Dems managed to get a 2-week delay on the DHS bill, so CALL YOUR SENATORS AND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 14 DAYS. Tell them you want ICE, CBP and all the rest of it defunded and dismantled. Tell them you will be voting against anyone who doesn't do this. This is our chance.

NEW: Special elections in the razor-thin Democratic majority-Houses in Maine and Pennsylvania. Billions of dollars in funding for school. A congressional primary. There are plenty of important elections right around corner, in FEBRUARY. So i put together my monthly guide of elections to watch:

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

Calling my senators again. My script: "Will the measures Ds are proposing for the DHS funding bill free Liam Ramos and kidnapped people? Will they guarantee congressional access to and oversight of the concentration camps? If not, you must vote against the bill." Find your reps here: reps.fyi

NEW: There are 2,400+ elections for DA & sheriff this year. These matter hugely to criminal justice & policing—including: *these are often officials who decide ICE collaboration.* So I took a dive into these 2,400+ races to identify early hotspots and battlegrounds. Read, & check out our maps:

1/ Thoughts: It's good when people who didn't agree with me change their minds. However, exactly how much grace I offer them post-revelation depends on a range of factors. My tent is big and so has room for many people. It's also large enough that I can let someone in but not sit with them.

“A.i.”’s primary function is cheating and fraud. It is a natural tool of fascism, pushed by fascists. Do not use or share that shit.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Are you filled with righteous anger about Donald Trump's fascism in the States? Good, but not enough. Now, make it your personal responsibility to ensure Nigel Farage never gets to introduce it here.

If you're in New York, please take two minutes right now to call Governor Hochul and tell her to support and sign New York 4 All, which would prevent state and local agencies from collaborating with ICE. 518-474-8390. This is important.

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From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

Maybe instead of identifying specific ICE agents who do particularly heinous things, we could just penalize everyone who was on payroll at the agency starting by a certain date.

This is essentially what governments did in the late 1900s and early 2000s with respect to Nazis. Whether you were a lowly concentration camp guard or in Hitler's inner circle, if there was evidence you were a Nazi, it was straight to jail with your walker. It worked.

“Dad always said he didn’t want his body to just rot in the ground when there was so much humanity could learn by vacuum-sealing it with aromatics in a 135-degree water bath for two hours before finishing with a quick sear,” said Jasper Weaver’s son Jacob

Democratic leadership is terrified of being seen on the side of the people of Minneapolis, least they lose the potential future support of pro-cop people whose support they do not and never will have.

Threatening allies is a violation of the NATO treaty. Which makes it a violation of federal law.

Really would like even a single major newspaper or TV media outlet to lead with this when discussing everything related to Trump and Greenland.

I live in NYC, but I went to college with @chrisrabb.com and support him for PA-03 because of stands like this. Abolish ICE, and don't accept any less from your reps.

Just like Palestinian supporters here in the U.S. don't distinguish between "Israel" and "the current Israeli government" even though MILLIONS of Israelis can't stand Netanyahu & have been protesting him regularly for years now.

I don't ever want to hear any politician talk about "reforming" or "training" or fucking body cams for this evil agency. Abolish it. Defund it. Destroy it and its works in their entirety.

Oh shit they got a College Football One Shining Moment going on!

Doink!

These powerful pics are really, really good reminders of why it makes sense for those opposing Trump to reclaim ownership of the American flag. If your audience is the giant lower-info middle of the electorate--and it should be--this seems like a really good way to get to them.

More and more people are saying this: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

I'm also going to keep banging the drum that <fewer than 10> <Republicans> in Washington could end almost all of this immediately, by fulfilling their oaths & caucusing with the Democrats, & we should stop giving them <total free passes> every day & laser focus on that: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

A gentle reminder that poorly (if at all) sourced assertions that Democrats are about to do something only Rahm Emanuel would like are one of the quickest ways to drive engagement on social media and you should probably treat them with at least some measure of skepticism

If you vote for Gavin Newsom, I will kick you in the fucking dick, if you give a dollar to Matt Yglesias, I will kick you in the fucking dick, there is no negotiation with fascism, you do not need advice on fighting a dragon from someone who’s never even smelled the fire

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

A very good explainer of the distinction between an Adminstrative and a judicial warrant and what are the steps you can when presented with a judicial warrant to enter your home.

The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose

Democrats constantly say "oh well we need to follow what's popular" and forget that candidates saying what they want is like 75% of how policies become popular and not the other way around. They're so afraid of accidentally swaying voters instead of the other way around that they just do nothing

I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.

Ending his career throwing a pick six in the playoffs.

100%. If you want an alternative slogan you can go with "Abolish ICE before they kill again."

Bear with me for a thread. Republicans have mastered the art of making excuses for horrific things they want and forcing an argument online and in media over the *excuse* rather than the deed. It ends up in completely fake arguments. Rufo & others basically admit this.

Once again, I am begging supposedly serious people & societal institutions not to normalize violating all of our international obligations, threatening to seize/acquire our closest allies, & generally treating the One Special Boy as if our entire edifice of institutions, laws, & norms do not exist.

It’s getting so the only safe place to be is in the Epstein Files. 🔄

From firing the local MAGA-allied police chief to calling for the abolishment of ICE, so much inaction by elected Democrats boils down to "but I'm scared!" I am very sorry, but you said you could do this job when you were hired. Please step aside if you can't.

Can we have a chat? Why, after carefully weighing the options in 2016, and having been initially excited by Senator Bernie Sanders, did I ultimately decide that Secretary Hillary Clinton was the better option? And why do I feel that decision has only been reinforced by subsequent events?

oregon has been desperately trying to scrape and claw their way to a seat at the big boy table for like 25 years only to be completely eclipsed by a school that decided to give a shit about football 18 months ago bc they hired a scary guy

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

My personal view is that you need to go limp and not resist, as any attempt to fight back will clearly be used as a justification to escalate, even lethally (despite being legally prohibited). Yell your name to bystanders, tell them to record, scream “I am not resisting!” Words are your weapons

lmao

Tecmo Bowl Doink!

wow really helpful, thank you new york times

They will happily come to your state. To your street. Cause chaos. Murder you. And then call you a terrorist. This is the Trump regime. A murderous regime that hates the American people.

The only police officer shooting Republicans won’t reflexively defend is one that involved a woman who broke through police barricades and stormed the US Capitol with a huge mob ranting and raving to forcibly overturn a lawful presidential election.