This is probably my most hated “feature” of Utah politics, GOP talking a big game about helping people, then the people manage beyond all odds to pass legislation that really helps and the GOP does some back room deal to roll it back EITC, civil forfeiture, fair maps, Covid precautions, on and on

in what I was a told was a pro-family agenda session, Utah Republicans are apparently trying to kill the Earned Income Tax Credit. Oh well at least Gail and Ryan Smith got those taxcuts

excellent work by @theonion.com this month

The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death. The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post. This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide. wapo.st/4qR1T1U

This is dark and weird

Car brain often involves forcing cities to be more like suburbs. It doesn’t work

“Utah’s leadership seems far too eager to impress AI creators so they will build here, and far too slow to make those developers impress us with their abilities to make the most judicious use of our water and power,” writes The Tribune's editorial board.

“Simply put, ICE Watch does not spur violence; it reduces it. It’s based on de-escalation tactics that have long historical roots in American antiviolence and civil rights movements, as well as a strong theoretical foundation… about why violence happens and how it can be prevented.”

This is insanity. They are being investigated for *making statements* critical of ICE. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

They nearly killed this woman. Then they went on national TV and tried to smear her.

Republicans in Utah talk tough about protecting us from federal overreach. In my mind that means protecting places of refuge like churches & hospitals from violent arrests and intimidation. I won’t stand by while Trump’s ICE thugs violate our community & push people into the shadows.

🙃 This FB post is public.

to despair and embrace cynicism was to hand powerful weapons to the enemy

i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

No, Democrats aren’t “just as bad” or “even worse” than Trump, MAGA and the GOP. No, the United States WASN’T “always this bad.” Some folks really do have to work on their understanding of the concept of “order of magnitude.” Not understanding it rewards/protects worse and more illegal behaviour.

John "The Climate-Conscious Conservative" Curtis

LA Times sums up the state of our government: federal Nazi propaganda. www.latimes.com/politics/new...

Trevor Lee is an evil, bigoted bastard. Republican legislators who support him and his bills are equally despicable. The party of anti-family cruelty.

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.

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods

"He said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, 'No puedo respirar' — Spanish for 'I can’t breathe'..." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.

It's extremely condescending to see politicians treat me as a one-dimensional being who only cares about the price of eggs. And it's a hell of a gamble for them to pin everything on the issue that they frankly have the least control over in the short term.

21-year-old activist injured by ICE: I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.

FFS 🤦🏻‍♂️ The fact that the NYT is still doing this bit shows you that the editors are just trolling everyone.

So good

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

“If Utah is serious about youth wellbeing and cultivating engaged community members, it must fund arts education accordingly,” three educators write in an op-ed.

It is -13 C in Minneapolis and has been dark for hours and people went out to protest anyway and got gassed and arrested and beaten i don't want to hear another word about how Americans don't do anything.

“They chased him, he got home and when we closed the door they shot him.” MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...

Last year SMA staff visited 430 schools (~40K students) statewide, supplied art prints to classrooms, provided professional portfolio reviews to budding artists, training for educators, etc. Professional Outreach Programs in the Schools (POPS) is mere pennies in the state budget, but it's vital

Good call to action: “You have an absolute right to peacefully film ICE agents as they conduct their activities...Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans – not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution." mn.gov/governor/new...

“We’ve been begging for something like DOGE for decades, I’m so excited it is happening,” Gov. Spencer Cox said in May. Tonight I learned the Utah version, GRIT, is aiming to destroy the POPS program, dealing a terrible blow to the Springville Museum of Art and other museums throughout the state.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

you can’t shoot people for running away from you! this shit is horrifying and unsustainable, man

NEW: Florida and Utah have banned fluoridation, with multiple other states looking to do the same. Critics of fluoride in drinking water point to other fluoride sources as an alternative, but many are creating barriers to these very products.

I implore my fellow Dems not to overthink this. You can just say - I’m against the government shooting people in the face for no good reason. This is not hard. Same with the ludicrous invasion of Greenland. Democrats are anti-invasion of Greenland bc it’s the dumbest thing ever. Be ruthlessly blunt.

Here we freaking go. I cannot believe this is happening.

This is a pretty severe escalation from CBS, just straight up lying like this.

Can confirm. My brother's boss had to leave a meeting because they're terrorizing her kid's daycare. This is just what passes for normal now in the cities.

The best song there is about inflation for your Wednesday morning: youtu.be/g7MiWIUjY_U?...

I just want factual, correct and useful responses for everyone, I do not want individual realities everywhere. That is not good.

TdA has always been a false flag. In the US, if you are Venezuelan and get picked up by ICE that makes you Tren de Aragua.

they did, in fact, take decisive action. in the midst of these hearings congress passed the third enforcement act, called the Ku Klux Klan Act. the grant administration used that authority to virtually eliminate the klan, which did not resurface for another 50 years.

we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.