If anything happens to her it’s 100% on Trump.

it's important to press advantage after noem resigns. Miller posted and Vance retweeted statements that Pretti assaulted officers. Why *should* only Noem and Bovino take the fall? They all should.

It’s true that the right to bear or use a whistle isn’t explicitly listed in either the first or second amendment. She’s got us here.

Really need to delete this — not a single Dem voted for the OBBA that provides that funding!

“You’re protesting and voting? That pales in comparison to my plan, smugly telling people to read old books”

We should not fund DOJ actually. Yeah that bill is packaged with some valuable commerce and science stuff. But not funding DOJ approps is something we can actually do right now.

I’d have pulled the balaclava up for this one, boss

This is going to go over like a fart in church with the MAGA base.

Here is where this falls apart: yes, CBS Evening News isn’t a product people consume for news anymore. But that’s NOT where the value is! 60 minutes — particularly in the fall and winter with its NFL and March madness lead-ins, absolutely shreds any podcaster in relevance and enterprise reporting.

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

I think getting hung up on slogans like “reform” or “abolish” is silly and juvenile to be honest. As a matter of substantive policy — you can rename ICE “INS” and scale it back to its 2002 authorities and role and one could call that reform or abolition. What matters is the policy.

I want a Democratic Party that takes BlueSky consensus seriously but not literally. Please, please do not take it literally.

"Fight for recission of prior funding" says person who, two posts back, insisted that the government will simply ignore all legislation and do whatever they want regardless. Look, either what Congress passes can impact the government's behavior or it can't, but you gotta pick one

She is physically unrecognizable from 10 years ago — and not in a “got older” kind of way.

Be very wary of voices begging the Democrats to do something to stop ICE but also tell you that anything Dems do doesn’t matter because the GOP ignores the law. It nothing Dems can do now matters, what you’re really saying is that everything until the next election is pointless.

Dems can’t go back in time and make people vote for them in 2024. If your position is that Dem demands should be based on an alternative where Republicans aren’t in charge of the federal government, you are saying nothing they do will ever matter. Is that really what you think? I doubt it.

I think the funniest part of this is “this has been approved by staff.” Which is a really odd phrasing! Finstad is the principal! They work for him!

One way that we could defund ICE/BP Big Ugly Bill funding is for Marimar Martinez to win it all in a lawsuit

Platner by 30

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Ok guys, settle down a bit: they haven’t lost Greg Abbott FFS. These are people asking for some cosmetic changes so they can better sell mass deportation. They haven’t lost these people.

The street parties when Border Patrol and ICE leave Minneapolis are going to be something.

I have been political on IG for most of this year for the first time ever. I get quiet reinforcement from people who agree but are scared to share their opinions (I believe because they don’t want to be seen as a Facebook meme poster). Overcoming that mental hurdle is pretty hard.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Directionally she’s right, but tonally Platner is doing this in a way that meets the moment much better and I think that will have a bearing on the primary.

“I have found comfort in Reddit forums…” 😬

From the minority in both chambers, having the asks be targeted like this, and something no reasonable person could object to *and also* something republicans will likely scream their heads off objecting to, is the move IMO.

Rod Dreher: “I’m think this through, but…” No, no you’re really not

The scene at the Minneapolis hotel where some agents were staying is a *massive own goal* by the resistance to ICE. We are about to get a real time lesson in why non-violent resistance is superior to violence. Absolute idiots trying to violently force their way inside that hotel.

Prediction: In the next few months, there’s going to be either a truth social post or a flippant comment during chopper talk where He says he wishes he could handle protestors like the Ayatollah did but his Generals won’t let him.

I agree with Murray that the funding bill should be rejected and also that Dem Senators should tell voters the truth — it ain’t going to stop ICE/BP and you need to be aware of that going in.

I’m someone who thinks that Dems need to talk about cost of living and the faltering American Dream *AND* ICE/Border Patrol abuses. But here’s the thing: you can’t always choose the terrain you fight on, and it’s a mistake to believe you can. You have to be nimble and ready for either

imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus

Bari Weiss and the staff at this publication made an entire worldview — or an entire personality? — out of being annoyed by people on 2016-2020 Twitter

This is the single funniest excuse he could have come up with for not wanting to be booed in public

It’s inexcusable to not take the 3 points after a 7 minute drive for the Rams — there were 5m left in the game and you have all your timeouts!

These are the people who lecture us on the loss of masculinity. Dude literally is a Roman statue poaster saying that he cannot comprehend stoicism or bravery in the face of danger. These people are just so full of shit. They fantasize about civil war but it’s all a game to them.

He’s posting this because they did this and he can’t possibly defend it.

HEY MEDIA: I think when pro sports teams are holding memorials for the people the administration has declared terrorists, it’s safe to drop the “accounts differ” pretense and move on to “the administration attempts to smear the man it murdered”

NFL fans: we want someone other than the Chiefs in the SB NFL: best I can do is another Patriots dynasty

Pretti did not “bring a gun to a protest.” He was recording Border Patrol making an arrest and stepped in to help another bystander to the ground. There was no “protest.” He was a bystander.

Used to deploy this one when I couldn’t meet a deadline in undergrad

Trump likes the “idea” of the act as some kind of final skull cracking ace up his sleeve. The value isn’t in invoking it (it doesn’t do much), it’s in threatening it. If you have active duty troops in the streets that don’t shoot ICE observers (because they can’t/won’t), he’s lost a big stick.

Would be great to have an FBI Director that didn’t always look like he just put his dick in a bear trap

I’m way past the “how am I agreeing with Bill Kristol?” phase and have moved on to “make him President AOC’s Chief of Staff.”

(This is all about the ballroom).

When did this “Tactical Vest as Law Enforcement Uniform” era start? Prior to 2025 I don’t think I ever saw an on duty law enforcement officer wearing one of these vests and jeans. Now every federal agent is doing it. I wouldn’t be surprised to see red state police adopting it as a uniform.

“Our country was founded on law enforcement” is a really weird phrase.