Dances With Cats

Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today:

Active Voting Rights Cases: 164
Active Redistricting Cases: 46
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 87
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 73
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 25

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I wanted to start this week off with a sense of slight optimism. The backlash against the shooting this weekend has been real, and the pushback from Americans shows that we are still standing together.

whole world watching

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

Man shot dead by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis The incident, which was caught on video, marks the second deadly shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis in less than a month.

American citizens are under attack with a shoot to kill order from our government. Everything is severely broken. He needs to GO NOW!

Where are Jeffries and Schumer?? Still talking about the price of avocados?

No gun pulled. They murdered him.

They just tear gassed Sara Sidner live on @cnn.com -

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"Aides to Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Atty’s office and FBI agents based in MN to shut down a civil rights investigation into an officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability, according to three people briefed on the discussions."

A very special fuck you to the 7 so-called Democrats who just voted to fund this Nazi kill squad shit.

The Tribune reports ICE transported several witnesses into detention. Trump's terrorists are locking up witnesses to the murder.

I hope that Democrats realize what’s happening in Minnesota is also a dry run for what the regime has planned for the midterms.

Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

Who can get the witnesses to the shooting and their evidence safely out of whipple?

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.

Always money for war.

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say, ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”
- Mister Rogers 💛

The human world, it’s a mess ❤️‍🩹💚🌎

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Yep! That’s The Guy! Reeks Of Hypocrisy….

Here’s the thing, if they are picking up folks working in the country illegally, I’m going to need to see some white guys also being arrested for employing people working illegally in the country.

Otherwise, it’s just racism.

#TACOWhiteHouse

“We don’t want anyone being able to buy anything of the shelf that could kill you” says guy who is cool with selling guns at drive through liquor stores.

ICE turned back in Somerville

So many Somerville community members came out that ICE simply retreated. Nonviolent resistance works when communities come together to protect kids and families.

The cruelty is the point. Let me repeat that. The cruelty is the point. They are dehumanizing these kids, these people so that we get desensitized to it. We already are. We should be in the streets. This is disgusting. A little girl with a bow in her hair. Is she really the 'worst of the worst'?

If only Christian charity were as easy as accessorizing.

Angie Craig: "I have no idea why we think it's a good idea to repeal a tax on silencers when we are going to feed fewer children in our country as a result of this. It's a moral damn failure is what it is."

While I appreciate the "lock him up" and "impeach him" sentiments (and I'm with you), if Mueller, Garland, and impeachment taught us anything, its that 1) SCOTUS is corrupt and 2) We have to do this ourselves. As I've been saying for nearly 8 years: it's up to us. Always has been.

#StopPrivatePrisons #PrivatePrisonConcentrationCamps