Eric Lopez

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.

This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

YouTube video by Star Wars Andor | Karis Nemik’s Manifesto | Disney+

I dislike when people reduce important, history-making moments in modern life to pop culture references.

But also fuck it, this is a super great time to rewatch Andor.

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”

Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Have you tried calling your senator yet? Maybe he could try stopping the DHS funding bill that's up next week?

Abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who stays in it from this day forward as members of a criminal conspiracy to commit murder.

Screenshot of a dumbass tweet from Trump withdrawing his invitation to Canada to join his "Board of Peace" / bribery scheme

Dear Anne Hathaway:

Please let this Letter serve to represent that I am withdrawing my invitation to you regarding your joining me for dinner, the most delicious meal ever assembled, this weekend.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

NYC Mayor: ‘Reconcile Yourselves With Your God, For All Will Perish In The Tempest’ NEW YORK—As a major winter storm continued its advance toward New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio advised residents Monday to make peace with whatever higher power they call God, for all shall meet th...

apropos of the forecast, my favorite Onion article

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Call your Senator and see if they can do something to block the budget for these fascists.

I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.

minnesota coming together to show us all how to stand up against ICE is such a beautiful display of what solidarity looks like

Retrain the DOJ I say as they bolt me into the Titan submarine

@gluesenkampperez.house.gov @tomsuozzi.bsky.social @golden.house.gov you feeling great about voting to fund this gestapo shit?

Call your reps. Let them know that if they vote for ICE funding, you will not vote for them ever again.

Representatives need to feel the heat. NO on ICE funding. No excuses.

There's one foolproof way to gauge whether someone is a millennial or a zoomer: Ask them how they learned the difference between Iceland and Greenland.

If the answer is from D2: The Mighty Ducks, you're talking to a millennial. Otherwise, zoomer.

"'Our operations are lawful, targeted and focused on individuals who pose a serious threat to this community,' Bovino said..."

Again, Liam is **five**. Five years old.

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

It's very prudent to have It Happened drills regularly, just to keep everyone in peak Posting shape.

In the latest #WITHPod, @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social and I take some time to explain the exact origins of this insanity.

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

The moment it was crystal clear we were in the worse case scenario, was exactly a year ago when Trump pardoned every single Jan 6 perpetrator, including the ones that beat the crap out of cops and were convicted of seditious conspiracy.

Really feels like the sort of shit a movie would have a nazi officer do in act 1 to establish what a sadistic fuck they are. Like Christoph Walz's character in Inglorious Basterds

The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work.

Really depraved shit.

If this guy told me I looked like a soup sandwich I simply would never recover.

Alt text: Screenshot of a long social media post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump). The post claims the United States has subsidized Denmark and European countries for decades and argues that Greenland is critical to U.S. and global security. It states that China and Russia want Greenland, criticizes Denmark’s ability to defend it, and asserts that only the U.S. can protect the territory. The post announces planned tariffs starting February 1, 2026—10% on goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland, rising to 25% on June 1, 2026—until a deal is reached for the complete purchase of Greenland. It ends with Trump signing as “President of the United States of America,” with engagement metrics and a timestamp of January 17, 2026.

Trump just placed a tariff on most of the EU of 10% that will increase to 25% in June unless they agree to sell him Greenland.

This is mad king shit.

Family Guy - officer holds up color palette to determine American or foreignness

Minneapolis: facial recognition app being used to detect brown skinned man

When the racist meme becomes national policy

Every few weeks we get a story like this and it always fizzle out. Stephen Miller is in control. Let's not pretend otherwise. Even when Brooke Rollins convinced Trump to *publicly* say he'd back off of some raids, it took Miller just 48 hours to browbeat Trump into changing his mind.