Conservatives, after all, consistently win elections with their disciplined focus on dull kitchen-table concerns and scrupulous avoidance of distracting rhetoric about atrocities, scandals, and malfeasance.

Immigration officers are caught on video violating policy, training, and settled law pretty much every day. The administration just cheers them on. What makes anyone think they're going to implement any of these "guardrails?" They think de-escalation is woke. This is just giving them more money.

This Guy 2028

Mamdani is a political genius for understanding the largest problem he can address for his constituency is affordability. Schumer is a political fool for insisting the largest problem he can address for his constituency is affordability. This isn't the gotcha moment you're phrasing it as.

Whenever you see someone say "all it takes is a few Republicans to break with Trump" it's worth noting that even a retiring Senator who Trump openly hates cannot straightforwardly criticize him, even as he becomes increasingly unpopular. Republicans love Trump and we shouldn't pretend otherwise.

The Danes answered our call after 9/11 and lost 43 soldiers in Afghanistan, which is a casualty rate equal to our own relative to their population. The whole thing isn’t just enraging, it’s dishonorable in the extreme

Using a photo of the guy open carrying from a completely different neighborhood in the city to represent protestors and supposedly congregants who got angry at a pastor who is working as the field director of ICE is just fucking egregious.

Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!

they’re going to need to impose consequences that are felt in a personal way by the people in charge ruining Trump’s big sports show, travel bans for the GOP (or, hell, all of congress), travel bans for rich Trump allies, sanctions on the Trump family they feel invincible, change their minds

donald trump experienced a level of what was, for him, humiliation equivalent to death when obama lightly mocked him back in 2011 and we all are going to pay for it

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

“I don’t think the president’s personal militia recruited from white supremacist gangs can be reformed” shouldn’t be a controversial statement, or taken as anything but an obvious statement of fact, and yet here we are.

They are going to do it. It's all to set up martial law. War against Americans. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Cassidy sentenced countless children to death, knowingly, by confirming RFK and Trump stabs him in the back anyway I hope it eats at him every miserable day of the rest of his life

Love Brett Kavanaugh for making this legal

"the guy pooping in the reservoir is criticized by both sides, therefore he must be doing something right" please use your fucking brain

Fascists are obsessed with aesthetics. It's the bedrock of their appeal to their supporters. Confronting them in ways that make them look weak & absurd is highly effective. It's ESSENTIAL to make it obvious to everyone that these people are indeed irredeemable losers.

Do you have to pay more for a second pardon or is it a fixed rate?

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

The double pardon really gives away the game. Adriana Camberos started her second round of fraud just weeks after her first pardon. She was charged, convicted, imprisoned…and pardoned again. Trump supporters are permitted unlimited crimes, while the rest of us can get beaten by the secret police.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

This dude rules

This is worth shouting from the rooftops: A NATO COUNTRY IS DEPLOYING MILITARY FORCES TO DETER TERRITORIAL AGGRESSION BY THE UNITED STATES

New document sheds light on CNN’s ties to ICE exoneration efforts in Minneapolis

Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account in Qatar. Nothing to see here. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

the next election we just gotta win the next election once we win the next election we'll do stuff we promise we'll do stuff just gotta win the next election we've won elections before and didn't do stuff but we mean it this time we promise just win the next election and when we win the next electio

No! The criticism of the Dems isn't that they never win elections, it's that they don't use power to solve the problems that got us here. Elite impunity, concentration of wealth, the unitary executive. Winning is only step 1

I dont see how any of my fellow Jewish Americans can be more fearful of college students protesting about Palestine than they are of a militarized ICE stacked with avowed Hitler supporters

these guys are all so astonishingly corrupt at this point that they don’t even realize they’re advocating for crimes

Trump is, unfortunately, echoing the majority sentiment among LEOs, which is that being “disrespectful” to them (however they choose to define it) justifies immediate violence, up to and including summary execution

Being “disrespectful of law enforcement” is not a crime, and is not something that American citizens should be summarily executed for by masked men in unmarked cars.

i have been meaning to write something longer about how the various ideologies of the tech right are just warmed over pro-slavery apologetics

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.

OUT: “Golden age.” IN: “Desperate times.” 🇺🇸

They assume we must all be getting paid to rise up cos: A) they can't imagine a scenario where they would stand up for a stranger without financial incentive B) they received financial incentives or free passes to cause trouble C) there is insane funding behind them, and they draw small crowds

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

hold on now, let him cook

once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...

The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.

Call your Senators and tell them they must demand that this legislation be passed in order for any DHS funding to move forward. It won't solve the broader crisis. But it's a very important step - and frankly, those Senators need to get used to using their leverage at times like these.

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.