there is a specific tic in the way that centrist Dems address law enforcement: they don’t understand that the interaction with police *is* the harm. they think a show your papers situation is neutral as long as you leave walking, but police interaction is itself traumatic. It’s terrifying.

recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.

In fact most of the proposals I see tossed around appear designed to make immigration arrests more seamless and less upsetting, rather than actually reduce the number of people arrested and sent to jail.

lol, so this company can sell this info to bosses and professors for a higher premium, and then sell the students platinum level service where they hide the plagiarism even more, and then …

I have begun to think that Minnesota pushback to ICE was unique and a model because it gave people something to do. It wasn’t about just going out in streets for rallying purposes. People had a mission: videos, whistles, information and communication flow to communities. They had something to do.

i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

“The AI revolution has the potential to accelerate the existing chaos and dysfunction in the world’s information ecosystem, supercharging mis- and disinformation campaigns and undermining the fact-based public discussions required to address urgent major threats.” thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...

Professor of U.S. Jewish history here: not offended by comparisons. I understand the Shoah as a unique event. And I understand how useful it can be to use this historical frame, among others, to understand the horror of what we are witnessing today. @governorwalz.mn.gov is ok by me!

I simply cannot with “people didn’t vote for this.” People voted for this, but either: A) didn’t expect to see it happen to white people. B) failed to think through the violence that would follow from carrying out “mass deportations now” C) didn’t take it seriously. Or D) No but.

“widespread criticism”

These Trump officials have been in office 34 Scaramuccis now. That’s 33 Scaramuccis too many.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

This admin will hold an all-hands strategy session to coordinate on what memes to post. Yet they don’t even circulate a memo to align their talking points about the latest ICE atrocity.

They've given the literal dumbest guys in America a military arsenal, a blank check, and immunity to do whatever they want. How fucking stupid do you have to be to break into a consulate?

The Minnesota civil resistance campaign has been remarkably successful: - The GOP governor candidate dropped out - Numerous DOJ officials resigned - GOP members of Congress are speaking out; business feels pressure - Noem has been relieved of operational responsibility The campaign is winning.

A few things worth remembering: the creating of DHS was actually quite controversial! People warned that this kind of department would end up murdering us in the street, assaulting detainees and shipping migrants off to secret torture prisons. Those people were dismissed as alarmists.

Surely writing more laws that govern the behavior of the agency which is getting away with ignoring the law will work this time, right?

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

the Democratic Party desperately needs white guys who can competently and forcefully quote scripture in defense of Democratic policy; there is a particular class of person who will ONLY be reached by that sort of thing, and I hope Talarico can understand what he needs to do to be that person

Let’s see over 100 people are dead under ice custody. Now two recent families lost their children& this corrupt SOB says they need to “pull back a bit”They’ve been terrorizing communities, Bill, they’ve been treating my fellow Latinos like they treated Jewish people in Germany in the 40s. Get it?

Lots of scrambling today by the terrible regime. I want to argue that our goal should be to get Miller removed, that has to be the focus. Noem, Bovino, etc are all just middle managers. The architect of the terror regime is Miller. A thread: bsky.app/profile/simo...

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

I’m weary of watching elected Dems shift positions in *exact* lockstep with shifting public opinion (in this case on ICE). It seldom occurs to them (with a handful of exceptions) that they can *lead* the public through word, image, and deed. They’ve ceded so much of their agency to their consultants

“Perkins responded by pulling their funding… by kicking those jackbooted thugs to the curb, she set precedent for dealing with rogue law enforcement agency—something that the…Democrats in Congress performatively denouncing ICE might want to read”- @kimkelly.bsky.social thebaffler.com/latest/a-pie...

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

At the Alex Pretti memorial this afternoon, people are unfurling four very large banners. They read, "How many more will ICE murder? How many more funerals? How many more...how many more?"

if Fox News is on in your home, you are choosing to be lied to by state propaganda. They will never tell you that this administration did something wrong or broke the law. They will never be honest with you. How much inhumanity will you allow yourself to defend before you, at long last, stop?

Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting. More accurate terms: - observers - witnesses - volunteers - neighbors - residents - people

Alex Pretti wasn’t a part of “engineered chaos.” He was a nurse who cared about people. An individual. What is “engineered chaos” is what this admin is doing in blue cities to justify invocation of the insurrection act.

going by the shibboleths and archetypes of what the broadest cross section of Americans consider honorable and decent, CBP executed a goddamn saint today. a nurse who served veterans, who no one would speak a word against, a legal gun owner exercising his 2nd Amendment rights, and yes, a white man.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

Something clicked for me today: a bunch of right-wingers genuinely think it’s a violation of their free speech or some great injustice that people…don’t like them as a result of things they say and do.

Mood in minneapolis right now

I've said this before, but the most direct parallel to what is happening now is the civil war.

Every lie told by this regime, no matter how brazen, shocking, or dehumanizing, makes perfect sense when I think about their claim that immigrants were eating pets in Ohio. It's not about evidence or credibility, it's about pushing narratives to facilitate ethnic cleansing.

but wait, I was assured by some of the dumbest assholes in the history of the world that it can only be fascism if its practitioners can state, in the king's english, their precise rationales for acting as they do, and cite their historical precedents by name and year

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

these are the last people I want being “better trained”

I just want to put a fine point on this. The 21st century United States is orders of magnitude more heavily armed with deadlier weapons than any society in history. Even what we consider low gun ownership states have more per capita guns in private homes than say, 2003 Iraq.

bookended by The Whig Identity and The Whig Ultimatum

People are missing a big thing about the saga of the detained 5-year-old. When Vance calls the father an "illegal alien" it seems to reflect a little-known Trump admin move that attempts to nullify asylum claims before they are even heard. This policy is a horror: newrepublic.com/article/2056...

dumbest possible timeline

More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House. 🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...