to be a bit more clear-eyed, if Senate Democrats cave and agree to fund ICE & the government now then there is no line that could be crossed that would ever cause them not to

I say *pretend* and *claim* because the last 10yrs since then should clarify that this was never what any of them wanted. They want the IRI gone. Obama undermined this by understanding that it wasn't really in the interests of the US to repeat Iraq. A lot of these people want to try Iraq again.

Obama secured a deal over the objections of the entire Republican Party and a significant part of his own Democratic Party, including the objections of the man who is currently Senate Minority Leader, and then it was immediately torn up. But again: the deal did exactly what they claim they want.

It's really important for people to internalize that, in the eyes of Washington DC's foreign policy establishment, the biggest sin of the Obama presidency was concluding a deal with Iran that objectively satisfied the demands that Washington DC pretends to believe in.

Its destruction came as Israel said it will ban Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, from operating in Gaza, after the charity refused to provide Israeli authorities a list of its Palestinian staff. MSF currently provides at least 20% of hospital beds in Gaza.

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

The only solution is law and government; they know this and it is why they work so hard to make government weak and staff it with incompetent stooges like Trump. They will do anything to avoid actually being accountable for themselves, including destroying the entire country that built them.

Money insulates, our economy makes vast wealth self-sustaining. No amount of failure, incompetence, or even criminality will harm them. Tesla as a company is cratering, and yet the stock price rises, simply by virtue of billiomaire co-investors wanting to keep it high.

The whole problem of the world today is billionaires have outsourced any and all consequences for their actions and behaviors and as such can keep making terrible choices that make things worse for all of us without ever compromising their ability to keep making bad choices.

Democrats might want to think about how to have court orders enforced against the lawless Trump regime at some point before they start openly stealing elections so Democrats cant get elected anymore bc voters of color are being harassed at the polls

This is magical thinking. Like you shouldn’t feel comfortable saying something this naive. “Actually I think voter suppression will help us” okay. That’s fucking stupid and you should feel ashamed saying it

Looks like "Seeing how fascism plays out" has not been an optimal strategy for the Dems.

ive stopped paying attention to this stuff and all the liberals calling it "brutal" and "devastating news for ICE" bc they've been ignoring court orders for a full year and no one has enforced them punitively to date. It's a fairy tale land like imagining Mueller was gonna save the republic.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

i would be overjoyed if the U.S. had a president as ethical and even-tempered as Chancellor Gowron

3-letter agencies have tried a number of ways to "brainwash" people & the best methods found involved indoctrinating children w/ propaganda while also simultaneously traumatizing them. When you understand that, the reason the right cares so much about schools but not school shootings becomes clear.

I've been seeing more comments about ICE terrorism from people from other countries who are like: I thought Americans were supposed to have guns? In my country people would have already stormed government buildings unarmed when they started murdering civilians

Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible

HRW Israel-Palestine director resigns, accuses watchdog of 'cooking the books' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hrw-israel-palestine-directorfter-director-accuses-watchdog-of-cooking-books

Google complies with administrative warrants for Gmail accounts? Is that what this is saying?? That’s horrifying

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

The composer did not have to go this hard for the theme for a 3-horse village in the opening area of KCD2. It's like Final Fantasy adventuring music youtu.be/O6mhdf-6iqA?...

It’s inextricably tied to the party’s belief in the hierarchy of seniority. Force all the good strong young candidates in a box for 30 years until they are properly demoralized and unable to inspire or make change.

“Wait until after the election” becomes “we just won, relax” becomes “if you criticize them you’re just helping the GOP” which then goes back to “wait until after the election.” Every time.

Running in 2028 on the idea that we're too mean to Israel and ICE seems to be a great idea

I'm not really confused, he thinks being critical of Israel is worse than kidnapping people off the street

Confused as to how Josh Shapiro thinks it is appropriate to compare student protestors to the KKK but inappropriate to compare ICE to the Gestapo

the fact that these people are so fucking predictable is annoying as shit. the whole time people like Larry Summers were talking shit about Sanders it was bc they were annoyed at how much their kids liked a reformist

trump and elon need to be punished by the outlast trials

Josh Shapiro had a right wing terrorist try to kill him & his family and hes still a mewling little sycophant for the right

its amazing that not only is Elon Musk in the Epstein files but its as a pathetic dipshit trying desperately to get the invite to pedophile island and being brushed off. now we know why Elon was so personally invested in claiming the guilt of all involved: he was spurned by their social group

Such blatant corruption — which the media will, of course, totally ignore.

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It’s a cop playing candy crush and falling asleep in his cruiser for 14 hours. The city will be billed for six hours of overtime

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

The pure cruelty of putting a five year old through all this for absolutely no benefit to anyone or anything

The thing that makes the most sense at the moment is that the President‘s organization overthrew Epstein with Netanyahu’s blessing and is now in control of that network. That’s how he can shake down the nation’s most prestigious institutions.

I sorta get why they all think LLMs are magic now. Their standards for quality communication are just very low.

There's not a single trans person in the Epstein files who wasn't a victim. Every "they're coming for your kids" transphobic pundit was actively protecting the most documented pedophile ring since the Catholic Church. Everyone from Libs of TikTok to Matt Walsh has gone silent

Man this is really something

ICE is assaulting and at war with americans. we are all their enemy. no other way to look at it at this point

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

the idea that alan dershowitz is charismatic or represents the vast majority of Americans is so insanely delusional

1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

To get Democrats to support the morally & politically correct thing with ICE (defund/dismantle/prosecute), people need to popularize the idea of publicly executing ICE agents, using the military on ICE, calling their senators & congresspeople baying for literal blood to make it a compromise position

Open letter to our Senators: Gentlemen, Ladies, we don't really care about ICE not getting even more funding. We don't care about more "training" and more rules they won't follow. We want ICE de-funded. Dismantled. Gone. Driven out of our cities.

we absolutely need to know who he sent this to. how is this something the public is being kept in the dark on???

If they are truly "only after dangerous criminals" ICE should not be able to lay a hand on ANYONE unless they have a warrant for that person. Random abductions of US citizens should be punishable. ICE should be held accountable for bodily injury, damage to property and loss of life. ICE OUT NOW!

turning Don Lemon into a real journalist is no mean feat by the Trump regime