Pro tip for any Hill journos, the Speaker can approve 24hr protection for Members who are under heightened threat. Omar used to have this, but Mike Johnson took it away. You should ask him about that
This is Minneapolis.
Collective trauma, and neighbors helping neighbors.
This is our 24/7 every day lives right now, not just a 10 second news clip.
My operating assumption is that he tried to do a hasty coup in 2020 that failed, and so everything he does in his second term should be understood as laying the groundwork for a second coup to succeed.
God there's a whole depressing story about American masculinity and the decline of the white man in that timeline of the Ilhan Omar choad
It wasn’t enough for Stephen Miller that these American citizens were murdered by ICE and CBP, he had to slander them with lies after their deaths.
Miller is a deranged, bloodthirsty bigot, and his policies put lives at risk every day he remains in power.
Fire Stephen Miller.
one conspiracy theory I genuinely believe is the one about how this was intended to be a Hillary figure and they just changed it rather than make a new one
Just before the town hall, a reporter asked Ellison about the difficulty states faced in prosecuting federal agents like the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. “The idea that they’re absolutely immune is a misstatement of the law, and it is a dangerous misstatement of the law, because I don’t want any ICE agent or Border Patrol agent or any agent to think that they can just kill people and then that’s it,” Ellison told the group of reporters. Then he asked rhetorically: “What about Ruby Ridge? You ever heard of that one?” Years after an FBI sniper shot Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge, the state of Idaho prosecuted the federal agent. The federal government went to bat for the agent, claiming that he was immune under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. The Ninth Circuit ruled that Idaho was allowed to prosecute the sniper — similarly, Minnesota is also entitled to investigate and potentially prosecute the officer who shot Renee Good. But a different example loomed larger in Ellison’s mind: the Boston Massacre of 1770, where British soldiers shot into a crowd, ultimately killing five people.
“It’s not exactly analogous, but we are talking about local authorities in Boston, prosecuting imperial agents of the colonial power, the central government, in England. And they were prosecuted. Two of them were convicted. John Adams actually represented a few of the imperial officers.” The Boston Massacre, said Ellison, was obviously “in the mind of the framers of the Constitution” at the time the document was written.
“They were thinking about this event, and they would have never conceded the state’s authority to prosecute a federal officer,” said Ellison, going on to add, “The states of the United States pre-date the United States. It is federal courts that are limited. Not state courts. State courts have plenary power.” He finished with a dramatic flourish: “It’s true that the feds are denying us access to the investigative file. It’s also true that there’s no statute of limitations on murder.”
I wasn't sure what to expect from a group of Democratic state AGs, but I definitely was not expecting a long monologue about Ruby Ridge and the Boston Massacre www.theverge.com/policy/86588...
This really gets to the core of what makes Vance such a detestable figure
The House narrowly passed $1.2 trillion in government funding Thursday, overcoming intense Democratic opposition to funding ICE as the agency surges operations in Minneapolis and other cities.
In the words of John Lewis, it's time for "good trouble."
If you're a Minnesotan, I urge you to join tomorrow's Ice Out For Good economic blockout and exercise your collective power.
And if you're not, organize in solidarity and demand our leaders stand up to ICE. https://iceoutforgood.org/
Federal agents going door to door, forcing entry, and detaining people without judge-signed warrants is a grotesque abuse of power and violation of the 4th amendment.
That’s not law enforcement. It’s a secret police force.
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the point of this genre of scolding pedantism is and always was the institution and reproduction of a flagellant class seeking indulgence from the moral superhunans who deign to enlighten them, and not any sort of material change in circumstance
This is what fascism looks like. Use the word. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/immigration-officers-claim-sweeping-power-to-enter-homes-without-a-judges-warrant-memo-says
Our billionaire Treasury Secretary called Denmark “irrelevant.” Hmm.
Unlike the US, in Denmark, health care & college are free, the starting wage is $22 an hour, paid parental leave is 1 year, paid vacation is 6 weeks & all workers get pensions.
That seems very relevant to me.
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
People want to have their basic needs met.
They want to be paid a living wage.
They want to stop being nickle and dimed by powerful corporations who control so much of our lives.
They do not want Venezuela.
They do not want Greenland.
They do not want masked thugs terrorizing our communities.
Zohran Mamdani's hope to install bidets in his official residence reflects a growing acceptance among Americans of a tool that has long been unusual in the U.S.
2015 vs 2026
Remember, do not give up
President Trump’s approval rating by demographic group now looks almost exactly as it did in a New York Times/Siena polling in the run-up to his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. Take a closer look at how support for Trump has changed.
When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.
A quote from Ada Limón, a U.S. poet laureate, on the "Modern Love" podcast: "We'd all be better off if we encountered poetry on a regular basis, because it reminds us to feel, that we're not supposed to numb out, that the weeping and the rage and the grief leads to feeling alive."
As U.S. poet laureate, Ada Limón has had a far-reaching impact. She even wrote a poem that’s engraved inside a NASA spacecraft on its way to Jupiter. On Modern Love, she explained how poetry can help people fully feel human emotions. nyti.ms/4cntMsd
#atlanta #atl #atlantasky #atlsky #resist #protest #handsoff
Anyone else have feelings of being trapped?
i’m losing it
The latest episode of WIRED’s beloved Tech Support series answers all of your questions about dictators — in case for some reason that was of interest right now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...
Here’s last night’s story about tipping, why it’s more complicated and fraught than you might realize, and how John is – shockingly – younger than David Beckham. We know. We didn’t believe it either, but we had our research team check *several* times and it’s somehow true. youtu.be/89R9ZxKaIOw
i am no economist but slapping a 25% tariff on everything coming in and then aggravating trade partners into refusing anything going out seems like it might be a bad idea
U.S. Senators DC Contact List Continued:
Georgia
Senator Jon Ossoff 202-224-3521
Senator Raphael Warnock 202-224-3643
Hawaii
Senator Brian Schatz 202-224-3934
Senator Mazie Hirono 202-224-6361
Idaho
Senator Mike Crapo 202-224-6142
Senator James Risch 202-224-2752
4/17
Text only, white on blue background: WHAT DEMOCRATS DID TODAY February 12, 2025 Every single Senate Democrat voted against confirming Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence Senator Raphael Warnock introduced the Capping Prescription Costs Act to cap all out-of-pocket costs on prescription drugs Arkansas Senate Democrats successfully voted down a bill to allow municipalities to remove fluoride from their water systems A coalition of 191 House and Senate Democrats sent a letter demanding the removal of Elon Musk's operatives from the CFPB Democrat Ken Jenkins won a special election for Westchester County Executive, soundly defeating his Trump-backed opponent
While I was having my digestive system looked at from the inside, here's what Democrats were doing:
Senator Raphael Warnock on RFK Jr.:
"I still can't believe we're even having this discussion."
Every sane person is nodding their head, making the same face.
