PovertyIsViolence they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

And YOU, Governor Walz, want to have ICE terrorize families by breaking down their doors* "in the middle of the night when they're not suspecting it" and hauling them away WITHOUT witnesses!

You know, like the SS & Gestapo did in Nazi Germany!

"these people"?!

You're a disgrace!

*ICE WON'T knock

"I'm gonna give Homan the benefit of the doubt"

"They should coordinate with local law enforcement, pick these people up in the middle of the night when they're not suspecting it"

Walz is capitulating to fascists and encouraging night raids. Genuinely disgusting. Why would anyone settle for this?

So on point. This regime is catering to the top 1% and the corporate warlords and are leaving the rest of us all behind. Wake up people.

These corporation also have CEOs that are in the trump epstein files.

Tastes like fascism Aka Capitalisms dying breaths A tear gas canister by @krime

Tastes like fascism ( 🇺🇸 )
Aka
Capitalism's dying breaths
@krime.bsky.social

If the dem party wanted to stop trump they already would have. Calls for impeachment are a waste of energy. They will fund ICE forever. They funded the police. Harris would've been a nicer trump. Protests without revolution will be ignored. As they always are Epstein files will not end anything.

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I have studied in the college of this guy for years. The lie of america being the great shinning beacon of hope. The land of the free blah blah blah. The propaganda has failed on me. They will never have or manufacture my consent. I have no patience for culture wars.

Awesome outfit! I miss DnD. Haven't had a group to play with in about 15 years now.

Penny agrees.

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I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

Repeated Government Lying, Warned Hannah Arendt, Makes it Impossible for Citizens to Think and to Judge In Minneapolis, two recent fatal encounters with federal immigration agents have produced not only grief and anger, but an unusually clear fight over what

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When officials reshape the facts, the damage isn’t only to the record. The damage is to the basic belief that a democratic public can know what its government has done.

If democratic life depends on a social contract among the governed and those governing, that contract cannot be sustained on shifting sand. It requires enough shared reality to support disagreement.

The Minneapolis shootings are not only an argument about use of force. They are a test of whether public institutions will treat facts and truth as a public good – something owed to the community precisely when tensions are highest.

If people are taught that “truth” is always contingent and always tactical, the harm goes beyond misinformation. A confused, distrustful public is easier to manage and harder to mobilize into meaningful democratic participation.

But Arendt’s observations show that it is the normalization of blatant dishonesty and systematic withholding that threatens democracy. Those practices corrode the factual ground on which democratic consent is built.

Politics is not a seminar in absolute clarity, and competing claims are always part of the process. Democracies can survive spin, public relations and even occasional falsehoods.

All of American history shows this:

The Runaway Train of State-Sanctioned Murder: Killing Grounds for Uniformed Thugs, From Palestine to Occupied Minnesota So it has come to this: ICE Gestapo agents claim, without a judge’s order, they are permitted to enter houses at their fascist whim. Are they taking

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Peace will not be possible, from the river to the sea, until we witness the Zionist state filed away in the archives of History. The lie that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East” can, at this point, only be rectified by the dismantling of the Jewish ethno-supremacist state.

Ever growing numbers of people, in particular young people, shun Zionism and its attendant hasbara litany of lies. Who wants to be associated with the perpetrators of the worst war criminality in recent memory?

It comes down to this: Palestine must be at the heart of things or the Rules-Based Order dies a protracted death of heart failure.

Of course, Donald Trump is a catastrophe, but he is exactly the created-by-capitalism catastrophe — made manifest in his grandiose yet increasingly steep decline of mind and shambling, bloated carcass — conjured by the zeitgeist to tear down their veneer of respectability.

It is not a secret that a high degree of Donald Trump’s appeal to MAGA mouth-breathers and assorted hate-rancid bigots was and remains the permission he grants in regard to their racist animus.

As was the case with slave patrols of the Old South and present day ethnic cleanser gangs in the West Bank, ICE home invaders were born to the privilege to kick down the doors of those unworthy by virtue of their overactive melanin levels.

Of course, the personality types drawn to militarized street thuggery are not known for their traits of self-awareness and their powers of foresight.

Once state-sanctioned murder becomes a viable option for authoritarians, it grows, at an exponential rate, from option to feature.

So it has come to this: ICE Gestapo agents claim, without a judge’s order, they are permitted to enter houses at their fascist whim. Are they taking lessons from the Israeli Defense Forces now?

We Need Child Care, Not Partisan Threats I’m a kindergarten teacher in St. Paul, Minnesota, working hard and contributing to the diverse community I love. But with two children, it’s hard getting

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He should; and so should Peter Mandelson.