Jack Straw

going to repeat my take that the purge franchise is some of the best political filmmaking of the last fifteen years

this literally looks like a scene from THE FIRST PURGE

Yuh-Line Niou makes an announcement to run for state senate. The announcement reads: We need bold, aggressive, truly progressive leadership right now. Leadership strong enough to fight Trump and Bring the Democratic Party back to what it’s supposed to be: standing with Immigrants, people of color, workers, and everyone getting crushed by this economy. Democrats can’t keep compromising in the face of government sponsored violence and creeping totalitarianism. Not anymore. This is our time to fight.

I am running for State Senate.
Join me:
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ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi atomwaffen group

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

Europe just started building a ‘kill switch’ for U.S. tech — and the market isn’t priced for it, says this strategist — MarketWatch Zoom and Microsoft are among those companies that could lose business, says Matthew Tuttle

“The main event is this: the world is building optionality away from U.S. policy and platform dependence. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it — because it’s showing up in procurement decisions, supply chains, defense budgets, and capital flows”

I Wrote a Book in Support of Nationalizing Elections. Trump Changed My Mind. President Donald Trump on Monday escalated his rhetoric against the American electoral system.

My new one @slate.com : I Wrote a Book in Support of Nationalizing Elections. Trump Changed My Mind.

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a friend of mine who left DoJ early last year told me that, traditionally, when someone leaves after a long period of service they're given a seal as a going-away present

but she didn't get one because they'd ran out of seals

this is what's happened to the people who didn't get out

SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Sanford Bishop (GA-02) Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) Rick Larsen (WA-02) Ed Case (HI-01) Bill Foster (IL-11) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) Jim Clyburn (SC-06) Jared Golden (ME-02) Scott Peters (CA-50) Joe Courtney (CT-02) Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) Kim Schrier (WA-08) Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Jim Himes (CT-04) David Scott (GA-13) Sharice Davids (KS-03) Steny Hoyer (MD-05) Terri Sewell (AL-07) Don Davis (NC-01) Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Marc Veasey (TX-33)

The 21 House Dems who voted for the partial appropriations bill today, again despite no guarantee a single dollar will be used as intended

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

basically yglesias, jain, jentleson, WelcomePAC donors etc all base their prescriptions for Dems on a statistical model that nobody can replicate, and refuse to acknowledge (a) that uncertainty dwarfs the detectable effect of moderation & (b) that the last year has proved their views wrong!!

Rose flipped to be the clinching single-vote victory for passage. So for the record, he “held the line and refused to fold” for exactly 58 minutes.

"dont talk about immigration it'll help Trump"
*dems start talking about immigration, it hurts Trump*
"see, i was right!"

The evolution of immigration politics over the past year illustrates the Strategist's Fallacy with particular clarity. Early last year, Matthew Yglesias and others counseled Democrats to avoid talking about immigration. Their reasoning was straightforward: immigration represented Trump's strongest issue, and Democratic activists drawing attention to cases like Kilmar Abrego Garcia's -a Maryland father unlawfully deported to El Salvador —were increasing the "salience" of a topic that allegedly damaged the party's electoral position. Democrats should redirect attention elsewhere, they said. This strategic advice assumed voters' preferences on immigration were so rigid that Democratic messaging could not influence them. It treated public opinion as a fixed fact of political reality, not an object that was going to move in the short term or that could be moved. And it ascribed too much influence over voting decisions to issue attitudes.

@gelliottmorris.com continues to have been right about immigration as an electoral issue

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

The indictment of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers revealed that they had a cache of weapons, entered the Capitol in military formation, and were prepared to harm lawmakers. They were all pardoned and no doubt many of them are now in ICE

New Trump admin slogan just dropped

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

The ProPublica story on the Pretti killers says DHS has bodycam footage from the incident but they refuse to release it

www.propublica.org/article/alex...

you come at the king, you better not miss.

Weird story I've been watching across a few other social networks re: the Democratic senate primary in Texas between James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett. 🧵

CBS censored Billie Eilish saying “Fuck ICE” at the Grammys. Here’s the uncensored version:

Bad Bunny: Before I say thanks to God, I'm going to say, ICE out. We're not savages, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.

This administration’s treatment of a NATO ally is both incredibly disgraceful and contrary to U.S. national interests.

No. No. No. Isaac, no.

This specific moment is known as the Chotining

www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

The President shit himself on live TV. Melania bombed. The Epstein files are sending shockwaves through the Alt Right. Liam and his dad are back home. A Texas district that was DEEP red for 35 years flipped blue. Pretti's killers have been identified.

Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.

These narcissists can never just get a real job.

I audibly gasped multiple times reading this. I cannot do it justice. Wild moments.

When DOJ is focused on the protection of Donald Trump, innocent people get hurt.

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

March for Billionaires is the new Springtime for Hitler