I mean, sure, if there was a war and they snuck up on some soldiers by adopting the trappings of civil aviation, you might call it a war crime. But since there wasn’t one and they snuck up on some civilians who were probably fishermen and at worst drug dealers, it’s just fuckin murder.

Intolerable abuse of US citizens by our own government.

Can you EVER imagine a NYT headline as follows: "This suburban Republican thinks Republicans have lost their minds? He may have a point." NOT EVER...right?

Honestly, I think they should try, because otherwise you’re not the police anymore, you’re just bystanders at best and more likely enablers of tyranny. And yes, it’s asking a lot, but unfortunately these are the times that try men’s souls.

It's so real. I am helping a church pull together a community meeting about preparing for ICE and everyone I'm reaching out to "yes-ands" me. I am 40 and I have spent my entire adult life organizing, and I have literally never experienced this before. It's wild. People are DONE.

“Be not afraid.”

I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing

no longer content to just take your money, a handful of oligarchs, many of them immigrants to these shores, are now taking whats left of your freedom and political power. the very idea that you might have a say in your local government or sit unmolested in your home is offensive to them

ICE is now behaving in such a way that even Tucker Carlson’s favorite Holocaust minimizing, Hitler-apologist “historian” is like “hey now guys, this is getting a little out of hand.”

Abolishing ICE is the moderate position, or it’s our job to make it the moderate position. Abolition was impossible before it was common sense. Civil rights were impossible before they it became common sense. Abolishing ICE is possible and that's what we should push for.

Seriously, it was so recently. I remember hearing the news report describing the new agency and feeling like the bad disaster movie I’d been living in since 9/11 had just taken a turn for the worse.

There is currently a violent civil conflict happening in Minneapolis. Every discussion of electoralism relies on the unstated premise that this civil conflict will evaporate, which is not at all obvious to me.

I also want to iterate that a declaration of martial law has nothing to do with the holding of elections. There is no provision in the Constitution for suspending elections in the case of martial law. The federal government does not hold elections; state governments do.

there is no coming back from this without prosecutions up and down the entire chain of command

your very existence is troubling, enraging, and distracting as hell for some of the shittiest people on earth so no, i’m afraid you may not kill yourself rn

What if you get abducted by ICE trying to pick your kid up from middle school? What about then? Is anyone in the fight for them, or no?

I, too, am extremely annoyed when I manage to exercise consistently and it makes me feel much much better mentally, emotionally, & physically. I would love for the "exercise is really good for you and people with health issues should do it" people to just be wrong assholes. but, sadly, they are not

the thing about “ICE needs training” is that Jonathan Ross was a ten year DHS vet and a firearms instructor he’s the kind of guy they get training from the whole institution is rotten, throw it out

Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.

I refuse to give these people credit for this. None of us were born last night. They fought like hell against the people they're now praising. Mocked them relentlessly. Wrote endless think pieces about how following their lead would be disastrous. There's no "we" — there's you. Own it. Grow up.

The idea that Americans are unusually quiescent is a weirdly load-bearing and ideologically widespread position, one that has survived multiple massive protest waves and visible community organizing in the face of violent state repression with nary a ripple. It's really odd

Minnesota is a full-on *occupation* and blockade of an American city by the federal government.

anyway as i have said many times — and literally just wrote on saturday — i think we should abolish ICE as well as unravel DHS and i welcome elected officials who embrace both outright but i am also aware that any senate majority will contain moderate and conservative democrats who need an on-ramp.

One thing that I think the anglosphere needs to learn very fast is that moral principles and pragmatism/playing to win are not mutually exclusive, and that you have to focus on both, even when there is some tension there. New Zealand in particular really seems to behave like it’s one or the other.

Countless opeds about Mamdani being a "socialist" and are literally any of those publications talking about Donald Trump not just claiming to take over a country but deciding what companies are allowed/not allowed to operate in that foreign country?

Not trying to be mean, but that’s doomer mindset. We’ve fought back against the ultra rich before, and here’s the important part, *we won.* Teddy Roosevelt busted the trusts. FDR destroyed the millionaires for a generation. We can do this, we HAVE done this, we just have to do it again.

I think there's a bunch of psycho business guys who are concerned about Fucking With The Money but the oligarchs who have hardcore gone for Trumpism would gladly trade most of their wealth if in exchange working Americans were permanently immiserated and enslaved

My sign today.

The Methodist Senior Women's Rifle Club will be, simultaneously, the most decorated paramilitary unit of American Civil War 2, and the paramilitary unit connected to the most war crimes

It all sounded very woo-woo to me. But the science backs it up: if you think you won't succeed, you never even try. Your brain is building a hallucination of your world all the time. If you REALLY want to focus on something you can control, the stories you tell about the world and experiences are it

cannot stress enough that they are abducting legal observers left and right and people are hearing about this happening to other people and still immediately going “alright where can i go to help now”

honestly reading this thread and thinking about why romance readers run straight at this shit head first no matter how much everyone else says it's hopeless. our brains are literally wired for it.

Three of the four people for whom my mom was coordinating care died in the last 2 years. She has time. And rage. And this is a woman who was already going to city council and school board meetings when she was working full-time and raising two kids.

This is what I meant when I wrote that "we can overthrow them with a union of care."

There’s no inconsistency or hypocrisy there. They never believed everyone had rights or that freedoms are universal. They believe in their own freedom and in their unlimited right to smash fuck out of anyone who impedes or resists them. And this is how it’s been for decades, at least.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

Oh dang. (Listening to this lifted my spirits quite a lot.)

it is both true that more training won’t fix the agency’s problems and also true that 47 days of training - picked corruptly and arbitrarily - is a scandal on it’s own that people should know about (i didn’t know this)

i’m sure ICE guys with their guns and masks fancy themselves big brave men, but when you see real, honest courage it knocks you on your ass. it’s a glimpse of something holy.

If the capitol police reacted on Jan 6 the way ICE did in this encounter there would have been dozens dead

i suspect there are a lot of morons in a lot of european capitals right now wringing their hands about the risk of escalation. here's the truth: the real risk is failure to escalate. backing down is showing weakness. trump will know it. show strength instead.

once trump’s corporate backers actually are *afraid* of massive foreign retaliation they will start clogging up the group chats demanding trump back down. and he will listen, because ultimately this stupid game has only gone on because of elite complicity

Treaties are federal law. As a signatory to the 1949 NATO treaty, the U.S. is barred by law from attacking another NATO member. Therefore, an order to draw up plans to attack Greenland is an illegal one. Military leaders are obligated to disobey illegal orders. Lawyers correct me if I'm wrong.

my son wants you to know that playing a brass or wind instrument outside in the cold is VERY DIFFICULT and normally not allowed and he appreciates their ability to do it so well

It is impossible to overstate the degree to which the entire national political media's coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, especially once Harris won the nomination, was deeply, fundamentally, shamefully unserious about the stakes & the candidates.

Begging leftists not to dismiss the crucial role of radical clergy in mass protest movements as happened so often during his first term. At every one of my most formative experiences, they’ve been there. The most brutal violence I’ve experienced at a protest was side by side with radical clergy.

"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences. Don't say the second when you mean the first.