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."

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

If ICE is emboldened to carry out extrajudicial killings of American citizens in broad daylight, imagine what's happening to the tens of thousands of people being held in makeshift detention camps across the US without cameras, attorneys and organizers

We are dealing with a Western Christian supremacist movement willing to see millions die in the name of racial purity. This is William Wolfe. A year ago he was invited with fourteen other faith leaders to the WH. Today he is praising ICE for killing peaceful observers. This is Christian fascism.

100% true. trying to get these people on "hypocrisy" is a fool's errand. for them, Kyle Rittenhouse, who went out hunting for BLM activists, is an intrepid patriot, while Alex Pretti, who was filming the ICE terror campaign, is lefty scum who had it coming. both were lawfully armed.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

It’s time. I want the see Steve Kerr’s Warriors and Minneapolis’ Timberwolves agree that they simply cannot play this game tonight. A strike in solidarity with the besieged city and its murdered and abducted residents.

this is why I've been saying for ages that pointing out their "hypocrisy" is counterproductive - it merely shows that you remain beholden to a set of norms that they believe themselves to have transcended

The key point is that the ICE military occupations are predominantly not about enforcing immigration law. That is a pretext. They are an attempt to terrorize, injure or kill those in political conflict with the Trump Administration. They make no meaningful attempt to follow or enforce the law.

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

Not only does ICE need to be abolished, but there should be publically aired tribunals for as long as it takes to hold every last one of these thugs accountable. No one, not even the people who file paperwork or handle payroll, should be immune from prosecution.

ICE agents murder another observer in Minneapolis

this is what I’m talking about!

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

chance at a do-over for all the countries who participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics

"everybody who claims to be a victim is lying except for me" is the only Republican position

ICE is an illegal terror network that happens to be directly wielded by the White House

it seems clear that they are disappointed by their deep unpopularity and the lack of violence in response to their illegal terror campaign, so they are hoping that getting a few agents killed will justify martial law

@firefox.com in general I like the Home screen, but no matter how many times I downvote an article about video games, I am shown more of them. you will never finally find the niche video game story that I'll read. it will never happen, I promise you.

reminder that 'woke' is aave coined by a black blues musician referring to lynchings and other racist violence that black people had to be vigilant of to survive under jim crow its white appropriation and racist pejoration is an expropriation of black creative labor and desecration of black culture

the implicit bargain that the Trump admin is offering US firms seems to be: give up on your competitiveness abroad in exchange for an unconstrained monopoly at home, provided you heap praise and treasure upon the ruling clique

incredible cultural achievement that the modal conservative position is now “I am being cancelled for my brilliance by resentful, censorious mediocrities who want participation trophies, therefore they must be silenced and forced to listen to and praise me,” I wish Nietzsche were alive to see it

one of the most inspiring obituaries I've ever read

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

this has been the central, animating principle of American conservatism for decades

Cop “unions” are a repulsive stain on the American labor movement, and it’s truly an embarrassment that so few labor leaders are willing to admit that. www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...

as researchers of automobility have long said, this is the absolute skeleton key to understanding American life today: "They are acting like drivers even when on foot, as though they’re carrying around an exoskeleton of inviolable private space that they can use as they please."

For a literal decade the official CBP policy has been “don’t stand in front of or behind vehicles” because the decade before that their internally commissioned studies found that agents were putting themselves in front of vehicles so as to shoot the occupants

One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

This glib statement is all the more risible when you recall how many law enforcement officers used their vehicles as weapons against protesters in 2020... and how many Republican-dominated states *sought to legalize killing protesters with vehicles* as a reaction to the demonstrations

I see people referring to ICE as Trump's Brownshirts, and I think I may have made the comparison myself, but on reflection they're closer to the Latin American political repression agencies and death squads of Operation Condor.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

feeding American men a steady diet of "operator" cosplay and unvarnished white supremacy on social media and then telling them this is their generation's Fallujah or Benghazi. this is exactly what was intended and it's a miracle that it took this long.

Abolishing ICE is the moderate position.

reporter: donald trump has announced that americans must evolve into a race of hardy metal men via mandated injections of liquid mercury. your response? klobuchar: *visibly straining to remember line consultants came up with* donkey kong donald’s economic policies are “bananas” for small business

The Spanish version is “the left liberates, the right oppresses” and once I learned that, both screws and politics made more sense

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From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

As @jbakcoleman.bsky.social and I wrote, “Every time a scientist abdicates their work to an AI tool, that is a tacit admission that the work is not worth being done by the scientist.” Same goes for instructors.

darkly funny for the U.S. to do lebensraum in service of its version of AI, which is far more material and energy intensive than China’s Deepseek. it’s akin to annexing your neighbor’s house because you need more space for your dial-up modems. or stealing a continent to fill it with cars and lawns…

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

Take it from a Filipino, even if you despise the current rulers of your country, you will live to regret the day the United States comes in to remove them

this seems small in comparison, but we need a boycott of the World Cup. we need to see empty stadiums, teams staying home, and massive financial losses. it gives me no pleasure as a soccer fan, but anything less is a tacit endorsement of war crimes.

Is there a BDS for the US

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.