I may just have hit upon the most fundamental bedrock of safety in support of research: Umm Actually vs. It Depends I must meditate upon this wisdom.

Two things that have become exceedingly clear in the past few years. One, you cannot rely on institutions to resist fascism. Two, fascist are the stupidest, most pathetic little weasels in the world. Just look at Bovino, with his '80s-era junta gear and desperate Napoleon syndrome.

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

“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.

One activist told me they had been spraying pepper spray into air vents to get it into peoples closed cars bsky.app/profile/mark...

This sums it up.

an administration that understood it needed at least *some* public opinion on its side would dump bovino immediately

70 years after the 1936 Berlin Olympics

So, which Nazi era fascist group is most comparable to ICE? I keep saying Brownshirts, and sometimes Gestapo, because they are words we all associate with this kind of action, but I imagine there is some more precise analogue.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Here are multiple still shots of Alex Pretti holding what is obviously a phone in his right hand. Not a gun. Right-Wing posters all over the Internet on social media are still claiming (as of today) that Alex Pretti was holding a gun in his right hand and was threatening ICE agents with his gun.

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.

So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?

[cough]

Look it’s very simple: tyranny is when the government NOT white nationalist, not when it IS white nationalist.

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.

“It’s like call of duty! So cool huh?” Trump’s goons treat shooting at and tear gassing protestors like a video game, caught on national TV on a hot mic One even clapped after Alex Pretti was killed abolish ICE

Literally all of this is a lie. We are about to find out who is state media, because they will be the ones to parrot a justification for state-sanctioned murder.

If 2A gun owners don't protest over this murder in Minneapolis we know what their whole deal has always been...and it's not about gun rights.

I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list. They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.

Do not say anything here you don't want read back to you in court.

Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Here is the video. Trigger warning: MURDER

BREAKING: We reviewed DOJ’s Epstein releases and uncovered 70+ files quietly pulled & reposted with new redactions That’s why @democracydefendersfund.org filed a formal complaint with the DOJ Inspector General calling for an expanded investigation Who do they think they’re fooling?👇 -TN

We're not allowed to see the faces of the taxpayer-funded goon squad who is committing crimes in the streets, but the goon squad is allowed to record the faces of taxpayers who have committed no crimes.

A different ICE observer says her TSA-Pre-check was revoked. bsky.app/profile/juli...

“We have a nice little database, & now you’re considered domestic terrorists” says an ICE agent after photographing a civilian who was videotaping them. Posted today by Brian Allen on X. h/t @allenanalysis.bsky.social

I wouldn't be surprised if they start using these lists to put people on the no-fly lists, audits by the IRS, etc. as retribution. Once a government starts making lists of its citizens like this, the abuses will inevitably follow.

The National Park Service has dismantled exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Independence National Historical Park. Here are some of the signs that were removed and why they were flagged.

You need to listen to this whole thing.

This isn't just near Independence Hall. It's where Washington stayed while president, kept slaves, posted bounty ads for runaways, and rotated them back and forth to VA to evade PA's manumission law. This is what it's known for, this specific location's primary historical significance is slavery.

What an embarrassing circus this regime is 🎪

Added a footnote to yesterday's Racket explaining why Stephen Miller's vision of geopolitics is very Nazi. And also, yet another example of the Nazis looking to the turn-of-the-century United States as a model. Time is an ouroboros. theracket.news/p/the-monroe...

MN protestors #protip put 2 Idaho Russets in the oven at 420 degrees for 45 min, take them out and foil wrap, 1 in each pocket before you go out. Theyll stay warm for 3-4 hours even in this weather and you can eat em when you like. They used to send us kids out like this back in the 70s trust me.

nine years old

All the evidence one would need to impeach both Rubio and Noem was just posted to the AAUP v. Rubio docket. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Microsoft is handing over Bitlocker keys to law enforcement. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

The way the entire American establishment, broadly construed, jumped to comply with Trump's anti-DEI executive order like it was federal law was...enlightening.

Watching yesterday's judiciary committee hearing, it strikes me how the GOP treats Jack Smith as an adversary; an agent of the opposing party. Smith, unflappable, simply answers their questions with emotionless precision. He is not their political opponent. The GOP's real opponent is the law.

This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home! Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.

Same people who whinge endlessly about how the removal of confederate monuments “erases history” have no problem erasing actual history

Here's one of the panels that Trump just removed from the President's House site in Philadelphia. (I took this picture of it last March. A couple of weeks later I led a walking tour that included the site.) Does this information "disparage" the United States?

Jack Smith: “Trump was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on & he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.” #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

“Look: Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”

I spent all morning just so relieved that today is Friday. Weekend almost here. Ready to be done with the week. 😞