I don't think this is the case, nor do I think this conclusion is anything other than what our opponents want us to draw. They don't have the people, but authoritarians do have the ability to build fear, and you have to fight that fear if you want to not become overwhelmed by the enemy.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Today it's the airports, but soon ICE will be omnipresent in our lives unless they are stopped. Public spaces. The polling place. You name it. This is textbook authoritarianism and as long as the corruption of liberal democracy continues there will be more and more power vacuums for the fascists.

I look forward to the establishment of a Wiesenthal Center-like organization dedicated to identifying and hunting former DHS agents so that they may be held accountable.

Five years ago, Donald Trump instigated a violent insurrection in the Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election. The fact that the GOP coddled him, protected him, renominated him, and now support him in office, is a stain that will never be erased.

If you’re an elected Democrat (rightly) complaining about the GOP kicking 17 million people off of Medicaid, now is a good and credible time to critique the entire broken work-based non-universal US healthcare system. Now is the time to call for universal healthcare, for Medicare for All.

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country

Birthright ctizienship is good and essential and we're going to need a second Reconstruction to undo the combined damage of the Roberts Court and the second Trump administration.

Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

If we're ever going to have a chance of rebuilding from this mess, the left-right axis is far less important than the fight-don't fight axis. Moderates who are willing to do whatever it takes to recover from Trumpism are far more valuable to the left than "leftists" who just care about their seats.

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · last yr.

tester was far to the right of my preferences and i have never said a negative word about him. so is peltola. gillibrand is far to both of their left and i'll be donating to the first person who tries to primary her out of office.

If there's a masculinity crisis in America, Ground Zero is the cowardly wusses who work for ICE and HSI, covering their faces with masks, fearful of an 80-year-old congresswoman, and reeking of panic What are the consequences for a U.S. secret police? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Why are ICE agents such cowardly wusses? | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, how the Trump-Leo divide was born in the ‘80s.

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Abolish ICE It was absolutely the right call 7 years ago, and more so now, with nightly reports of violent raids gone awry, strip-searching tourists, and snatching student op-ed writers How America created a secret police, and how to get rid of it. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Human rights nightmares show ‘the crazies’ who wanted to abolish ICE were right | Will Bunch

The nightly parade of horror stories about an American secret police prove the current system is broken beyond repair.

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it is fun to read profiles of this guy which play him up as some diabolical mastermind and then watch him in action and see a huge loser

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding ... we're gonna make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."

In another stunning development, the US has relocated an Iraqi refugee to Rwanda via a new diplomatic arrangement with the country. Story by Marisa Kabas. www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-rwanda-...

US “relocates” Iraqi refugee to Rwanda via new diplomatic arrangement

A State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same.

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The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

There's a reason ICE agents wear masks in the street. From Kristi Noem's war-crime propaganda to the airport officers harassing innocent tourists, the MAGA deportation regime is not just immoral but increasingly criminal Someday, there must be justice. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

When this is over, U.S. rights abusers must be tried for crimes against humanity

Escalating reports of human rights crimes from Kristi Noem's propaganda to ICE cruelty must be wiped clean with justice.

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In a just world, they’d have to explain what they find so funny about all of this to a court in The Hague.

Some thoughts from me at Crooked Timber

If Pete Hegseth had even a tiny bit of honor and sense of responsibility, then he would hand in his resignation this morning.

Wine Moms To Buck Chuck

Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight

A top Democratic congressman goes off during a DOGE hearing and calls out Elon for trying to cut Social Security. More of this please.

Today I confronted “border czar” Tom Homan who came to Albany to do Trump’s bidding — push for mass deportations, carry out the assault on working class New Yorkers, and justify the unjustifiable detention of legal permanent resident and father-to-be, Mahmoud Khalil.

NEW from me: With House Republicans passing a partisan, damaging continuing resolution that gives Donald Trump and Elon Musk free rein to continue to strangle appropriated spending, Senate Democrats have to decide whether they will actively participate in their institution's own destruction.

Senate Democrats’ Choice: Block the Republican Spending Bill or Dissolve Congress

The House’s continuing resolution would effectively hand over spending decisions to Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

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The thing that is important for elected politicians to know about civil rights issues: your responsibilities in your job demand that you take positions standing up for everybody, not because these positions are popular, but because these positions are just.

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · last yr.

Everybody has civil rights or nobody does

What a loser

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

who told this pampered asshole he has the right to speak to anyone like this?

Nikki McCann Ramírez@nikkimcr.bsky.social · last yr.

VP Vance to President Zelenskyy: Have you said thank you once?

The Base, the neo-Nazi White Supremacist terrorist network, is reportedly reorganizing and 'appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right.'

Morning Briefing: Neo-Nazi White Supremacists Terror Network 'Rebuilding Its Global and Stateside Ranks'

The Base, the neo-Nazi White Supremacist terrorist network, is reportedly reorganizing and 'appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right.'

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