This can’t be understated. Anyone who was legitimately doing the deprogramming work wouldn’t be trying to run for senate and they sure as shit wouldn’t be feigning ignorance of their past harms.

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps. I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

iconic shot of Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on the podium

He can say whatever he wants and issue whatever executive order he wants, but he has no legitimate power to actually do anything like this. Panicked posts like this one give the impression that he can make good on his threats. He can't.

Media challenge: Stop using the word "immigration" in phrases about abduction, assault, murder, and so on. Immigration means the movement of people into a country for purposes of residency. What's being "enforced" here is terror & crimes against humanity.

Yes, it's raining in Venice Beach! Dogs are not as pleased as I am.

"Due process is not a courtesy extended at the government's convenience. Due process is the condition that makes custody lawful in the first place." Man, that right there is the whole ball game.

Angelenos! If you need some frivolity--and I am pretty sure you do--I am reading tarot cards this Valentine's Day at Cassell's diner, a charming LA landmark that just happens to make a kickass cheeseburger. 10-2! And brunch! Get in there! www.eventbrite.com/e/valentines...

this all does make some very compelling points

I cAn’T uNdErStAnD bAd BuNnY! You can’t understand opera either, Karen, but you’re not badmouthing Wagner.

Researchers estimate that the life expectancy for people forced to work in cane fields was mid 20s. They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Thread: So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...

I do not debate sexual assault allegations with strangers on the internet; I block. Take your devil’s advocate bullshit back to hell where it belongs. As for me and my house, we shall believe survivors.

Right now: the federal government has to help these folks and get the power back on, and if they can’t, they should resign After that: we need a Grid New Deal and rebuild the grid for this century

Here is a better angle of this sign. I originally received this from a friend, but it came from the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

ICE never stopped LA operations and seems to have stepped up this month if anything

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.

how the fuck you gonna reform a children’s concentration camp asshole

this story quotes: - A trump ambassador - A museum run by Trump appointees - Stop Antisemitism, an organization funded by right-wing donors ... aaannnnddd that's it! Not a single scholar of the Holocaust. Not anyone unaffiliated with Walz' political opponents.

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper. The criticism was not “widespread” & the cited sources are all pro-Trump.

Border czar Tom Homan will be heading to Minnesota, while Gregory Bovino, the bombastic and controversial Border Patrol chief leading the surge, will soon leave the state. n.pr/49GFyyi

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

I hope this is shared 1MIL times and those who hear it feel uplifted.

It'll be sooner than that, but I'm begging people not to take the inevitable bait. If you haven't already blocked Politico, Axios and Semafor, I highly recommend doing so, as it'll lower your blood pressure considerably.

The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.

this is so fucking beautiful, I'm crying again

The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force. @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

TAPPER: They're asking for voter roll information after the death of Alex Pretti. What was it like to see that letter? SIMON: It was really deeply disturbing. Literally hours after the second killing of a citizen in Minneapolis by ICE agents, there's this ransom note

Defendants in the ongoing DOJ voter rolls litigation (including MN as such plus some already granted intervenors) should file this letter immediately along with a motion for applicable sanctions and also asking for a criminal referral.

This is exactly right.

Solidarity with Minnesota. An attack on one is an attack on all. #ICEOUT

@shengokai.blacksky.app Thanks very much for carrying on the Friday mutual sharing/needs posts. I appreciate the work you are doing.

Kudos to her. I tweeted about how her Obama pre-inaug concert performance was excellent, but I couldn't get through that song, and she tweeted me back about why that song and what it meant to her. Nothing but respect for her then and now.

You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"

Wow Minneapolis today

I need everyone to understand that this could not happen anywhere else exclusively because the people of minnesota started showing up for george floyd and then never stopped this isn't a "sudden event", this is the culmination of nearly seven fucking years of steady leadership and participation

no matter how hard Greg Bovino tries to exude rugged masculinity he always comes off like Don Knotts in a Portlandia sketch

We’ve been in WHO since 1948.

Hello! I once almost died of carbon monoxide poisoning. If you feel queasy and suddenly exhausted don’t lay down for “just a minute” - run outside, breathe fresh air. The space between “I feel a little weird, I guess I slept bad/ate something weird” and death is like ten minutes.

He’s five. He’ll need snacks. Are they gonna have anything he recognizes or likes? He’s gonna need bathroom breaks. Who’s zipping him up tight when it’s cold? Who’s holding onto his winter clothes when it gets warm all way south? Who’s changing his socks? Who’s keeping him clean? Putting him to bed?

I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?

Yeah, Democrats, I’m pretty sure you can run on “We’re going to abolish the agency that’s snatching up and traumatizing GODDAMN 5-YEAR-OLD LITTLE ANGELS!!!l” and win, you weak-kneed chumps. www.startribune.com/preschooler-...

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars