Remaining feds left the scene in a large caravan, deploying more tear gas straight into the crowd - and right at my feet - as they left.

IMO, this one was worse. Right into the air intake of this costume when the person wasn't even looking.

For all of the people who want to know about suing the federal government: Google "sovereign immunity." Then Google "qualified immunity." Then you'll understand why fixing so much of what we see requires defunding the police.

Continued video of feds gassing protestors and CPD alike. In the chaos one woman came to a CPD officer asking for help for a relative that she says feds just grabbed. Officer response: "We just clocked in. We don't know what's going on."

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Why are those of us with even passing familiarity with authoritarian consolidation freaking out? Because the answers to a) will Trump's paramilitary forces fire on civilians and b) will elements in the military follow orders to carry out unambiguously illegal extra-judicial murders are both "yes."

Really just begging anyone in a position of public leadership to be proactive in addition to reactive, even the “good” ones!

The violated the 4th amendment rights of everybody in that building and zip tied children for this

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

walking around the no-kings protest smirking at all the earnest retired schoolteachers carrying American flags: “actually you’re not fighting fascism. dunces. rubes. fools.”

I completely echo the reminder to treat all rumors with caution. In a situation like this, unless you are physically on the ground doing investigations yourself, the most important thing to do for information hygiene is to wait.

ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon. There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified. This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:

*Massive* protests in European Georgia. Demonstrators have attempted to storm the Presidential Palace. The pro-Putin Georgian Dream party which stole the election and has sent out a new wave of riot police.

i made a helpful reference

I suspect that the reason he hasn't ordered state police to do anything is that no state or local politician actually controls the police

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

Reminds me very much of the pogroms organized by white conservatives in the early-mid 20th century, which were just as much opportunities to loot & plunder radicalized & esp Black communities as they were opportunities to wield repressive & exploitative violence.

Botha Deez Nuts

/6 But nobody said, huh, weird, why was Reuters there? Is there a really good coffee place? No, we just largely accept this system where law enforcement breaks the law and protocol by leaking the time and place of arrests so defendants get humiliated.

You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.

One resident of the apartment building ICE raided told Reuters that agents broke down her door, then "told them to go back to their country and made a sexualized remark about Venezuelan women, she said. One of the agents hit a man in front of her son." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Telling on themselves on their bigotry & stupidity so bluntly 1) Yeah, Saudi Arabia *isn't* your preconceived notions 2) Neither is it the ridonkulously curated experience you are getting to be their useful idiots 3) Y'all clownshow Dennis Rodman stanning North Korea

So then we come to step three, Jesse Singal stepping in and making decontextualized "Waffles" references. There's no apparent reason to this except Singal understands site staff are using "waffles" as a meme to dismiss trans people, a thing Singal wants to do. "Waffles" are now a floating signifier.

Absolutely heinous.

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

Beutler's shutdown take seems right to me. Dems are on strong footing if they are refusing to cooperate with a despotic government. But it doesn't work to say "we can't stand by while Trump tears up the constitution ... unless health care subsidies are maintained." www.offmessage.net/p/20-thought...

watching waffles turn from a light-hearted joke about social media dynamics into a right-wing dog whistle in a few days on here has been wild.

"So, we're balancing the equities here. On the one side, 300,000 people unlawfully deported to face torture and death before we read the statute that says they should be allowed to stay. On the other side, Trump gets what he wants. Seems a clear case. Kill them." You can see why they didn't explain

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

So the thing we've been warning about re: Age Verification just happened, mere months after it started becoming a wider required. Imagine that! Can't technofix your way out of a social values problem

1) They are still (likely illegally) using Signal. 2) This administration is shockingly, embarrassingly, almost inconceivably bad at OpSec in every possible way imaginable. 3) If this is what US newspapers get, imagine what foreign intelligence is able to get.

Yeah same. We have a combination secret police and lynch mob terrorizing half the country right now. There's no fixing that.

you ever think maybe a stylistic norm that talks about human life this way isn't providing any value

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

JD Vance calls Joy Reid uppity.

At the tail end of Lawmen: Bass Reeves, when it's becoming clear that Reconstruction is being abandoned, there's a scene between Bass' wife Jennie and her former owner. Evil white lady offers a return to the plantation, all smiling menace, expecting gratitude for her generosity. "Get out, devil!"

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Reading right-wing commentary is like traveling to an alternate dimension where innocuous things like funding for diplomacy are characterized as the work-product of Satan’s most hardened demoniacs.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

There are at least 50 federal agents at the Portland ICE facility tonight.

Kinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their “property”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it.

I said what I said.

Big sticks? Really? We are living through some very stupid and on the nose cliches. The writers' room for reality has well and truly given up. #broadview #iceprotest #abolishice #broadviewprotest

I gotta be real it is extremely doing a number on my mental well-being that mr. cato institue here is taking a stronger stand than the majority of the democratic party. the anti-DHS coalition is uhhhh a bunch of socialists, the cato institute and the neocons as led by bill kristol???

Illinois state police and Cook County sheriffs just pushed protesters (and journalists) off the sidewalk and into private property near the Broadview ICE facility, some stomping/kicking protesters stuff. Attitudes vary between joy and lackluster requests people move.

My favorite armchair comment is Americans don‘t understand authoritarianism, because so many of you don’t count Black people as Americans. Learn the history or shut up.

we are currently clean on opsec

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Did that motherfucker leak another Signal chat

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.