the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system

"We regret to inform you that your anger is trending. This is deeply unhelpful. When the public reacts emotionally to repeated tragedies, it puts pressure on leadership to respond with something other than carefully selected words."

A paid vacation for the still-unnamed and still-uncharged murders.

Fuck these fucking fucks. They’re fucking with/up one of the best places in the world. (When I moved to NYC in 2008, west Harlem was what we could barely afford that allowed us to live midway between our separate schools. And then we found out: It’s AMAZING there.)

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If Dems are squeamish about "abolish," fine, the demand is still simple: zero funding for ICE and CBP. Pretend you just want a "pause" to "sort it out." Whatever. But, yeah, "do not vote to fund murder and other rampant lawbreaking by Trump's gestapo" is indeed a "purity test" you must pass.

Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night

Who killed Alex Pretti? ICE knows and isn’t telling, and has hidden him with their bureaucracy. I don’t see how you can “reform” an institution that is actively hiding a murderer in its ranks.

Only a death cult would vote for a government thinking its job is to kill people, not to save them.

lowest ratings of the century SO FAR

ADHD, Anxiety, and Impostor Syndrome: the dork triad.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

they have no ability to back down and recalibrate AND they lack a theory of mind for their opponents

BOSS, THE FASCISM.

They are highly-trained violence workers, exactly what both parties bought and paid for despite demands to defund.

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

I can’t remember the last time I saw this level of popular solidarity across division(s).

IT IS NOT AN "IMMIGRATION CRISIS"!!!!

every federal agent who ever put on a mask did so because on some level they knew this moment was coming they knew they were setting out to do things that would deserve profound shame at the least, and righteous retribution at the most

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

I want politicians smart enough, and with enough integrity, to realize that regardless of what anyone thinks should be “done” about immigration, a particular institution can delegitimize themselves as the means by doing things like murdering people

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

And let me be crystal clear. Training is not the solution. ICE must be abolished. Period. It’s just… notable to see how bad these men are at being killers.

After killing a young mother literally named Good, they've murdered a *nurse*. What's the betting the next victim is an elderly nun or something?

Finally, if you think they wouldn't shoot you in a heartbeat because - I dunno, you're a white dude, or you voted for this - you are deluding yourself. They don't give a damn about any American. They know that the walls are closing in and are petrified about the accountability that will come.

The amount of money that is currently going to fund immigration enforcement in the US is larger than the military budgets of every country in the world other than the US and China. We are witnessing a military assault on American cities by a wildly unpopular governing party.

Yes, do this if you saw the video. It can help.

Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute *every single abuse*.

It was an execution.

I didn't watch Good's murder. I accidentally watched this apparent murder and I wish I hadn't. Turn off autoplay if you have it on, don't click or tap.

10/ This all means we have a situation where the President of the United States can relentlessly, ceaselessly and at least somewhat costlessly trigger one crisis response after another all over the world at the tapping of his thumbs. That's why everyone looks so tired. /end

This is the core of why we keep raising the kid in NL instead of moving back. I no longer think this will get fixed in my lifetime. I no longer even think “fixed” is an option. The tear-down, design, and build work required in the aftermath is an uncertain multigenerational project.

One of the things I keep thinking about is how it won’t just be the job of the next president to rebuild everything broken, but the one after that, and the one after that. Whole generations will be living through the aftermath of this bullshit.

US re-entrance will face so much pent-up resentment that it might produce iatrogenic neo-Trumpism

Lock this man in an Iron Lung and replace him with someone willing to fight disease rather than aid and abet it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...

“This is a Manhattan Project of hopium enrichment that fundamentally misunderstands the fight we are now in. “

Hey can someone subtract 7 from 220 and add it to 207, I’m not real good at math.

This is the bad path. First we got internment camps. Then interned people started dying by neglect. Now we are seeing the first reported murders. Next comes more death, eventually so much it’s no longer news. And then it becomes too awful to talk about without seeming biased, so it just happens…

Rationally, I think it’s dumb to think everything is to distract from the Epstein files. But also rationally, he’s totally getting away with burying them.

They can’t do it because it points out that they themselves are doing nothing to help. Maybe three of them saying Abolish ICE. The rest are talking about retraining and body cams and QR codes.

It's hard to have the humility to say, "🤔If Black people are just as smart as white people, and Black folk almost uniformly see a danger that white folk don't see? It might be because Black folk are basing their decision on facts and data that white folk don't have access to. What is that data?"

Besides everything else, "an incursion of armed agents who forcibly removed a U.S. citizen from a residence without presenting a warrant or allowing him to show identification" is simply incompatible with US civil liberties. In America's political imaginary, this is the very definition of tyranny.

*sigh* Y'all do know that ICE agents, like other LEOs receive training on how to operate their weapon systems, right? If they can't follow that training (don't point less lethal weapons at faces) what makes y'all think that "de-escalation training" will do fuck all.

The monstrously depressing thing is that they may win a majority based on average American citizens desperate for someone in power to do ANYTHING to stop Trump's goons, and they will immediately say "See, our strategy was correct. Now let's turn the page on that unpleasant ICE business."

The Nazi concentration camps didn’t start as extinction camps. They started as internment camps, and then gradually the government cared less and less about keeping people alive and cared more and more about murdering everyone.

This is what you do when you’re running death camps

Immigration is not “not bad”. Immigration is GOOD. It enriches both the people immigrating and the place they immigrate to. It does this both monetarily, but also in every other sense. Everyone against it is being dumb or racist or both.

a fundamental thing a lot of Americans don't understand (emotionally, even when they do intellectually) is that the world order that America pays for is designed to *benefit American interests*, and the "what are we even paying for" reaction is the result of the rich getting most of the benefit

*Probably not enough attention is paid to the "entropic rot" of words and ideas #entanglementtheory #IanHodder *That ideas are not Platonic and static, that instead ideas have to be actively maintained, that they crumble and drift, meme-like