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This means no grocery shopping, no going to work, no taking kids to the park, no nothing that is good for the economy or the soul. This is complete shut down of one of the largest cities in the United States.

Just come out of surgery where they removed a 40mm less lethal round from My leg. One like this.

I didn’t know a city could do this.

The thing about the campaign is that Harris regularly said what people wanted her to say. She wasn't a perfect campaigner, and she was operating under considerable constraints. But she did the thing.

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

"Everything points to an effort to effectively destroy U.S. science — not gradually as part of a long-term plan, but over the next year or two." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/nobody-exp...

Where are these guys sleeping? After Jan 6, a true domestic terrorist attack, Nat'l Guard soldiers slept everywhere from parking garages to hallways. LA has less affordable places to stay than DC after the wildfires. This is just disrespect for political theatre.

Study: 83% Of Web Content Unfit For Human Consumption theonion.com/study-8...

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

Big point that is being missed: without the insurrection act, the activated Guard troops are now federal army and cannot Do law enforcement. Period

We always knew where this was going

To be clear, this is what an insurrection looks like:

New article in Rolling Stone www.rollingstone.com/p/trump-dest...

FEMA Chief Confused By Wind theonion.com/fema-ch...

I’d like to live in a country where immigration officials don’t have any need to insist that they totally aren’t a buncha Nazis.

Absolutely wild that LA has deployed LAPD, DHS has deployed both ICE and CBP, now the white house is calling in the national guard. You'd think the wildest riot in history was going down in LA right now, but it's actually just a bunch of protestors mostly just standing around holding signs.

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I keep seeing Stephen Miller tweets and every single one of them makes him sound like the most overdramatic little wizard in an anime for dumb babies

Please read Col Fram’s post below. She represents the leadership we want and need and what this SecDef and admin is doing is so fucking wrong, stupid, and cruel. Thank you for your leadership, character, and visibility, ma’am!

ICE is just a different way to spell NAZI. Get out of California.

THIS. If you know this kid... no, you don't

Man, it's bad enough to watch your nation sinking into fascist dystopia but for THAT guy? the barely-sentient former game show host with the laughably stupid combover? Really, that's the dude for whom we're giving up democracy?

Next time, there will be no allies on the ground willing to help us.

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

after 9/11, a whole lot of libs said "well I don't agree with Bush's policies but we all have to stand together as Americans right now." Which was stupid af but that's not my point -- I can't imagine the same thing happening under Trump. People more likely to just tune out entirely.

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

I bet it'd be easier for Americans to see ICE agents as just regular folks if they weren't, you know, wearing black masks and hiding their names and identities from the public out of shame.

I'm imagining ICE doing to NYC what it's doing to LA — and the people of NYC responding the way people are in LA — and it all happening under Mayor Cuomo. He'll side with ICE, DHS and, of course, the NYPD. This man, who hates the city and doesn't live here, can not become mayor. Don't rank him.

Everything Known About The New ‘Harry Potter’ Series So Far theonion.com/everyth...

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

The other thing about the militarized teams deployed on deportations is that they are increasingly a coalition of the willing that scrambles chains of command across various dept's and agencies (DHS, ICE, FBI, CBP, BOP, etc), creating what amounts to a personalized militia loyal only to Trump. 🧵

The people at @msnbc.com helped me make this video

In one week. Be there or be ruled. Nokings.org

Then they should be pardoned immediately.

AMERICAN GESTAPO

Latest comic: "solving" the problem of fascism by insulting the very people trying to fight it.

Fascism arrives in tanks:

White flight ☠️😂