This is a theme we keep repeating too. Until you see it for yourself, I think it’s hard to really understand how completely unnecessary and disproportionately violent the federal response has been. How much is for fun, terror, or social media, I don’t know. A mix of the three for sure.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Imagine all the people like this we haven’t heard about at all and might never hear about

I wonder what stage of grief this counts as for the ownership & leadership of the NYT in relation to Mamdanis impending election

Did you know that the best way to fight literal fascism is to never use those words? Some people actually think this.

Holy fucking shit

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

Imagine if Trump not being seen in public for several days got like 1/10th the coverage of Biden wearing comfortable sneakers.

There is no left wing terrorism organization or machine in America. They just want to kill Americans.

The State of Illinois is keeping track of the illegal and often criminal conduct of Trump's secret police for prosecution when the rule of law is restored.

I want to know what’s going on with the woman ICE shot who drove away and was brought to the hospital by Chicago FD. Is she in custody? If so, whose?

Stephen Miller's rantings and ravings would be a lot less scary if there weren't at least two (and likely more) SCOTUS justices who share all of his deranged, anti-American views.

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her. Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

you're looking at a foreign country. the government rounds up people on the basis of skin color or other characteristic, puts them in 'detention' facilities, separates families, deports them without process, confiscates their property, denies them access to counsel. what would you call it?

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story The publications in Alaska lost significant staffing after the owners made changes to an article that had drawn criticism from a Republican state lawmaker. Full Story/Gift Link: bit.ly/4mSF9fF

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

Nothing says America First like bailing out Argentina while making healthcare unaffordable for 20+ million Americans. Or signing an Article 5 protection treaty with Qatar coz they bribed you with a plane, while screwing over longstanding NATO allies. Folks, I think America First might be a scam.

This story about the FBI director handing out challenge coins that celebrate vigilante violence came out the same week that he fired an agent for having a small rainbow flag on his desk.

"A rich man can hand out $1 million checks to prospective voters. Companies and people can use secretly funded “dark money” nonprofits to donate unlimited money, anonymously ... then spend it on advertising campaigns. Pod­casters, partisans, or anyone, really, can tell outrageous, incendiary lies."

This is alarming. Miller is playing with the idea of using "legitimate" state power against judges and prosecutors. He's implying that they might be part of his imaginary left-wing terror network, after all.

NEW: Judge Immergut BLOCKS Trump's federalization of the Oregon National Guard, writing that the govt has "made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I genuinely still cannot believe that there is nothing we can do to stop this..

I feel for these kids. I’ve had to explain to several of my parents’ friends on FB that Kirk was a bigot who hurt people, and when JD Vance called me a soulless hack and I was getting death threats, you know who i didn’t hear a peep out of? My own parents.

No notes, this is a perfectly reasonable summary

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.

Yesterday, Kristi Noem’s and Greg Bovino’s masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart.

They will pull hardworking Americans out of their regular jobs and away from their families all to participate in a manufactured performance -- not a serious effort the protect public safety. For Donald Trump, this has never been about safety. This is about control.

Continued video of feds gassing protestors and CPD alike. In the chaos one woman came to a CPD officer asking for help for a relative that she says feds just grabbed. Officer response: "We just clocked in. We don't know what's going on."

On scene on 40th and Kedzie in Chicago, where locals are facing down militarized federal agents over a possible federal immigration enforcement- related shooting. Details still scarce and developing. Locals chanting "ICE go home"

When Medicaid is for white people it’s “just helping folks in need.” When it’s for Black people, it’s welfare.

We can't settle for Republicans’ promise of later negotiations. Because every time this Administration says something, they go back on their word. If Republicans need Democratic votes, they need to keep health care premiums from skyrocketing for the American people.

a competent authoritarian regime would understand that maintaining good relationships with local security forces is an absolute top priority, because things can get very bad for the regime in a hurry if metro police decide they’re the enemy

We now live in a country where a having a pride flag on your desk ends your career.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

Again, this is what the SCOTUS has sanctioned. On Sept. 10th @chrislhayes.bsky.social and I talked about Justice Kavanaugh’s opinion white-washing ICE raids in Noem v. Vazquez Perdomo. His fact-free opinion was either naive, lazy, or sinister. The Trump Admin read it as a green light.

Anyways, it turns out that focusing entirely on healthcare on the shutdown has turned into a really good idea and it's got the WH scrambling even according to politico.

Arrest this motherfucker.

Requiring ID verification on the internet is always going to end up like this. It’s a terrible idea and it’s never going to work.

Which of these is the most terrifying Enemy Within in your opinion?

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

"Barbie acts interested as old white guy complains." - the template for all RW media

Things you miss because you’re not on X. It seems Elon Musk has been on an anti-Netflix tantrum claiming they are pushing a pro-trans agenda to kids and that they should fire a director who mocked Charlie Kirk. It seems he tanked the stock this week with his rants.

WHOA: DHS says that their officers were “rammed and blocked in” in Chicago and got out of their cars and shot an U.S. citizen who reportedly also had a gun and who had been tracking ICE raids. They are blaming the shooting on her, and say they were already tracking her socials. More details to come.

This seems like incitement to violence against judges.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Would you open the door to men who approached you like this?

Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago