Nope. Son of Holocaust survivor. My father was 11 when the Nazis invaded his hometown in eastern Poland. He survived only by fleeing to a different city with a false baptismal certificate. The comparison is apt. Carry on.

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

Please tell me she’s also fucking his wife

Since it got overtaken by events—including a summary execution in Minneapolis—a reminder that last week the administration also engaged in further performative slaughter at sea. The term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict is murder. And no, USCG did not rescue the survivor.

Gallego’s whole thing of moderating on policy, radicalizing on tactics/partisanship, and attacking when events allow is pretty clearly trying to find a way through the “popularism/populism/future of Dems” stuff.

This isn’t “Democrats’” job. Enforcing federal criminal law is DOJ’s job. ICE/ERO handles civil removals. This sounds like agencies Trump runs can’t perform the mission without putting people in harms way.

BREAKING: Two Republican senators, Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski, call for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.

Dear Senator, Ask your so-called colleagues, what the assailants' names are in the most recent murders in Minneapolis? That's right, they can't tell you because our government is protecting the perps while spewing lies about the victims. Why are you so nice to shitty people with shitty values?

Has anyone been able to identify the “if you raise your voice, I erase your voice” agent? Because that’s someone who, for public safety, should be named and identified and warned about.

“I think it’s time to pull out of Minnesota, that battle is lost," a Border Patrol agent said in a private chat I obtained: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

The fact that Kristi Noem was somehow its "governor" for 6 years definitively proves that South Dakota is not a real state and no one lives there.

U.S. proposes visitors submit 5 years social media data, biometrics, and more. infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/...

really quite funny that weiss is a one-trick pony and that trick is “give jobs to my dumbass friends”

Trump has reunited the world—with China. A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)

Chuck Schumer's starting position should be as maximalist as possible -- complete abolition of ICE, resignations of Bovino, Homan, Noem and Miller, unmasking of all agents, and prosecution by state authorities of the murderers. Don't start with what looks like a compromise half-measure.

If he‘s replaced with someone worse, which, good luck—the takeaway is that that person, too, can be driven out and into disgrace

The @usdot.bsky.social, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”

"We are watching ICE and CBP engage in a national, presidentially-sanctioned police riot — but make no mistake: It’s a riot borne of their fear, not their strength. These agents and officers are terrified about the public hostility they’re facing." -- Excellent article by @vermontgmg.bsky.social

Judge Menendez asks about Trump's quote: "Your day of retribution is here." She asks what she's supposed to do with that. Mayers says he hasn't seen that Truth Social post.

Myers is a 2022 grad and spent his pre-law school career working for various Florida Republicans. The DOJ is morphing from a professional agency to an offshoot of the Republican Party.

Carter: If this is not stopped, right here, right now, I don't think anyone who is seriously looking at this can have much faith in how our republic is going to go in the future.

​Garry Kasparov: Russia is losing influence, but not because of Maduro, not because of Iranians, not because of Syria, but because Ukraine survived. Period. The main reason why Putin lost his influence he exercised before is because

No government can rule through force, not everywhere forever. It can only rule through terror, or the consent of the governed. And Minneapolis rising is showing you exactly the kind of reactance that a small-d democratic public responds to in the attempt to rule through terror.

“If your state doesn’t help us we will be forced to murder its citizens” is an argument that only works on people who are already subnormal bootlickers.

Trump and his allies are already smearing Alex Pretti’s name instead of confronting the truth. Veterans who served our country and lived because of the VA are outraged. Alex was a VA nurse and hero, not a villain. Stay informed. Join the fight. Follow @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social

On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.

Make no mistake, we are now seeing white American citizens being murdered by law enforcement because we never truly addressed the way our law enforcement treats Black Americans. If we do not help each other, it’s only a matter of time before we all lose. Our liberation is tied together.

Heartbreaking. A Colleague Remembers Alex Pretti (w/ Dr. Aasma Shaukat) open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

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The Chun regime that my wife fought against in the 80s did the exact same thing. They needed a "crisis" that "only they could solve" to hoard more ill-gotten power, so they chose one city (Gwangju), declared its inhabitants enemies, sent trucks full of soldiers to violently attack and kill them.

It’s hard to overstate how freakish it is for law enforcement who just shot someone to be shuffled off to other assignments with no investigative period at all.

Excellent thread, but this post is why I think Miller, Bovino and others around Trump might pursue violent confrontation, perhaps against a Dem-controlled Congress, even if I also reckon it would end in fiasco for MAGA. The Trump administration is dangerously blinded by ideological delusions

The more Bovino speaks, the more disgusted Americans will get with ICE, and the better Democrats will do in November. So…keep Bovino speaking.

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

As others are also noting, this is almost obscene in its wild inadequacy to the moment. You're the former POTUS. Get to MSP, with your buddies George & Bill, & call for the fascism to end, ICE leaders to go to jail, & for Trump to be immediately impeached & removed. And then do it every day after.

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:

www.aerotime.aero/articles/faa... #UAV #aviation #USA #media #freespeech

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Got this from a first-year law student today. I’m going to turn comments and quotes off because I am going to respond in my own way and am not looking for advice. But I think people should see it.

1. Wasn’t at a protest 2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down 3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight bsky.app/profile/atru...

You can think of it as a hierarchy of needs. If you won't protect your voters from military occupation and murder, what is any electoral victory or policy victory possibly worth? I can support strategic moderation on any other issue than "the government can murder the political opposition."

Things are so bad that the Minnesota prison system has had to launch a website specifically to combat DHS lies. The first major release from DOC officials suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the Border Patrol operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.

Sobering read. "...two broad routes to turning a previously democratic society into an authoritarian one. One is subtle and mostly lawful...other is brutally overt...prepare for a hostile government that has lost patience with...more subtle means and is now increasingly turning to violent ones."