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You think Dem voters would have turned out in the numbers, and with the enthusiasm, they did JUST FIVE DAYS AGO if they thought the party was going cave like this? Jesus
You think Dem voters would have turned out in the numbers, and with the enthusiasm, they did JUST FIVE DAYS AGO if they thought the party was going cave like this? Jesus
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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You think Dem voters would have turned out in the numbers, and with the enthusiasm, they did JUST FIVE DAYS AGO if they thought the party was going cave like this? Jesus
You think Dem voters would have turned out in the numbers, and with the enthusiasm, they did JUST FIVE DAYS AGO if they thought the party was going cave like this? Jesus
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Imagine possessing both the arrogance and incompetence of Dick Durbin.
We understand how the Senate works, dude. That's the fucking problem.
We understand how the Senate works, dude. That's the fucking problem.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Imagine possessing both the arrogance and incompetence of Dick Durbin.
We understand how the Senate works, dude. That's the fucking problem.
We understand how the Senate works, dude. That's the fucking problem.
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Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
August 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
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I have found a lot of use for Melinda Cooper’s concept of the anti-social state: a government that exists only to extract wealth and inflict violence, and dismantles all its pro-social and life-enabling functions. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
August 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I have found a lot of use for Melinda Cooper’s concept of the anti-social state: a government that exists only to extract wealth and inflict violence, and dismantles all its pro-social and life-enabling functions. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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A wild story, new in @boltsmag.org:
In a city of 250K people that Harris and Biden both won, Democrats not only failed to run a candidate for sheriff but are now enthusiastically endorsing “Detain ‘Em Dave Rosado,” who just last month signed a contract with ICE.
boltsmag.org/chesapeake-s...
In a city of 250K people that Harris and Biden both won, Democrats not only failed to run a candidate for sheriff but are now enthusiastically endorsing “Detain ‘Em Dave Rosado,” who just last month signed a contract with ICE.
boltsmag.org/chesapeake-s...
Democrats in Southeast Virginia Endorse "Pro-Trump, Pro-ICE" Sheriff - Bolts
The Democratic Party in Chesapeake, Virginia’s second-largest city, has embraced and endorsed the local sheriff who proclaimed his office “pro-Trump, pro-ICE,” and who campaigned as a Republican this ...
boltsmag.org
July 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A wild story, new in @boltsmag.org:
In a city of 250K people that Harris and Biden both won, Democrats not only failed to run a candidate for sheriff but are now enthusiastically endorsing “Detain ‘Em Dave Rosado,” who just last month signed a contract with ICE.
boltsmag.org/chesapeake-s...
In a city of 250K people that Harris and Biden both won, Democrats not only failed to run a candidate for sheriff but are now enthusiastically endorsing “Detain ‘Em Dave Rosado,” who just last month signed a contract with ICE.
boltsmag.org/chesapeake-s...
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The Republican appointees of the Supreme Court allowed this to happen.
My June 23 headline: “SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice.” www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-s...
My June 23 headline: “SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice.” www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-s...
Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.
ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens
The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The Republican appointees of the Supreme Court allowed this to happen.
My June 23 headline: “SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice.” www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-s...
My June 23 headline: “SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice.” www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-s...
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NEW from me: The GOP megabill will add $171 billion to immigration enforcement and ICE, a gigantic sum that'll pour funds into a vast network of detention + hire thousands of ICE agents and fund sheriffs.
I talked to an expert on just what to expect:
boltsmag.org/how-the-gop-...
I talked to an expert on just what to expect:
boltsmag.org/how-the-gop-...
How the GOP Megabill Would Turbocharge Local Immigration Enforcement - Bolts
Congress is poised to pour tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, plus new ICE partnerships with local police and sheriffs.
boltsmag.org
July 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
NEW from me: The GOP megabill will add $171 billion to immigration enforcement and ICE, a gigantic sum that'll pour funds into a vast network of detention + hire thousands of ICE agents and fund sheriffs.
