Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
possibly the best definition of Anglicanism I’ve ever seen
All across the country, Americans are organizing to defend our neighbors and demand ICE OUT! Remember, you have rights.
We will MELT ICE, dismantle DHS, and protect our neighbors.
We will not concede the power of the people!
I'm begging the media to state this clearly -- we are all in danger now because of the deliberate choices made by Trump's administration and RFK Jr in particular.
When the next major outbreak of a preventable disease strikes, they'll point the finger at other people. But it'll be their disaster.
After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
Tweet from Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun: "Ignorance like this cheapens the horror of the Holocaust. Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally and abided by Dutch law. She was hauled off to a death camp because of her race and religion. Her story has nothing to do with the illegal immigration, fraud, and lawlessness plaguing Minnesota today. Our brave law enforcement should be commended, not tarred with this historically illiterate and antisemitic comparison."
To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
My latest piece, at The Bulwark: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
RIP Captain Georg Von Trapp, you would have loved using whistles to fight fascists
I'm going to print this image out and hang it on my wall because the idea that this exists should fill everyone with absolute boiling fucking rage every day.
Like it or not (I don't), they're supposed to work for all of us. Call them and tell them to abolish ICE. 👇
it's amazing to watch the We Are The Storm guys paralyzed in terror of the density and sophistication of spontaneous neighborhood watches put together by pissed-off baristas and suburban moms
The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.”
The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
I really appreciated this inclusion in the Prayers of the People at @advocatewheaton.bsky.social last night
found in a medieval scroll under the heading 10 Weird But Awesome Things to Get For Your Wedded Lord This Yuletide
The uhhh kindergarten moms group chat in *Wheaton* (conservative evangelical suburb) is now sending around Defund 🧊 email scripts and lists of senators and reps to contact.
This whole thing is amazing but this part really sings.
Two statements that are compatible.
a. I don't think concealed carry is a good policy.
b. I do not believe that someone carrying a gun in compliance with a state's gun laws gives federal law enforcement the right to murder them.
It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.
Re: the latter group of priests in this headline, current events are really exposing how many American Christians - of all political and theological stripes - think of their faith primarily in terms of aesthetic & lifestyle preferences rather than as a set of serious moral and spiritual commitments
I wonder how many people need to get killed in the street by masked agents of the state before conservatives stop pretending that they’re being oppressed by the existence of HR departments bsky.app/profile/shar...
MnNEAT has created these communication tools to help nonspeakers, or those who may lose speech due to stress, invoke their rights if they are stopped by ICE. As always, please be very careful when taking something out of a bag or wallet in front of police or ICE. mnneat.wixstudio.com/mnneat/safet...
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.
“The best of America has been broadcast by commonplace nurses, dental assistants, taxi drivers, baristas, and bartenders. It is not some warrior caste or a group of exalted aristocrats that exemplifies the best of us, but normal people who are choosing to do the right things when the moment arises.”
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know that we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down to proclaim blessed the poor, blessed the thirsting for justice, blessed the suffering. MAY 11, 1978
There is one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away – the rule that God’s word is giving us today: everyone concerned for the hungry, the naked, the poor, for those who have vanished in police custody, for the tortured, for prisoners, for all flesh that suffers, has God close at hand. FEBRUARY 5, 1978
Both of Nevada's senators--Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen--have officially come out against the DHS funding bill following the execution of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis this morning. This effectively ends the DHS funding bill in the Senate.
The official lie is that he came over to interfere with their operations, when you can plainly see several of them get out of their cars, cross the street and confront him there.
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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.
The most recent Imperial-involved killings on Ghorman show we must have better training for stormtroopers
