Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

One reason the One Special Boy thinks he can just issue Executive Orders to do whatever he wants is because he keeps issuing Executive Orders & doing whatever he wants - in obvious violation of the law & Constitution - & no one who swore oaths to country & Constitution is doing anything about it.

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not. “Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

This is literally directly across the street from an elementary school.

Images like this make it impossible to avoid the conclusion that ICE operates as a state-sponsored terrorist organization tasked with targeting, harassing, & brutalizing those designated as enemies by the regime.

Feds cancelling a whole raft of manufacturing & innovation projects in Washington state, because WA is blue & the federal government has declared open war on half the country.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

it's always "conservatives rage" "conservatives decry" "conservative opinion is" and what if we do not fucking care about any of that?

“The MAGA vision of the military class as amoral warriors dedicated to PT and demanding “respect” makes sense if MAGA views its principle strategic rivals not as foreign autocrats, but as American citizens who might try to displace MAGA from the seat of power.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-depart...

"In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500, according to figures from Trans Media Watch. The media is not responding to public rage against vulnerable minorities; it is helping to create it." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

"An attorney for a building trades union told me that a witness in a wage theft case in another state was recently targeted and deported by ICE. The union believes the employer encouraged ICE to target the worker, in a bid to undercut the wage theft case. " prospect.org/labor/2025-1...

America is begging for an anti-cheater anti-scam anti-corruption social movement. Everything from banning spam to ending gerrymandering to really jailing bribe-takers to shutting down payday loan places, it could be exactly the new kind of "populism" that the Democrats seem so desperate to find.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

This is my manifesto

Miller and the rest just tell Trump 'They want a billion dollars for T R A N S G E N D E R' and he goes 'oh that doesn't sound good' and they say 'very insightful my liege' and then he poops himself in self satisfaction

This is why Johnson and Thune didn't want the meeting Trump is in a bubble. Gov Kotek pierced it this weekend Think about how often he's asked questions and has no idea what reporters mean. And the medbeds video. JFC Part of it is his declining mental capacity. But also shows he's not in charge

ICE is one of the most well funded military force on the planet, entirely used internally on it’s own citizens, and completely loyal to a far right fascist dictator. if democratic politicians are not on board with abolishing ICE, they must be replaced

1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist. No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men. The silence is deafening. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary" @juddlegum.bsky.social for @popular.info

ICE brutally detains U.S. citizen just for filming—knocking her unconscious. "Agents took her to a side alley, beat her up, then called an ambulance," witness said. "Then they kidnapped her from the hospital—without a formal discharge—and took her to Downtown LA Detention Center."

So we've had two white male Marine veterans commit mass shootings this weekend in Michigan and North Carolina leaving at least 4 dead and a church burned down. I'm sure MAGA will declare it an epidemic and push to ban white male Marine veterans from owning guns any day now.

So exhausting..

The thing with Klein is that he very obviously can’t help himself from promoting what are definitionally right-wing ideas that he picks up from his social associations, and explicitly says he has no interest in interrogating his own thinking—it’s a common kind of brain rot

Border Patrol agent talks about how he knows that the people he's arresting at this nutrition bar factory in NY are "literal street rats" who would "eat our kids"

Federal Cops ‘Instigating’ Confrontations With Protesters Outside ICE Building, Portland Police Official Says Police say "federal agents’ firing on protesters without warning 'enraged' the crowd, which began 'pulling out makeshift shields and throwing things at the agents who fired on them.'”

NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff. “This place is built to break us”

As a former Portlander myself, love that its motto is Keep Portland Weird. An essential part of fascism's project is to tell all of us how to look, whom to love, what to say, how to dress. Fuck that. Portland is too fabulous for fascism.

If ever there was a time not to normalize Trump’s authoritarian fever dreams, this is it. This should be impeachable. ‘War ravaged’ Portland? He’s insane - & insanely power hungry. The script is set - call an imaginary group a terror group and then send in the troops.

Expect any non-citizen (for now) in any position of power to be harassed and abused on pretext by the secret police.

So, someone paid money to run an inauthentic corporate coercion operation against a US business to create an artificial corporate crisis, drum up fake bad PR to manipulate stock price, drive away customers, and cause them to close stores across the country under the cover of far-right “outrage”?

At the Broadview ICE facility, an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk. He kept driving for about a full football field until ICE barraged us with pepper balls.

Seeing stories like this where people organize and work to protect their neighbors reminds of what @prisonculture.bsky.social always says on here: People are in motion in everywhere. www.coyotemedia.org/sonoma-count...

At least 43 outlets shared anti-trans misinfo after Charlie Kirk shooting A report from the Trans Journalists Association found that 43 outlets published misinformation about “transgender ideology” after Charlie Kirk’s killing xtramagazine.com/video/anti-t...

You see the same thing with the Gen Z perspective on age gaps in relationships. Like, are these youngsters a bit overzealous in their opposition? Sure are! But at least they see old men grooming young women as a problem!!

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

"social media enabled op-ed writers to see what people actually thought of their drivel for the first time and it drove them incurably insane" theory wins out every time

Docs reveal how deeply embedded Palantir’s tools were in ICE's investigative unit. For example, they used a Palantir app to plan a gang takedown & when a target was not at the expected location they used the same app to find the person at their family's address. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

It’s likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We can’t just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

At this point, reading a Chotiner interview is like watching Lebron James play against a baby. Sure, Lebron’s gonna pull out some sick moves, but at a certain point, you have to ask why the other team thinks it’s a good idea to put a baby on the court