You couldn’t torture this admission out of me — very embarrassing way to admit that you’re incapable of recognizing 10+ years of signs and warnings until they’re literally killing your neighbors.

What a relief that they’re calling for a general de-escalation of tensions, since it’s hard to tell who’s at fault, the people murdering people or the people who aren’t doing the murdering.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

“Republicans must work with us” Republicans are killing us.

I wonder how many people need to get killed in the street by masked agents of the state before conservatives stop pretending that they’re being oppressed by the existence of HR departments bsky.app/profile/shar...

The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians: ‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

So 6 ICE goons done held down someone in the street and shot them multiple times while holding them down? Maaaaaan all y'all had to do was vote for Kamala Harris. An OUNCE of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

We need to repeal even Clinton Era reforms championed by the right—stuff like the Telecommunications Act, Gramm-Leach-Blilely, and welfare reform. Roll back every single victory the conservative movement has scored in the last 50 years. Every. Single. One.

If you intend to record ICE on your phone, make sure mobile data upload to the cloud is enabled.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. Abolish DHS. Hold every single official involved in this nightmare accountable, remove them from office, and prosecute them.

It was about squashing equality and calling it tyranny in their eyes. Now ACTUAL tyranny is here and they are on the side of that. They were always about tyranny. But we as a tolerant society tolerated their shit to the point they are now in charge and we are seeing the price of that.

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

1) Doesn’t say he was wielding it, just that he had it. 2) Doesn’t match the video anyway. 3) DHS has lied in exactly this way after shooting someone before. bsky.app/profile/ms.n...

ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

The biggest cowards in the country right now are hiding behind the self-applied label of “Centrist.” There isn’t a middle ground right now. Either you are for the party deploying a violent criminal secret police force or you are against it.

Conservative gun-humpers have real values and beliefs. They hate liberals and minorities of all kinds and want to threaten and murder them. That's always what it was about, and anyone who tried to sanewash the conservative gun-humpers' "legitimate concerns" was complicit.

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

Ironically these kinds of threats do more to radicalize opposition to ICE tactics than they do to stop people from recording ICE.

They know their audience has an insatiable appetite for seeing black women humiliated for exceeding their station, so when it didn’t happen they used AI to complete the fantasy bsky.app/profile/nyti...

Someone just called me a believer in "purity tests" because I think the Democrats who just voted to fund the president's unaccountable masked goon squad deserve to be primaried. If your definition of "purity" is that basic, you're beyond helping

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.

Yes! Start calling liars liars.

The global fascist right acts with solidarity against its enemies, the remaining liberal democracies instead stick their head in the sand and pretends that the fascists aren't fascists.

Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.

It’s not personal. But this is Americans’ responsibility, collectively, even though tens of millions of us made a different choice.

This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.

I remain a big fan of the Democrats finally countering the dog playing basketball by bringing out a slam dunking labrador instead of complaining to the refs again

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

One thing most people don't understand is that we in the US enjoy greater wealth funded by other countries because they assume we are a stable and relatively friendly hegemon.

Ellison: This is the essence of dictatorship. It’s the essence of it. And we’ve got to get over the idea that this couldn’t happen here. Not only could it happen here—it’s happening here.

I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

A lot of people were extremely angry about the accolades, the best sellers, the awards and especially jobs that went to people who in their view were only meant to be subjects of journalism not its authors. The genesis is closer to 2008 though bsky.app/profile/juda...

Fundamentally the lesson American voters took from Trump I and Stop the Steal is that Worse Things Aren't Possible imo

ICE actions are not a radical break but an intensification and extension of bipartisan consensus on the need for punitive immigration policy. Since its post-9/11 creation, people have warned that the tools given to ICE would eventually be turned on citizens.

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

“Listen to Black Women” was treated and is sometimes used as a identity cry But it is also just a good systemic metric , in a world that’s deeply hierarchical but often lying about it Listening to the lowest ranked sub group that can contain most of the others is just SMART

Amazing what ancient people built even though they were all skeletons

Remember when I said the political media sometimes has an immune system-like response to Dems doing effective things, to try to punish and dissuade more Dems from doing them? The multi-day freakout over the Mamdani EO revocation is such a good example of that