"The agents presumably had a good laugh about this. Perhaps they relished their meal even more because the staff was frightened. Humiliation of victims, a kind of relish in their fear and misery, a kind of sadism has become a dominant part of the culture of ICE." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"internal bleeding"

Of course he is

Based speech by U.S. Senator Roger Wicker: As we seek a just end to this brutal, unprovoked war, I urge everyone in Washington, in Kyiv, in the great capitals of Europe to remain united and to remember who we are dealing with in the form and person of Vladimir Putin.

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JB Pritzker: “They're going after people for being brown & black. They're going after people who are U.S. citizens — they're going after people who've done nothing wrong. They do it under the guise of saying that this is about the worst of the worst — but it isn’t”

As we all knew, but this is extra explicit confirmation

Remember when truck-driving macho men got all in a tizzy about government intrusion because Michelle Obama told them to eat a little better to keep their ankles from looking like overinflated flesh balloons?

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

Many of us remarked at the time that it was unnecessary! And it was! And remains to be!

How are bros who can't handle Minneapolis going to handle New York City?

ICE can't even deal with irate middle-aged midwesterners. how does he occupy hundreds, if not thousands, of polling cites and precincts? trump v. illinois clarified that he has no legal authority to unilaterally commandeer national guards, how does he move forward from there?

Just things I didn’t want to know (defendant is Sinema)

Oh look, its my preferred 2028 Dem Nominee doing what us hyper online folk are always asking Dems to do, and actively encouraging people to contest every race and run for local election themselves Right on the heels of him standing firm on no public money for private stadiums!

ICE officers are publicly stating that Renee Good was killed not because an officer was threatened but because they were made at her for not instantly following every order issued. The new ICE threat to protestors is: "Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch."

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.

OK. The array of things Trump might try to do is incredibly broad, in a way that would seem very implausible just a year ago, because he is evil, demented, egotistical, and stupid: a comic-book tyrant. Similarly, the array of things his cultists would support is frighteningly broad. /1

Donald Trump is too busy giving Americans whiplash rather than the care they need. The abrupt issuance then reversal of cutting life-saving programs sent providers and communities into a tailspin. The administration continues making life and death decisions in a reckless way.

Yes because we have a media environment that is captured by evil billionaires and their millionaire lackeys

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“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” –The Federalist Papers, Number 47

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

Today is another great example of bluesky deciding to self immolate when the Trump administration is practically going down in flames all around us. Such blind panic that they don't even notice we're winning.

so your rebuttal to "there are tens of thousands of precincts where votes are tabulated and you would have to january 6 them all" is "there were protests in *idaho* and oregon that were kind of like the thing i'm describing"

They’re calling it the most divorced anyone has ever been

DHS and ICE are evil They employ evil people, to do evil things, in the service of an evil cause

let's say the president wants to suppress the vote in detroit. assuming a conventional 20 soldiers for every 1000 civilians ration, he would need more than 12,000 ICE agents — more than double the current number of field officers — to occupy detroit and only detroit, a city of 630,000 people

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Donald Trump and Kristi Noem are using armed, militarized agents to provoke Minnesotans. The Insurrection Act should not be used as an excuse to send armed troops into our streets.

Quick reminder to folks that: 1) this is illegal. Blatantly. Completely unconstitutional. Doesn't matter what Kavanaugh says. 2) ICE does not care about your proof of citizenship, we've seen multiple instances where they've ignored that proof.

Bears moving to Arlington Heights makes sense, and is a reasonable departure from Soldier Field Bears moving to NW Indiana is absurd and the notion should be killed with fire

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?

relevant to the debate over whether we should keep funding DHS without reforms and accountability for how out of control their spending is

Checking in on CBS News(max)

ICE just confronted us in our car saying it’s our first & final warning. There’s nothing illegal about driving your car safely on Stinson, Lowry, or any street in our community. They are purposefully surging at school get out times terrorizing our families. Ice needs to stay away from our kids.

yeah god forbid ICE figure out that we’re watching them day and night and hate them and want them to leave our city. god forbid they know the name of every single one of the 100,000 people united against them, breathing down their necks every day. I’ll give them my card if they want. come arrest me

Louisiana's request is denied.

Word to the wise from Uncle George. Whenever someone's tellin' you to punch down, THEY'RE the wockaflocka in dire need of a knuckle sammich and whatnot.

One thing that also makes this great is that the moment all the other drivers and pedestrians realize what you’re doing you can basically do whatever you want, they’ll block a major one-way so you can u-turn in it to zip behind an ICE convoy. Whole city is on the side of the observers. Fish sea etc.

I see we’re at the, “C’mon, the Alabama state troopers were really being treated disrespectfully at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Also, a couple of them got scratches that day,” level of ICE apologetics.

Protester: Clearly, if they're throwing weapons at us, they're afraid. They don't want us here because we have power against them. I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to be out here for the coming weeks until ICE is off of our streets and stops terrorizing our neighbors and killing our neighbors.

Someone just called in ICE knocking doors in Uptown and within 5 minutes maybe 100 people had arrived. Probably a false alarm but extremely hard to see how ICE operates with this kind of suffocating neighborhood response. Incredible work Minneapolis. ICE, just give up and get out already.

SHIN GODZILLA is on HBO MAX

A veteran goes off. “I've bled for this country, I've fought for this country—they're disgracing this fucking country and what it fucking means!“

Host: Grocery prices here in the United States are seeing their biggest rise in more than three years, with new federal data showing that the average cost of household goods was up 2.7% in December compared to the previous year.

My family is hospitality and retail and blue collar workers, and I busted my ass to get a degree and then another degree, and having white leftists from professional families whine that they can't bear to fill out a ballot twice a year every two years bc Dems aren't perfect makes me want to scream

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Whenever I am bleeding internally after being hit by a car I keep filming on my cell phone while briskly walking away from the scene without waiting for medical attention. What about you guys?