Rep. Buddy Carter on a teacher who was killed when ICE got into a high-speed chase with a man who had no criminal record: "She is a victim of Jon Ossoff, Chuck Schumer, and the Democrats ... they've got blood on their hands"
17.02.2026 14:31 — 👍 586 🔁 156 💬 182 📌 46Smart questions by Sen. Paul; yet ICE seems to be violating these 1st A rights repeatedly, with at times deadly consequences.
12.02.2026 22:19 — 👍 518 🔁 137 💬 17 📌 1
“I explained to the ICE officers that the war was killing people, that it was violence, terrorism which we had escaped from but one of them began to laugh,” Kulyk told The Daily Beast. “I asked why he was laughing and I was told that he was pro-Russian, wanted Russia to win the war.”
12.02.2026 17:35 — 👍 22 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0Yeah. I thought of Ken because he has discussed this phenomenon many times.
10.02.2026 04:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's hard to describe the sinking feeling you immediately get the moment the judge says something especially nice as he is about to deliver his ruling
10.02.2026 03:55 — 👍 33 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yeah, basically
10.02.2026 03:51 — 👍 28 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0There's nothing much more to tell. It wasn't a disaster but I did not get the result I had sought. But I pretty much knew that the moment the judge started to say nice things.
10.02.2026 03:49 — 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
@kenwhite.bsky.social Thought of you this morning as I appeared in court and the judge began the reading of his memorandum of decision by effusively praising my brief. He said it was well written and addressed every issue thoroughly and in detail.
"Uh-oh" I thought. "That's not good!"
It wasn't.
Says I have to pay to read it all, but my revealed preference is that I don’t care enough to do that. #economics
05.02.2026 05:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“One young girl who kept coming up to me, a little girl who was hugging my leg, asking us to help get her out of there.” - Rep. Joaquin Castro
03.02.2026 21:54 — 👍 333 🔁 143 💬 1 📌 11
Regarding the UAE bribing Trump to secure a deal for AI chips that our intelligence worried might flow to China:
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Parthenon Huxley, RIP
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“Stop saying mean things about ICE because when you do that, they murder you”
29.01.2026 15:39 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Every time I post about AI unforgivably fucking up very basic facts I get the same response: "it's 'cause you don't use a good AI like I use"
29.01.2026 05:56 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Law enforcement officers have always been unmasked in this country until ICE started wearing them last year.
*That* is the departure from norms. *That* is the step too far.
Then shut down the government over it
29.01.2026 02:15 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0If police being doxed is an issue if people can see their faces, why don’t the many thousands of state/local police officers wear masks? Why do they typically wear their names and badge numbers in a visible location? ICE/BP just wants to hide from misconduct accountability. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Last night Capitol Police said they would work with "federal partners" to ensure the attacker is punished.
Seeking federal charges instead of state charges will put the fate of Omar's attacker in the hands of this man.
Only state law enforcement is reliable these days.
I learned about the *accurate* standard, and the Supreme Court case that articulated it, from @stevevladeck.bsky.social's excellent newsletter where he addressed this issue specifically.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/186-when-c...
In a podcast with @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, Sarah Isgur said Supremacy Clause immunity asks whether an agent's acts are “egregiously unconstitutional outside...federal duties."
No. It's whether he "did no more than what was necessary and proper" for those duties.
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No masks is non-negotiable. Masks contribute to the sense of impunity, encourage distrust, and are symbolic of fascism.
If "no masks" is part of what is meant by "IDs" then we're closer. Still need clear methods of enforcement and clear penalties when (not if) the administration defies the law.
Imagine if Derek Chauvin had knelt on George Floyd's neck and murdered him, while employed as a masked federal agent.
Noem would declare him a hero. Bovino would return him to work.
You'd never learn who he was. He would never be tried.
And you couldn't do a thing about it.
If you see someone trying to pull that stunt, ask them how a use of force can be objectively unnecessary and yet objectively reasonable.
I have yet to see a single one of these pundits answer that question, though I have asked it over and over with respect to the Renee Good shooting.
If mainstream pundits repeat their arguments from the Renee Good shooting where they tell us the shooting was unnecessary but legal--an opinion generally offered with zero discussion of the law, which requires use of deadly force to be objectively reasonable--I may lose my mind.
25.01.2026 17:10 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0For the next three years at least, any time the federal government tells you *anything*—anything!—you would be wise to assume it’s a lie until the contrary is proved by clear independent evidence.
24.01.2026 20:26 — 👍 41 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0The gun was removed by agents from his waistband - he was never pointing it at them. He was already disarmed when they fired "defensive shots," killing the man. They then fired several shots at his lifeless body.
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/7 Also watch how the Gestapo administration will refuse to even investigate this murder, as they refused to investigate the murder of Renee Good. They define reality: someone we kill inherently deserved to die; us killing someone means killing them was right and fit.
24.01.2026 19:50 — 👍 1692 🔁 257 💬 17 📌 6
/2 The official policy of Trump supporters is that they support anything this government does.
Treat them accordingly.
