In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

I try to adhere to poster's bushido, but if I find that another person has already made the same joke reply to an OP, I will dutifully delete mine. No need to crowd the well.

the inverse of that Vonnegut quote about "be careful who you pretend to be." Craft an image of who you want to be and then *try to become that person.*

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Help, the news industry is dying! Quick, I know the solution! Let's all write the exact same article! Surely that will entice readers to visit all our websites and pay all our subscription fees!

Mere days ago Noah Rothman, who's a big fan of this attack on trans people: that gender dysphoria causes school shootings (not the gun industry or lax regulations) was just calling the public's revulsion about the Epstein class a "moral panic." Punching down to distract from real evils above.

Literally millions of people voted for the imaginary Trump in their heads and are extremely upset that they got Actually Existing Trump, because they're dumb motherfuckers rather than truly depraved monsters.

Oh! The Argument, funded by wealthy people who like the status quo, is running more articles arguing for the status quo on gender choice. This is fruitless. Normie voters at NYT said today unanimously they preferred a progressive candidate to a moderate! Issue poll-following is dead.

A system built to eat people never stops eating people.

Evil. Done in our name.

DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas. Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe. This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.

Honestly, Republican congressional offices should be sent these letters in droves. It's disgusting they're continuing to let this happen to innocent children.

Republicans got trounced trying bathroom bills in 2015, then spent 10 years astroturfing anti-trans propaganda to get where they are today, and supposedly Democrats are supposed to see that and say "Well, nothing we can do here, the public has spoken!" Motherfuckers, doing nothing is a choice

Call their bluff. Nationwide Voter ID for ICE officers having to go maskless and wear their ID on their chest, and let's watch how quickly this line of defense withers away.

ICE agents are still out there this morning, photographing schools from unmarked vehicles and then quickly leaving after being confronted. Keep your heads up.

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

It's getting to the point where we millennials are going to have to start blocking CBS on our parent's and grandparent's TVs, like we're already doing with motion-smoothing.

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

site of 38 year old working dogs

The media we consume shapes our (mis)understanding of reality

That's a brushback pitch if I've ever seen one. Don't think Reeves will be making too many more off-hand remarks on the record after this.

Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

I'll take Frederick Douglass over Elon Musk

“You’re gonna die for a ‘multicultural economic zone?’” “Someone is.”

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community

American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders. Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

i just think that our high ideals of freedom and equality are not in fact stored in the melanin

This is a huge glaring issue right now. Courts generally ARE doing fairly well, even including significant number of Trump appointees. The corruption is concentrated in scotus.

I sort of wish Mitch McConnell were a younger man so he could bear witness, in a sound mind, to the horrors his choices have unleashed on the land

We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing.

time is a flat circle, truly. we have been having this debate as long as we have existed and the lines of demarcation have always been quite clear. one side wants freedom for all; the other side wants the freedom to dominate others.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

My favorite fun fact to share, from my old teaching days, is that the distances between objects in space is so vast you can fit *all* of the planets side-by-side between the Earth and the moon. And that's our closest neighbor!

For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years. The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.

Just noting this because I have cited the trends a lot recently: Tracking data from Civiqs now shows a plurality of the public favors abolishing ICE, with 47% in support and 46% opposed. Independents are net +5 on abolish, up from -40 a year ago substack.com/profile/4791...

So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas? It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death. 18/

Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney. If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.

The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.

These shitheads have three settings: "I am an apex predator unjustly constrained by society's rules", "I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you", and "Guuuuuaaaaarrds!"

We need a come to Jesus moment about the fundamental illegitimacy of capitalist power. Modern day hereditary monarchies in plain sight.

DHS is a mess of a department anyway. FEMA should be independent. TSA and the CG should be under DOT, and the others should have to go through a review for their continued merit and purpose - yes even the USSS.

Not for nothing, song is an insanely good pedagogical technique that is rarely given the full credit it's due.

So far it's been a thoroughly 'yikes on bikes' morning

The year is 2015. China is getting richer and more powerful every year, but America has three trump cards: universitities, biomedical research, and immigration.

These guys are nowhere near smart enough to pull off what they're trying to pull off. We ARE going to win.