If he ever really thinks he's losing, I bet Trump would hand literally everyone over in exchange for exile.

it is in fact okay to say that people whose job it was to understand the political moment were bad at said job

Every Dem in Congress needs to have a "Days Since I Was Outflanked By Bill Kristol" counter in their office.

Hold on guys I think I found the new moderate position

It's also about convincing you that they impose reality and that they are the final arbiters of truth. Hence the importance of continuing to name reality and truth ourselves, at every single turn, with all that is available to us.

Classic assassin behavior. Helping bystanders. Having no criminal record. An outstanding career as a VA nurse. Dead giveaways.

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

Bellingcat, as expected, has excellent frame-by-frame analysis. If the man had a gun, he never wielded it.

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

"His heart and mind were harboring illegal wants."

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

I really really REALLY don't get how it's been so hard to convince so many people that the guy we ALL SAW try to use violence (clumsily) to seize power four years ago would, after having four years to get ready to do it better, be willing to use violence to consolidate and seize power again.

I'm sure once NRA members finish taking off their ICE gear they'll be very upset about it

If the US can abolish USAID, we can sure as shit abolish ICE.

Looking at the video footage so far I think its questionable whether he was armed at the moment he was killed.

I had wild plans to be in a good mood today

Why are they sending witnesses to Whipple? WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?

the video of another person being murdered by the state on the streets of minneapolis shows exactly what people are saying it shows. make your own choices but don’t feel like you are obligated to bear witness to it. reading a description is enough.

It's become clear that one of the many reasons Minneapolis was the wrong target to pick is that it still has an independent newspaper

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: the federal government isn’t and will never be a reliable partner in your care and keeping. you put all your eggs in that basket at your peril and that of your sanity

in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission

it's just remarkable to remember that a whole ass constitutional crisis is being forced because a weird old wealthy dowager queen has no idea how the country he was elected to lead for 4 years works, and a bunch of wormtongues are trying to make cool tough guy videos for him and his fans

They loudest ones joined ICE

You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"

There are serious people in this country, members of Media & Political Elite, that are way more concerned about if Democrats are civil to Republicans than if Republicans are shooting Democrats in the face.

The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?

You can tell they never watched 'The Wire' because Stringer Bell specifically warned everyone about writing things like this down.

LRP: again i note that maine is one of if not THE whitest state per capita in the entire country. ICE targeting here is *super* targeted. even this level of homogenity is not enough for these shitheads and it never was. you cannot appease them and every attempt to do so was idiotic at *best*.

You're literally fucking British

If he dies I just want it on the record that I have always been a fan of him dying.

They want to be Nazis, imperialists, oligarchs *and* pedophiles? In this economy?

If only we had a warning this guy is bad. Maybe a whole presidency of warnings. Three campaigns if possible. Maybe a failed university or city or building or some trials. Some trials would have been good. Truly any warning. We just needed a heads up of some kind.

There's a similar thread here to the whole "everyone must return to office full time or else there will be a commercial real estate crisis" meltdown circa 2022, where major companies seem to have decided they should get to invest billions of dollars risk free

I must admit Republicans have challenged my belief in universal human rights and dignity. Just by being included.

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

the most unrealistic part of fantasy novels is when 18-year-old boys spend five books insisting they're not the chosen one instead of immediately saying "yeah that sounds right."

The fact that Gavin Newsom is even talking to the likes of Shapiro is a sign that he’s a non-starter. I’ve never forgotten how Shapiro said that Trayvon Martin deserved to die. Not fucking ever.

Good point. "Send ICE to Antarctica" is a winning campaign slogan.

Sometimes I think about the dramatic irony of deporting all ICE agents, but no place on Earth deserves such a fate.

Breaking: Chuck Schumer pictured brandishing ‘strongly worded letter’ raising ‘serious concerns’ about ICE and immigration enforcement: www.salon.com/2026/01/16/d...

The rhetoric MAGA media is using to describe Minnesota protesters is increasingly unhinged and militaristic -- "insurgents" and "terrorists" waging "guerilla warfare,” looking to provoke a "Fort Sumter moment" and start a civil war. New from me and @slawton.bsky.social at @mmfa.bsky.social

They are just tossing whatever spare goons they find laying around into a kind of fascist stew. A bowl of brownshirts, if you will.

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I hope someone thinks about you as often as the person who tries to reset my venmo password every single day.

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans thought this was going to be their year in Minnesota last week.

Breaking: She was right

listen we need everyone so welcome but if Jerome Powell was the reason you realized Trump was bad I am simply never inviting you to my birthday party

They’re trying to keep on punishing her even after they’ve ruined her life.

Never imagined I would have positive feelings about the phrase "goon leak" www.thedailybeast.com/personal-det...