I don't have contempt for those people, I have intense visceral loathing.
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I don't have contempt for those people, I have intense visceral loathing.
Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."
Uh no...we definitely realize it.
A whole lot of people failed that litmus test after Sandy Hook. Turns out that a large swath of the country is A-OK with dead kids as long as it doesn't affect them directly.
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
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We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.
The moderate position is every one of these shitbags from the top down to the dumbest ass Gestapo thug standing trial.
The longer that moderate position is defied, the more people will be asking why we're not making use of all these lampposts.
i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.
OK, so Musk was planning to go to Epstein's island, but it's not like he went there with the intent to go to a wild party or something, it was probably just some business. Excuse me, an email just came in.
*Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon.
A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly β without paying massive fundraising platform fees β through her website:
www.georgiafort.com/support
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People are asking a lot βhow is this happening?β Itβs happening the way abolitionists have warned you for decades itβs happening β you canβt dehumanize whole groups of people, pay for their brutalization & not expect for more bounty hunters to come.
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by nameβciting facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
Charging a Black journalist under the KKK Act for reporting on a protest is a whole new level of fucked up.
"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.
Again, there is no legislative fix for the magnitude of the authoritarian crimes being committed daily. Everyone is just pretending at this point:
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"You know Bovino leaving won't st..." Yes I fucking know. I shipped 800 whistles across the country today. I'll ship another 500 tomorrow. I will not stop until they are stopped and also I will take the fucking W when one of their top fash fucks gets the boot.
They arenβt backing down. Theyβre just threatening people in other cities. Still illegal. Still unconstitutional. Even if they havenβt yet backed it up by shooting someone in the face.
"One day everyone will have always been against this," or however that quote goes.
we are witnessing historic backpedaling here
Bovino's demotion is not justice and doesn't mean the fight is even winding down. What it does show, though, is that we can make them blink - and when you're in a fight and your opponent blinks, you swing *again*.
It's definitely a win. We need more, but it's a win.
Now do something with it.
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
The more I think about it, the more Iβm convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they donβt go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.
"The bus hungers" is a brilliant piece of poetry. Thank you for your contribution to literature.
We can celebrate Trump throwing Bovino under the bus while keeping the pressure on. Throw Noem under the boss, too. And Miller. Vance. Trump. Musk. The bus hungers. The bus will know justice. (Not a literal bus. A metaphor bus. The metaphor bus hungers.)
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call βsymbolic compliance.β
Thatβs when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
So yeah, they did as their training directed.
I said this last time but their real position is βif you disagree with us we can kill you.β
Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.