It's such a winning message and the @democrats.org are too fucking cowardly to use it.

The problem is that we have a Gestapo. And the Democrats are saying they want the Gestapo to be better trained. That's the goal? A more effective Gestapo? God I'm so sick of them.

Okay so Minnesota is suing the federal government but I'm not seeing a lot of commentary on here about it. Is this because suing is kind of nothing, practically speaking? Does anyone have someone they're following who understands if this is likely to be effective?

Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."

Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.

Remember when the NYPD officer pepper sprayed the peaceful protesters during Occupy and it was a big deal? ICE daily

There’s no reforming this. There’s no getting local cops to “enforce the law” (whatever that means) against this

they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

After about two weeks of experimenting to figure out what diet doesn't give me headaches, I basically have to eat the way everyone was telling us to eat in the early 2000s to be skinny. Very annoyed that I did all the deconstruction on diet culture only for it to come to this.

Force is required to deal with this. Telling people to remain peaceful isn't adequate. To de-escalate, Governor Walz should mobilize the Minnesota Army National Guard to keep federal agents away from residents. A leader who stands by while these attacks take place is no leader at all.

I think they literally must have instructed these ice goons to say “didn’t you learn from what just happened” because videos keep popping up of them saying it. It’s thespian hour at the goon squad. It’s not going to work to stop people from giving them shit. Delusional jackasses.

All art about Trump will end up being pro-Trump propaganda simply by virtue of writers and directors giving him more depth than he has. There really is nothing else there. He's just a mobster. He has *no* depth. Zero. None. He likes steak and blondes and gold. That's all there is to him.

Might as well have the game as the name.

A reminder that any moment a handful of Republicans could simply call up the Democrats and they could have Trump out of office by the end of the week.

If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?

If we're honest, the loudest online scolds aren't organizing. People who are organizing are too tired to scold people online.

Too many people are trying to differentiate between ICE and police. I will hold your hand as I say this: Police in the US treat marginalized people the way ICE treats everyone. They're far more similar than you want to admit. Defunding the police and abolishing ICE are the same fight.

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”

I keep seeing Europeans wanting violence from us, e.g. "you have guns, why don't you shoot them" and I REALLY need some of them to think through what happens then. Because I can fucking guarantee you what happens next is not "and then they all stop."

Please understand this is happening in literally dozens of locations around the city simultaneously. If an ICE vehicle stops, community members materialize in seconds and do everything they can to stop the kidnappings. We are under siege and using every tool to fight back.

It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why: They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course. The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.

I keep getting a little caught off guard feeling quite patriotic in the midst of all this. Like sure as a country we're horrifying fascists but as a people we're really funny and brave.

Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to a unique status.) Now, the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic. @burness.bsky.social spent months reporting the story; spend some of your w-e with it.

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

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.

The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!" The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."

This is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you

Agents like this should be identified and their name and picture posted on a searchable web site with videos and content like this linked to their names

obviously not in the sense that it’s stopping everything, but they are being stalled so much by trying to find places where they aren’t watched, wasting so much manpower and resources on crowd control and even arresting observers they know will just get released. i am so proud of everyone

Well. I have used the spray gun to paint my first pieces of furniture with the drawers-in technique and I have to say I think this method is absolute balls. It's going to take me so much longer to do the drawers properly and I think it would take less time/be less annoying to tape everything off.

Yet another reason Newsom is a nonstarter. And a hypocrite, tbh given his troll posture the other 23 hours of the day when he isn’t spouting this ripe garbage. The “breach” is not of decorum, but of whole communities and families destroyed, lives lost. No, I don’t think we’ll be “turning the page”

This is the heart of it. Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.

If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

Posted by @liminalwarmth.bsky.social: “Someone I personally know in Minneapolis posted this to Facebook a few hours ago. This isn’t what orderly law enforcement looks like. No charge, no location info? How do you even know citizens are getting due process here?”

I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.

*slowly reaches for U.S. History book*

A woman on IG has been making videos of immigrant lines at the U.S. Mexico borders…full of Americans standing in line to get affordable dental care in Mexico. It’s sublime counter programming.

This is a big deal.

I am truly delighted to have finally reached the Democrat politician era of "You know what? Fuck you, actually." It actually does make things a bit better.

I spent this sunny afternoon in my open garage working on a pair of nightstands I'm refinishing and honestly I need to make sure I do that BEFORE I find out what fresh hell the day has brought us.

Jesus fucking christ

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.

The more people you can get to campaign for democratic or progressive candidates the better. Whether the race they’re highlighting is for town council or US senate, it’s still important . Not everyone is motivated by the same things to show up on Election Day.

People don't realize how much corporations are collaborating with—and making possible—ICE's deportation machine

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.