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Feels like society’s really broken down in the US in a way that’s deeply traumatic. But also there are college students knocking on doors asking for shovels (they’re not well-prepared) and helping trapped motorists by shoveling and pushing out cars. Up to 24 of them now, wandering streets together

The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.

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But these fascists, like many fascists and other authoritarians, confuse the pageantry of violence for power - they imagine that the state with armed men walking the streets is strong. But only a weak government needs to put armed men in the streets to exert power. A strong government has no need.

People are less afraid of them the more people they murder, which isn't sustainable for tyranny

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

This is a great thread, and true. Fascists are always with us. MAGA has been around since I was a kid. It is periodically emboldened by every shitty GOP President, and some are worse than others. They are cowards, and shame works. It doesn’t change their broken minds. But it does shut them up.

Trumpists are unironically proving every proponent of gun control right on multiple levels. All those dead children for what, exactly?

Trump has even lost Rasmussen now

Things are so bad that the Minnesota prison system has had to launch a website specifically to combat DHS lies. The first major release from DOC officials suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the Border Patrol operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.

All this is true--I'd like to "yes, and" by saying the publishers who caved instantaneously to Twitter dogpiles did not help matters. Some critiques were worth considering; others were naked attempts to bring down rivals. It supported the rightist narrative that leftists were pro-censorship.

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

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i think they are bad consolidating authoritarianism choices because effective consolidation involves carrots as well as (secret) sticks. this administration is doing the opposite. no carrots whatsoever and ostentatious public violence against members of the dominant racial/ethnic/religious group

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At any point you're allowed to say "this has gone too far." At any point you can say "I no longer can support this." At any point you can admit "I was wrong." Because it HAS gone too far, NO ONE should be supporting government-led executions on the street, and THIS IS WRONG.

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

again. even if you think a violent resistance is right in this circumstance (I absolutely don’t), a violent resistance would (1) cost *more* innocent lives; (2) take decades to even erode the coercive capacity of the federal government; (3) make pathways to a stable and just democracy much harder

let me add another point: a lot of the replies say nonviolence only works when you're confronting a moral opponent. if you only had moral opponents, you wouldn't need to engage in risky nonviolent resistance. nonviolence appeals to the morality of *others* by raising the social costs of violence.

No one is "trying" to portray Border Patrol agents and ICE agents as Gestapo and Nazis Border Patrol and ICE - including Bovino - are showing us they are Gestapo and Nazis over and over and over They don't hide it, just get pissy when it's called out

Dems should introduce legislation now defunding ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota, so they have to leave the state. One sentence bill. Demand an immediate vote. Maybe refuse to vote for cloture on any funding bills (or other bills) until a vote. Make the GOP Congress break w/ Trump or own it all.

Trump’s lil Nazi

How can you not feel for his parents at this time? Their son was a good man and this administration is trying to vilify him. We should all be grateful to the brave people who kept filming what took place, from multiple angles, so that all of us could be witnesses to what actually happened.

Bill Kristol sees this shit clearly. I don't know how so many elected Democrats don't.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

The nurses are pissed

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.

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What a fantastic resource.

This should go without saying, but apparently it does. What officials say happened is not the news. What actually happened is the story. And headlines should reflect the truth as you can verify it, not the official lie.

Just a reminder that these murders are being perpetrated by a government that is illegally engaged in a coverup of the world's most notorious pedophile trafficking ring, including the possible involvement of the President of the United States.

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BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

Oh she’s EXTORTING US.

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One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

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He was an ICU nurse who helped veterans and Stephen Miller is calling him a domestic terrorist

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Your reminder that entering the country illegally is only a misdemeanor and overstaying your legal status is a civil violation. And people are being killed over it.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Masked federal agents in Minnesota just shot and killed another person. We must put a stop to Trump’s ICE. Now. Stop the funding, stop the occupations, stop the killings.

Ice are stealing children. While detainees are dying in custody, they are disappearing children.