I talked to an expert on just what to expect:
boltsmag.org/how-the-gop-...
I talked to an expert on just what to expect:
boltsmag.org/how-the-gop-...
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it's imo rhetorically useful that perhaps the most famously liberal metro area in the United States is now the beating heart of a strain of drugged-out sex freak technofascism which is a junior partner in the federal government
the immortality guy is Good™ (but not good). in keeping with glonzo thought, he is a right-wing stand-in for Bay Area perversion. this is what these people believe in. elon would measure the fake health of his and his son's dicks too if his actually worked
okay so my general position is "if you think about blood boy and bryan johnson more than a minute or two it goes from funny to depressing"
but i think imma change that from a minute or two to immediately becomes sad
but i think imma change that from a minute or two to immediately becomes sad
July 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
it's imo rhetorically useful that perhaps the most famously liberal metro area in the United States is now the beating heart of a strain of drugged-out sex freak technofascism which is a junior partner in the federal government
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“They took my cousin. He informed them he is a US citizen and his passport was in his pocket. We don’t know where they took him.”
This isn’t about deporting undocumented immigrants this is about going after people who are not white!
This isn’t about deporting undocumented immigrants this is about going after people who are not white!
June 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“They took my cousin. He informed them he is a US citizen and his passport was in his pocket. We don’t know where they took him.”
This isn’t about deporting undocumented immigrants this is about going after people who are not white!
This isn’t about deporting undocumented immigrants this is about going after people who are not white!
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At some point we gotta start arrest ICE agents for kidnapping
“They took my cousin. He informed them he is a US citizen and his passport was in his pocket. We don’t know where they took him.”
This isn’t about deporting undocumented immigrants this is about going after people who are not white!
This isn’t about deporting undocumented immigrants this is about going after people who are not white!
June 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
At some point we gotta start arrest ICE agents for kidnapping
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LAPD when they think nobody is watching
June 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
LAPD when they think nobody is watching
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“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
May 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
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Just a reminder that Judge Xinis's original order requiring the government to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States was in effect for more than 72 hours before it was administratively stayed by Chief Justice Roberts on Monday.
What did the Justice Department ... do ... during that time?
What did the Justice Department ... do ... during that time?
BREAKING: DOJ files a response, nearly 50 minutes past the deadline, saying they are "unable to provide" any of the information Judge Xinis ordered.
"Defendants are not in a position where they 'can' share any information requested by the Court. That is the reality."
"Defendants are not in a position where they 'can' share any information requested by the Court. That is the reality."
April 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Just a reminder that Judge Xinis's original order requiring the government to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States was in effect for more than 72 hours before it was administratively stayed by Chief Justice Roberts on Monday.
What did the Justice Department ... do ... during that time?
What did the Justice Department ... do ... during that time?
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people always forget but ICE is barely more than 20 years old, it was created in 2003 as part of DHS after 9/11
obviously most of its functions existed in other agencies beforehand but putting it all together has been an unmitigated disaster
obviously most of its functions existed in other agencies beforehand but putting it all together has been an unmitigated disaster
Fairly undeniable at this point that abolish ICE was always the only reasonable position
April 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
people always forget but ICE is barely more than 20 years old, it was created in 2003 as part of DHS after 9/11
obviously most of its functions existed in other agencies beforehand but putting it all together has been an unmitigated disaster
obviously most of its functions existed in other agencies beforehand but putting it all together has been an unmitigated disaster
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look, i think the paramilitary unit with police powers that is staffed with the most racist people alive and was created in post-9/11 hysteria to be outside the DOJ and report directly to the president might be bad
I genuinely don't understand how anyone can look at the current moment and think "Abolish ICE" was anything but completely correct.
ICE cannot and should not exist. Period.
ICE cannot and should not exist. Period.
