I feel like libertarians have picked up a lot of wins recently (authoritarians will try to take your guns) but a lot of them have joined the MAGA movement so they're mostly not here to collect their wins

Do not fall for this garbage. DHS came into my city with an offensive posture, conducted itself as an invader, often attacked residents without any plausible connection to immigration enforcement, violently seized people off the streets. Now it’s our fault people died?

Widens *what*?

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

i continue to ask what people are still doing on the fascist white supremacy platform that generates child pornography

I will still never get over the fact we had Der Stürmer style propaganda on a presidential debate stage and it became a meme.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

It's amazing how this radical "step too far" is how every law enforcement officer in the country operated for our entire history.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is the guy some folks said was gonna be like Mitt Romney

So, it's a US Treasury account which will be spent outside of Congressional appropriations or authority? Got it.

The president is setting up his own slush fund with oil money stolen from a foreign country.

The Secretary of Homeland Security is asserting that the Deputy White House Chief of Staff ultimately bears responsibility for the murder of two American citizens, which is something that would normally generate a dozen congressional inquiries.

This is how “straight” reporting distorts the news. Trump says he wants an “honest” investigation. But the DOJ is not doing an independent investigation, and, instead, CBP will be investigating its own officers. Sounds like it could be a rigged inquiry. Trump’s “vow” is worthless PR.

Robert Fico, one of the few EU leaders to frequently support Trump, was concerned about the U.S. president’s “psychological state.” Fico used the word “dangerous” to describe how the president came across during their meeting at Mar-a-Lago on Jan. 17. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Always looks like he's itching to bulldoze the rec center to make way for his new bank branch, but can only get the deed if his son beats a ragtag group of kids at the yacht regatta.

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller

Yep. The media thrashed Biden over inflation and the truth was that he was chipping it down. Now, we are going back up.

I don’t understand why Trump has to threaten Iran again over their nuclear program when he angrily insisted months ago that international proliferation experts were wrong and he completely obliterated their program and set them back many years with his previous bombings.

Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent

To the best of my knowledge not a single scholar of the Holocaust has criticized this.

Melania hasn't sold a single ticket at all in Boston. This movie was an obvious bribe by Bezos and Amazon.

Katie Miller is very worried about her husband’s job tonight.

I say this dead seriously: people like internet hippo here genuinely get scared when Trump and his people fuck up too bad, because they know people might realize "holy fuck this is awful, the Democrats were right!!", so they double down on Dem bashing to keep people from having those epiphanies.

The full list of "lol no we had that with Biden and everyone hated it" is pretty depressing

I think Trump eventually goes down but it’ll be over something really fucking stupid that can’t be used for broader elite accountability. Like he calls Pepsi “bepis” and that’s when press says enough is enough.

ICE is doing its thing in Susan Collins’s state and she can’t bring herself to actually take a stand against it. New depths of fecklessness being plumbed.

Before ICE came to Maine, I made clear their provocative actions have no place here. Then, I demanded to meet with the President to tell him that to his face. Meanwhile, Susan Collins has spent the week pushing to give the agency more funding without any accountability.

Katie Miller is now jumping in to blame CBP and defend her husband. (All of this shows how vulnerable Stephen Miller is, so we need to keep the pressure on to get him out of the administration.)

Tillis says Kristi Noem needs to go as Homeland Security Secretary: ““I think that what she's done in Minnesota should be disqualifying. She should be out of a job. And I mean, really, it's just, it's just amateurish.”

it's less apparent these days because the ideology of the party is What Trump Says now but this is one area where his disinterest in GOP orthodoxy pokes through what the fuck does he care about guns? he's never been a gun guy, so if he can blame guns to offload bad PR for murdering someone he will

remember, the main reason slotkin has gone so hard after noem is because she voted to confirm her with six other senate democrats. while i appreciate her trying to make things right, i think that's unforgivable bad judgement

Chris Murphy says DHS reforms must be legislative and Democrats won’t accept admin-level stuff. “There’s nothing the administration can promise us that will do the job… They can't be trusted to keep to their promises. So we need to change the DHS bill and build reforms into the language of the bill”

It's completely insane to me that it's even up for debate among senators that Kristi Noem should resign. Every lawmaker and newspaper editorial board in the country should be calling for her resignation. She has entirely failed in this role. She is incompetent. She is a disaster.

she's going to get successfully impeached in the House if she lasts that long, I think

Wow if only Senator murkowski had some mechanism to force that outcome

multiple GOP senators saying noem has to go

They don't "echo white supremacist messaging." They are white supremacist messaging. Keep going. You're almost there.

Hello chat, do you think the political press would make a big deal out of a Democratic president saying “you can’t have guns” and “no guns”

The journalists who proclaimed six hours ago that Trump has changed his tone will never admit they said that

It's easy to mock people like this when the situation seems as clear as it does right now. The real test is when something happens that requires calm and good judgment and these same people are playing to your worst fears/anxieties. It'll feel tempting to listen to them then. You still shouldn't.

"Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios."" Anyone paying attentions - it's been President Miler calling the shots. Now the vipers are going after each other. 🐍🐍🐍

Breaking per NBC News — CBP has shot and critically wounded another person, this time in Arizona. Very few details available at this time.

Well... abcnews.go.com/US/person-sh...

In all seriousness: there is an easy way to make yourself the base of the Democratic Party. Vote for them in every election, even off year ones, even local ones. Congratulations, you are now the base.

Chris Murphy to @gregsargent.bsky.social: "If people don’t see us fighting on something as existential as whether we condone the federal govt murdering our own citizens, there will be a mass withdrawal from politics altogether. This is a critical moment." Full ep: newrepublic.com/article/2057...

my god it's like rats deserting a sinking rat

GOP Rep. Carlos Gimenez criticizes the Trump administration's tactics in Minnesota, says "I'm not comfortable with what's happening in Minneapolis," and adds that "it's hurting our chances at the midterms."

We finally got gun-control.

Hakeem Jeffries: "Kristi Noem is a despicable, corrupt, pathological liar. We've seen her slander not just one, but American citizens, patriotic Americans who were killed without justification on the streets of Mpls ... we are prepared to initiate impeachment proceedings against her in the House."

Jeffries: "Do we think that the Trump Dept of Injustice is gonna actually conduct a credible investigation? These extremists and political hacks at the DOJ have been weaponizing the criminal justice against Donald Trump's enemies."