past, and just young enough to suffer its consequences. I will never forgive the people who did this to my beautiful USA.

To anybody who wants to fight the United States of America in one of these multiple front wars, if you cut the head off the snake we can handle the rest. Please do not bomb our major cities just focus all your efforts on making sure that head is removed from that snake.

These stupid motherfuckers are going to get us all killed.

yeah it’s fun to joke on Bluesky but the reason I can chase ICE is that I’m out here with thousands of my neighbors. we’ll all get stuck in traffic together at a light behind a convoy and we roll down our windows and talk about who tails each car when they inevitably try to break us apart. comrades

It means "I'm just going to say shit and it's up to you whether it's true, not me."

what the actual fuck

Sometimes they just tell us they are weaponizing the criminal justice system to push their political agenda.

lotta Dems should be taking notes from Van Hollen on how to respond to the moment we're in

The Minnesota shooting case is now metastasizing unlike any i've ever seen. The successive resignations of heads of the crim section at CRD and 3 top career prosecutors in Minn -- who had hung in all this year n/w/stg multiple outrages-- means the Department is in open revolt in DC and the field.

ICE are thug scum.

I like that they’ve given up on even having immigration enforcement as a pretext for any of this. It’s just purely armed masked goons wandering around in the middle of intersections harassing U.S. citizens as a display of force now.

This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.

this format is how 75% of Americans now get their news

I would really like to see pundits/politicians/media/etc deliver an affirmative defense of why this is a necessary policing power instead of just starting from the assumption that any attempt to get rid of it is definitionally hysterical and unserious.

Recall that in order to justify a stay of the lower court decisions invalidating the tariffs, the government told the courts they would have no problem paying refunds.