This is a distressing story about Trump’s attempts to impede Thomas Massie’s efforts to release the Epstein files. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin? NOEM: Yes WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that? NOEM: No.
As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · 5mo agoLocal zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc
It’s taken all hands: Nearly 30,000 “constitutional observers,” plus tens of thousands to film agents, deliver groceries, and accompany neighbors to school or church They've shown the world how to fight back—without resorting to the violence being used against them. trib.al/q3Ta0nP
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
CNN airs compilation of federal agents acting with extreme aggression towards peaceful observers.
A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
Hey, remember all that talk about "qualified immunity" from a few years back? What ever happened with that? slate.trib.al/TfEjm1F
How the Supreme Court Made Alex Pretti’s Killing More Likely
ICE agents, like all federal agents, are protected by qualified immunity.
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WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."
Imagine what a tiny little man you would have to be to feel threatened by a dancing fox.
Texas has 2.1 million immigrants. Florida has 1.6 million immigrants. Minnesota has 130 THOUSAND immigrants. What Trump is doing was NEVER about immigration. It’s about RACISM and REVENGE in Minnesota. He’s not creating jobs, or bringing down grocery prices or making healthcare affordable
No one explains or soothes better than Pete. No one. Here’s a message I had to split for time. #1: Healthcare Subsidies #2: Greenland #PeteButtigieg #ThePeteEffect
Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2
Every good thing you have in your life is a product of someone else’s struggle…
There is an area in the ICE detention center in Minneapolis designated specifically for American citizens. Contemplate that for a minute.
Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.
Two days after an ICE agent killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, a federal agent asked an observer, "Have y'all not learned?" Her phone was taken and she was briefly detained. Two days after that, another federal agent said, “You did not learn from what just happened” to a different observer.
The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.
ICE threw a flash bang at a car and it had six kids in it. All six children are in the hospital now.
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 7mo agoThat is what was relayed
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
things off the top of my head that i can think of that conservatives have called tyranny - health care subsidies - seeing pronouns in an email - being suspended from a social media platform - pride month - baking a cake for a same sex wedding - legal rulings against donald trump - EV benchmarks
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoTrump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity. (vid via Ford Fischer on X)
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal: “No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle. “What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.” Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.