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Vicious cartoon by Clay Jones.
And an association I think about every time I think about insurrectionists being pardoned or ICE recruiting.
#UnmaskICE
And an association I think about every time I think about insurrectionists being pardoned or ICE recruiting.
#UnmaskICE
October 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Vicious cartoon by Clay Jones.
And an association I think about every time I think about insurrectionists being pardoned or ICE recruiting.
#UnmaskICE
And an association I think about every time I think about insurrectionists being pardoned or ICE recruiting.
#UnmaskICE
"Warden, you are breaking federal law: 118-47, Sec 527a. On camera."
We must have a SERIOUS conversation about DoJ, FBI and US Marshals not being under the Executive Branch.
At minimum, Article 3 Courts need to have their own law enforcement arm (US Marshals?) to enforce court orders.
We must have a SERIOUS conversation about DoJ, FBI and US Marshals not being under the Executive Branch.
At minimum, Article 3 Courts need to have their own law enforcement arm (US Marshals?) to enforce court orders.
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"Warden, you are breaking federal law: 118-47, Sec 527a. On camera."
We must have a SERIOUS conversation about DoJ, FBI and US Marshals not being under the Executive Branch.
At minimum, Article 3 Courts need to have their own law enforcement arm (US Marshals?) to enforce court orders.
We must have a SERIOUS conversation about DoJ, FBI and US Marshals not being under the Executive Branch.
At minimum, Article 3 Courts need to have their own law enforcement arm (US Marshals?) to enforce court orders.
September 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Do not trust any official government statement.
It's all lies and propaganda.
It's all lies and propaganda.
September 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Do not trust any official government statement.
It's all lies and propaganda.
It's all lies and propaganda.
September 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Today is #ConstitutionDay: the anniversary of the day in 1787 that the Constitution was ratified.
Here is how different federal federal agencies are celebrating:
#UnmaskICE
FBI, as I'd expect, is the most classy.
/1
Here is how different federal federal agencies are celebrating:
#UnmaskICE
FBI, as I'd expect, is the most classy.
/1
September 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Today is #ConstitutionDay: the anniversary of the day in 1787 that the Constitution was ratified.
Here is how different federal federal agencies are celebrating:
#UnmaskICE
FBI, as I'd expect, is the most classy.
/1
Here is how different federal federal agencies are celebrating:
#UnmaskICE
FBI, as I'd expect, is the most classy.
/1
Extraordinary dissent from Sotomayor.
"Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
An apparent 6-3 ruling on the shadow docket with no explanation of the majority, allowing ICE to detain anyone under suspicion of "walking while appearing Latino."
#UnmaskICE
"Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
An apparent 6-3 ruling on the shadow docket with no explanation of the majority, allowing ICE to detain anyone under suspicion of "walking while appearing Latino."
#UnmaskICE
September 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Extraordinary dissent from Sotomayor.
"Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
An apparent 6-3 ruling on the shadow docket with no explanation of the majority, allowing ICE to detain anyone under suspicion of "walking while appearing Latino."
#UnmaskICE
"Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
An apparent 6-3 ruling on the shadow docket with no explanation of the majority, allowing ICE to detain anyone under suspicion of "walking while appearing Latino."
#UnmaskICE
August 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Add Chicagoans to the list of people who are going to get good and mad.
August 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Add Chicagoans to the list of people who are going to get good and mad.
August 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."
Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said:
"It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us."
Stay brave, patriots.
Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said:
"It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us."
Stay brave, patriots.
August 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."
Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said:
"It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us."
Stay brave, patriots.
Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said:
"It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us."
Stay brave, patriots.
Photo 1: Patriot Front, a white supremacist group. using a U-Haul as a troop carrier.
Video 1: DHS, a department actively working to deport brown people, using a Penske as a troop carrier.
And maybe violating court orders.
#UnmaskICE
Video 1: DHS, a department actively working to deport brown people, using a Penske as a troop carrier.
And maybe violating court orders.
#UnmaskICE
August 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Photo 1: Patriot Front, a white supremacist group. using a U-Haul as a troop carrier.
Video 1: DHS, a department actively working to deport brown people, using a Penske as a troop carrier.
And maybe violating court orders.
#UnmaskICE
Video 1: DHS, a department actively working to deport brown people, using a Penske as a troop carrier.
And maybe violating court orders.
#UnmaskICE
So much for HIPAA...
And today I learned that HIPAA is enforced for by Health and Human Services. So we have Brain Worm Kennedy protecting confidential medical data.
