Lolsob at that clear line within Maplewood.

You read things like this and you can only hope that when the time comes, if it comes, when it is your community's turn to be tested, that you acquit yourselves half as well.

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I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

Fair, but I do think more of them care once they see the things happen than they did when we warned them.

One reason I think Platner needs to go is that at some point we're going to have to do an aggressive denazification of the entire political system and the party leading that effort cannot be caught handing out indulgences.

Dems *can’t* fold. Not anymore. Folding and getting nothing is a tacit admission that the shutdown and what pain it caused is all on us. We are in this now, and we’ve got to see it through.

Our guy has everything but the efficacy

Can we borrow him in Philly in 2028

Democrats should make a show of donating money to food banks in their districts “to offset the harm caused by the Republican shutdown.”

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.

The way we avoid having to do all of this again in 8 or 12 or 16 or 24 years is by imprinting a generational memory of, "oh, the last time they did that, all of the top guys - I mean, the ones who survived - went to prison for the rest of their lives, and had their property seized."

Another 🎯 from PJ Guy’s story:
The power of *mental rehearsal*.

Don’t just “rehearse your anxiety”. Instead imagine yourself acting — somehow—in that situation

Reality unlikely to unfold like your imagined scene — but that’s not the point. *Actively create a cognitive picture of yourself acting*

👀

I really don't think Jewish leaders appreciate how quickly the political ground is changing around Israel.

Elliot Cosgrove's Shabbat sermon — where he said Mamdani trying to reassure Jews was an implicit confession that they had something to fear from his mayoralty — really drove this home.

A thing about this is that it's literal treason

Let me put it this way: Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian immigrant with a green card who worked with deeply unpopular groups. My median follower is a white guy with a 401(k) who was born in this country. We all need to be a little braver than we have been; we can afford it.

Reports that ICE is on the Boston College campus currently

"No voting on who gets to be people."

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

This

I do not care who you are or what position you hold.

No one bullies our children.

The main problem is that I will inevitably forget to leave it home and lose it going through security.

i expect the democratic party to display partisan solidarity from top to bottom, and i expect this in direct proportion to the power am officeholder has

great point Harmeet, just the one q: who won the Battle of Thermopylae?