Homeland Security has always felt like a euphemism for Secret Police.

I used to think Noem was just another soullessly ambitious hack a la Rubio, but at this point I think she'd absolutely make lampshades out of human skin if she could source the material

Repeal the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Feels like it should be a pretty big deal that a Trump supporter physically assaulted a Democratic congressman

ICE kills people. These are their names. Bearing witness is the bare minimum. Accountability is next. #ABOLISHICE #FUCKICE

You can't legislate this problem away because we have a lawless executive that ignores laws it doesn't like

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

I was wrong to ever give any of these people credit for sincerely believing in any principle other than that they should be the ones in charge.

Current mood:

The statement from Alex Pretti’s parents is just “tell the government to stop telling smirking, transparent lies about why it killed our son” which feels like a new low for our nation. This president and his toadies have brought us to our knees and must be driven out

BREAKING: Minnesota plaintiffs ask federal appeals court to allow protections for those exercising constitutional rights following today's ICE killing of Alex Pretti. They ask the 8th Circuit to lift the admin stay issued in the First/Fourth Amend case. Background: www.lawdork.com/i/184842027/...

The United States of America in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-six.

I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

If you rank civility over justice at this point you are a collaborator

Trump told ICE agents they could use “whatever means necessary” in their crackdown. He effectively gave them a license to kill. This is on him.

Consider taking a long screen break and having a hot chocolate

If they can't just shoot us in the street, how can they protect us from the five year old boy whose dad was waiting patiently for a hearing?

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

I think it is important that Greg Bovino, personally, is prosecuted for what he has done and continues to do in service of all of this

Gangsters of Capitalism, Chapter 17: America, p. 325-326

Honestly, I think the more interesting question is why HAVEN'T they invoked the Insurrection Act yet, given that they have been screeching about it for almost a year now.

Trump is the Jefferson Davis of today. He's a traitor leading a war against those who oppose white supremacy.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Literally 10 days ago, Hoeven introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re...

*Clears throat aggressively*

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

"The federal government is killing people in the streets, so sports are canceled," is the point we have reached.

I mean, there’s the entire history of law enforcement, but, otherwise, I suppose not.

Because of fucking course it is. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

This thread right here. Ordering the National Guard and local police against federal officers, even Temu Gestapo, starts the Insurrection Act or Civil War II or both. They might be starting anyway, but Gov. Walz might not want to go down in history as the one who started it.

Because of fucking course he does

On one side is a nurse and a poet dying while saying “Are you okay?” and “I'm not even mad at you dude" And on the other side are armed officers of the state saying “Boo hoo” and “Fucking bitch.” And they want you to believe the first side are the domestic terrorists.

It’s an under appreciated aspect of US political history that a significant chunk of right-leaning “anti-communists” from the 1950s on have harbored suspicions (rarely articulated publicly and unapologetically until recently) that we may have fought on the wrong side of WWII.

Meanwhile… www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

Copyright policy should empower everyone—not just giant corporations. Let’s rethink copyright to truly promote innovation, opportunity, and creativity. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The presumption of safety & legal protection that white Americans have historically experienced, IOW, has often been conditioned upon their acquiescence to the basic rules of white supremacy. Dare to speak or act in opposition to it and your whiteness card can be revoked, usually with extra malice.

The fact they’re arresting people who are assembling peacefully instead of the federal agent who just executed one of their residents is pathetic. Up to this point I have been pretty careful not to get to this point rhetorically but we’re over the edge, there’s a burden of responsibility.

ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing? ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW. I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.

It’s not all because of one man. It’s a Republican Party that’s finally realized the goals they’ve been working toward for over 40 years. It wasn’t Trump that put Thomas, Roberts, and Alito on the SC. Trump didn’t write Project 2025, create the Heritage Foundation or Fox News.

Months into this, not one person in ICE or CBP or DHS or the White House has suffered a single visible consequence. Not fired, asked to resign, impeached, reprimanded, not even suspended, let alone arrested. Things will continue to deteriorate until that changes. That's it, that's the whole story.

Unfollowed someone who was going on about how white people need to start shooting back, because that kind of fed posting is either extremely dumb to put online to the point that they're a hazard to other people, or it's an actual fed trying to bait people into posting something they can prosecute.

$175 billion devoted *this year* to funding a militarized and masked secret police force that is terrorizing American cities and murdering people (citizens and non-citizens alike) with what appears to be complete impunity. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Hey 2A people, a white male legal gun owner was just shot and killed by masked government paramilitary agents, apparently for having a gun. Is it tyranny yet?

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment