hate to disappoint mr. zombie, but they're not more human than us. they are, however, starting off just like us - creating a religion & doing drugs. really, srsly, maybe.

off to the scotus it (likely) goes... 'The overwhelming majority [of judges who have ruled contrary to the administration's draconian view]...include...more than 40 appointed by Trump himself. Nineteen of the 27 district court judges siding with the administration’s view were appointed by Trump.'

Today they threatened to arrest all of the neighbors who came out and watched 20 agents struggle to change a flat tire for “impeding a federal investigation.” These are just clowns and they absolutely know it.

HF kids, start off your day reading this string, then go back to the op that inspired the snark.

We are probably better served by focusing on local officials at this point. If we have sane ones anyway. At least for election security. Maybe a good time for more normal people to sign up to be poll workers.

Proud to play a role in helping get this together for @justsecurity.org. It provides you with details from the sworn declarations filed in support of the ACLU's lawsuit in Minnesota, Hussen v. Noem. The details of abuses by federal agents across the 29 declarations we looked at are chilling.

The absence of justice creates a public safety vacuum. "The federal government has made it very clear that they are not going to do anything to provide any sort of accountability backstop to its officers...there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights.”

lookit lil elmo overachiever, putting 10x's as many satellites into leo* as needed to achieve an unnavigable, impenetrable clusterf_ck known in the astronomy community as kessler syndrome. (*low earth orbit)

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

newton's third law, meet hegel's dialectic. oligarch greed & corruption creates its own demise. 'Citizens piecing together ad hoc institutions to confront oppression is democracy. People stepping up to protect the country when Congress and the Supreme Court won’t is democracy.'

Important info from @cato.org about how immigrants contribute to our country: "The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023." Facts matter.

Call me skeptical, but it sure seems like releasing Victims Names "accidentally" was intentional.

"A study, published last week by the Cato Institute, found that "immigrants consumed about 24% less in welfare benefits than native-born Americans on a per capita basis, which is unsurprising because even lower-skilled immigrants are positively selected and have limited legal access to welfare."

Administrative warrants are issued by the executive branch. DHS is a dept under the executive branch. That's why judicial warrants meet the 4th amendment protection standard & admin warrants don't - there isn't a constitutional check on abuse of admin warrants. The founders didn't like kings either.

Time for Texans to act like the Minnesotans they wish they were

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

About my post from a few days back about abolishing ice & firing everyone at the cbp... Here's an exhaustive review (linked in the article) of cbp abuse of power, their own criminality & utter failure to fulfill their mandate of border security.

This is what I’m saying And what HE A tactical psychological Warfare specialist Is saying Do you get it yet MINNESOTA IS BY DESIGN #Mm

"They don't come from the Nazi region of Germany, so can only be called Sparkling Far Right Nationalists"

The non-orwellian translation/version - 'The released half of the epstein files contains insufficient evidence to prosecute, according to the dear leader's personal attorney.' "He added that, “the entire world” can look at the documents* “and see if we got it wrong.” [*except the unreleased half]

Or how the military industrial complex inevitably devolves trade partnerships into payola tributes & democracy into tyranny. Too much power & gold at the top will topple any nation, especially when those not at the top are treated as subjects, not citizens.

Why yes, yes it is. 🤙✊️ (the answer to all the questions in this hilarious faux/fox ominous ad)

the spot-on short version of who has power right now & who refuses to use it.

What's happening in Minneapolis can happen anywhere, it's all the same thing. Might makes right for a mob-style shakedown. Greenland? Gimme your minerals. Venezuela? Gimme your oil. Minnesota? Gimme your voter rolls.

'Pastor Sergio Amezcua...[has]...come to see ICE as the bad guys. “ICE is...doing worse things than narco cartels—arresting five-year-olds, messing around with pregnant women, killing females. Not even narco cartels do that stuff,” says Amezcua, who immigrated from the Mexican state of Sinaloa.'

"What are you hearing from your constituents about how ICE is impacting kids?" "It’s having a huge effect. Elementary schools being battlegrounds is—I mean, just take that sentence in again. Elementary schools are battlegrounds. ICE is showing up to high schools and harassing students..."

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Nice of Tom to stop by to show his support & solidarity, and brought his friend Bruce along for the ride. Popup show at First Ave today.

the regime's candygram for journalists. 🙄💀

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

“After their humans were disappeared by ICE”

The whiney dhs byatches complaining that mpls pd isn't cooperating with them (which they obvs are tyvm) but then the iceholes don't wait for mpls pd after causing an accident, then steal the car, running a red light on the way out.

Not law enforcement. It's racial profiling, then kidnapping. Which is ethnic cleansing & state-sponsored terrorism of poc.

Shit’s so bad in Minnesota that he’s gonna have to release the Epstein files to distract from it

Like all racists, this fine specimen judges others by the way they look.

Corecivic is intentionally feeding the children in the Dilley prison - where Liam & his father are held - unsanitary, if not spoiled/molded, food. They bribed drumpf & gop for a decade to do exactly this.

fun fact herr tiny hands, you know what IS a criminal offense? happened just a few months after the election? rhymes with J6? but by all means, go on another snipe hunt marketed as an election fraud investigation. you're still, and always will be, THE crook in this country.

'This is the training.' She states that what cbp is doing to Minneapolis is what they've been doing at the border for decades & any misconduct/incident investigations are completed by cbp agents. 😑

Meanwhile, back at colonialism... Thou shalt not resist our peeing on your sovereignty, stealing your oil, kidnapping your president* & surrounding your coast with our navy. You must smile, nod & profess to love the taste of boot. (*yes, he's still an a-hole, that doesn't justify this)

Hate to keep piling on the bad news, but ice (so gestapo barbie & pee wee german) effectively caused Wael's death by depriving him of his primary caregiver, his father. ice needs to be abolished & those two need to be in prison.

*watching Trump shut down two dozen extremely important and critical public institutions within six months voice* we can't just suddenly ABOLISH a government agency like ICE. that's ridiculous

This isn't a training issue. It's state-sponsored terrorism. Abolish ice asap, full stop.

'Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it.'

What many of us knew already but bears repeating.

"The court's patience is at an end," U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz wrote. "…ordering the head of a federal agency to personally appear is an extraordinary step. But the extent of ICE's violation of court orders is likewise extraordinary, and lesser measures have been tried and failed."

All of this happened with basically no help from elected officials of the opposition party. This was entirely the people.

About as close to nawlins as we get up here.

ofc there's not a major federal investigation into Alex Pretti's murder. 🙄

Bondi gives the game away. ICE is not in Minnesota to catch undocumented migrants but to gain control over the state's elections and politics.

not a fan of the Atlantic but this is solid from an outsider's perspective.