Never made sense that the while Democrats were warning us that Trump would deploy DHS as his private storm troopers, they were passing bills that raised DHS funding to record levels.
No. this is where we see these soldiers team up with Walz's national guard to completely crush protesters and rapid response groups.
The darkest chapter is about to play out.
That the EU Anti-Coercion Instrument (the "trade bazooka") is now being expressly considered mightn't matter to Trump (who probably has no idea what it is) but it will certainly matter to US big business.
This is the point where the MAGA lunacy and American capitalism collide head-on.
Mischief Toys is a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking to hold his tariffs unconstitutional 🤔🤔🤔
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
ICE/CBP is following school busses now.
My husband (a school bus driver) was just in an urgent all-hands meeting about it this afternoon.
If a grand jury actually indicts, is that enough for Trump to invoke the insurrection act?
So much for the strategy of "stay peaceful or else Trump will invoke the insurrection act".
But Walz and Frey did everything the administration wanted! Walz isn’t running again and Frey has been bending over backwards to make nice with ICE since he used that bad word. It’s almost as if appeasing the administration doesn’t get you anywhere!
I love this, but I don't understand how a strike limited to Minnesota will affect the Trump administration. Is this a stepping stone to a national strike? Or are there some industries that will be crippled by a strike in Minnesota, and they put pressure on Trump.
I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes:
these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.
Naaaaaaailed it
Don't put words in my mouth. We have seen many videos posted here of people getting close to ICE agents, recording them, and/or yelling at them. This is not violence, this is not illegal.
> The Insurrection Act is not "martial law."
1. Trump will evoke The Insurrection Act. Orders issued via Truth Social.
2. Troops will be instructed to clearly break the law & they will.
3. Later GOP SCOTUS in a "shocking" ruling will agree with him.
4. *NO ONE* will ever go on trial.
The military wouldn't openly commit war crimes either, but here we are.
they’ll blame you for being in their way even when they’re the ones who invaded the neighborhood where your baby was sleeping inside your home
“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”
Americans have a weird concept of what protest is. They think standing on the side while holding a sign accomplishes anything. You have to get in their face and be a nuisance. You have to impose additional costs to make it too expensive for them to do their evil.
A pep rally is not a protest.
The recent invasion of Venezuela should tell you what choice the military will make.
Yes, and the states are doing such a great job standing up to Trump now.
Every state so far has bent the knee to Trump, including Minnesota. They will cooperate with suspending elections.
We need to stop being afraid of this. MN is already functioning under undeclared martial law. People are not safe in their own homes. Schools are closed; businesses shuttered. Hospitals and churches are no longer safe havens.
What is there left to lose?
Legally, states can dissolve the constitution and rewrite it by calling for a constitutional convention. This sidesteps all federal branches. It requires 75% of all states to ratify though.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_...
In the current climate, too many states support Trump for this to work.
Status Coup and Meracdo??? got banned on twitch for livestreaming that.
Guys, I watched this on livestream with a number of "experienced" leftists. There was serious concern that these vehicles were deliberately left behind as bait for protestors, and that the one woman showing off documents was a fed agent.
I fear this will ultimately help ICE.
That doesn't work when ICE are killing people, when people aren't even safe in their own homes. They are far more brutal in MN than in Chicago. People generally will not peacefully wait to be assaulted. At some point, they will defend themselves.
It is not escalation; it is survival.
If a man speaks the language of brute force, you can't come to him with peace. Why, good night! He'll break you in two, as he has been doing all along. If a man speaks French, you can't speak to him in German. If he speaks Swahili, you can't communicate with him in Chinese. You have to find out what this man speaks. And once you know his language, learn how to speak his language, and he'll get the point. There'll be some dialogue. You know the language the Klan speaks. It is a duty, it's your and my duty as human beings, it is our duty to our people, to organise ourselves and let the government know that if they don't stop that Klan, we'll stop it ourselves. So I don't believe in violence - that's why I want to stop it. And you can't stop it with love. So, we only mean vigorous action in self-defence and that vigorous action we feel we're justified in initiating by any means necessary. The press call us racist and people who are "violent in reverse." This is how they psycho you. They make you think that if you try to stop the Klan from lynching you, you're practising "violence in reverse."
Thinking of a few Malcolm x speeches as they tell people getting kidnapped in the streets by masked thugs to ‘remain calm’
And this is the part I don't understood: Why would a politician voluntarily give up their own power?
Lets see: No firearm registration required for private sales and permitless open and concealed carry.
ICE will have a hard time knowing who does and does not have a firearm. Things could get spicy.
Any service that protects you from things like weaponized chargebacks is going to take a cut.
You do not hate Congress enough
I'm confused. congress elects are usually sworn in the following January. I don't see how that could effect anything in the year of the midterm election itself.
Of course chatGPT could be wrong with the dates. I'm too tired to double check.
