These people have grown up with popular culture telling them that having to carry identification (“papers please”) is fascist and un-American, and they decided that is who they wanted to be. MAGA is, at its core, a movement with a central goal of inflicting pain on other people.
Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.
NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
October 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
These people have grown up with popular culture telling them that having to carry identification (“papers please”) is fascist and un-American, and they decided that is who they wanted to be. MAGA is, at its core, a movement with a central goal of inflicting pain on other people.
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Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.
NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.
www.chicagotribune.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.
I can has chicken salad sandwich?
October 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I can has chicken salad sandwich?
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"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
October 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop
October 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The 82nd Airborne has faced a lot but has it ever faced combined arms? And by combined arms I mean tattoo sleeves AND ironic beards
October 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The 82nd Airborne has faced a lot but has it ever faced combined arms? And by combined arms I mean tattoo sleeves AND ironic beards
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I am proud to be born a Muslim.
I am proud to be born in Somalia.
I am proud to have become an American.
None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet.
Drink some water and touch grass.
I am proud to be born in Somalia.
I am proud to have become an American.
None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet.
Drink some water and touch grass.
September 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I am proud to be born a Muslim.
I am proud to be born in Somalia.
I am proud to have become an American.
None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet.
Drink some water and touch grass.
I am proud to be born in Somalia.
I am proud to have become an American.
None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet.
Drink some water and touch grass.
Statler really leaning into #caturday. #catsofbluesky
August 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Statler really leaning into #caturday. #catsofbluesky
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The right, again. A movement that has argued the unemployed/homeless "have failed at life" and should be sent to "mega prisons" (Watters). Or just converted into "biodiesel" (Moldbug). A reminder that the core of Nazism was to expel some from the sphere of humanity, as "life unworthy of life".
Republican candidate for Governor of California Kyle Langford stands in front of a Nazi concentration camp and proposes sending unemployed and homeless individuals to be incinerated there.
July 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The right, again. A movement that has argued the unemployed/homeless "have failed at life" and should be sent to "mega prisons" (Watters). Or just converted into "biodiesel" (Moldbug). A reminder that the core of Nazism was to expel some from the sphere of humanity, as "life unworthy of life".
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Using a loudspeaker to announce ICE ✊🏽
July 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Using a loudspeaker to announce ICE ✊🏽
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Fled Pinochet. Granted asylum 38 years ago. Deported by Pedochet.
July 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Fled Pinochet. Granted asylum 38 years ago. Deported by Pedochet.
Important perspective.
As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]
July 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Important perspective.
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As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]
July 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]
The main problem with Superman movie reboots is that Gene Hackman set an insurmountable bar for the Lex Luthor character.
June 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The main problem with Superman movie reboots is that Gene Hackman set an insurmountable bar for the Lex Luthor character.
Paging @whstancil.bsky.social
"Moderates" or "centrists" don't have fixed positions. So, you can't actually "meet them where they are" cause political discourse is constantly moving them. And if you keep trying - as Dems do - they will keep moving in the only direction they get pulled, to the right and eventually off the cliff.
May 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Paging @whstancil.bsky.social
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"Moderates" or "centrists" don't have fixed positions. So, you can't actually "meet them where they are" cause political discourse is constantly moving them. And if you keep trying - as Dems do - they will keep moving in the only direction they get pulled, to the right and eventually off the cliff.
May 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Moderates" or "centrists" don't have fixed positions. So, you can't actually "meet them where they are" cause political discourse is constantly moving them. And if you keep trying - as Dems do - they will keep moving in the only direction they get pulled, to the right and eventually off the cliff.
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.
Cath Me If You Can
Cath Me If You Can
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.
Schindler's Lit
Schindler's Lit
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.
Oldfinger
Oldfinger
May 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.
Cath Me If You Can
Cath Me If You Can
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
April 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
Sandos the Destroyer during a rare chill moment. #catsofbluesky
March 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Sandos the Destroyer during a rare chill moment. #catsofbluesky
Wonderful thread.
USAID forbidding employees from bringing throwing stars when they came to retrieve their belongings after being fired reminded me, wistfully, of the time my dad got in an argument with a @lufthansa.bsky.social attendant about whether I could bring a flail and longsword onto a flight.
Story time?
/1
Story time?
/1
February 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Wonderful thread.
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USAID forbidding employees from bringing throwing stars when they came to retrieve their belongings after being fired reminded me, wistfully, of the time my dad got in an argument with a @lufthansa.bsky.social attendant about whether I could bring a flail and longsword onto a flight.
Story time?
/1
Story time?
/1
February 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
USAID forbidding employees from bringing throwing stars when they came to retrieve their belongings after being fired reminded me, wistfully, of the time my dad got in an argument with a @lufthansa.bsky.social attendant about whether I could bring a flail and longsword onto a flight.
Story time?
/1
Story time?
/1
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so is Harper’s gonna write a letter saying people should be allowed to say the truth out loud without losing their job or being persecuted by the government? when are they all gonna sign that one
February 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
so is Harper’s gonna write a letter saying people should be allowed to say the truth out loud without losing their job or being persecuted by the government? when are they all gonna sign that one
If OSU wins the natty, Ryan Day needs to cash in on that lucrative Just for Men mustache and beard spokesman money.
January 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
If OSU wins the natty, Ryan Day needs to cash in on that lucrative Just for Men mustache and beard spokesman money.
December 27, 2024 at 3:35 AM