ICE agent loot drop

Why is CNN putting Good's father in law from an earlier marriage on to talk about how he doesn't blame the ICE agent who murdered her? What does that add to anything?

A helpful thing about this website is people will post things like "why aren't Democrats talking about ICE?" which is a very helpful shorthand for "I am not paying attention to anything that is actually happening in politics and value the left image more than the left political project"

And if you’re still on a child porn site just to mine for clout… the fuck?

A reminder that bringing shitty posts over from That Fascist Site to be performatively angry about them here is a choice you don't have to make! You can just leave them there! There is so much else to be legitimately angry about! You will not lack for content!

There's like 20,000 ice agents, which is not quite enough to fill up 1/5th of the Big House. Most of them can't do sit ups. I'm honestly not terribly worried about them turning into a violent gang if we disband them and, if they do, at least they wont be a violent gang with qualified immunity.

I have smiled at Dilbert more in the last 24 hours than the last 24 years

Trump carried Bucks county by 274 votes out of 400k in 2024, this dude ran on cancelling the ICE 287(g) contract, so pretty close to an "abolish ICE" platform. He won against the incumbent by 11 percentage points, or 25,000 votes. Dem strategists are idiots.

People are saying this is a shitpost and the thing is that shitposting about how you're ok with invading our ally because it would be good for politics is also not ok and contributes to a culture that might in fact react the way he's predicting re: Greenland

My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left. See? We just need to talk to each other.

I think anyone who is confidently predicting what will happen if we invade or otherwise attack Greenland should maybe take a beat because there is no fucking way you were even considering a thing that could plausibly happen a year and a half ago.

I really worry about this.

Man this did not age well (she has changed tack since then; someone just quoted this into my timeline and it reminded me, though)

Do the tripwire soldiers volunteer?

Squeak squeak motherfucker

You know how sometimes you're brainstorming and you say "there's no bad ideas?" Sometimes there are bad ideas.

Minnesota lawyers: this doc is intended to serve as a living, iterated-on clearinghouse for volunteer opportunities. It's very much a work in progress, but I'll be updating it as resources develop. Everyone has something to contribute regardless of practice area or experience. Let's get to work.

is it controversial that we need to win the senate to do things in the senate?

Just remembered the dilbert news and smiled

1. I don't believe the dude who murdered Good had internal bleeding related to that incident 2. If he did, I don't give a shit

Can't tell how much of this is because he's getting primaried and how much is because he genuinely hates Trump, but either way you have to love the results.

Just want to emphasize Chris’s point here. It is SO important it is that the proceedings prior to a ruling are **undeniably** fair to both parties. It sucks to wait when the situation in MN is so dire, but the more facts she has in the record the better, especially when it goes up on appeal.

It's weird that this is probably the most patriotic I've ever been in my life and the most I've ever wanted the rest of the world to fuck us up (non violently).

this moment is so cool because you tune out for a few hours and you come back and everything is still on fire but in new ways

Feeling good about this take, which is unfortunate.

If your concern is the rule of law, you should support amnesty for illegal immigrants, so as to avoid the creation of a permanent underclass that is alienated from the protections of law

hating will stancil is the weirdest hobby go play pokemon or tip cows

I'll call trump a pedo protector for a mere $20

If the plan is to offer to purchase Greenland that's obvs. incredibly dumb too but if it gives them an off ramp for increasing rhetoric or more I guess that's good.

ICE abducted and injured (bruised cheek) a 1-year old who is the daughter of a US citizen detained as part of a Kavanaugh Stop.

Alright this is going to be a horrible day for news I gotta just log off.

I can think of a few things that could stop them from doing their duties.

When we were in China between betw 2006 and 2011, like most Western reporters I thought the worst thing outsiders had to fear was being kicked out of the country. They weren't detaining many (white) foreigners/reporters then. Now this, from a US regime, in the nation's capital.

Falling populations create problems, e.g. who will care for the old people and who will subsidize the retirement benefits of retirees There is also no intervention that will get people to have enough kids to make up for it, and some proposed interventions are regressive Both of these can be true

Appropriate that the auto company founded by a nazi humper hosted Trump yesterday, tbh

Genuinely want to stress that you should not assault ice because while it may be righteous you might die and I don’t want you to

In a recent symposium on M&A, I heard something really striking: firms contemplating deals have created go-teams of lawyers in the event that Trump becomes interested. They’re ready to negotiate directly with the White House. My brain kept picking over exactly what was wrong with this.

lol. lmao

Hot take: next dem president is going to need to and should pardon people for assaulting ICE

Hero

Family trying to convince us to move to Cincinnati where the company buying my wife’s company is headquartered but family is 80% of the reason I wouldn’t

Should be clear that @jamellebouie.net is also 129% correct that “do something “ here is not gonna be abolish, and you should accept that as a price of entry at this point .

Are people still doing inflatable costumes at protests or are we past that?

This was the thing with Liz Cheney No one (including her!) was asking anyone to forgive her or like her We just shared a mutual hatred for trump

So, if I'm reading this right: 4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer, and 6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow. (HT @benjaminkabak.com)

Like I gotta trust my candidate not to piss off to Europe for months for fertility treatment right after the start of campaign season, to just pull a random example out of nowhere

President Trump visited Detroit Tuesday to tout what he considered second term wins, despite persistent inflation, a brutal immigration crackdown that has led to the shooting death of an American citizen, and military attacks on several nations. From @bensolis1.bsky.social

If you follow politics and you say Democrats about a piece (that you don’t link) about a lobbying group out of step with congressional leaders? You should blog out

I’m not really sure there’s a world in which dems are willing to indefinitely shut the government down, and while I’m not sure if they’re right or wrong in that, I do feel like they probably shouldn’t do it if we aren’t in such a world.