my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

👀 Judge Schlitz, the chief federal judge in Minnesota, has ordered the head of ICE, Todd Lyons, to appeal personally in court Friday and threatened him with contempt for the agency’s repeated violation of court orders. “The court’s patience is at an end.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: A federal judge in Minnesota orders Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear IN PERSON this Friday and explain why he shouldn't be held in contempt. "The court's patience is at an end," writes Bush-appointed Judge Patrick J Schiltz, who clerked for Scalia. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The LRAD truck I discovered (same plate) last July outside Minnesota State Capitol is being used for 1st time (AFAIK) in MN tonight against protesters. Terrifying sonic weapon. Fed court (2nd Cir) ruled using LRAD on non violent protesters can be considered 14A violation, excessive force

There are months where decades happen…or something

Six tribes have issued a statement telling the feds to stop detaining their members. The gov’t “carries a duty to Tribal Nations. This duty includes safeguarding constitutional rights, ensuring due process, and preventing unlawful detention or harm to tribal citizens, regardless of where they live”

The Washington Post has a superb corps of dedicated foreign correspondents. I rely on their work and so do countless others. May that always be the case.

All of this happened with basically no help from elected officials of the opposition party. This was entirely the people.

Certainly appears moms with whistles won the Battle of Minneapolis.

They're gonna call it Stancilgrad

the reason why people do that is that when you admit fault on social media you are showing weakness, and weakness is always punished by people that smell blood in the water. It invites people to dump on you

Greg Bovino’s raids fail in city after city. They retreat—and they can’t do this to more than 2-3 cities at a time, and it gets harder in each city. It took 3,000 officers to do in Minneapolis what they tried to do with 1,000 agents in Chicago. Friction works. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...

ok fine emma goldman said it better. dance. tomorrow demand the next forty-five things we want. dance. bsky.app/profile/3fec...

Meanwhile, the cringelibs actually went and managed a 1-day general strike in Minneapolis. Because to do that shit, you need all the normal moms and dads out of their mind with rage against the regime. Which Dear Leader's goons actually accomplished in Minneapolis.

On CNN, Anderson Cooper using the sentence "That was a lie" over and over tonight regarding the words of Noem, Miller and Bovino.

take it from one of them: bsky.app/profile/arit...

Amazing that the guy whose career was resuscitated by saying “you’re fired” every week hasn’t fired anyone at the very moment when they all should be

look, I'm not demanding you all feel the same way I do or you're as bad as republicans. not in the least. but you better make room for this anger and not dismiss it as undeserved.

I'm not asking Walz or Frey to risk their own liberty even though a part of me feels like I should. But what the fuck do the Senate Democrats have at stake here? their careers? their friendships across the aisle? i'd like that all on fire gladly

it is an article of faith among some posters here that merely because something has never happened before it is unfair and wrecker behavior to demand Democrats at least try to acheive it. fuck that, these people work for *us*, they don't get to decide what they will and will not consider possible

get a fucking grip, people!!

I interviewed over half a dozen ICE and Border Patrol agents who describe an agency that sounds like Reno 911! “I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads

“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills... It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable.” ~ Bishop Rob Hirschfeld Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire Here's the shorter clip:

Cannot repeat the Obama-era dodge of saying "we tortured some folks" and not holding accountable the torturers and especially the chain of command. You want to stop state-sanctioned crimes? Trials not words are the only way.

I will not hand it to Boston PD I will not hand it to Boston PD I WILL NOT hand it to Boston PD

checking on rightoids

With apologies to the one person in this who isn't the hugest fan of his own memefication, I could not resist

Stephen Miller pls go on the teevee you are good persuading people. don’t listen to the haters

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

RIP Greg Bovino

Yeah, body cameras don't matter a damn unless you have Jonathan Ross and Alex Pretti's murderers sitting in front of a jury visibly shaking in fear of a life sentence. Right now, ICE is just gonna destroy that footage if mildly inconvenient.

the rights reaction to trumps surrender in minneapolis is the perfect illustration of how delusional these people are

The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter. He's got to go.

I’m getting the feeling Bovino is the Peter Principle in action. Not that he’s competent at anything close to actual law enforcement, but he’s performed just well enough at lower levels to get dumped in some backwater as “Commander.”

you know what would hurt Trump to give? scalps from his administration and the kind of investigations that could actually put Pretti and Good's murderers in jail. if you aren't asking for that you are simply saying that keeping DHS funded is more important than justice.

i have three real options for the brezhfit

For most of history, men like him were sent off to die in foreign wars. Then we stopped having as many of those and made his kind of guy assistant coach on a losing high school football team. Then we realized that type of guy shouldn't be around children, and now we don't know what to do with them.

going back to tell 12 year old me that this little lookout band i just “discovered” by hearing christie road on underground radio is going to play a super bowl halftime show explicitly criticizing the president, who is donald trump

From what I can tell, the constant bouncing between stuff like this and doubling down on demanding concessions first is a sign of an internal conflict among the scheming viziers. Really hard to tell what's actually going to get implemented on the ground when Dear Leader himself is checked out.

This is the energy we'll need. Ahn Gwi-ryeong, spokesperson for the South Korean Democratic Party, after grabbing a soldier's rifle by the muzzle to force them away from blocking elected members from entering Parliament. Image captured from a video by The Guardian (@theguardian.com)

Echoing the pope’s moral warnings, Tobin says the “lawless organization” is perpetuating a “machinery of death.” This marks the first time a senior Church leader has explicitly called for ICE to be defunded. More are expected in the coming days.

the Minneapolis activists really have learned from 2020 too. they didn't try and fight the last battle again. extraordinary discipline.

one of the most destructive things six years ago was the impulse that it was counterproductive to criticize anyone smashing shit. extremely impressive that violent dipshits were mostly kept in check.

Oh, is another one of these grifter alt-accounts trying to spread counterproductive and useless paranoia about using Signal in service of its own self-promo again?

Yes, altNOAA is a very reasonable person whose opinions you should take seriously

altNOAA appears to mostly exist to spread disinformation and doomerism. So yeah, makes sense they're spreading paranoia about Signal. bsky.app/profile/3fec...

If Stephen Miller is still in the White House, that means the white nationalist gameplan is still all systems GO. What we're witnessing is just window dressing and distractions. Tom Homan is just as bad as Bovino, but less openly Nazi. Keep your eyes wide open.

literally Trump is not the President. his TV calls the shots

Ngl I kind of forgot that the real president is whoever trump is watching on fox