Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita

It takes someone extremely gullible and outright refusing to acknowledge the present state of this country to believe a mass dispossession, largely being fenced through DHS agents, is not currently underway. a lot of ICE and CBP wives have new gold jewelry and rings this year that they didn’t before

ideal social media is you see your friends posting about the fermented cabbage they ate today or the art or music they made and youre like thats so cool. an update on the lives of my friends and their gay little hobbies. and you decide to do your gay little hobbies in response

My best advice to try to get a handle on shit right now?

Make something.

Don't care what. Don't care if it's good. Don't care if it's just a big ass house you made in Sims 4, just lose yourself in something for an hour or so.

It' s like flushing the brain toilet.

given how difficult it is to get anyone to do anything, it's pretty remarkable. I think it's important not to lose sight of that.

I try to avoid "real organizers vs. fake/keyboard organizers" framings for the most part but one thing you learn quickly from organizing is how difficult it is to get people to do anything at all, how much you're competing against sociologically. people are overworked and tired

In Earnings Calls, Private Prison Executives Revel in Profiting Off ICE Arrests “Our business is perfectly aligned with the demands of this moment,” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger said on the call.

Private prison executives casually discussed the "3,000 arrests per day" quota in earnings calls—despite the Department of Justice previously denying any quota exists. This is fueling immigration raids nationwide while companies rake in record profits.

Platner and his Nazi tattoo brings excitement, but not Mamdani and his diverse coalition?

People are so hungry for politicians who will actually listen that they are willing to take a chance on a guy who had a Nazi tattoo for almost two decades. A reasonable response from Democrats to that should be to run more candidates who actually prioritize voters over corporate doners

i'm just a simple oyster farmer who only supplies my mom's restaurant and my grandpa invented a $5,000 chair and i went to GW and i worked for blackwater and i accidentally got a nazi tattoo even tho i luv history and i said some racist stuff on reddit and i'm offering my staff $15k NDAs and and and

I love that this is literally just

we realized we weren't connecting with Black people so we tried talking to more Black people and Black people like us much better now

You don't even have to be good at it. You just have to be better at it than the dumbass who's currently in the news. Plus you've got plenty of time, and best of all, Maine is friggin tiny. You can be a Senator from Maine with about the same number of supporters you'd need to be Mayor of Dallas.

You Will Never Elect Your Way Out Of Having To Make Trade-Offs, a subsidiary of

If You Want Moral Absolution, Try Church, Not The Ballot Box

ICE vs. NYC The feds will not have a good time here.

NYC residents can protest ICE agents and make them miserable, but there is also an entire universe of creative legalistic and bureaucratic harassment that a Mamdani administration could do to gum up the gears of ICE operations. BUILDING INSPECTIONS DAILY baby.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc

a woman from behind wearing an olive green jacket with a large patch that resembles the three arrow antifa emblem that has been rendered as three tadpoles instead, a reference to the frogs that have become a symbol of resistance here in Portland

I don't know who rocked the tadpole antifa patch at No Kings but they're probably on Bluesky and I have no choice but to stan

Democrats can't really be understood as a political party. A political party is an organization trying to gain power over the opposition to alter the distribution of resources in society. The Democratic Party, conversely, is a country club. Its concern is regulating its own membership and its rules.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Since visibility on this is a really big challenge I just wanna say that I still mask in public spaces. I wear a mask when around anyone who doesn’t practice similar precautions. If you do too, you are not alone and I appreciate you so much. If you don’t, you can *always* start again.

Mamdani hasn’t been elected yet and he’s already driving criminals out of New York.

Not only that, it got people *who didn’t agree with his politics* to trust him. It was routine to hear people who insisted they “didn’t agree with him on everything” and “weren’t a DFLer” that they voted for him because they trusted him. That’s how you do it!!!!!

Elected officials and candidates should know that who they associate with sends a signal to their constituents. And at a time of skyrocketing antisemitism, this matters more than ever to the Jewish community. Imam Siraj Wahhaj has a history of supporting controversial figures involved in terrorism. He has been associated with groups that have a long history of spreading antisemitism. So at a time when anti-Jewish hate has surged to record-breaking levels, how does associating with Wahhaj demonstrate a commitment to protecting Jewish residents and all New Yorkers?

What was reported in @politico is offensive and very concerning. But I'm also glad that many leaders, including @EliseStefanik and @RepMikeLawler, spoke out strongly and swiftly against these hateful statements. This is what leadership looks like - and is how decency and morality can be modeled. politico.com/news/

Compare and and contrast how the ADL's president Jonathan Greenblatt treats Mamdani meeting with an imam that has met every single NYC mayor since Giuliani versus how Greenblatt treats a group chat which had messages like "I love Hitler".

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

I know it's a rhetorical question, but I think the answer is this, sadly enough...

www.thehandbasket.co/p/dhs-fps-me...

Me: I could never run for office. Oppo would find out I was mean to a kid in sixth grade before feeling bad and becoming his friend.

Guy with a death's head tattoo: lmao check this out.

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.

Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

Pretending the Roberts court is legitimate, that its rulings amount to a binding precedent we must continue respect, is like refusing to untie yourself after your kidnappers leave because they told you not to.

They're not trying to persuade people who understand statistics or politics. They're only trying to persuade the Democratic leadership.

getting detained after cooking a meal for ICE agents bc they decided seasoned food is probable cause

aht aht cook a meal for WHO? you want us to quarter some soldiers in our kitchens while we're at it?

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April 15, 2009 is said to have been the day that had the largest number of tea party demonstrations reportedly in more than 750 cities.[73] Estimates of protesters and locations varied. The Christian Science Monitor reported on the difficulties of calculating a cumulative turnout and said some estimates state that over half a million Americans participated in the protests, noting, "experts say the counting itself often becomes politicized as authorities, organizers, and attendees often come up with dramatically different counts."[74][75] Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, estimated that at least 268,000 attended in over 200 cities.[76] Statistician Nate Silver, manager of FiveThirtyEight.com, has said that a cumulative crowd size estimate from credible sources was of 311,460 attendees in 346 cities, which accounted for all capitols and major cities little noticeable or no reliable media coverage in other protests could have contributed to a lower number of attendees and locations.[77] The largest event, in Atlanta, drew between an estimated 7,000 to 15,000 protesters.[77][78][79] Some of the gatherings drew only dozens.[74]

Compare yesterday's millions to this and how we couldn't escape breathless coverage of the Tea Partiers at their peak.