Lucas O’Connor

There’s absolutely no way for gambling and sports to continue this way

On Monday a federal judge ruled DHS likely violated the law keeping lawmakers out of facilities without at least a week's notice of inspection. POLITICO says the ruling applies to the 13 Dems in the lawsuit so...? Vargas says he may also have to sue

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them.

The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

The elites don’t need those values to be functional, the rest of us do.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Common sense reform is abolition.

Exactly five Dems voted yes. If those five voted no it would have failed. These votes are all orchestrated w Republicans to keep the Trump agenda rolling.

Thank you for your attention to this matter inDEED

Turns out local police can do things if they want to, and the leaders saying otherwise are full of it.

👀 Looks like the husband of the woman ICE abducted called his lawyer, lawyer called the cops, then the police chief went and got her & took her home

Article says it may be the first time local Minnesota PD "intervened in a federal law enforcement action" since Trump started terrorizing the state

Yeah! Or else Senate Dems will do nothing! Take that!

Asked about Minneapolis, Victor Wembanyama says, “PR has tried, but I’m not going to sit here and be politically correct.”

Then says “it’s crazy that people make it seem like … the murder of civilians is acceptable.”

These are the reported tentative Democratic demands for funding DHS:

- DHS required to cooperate with state probes
- CBP stays at border
- Warrants for arrests
- IDs, bodycams
- ICE out of churches, schools

NOT ONE OF THOSE THINGS FIXES THE BEHAVIOR BELOW.

One thing I appreciate about Bill Ferguson’s extended watb routine trying to block MD redistricting is that now I know he has a primary opponent. Just out here Streisanding himself.

Thanks @the-downballot.com

Unless Democrats are aggressively pushing to rescind funding - $75 billion - Congress appropriated for ICE - any 3R cosmetic/messaging package from Schumer Dems should be a nonstarter. No one should take Ds seriously unless they are pushing to slash funding for ICE/CBP.

This is also Alex Pretti's union.

Can pretty much assume this is the median position in the GOP caucus right now

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.

This is unequivocal good news, AND remarkable framing. Everything Suozzi says is that it's upward pressure accomplishing this shift. It's not his conscience or his own judgment of the substance, it's that the people will not stand for him continuing to act as he has.

The pressure is how we win.

MIN S3AT STATEMENT FROM MATT MOBERG, CHAPLAIN OF THE MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES IF YOU'RE A CHURCH POSTING PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND UNITY TODAY WHILE MY CITY BLEEDS IN THE STREET, MISS ME WITH THAT SOFTNESS YOU ONLY WEAR WHEN IT COSTS YOU NOTHING. DON'T DRESS AVOIDANCE UP AS HOLINESS. DON'T CALL SILENCE "PEACEMAKING." DON'T LIGHT A CANDLE AND THINK IT SUBSTITUTES FOR SHOWING UP. TONIGHT AN ICE AGENT TOOK A PHOTO OF ME NEXT TO MY CAR, LOOKED ME IN THE EYE AND TOLD ME, "WE'LL BE SEEING YOU SOON." NOT METAPHOR. NOT HYPERBOLE. A THREAT DRESSED UP IN A BADGE AND A PAYCHECK. PEACE ISN'T WHAT YOU ASK FOR WHEN THE BOOT IS ALREADY ON SOMEONE'S NECK. PEACE IS WHAT THE POWERFUL ASK FOR WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED. UNITY ISN'T NEUTRAL. UNITY THAT REFUSES TO NAME VIOLENCE IS JUST LOYALTY TO THE ONES HOLDING THE WEAPONS. STOP USING SCRIPTURE LIKE CHLOROFORM. STOP CALLING YOUR FEAR "WISDOM." STOP PRETENDING JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED BECAUSE HE PREACHED GOOD VIBES AND PERSONAL GROWTH. YOU DON'T GET TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE LIKE A LULLABY, WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE. YOU DON'T GET TO ASK GOD TO "HEAL THE LAND" IF YOU WON'T EVEN LOOK AT THE WOUND. THERE IS A KIND OF PEACE THAT ONLY EXISTS BECAUSE IT REFUSES TO TELL THE TRUTH. THAT PEACE IS A LIE. AND LIES DON'T GROW ANYTHING WORTH SAVING. THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM. THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT. AND SOMETIMES THE MOST FAITHFUL THING YOU CAN DO IS STOP PRAYING AROUND THE PAIN AND START STANDING INSIDE IT. IF THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE-GOOD. GROWTH ALWAYS IS.

Statement from the Minnesota Timberwolves team chaplain with alt text (ht @gregolear.bsky.social)

the atlantic has been like this for a long time but man, it really blows that the flagship publication for american liberalism has abandoned *liberalism* wholesale because of trans athletes and woke student governments

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.

This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

Imagine if institutional Dems blacklisted everyone involved in scammer groups that fundraise off moments like this with half the intensity they blacklist people who work on primary campaigns against people who vote to thank and fund ICE

Dude, it's not just these "seven democrats". It was coordinated by MAJORITY of Establishment Democrats who ensured this still went through. Our anger needs to be directed somewhere, but we need to go wider. This *will not fix what is broken*. Schumer and Jeffries will always find another seven.

It’s fine but Warner also helped orchestrate the shutdown cave, then sent others out to cast the votes because he’s in an election year. So this is still performative at this point, if at least a better performance than Chuck. We’ll see what the substance proves to be.

Senate Dems will meet behind closed doors to orchestrate the votes to continue funding ICE that can only happen with Dem support.

And they’ll continue providing unanimous consent for everything Trump’s Republicans bring forward.

Schumer continues to be a failure, a coward, and a moral calamity.

Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”

Remember last week when there were people dismissing the idea they could do illegal things to mess with elections?

Days later the administration is using violence from federal agents in the streets as a tool to try and access voter data.

Obviously all 75 Dems who voted for this should face all the professional consequences, but it's particularly shocking to the conscience that Angie Craig is just... continuing to run for Senate in Minnesota without shame.