youtube.com/post/UgkxVgx... Gee, how many are in the US? Ex-Russian Orthodox speaking here.

Lord, what a man-trum.

Yes, it's very unfair how they were all conscripted into ICE against their will and are now forced to do these things under penalty of death. Gotta have sympathy. Wait, what? You're saying it's a volunteer force and they could quit at any time? Huh! Well that changes the moral calculus quite a bit!

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

At any point in the last 30 years the GOP could have backed Immigration Reform, funding for immigration courts to reduce backlogs and any number of policies to control immigration and they didn't to provide a wedge issue to gain power for this end game we are in now, fascism under one Party control.

Some sense of humor he's got there...

It's now been four weeks since the deadline set by law and they still haven't fully released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

"Certain though I am that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Beliving is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith." -Teilhard de Chardin

"Numerous studies show that immigration is not linked to higher levels of crime, but rather the opposite." Source: Research articles cited in article at Brennan Center www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

The irony in Bari Weiss et al's failure is if they actually knew anything about Marx and critical theory they'd have been more aware of the challenges in creating spaces genuinely free committed to open inquiry while being governed by capitalists www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Useful idiots learn their usefulness was temporary and conditional.

NEW: A day after an ICE agent fatally shot a Minneapolis woman, JD Vance announced the creation of a new assistant attorney general position reporting directly to the White House — news that signals independent federal law enforcement may soon be a thing of the past.

Trump II, Year I: -Bombed Iran, Venezuela, and Yemen -Allowed Israel to repeatedly violate the ceasefire and kill civilians -Ripped healthcare and SNAP away from millions -Deployed masked ICE agents to terrorize American cities The "Peace President."

More ICE lies.

Can't say it often enough: every Trump administration accusation is a confession.

My discussion of the ideological roots of fascism and its anti-socialism with @polphilpod.bsky.social

Is administration is full of ignorant liars.

In exchange for...

it actions like this that make people, especially gen z, despise the democratic party. what are we doing here

We mourn the lives broken and destroyed by an abusive government.

...don't cover for pedophiles? Sounds like an easy win.

"Talking straight here, the big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries and, ostensibly, the president of the United States are not honoring the First Amendment,” Judge William G. Young said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

youtube.com/post/UgkxuQX... Alright campists, tipping my hat to you with this one.

“When I first heard they’d found a cure for dyslexia, it was like music to my arse.” —source unknown

If federal agents are engaged in unlawful actions, why does the media keep referring to them as “federal law enforcement “?

“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”

The people who lost their shit over wearing masks to stop the spread of a deadly virus, are big fans of wearing masks to get away with killing and kidnapping people.

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

BREAKING: Shooting 'involving federal law enforcement' in Minneapolis bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

BREAKING: Mother Jones is suing the Bureau of Prisons for Ghislaine Maxwell’s records. Because someone needed to.

Hey, found the rapists poisoning the blood of our country.

. They’re looking into her background to try to find a way to retroactively justify the guy shooting her in the face through her car in a lynching

From Kevin Clarke at Outreach: "Renee Good, hatred, misogyny and homophobia." outreach.faith/2026/01/rene...

In working on the 2016-2024 period, I've been thinking a lot about the global social uprisings in 2018-2019, which were cut short by the pandemic, then the global cost-of-living protests in 2022-2023 and the anti-incumbent wave of 2024. And none of that pent up grievance has been addressed.

"If a man strikes you on your right cheek...get a group of buddies with guns to blow them away"-Conservatives 24:7

When he tells you who he is, believe him. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

NEW: Mass resignations at the DoJ Civil Rights Division - including the Chief of the Criminal Section - over the administration’s refusal to investigate the murder of Renee Good. www.cbsnews.com/news/minneap...

BREAKING: The FBI is investigating RENEE GOOD’S ties to activist groups instead of sharing evidence with Minnesota. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...