This is hilarious ngl

The fact that a Democrat has never been head of the FBI in its entire history rivals the fact that liberals have not had a SCOTUS majority in 56 years as the most bonkers statistic in 🇺🇸 politics

I hope that folks in European democracies understand that there are no longer friendly nations, but friendly political movements. It's our job to support liberal democracy around the world, especially when they're under assault from anti-democratic movements at home.

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you gotta celebrate them leaving. they can't win their fights. they can't win their war. the fascists's only hope is wanton and inchoate violence, bloodying enough noses & performing street executions on the hope people become too scared to show up and take the next hit and it still isn't working.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

Obligated

TACO alert

Man, someone sounds really mad that a bunch of Minneapolis soccer moms can manage op-sec while the Secretary of Defense texts his battle plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic.

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

if ICE puts me in a card deck I will pay any amount of money for that card deck, and I will frame it on my wall

Oh my god she admit it

so ALL of these children just magically *have* orange slices after EVERY soccer game??? ok George Soros

We're gonna win, folks.

Holy shit lol

Trump is looking for any way out of here he can find as long as it looks like a win. Walz/Frey/any elected dem shouldn’t give him anything like voter rolls or promises of future cooperation with the feds, Trump needs to have his nose bloodied and retreat with nothing. Set a nationwide example.

Hey, short stack, ICE is a bunch of Gestapo kidnappers, hope this helps.

There's another way to look at this. ICE is doing everything the military manual tells you not to do to civilian populations because it creates insurgencies where none existed before.

That's right.

A number of responders were quite opposed to the idea of giving ridealongs to The Atlantic (I understand their frustration with the outlet). But I drove these guys around for two hours and they witnessed abductions, confrontations with the public, tear-gassings. The lesson: let the world see.

r/bicycling lol

Local newspaper not covering local baseball team is about the saddest, dumbest decision I've ever seen newspaper management make.

What else can you say at this point?

This is a wild stat. It's a ratio of 15-20 observers per ICE/CBP agent. The entire adult population of Hennepin County is about 1 million. This suggests 6-7% of adults in the county have undergone some measure of observation training. Crazy level of community activation.

The political press very clearly understands “truth” as a social agreement, a compromise position between everyone important enough to have an opinion. It did not reflect on how this would allow dedicated liars to go all-in on lies again and again and dramatically shift the position.

Losing the Post is… wow

It's sort of ironic given the way conservative ideology has hyped itself up into this sort of uber masculine The Old Ways Hard Men Making Hard Decisions and...they're all just fucking cowards.

"Sam Darnold has to defeat the Patriots to win the Super Bowl in 2026" is a real monkey paw ass thing to go back in time and tell a Jets fan in like, 2019.

They keep talking about "cooperating with immigration enforcement" as if convoys of troops randomly interrogating and detaining people across the city and attacking bystanders with chemical weapons is just a totally normal part of how law enforcement works that we're all used to.

You'll take my Kirkland from my cold dead hands

Sadly true

We like to root for Sam Darnold, because as people whose childhoods were scared by the NY Jets we like to see confirmation that it's never the player who was the problem, it's the NY Jets who are the problem. -OS

Hey Andrew, just to be clear:

Welp

By exposing my daughter to the Patriots early, I'm hoping to build up an immunity.

As a Jets fan I really could use a Broncos win spiritually today.

a classic example of poll-chasing mindset--a refusal to believe that effective politics can, over time, drive polls in your preferred direction anyways

Bovino isn't CBP commissioner, btw. He's just some career officer who now reports directly to Stephen Miller.

constantly putting bovino out there to tell obvious and insulting lies to an increasingly unfriendly press and an outright hostile citizenry is a reminder that no one running this show has ever run for elected office

In Woke 2 we're taxing the shit out of these guys.

lmao there are almost 120k polling locations in the US and this admin is clearly run by a bunch of slapdick incompetents

From NYT frame-by-frame analysis. They fired 6 more rounds after these initial shots.

Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.

right, like, okay, you scare off e-day voting in targeted precincts in targeted districts. is that . . . good? for you? electorally?

One of my friends says things like 'The Republicans think of the USA's urban populations the way Serbian nationalists in the 1980s thought of Croats' and I'm increasingly worried that he's right.

Things are so bad that the Minnesota prison system has had to launch a website specifically to combat DHS lies. The first major release from DOC officials suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the Border Patrol operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.

imagining a bizarro world where in 20 years Jamelle Bouie is a Republican, is much more competent than the median elected, and perpetually offering free advice better than their paid advice and begging them to have a spine anyway that's how strange this is

The civil rights movement called its protests "demonstrations" because they were meant to demonstrate to the general public just how evil the status quo was and how depraved its defenders were. ICE is actually worse than Connor -- he had to be goaded into overreaching, they're doing it on their own

Our government's atrocities are bringing together Bears fans and Packers fans.