I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.

I don't want this to be right—but I do think it's what the regime itself wants.

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There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

Story of the decade is happening right now in Minnesota but hard to cover it when your whole thing is pretending it doesn't exist or is some kind of overreaction.

Democrats need to realize ICE isn’t just—or even primarily—a mass deportation force. ICE is also Trump’s most loyal internal security force which will be used to attack regime opponents and try to steal the election. They should defund his authoritarian capabilities.

In my experience this is exactly it. Older Dems have "always punch left and move right" burned into their brains because they're still subconsciously living in the early 2000s media landscape. Media can still attack you now, Schumerites, but it won't sink you unless you don't fight back.

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

How ICE ‘know your rights’ works out in reality: 1. Don’t open door: ICE busts it down 2. Require a warrant: family asks for a warrant >20x, calmly, ICE lies, barges in HEAVILY armed 3. You can film: ICE shines light at camera, threatens w/taser What are the guideline for THIS REALITY?! #IceOut

Everything about this is so fucking bad but the part that stands out to me is where the woman is like "can we call someone for help?" and the answer, unspoken, is no. There is no one to call. The Minnesota government has failed to call up the National Guard or otherwise protect their people

People might argue that ICE is not recruiting quality agents. But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy. www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...

We live in the Era of the Failson.

A key stretch in this post: ICE has extended its reach from merely detaining immigrants to *arresting protesters.* This is an entirely different pretext for the occupation. The supply of potential "protesters" (which they get to define) is much larger than the supply of immigrants.

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

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Until we get serious guardrails in place for ICE and Border Patrol, Democrats must block funding to Trump and Kristi Noem’s DHS.

"Triggered much?" is what a troll says when one of their targets gets bothered by their posts. Here, senior US official Greg Bovino redeploys it to defend/celebrate a literal murder in the physical world. A government of, by, and for the Online Right.

My son was interested in watching The West Wing. I told him it's a good show as long as you keep in mind that it bears as much resemblance to the real DC today as Leave it to Beaver did to the 1950's. Admittedly WW was already a big stretch even when it originally aired, but still.

We have reached the "heir apparent leaks the fact he is trying to de-escalate the mad king" stage of the Scheming Vizier arc.

hate being right about this shit but it was the single easiest prediction i've ever made

This can't be said enough. At its heart, this is a war on women.

Guardian also did great reporting I wasn't seeing here. This O'Keefe wannabe & his weird mom will be found one day on a yacht full of dildos. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Heads up, everyone. This is their new tactic. If they're doing it with the governor's race in California, they're doing it everywhere, at every level. They're running Nazis as Dems. It's the Fetterman move except with a swastika instead of a sweatshirt.

I'm begging the mass of liberals to wake up & realize that the only way to explain the particulars of how they're smearing Renée - given that she lacked the pre-packaged crime of being non-white - is that we're looking at nazism. He was a husband and father? She was a wife and mother. vibes.

I remember reading @davidfutrelle.bsky.social talking about the manosphere 15 years ago and nearly everyone was like "why are you worried about these sad Internet weirdos!" And then it turned out Women Are Awful was the wedge issue that radicalised a generation & empowered the existingly awful! Wooo

Really fun to be a public feminist in an era when everyone on the left is convinced that gender is a superficial divide that’s only considered unjust by privileged and narcissistic white women, while meanwhile gender anxiety and grievance is used to dismantle American democracy and the world order.

I find myself increasingly out of patience with the debates on whether the current US regime counts as fascist, or what the strict definition of a fascist polity even is, held between those who don't even acknowledge how central patriarchal violence is to reactionary regimes.

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

I believe the administration keeps putting lying assholes like sentient thumb Tom Homan on television as a “fuck you” to everyone who opposes them. They don’t care that Homan is a bad spokesperson accused of corruption—they want to show us they can act with impunity and that they’re untouchable.

He's just straight up rationalizing that it's OK for them to murder people over "hateful rhetoric." "Contempt of cop" is not, in fact, a crime, especially not one that warrants summary execution on the streets.

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

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This is actually too comforting by half. Hardcore MAGA, especially young and male, know they're "the baddies" and are absolutely thrilled by it. They identify—half-jokingly, but seriously enough—with movie and comic book villains and psychopaths, characters often intended as figures of ridicule.

GamerGate to ICE going full Gestapo is a straight line. Angry, weak, insecure men teaching each other to hate woman for the crime of not being sexually available to than at all times. The "Male Loneliness Epidemic" was always only ever about shitty dudes being insufferable to be around.

Unbelievably important thread (the replies, too)

This...

And everyone acted like I was crazy at the time for saying it was bigger than video games and saying these people were basically proto Nazis!

Y'all, this week has been heavy, and I expect this whole year will feel like this as things escalate. I hope you attend a vigil or take an action this weekend, but I also hope you take care of yourself and your loved ones. I hope you make space for joy and to dream of a better future for us all.

once again we are all tapping the sign

I can't stress this enough... the officer seems like he shoots the driver because he wants to shoot her partner, who is filming him in a standoff of him filming her. Whose he saying "fucking bitch" to -- its not the dead person, he doesn't interact with her at all.

We know the real reason. He felt disrespected by lesbians. bsky.app/profile/soci...

You lying piece of shit. I chaired the Minnesota DFL for all three of your runs here. I watched you lose. Three times. Minnesota never bought your con. And now, as Chair of the DNC, I’m looking forward to ending Trumpism for good in 2028 — not with lies, but with votes. Again.

Right on target, and as @nonyabidniss.bsky.social adds, Americans need to start understanding the enemy better. This isn't homophobia or anything-phobia, there's no fear in it at all; it's 4ch*n in government, bragging that they now have impunity to kill harmless people merely for bothering them.

These people hate white liberal women as much as they hate people of color…. more so because they believe that you all betrayed and rejected them. You are not dealing with human motivations anymore…. this is pure, animal hate.

I agree. I think they released the video as a threat rather than for it to be exculpatory. They have no fear of consequences. The law doesn’t matter to them. Trump stated yesterday he feels he only answers to himself. They won’t stop until they are stopped. They don’t fear the law or courts

I think they did also do it to make the shooter look admirable (not innocent). to advertise they can shoot women down and call them "fucking bitches" and be praised for it. The misogynistic white power fantasy distilled. The reason they used Grok to dress her body in a bikini. They get off on this.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.