pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

A major stream (some might say dominant) of the American gun rights movement traces back to an early 1990s strategic alliance between Christian Reconstructionists (who want to impose "biblical law") and the (white supremacist) "Christian Identity" movement that believes non-whites are satanic.

A video breakdown of Kristi Noem's lies about Renee Good, Alex Pretti and the agents who killed them. Without compunction, she lies again and again about what we can see on video. She doesn't even flinch. In no universe should she be allowed to continue running the investigation of Pretti's death.

I wonder to what extent the popularity of ChatGPT is explained by the uselessness of contemporary search engines.

The political press very clearly understands “truth” as a social agreement, a compromise position between everyone important enough to have an opinion. It did not reflect on how this would allow dedicated liars to go all-in on lies again and again and dramatically shift the position.

One current D.H.S. agent said that he had “always given the benefit of the doubt to the government in these situations” but said he now no longer believed “any of the statements they put out anymore.”

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

The VCs bros have convinced themselves they are on some moral crusade. They will be behind the scenes trying to cling to power in the midterms and beyond. Side note, they are also the biggest bunch of dorks

I don’t dress for men; I dress so I can twirl and say to other women “it has POCKETS”

War criminal who justified torture as legal, going so far to say that no law prevents the torture of even a child by crushing their testicles, has thoughts on international law

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People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

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Hey NRA, are you good with this? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Secretary Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I’m calling on her to resign. Gregory Bovino must also be fired. No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Their ideology dictates that care breeds dependency begets weakness and crime. Discipline and punishment builds character and breeds success and prosperity. If someone isn't successful, they didn't work for it and don't deserve it. Sharing is not caring. Empathy is "toxic".

I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.

I’m at the Otay Mesa concentration camp in San Diego, where protesters and community organizers gather every Sunday.

meanwhile, in chudland:

Yesterday, evangelical influencer Meg Basham reposted Babylon Bee Managing Editor Joel Berry who wrote: “Communists in Minnesota are now engaging in Hamas martyrdom tactics. They count every dead rioter as a victory, and they want more.” x.com/joelwberry/s...

See also: Elliot Abrams; John Singlaub, etc.

We should use this moment to remember that NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT JOHN YOO helped us get here thank you

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Jayseuss I've seen heavy wet snow before but never heavy *dry* snow like this.

We’ve spent years trying to fact-check our way out of this, and it failed. Democratic decay isn’t about bad information versus good information, it’s about the collapse of the systems that turn information into reality. If every bot and Russian troll vanished tomorrow, the rot would still be there.

“That children and their parents would risk retribution under these conditions to speak up is a testament both to how courageous they are and how abysmal the conditions of this place is,” he said.

neither of those two have the least bit of insight into this situation that they helped to cause

"Regular people, decent people, faced with intolerable things. People at the donut store on Saturday morning watch a man get thrown down and shot. People laying in bed on Saturday morning have to throw open their doors to passersby choking on tear gas. It’s not as if they signed up for this."

He was armed, and that's okay (2nd Amendment!). The Gestapo guy in gray removes the holstered weapon from his back waistband, turns to walk away with it, then they execute him.

cops saying "gun!" before they shoot somebody or "where's the gun?" after they do is kinda what they do.

What's to be done? It's at once pretty easy and also really, disappointingly hard. www.stevevladeck.com/p/130-the-tr...

Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers

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Why do media companies print obvious lies from the propagandists in the Trump admin as if that is the “other side” of the story when you have objective, irrefutable evidence to disprove it? Traditional norms/practices don’t work with this regime. Why do you spread their lies?

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

there are hundreds of concentration camp inmates who are presently unaccounted for

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

JUST IN: ICE agents in Minnesota arrested an employee at the St. Louis Park Homewood Suites — where they were staying to help carry out Operation Metro Surge. A federal judge just ordered the man's release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If we survive this moment—and I am still quite confident we will—what must emerge on the other side is a professional class of bloodthirsty warriors, effectively left-wing nationalists who serve society as a philosophical concept and with cold, calculant precision seek the destruction of an enemy.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence. newrepublic.com/article/2055...

When you do observer training, they make clear that your role is to observe, alert, and DEESCALATE. Because escalating against ICE does ICE’s job for them. Thrill seekers looking for a riot create the opposite of what the successful mass movement of observers seeks to provide: safety, awareness.

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