Kyle Reed 🟥

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The year is 2030.

There are whispers of a time when the Washington Post - a collection of three underperforming podcasts and a Substack - used to be an actual news outlet.

Option 1: Mike Johnson doesn't understand how counting works.

Option 2: Mike Johnson is a POS who's happy to use the "election was rigged" lie to justify his party's longtime policy goal of rigging elections.

The Friends of Epstein have some thoughts on scouting

Covered by the ban, yes. Prohibited for domestic use, no.

Which is just so damn weird. I mean, I get the negotiating reasons behind it but...so damn weird

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ICE is averaging 3.5 violations *per day.*

It's mission & approach are fundamentally at odds with a rule of law society. You can't reform that. No number of body cameras can fix it. You can't train your way out of it. Sorry, @schumer.senate.gov.

You know what you can do?

Abolish it.

Senate Democrats are chomping at the bit to negotiate some ICE reforms to go with those previously negotiated ACA tax credit extensions.

They'll look great on the shelf next to the Epstein files bill. You know, the one the DOJ keeps ignoring. That one.

You aren't going to "better policies and procedures" your way to solving the hybrid secret police/murder squads.

"That pack unites a lot of (elected, chickenshit) Dems (who are generally terrified of actually rising to the moment)."

Just filling in some of the unspoken bits in Murphy's statement.

"Rulemaking by AI slop," the latest front in the GOP's attack on federal regulatory system

Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽

‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

Imagine being so fucking dense that you think the murders are a mistake or a side-effect.

The violence is the point.

Walz and Ellison have a very clear question here - is murder a crime in Minnesota?

If so, the next steps are very fucking clear.

"In some areas" shouldn't be funding the "Department of shooting people in the street while ripping apart families and shredding the 4th amendment"

True. Surrender does make it hard to fight.

The pro-gestapo wing of the party

"I’m not really a tech guy...So I wouldn’t have thought I’d be ahead of the curve here"

You aren't ahead of the curve. You're ill-equipped to realize how behind you are.

🧵ICE's tactics for arresting and holding observers and protestors is ever-shifting, and I'm hearing lots of different stories. Right now, my perspective is that these are your best practices:

The EU is correctly reading this as a lane change, not a U-turn.

You don't reform this. You don't 'improve the training.'

You abolish it, you prosecute it, you excise from civic life like the cancer it is.

Torched US-Europe relations and shredded NATO but hey, we've reached the outline of negotiations to maybe eventually create...the 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement.

They're actually concocting a way to enable Trump's "agency rampage" while giving their investment portfolios a bit of protection.

The "military is off the table" thing was meant to be palatable to one incredibly dumb audience, by which I of course mean Wall Street.

Charles Ponzi had similar concerns, back in the day

8.5, but open I'm to comments.

Seriously, though, it's damn refreshing to hear a speech that seems genuinely aware of the scale of the crisis.

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So, today I learned that @pitchfork.com basically uses the Dutch grading scale

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Out with democratic peace theory, in with competitive authoritarian aggression theory

If your goal is to undermine the UN system (e.g. Trump, Putin, Orban, Netanyahu, etc.), $1 billion is a pretty good deal. It doesn't even have to do much to make a return.

Otherwise, why anyone would join this - much less PAY to join - is beyond me.