The Midrashist

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Let’s not equivocate. We’ve been neck deep in a constitutional crisis for quite a while now

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

“Natural” 👀

This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people.

Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it.

We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.

Will history look back at this as an early step in the dissolution of the union?

Yes! Let them all destroy each other from within!

Not sure if I’m more excited about what he’s saying how how he’s saying it!

I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.

But we do need your time. ⏰

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This is so important…

Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.

In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.

REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
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What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?

ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles

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“De-turd”

The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know it And they don't want you to notice.

Everyone in DC knows that if you want to hide something, announce it on a Friday in August. Better yet, make it nearly impossible to track down.

That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

To the other countries of the world…begin lobbying your leaders…NOW….to skip the 2028 Olympics in the United States.

Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on.

It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) —dragged at his own town hall.

He should have known when it kicked off w/constituents reciting the Pledge of Allegiance w/extra emphasis on “justice for all.”

Then came the truth:
“I don’t think you’re the right fit for us anymore.”

Even telling him it’s time to step down.

Not to mention those democrats also have their power from voting (whether or not they exert it *gives senate the stink eye*)

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This is what I came here to say. The cover up is egregious and the crime is still much worse. I think (hope) that’s why it’s sticking

Dem leadership’s job is to make sure republicans (ie our corporate overlords) win while maintaining a façade of democracy and left-of-far-right voice in government.

They lose elections on purpose.

They sabotage the left because they put profits over people.

Change my mind.

This looks like France, which is cool, but it looks like it was filmed in fall, which makes me think it was filmed months ago, which is misleading