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The "police-involved shooting" of war crimes

Life imitates art at the Minnesota United game today (photo from a friend) How can you not love this?

Infuriating thread

“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24 “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24

War-a-Lago

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

The Trump administration before SCOTUS ruled tariffs illegal: "Of course we can do tariff refunds, no biggie, quick and easy, pinkie promise!" The Trump administration after SCOTUS ruled: "Oh geez, oh boy, I don't think we can do that. It's gonna take years!" reason.com/2026/02/25/w...

It's crazy how economists said "tariffs won't reduce the trade deficit" and then the White House did tariffs to try to reduce the trade deficit and the trade deficit hit a record high reason.com/2026/02/19/t...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Finally given a chance to influence trade policy, the vast majority of House Republicans decided it was more important to keep President Donald Trump happy. On the cowardice of the House GOP and how it jeopardizes the republic: reason.com/2026/02/13/t...

I would prefer for none of my tax dollars to be spent on DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's sex plane reason.com/2026/02/13/h...

We murdered three more people in a boat today

How it started / How it's going

in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend" "Beers on me"

USA USA USA

Homan is a bully with little regard for rights or the rule of law. And the problems with Trump's immigration tactics point back to the White House itself. reason.com/2026/01/27/t...

Many of those who claimed to be conservative only wanted to conserve white supremacy. Many of those who claimed to support liberty only wanted the liberty to oppress others without government interference. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/23/right-wing-federal-agents-ice-immigrants/

I know I'm getting old because I can remember a time when Republicans were *outraged* about federal cops raiding a home to arrest and deport an illegal immigrant

Colleen Shogan joined @ericboehm87.bsky.social from @reason.com to discuss In Pursuit, our national essay project focused on strengthening shared civic memory ahead of the Semiquincentennial. Listen/watch here: reason.com/podcast/2026...

Somehow "we're only preparing to attack Minnesota, not Greenland too" isn't reassuring me that the White House has things under control

Minneapolis.

New York Times: "Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, said at a news conference that the agent who fired his weapon has been treated at a hospital and released. He can be seen in videos of the shooting walking around the scene after firing his weapon, with no apparent injuries."

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

Holy shit

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

Trump is approaching his sixth year as president and still doesn’t know what the Department of Energy does.

thrilled to say i dunno who this particular man is but ive found in general that people who talk like this in public tend to be people who are like incapable of doing their laundry on their own

Some good news to end the year!

Absolutely fucking grotesque

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

Socialism sucks

Instant all-timer here:

I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."

File under "charts that need no explanatory context to make the story clear" wapo.st/4iC8oCR

Reported by David Goodhue, Miami Herald. "She can be heard screaming as agents attempted to handcuff her. 'I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me,' she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. “'This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

So this ends with them making out, right?

Virginia ABC system finally has a fully satisfied customer

How it started / How it's going

Life comes at you fast

reason.com/2025/11/14/t... @reason.com @ericboehm87.bsky.social

NEW: How ICE mistakenly deported Alejandro Juarez to Mexico. Alejandro was detained in NYC, put on the wrong ICE plane and sent to Mexico. He never saw a judge, no deportation order - a likely violation of law. W/ @haleaziz.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

😑 DOGE for the win! 'Despite the high-profile efforts of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the 2025 federal fiscal year ended with the federal government having spent more money than it did in the previous fiscal year' - via @ericboehm87.bsky.social reason.com/2025/10/10/a...

It's wild how you can just say "no" when the would-be authoritarians tell you to do weird, illegal things This should become a trend

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives believed participation trophies were a bad idea