April 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
look, i think the paramilitary unit with police powers that is staffed with the most racist people alive and was created in post-9/11 hysteria to be outside the DOJ and report directly to the president might be bad
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I should have said last night!
You fax from your computer.
You fill out a cover page form & since I didn't have attachments, I just wrote what I wanted to say on the cover page.
You get an email asking you to confirm; you confirm.
When it's successfully sent, you get another email.
Easy peasy!
You fax from your computer.
You fill out a cover page form & since I didn't have attachments, I just wrote what I wanted to say on the cover page.
You get an email asking you to confirm; you confirm.
When it's successfully sent, you get another email.
Easy peasy!
Gonna send a couple of faxes *cracks knuckles*
JOIN ME, WON'T YOU?
JOIN ME, WON'T YOU?
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March 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I should have said last night!
You fax from your computer.
You fill out a cover page form & since I didn't have attachments, I just wrote what I wanted to say on the cover page.
You get an email asking you to confirm; you confirm.
When it's successfully sent, you get another email.
Easy peasy!
You fax from your computer.
You fill out a cover page form & since I didn't have attachments, I just wrote what I wanted to say on the cover page.
You get an email asking you to confirm; you confirm.
When it's successfully sent, you get another email.
Easy peasy!
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USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong was forcibly removed from her office at the department, by security, after after she refused to comply with the illegal Trump order that fired her. Now that’s what you call resisting! 👏🏽👏🏽
Exclusive: USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House
Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong was forcibly removed from her office at the department, by security, after after she refused to comply with the illegal Trump order that fired her. Now that’s what you call resisting! 👏🏽👏🏽
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if the project of legacy news organizations was explicitly to frame Trump's actions as being as acceptable-as-possible without going so far that they alienate their overwhelmingly liberal readership how would it look different exactly
The countless small choices made every day inside newsrooms to do things like describe clear violations of the black-letter text of the law as "legally murky" add up to a very meaningful part of what's happened since 2017 and will continue to happen for the next four years.
Trump fires at least 12 inspectors general overnight in legally murky move
A senior administration official said the move was an effort to let go of parts of the Biden administration that don’t “align” with the Trump administration.
www.nbcnews.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
if the project of legacy news organizations was explicitly to frame Trump's actions as being as acceptable-as-possible without going so far that they alienate their overwhelmingly liberal readership how would it look different exactly
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Ah yes, the fundamental error of the Dem mind: assuming that the public is somehow directly observing politics, and that the Democratic role is to react to the public's reaction, rather than help SHAPE the public's reaction
i think dems are waiting to see what the public's reaction is to the promises not being kept. i agree it's risky, but it's also risky right now to act like an outraged lib because there is a sense where when we act like that we're doing what far right media wants us to do.
January 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Ah yes, the fundamental error of the Dem mind: assuming that the public is somehow directly observing politics, and that the Democratic role is to react to the public's reaction, rather than help SHAPE the public's reaction
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Amazon amends website to remove any mention of pro-diversity initiatives or support for transgender rights.
Expect @washingtonpost.com to become an active enemy of LGBT people's human rights. @jenrubin.bsky.social
www.metroweekly.com/2025/01/amaz...
Expect @washingtonpost.com to become an active enemy of LGBT people's human rights. @jenrubin.bsky.social
www.metroweekly.com/2025/01/amaz...
Amazon Erases LGBTQ Rights Support from Website
Shipping giant Amazon has removed statements expressing support for pro-LGBTQ policies and pro-diversity initiatives from its website.
www.metroweekly.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Amazon amends website to remove any mention of pro-diversity initiatives or support for transgender rights.
Expect @washingtonpost.com to become an active enemy of LGBT people's human rights. @jenrubin.bsky.social
www.metroweekly.com/2025/01/amaz...
Expect @washingtonpost.com to become an active enemy of LGBT people's human rights. @jenrubin.bsky.social
www.metroweekly.com/2025/01/amaz...