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guess it wasn’t enough to go after the Islamophobic vote, Andrew Cuomo is now courting the transphobic vote as well

Souvannarath is likely a citizen, ICE kidnapped him, he filed habeas, a judge ordered he not be deported, and *the next day* DHS deported him.

DHS told the press they didn't get the order, which is undoubtedly a lie and will be perjury when they say it to the court.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The indictment says she "assaulted" an agent by standing in front of his car. That's assault now.

And now apply this horrific statement to universities under attack for supposedly being "woke institutions"

"Utah already has a severe shortage of psychiatric beds,(..) The legislature is unlikely to fund hundreds of new beds,(..)even if it did, there is no work force to staff them.

Without enormous new spending(..), the center could function less as a treatment facility than 'a prison or a warehouse.'"

Meanwhile, in Mississippi...

I think at least 170 American citizens would disagree with Noem's bullshit:

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the f...

In remarks to a private audience in 2023, Russell Vought, who is Trump’s budget chief and the intellectual force behind Trump’s unprecedented power grab, said he championed the term “invasion” because it “unlocked” extraordinary presidential powers.

(Published May)
By @mtredden.bsky.social

Why not both? They're equally awful in different ways, making this a bad comparison.

If you take the damage campaign strategists and consultants have done in their totality, we're effectively just weighing infinities of shit at this point.

One hell of a 🧵 discussing the growing schism amongst Christian nationalists, concerning those supporting Israel out of a desperate desire for the rapture and neonazis' desire for a Christian nationalism rooted in antisemitism:

They're always deferring to incrementalism, yet inevitably slipping back into the cold comfort of maintaining the stagnant status quo.

Where has incrementalism gotten us so far? People are so mad and/or stupid that Dems lost to the most obvious grifter since the monorail guy from The Simpsons.

It’s a serious problem that an agency as powerful as DHS has no problem lying about things that are this easy to check.

WOW! The Washington Post obtained the rest of the body cam footage showing that the drunk-driving ICE agent promised to check if the arresting officer's partner was Haitian. "I’m going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."

Even worse when you find out Middlebury College had another death of a trans student in 2023, then hosted an anti-trans talk last winter, before kicking Lia off of both her teams this fall.

So a literal police state?

Fellow frogs, the water is BOILING

quotes by Musk and Hannah Arendt

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

So Cuomo had a...consulting business that raked in $5 million last year.

Among his clients: an offshore cryptocurrency exchange that later pled guilty to violating money laundering laws.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...

~"WaStE, fRaUd & AbUsE"~

It's always about the punitive action in lieu of real solutions at the root. So much crime can be fixed simply by improving material conditions. Instead, we take the reactionary approach of more police(and more police funding), achieving nothing but demagoguery.

As of today, Adelita Grijalva has gone un-sworn-in for longer than any representative-elect this century. (Data from @greggiroux.bsky.social)

"— marking at least the 15th boat to be hit in the Trump administration's two-month-long campaign of strikes that have killed more than 60 people."

This administration has a body count domestically and abroad. A Nuremberg 2.0 can't come soon enough.

Democrats are furious that the Trump Administration held a briefing on Capitol Hill today about U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats. Only Republicans were invited. This is from Sen. Mark Warner D-VA.

New York City Mayoral Election 2025: Latest Polls Track the latest polls about Mamdani, Cuomo, Adams and Sliwa in the New York City mayoral election.

New Quinnipiac University poll out today and hoo boy. If you can vote in New York or know people who can, then you need to activate. Not liking this Q-Poll trend as the racist attacks have mounted.

Oct. 23-27: Mamdani +10
Oct. 3-7: Mamdani +13
Sep. 4-8: Mamdani +16

Yep, that was absolutely a Nazi salute being covered up with a bevy of nonsensical hand signals.

Who ISN'T a Nazi in this regime at this point?

...... Why?

There's no legitimate reason to keep them there (or deploy them in the first place). It's almost as if the regime wants a police state in D.C.

—the intentional fracturing of populations through propaganda to prevent unified resistance. Does any of that sound familiar?

—the GOP will engage in once this shutdown has reached its apex of tolerance.
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One of the descriptions of fascism is the idea that the violence of empire abroad eventually comes home. Military tactics and weapons being used by police, the treatment and incarceration of civilians, and the—

—abdicated its responsibilities to allow the coalescing of power into the hands of the Executive branch, it will need scapegoats more than ever to direct the anger of their own constituents. This childish finger pointing we're currently being subjected to will pale in comparison to the demagoguery—