#UnmaskICE
And today I learned that HIPAA is enforced for by Health and Human Services. So we have Brain Worm Kennedy protecting confidential medical data.
#UnmaskICE
August 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
So much for HIPAA...
And today I learned that HIPAA is enforced for by Health and Human Services. So we have Brain Worm Kennedy protecting confidential medical data.
#UnmaskICE
And today I learned that HIPAA is enforced for by Health and Human Services. So we have Brain Worm Kennedy protecting confidential medical data.
#UnmaskICE
This isn't the flex he thinks it is.
July 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This isn't the flex he thinks it is.
You have friends everywhere.
July 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
You have friends everywhere.
July 5, Louisville, KY. Proud Boys March.
With DHS prioritizing detention law-abiding immigrants over right-wing domestic terror investigations, the threat of another Oklahoma City bombing or a plot to assassinate governors/lawmakers increases.
www.instagram.com/reel/DLx99Z8...
With DHS prioritizing detention law-abiding immigrants over right-wing domestic terror investigations, the threat of another Oklahoma City bombing or a plot to assassinate governors/lawmakers increases.
www.instagram.com/reel/DLx99Z8...
July 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
July 5, Louisville, KY. Proud Boys March.
With DHS prioritizing detention law-abiding immigrants over right-wing domestic terror investigations, the threat of another Oklahoma City bombing or a plot to assassinate governors/lawmakers increases.
www.instagram.com/reel/DLx99Z8...
With DHS prioritizing detention law-abiding immigrants over right-wing domestic terror investigations, the threat of another Oklahoma City bombing or a plot to assassinate governors/lawmakers increases.
www.instagram.com/reel/DLx99Z8...
You're right.
About this not being good trouble. Not about me being a lefty.
I'm a radical moderate.
This inane thread is just a waste of everyone's energy at this point.
About this not being good trouble. Not about me being a lefty.
I'm a radical moderate.
This inane thread is just a waste of everyone's energy at this point.
July 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
You're right.
About this not being good trouble. Not about me being a lefty.
I'm a radical moderate.
This inane thread is just a waste of everyone's energy at this point.
About this not being good trouble. Not about me being a lefty.
I'm a radical moderate.
This inane thread is just a waste of everyone's energy at this point.
Sorry, what?
The poll you posted doesn't have corruption as an option.
The results of that poll thus have no relevance or bearing on how "the economy" fares against "corruption."
www.pogo.org/analysis/cor...
The poll you posted doesn't have corruption as an option.
The results of that poll thus have no relevance or bearing on how "the economy" fares against "corruption."
www.pogo.org/analysis/cor...
July 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Sorry, what?
The poll you posted doesn't have corruption as an option.
The results of that poll thus have no relevance or bearing on how "the economy" fares against "corruption."
www.pogo.org/analysis/cor...
The poll you posted doesn't have corruption as an option.
The results of that poll thus have no relevance or bearing on how "the economy" fares against "corruption."
www.pogo.org/analysis/cor...
The left knows all about fighting because they have a lot of practice.
They fight everyone all the time.
The gap is focusing and targeting that fighting ability strategically to achieve an outcome.
E.g., destroying property rather than nonviolent "good trouble" that wins the moral battle.
They fight everyone all the time.
The gap is focusing and targeting that fighting ability strategically to achieve an outcome.
E.g., destroying property rather than nonviolent "good trouble" that wins the moral battle.
July 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The left knows all about fighting because they have a lot of practice.
They fight everyone all the time.
The gap is focusing and targeting that fighting ability strategically to achieve an outcome.
E.g., destroying property rather than nonviolent "good trouble" that wins the moral battle.
They fight everyone all the time.
The gap is focusing and targeting that fighting ability strategically to achieve an outcome.
E.g., destroying property rather than nonviolent "good trouble" that wins the moral battle.
And you just lost 30% of gettable voters by saying singing the National Anthem isn't good.
You just let the Jan 6 "political prisoners" define patriotism.
Might as well have brought up gun control.
When bridge protesting, having a sign gets x honks. Having a sign and a flag gets 10x honks.
You just let the Jan 6 "political prisoners" define patriotism.
Might as well have brought up gun control.
When bridge protesting, having a sign gets x honks. Having a sign and a flag gets 10x honks.
July 16, 2025 at 5:54 AM
And you just lost 30% of gettable voters by saying singing the National Anthem isn't good.
You just let the Jan 6 "political prisoners" define patriotism.
Might as well have brought up gun control.
When bridge protesting, having a sign gets x honks. Having a sign and a flag gets 10x honks.
