So what happened to “we are locked and loaded and ready to go” and we “will come to their rescue?” How many thousands died because they believed this post by Trump?

The core truth of the Trump era, and the one that journalism is forbidden from stating out loud, is that Trump has gathered around him a constituency of the country's worst people. That's what most distinguishes them -- not economic status, age, where they live, anything else. It's shittiness.

He had multiple opportunities to prevent this and deliberately pissed them away.

Related to this, Dems still holding at @+13 based on most recent election results—details in video: youtube.com/shorts/0iW5k...

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set aside whether it is legal or not. what do you think an executive order is, and what do you think the relationship of the president is to a governor or state secretary of state is? do you think the president is their boss?

Just an FYI: my Get Out the Vote efforts do not belie the fact that Trump will do everything he can to stop the midterms, and do not in any way intend to imply that voting is our ONLY cause of action, or that we must do nothing until we vote. Despite Trump's efforts, we still need to vote.

january 6th was a mob of people attacking a single, lightly defended location in order to stop a centralized process of vote counting. for a midterm election, the comparable thing would be about 150,000 january 6ths across the entire united states.

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

we're going to need to see Dem leaders in the streets "please stop" is not working and they see it as weakness you want to help, governor? go on an ICE patrol in Stancil's Honda Fit

Katie Zacharia: "If we had Tim Walz not calling [ICE] the gestapo, that would de-escalate the situation." @briantylercohen.bsky.social: "If you don't want to be called the gestapo, do not shoot unarmed moms of 3 in their cars."

"Immigrant populations commit crimes at lower rates than native-born populations, so if this is actually about crime, how do you answer for that?" Katie Zacharia: "You are lumping in illegal immigrants and regular immigrants." "Both commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans."

This is important and, also, not not new. There were reports of this in LA, Portland, and Chicago, at least, as well.

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

Simply horrifying. The whole of DHS has got to be disbanded. We did just fine without them before.

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

"ICE AGENTS VERBALLY ASSAULTED AT MN RESTAURANT"

what a legend lmao

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

When a TV guest goes the predictable route of claiming they're "paid protestors," hosts must immediately ask if they have any proof. When they sputter that they're guessing, ask if *they* were paid to come on TV and lie about it. No? You're offended by that? Gosh, I'm just guessing here like you.

The administration needs to be asked directly how many J6ers, and anyone convicted of seditious conspiracy, are now ICE agents with a badge and a gun.

This video is worth watching to see how badly the reporter gets under KKKaroline’s skin. Like the rest of the corrupt regime she’s part of, they are deeply rattled by even the slightest pushback. Also, note her rant about fake reporters—sounds like a description of the right wing hacks they let in.

Their goal in talking about military law is fear NEVER COMPLY IN ADVANCE By growing resistance everywhere, we help all communities under attack We do what they did in the Civil Rights movement * Get training * Operate in groups * Help the vulnerable * Continue basic work (e.g., register voters)

Also this (free) Substack post has a video explainer which you can watch that provides further details on the chart asharangappa.substack.com/p/your-guide...

Not sure who needs to hear this, but the Insurrection Act isn’t the same as “martial law.” It authorizes the molitary to engage in civil law enforcement. And not clear that even then, whether they can enforce state criminal laws

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.

More Dems need to think about skating to where the puck will be not where it is. All indications are Trump's brain has turned to mush and no one around him will even try to control his worst impulses. He will just get way crazier and more evil and unpopular by November.

This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.

ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid. And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.

.@PabloReports: Stephen Miller seems to be operating sort of as a shadow president at this point. Is there any legal liability he could face at the end of this presidency? Ryan: There’s going to be legal—and I think criminal—liability for multiple members.. certainly Stephen Miller.

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.

This is incredible: 81% of working class and 83% of young voters have seen video of Renee Good's killing, per new data I've obtained. Majority of working class disapproves of ICE enforcement. ICE brutality is breaking through big time. Some thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/2052...

Denmark/Greenland will let us do anything we want militarily to protect our interests in Greenland with current and abandoned US military bases. We can move any assets we want there. So all the arguments about security are BS. Trump wants to OWN Greenland, not protect it.

My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.

We’re watching Trump radicalizing an entire generation in real time

This is why we celebrate the Boston Substack Party, when the patriots wrote strongly worded pamphlets about tea.

Can confirm: That was a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

This has been the plan all along. - Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN - Implement the Insurrection Act - Declare Martial Law - Suspend elections

The greedy tyrant—desperate to intimidate, ravenous for worship—put his face everywhere. To ensure no one could escape his sour gaze—not even in the wilderness—he placed it on the annual national parks passes. One day they would serve as poignant relics of a nation under siege.

Goodnight Bluesky. Sleep tight. Dream of a better tomorrow. #Resist, #FreeSpeech, #DueProcess, #NoKings, #NoBloodForOil, #Democracy, #Epstein, #WorkersOverBillionaires, #FightFascism, #AbolishICE, #EatTheRich, #Peace, #Love, #Hope, #Queensryche, #Speak youtu.be/FY5wLY6LCSw

How I'm dealing with my stress: I bought a 3d printer and am producing 100 whistles at a time. 1000 heading to Minneapolis tomorrow.

Is there really a crusading piss avenger in minneapolis

This dude rules

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

These neighborhood signal chats are absolutely crazy right now. You’ve got young activists in there with the most normie folks alive who all just absolutely fucking hate ICE so much. And they are all willing to put their bodies on the line for their communities.

It seems as though ICE has been instructed to escalate the violence to justify more violence, and to create propaganda to make us forget we outnumber them 10,000 to 1.

The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously: -Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it -His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate -Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent