One thing you can see clearly in the video before Pretti’s murder is the agents repeated attempts to pepper spray his face at close range. I have seen so much footage of ICE/CBP using “non lethal” violence to punish observers for being there, which is outrageous even when it doesn’t lead to death.

Such cowards that they can’t even imagine bravery

Just donated to this group who meets people as they are released from ICE detention in Minnesota. Folks are simply dumped out the doors in whatever they were wearing when they went in, no phone, no nothing! This group gives them warm clothes, a phone, a ride etc. www.gofundme.com/f/safe-haven...

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

Maybe when all those 2A guys were saying “come and take it” that was short for “come and take it from me while six federal agents hold me down on the pavement and pistol whip me, and then shoot me in the face for having carried it in the first place”

All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.

Just FWIW, it was never possible for Trump to deport the number of people he campaigned on deporting without the kind of reckless mass action targeting documented and undocumented people alike that ICE is currently engaged it. I never saw a single story explaining that to people.

I keep scrolling like I’m gonna find answers in the feed

An agency that found it acceptable to spray pepper spray in the faces of people who were already cuffed on the ground was always going to escalate to shooting people who they already subdued. ICE is rotten root and branch, incompatible with a free society, revolting to all free people.

It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you free to abandon it

It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.

In 2014, I made close friends with someone from Ferguson. I remember talking with her about the sheer surreality of seeing tanks rolling through your home town, with people dressed for war. 12 years later and I’ve lost count of American places I’ve seen cosplay soldiers marching through.

Petition to replace “you betcha” with “Fuck ICE” for the spoken signifier of Minnesotanness

kirk’s death became a pure media incident in a way that would probably scandalize even Baudrillard

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

Thinking about how republicans were going to the border nonstop in 2024 even though fucking nothing noteworthy was going on and doing interviews and press conferences with their asshole supporters down there and screaming "SHE'S NEVER BEEN TO THE BORDER" and made it a national crisis

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

My brother cites this picture to explain why he owns guns and I don’t think he’s alone.

I have to stop and watch this whenever it comes up and I am never sorry. Takes my breath away every time.

What’s wild is they think this AFTER a mob showed up to murder them! After the president pardoned that mob, even! Like, what will it take?

If other countries’ hate and disdain for America and Americans leads to Trump suffering a consequence for once in his contemptible life, I welcome it. If not, well, I fear we’re all on the same hijacked bus yelling impotently at the driver, and we better figure out a different strategy quickly.

The most recent research indicates when you leave things outside in the rain, they get wet.

As @carajackson.bsky.social said, if IES was included in this figure, they would have to extend the y-axis to the point that all the other lines would blend together

Say the Dems come up with some content for their pivot to affordability, win the mid-terms and pass some bills authorizing spending that will bring down costs for Americans. What’s the plan for when Russell Vought just says “lol nope” and refuses to release funds from OMB?

This is the press trying to rescue Trump from the stock market consequences of his saber rattling.

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

I can’t imagine what I would do if government thugs shot my spouse and then the demented President repeated lied about both of us on TV. I think it would take great restraint to keep me from violence after that.

Does anyone have any idea what the content of the affordability messaging is? Like, what do Democrats plan to do about affordability besides saying the word? I assume reup the Obamacare subsidies, but that only helps a few folks (and just returns them to the unaffordable COL of 2024). What else?

Before they’re allowed to come into your community to kidnap and abuse your neighbors and spray you with pepper spray for noticing, they’re going to have to click through a PowerPoint telling them they’re not allowed to spray you with pepper spray unless they REALLY feel like it.

No one, including me, knows what Democrats would do if they won the House and/or Senate. Additionally, everyone who is currently alive now sees that they aren't doing anything now. Unsurprising that people hate them. I'm surprised that they are 2 points ahead the fascists in the generic ballot poll.

Billionaires bought our media and manipulated the powerful into believing that Trump was inevitable, unstoppable and any effort to get in his way would just make things worse. In the past decade, Americans have come out in record numbers to say that we still care about justice, decency and peace…

You scoff but Dick Durbin is cooking up an elaborate scene where he gives Trump a fake Peace Prize (really a cookie painted gold) to keep Trump from being jealous of Obama for his award.

She’s the Elizabeth Holmes of journalism, just smart enough to pick a field where whether she delivers on her promises or not is much more subjective.

“Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi….But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.” — D. Thompson*

The almost rhyme of it frustrates me as a protest chant, but I’ll be damned if it isn’t true that the people united will never be defeated.

This is one of my favorite paintings to visit at the BMA. It’s even lovelier in person!

As usual, the problem with Nazis and authoritarians is that they believe there is only a single human nature, and that liberal society is an artificial imposition on it. But obviously liberalism is human nature, too, because if it weren't, we couldn't do it.

This rules, I just bought this pattern and my husband (the only knitter in the house) will make some up for us.

This situation is so depraved, I actually felt relief when I read he was dropped off at his apartment, instead of just left somewhere random in the freezing cold.

Real talk, the planet cannot survive the US’s hollowed out institutions. Our stupid filibuster-bound Senate, our corrupt Court, our useless Congress, our brainwashing media, and our stupid billionaires are existential threats. We have all the tools we need to end this lawfully, but can’t use them.

Did everyone forget that milk was a popular signifier for neo-nazis circa 2018? Or are we just tired of pointing out nazi dog whistles from this shotbag administration?

"Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." - Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism"

I wanna see Caleb Williams in the same MRI study that showed Alex Honnald doesn’t fell fear the way regular people do.

We’re on a mission from god

Are the Bears waiting to score til the fourth quarter on principle?

For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply. Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.

Bless the glorious people of Minnesota, may their victory be swift and strong.

Maybe I’ve got my blue and orange glasses on, but this game seems like one of those where you’re just waiting for the score to reflect the quality of play.

I think Democrats should claim that they're going to make immigration tougher, and then simply describe a better version of system when asked about it. Polling consistently shows that the public wants to get tougher, and also that their version of tougher is *weaker than the actual system now.*

Folks, if you know any Minnesotan, you'll know that many of us will bring up Minnesota and Minnesota things at every possible opportunity. If we manage to ride out military occupation, we're going to be absolutely insufferable for the next 20 years. Think about what you're risking here.