You just let the Jan 6 "political prisoners" define patriotism.
Might as well have brought up gun control.
When bridge protesting, having a sign gets x honks. Having a sign and a flag gets 10x honks.
Good on ya. I still work, doing similar things to what you did for a living.
Don't get me started on state Democrats.
Across this entire conversation, I bet we're all in 80+% agreement and could have robust healthy discussion across the other 20%.
And yet here we all are, in-fighting.
Don't get me started on state Democrats.
Across this entire conversation, I bet we're all in 80+% agreement and could have robust healthy discussion across the other 20%.
And yet here we all are, in-fighting.
July 16, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Good on ya. I still work, doing similar things to what you did for a living.
Don't get me started on state Democrats.
Across this entire conversation, I bet we're all in 80+% agreement and could have robust healthy discussion across the other 20%.
And yet here we all are, in-fighting.
Don't get me started on state Democrats.
Across this entire conversation, I bet we're all in 80+% agreement and could have robust healthy discussion across the other 20%.
And yet here we all are, in-fighting.
A long read, but a fantastic primer on how our current immigration courts work and why the system is hopelessly complicated.
From 2018, so things may have changed a bit.
U of Cincinnati Law Review: "Creating an Article I Immigration Court."
scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcont...
From 2018, so things may have changed a bit.
U of Cincinnati Law Review: "Creating an Article I Immigration Court."
scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcont...
July 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
A long read, but a fantastic primer on how our current immigration courts work and why the system is hopelessly complicated.
From 2018, so things may have changed a bit.
U of Cincinnati Law Review: "Creating an Article I Immigration Court."
scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcont...
From 2018, so things may have changed a bit.
U of Cincinnati Law Review: "Creating an Article I Immigration Court."
scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcont...
BTW, why aren't immigration courts under the Constitution's Article III court system?
1. They are part of DoJ. So the prosecuting branch also owns the courts. Great.
2. AILA advocates for immigration courts independent of DoJ.
docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/...
immigrationforum.org/wp-content/u...
1. They are part of DoJ. So the prosecuting branch also owns the courts. Great.
2. AILA advocates for immigration courts independent of DoJ.
docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/...
immigrationforum.org/wp-content/u...
July 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
BTW, why aren't immigration courts under the Constitution's Article III court system?
1. They are part of DoJ. So the prosecuting branch also owns the courts. Great.
2. AILA advocates for immigration courts independent of DoJ.
docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/...
immigrationforum.org/wp-content/u...
1. They are part of DoJ. So the prosecuting branch also owns the courts. Great.
2. AILA advocates for immigration courts independent of DoJ.
docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/...
immigrationforum.org/wp-content/u...
#ICE complaining about non-US flags being flown, which is Constitutionally protected free speech.
And yet they're silent while their boss pardons insurrectionists from Jan 6 flying... non-US flags.
Talk about desecration of American soil - namely the hallowed halls of the US Capitol.
And yet they're silent while their boss pardons insurrectionists from Jan 6 flying... non-US flags.
Talk about desecration of American soil - namely the hallowed halls of the US Capitol.
July 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
#ICE complaining about non-US flags being flown, which is Constitutionally protected free speech.
And yet they're silent while their boss pardons insurrectionists from Jan 6 flying... non-US flags.
Talk about desecration of American soil - namely the hallowed halls of the US Capitol.
And yet they're silent while their boss pardons insurrectionists from Jan 6 flying... non-US flags.
Talk about desecration of American soil - namely the hallowed halls of the US Capitol.
DHS post compared to Nazi Volksgemeinschaft propaganda.
I look at the DHS post and can't help but think of the thousands of Native Americans slaughtered by US settlers and soldiers.
This is the image DHS chooses to represent the US "heritage." Just fly a Confederate flag at this point, #ICE.
I look at the DHS post and can't help but think of the thousands of Native Americans slaughtered by US settlers and soldiers.
This is the image DHS chooses to represent the US "heritage." Just fly a Confederate flag at this point, #ICE.
July 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
DHS post compared to Nazi Volksgemeinschaft propaganda.
I look at the DHS post and can't help but think of the thousands of Native Americans slaughtered by US settlers and soldiers.
This is the image DHS chooses to represent the US "heritage." Just fly a Confederate flag at this point, #ICE.
I look at the DHS post and can't help but think of the thousands of Native Americans slaughtered by US settlers and soldiers.
This is the image DHS chooses to represent the US "heritage." Just fly a Confederate flag at this point, #ICE.