CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

they will only permit the 5th amendment right not to incriminate to the rich, who actually go to trial. being denied all due process, deporting or detaining without trial in front of a judge and jury, makes it a moot point.

My law firm is now litigating 85 voting and election cases in 40 states. This is the largest number of cases in the most states we have ever handled at one time. And, while Big Law firms mostly sit idly by, the need to protect elections in court is only growing.

I worked in a Democratic presidential administration and, even then, DHS was very often the most problematic, obstinate part of negotiating a civil/human rights provision into executive branch policy. I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:

Its very name was pointed out at the time of its creation as being fascistic.

Hey did y’all know there’s a legally mandated review period for the planned White House ballroom during which the public can voice their opinion of it? And it’s going on now? savingplaces.org/public-comme...

I really hope that when midterm elections roll around everyone that can vote DOES VOTE. No more of the stupid excuse there is nobody that I like. I don't wana vote. Everybody pull your adult pants up and figure out how not voting already screwed everything up once. So let's not make it twice.

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

For the purposes of this CAPTCHA, please consider the wheels on the bus unconnected from the concept of wheels, round and round, or bus. Please choose all the buses in this single picture of a bus. NO NOT THE WHEELS, YOU ROBOT.

Bloody-handed dictator Putin murdered again. 😔

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I won’t forget. I won’t forgive. “Worst of the worst” is a lie used to justify mass harm. You don’t terrorize this many people to stop a few. This is an attack on Americans, deliberate, cowardly, and unforgivable.

There are non US citizens influencing our elections, they’re called corporations. The establishment wants us to not focus on this.

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Jeremy Carl, whom Trump has nominated for a senior position in the State Department, made precisely the same claim --white people are becoming "second-class citizens"--in his 2024 book as David Duke did in 1975, when he was the leader of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Can’t believe we are still doing this

How many people have to be murdered by ICE and CBP agents in cold blood until Republicans join Democrats to stop the tyranny and lawlessness?

Also, here’s a photo of people dying to defend a “multicultural economic zone”

That’s not to say the reporting isn’t important—it is. And it’s obviously not to defend the administration. This is, however, the way they have been doing this. The main news here is (1) they still are doing this, and (2) they’ve reached some sort of sketchy deal with Cameroon to send people there.

Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court

Researchers have found that 6 of 10 abortion restrictions — bans on Medicaid funding for abortion, mandated waiting periods, 2nd-trimester abortion bans, ACA marketplace insurance coverage bans, biased counseling laws, and ultrasound requirements — were linked to higher rates of maternal mortality.

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Roses are red Violets are blue We failed as a country To punish Trump's coup

You Already Know.

When a person who tried to steal an election with an orchestrated insurrection tells you he’s going to protect future elections, you’re fucked. The time to deal with him is now America. The rest of us are doing our part. Your turn. Sincerely, The Free World

If we’re fortunate enough to have one final chance to vote in a legitimate election in Nov., we cannot elect Congressmen and Senators from the Merrick Garland School of Cowardice and Silent Sedition. We MUST elect champions of democracy who will fight to save America from fascism.

Not exactly for your first point: The federal government has limited abilities to set certain nationwide standards. That's why the SAVE act is such a threat to as many as 60 million voters. There will definitely be voter intimidation on election day. Also:

Two ICE-Gestapo killers have been placed on leave after lying under oath about a violent encounter they supposedly faced during their seige in Minneapolis. They face termination and criminal charges. Good, they aren’t agents, they are terrorists. They should all be sent to jail.

There are far more voters than ICE agents. People should plan to stay at their polling place all day. Make it a party. Meet your neighbors. Talk politics. Gather food trucks. Make it a safe place for voters who are nervous. ICE agents always back off when they are outnumbered.

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Definitely never address him as president. #USDemocracy

I do think progressives should be much more comfortable stating their values and dunking on right-wing chuds. But it’s extremely easy to mock them about things that matter rather than resorting to things that don’t.

We need a law that does not allow a president to pardon someone for crimes that he is affiliated with in any way. I can’t believe I have to say this.

We are entering the “falling out of windows” phase.

The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them

The default assumption should be that they’re lying

This has been the coolest part of the last few months, all of these people stopping Kat on the street to just shoot the shit about what’s working and what’s not because they know her from Instagram or the TV. It happens… a lot. They’re usually people who say they don’t vote but now they will.

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

This is so true and has been for 10 years. Stop taking him on one at a time and join together to do it en masse. You’ll all be better off and so will the country.

#PedoProtector's #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

You might think that the inhumane conditions at America's concentration camps is because of this administration's usual lazy incompetence, but, no, it's because of this administration's usual vicious cruelty.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg

🚨BREAKING: An election-denying former Donald Trump campaign staffer who was subpoenaed by the FBI over his role in the attempt to steal the 2020 election is now taking credit for writing the sweeping voter suppression bill passed by the House Wednesday that could disenfranchise millions.

While I agree w all the practical and political objections to the SAVE Act, I actually believe those are secondary and miss the primary objection: There is NO EVIDENCE of non-citizens voting in federal elections: 77-85 cases between 1999-2023. There is NEITHER NEED nor JUSTIFICATION for a law

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It’s an RNA world. RNA is posited to be the first genetic material, arising 4 billion years ago. It can store information and act as an enzyme. Eventually, it duplicated its information into a more stable form, DNA.