New Jersey Democrats Send Coarse but Clear Message to ICE With New Bill

New Jersey Democrats introduce a bill with the name: Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered act.

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“I CANNOT BELIEVE someone is going to be singing in SPANISH at a show in SANTA CLARA, outside SAN FRANCISCO, in CALIFORNIA!”

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Trump’s economy is the ‘least conservative’ in a lifetime, top economist warns. ‘Our kids will feel it in a set of lost opportunities’ | Fortune The University of Michigan’s Justin Wolfers sees Trump’s economy set to derail growth for a whole generation.

"This is the most interventionist government of my lifetime," Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan, told MeidasTouch in an interview released Sunday. "It’s the least conservative government of my lifetime."

In Trump's telling, the US are the equivalent of the Nazis

I guess Cruz was ”fuck ice” all along

At St. Pete recruitment event, Border Patrol rep touts qualified immunity and early retirement A DHS officer at The Hilton in St. Petersburg, Florida Jan. 13, 2026. Dubbed “The Green Monster” by some DHS officials, Border Patrol has a reputation as

I attended a Border Patrol recruitment event. By never saying “no,” I was corralled from standing near the recruitment table to having a completed application submitted on my behalf, and I received a tentative selection days later.

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Everyone who has gotten rich since Jan 2025 should vote Republican in the midterms and everyone who hasn’t should vote Democrat.

"Sir! This is a warning!" the agent yelled as he punched the man's vehicle window. "Stop f—king following us! You are impeding operations! This is the United States federal government!" "I live over here," the driver explained. "I got to get to my house." "This is your warning!" the officer exclaimed. "I serve the Lord; go to church," the resident replied. "I will arrest you!" the officer threatened. "Don't make a bad decision," another agent warned. "I serve the Lord," the driver repeated. "Not a draft-dodging coward." "Let these people go to church," the driver added. "Let these people serve the Lord and worship." "You're not going to like the outcome of this, sir," the first officer said. "I guarantee that... Did you not learn from what just happened [when Renee Good was killed]?" "Learn what?" the driver asked. "I serve the Lord, not a draft-dodging coward. I can't believe you'd take orders from a draft dodger."

it's incredible how if you put this entire dialog into the Left Behind series, it would basically work, but instead it's just IRL MN

If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.

How I'm walking out of 2025

Nothing good can come from a society being forced to stare into the abyss that is the mind of any random billionaire

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.

“What’s the matter? CIA got you pushing too many pencils?”

Billie Eilish asked an important question: "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?"

There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:

1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance

Billionaires are the result of a failed system.

White House’s East Wing partially demolished as work begins on Trump’s $250m ballroom Ex-congressman calls major renovation ‘utter desecration’ as demolition in East Wing reportedly under way

These are not complex metaphors, people
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I usually describe a typical week, I've never had a typical day either. #AskAnArchivist

ah, well

I think often of this supervillain dialogue from Watchmen whenever people ask how to rescue the American Dream. It’s a few generations too late

Starting a war bc nobody went to his birthday.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

Forgot to tag @thelaurenelyse.bsky.social on this one.

Whenever law enforcement agents are given a quota of a specific number of people to arrest or detain, especially with the WH policy director screaming at their superiors to hit those target numbers, bad things are going to happen. Quotas always result in civil rights violations.

“Or am I origami” is the best visual rhyme in rock and roll

Just incredible

I used to go months without learning anything new about trade logistics, or constitutional law and frankly, I was happier then

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!