“During the past year, the Supreme Court, without formal rulings, has given Trump a green light to fire members of a wide array of independent agencies and replace them with loyalists.”

"No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors."

NEW: Federal judge directs the acting ICE chief to appear in court and threatens to hold him in contempt for ignoring court orders.

These people are hideous replicants of real humans. And Fox is a travesty of a news channel.

These cowards can't even retreat properly

...I came, and I on you did call scared, I wait with you inside."

RIP Hungarian poet Endre Ady, died this day 1919. "With my old man's wrinkled hand, with my old man's squinting eyes, let me hold your lovely hand, let me guard your lovely eyes. Worlds have tumbled, through their fall like a wild beast chased by fright...

happy bday English writer/mathematician Lewis Carroll, b.1832. "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there". “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”

What did he expect? When you work for Donald Trump, you are… disposable…

I really hope that whole "I removed him from their jurisdiction & put him back to work" bites him in the ass just a little bit harder than a demotion. Like, obstruction charges, because it seems blatant. And I haven't forgotten about Homan and the bribe. Was there really no one else?

He should lose his freedom @governor.ca.gov arrest Gregory Bovino the minute he is back in California and charge him with state crimes.

It's a good start but Bovino was following orders from Noem who got them from Miller whose orders Trump approved. We have to point this out loudly & frequently.

The person who really needs to lose his job is trump. These other people are just lackies who are walking the plank for the big creep.

For the record: he didn’t lose his original job. He lost the promotion that sent him into Minneapolis St Paul to blitz the city. He will return to his old job and continue to threaten immigrant communities in the west. CalMatters in June did a piece on his terrorizing of SoCal.

I know it won’t happen now, but if Bovino never faces actual justice for his depraved violence & lies, we will once again be ignoring the deadly cancerous rot that threatens our nation. If we allow our leaders to look away in cowardice, we will deserve whatever horror comes next.

With Alex Reinert on where immunity comes from

Infuriating

Because the media, politicians & the public grossly downplayed & erased what happened to Renee & her veteran wife Becca (still getting so much worse for them), doesn't act on hate & disinformation, instead doubling down & making her executioner a millionaire (gofundme still refusing to take it down)

@briantylercohen.bsky.social: What consequences should Kristi Noem shoulder? @robertgarcia.bsky.social: She should be impeached. Immediately.

@briantylercohen.bsky.social: Is ICE salvageable? @robertgarcia.bsky.social: No. We have to abolish ICE. No question.

Stephen Miller going down at the power of the labor movement would be one of the proudest moments I'd witness in my nearly 20 years in organized labor. Let's get it done.

@briantylercohen.bsky.social: Should ICE continue to exist in any form? @rokhanna.bsky.social: No. And that should be the answer across the Democratic Party. It is a rogue agency killing American citizens. Tear it down.

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) is planning to fly to Minneapolis tomorrow. Ro Khanna flew in today. We've been telling Dems to do this last week. You have to be in Minnesota. You have to be with the people. You have to stand next to Walz and Frey. Coordinated effort, leadership, and pushback.

Hey @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and I are both Carleton grads and this fucking rocks - love to see a college protect its students from the goons instead of cutting deals with the regime.

How about abolish ice

Abolish ICE @klobuchar.senate.gov . That's the phrase you are looking for. #Minnesota #Minneapolis #ICE

Homeland Security doesn’t like it when we call ICE and Border Patrol “the Gestapo.” So let’s set the Gestapo aside. Instead I’ll use this thread to compare Trump’s thugs to other secret police and terror squads from different times and places. It’s tyranny, no matter where it comes from. 1/10🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵

As @washingtonpost.com international & local correspondents, we have risked our lives, side by side, because we believe reporting from the ground serves the public good. To choke that engine of brave, committed colleagues would be devastating. If you value our work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost.

I value Washington Post employees just not Bezos

I sincerely hope that they’ll let you continue your invaluable work! It’s really sad to see what Bezoz did to the Washington Post - its foreign correspondents are the last vestiges of its previous reputation

A federal judge in Minnesota heard arguments on whether to expel ICE agents from the state and put an end to the Trump administration's sweeping immigration enforcement. https://to.pbs.org/3LUEnlC

#DC distraction brought to you by a.... #Narcissist Release the #EPSTEIN FILES ✅️

Greenland is not a bargaining chip. It is a responsibility. And it is one the alliance is far better equipped to shoulder together than any nation could alone.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Logged on. Saw a father grieving over his 18 year-old son’s body in Iran, a general surgeon there who may soon be sentenced to death for caring for protesters, and Alex Pretti’s body being wheeled through the VA where he worked. Anyone who isn’t broken by all this has lost their humanity.

what a pair of losers

I'm just saying....

No one should give a fuck what the fascist enablers in leadership have to say about this. Force the vote anyway. You can investigate her and force votes once a week.

Amid these dark moments, something important is beginning to shift. It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.

Yes, Miller needs to go.

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

Bezos won't ever give up the Washington Post as its his loss magnet to offset his taxes. This is why people unsubscribing doesn't affect him in the least. share.google/DndvoL5JbQvy...

Inside The Washington Post, the frustration with Jeff Bezos cannot be overstated: “I was just thinking the other day that I wished MacKenzie [Scott] had gotten us in the divorce," one staffer wrote in Slack messages obtained by @status.news. Much more here: www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...

Fighting in the courts has been an effective way to curb Trump's lawlessness & @democracyforward.org has been a key leader in that battle. Skye Perryman joins me to talk about Bondi’s attempts to extort Minnesota & how DOGE accessed Americans' personal data of at the SSA. youtu.be/GL03syJbrAk?...

We demand to know who’s responsible for the murder of Alex Pretti. Nothing else will be acceptable.

Deescalation is easy. Unmask ICE agents and give them non military uniforms. Send border patrol back to the border. Get judicial warrants to arrest people. Allow congress oversight to detention centers. Release anyone here legally going through immigration process.

With all due respect, ICE needs to be shut down. There is too much rot to try and change it.