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The fascists are just beginning…
ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.
June 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The fascists are just beginning…
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Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground.
Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.
Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.
Really good WSJ article on ICE escalations over recent weeks including Miller's visit to ICE national HQ where he demanded Home Depot raids. www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown
After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”
www.wsj.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground.
Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.
Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.
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Here is the authority the linked White House memo is invoking for this very unusual and very dangerous domestic use of the armed forces against public protest.
Title 10 US Code section 12406.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Title 10 US Code section 12406.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
June 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Here is the authority the linked White House memo is invoking for this very unusual and very dangerous domestic use of the armed forces against public protest.
Title 10 US Code section 12406.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Title 10 US Code section 12406.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly “obstructing” ICE.
Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings.
This mess is escalating fast.
Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings.
This mess is escalating fast.
Immigration court arrests continued across the nation yesterday (and are likely ongoing today).
Yesterday, in NYC, 30 ICE officers swarmed the immigration court, holding lists of names of people to arrest. All were dutifully attending their immigration hearings and many had pending asylum claims.
Yesterday, in NYC, 30 ICE officers swarmed the immigration court, holding lists of names of people to arrest. All were dutifully attending their immigration hearings and many had pending asylum claims.
May 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly “obstructing” ICE.
Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings.
This mess is escalating fast.
Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings.
This mess is escalating fast.
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Here’s an idea: Stop acting like the Gestapo.
May 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Here’s an idea: Stop acting like the Gestapo.
People forgive the stupidity when they so appreciate the cruelty.
April 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
People forgive the stupidity when they so appreciate the cruelty.
MAGA empowering is relationship ruining.
Why?
Let me count the ways…
Why?
Let me count the ways…
NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
March 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
MAGA empowering is relationship ruining.
Why?
Let me count the ways…
Why?
Let me count the ways…
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Canada is a country of the rule of law. Canada is a country of democracy. Canada will never kiss that gangster’s ring.
March 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Canada is a country of the rule of law. Canada is a country of democracy. Canada will never kiss that gangster’s ring.
March 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
No accountability for making people disappear?
That system of government is:
__________.
That system of government is:
__________.
Posting tonight ti shine a light on what the Alien Enemies Act looks like IRL. Our @immdef.bsky.social client fled Venezuela last year & came to US to seek asylum. He has a strong claim. He was detained upon entry because ICE alleged his tattoos are gang related. They are absolutely not. 🧵
March 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
No accountability for making people disappear?
That system of government is:
__________.
That system of government is:
__________.
🇷🇸🇬🇪🇭🇺…
People don’t want authoritarians.
People don’t want authoritarians.
March 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
🇷🇸🇬🇪🇭🇺…
People don’t want authoritarians.
People don’t want authoritarians.
🤬 folk never engage these issues.
They always deflect.
Weird.
They always deflect.
Weird.
His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction.
March 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
🤬 folk never engage these issues.
They always deflect.
Weird.
They always deflect.
Weird.
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Don’t we still have a 25th Amendment?
This is completely insane, put aside the tariffs, he is apparently serious about annexing Canada.
He is a madman.
This is completely insane, put aside the tariffs, he is apparently serious about annexing Canada.
He is a madman.
March 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Don’t we still have a 25th Amendment?
This is completely insane, put aside the tariffs, he is apparently serious about annexing Canada.
He is a madman.
This is completely insane, put aside the tariffs, he is apparently serious about annexing Canada.
He is a madman.
1 birthday cake for a 5 year old princess and her 10 year old knight brother. Well done, Sofia!
March 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
1 birthday cake for a 5 year old princess and her 10 year old knight brother. Well done, Sofia!
Deadly betrayal
Russia hitting the hotel filled with foreign volunteers immediately after Trump cut intelligence to Ukraine is probably not a coincidence.
March 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Deadly betrayal
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Russia’s ‘3-day war’ is now 3 YEARS old—and they’re getting wrecked. 800,000 casualties, no tanks, no fleet… and now Trump is cutting Ukraine’s aid to throw Putin a lifeline. Sad! Read how Ukraine is WINNING despite the betrayals
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-lif...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-lif...
Trump's Lifeline to Putin: Cutting Ukraine's Aid Amid Russia's Collapse
Marco Rubio, Michael Waltz, and their ilk will spend the rest of their lives avoiding Ukrainians for fear of being spit on
adamkinzinger.substack.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Russia’s ‘3-day war’ is now 3 YEARS old—and they’re getting wrecked. 800,000 casualties, no tanks, no fleet… and now Trump is cutting Ukraine’s aid to throw Putin a lifeline. Sad! Read how Ukraine is WINNING despite the betrayals
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-lif...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-lif...
We need a new ship.
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We need a new ship.
🤬 is a traitor.
BREAKING: Trump shuts off intelligence to Ukraine, cutting off data for drones, air attacks, and air defense
This is a clear and direct violation of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 - in which US gave security guarantee to Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine giving up nukes and ships
This is a clear and direct violation of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 - in which US gave security guarantee to Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine giving up nukes and ships
March 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🤬 is a traitor.
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Getting rid of the American workers who take care of American veterans is wrong.
Veterans will not take this sitting down - we can make this the newest example of Trump being forced to back down from a bad move.
Veterans will not take this sitting down - we can make this the newest example of Trump being forced to back down from a bad move.
Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning an “aggressive” reorganization that includes cutting 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency.
apnews.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Getting rid of the American workers who take care of American veterans is wrong.
Veterans will not take this sitting down - we can make this the newest example of Trump being forced to back down from a bad move.
Veterans will not take this sitting down - we can make this the newest example of Trump being forced to back down from a bad move.
Houston, Texas rejecting trumpism
March 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Houston, Texas rejecting trumpism
I sometimes think about former friends who failed this test.
March 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I sometimes think about former friends who failed this test.
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“A senior career official at USAID was placed on leave Sunday after he disseminated a detailed memo to staff describing the U.S. government’s “failure” to provide lifesaving assistance around the world because of actions by Trump political appointees.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Senior USAID official ousted after detailing problems providing lifesaving aid
The memo contradicts claims by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that he has put in place a functioning system for exempting lifesaving assistance from the aid freeze.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
“A senior career official at USAID was placed on leave Sunday after he disseminated a detailed memo to staff describing the U.S. government’s “failure” to provide lifesaving assistance around the world because of actions by Trump political appointees.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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When I was a teenager in an evangelical church in Arizona, my pastor would have used this as an illustration of the Antichrist.
February 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
When I was a teenager in an evangelical church in Arizona, my pastor would have used this as an illustration of the Antichrist.