Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

You can't upset dear leader (or his lapdog)

“ICE aren’t actually fearful of their safety. What they’re fearful of is not being invited to baseball games or not being invited to the pub with their friends. Community exclusion – that’s what they’re fearful of.” – ICE List Founder bsky.app/profile/mria... wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Ma...

If she refuses to answer questions about the heinous shit she was facilitating, why is she even being kept alive?

@cantwell.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov "The most effective opposition in a polarized society doesn’t try to win a few converts on an entrenched battlefield; it redraws the map entirely. Successful anti-authoritarian movements do not win by softening their positions..." [continued on next post]

"Researchers have found, strategies that “accommodate” right-wing positions “lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.” Democrats who chase moderate Republicans by adopting their frames risk the same outcome." @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov you should really read this

@cantwell.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov there's data in that says moderating your position (as you've been doing) wins you nothing. ABOLISH ICE NOW

It works!

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Death, taxes, and being disappointed by Chuck Schumer.

ProPublica Identifies CBP Agents Who Fatally Shot ICU Nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

Hear me out... *if* corporations are people, and people can be ordered to not leave the country.......

"In order to build tyranny, you have to open zones where the law doesn't apply... one zone like that is the border. The logic of what they've been doing with ICE is to take the border everywhere." www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNB...

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All of these senators pushing "reforms" need to explain how they will enforce them given the fact that ICE is a lawless band of Klansmen that breaks the law constantly.

@murray.senate.gov writing more rules for the group of literal Nazis that do not recognize rules nor courts will not be effective. There is no saving this, it is not worth saving. The whole thing must be abolished and eliminated.

You can't reform this @cantwell.senate.gov and @murray.senate.gov, it must be abolished ENTIRELY.

@cantwell.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov is this really the best you can do?

I reported on Dilley last year, it's a horrible place. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

@cantwell.senate.gov and @murray.senate.gov ABOLISH THE AGENCY FULL OF NAZIS PLEASE.

They will literally kill us all if we don't stop them, permanently and irreversibly.

I would call them immoral but it's worse than that. It is an environment where the highest degree of immorality is celebrated, and you celebrated for finding more ways to exceed it. A sea of vicious and jeering young men who have surrendered any sliver of human decency and cannot be redeemed.

@murray.senate.gov & @cantwell.senate.gov you cannot rein in a group that is intent on breaking the rules by writing more rules. The ONLY answer is ABOLITION

@murray.senate.gov wants to make sure the American Gestapo is coordinating with our local authorities. She wants the American Gestapo to be acting under a uniform code of conduct and have the cameras on when they kidnap and murder you

Hey @murray.senate.gov this isn't enough. ICE must be ABOLISHED ALTOGETHER.

Tin-foil-hat-thought time here: *IF* the Democrats are effectively controlled opposition, this could be by design.

Lots of great books, including free ebooks from us and @haymarketbooks.org, on the @literaryhub.bsky.social guide on what to read to understand the ICE phenomenon.

Placing a layer of algorithmic recommendation on speech does not make speech less free, but it does pervert it. Algorithmic mediation turns speech into a resource extracted from human behavior. Platforms do not value speech because it is protected, they value the service it provides them.

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@cantwell.senate.gov and @murray.senate.gov ABOLISH ICE! The moment must be siezed.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

bro whistles are the NICE option. do you really want to challenge 1,000 nerds with 3D printers to invent something louder and more annoying???

"the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue" 💀💀💀

Minnesota's response is among the most beautiful examples of real-life antifascism I have ever seen. And it’s why, as deeply horrifying as these last few weeks have been, I am actually optimistic about the survival of American democracy. — TNR's Aaron Regunberg. trib.al/3QSLrIB

Would love to see this brought to the States

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Teddy Roosevelt in Milwaukee but cooler

Repeating my helpful little mnemonic song from Twitter: If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏

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Wise words from Howard Zinn on the anniversary of his passing...

Worth knowing. popular.info/p/the-corpor...

Something I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.

Just outside Seattle on I-5 🤘