What a great Basho. Amazing spirit from everyone I wanted a 3-5 playoff, but I’m glad both of the players in the playoff had a great story for their victory. Sad that asanoyama’s body isn’t a match for his technique or spirit. Amazing that he made it a third time though! March looks amazing

An essential component of reactionary centrist pundits is the rejection of any and all principles, and a denial that anyone else could possibly have principles. Accordingly, Yglesias simply can't fathom principles like "full criminal accountability for gov't agents involved in murder."

"reined in" You're such a fucking coward, Chris. We don't "rein in" far-right paramilitary death squads. Burn this organization to the ground, arrest its leaders, bar its employees from federal or law enforcement jobs, scatter its component agencies to other departments and build something better.

Forget abolishing ICE; abolish the GOP.

liberals don't care what you do as long as you do it politely

Leading up to that.. Eric Lee Atty Kids screaming "Let us out! Let us out!"

Children screaming and crying can be heard as a possible uprising is underway at the ICE Children's Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX (1/24/26).

if there's one thing you shouldn't be doing right now it's asking more of democratic leadership. you could hurt their feelings. be mad at people you made up in your head instead.

i cynically but sincerely believe they actually cancelled a game because Adam Silver was worried the crowd would signal its displeasure over the government killing its citizens and hurt the television product as well of the feelings of his real life actual close personal friend Jared kushner

Philando Castile informed the police that he was lawfully carrying. He was killed.

it goes without saying but just in case it's not obvious, what ICE is doing now in MN is what regular cops have been doing for years to Black and brown civilians with impunity, it's just never been as concentrated and televised; this is just to say, it's not new and it's not un-american

The federal agents committing murder are all trained and experienced. They’re doing what they were trained to do.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Abolish the Republican Party.

Literally 10 days ago, Hoeven introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re...

Ritchie Torres’ wants every American to wind up like Alex Pretti.

The federal government is executing American citizens in the middle of the street for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech. This is tyranny. No free people can accept this kind of government. We need to bring an end to the Trump regime.

This wouldn’t have happened if we voted for the cop who wanted to fund more cops from the party that also loves cops.

Some of your faves will be implicated.

We need more than that. This didn't start with Trump. This has been a bipartisan project for decades to erode rights and build up a militarized police force to enforce fascism at home. We need to unroll at least four decades of this shit. And start prosecuting everybody involved.

There is also, for what it’s worth, no such thing as an apolitical person.

Remember, when Renee Good was killed, Tim Pool initially came out and said ICE was clearly in the wrong. Then the next day, once the talking points were out, he came out and said he'd been mistaken and she was clearly at fault and Ross was in the right. So don't buy his claims today.

"Boo hoo," one agent said after he and a gang of colleagues murdered 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who died trying to help a woman who was being assaulted. A sobering piece from @lebassett.bsky.social www.laura-bassett.com/p/ice-execut...

Republicans are in favor of having a gun to defend yourself from a tyrannical government unless you have a gun to defend yourself from a tyrannical government

The Department of Homeland Security is murdering American citizens. Congress cannot allow that to continue. Getting these people out of Minnesota and cutting off funding should be a minimum response. This is an outrage and an assault on our rights and freedom and it must stop.

As with the murder of Renee Good, this video immediately established that DHS was lying about the shooting. The video shows that this was murder. And once again, DHS is obstructing local authorities from investigating a homicide in their community perpetrated by DHS agents.

What a stark, horrifying demonstration of the tension a union opens itself to when it organizes security forces. If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?

Here's the video from the woman who was filming the man killed by ICE this morning... DO NOT LET THE GOVERNMENT LIE TO YOU, THIS WAS A COLD BLOODED EXECUTION

Democrats posting their responses to ICE

Lucy football stuff. sorry. Highlighting "current homeland security" means they're gonna fold when Rs "agree" to guardrails and then when ICE don't keep their end of the deal, we'll be back here posting about it. Whatever happened to the ACA extensions? Epstein Files? Cmon now.

you can reach the person running this from their $1.5m Georgia home here

Senate Democrat: I cannot abide this lawlessness and murder. I will oppose funding DHS and its secret police. Senate Republican: What if we add a requirement for six more hours of online firearms training? Senate Dem: SOLD. [Bipartisan, back-slapping, smiling photos are taken] Just watch.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

A national general strike is needed not just to protest the violence, but to acknowledge the absurdity that we’re all just supposed to carry on with our stupid little daily lives amidst the ambient terrorism of an unchecked state militia executing innocent people in the streets of our country.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

This is the man who, according to DHS, wanted to “do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement”:

Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.

1/3 If lawful carry serves as a justification for lethal force, then we don't actually have a right to carry. A right that can be used as a retroactive justification for killing a person exercising it is not a right in any meaningful sense. You could build a broad coalition on that.

Your name is about to become historically synonymous with empty words and no action. Have Legal Observers accompanied by state police patrolling the city. This is not complicated. It just requires courage. Which is appears for you is complicated.

Temerity of this account to post at all. This is entirely on you. Entirely. We knew ICE was gonna be the Gestapo and you passed the bill. Talk to your own caucus. You're on the hook. Not another cent for you ever.

Very cool that Congress just renewed ICE's budget with absolutely zero concessions

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

There is always a need for blood products as they are very perishable. However, if things “get hot” the blood will only go to wounded thugs as the police trained mag dump will always happen on civilians. And any civilian seeking medical attention for gsw will immediately be arrested.

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[lips pressed directly on mic] yes

Parents: You are being prevented AT GUNPOINT from cracking open a couple of beers and having a smoke with your child.