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I remember watching this live, as "W" made his case to invade Iraq. We later learned it was all lies.

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

Freud might have had a few things to say about this.

I signed the final bills Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in the county. All of them bipartisan. We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised. That’s how democracy should function.

If this awful public lands sell-off does go through, then states which can act must act to counter it. Specifically, we need state level legislation to ban the development of, extraction of resources from, or other alteration of lands formerly owned by the federal government.

When Black people told you that it is a normal occurrence for police to lie about protest and assaulting officers now you see ... the test run for the justification of authoritarianism always begins in communities of color

When I talk w lawmakers about how to fight for democracy in this moment, I emphasize the need to use their physical bodies. (in the way Lander and Padilla did). Show authentic moral courage and use your physical body. Strongly worded letters & Statements mean very little given what is at stake.

Way past to do.

They dress like street thugs because they ARE street thugs

in other news, world's richest man can fake his drug tests

This would be a world-historical tragedy.

As she recovers, I hope Kristi Noem has a come to Jesus moment and realizes she is abusing her power to impose cruelty against innocent Americans and that her behavior is un-Christian and anti-God. Amen.

"It is believed that Secretary Noem may have been inadvertently exposed to trace amounts of integrity."

must have said something true

every democrat politician must follow his lead

they are actively destroying the US in every way in order to turn it into a whites only Christian zealot hermit kingdom

A hugely important point: this is the most inexperienced natsec team in history and they're loyalists who will not stop Trump's final decision. We love to complain about elites, who can make terrible mistakes. But elites, including advisers, are a *vital* source of constraint on elected leaders. 1/

then we're fucked, right? of course, we always were

So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem

Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this

jfc Lander, as he's being cuffed: "You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens. You don't have the — I'm not obstructing; I'm standing right here in the hallway. I asked to see the judicial warrant. [...] You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens asking for a judicial warrant."

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

they're ramping it up against their political opponents

if you were them, wouldnt you read this as an act of war by the US? that we know where he is and can kill him at any moment?

Sunday: "The U.S. had nothing to do with the attack on Iran." truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... Today: "We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran ... Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA." truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... He's not a hawk. He's not a dove. He's just a moron.

oh just two nazis sowing the seeds for the end of free and fair voting

didn’t the fucking criminal in chief announce a line of Trump Phones fucking *yesterday*? but now he doesn’t like telephones?🤣🤡

any article purporting to claim “sustainability is coming!” that shows cars… demonstrates just how fucking unserious it is cars - no matter their propulsion- and their infrastructure are not compatible with a livable planet

the car seems to differ

Here in Washington state, 3,866,398 acres are on the line. This includes some of the most carbon-dense forest in the world, with immeasurable value for climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and human health and well-being.

🤦‍♀️ They bought his *crypto* duh

He’s TACOing on his TACO.

going to miss this one but im sure it’s going to a good place www.freearttree.com

as someone prone to directly confronting people for stuff they say online, that from lee is the face of someone who did not expect to be confronted for something he said online

sure, the world is going up in flames, there's unrest in the streets, and America has become a global punchline, but at least Trump voters made the handful of trans athletes in the country feel extra bad

a hero: “Some would say he’s a horrible person, and we all know many reasons,” Crowchild said. “I stood taller than him as proud Tsuut’ina Isgiya.” apnews.com/article/trum...

isn’t this just encouraging more assassins by essentially promising them that the left will be blamed?

Gestapo policy: a doctrine which encouraged members of the Gestapo to view themselves as 'doctors' to the 'national body' in the struggle against "pathogens" and "diseases" hmmmm sounds like Stephen Miller

can it be any more clear this is where we're going?

it lasted *this* long? can’t believe the fucking racists let it stay after January 20

We should all understand by now that this kind of violence is what Trump and the GOP *want*. They’re never going to stop inciting it because it serves their purposes.