Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.

Yeah, this was one of those long shot “try it because you can’t win if you don’t try” attempts. Preserves the record and gives you an appellate grounds if nothing else pans out.

Sometimes this reminder is helpful on Bluesky: It’s good to oppose Trumpism. Trumpism is evil. But there are plenty of people who oppose Trumpism who are also petty, shitty, annoying people. Block them or ignore them and go back to opposing Trump.

I see we're at the 'arresting opposition journalists' phase of I Can't Believe It's Not Fascism!

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began https://theonion.com/ice-boasts-zero-murders-committed-by-5-year-olds-since-child-detainments-began/

This may be the best prayer it has ever been my privilege to hear or read. This is delightful.

Open letter to our Senators: Gentlemen, Ladies, we don't really care about ICE not getting even more funding. We don't care about more "training" and more rules they won't follow. We want ICE de-funded. Dismantled. Gone. Driven out of our cities.

I blocked Maher because I honestly just don’t want to see any of it, and now I won’t.

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

i am not particularly hostile to AI use, but having spent a large part of my day refuting an obvious chatGPT argument offered by someone who outranks me who *did not understand the argument chatGPT told them to make*, i have more reservations about it.

Either you HAVE stories like these, or you're the piss soap philosopher IN the stories like these.

Yes because then they’d have to face the reality of what people think of them

"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ

More targeting of legal observers in Maine. People need to be aware that there are abuses by ICE occurring nationwide, not just Minnesota. Story via @themainemonitor.org and @bangordailynews.bsky.social: themainemonitor.org/maine-filmin...

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

(This is the list, not sure why that didn’t come through.) The thing to keep in mind — Big Tech doesn’t define the internet. There is *still* a healthy, thriving independent internet of creators, just like there are stores beyond Walmart and restaurants beyond McDonald’s. Find them, support them.

So basically Albert Speer’s defense at Nuremberg.

If Democrats haven't announced their proposal for the Donald Trump No Guns in Public bill by the end of the day, they're missing an easy shot

Omfg I'm dying

Who did this

A splendid idea! Remembering at the time people commenting "we don't have a 'Homeland' we have a nation" plus that sense that the GOP was dying to roll back civil liberties & here was a golden opportunity to do just that.

We should use the Tea Party playbook. Take all this for now and then defund them when we have the levers. Hamstring DHS now and disband it later. Prosecution of their goons will gut them, that’s huge. But keep pressing for abolition.

Is it really so hard to celebrate small victories while continuing to press for more? Celebrating progress does not mean giving up or settling. I’m starting to feel sorry for these people. They are apparently determined to be unhappy until their world is perfect. Which means always.

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

A company being boycotted for abandoning DEI. A serial environmental polluter. The company that kills so many insured that someone shot their CEO. The sports team whose announcer said the victims deserved it. I wonder why these companies are taking this position?

They call it "pulling a Vatican"

Apparently god doesn’t like him either.

It’s crazy to me how many people have internalized “The police are your friend” to the point it never dawns on them that saying some shit on the INTERNET might come back and bite them in the ass.

Some safety tips for the big storm! Be safe, everybody.

I am past 'retrain ICE.' I am past 'reform ICE.' I am past 'abolish ICE.' I am at 'imprison ICE.'

remember, you can yell scream and curse at the political fundraising texts, but DO NOT reply with an actionable threat because the US attorney’s office considers the volunteer batch sending them to be a live human recipient of that message. it’s not just a bot. those cases can and do get charged.

Has there been any analysis of the impact on police officers? The NYPD has a reputation for handing out special stickers to family and VIPs that exempt a car from all traffic enforcement. Automated ticketing reduces that corruption dynamic. I wonder how much of this is from fair enforcement.

The sky is a little weird here northeast of Atlanta. Y’all stay safe out there.

Get your prescriptions filled at www.costplusdrugs.com if possible. You'll save LOADS. @mcuban.bsky.social

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

shoving someone's face directly in unfairness and telling them the rules they have built their lives around don't matter because you're in charge and they aren't triggers fury on the lizard brain level and it's a huge contributor to how autocracies fail

Didn’t realize it was possible for me to become even more pro-choice, but here we are

A few people pointing out that their homes are all electric and therefore they do not need carbon monoxide alarms. Do you have a neighbor? Do you know if they own a portable generator? Do you trust them to not place it too close to your house?

JFC. I would dearly love to see every one of these “symbolic protest vote” losers primaried. Especially the leaders. Absolutely spineless.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Jonathan Ross—the ICE fascist who killed Renee Good—is an 18-year ICE veteran, firearms instructor, & active shooter trainer. The people claiming "ICE needs more training" are missing the point. Ross's 2 DECADES of training IS what led him to execute Good. ICE Training IS the problem. Abolish ICE.

The Supreme Court has boxed itself in when it comes to protecting the Fed. It remains to be seen how much they will stand up to Trump.

honestly this is probably how you have to defend every case that this regime gets in front of a jury. pretty good!

One more sleep until it's Whiskey Friday With Tony Dokoupil

The arguments I have received from the pro-ICE world are “it all happened so fast” but looking down your barrel through an open window at the side of a person’s head and pulling the trigger is murder.

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out