The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

They aren’t backing down. They’re just threatening people in other cities. Still illegal. Still unconstitutional. Even if they haven’t yet backed it up by shooting someone in the face.

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

Homan to MN, Trump speaks with Walz, Leavitt marginally distances Trump from Noem—all show Trump’s feeling a little heat. But these gestures mean as much as Putin suggesting he’s changed and wants peace with Ukraine. Don’t fall for it. Insist: ICE and CBP off the streets of Minnesota.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Trump trying to distance himself from the Trump administration

to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”

You have lived long enough to see a French anti-fascist organisation (a traditionally very anti-US milieu) organise a ‘rally in solidarity with the American people’.

"Hi, everyone. I know things are hectic as heck right now, but please be sure to fill out your timesheets every Friday by 5 p.m. Central. I can’t pay you unless I know your hours. Please also try to be accurate."

What a relief that they’re calling for a general de-escalation of tensions, since it’s hard to tell who’s at fault, the people murdering people or the people who aren’t doing the murdering.

The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.

We need to shut it down. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is an accomplice to the murder of Americans. This is about right and wrong, and murder is just plain wrong. No funding for DHS. No funding for ICE. We can stop this.

"There is an urgent need for the federal agents . . . to step back . . . before more Americans are hurt or killed." Do you mean "before federal agents hurt or kill more Americans"? Also those killed were not "protestors"; they were protecting their communities.

Nurses are pissed. This is on the front page of the nursing subreddit, along with many discussions about it on several other posts.

We're seeing learned helplessness from Congressional GOPs in the face of this administration, and learned helplessness from Congressional Dems in the face of the GOP. They all need to grow up and grow spines; people are being killed due to their utter fecklessness

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

If you only read the opinion journalism in elite media over the last decade, you would have been convinced that wokeness, and not fascism, were the greatest threats to American society. Now some of those authors are retconning by trying to relabel fascism as "the woke right."

I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad

The term “law enforcement” should not be used by media, except perhaps in quotations. It has sadly become an Orwellian term that is used to magically sanctify violence. Language matters. Be specific. Describe individuals with names and ranks. Say exactly what they did. Don’t repeat fascist hocum.

What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.

This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country. The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

Our Democratic elected officials are not rising to this moment so most of them must go. Any elected official who isn’t willing to organize a Project 2029 around punishing everyone in the Trump administration in order to save democracy must go.

You did not bear the shame. You resisted. You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change by sacrificing your impassioned lives for freedom, justice and honour. — The German Resistance Memorial in Berlin

To quote the guy who rates dogs: "ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets."

Another ICE murder. To my reps in Congress, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @reed.senate.gov, @magaziner.house.gov, WHAT WILL YOU DO? This can't be explained away, we cannot continue with business as usual. WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

Shameful

💯 Every. Fucking. Word.

These images are not okay, and we can ever let ourselves stop being angered and horrified by them.

what in the ever loving f is this shite

“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.” ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.

barf

ICE are paid agitators.

this seems a little on the nose

People are DEMANDING that you oppose Trump's Gestapo and protect people from being shot in the face by their government.

Today, it’s not your vote that determines whether the government brutalizes you or sends officers to your door. It’s your neighbors’ vote. If you’re ok with this happening to Minnesotans, don’t get comfortable. You won’t be exempt for long. In the end, a lawless administration comes for everyone.

It would be nice for Congress to act like a third branch of government. Even Republicans senators and representatives must know that their fealty will only protect them for so long. There can never be enough bootlicking and pandering for an authoritarian that recognizes no constraints

That is what was relayed

Poland failed to win the Hitler team over

Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/ajco...

-- DOJ announces criminal investigation of Fed Chair Jerome Powell -- Trump defends killing of Good b/c she "disrespected law enforcement"