We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

"Rise like Lions after slumber in unvanquishable number Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you. Ye are many - they are few"

i do think we're slouching towards ameri-maidan, but we could just slouch to just a perpetual simmer of violent enshitification

Sorry, but as someone who literally faces the possibility of deportation, I don't need people to lecture me about issues around undocumented immigrants, ICE, or whatever else, especially if you're a white citizen

I think court reform—expanding the Supreme Court by much more than four judges (27 members?) and introducing both panels and regular cycling of members off the court into circuit courts, massive expansions of other parts of the judiciary, in-house experts, etc.—is an easier political sell too.

very much so. "the country has grown significantly and needs much greater judicial resources" reads as less partisan than "we gotta expand the court to stop losing."

"We need our guns in case the government does tyranny, which can't possibly be armed agents of the government trying to break into your car".

We have a constitutional right to scream, yell and disrupt all day. It's not a capital offense.

another aside about DHS, not only was it badly designed by morons but its just fundamentally not a normal ~interior ministry~ its a Department for Fighting The Terrorists, basically institutional PTSD manifested into the organizational culture of two of the largest paramilitary agencies in the USG

“in america, you deserve to be murdered by the state if you have gender pronouns in bio”

I am legit becoming a judgemaxxing zealot. Getting caseloads and case times down is exactly the kind of in the weeds shit that it seems like would make a massive difference in so many areas.

it was designed in a broom closet by five morons who didn't even know where the agencies they were smashing together were current situated (i am not joking)

honestly an Mi5 type domestic intelligence agency without arrest powers that had to defer to FBI who go through normal judicial channels on anything actionable would have been a way better reform post 9/11

one thing that is kinda touched on now that Kash is undoing it, is that when National Security Branch went turbo, FBI basically became a domestic intelligence agency with a law enforcement fringe (which is why HSI became a real agency doing real things)

Essentially any specialized, distinct area of law—patents, immigration, and labor all come to mind—should run through specialized judges appointed based on merit for long terms and supervised by district court judges, to whom their Reports and Recommendations are appealable.

"Expand the number and types of inferior judicial officers like magistrate judges and bankruptcy judges overseen by district courts, which are also tripled in size," more and more people are saying.

yep, i kind of think you can use supreme court reform as a vehicle through which to do a large, and necessary, expansion of the entire federal judiciary

DHS in general was a bad re-org. Give TSA and the air marshals to DOT, customs and civil immigration to state, criminal immigration enforcement to justice, the natsec shit to Justice/DoD, etc. Only border patrol is the one that doesn’t neatly fit into any already existing cabinet portfolio.

These guys are like "TAXING SODA IS AN AFFRONT TO THE 4TH OF JULY!" and then be like "well if you don't want to murdered by the government just do what it says".

This guy cannot die with his liberty intact.

Honestly warming up with some low level impeachments seems like a good use of time. Get Noem, Kennedy, etc

In the days after the George Floyd video we had near-unanimity on Chavin’s guilt. I do not expect that in this case. But, I would emphasize that apolitical citizens basically dislike chaos, and Trump is a bringer of chaos

These people will fire and deport you for insufficiently glazing Charlie Kirk but openly celebrate killings against perceived ideological enemies.

On top of everything else this is just bad graphic design because idk what I should be eating actually.

There’s just no way dairy is on average better for people than beans and grains are

And today they made the mistake of killing a woman on video.

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

That is the central premise of Field of Blood about the escalating rhetoric and actions over the 1830s, 40s and 50s until the entire country collapsed. This is not a fun comparison to draw.

I do wonder how different things would be if even just 1 Congressperson bad died on 1/6. Think it would have finally brought a lot of things home to some people.

if there's ever a retrospective of this moment, i feel a big part of it is that people kept feeling they could ratchet things further and further until at last, everything broke

Earlier today a driver killed a person crossing the street in downtown DC. Based on the wreckage, high speed was almost certainly involved. The crash happens the same day Trump's Department of Transportation has begun an attempt to abolish speed cameras in DC.

it's a shame that Ken Martin is by far the most competent Official National Democratic Leader of Anything because he's also by far the least important

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, 1984

KEEP IN MIND that this is different from fact-checking Fact-checking can be useful, but it has failed time and time again against this kind of Mara. Fact-checking can be motivated by an ego-centric desire to demonstrate a mastery of facts, and to the extent that it is, it is also delusional

See, THIS is extremely good comms It is using a cultural touchstone that everyone knows, in order to reflect clearly the delusion and the lie of the tyrant. "But what about prices for every day Americans" does not reflect the reality of the tyrant's lie

Yes, killing peaceful protesters is a sign of tyranny. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/t...

I can't believe it really. This person wasn't a protestor or a legal observer or anything else she has been called recently. She was just someone in the wrong place at the wrong time. Fucking hell.

Oh what a nice day for this news to drop

look at the American media class, dawg

FEMA 20k staff => own agency USCG, 44k => Navy or DOT TSA, 60k => DOT OFO 30k => DOT, TREAS, or own agency USCIS, 20k => own agency let dod run the border till we staff up a new agency with the mission statement of Basically Pleasant Greeter ss idk. should prob replace it just uh not for a while

We stand in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis, where an ICE agent killed an unarmed legal observer. Communities everywhere are less safe when ICE and federal agents are deployed recklessly into our neighborhoods. The federal attacks on US cities must end immediately.

The only time people on TV can imagine a vehicle being dangerous is if it’s in the vicinity of a cop. Every cycle commuter has been closer to death by vehicle that that border patrol murderer

Hey remember how Heather Heyer was murdered? The Right spent years using cars as weapons and now suddenly that's a problem because an ICE agent murdered someone trying to *flee*. The parts of 1984 that are relevant are how The Party demands to dictate truth.

noem’s only regret is that her goons didn’t kill the dog too

These guys will get irate when Venezuelans hate the US or support anti-US politicians but when you're talking like this, can you complain? Would you accept this of the US? Or would would be support revenge?

i have never seen someone so obviously impressed with themselves at all times

Pro tip: get yourself a spouse who works with the spouse of a French pastry chef, and who likes to gift French pastries to your spouse because your spouse is so awesome.

This is a good use of a pie chart and also horrifying

The American media is completely unserious

imo: yes and no. a lot of the issues are structural, that’s 100% true. but we *could* get much more humane enforcement of current laws even if nothing else changed with better system capacity.