Any news story, blog post, or YouTube video reporting on crime should include a longitudinal view such as this. The US is a much safer place than it was in the 1990s. Source: buff.ly/8Xot3Bt

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Unspeakably grotesque.

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In case anyone needs this number. My daughter and I used it this morning around 11:15 or so, Campbell between Broadway and Aviation. A young Asian man was pulled over by 2 unmarked vehicles, taken from his, and the ICE fuckers began to take photos of him. I just hope he’s okay! #fuckice #tucson

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The society that says "The innocent have nothing to fear" is lying, because their fear is precisely what it wants (well, besides obedience). It wants people to outsource their consciences to it and do what it tells them to, power with which nothing can be trusted and which leads only to oblivion.

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

Things that make you go hmm... 🧐

I saw something on this about the rise of authoritarians. Authority in functioning societies is based on trust. Authoritarians NEED it to be based on potential violence. So all authoritarians do everything they can to spoil any institution more trusted than themselves.

Not to be that guy but ICE and CBP would still be fully funded thanks to the cursed July funding bill, they are just using the rest of DHS as leverage. Which is fine, but I do also think that people should clearly know that

Pitch-perfect satire about bringing a gun to a protest. From Dave Columbo on TikTok

20 ways to show up for the strike tomorrow if you can’t strike:

If the immigration “issue” was really about black & brown people “taking your jobs,” the powers that be wouldn’t be so damn eager to hand your jobs over to robots & artificial intelligence. It’s just about giving you someone to hate & think yourself better than. You’re not.

There's ALWAYS a grift with this lot.

Just the most astonishing, zeitgeisty piece on animal ‘tyrants’ by @chrisbaraniuk.com for our BBC Earth team: “In some cases, circumstances can lead to the removal of aggressive leaders. And some animal societies that work together appear able to evade despotism.” www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Everything I've seen supporting MN "communicanizers" for last 9 years (their word for communicators & organizers across labor, faith, & community groups) affirms what Adam writes. This is what brought about the "MN Miracle" w one vote majority & it's why MN is leading now.

"Never Again" means "never again will we allow fellow human beings to be degraded, dehumanized, displaced and brutalized", not "as long as we don't do a shot-for-shot remake of the Holocaust we're good, we'll just change it up a bit next time"

Republicans used to brag they were on-average better educated and had better earned incomes. Now that's reversed, despite Democrats still representing the poor and GOPpers going all-in with billionaires. What's it mean? All the PROFESSIONS who know stuff can see who's waging war on them.

Alt: A sliding scale of ICE politics, L to R (literally & figuratively) 1) Moulton, AOC: TRIBUNALS 2) Most of the GWB White House - ABOLISH 3) Fox News - DEFUND (strongly) 4) Catholic Church - DEFUND (less strongly) 5) Schumer/Jeffries - between DEFUND & BETTER REGULATION 6) Trump: EXPAND ICE

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Understand this: There are Trump regime concentration camps in America, where innocent people are being killed and tortured and sexually abused—not to mention caged indefinitely—and that includes men, women, and children. These Nazi-style camps are on military bases to keep their activities secret.

"Being willing to face down the full force of irrevocable, inevitable violence, to carry the bright light of the law into the mouth of darkness, (. . .)requires people who give a shit. Fixing the system on paper and fixing the hearts of those who operate it must be part of the same project."

So fer cryin' out Pete's sake, I pray we do not take the bait but instead find another way. The only way out is through, but there's more than one way through. His way is but one. Our way can be different.

There can be no legitimate debate, reform or negotiation with Nazis. Fascism is not up for debate. It cannot be reformed. It is a non-negotiable non-starter. It must only end. It ultimately will end. Always has, always will. The only question is how much horror we endure until we end it.

Five concerts you've seen with women lead singers: Poliça Pale Dian Blind Divine Chelsea Wolfe Rosegarden Funeral Party* (*Leah Lane is a human blowtorch who deserves far more recognition)

They had already taken his gun before they murdered him.

I just want to point out that Alex Pretti became a registered nurse in early 2021 -- the height of death from Covid. And he chose the ICU, the sickest patients, in Veterans Affairs.

...or for that matter, if your name is Smart, or Noble, or Justice, or Fine, or Bliss, or Law, or...

How it started How it's going

I said this several weeks before Renee Good's killing, but man, it's incredible how brave these women out there are. Thousands of them, spending days, weeks, months just trying to get a phone number from detainees. They've prevented so many disappearances. ICE hates them for a reason.

pepper spraying someone in the face from inches away while they are already restrained on the ground should get you fired and land you in jail, no exceptions

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

uhhh William Styron wrote a book about this you inhuman mfs

This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence. This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.

The morally broken men and women guiding the Trump administration convinced themselves, often in far-right online spaces, that their own bigotry was widely shared by Americans and built their plans on that assumption. But Americans are showing them they were very wrong, and it's why they're failing.

if you don’t think you can campaign on abolishing this agency and prosecuting the people involved - if you don’t think you’re able to make that case using this video and other like it - get the fuck out of politics

Imagine how inhumanely you must view these people in order to be part of a team that separates this five-year-old and then ships him parentless to Texas within hours. This is not about law enforcement.

If you will not fight to abolish, end, eliminate, pick your verb, this, you are not fit to represent anyone let alone swear an oath to protect and defend our nation and her people.

Koyaanisqatsi sped up by 1552% so that you can watch the whole thing in about 5 minutes. [kottke.org]

And frankly, I think Turnip DGAF about history or his legacy, cos he won't be around for that anyway. He only cares about what he can enjoy right now: whatever he wants moment by moment, & total impunity for anything he does & has ever done in his entire life.

Been thinking about this lately in terms of Planck's Principle, summarized as, "Science progresses one funeral at a time." This time, the funeral is for the US Science Community writ large. When we rebuild, there won't be nearly as many tenured Old Heads obstructing breakthroughs from the New Heads.

“[To be fair], if crows were cognizant of human politics they'd be doing this without training anyway.”

It's also that more people making decisions about what's covered agree with him than are willing to admit openly. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m5ee5raios2r