Britta Love

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Closet sociologist here too and that explains a lot about why I love your commentary/how you're always looking at things. Wish my university had you design the curriculum though. 😂

Meet Aliya Rahman, Disabled U.S. Citizen Assaulted, Jailed & Traumatized by ICE in Minneapolis We speak with Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was violently dragged from her car by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month and detained at the Whipple Federal Building, which has beco...

"Anybody knows, who studies history, what happens when you have folks who are now treating these humans as bodies, and you have no reason to believe you’re going to make it out alive from a place where they’re already calling you a body." Thank you, Aliya Rahman, for this brave testimony & analysis💥

The acute infection is the least of my worries. There’s a ton of data now about the silent damage from Covid - aside from long covid there’s immune dysregulation (notice people sicker all the time now?) and cardiac/cancer/diabetes/autoimmune risks skyrocket after infection.

Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

A graph showing that the US has the highest incarceration rate among founding NATO countries. Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024.html

While the U.S. goes for gold & aims to be the best at the Olympics, it's already #1 among independent democracies when it comes to mass incarceration – and that’s nothing to celebrate.

So much for the “land of the free.”

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

This document is one of the great political failures of our time. It must be immediately denounced by all people of good will. And it will be a major scandal if any "civil rights" organization gives cover to this capitulation to fascism.

You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month.

Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.

All bodycams are going to do is facilitate a surge in prosecutions for “assaulting agents” and improve data collection about protesters so good work everyone who pushed for that big reform.

Graphic from FT showing the speed of decline in the author's "backsliding scale".

Backsliding in the US happening quicker than other 21st century cases.

www.ft.com/content/b474...

No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims don’t report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of “justice” supposed to help you

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

Yup the whole thing is Miller's vision. This is on him.

Noem is just a sacrificial lamb! We want to take down the architect of this whole ethnic cleansing campaign. Stephen Miller OUT NOW!

Yes finally targeting in the right direction. Killer Miller OUT NOW!

We gotta get the architect of this out. Killer Miller OUT NOW!

YES Killer Miller OUT NOW!

Finally something tangible! Killer Miller OUT NOW!

It didn't. And at the same time, the people need to keep Stephen Miller's name in their mouths. Noem would just be a sacrificial lamb, when he's the architect. It's time for him to go.

We've got to throw Miller under the bus. Stephen Miller OUT NOW!

And who is going to be held accountable for empowering those agents to act with impunity? Stephen Miller OUT NOW!

Yes yes yes! Nothing changes without Miller out.

This is such a powerful and important summary.

Got to know who to be mad at - the people demand Stephen Miller OUT NOW.

Stephen Miller specifically. He's got to go.

THIS THIS THIS. Please more Democratic leadership pressure on Miller. And let's make sure the people know who to be angry at.

Yes