I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.
REP. STEIL: Some Dems demands put at risk the safety of members of law enforcement
CNBC: You mean like taking off their masks and having a badge that shows who they are?
STEIL: Well, they're known to their supervisors
CNBC: No other law enforcement officials in the US are allowed to wear masks
The people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.
Honestly, I think Obama might be a top five president in hindsight simply because it turned out this country was a shithole powderkeg and he managed to ride the tiger for eight years somehow. Last Roman type of thing.
The Secretary of Homeland Security is asserting that the Deputy White House Chief of Staff ultimately bears responsibility for the murder of two American citizens, which is something that would normally generate a dozen congressional inquiries.
it's a truly staggering measure of this country's profound cowardice that so many people are afraid of this pathetic loser
While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.
After the Boston Massacre, the soldiers responsible were arrested and received fair trials. King George recalled the regiment to England, and then American leaders were like “good, that was enough, we’ll remain your loyal subjects forever…” wait, that’s not right…
Text that says: Inside the schools, many administrators have been making their own preparations over the past year. Amanda Bauer, a teacher at a Minneapolis elementary school that has a large portion of immigrant students, told me that administrators informed parents last fall about their emergency plans for ICE raids by phone or in person, because they were already concerned about leaving email chains that could be mined by a hostile government.
Incredible paragraph in Robert F. Worth's excellent reporting from Minneapolis:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Homan is the "bribes" wing of ICE as opposed to the "blood" wing of ICE. neither is good but we are rooting for Team Bribes in this matchup
This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.
If there is a Democratic governor in the country that I am confident is actively assessing the loyalty of key security forces and potentially constructing loyalist units to deploy in a crisis, it's this one.
in no way the most important thing but it is incredibly jarring how many times people have opened up their devices in the last year to see autoplay videos of people being killed
I give it 2 weeks max if nobody steps up
"He had a gun so we're allowed to execute him" is another example of "the nose of the football brushed against the ground for one frame of video so it's not a catch" replay review thought substituting for legal analysis
We don’t have a federal system, where state govt’s have separate sovereign powers, so that the governors of those states can plead with the President to call off his death squads.
Extrajudicial killing is simply murder. Murder is a crime in Minnesota. The State of Minnesota can—MUST—address it.
Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?
If the dude who helped make Sarah Palin famous can learn and do better, we should expect no less from elected officials
In a normal world, "US treasury secretary endorses American annexation of Canadian territory" should be front page news
CrazyRossStrat just put windmills on Greenland then he won't want it anymore
Mark Carney's speech is now only the second most acute analysis of where the world is at right now:
This is why I always emphasize that "the media just likes Trump for clicks and ratings" is not accurate. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is the worst in political history and instead of sensationalizing it, they repeatedly minimize it and downplay it despite massive public interest
I feel like this official letter is an inflection point, convincing European elites that not only is Trump genuinely insane, but the people serving him in the U.S. government are either insane or too cowardly to object.
I’m pretty sure that 2026 is going to be a bloodbath for the GOP, though, and to illustrate how bad of an idea predictions are, a bloodbath opens up the possibility that President Hakeem Jeffries is running as an incumbent in 2028.
I'm actually completely done letting people make their fee-fees about Schumer my problem
I'm telling you the truth: Schumer can't do anything and screaming at him like wittle babies makes you look pathetic. a bunch of you on this site are pathetic.
So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away.
Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
An underrated factor in "why don't people in wealthy societies have more kids" is changing societal norms that now expect even older kids to be chaperoned by an adult any time they are in public, and to be chauffeured by a parent as their only means of transportation
Meanwhile credit card lenders pre-market
COF -11%
SYF -10%
JPM -3%
BAC -2%
AXP -2%
I am honestly shocked people are taking rantings with no legal basis this way, incredible example of market inefficiency.
This is the simplest brake on all of this and while I wouldn’t exactly put money on it I think if you are a constituent of any of these folks it is well worth putting whatever pressure you can on them
"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state."
—William J. Brennan Jr., joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, & Marshall, Houston v. Hill, 1987
