I'm so excited to do the whole "U" very soon! 🚲

a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him . ALT: a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .

i would strongly recommend you not engage in a debate with someone with an anime avatar and seemingly no memory of the past 10 years of american political history about whether it would be better if everything got worse

If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...

When you're concerned abt schools closing but support the 30-yr extension of tax-increment districts that will divert (rising) property tax revenues away from schools, I am afraid you've lost the plot.

(& if you think gentrification always helps poor folks by increasing resources, look at Atlanta)

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism

SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism

Atlanta Way boosterism at its finest. Keeps the rubes thinking that they're winning.

The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization.

This is no different.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...

Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society.

How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?

Posting this shit as they pull guns on roofers….

I guarantee you those ICE goons can’t lay shingles or hang drywall.

Jesus Christ you freak, they’re just my neighbors

Who could have guessed that Cobb County Schools would take the most aggressive position in metro Atlanta on this (at least publicly)?

Everyone in metro Atlanta basically.

This Wednesday at the rescheduled Zoning meeting, City Council will hear legislation to allow the construction of a data center near the West End station. Have an opinion? Email the Zoning Committee members!

Read the legislation here: atlantacityga.iqm2.com/Citizens/Det...

The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

A number of responders were quite opposed to the idea of giving ridealongs to The Atlantic (I understand their frustration with the outlet).

But I drove these guys around for two hours and they witnessed abductions, confrontations with the public, tear-gassings.

The lesson: let the world see.

I know some folks have (perhaps some legitimate) issues with Chicago's Mayor Johnson, but after hearing him (again) today at the rally, he does seem to be a mayor well suited for this particular time.

(e.g., I can't imagine Atlanta's Dickens delivering the same kind of call to resist federal power)

Kash Patel today: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want."

Really?

Trump is using his paramilitary force (ICE) to attack blue states and funding it with taxpayer dollars. We are way past the blue states withholding tax revenue to the federal government. They’re using our own money to kill us. Enough.

It's really too bad the United States Congress no longer exists.

US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota

Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.

One court decision, two different headlines.

Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

state-sponsored child trafficking

Acting Field Director David Easterwood.

Both from today. Feels like the consultant memos have never been more obvious.

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Jesus famously did not disrupt proceedings at a place of worship and call out religious hypocrisy

Scandal. Heads would roll in any other city with a modicum of accountability