Chemical warfare....
"I know exactly what messages moments like this send to children. They learn that police are not there to protect them. They learn that even citizenship does not guarantee safety when your family is undocumented. And they learn, most devastatingly, that they are disposable."
Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
Classic authoritarian logic: corrupt people by giving them an incentive to do the wrong thing. In 1933 and 1938, years of major assaults on targeted groups, the Nazis forgave the debt of other Germans to bind them to the regime.
JD Vance in 2021:
straight up Gestapo shit
Maher Tarabishi has been in ICE detention since October. He was not allowed to attend the funeral of his 30-year-old son Wael Tarabishi, who had been battling health complications from a serious and rare inherited disorder. CNN has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment.
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
Holy shit. Like Tiananmen Square levels of bravery.
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
It just get worse. Instead of administering CPR to a man who might still be alive, DHS officers were leering over the body, counting the bullet holes.
This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
One year ago Donald Trump swore an oath to support the Constitution, but he’s used the presidency to enrich himself and his family, the New York Times' editorial board writes. Check out how Trump pocketed $1.4 billion in a single year.
The “Stand Your Ground” folks been real quiet.
From @lizdye.bsky.social, a look at the many ways DHS/ICE are routinely violating the Constitution.
ICE has shrouded entire neighborhoods in Minneapolis in a toxic cloud of chemicals.
Last year, I commissioned this story on @thexylom.com on the aftermath of Nepal's Gen-Z protests, where something similar happened.
There are likely long term public health impacts in both cities for years to come:
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
We found that a company with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly got money from DHS contracts.
“It’s corrupt, is the word,” a contract law expert said. “Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer.”
5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
Protesters have gathered in Uptown Charlotte to speak out against Border Patrol earlier today.
There are so many poor people sitting in prisons who are innocent or who were convicted on flimsy or manipulated evidence who deserve clemency.
But be a corrupt, rich asshole and you'll get a pardon from Trump.
There is so much to say about the vileness of Ken Starr, who died in 2022 not nearly as disgraced as he should have been. bsky.app/profile/asha...
Things to know about Epstein hugger Ken Starr: prosecuted Bill Clinton for lying about consensual (if inappropriate) sex, got fired from Baylor University for doing nothing about an on-campus rape epidemic.
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
Yes seeing these crackers crusade against DEI in the name of meritocracy only to then witness USA’s highest ranking military officers get condescended to & told to violate their oaths by a draft dodger & the least qualified person to ever hold a position made me wonder if irony can be too poetic.
