He genuinely, unironically is the emblematic figure of the past half-century. I don't think that's even up for debate. His is the incarnate spirit of the epoch, and the path he took needed a million surrounding events and attitudes to occur before it could happen the way it did

If you can help, please do. Pretty monstrous stuff here. Arrested at her scheduled green card meeting after having gotten married. We are in Hell. www.gofundme.com/f/help-barba...

I’m glad ICE released Steve Held, who they grabbed last night in Broadview. Now, the government must stop trying to deport journalist Mario Guevara, the Atlanta journalist who ICE targeted in retaliation for his immigration coverage.

Police in Chicago have open a criminal investigation into a malicious assault carried out by Trump's secret police on a CBS News camera crew. This is one of more than a dozen incidents of assaults by ICE officers against journalists in the last week. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

DC is our HOME. We have seen the full force of the Trump regime, but they have not heard silence from the people of DC. October 18th, when we march to the national mall, our voices will be deafening! #nokings #nokingsday #nokingsday2 #50501movement #resist #resistance #dc #dmv #washingtondc #trump

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

A random kid at the bar won this at the claw machine and gave it to me. I thought that was very nice.

Democratic Governors Can Arrest ICE Agents. What Are They Waiting For? open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

"This is what the consultant told me to say" -- Hakeem Jeffries.

[on cable news with the ruins of Alderaan behind him] HAKEEM JEFFRIES: Palpatine said he would lower healthcare costs.

This is a crystal clear image of the scumbag Nazi ICE agent that brutally assaulted a mother at a NYC immigration office, while her young daughter watched - and a new photo showing him grabbing her hair before he slammed her to the ground. Make him even MORE famous.

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the daily caller published a call to violence of the left yesterday, a news organization that has connections to the heritage foundation

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

Once again, the moderate position is for ICE to be abolished and Border Patrol to be gutted, and massive civil rights prosecutions leading to prison time. Anybody running on anything less is kicking the can down the road.

Per witness, Steve was filming an arrest when feds knocked a group of people backwards and grabbed him. She says it appeared targeted to her since he had been filming CBP interaction with the protester from start to finish.

Too funny

Portland is peaceful. "Antifa" is fictitious. Worldviews vehemently against fascism are ethical and wise. Inciting violence is pathologic.

Deregulation

daily Chinese news headline: Scientists grow the world’s first functional human spine replacement from a single drop of blood daily American news headline: White House declares that sunburns are caused by bees

The look on his face makes me think he knows his entire family and his employer are going to know very quickly.

The dude that pointed the gun at onlookers needs to be named QUICKLY

Pete Hegseth has more control over his drinking than that guy has over his gun

In a statement ICE claimed Arias-Mendoza had a number of previous arrests and entered the country illegally at some point. This journalist is not in the business of taking ICE at their word.

Trump DOJ: -overruling career prosecutors to indict Trump's political opponents -suing states to get sensitive voter data -urging SCOTUS to gut Voting Rights Act -helping GOP states gerrymander mid-decade A 5 alarm fire on every front www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Labeling domestic political opponents as "terrorists" and characterizing a US city as being at war as pretexts for deploying troops against US citizens.

It's like sending the Smurfs against Sauron

A moral society would make guys like this absolute pariahs, basically excommunicated from all sources of social belonging and support. There's no excusing beliefs like this. They're products of an entirely malformed being.

We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us

I don’t subscribe to political violence so how about we just put a piece of duct tape over their mouths?

Many in the Dem party are operating in a separate reality - one where politics are still “normal.” Dems demands should be comprehensive and Bold. Appropriated funds are not withheld. Ice agents no masks and identify themselves when asked. No bombing of boats. Leave vaccines alone.

Imagine Bill Pullman’s Independence Day speech, but instead he’s telling everyone the aliens want to increase healthcare costs.

That Donald Duck picture should put the creators of this in jail.

Ultimately this nonsense is mysticism. It's inept politicians, many of whom inherited their offices through party machines, turning to inept quants, who promise that with the power of math they can divine the precise combination of words that will convince voters. THAT. IS. NOT. HOW. IT. WORKS.

The endless search for magic words that will the debate - "talk about health care in this PRECISE way, talk about the cost of living using these EXACT words" - is going to be the death of us. This is not how politics works. Nothing has ever depended on Dems saying "because" instead of "unless."

There is absolutely nothing in here that distinguishes this moment from any other political moment, quite literally, in my adult life. It's pure Democratic Party boilerplate: a bunch of whining about costs and healthcare and the economy, plus "tax breaks for rich people" thrown in.

Just got sent another Demo consultant's memo on how to win the shutdown. Spoiler alert: they want Democrats to focus on "costs" and "healthcare" and talk about how they're for smart budgets. Absolutely nothing about Trump being out of control. The consultant class should be shot out of a cannon.

"And they take American dollars!"

LOL wtf kind of total clown shit is this?

ICE has run a recruiting commercial on almost every break in this NCSU-VT football game Obscene that taxpayer money is being blown on this trash

Just got word that at the Broadview, IL facility I protested at yesterday, ICE fascists arrested Dana Briggs, a U.S. Air Force Veteran. Trump claims he's getting "violent criminals" off our streets with ICE. No, he's going after military Veterans who oppose his fascist policies. Indefensible.

I don't think you need complex political triangulation when the president is shrieking "I am sending in the WAR DEPARTMENT because Portland is AT WAR!" You should just keep saying that he should be removed from office because he is plainly insane

Dan, you still don't get it. Neither do the Democrats. They're playing for points. Trump is playing for blood--theirs.

Republicans are throwing 15 million people off of their health insurance and raising premiums by as much as 75% for people who get care from the ACA.   Is that making America healthy again?

Statement from The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:

Not the most important thing, I suppose, but Hegseth's last sentence is interesting: "Their place in history is settled." This epitomizes the yearning of all authoritarians: To control not just the present and the future, but the past. Nothing can be re-examined or re-thought. No questions allowed.

I know some of you like seeing the glass negatives so here it is:

Taking Matters into Their Own Hands open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...

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