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Oh dang this is good

We’ve built two justice systems in the US—one that bends over backward to shield the wealthy and powerful, and another that comes down hard and fast on the poor and marginalized. Trump and Epstein show that it’s easier to squeeze a rich man through the eye of a needle than to see one sent to prison.

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

This is brilliant

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Imagine how little crime there will be when only police feel safe to walk around!

as a DC resident I cannot overemphasize how much less safe I feel

After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.

She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.

ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

ICE or kidnappers? How to tell.

The technical legalities of federal interference with state law enforcement are less important than its fundamental challenge to our constitutional system of government. The whole point of the system of state control of local law enforcement and of state militias is as a check against federal abuse of power. This has been true since the founding of the United States, and the only alteration to this system of divided power was after the Civil War, when the federal government was given the authority by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to intervene directly in state governance to purge the taint of the system of slavery from our nation. Since then, the only time that the federal government has used military force to overturn the autonomy of state governments over local law enforcement was yet again in order to further purge the taint of slavery by enforcing desegregation at the end of the Jim Crow period. Now Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses are turning this basic constitutional presupposition of our federal system of government on its head. Federal control over military power is being abused to support a system of due process-free snatch-and-grab immigration “enforcement” against state opposition that’s bears a shocking resemblance to the conflicts over the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, to suppress lawful protest that is protected by the First Amendment, and to take over criminal jurisdiction from localities on the pretext of racist stereotypes about urban criminality. This is yet another way in which the current president has betrayed the basic constitutional structure of the United States and yet another ground for impeachment by any Congress that would be faithful to that structure.

our press team asked if I wanted to be included in a media advisory about trump's national guard dictator behavior. No clue if they'll actually dare to use what I sent them, but I'm just going to say how it is

We are destroying our own perfectly stable, highly functioning, free society. All because some people are racist, others are bored and misled, and others who already have too much wealth want even more for some reason

Sometimes I just want to scream in anguish and try to explain what's going on in the world, but then i know that anyone who would listen already knows.

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

If you’re in office—and you don’t call this out—you’re choosing a side.

Silence is compliance.

And “oops, I didn’t notice the dictatorial threat” won’t cut it.

No exaggeration, this is Declaration of Independence-level tyranny. It's indistinguishable from other "injuries and usurpations" listed by Jefferson in the document. Many don't come close to this level of arrogant hostility.

Just finished @jbf1755.bsky.social's Field of Blood this past weekend. And boy, does this story sound familiar.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

We're going to need Nuremberg trials when this is over, yes, and to send a significant number of people currently in the federal government to prison. But we're going to need an unwavering commitment to ostracizing the supporters of it, as well. Never accept them again in polite society.

i think we've bred our politicians to mostly be cowards because they think their job is following polls instead of shaping them, like there has been a profound regression in political leadership over the past few generations, which coincides with the total collapse of Congress as a governing body

It is kind of darkly funny that Donald looked the American people in the eye and said “You know what? You people aren’t even worth the effort of selling the war,” and we looked him right back and said “Yes, you are absolutely right.”

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America's secret police just detained a guy who might be Mayor of New York City and his NYPD escort. We have to abolish ICE. That should be the baseline Democratic Party position.

Beyond the reprehensible and shocking arrest of a US senator, the federal government is admitting that it is using military force to occupy a US city for political reasons.

We live in a dictatorship

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.