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Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Griffith was found guilty of failure to disperse and fined $50.

That's unconstitutional -- even the DOJ recognizes journalists' right to cover how law enforcement disperses protesters.

But it also shows what a giant waste of taxpayer funds it is to prosecute journalists for doing their jobs.

Kidnappings across Chicago’s Northwest Side, Bronzeville, Cicero and suburbs; DHS confirms 37 arrests in South Shore apartments raid • The TRiiBE A day after federal officers swarmed an apartment building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, agents returned to the South and West sides on Wednesday

ICE in Chicagoland today:

CBP agents were seemingly everywhere, with arrests across several neighborhoods and the suburbs. Exact numbers are unknown.

Neighbors in Garfield Park witnessed feds choking a Black man in the street, and Border Patrol snatched people at retail strips and traffic stops.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

This is the thing elected dems seem unable to swallow. There is no realistic modus vivendi where somehow remain a functioning liberal democracy after 3 years of Trump. He is removed or we become Azerbaijan. Removal is ultimately the only goal that matters.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Yes. (And still getting "standoff" BS and "who will blink first" and "who will voters blame" from news.)

Trump and MAGA control the *entire* government. It's a simple fact:
- White House
- Senate
- House
- Scotus
- OMB (to the hilt)
- Every regulatory agency

They're in command. It's on them.

How have we all collectively forgotten that such a monumental thing exists?

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

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Fucking disgusting yet utterly unsurprising.

Feel like if this is how the law works, there’s no reason to make a budget deal because there’s no reason to believe anything that you win via Congress will actually happen anyway.

this is the kind of shit you should shut down the government for imo

Hey now a “clutch” also refers to the pile of eggs in a bald eagle’s nest, surely the mascot is named after its eggs

Remember that the Trump Administration demands you idolize these agents and not condemn them.

But they’re Gestapo trash.

Worth bearing in mind Seth Godin’s point that these are mostly better described as “famous” schools rather than “elite” given how narrow the actual gap is between their education & research operations and the next-best, less famous institutions

Fantastic alternative

Very helpful info here

If we had hired Cignetti instead of Smith going into last year, would we be as dominant as Indiana is right now? Or did IU have a sneaky good roster & great culture to complement the JMU guys that Cig brought in?

I guess my question is really just: what the hell

Consistency is only a virtue if you’re not a screwup

Sweet, I bet this will work just as well as the sleep banking strategy did for our trip to Washington in 2022

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank 
January 13, 1943

Baked take material

He’ll be back, he’s off getting inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame this weekend

Huge, horrifying story.

These people were radicalized by the right-wing anti-lockdown bullshit, which was funded by big money to reopen America for the economy.

Their plot targeted one of Trump’s key political adversaries at the time.

This is nothing more than Team Trump looking out for his Blackshirts.