this is just open and abject corruption, but the way U.S. journalism frames it you'd not really understand that there's anything untoward
I stopped by the warehouse that was sold to DHS/ICE. It’s massive. We cannot let the sort of human suffering & indignity that happens at these facilities continue. Demand your elected officials stand up, speak out & use whatever power they have to prevent this from happening. Abolish ICE. Prosecute.
New article! On the Epstein files, the cruelty of the release, and the crimes that came before: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...
Palantir needs to be obliterated the same as ICE, and Peter Thiel can face the Truth and Reconciliation committee he’s spent his entire life trying to negate.
If we want to fix our country, this is non-negotiable.
The Utah governor just signed a bill to expand his state's supreme court by two seats.
Conservatives have been angry at a series of judicial rulings, including one that safeguarded direct democracy in 2024 & one that struck down their gerrymander. 1st step of their retaliation.
Trump was at the center of an industrial scale worldwide child rape network.
If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.
I'm honestly just sick. If you can stomach watching any of this footage & still let the words "more training" escape your mouth, I cannot ever forgive you. These are state-sanctioned street executions. This is the training.
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
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There is no redeeming this, no amount of training that can fix the rot at the heart of this institution. Any Democratic official that votes to give this agency a penny is betraying our country.
Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
It's truly stunning (though unsurprising) how little attention national media give Gov. Walz's speeches and news conferences. He's out there declaring his state under siege, and it's not in headlines outside of MN. They'll cover Trump's lies about him endlessly-- but not his actions.
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
There's an Abuser Party and an Enabler Party. They depend on this dynamic. I wrote about it here: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/behold-a-p...
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
White Christian Taliban shit right here.
Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)
The Democratic Party has badly lost its way.
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
Utah’s grade is F, indicating that the state legislature has greatly distorted the districts in Utah to achieve a partisan advantage that is well outside what would be statistically expected under a fair districting process.
In recognition of James Dobson's all too delayed death, we republished an account of his legacy -- a three part series about evangelical child abuse, a culture Dobson disseminated and propagandized. buttondown.com/theswordandt...
A very smart friend of mine has introduced me to the concept of “moral injury.” It sure does help describe the national trauma we are all experiencing. Which is a crucial step toward finding a way to produce the change we so urgently need. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
ICE's show of force today in Los Angeles is grim but largely symbolic.
They'll kidnap fewer people today than average. We knew they were planning something because their operational tempo slacked from Jul 4-6.
Community members got to #MacArthurPark hours ahead of time to warn residents.
I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.
I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.
I just finished it yesterday. Terrific, enlightening book. Thank you, @swordsjew.bsky.social
I think Fetterman wants in on the heist.
