Brian Cook

Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse tells the story in sweeping detail. But you’ve nailed the essence. Humans have behaved this way for 9000 years, give or take.

This is part of a pattern that is impeachable: Trump cuts previously appropriated Congressional funds, but only to states led by Democrats (California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota).

But it’s true! They want to reduce it to heavily armed militias attacking, kidnapping, and enslaving non-white people. All the other functions of government will be privatized and sold to the most sycophantic bidders.

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.

“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

ICE actively preying on more small children to abduct and send to concentration camps.

Every single person responsible for this should be sentenced to spend the rest of their lives in one of their own camps, with the same crowding, rancid food, etc. You built it, enjoy it forever.

How is it possible to be considered a political expert in this country if you’re not demanding an end to this regime every day?

How?

In Somerville @cityofsomerville.bsky.social, the city will clear streets and bike lanes, but pedestrians must rely on their neighbors. The city has an ordinance requiring private property owners to clear their sidewalks, but both compliance and enforcement is inconsistent at best.

I am one of the senator’s constituents, if that’s what you mean. But criticism, and praise for that matter, of national elected officials does not have to respect political boundaries.

“This must end” and so you will…what?
You and your entire caucus support doing nothing about it. Why do you even serve in the US Senate, @markey.senate.gov?

Fair enough. I will leave to your creativity a word, phrase, or neologism that represents obtaining a public benefit through special privilege and dispensation what could not be obtained through market competition.

You can’t deport citizens. Some naturalized citizens can be denaturalized after a felony conviction.

He is describing expulsion, a crime against humanity. It should not be subject to negotiation.

Primary the entire leadership. Get them out of office if they won’t defend our rights.

It doesn’t work for anyone but the rent seekers and the public officials who enable it. Also see: asset stripping…

II. ARGUMENT SUMMARY When Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment was framed, constitutional lawyers recognized that an insurrection involved a) an assemblage, b) resisting 1 Counsel for the parties did not author any part of this brief; nor did counsel for any party or anyone else contribute funds for preparation or submission of the brief. 2 any law or interfering with the course of a governmental proceeding, c) by force or intimidation, d) for a public purpose. Persons engaged in an insurrection when

Prof Mark A Graber gets into this in his amicus brief for Trump v Anderson (a case about 14As3, where he reviews the history of the Treason Clause to show how it informed the meaning of “insurrection” for the framers of 14A): www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23...

As @edzitron.com says, CEOs don’t do any actual work.

It’s pretty hard to say you’re a “law enforcement agency” when you are likely the greatest lawbreaker in the country.

Not a single senator gives a shit about doing anything real about ICE. They all would be behaving extremely differently otherwise.

Schumer has no formal floor powers. He has one vote like everyone else.

everything. People excuse what he says as just words. But this is the de facto commander in chief. He announces war, that’s what it is. Let’s have @samhalpert.bsky.social weigh in.

Veterans of the Iraq War say the occupation of Minneapolis looks a lot like what they engaged in. And you are saying that when a president calls all the top brass worldwide together and tells them they are going to war against American citizens it’s just rhetoric? That’s why Trump gets away with

That this same poll finds Trump approval at 37%—while approval of his *policies* is at Bush II nadir levels of 27%—reminds us once again that his appeal has little to do w policy.

I'd add that it also suggests a technocratic view of politics as fundamentally about policy cannot make sense of Trump.

This feels like the very least Democrats should be rallying around?

Democracy has collapsed in America. Stop saying “we must protect our democracy.” It will be restored, but how long will it take and will the New Democrats be ruthless enough to jail the thugs and defund the oligarchs?

"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social

Also, circumstances were really grim in 1862, 1932, and 1942. Lots of despair and sense of impossibility. It only appears in retrospect like the outcome was assured.

I recommend checking out @citizensimpeachment.com. All the facts you need to understand the process and how unrelenting pressure can alter the dynamics. Seems improbable until it isn't. No magic wand, but hard work. All action in a legislature requires overcoming inertia.

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
Defacto president commits treason. Impeach, remove, punish.

I knew there were dirty units out there but had no sense of how many and how dirty. And it pains me to realize the effects of trading programs since that's part of what I worked on for the 1997 (!) NAAQS. I try to keep up as best I can by hanging with the Air working group at EPN & following you!

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#ICEOut

The entire American political economy has been organized around rent seeking since 1980 when the majority of national elected officials chose to abandon trying to balance the public good against business political privileges.