Katie Caldwell (@katielauriss) — Bluesky Profile

1 month ago

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)

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9 months ago

What's fucking chilling is the cop SEES the reporter very clearly doing her journalistic duty, nonviolently.

Stares right into the camera, aims, fires.

This was an intentional assault on a visible member of the press.

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11 months ago

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

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11 months ago

reading your april fools jokes in this, the year of our lord 2025

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11 months ago

tread lightly, this is exactly why my family left me

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11 months ago

stop the count!!! no one else follow me!

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11 months ago

yesss! love moonchild, easily one of the best shows I’ve ever been to (and the loveliest people)

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11 months ago

f1 is BACK BABY!!!

and we’re back with another episode of the grid[iron] podcast 🤠 @thenickshook.bsky.social

ep 65: bit.ly/3Du4pbu

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1 year ago

🚨New episode of the GRID[IRON] Podcast is available now!

@katielauriss.bsky.social, Sean Barie and myself recap Wild Card Weekend, dive into the Divisional Round and top it off with some interesting F1 broadcaster news. We have a little fun along the way, too.

📺: youtu.be/dfb_TodIP_E?...

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1 year ago

lol. lmao, even

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1 year ago

we formed a new religion

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1 year ago

Russell Wilson definitely called the snow "opportunity flakes" in the huddle

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1 year ago

Netflix employees right now:

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1 year ago

I'm totally done with X/Twitter. I will still be doing my banking there, though.

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1 year ago

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