Need this as an antidote to watching the world burn today.

We got anon spokesmen saying the PM is alive, healthy, working hard from his dacha and we can expect to see him back in the capital in the fullness of time

people still use computers older than ICE

Imagine not just choosing but reveling in being this awful. “Self-described poet” really did it for me.

Well they also just yesterday were saying the capitol police caused the violince on Jan 6. There's a consistency here and it's 'whatever we end up doing it's your fault for opposing us'

Lotta people get mad at me when I criticize Democratic messaging but THIS IS HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE TALKING. Like normal people using normal language to communicate normal human emotions about the fucked up situation. THIS.

there are pet cats older than ICE

Dems: get up out of your fucking defensive crouch and fight back, it still makes a difference in the coverage as I was saying earlier today, if all you can really do is yell, the quality of the yelling has to be better it was today, and it’s helped keep calling these people what they are

Sad to hear about Tim Shadbolt. We spent a lot of time together in 1981/82. I have some favourite memories of the time we were on trial (for rioting) in Gisborne. Like when his car got a puncture in the Waioeka Gorge, no spare, so we had to stuff it with straw and drive on

"Yo' honah, ah'm jes a simple country lawyer, so ah'm a-gonna let ChatGPT handle this heah cross-examin-amation. Whut time we break fo' lunch?"

Man you’d never guess this guy follows half of the most prominent open Nazi accounts on Twitter

My favourite Shadbolt fact is that Shadbolt Park in New Lynn is named after his Auntie, Rene, who served as a nurse in the Spanish Civil War. She is the only New Zealander to have fought against Franco's fascists to have a memorial.

Like the US is famously kinda half heartedly modelled a bit on Rome and they love that shit. Love doing oratory, love their neo classical architecture, love hooning around a world they half understand and squashing cultures that look at them funny.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... #nzpol

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Spotted an antifascist flag (feat. an Irish flag border & Starry Plough) at tonight’s anti-ICE demo in NYC. Spoke with its owner, who opted to remain anonymous. Anon says we are witnessing “pure fucking fascism,” says people need to train & “don’t let them push us back.”

I’m not going to lie. I’ve been writing about the War on Terror in its depravity my whole adult life. And the brazen execution of Renee Nicole Good has left me in a state since the moment I watched it.

As always, Defector gets it right: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

I don’t know whose work this image is … but it’s both funny and sad at the same time.

Is Luxon following Willis' new WFH rules? #NZPol

as i argued in this episode a few months ago, i think there is actually a coordinated propaganda machine encouraging people to use cars as deadly weapons, but kristi noem won’t admit that it’s fox news.

for fucking decades i've had to listen to right wingers jerk off to their fantasies of masked federal agents turning their guns on innocent Americans and then the moment it actually happens they're sniveling boot-licking scum

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I am outside Roosevelt now, my daughter goes there. Talked to staff, ICE was in a car pursuit of someone and they crashed and went up on school property. Teachers formed a circle around the person to protect them. Ice releases tear gas and took two people

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

Conspiracy theory after the fact

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning. “SAY HER NAME!” “RENEE GOOD!”

This is the guy Kristi Noem said was injured and had to be taken to the hospital?

It looks like Tim Walz is not playing. "I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard… these National Guard troops are our National Guard troops. Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight."

They killed her, they orphaned her toddler, and now they defame her.

love to be a libertarian whose response to the summary execution of an american citizen is “you shouldn’t say bad words”

This glib statement is all the more risible when you recall how many law enforcement officers used their vehicles as weapons against protesters in 2020... and how many Republican-dominated states *sought to legalize killing protesters with vehicles* as a reaction to the demonstrations

don't you see they're killing us as a distraction

Waving my don't tread on me flag and saying hey if a cop tells you to do something and you don't immediately comply of course you're gonna get shot in the head

This is not who we are. I became an ICE agent because I truly believed in the value of getting a $50,000 signing bonus to violently assault and terrorize anyone I wanted while never getting in trouble for anything. Being held accountable conflicts strongly with my deeply-held personal beliefs

i just really appreciate this language

Preview of how CBS News will cover a US government agent murdering a woman in cold blood today:

This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training. This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One. I think they know this is bad. Really bad.

Child pornography manufacturer and presidential adviser Elon Musk has signed off on the ICE murder

Something that comes up a lot in my head.

*proof of life

Walz on the "total chaos" of ICE: "After this person was shot, federal agents are milling around, touching the vehicle at a crime scene -- I don't know what to tell you."

Prominent New Zealander still on vacation

Amazing shit. Raytheon spending too much money advertising Knife Missiles with @iwriteok.bsky.social

“Raytheon seems to think this is the Biden Administration…”

Wait: those monsters blocked the AMBULANCE?