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Get in, losers, we’re flipping Texas.

I think it’s bad that the Speaker of the House has been in a sensory deprivation tank since roughly 2015 and only emerges to get yelled at in the hallway outside of the tank.

He does this every time, it’s just how nature works

From Blaine: "Grandparents were about to go outside for a walk. They came into our home. Rushed and pinned my brother to the walls and cuffed him. Searched him for weapons. There was none. (he was sleeping for work). My brother asked for a warrant. They then showed a “warrant”, it was on a phone. He further asked to see if it was signed by a judge they ignored him. They then only took my father and shoved him in the car and drove off. My father was in the garage just smoking and doing his regular routine before heading off to work"

From Blaine: "Grandparents were about to go outside for a walk. They came into our home ... My brother asked for a warrant. They showed a “warrant”, it was on a phone. He asked to see if it was signed by a judge they ignored him. They then only took my father and shoved him in the car and drove off"

Recently I've been spending some time with pro-democracy leaders from other countries organizing against national strongmen. Their stories of organizing against authoritarians are eerily familiar. Among the many clear takeaways: stand up to bullies and go on offense because defense doesn’t win.

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)

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

JENNINGS: “Let's not get our knickers in a twist here.”

MCGOWAN: “Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying.”🔥

Good to see that more and more steamrolling Scott and the Smug Face he tries to throw up. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

(H/T @acyn.bsky.social )

N.J. Girl, 6, Found Alone by Neighbors Crying, Asking, 'Where's Papi?' After Dad Was Detained by ICE While Picking Up Food, Mom Claims The mother of a 6-year-old girl in New Jersey says her daughter was found walking alone outside their apartment crying and asking for her father over the weekend after he was detained by ICE agents wh...

I know the story is going around. This is Morristown, New Jersey. Half an hour from Newark Airport. Its on the hinterlands of New York City. It's a fight I know ICE isn't ready for.

Also, this is People magazine. It's as normal supermarket America as it gets. Let's hope this lights something.

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U.S. defense officials are saying 1,500 active-duty soldiers are on standby in Alaska for possible deployment to Minneapolis. That’s on top of the 3,000+ ICE agents already in the area.

We don’t really believe this is about undocumented immigrant crime in Minneapolis, do we?

Donate to Job Loss After ICE Incident—Support Tavara, organized by Tavara Chambers My name is Tavara, and I’m reaching out because I recently lost my job unde… Tavara Chambers needs your support for Job Loss After ICE Incident—Support Tavara

Consider supporting this individual who refused ice entry and lost their job as a result.
#resist #fuckice
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MLK's Final Message "People are often surprised to learn that I am an optimist."

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This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we honor the historic life and legacy of Dr. King.

We must never stop fighting for his dream of justice, equality, and opportunity for every American.

We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket.

He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.

Notice the suppressors
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America has become an authoritarian state.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

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LIVE ICE PROTESTS After Renee Good Murder | LIVE From Minneapolis YouTube video by Status Coup News

BREAKING: LIVE PROTESTERS CLASH WITH ICE After Renee Good Murder | LIVE From Minneapolis

LIVE NOW: youtube.com/live/hNw2hke...

BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis.

Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.

Isn’t it weird how the whole “masks are tyranny” crowd from a few years ago is now fully in on masked secret police tyrants?

🚨🚨Holy Shit‼️Gov Shapiro (D-PA) fucking takes JD Vance’s lunch, lunch money and stuffs him into a locker in this interview with Meidas Touch. Take a few minutes out of your day to listen to him excoriate the VP on his take of the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis.💥🔥💥

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

(over a photo of protesters holding “ICE OUT” signs) ICE OUT FOR GOOD WEEKEND OF ACTION: JANUARY 10-11

We’re mobilizing across the country this weekend to honor Renee Nicole Good, demand accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s terror: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The videos of an ICE agent shooting Renee Nicole Good 3 times are highly disturbing. Allegations of ICE blocking a doctor and delaying paramedics are highly disturbing. A U.S. citizen and mom of three is now dead. There must be a full and transparent investigation immediately.

The videos of an ICE agent shooting Renee Nicole Good 3 times are highly disturbing.

Allegations of ICE blocking a doctor and delaying paramedics are highly disturbing.

A U.S. citizen and mom of three is now dead.

There must be a full and transparent investigation immediately.

Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son

Please consider joining me in donating to support Renee Good's wife and son, after Renee was murdered by ICE thugs in Minneapolis today

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