This hit so fucking hard today.

Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night

The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter. He's got to go.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

The people, united, will never be defeated. ✊

Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS. Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies. AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS. Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.

Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming. no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.

I understand the sentiment and desire to come here and I appreciate it but you could and should organize to run ICE out of your area

“Outside agitators” is older than Putin; I am begging white people to crack open a history book about Black Americans for once

Some people who could tell you about how law enforcement uses their de-escalation training.

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

I won't be watching, but I'm sure it's high quality and truthful (as everything else I've seen from Bellingcat). Share with your moderate and right-wing family members. They need to understand what these murderous goons are doing in our country.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

One of our many big problems is that the opposition party has treated fascism as a political game that can be triangulated and compromised with instead of the life and death situation it is.

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.

remember when a group of armed right wing militia members had a month-long standoff with federal agents in 2016 and then they were all acquitted? haha that was so crazy. anyway what were you saying about being armed and "obstructing federal agents"?

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

No. They do not "appear to" contradict it. They contradict it.

I’m completely fed up with elected Representatives saying shit like, “Republicans will tell you behind closed doors that they don’t agree with what ICE is doing”. Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists. Name them, record them, and make it public.

We we will never know if Silverio Villegas Gonzalez had any last words before ICE shot him and left him to bleed out in the street and straight-up lied about what happened

Renee Good's last words were "I'm not mad at you, bro" Alex Pretti's last words were "are you okay?" I am mad. I am not okay.

You very likely do not need to subject yourself to the actual video of ICE murdering a man, earlier today. If you want a frame-by-frame breakdown of it, however, @koltai.bsky.social and @bellingcat.com's is a thorough one.

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I wish for a lot more people to recognize that Ground News has built-in bias and it isnt the center of the road coverage it advertises itself as. I get pro-zio and right wing vibes from it. Theyre just paying left and center wings to say otherwise and get more users.

Remember Zohran Mamdani and remember this when they tell you to "vote blue no matter who."

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this is not a tiktok it is a documentary

i really can't stand this dude defector.com/gavin-newsom...

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

As Arizona’s top law enforcement officer, I want to remind all federal agents of my expectations: respect the law, do not mask, deescalate violence when possible and stay OUT of schools, hospitals, and churches.

You can add your own URLs to archive.org and maybe we should all start trying to remember to safeguard things. If you see an important video on social media, that user might go private or delete after time or attention. Archive it if no one else has.

OMG he's citing judge cannon What an absolute tool 😂

Every American should tune into this www.youtube.com/live/JSBcgWe...

The Laken Riley Act got this whole brutal machine jump started. You would think some of these Democrats would have the baseline decency to at least apologize.

I am just a simple small-town lawyer but I really can’t think of a more toxic and self-defeating political strategy than telling your constituents the things they care about are “a distraction.”

the statements in here from the vp of policy at the national immigration law center are an example of how advocacy org leaders are supposed to talk about democrats being shit on their issues, just for the record

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Oh, look. The white president who thinks that asylum seekers come from insane asylums, that the Norwegian government gives out the Nobel Peace Prize, that stealth bombers are invisible to the naked eye, and that windmills cause cancer is talking about which black people have a "low IQ" again.

Sometimes satire is a little too on the nose

ICE got plenty of money when Chuck Schumer folded and now they're saying fuck you. What a shock. If anyone continues to fund the government at the end of the month they are Republican.

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.