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The number of people admitting to stealing catalytic converters from ICE vehicles is crazy. Don’t post about it you guys, but Ty for your service!

Masked+armed+claiming to be LEO = militia member. Burden of proof to the contrary is on them.

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This is good for America. Especially now.

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

I'm sure drunk drivers would love 72 hours before being asked for a breathalyzer, too.

Happy Juneteenth! Today commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. It’s a day to celebrate Black strength, resiliency, and joy. But as Trump tries to reverse progress, we all need to recognize how his cruelty disproportionately impacts Black Americans. 1/

They've got to stop taking no for an answer.

Can someone in immigration law explain to me how this is legal?

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) Mayor Ras Baraka (D-Newark) Judge Hannah Dugan (WI) Controller Brad Lander (D-NYC) This is not normal. This is not okay. We cannot let them convince us that this is normal or okay.

Arresting a public official for asking questions is dangerous intimidation and sends an unmistakably authoritarian message – that ICE doesn’t care about the rule of law, and that anyone exercising their right to challenge ICE and speak up for immigrants will be punished.

I noticed this, too. If you marched shitty on purpose, or know someone who did, my signal contact is in my bio. I’d love to know more about this, and I’ll keep you anonymous.

Disagree. He's openly and explicitly declaring war on a political party. This is okay as a candidate, but should be absolutely unacceptable from a sitting executive responsible for faithful execution of the laws of the US. The Constitution doesn't say POTUS only serves his own party.

The intended target, the guy the 'peacekeepers' were shooting at is the one being charged with murder, rather than the private individual who fired three times into a crowd. What the actual fuck is wrong with people?

The cowardice of the Congressional GOP to not put guardrails on the lunatic in the Oval Office - as they are required to by oath - is overwhelming at times.

Opinion | A deranged Republican shot two lawmakers and their spouses over the weekend. But my colleague who I assume is a Democrat wrote the word "womxn" in a Slack thread. I have never felt more politically homeless.

NYT Ed Board said last year that they aren’t doing local endorsements anymore, but they couldn’t help themselves from writing a gross roundabout endorsement of Cuomo.

Yeah sorry, dude had a target list. How is that not premeditated?

I love seeing the massive #NoKings turnouts in major cities, but what I love even more are the hundreds and hundreds of small, rural towns that had relatively bigger turnouts compared to their populations 💙🙏

Patriot Front crashed Springfield, MO Pride festival. Driving a Penske truck. U-Haul banned Patriot Front from renting their vehicles. It’s time for people to tell Penske to do the same.

A senator celebrating the murder of political opponents should be expelled. Not debated. Not excused. Expelled.

I nearly pancaked Wil Wheaton this one time in Vegas as I came around a corner opposite direction to him (I'm 6'5"). It's okay tho, he hit me in the back with his chair (accident, he was popping to his feet and tables were too close) after taking a bad beat about half an hour later. 🤣

Kristi Noem thinks her lie about Sen. Padilla not identifying himself is a real own when, in fact, her supposed inability to recognize a US Senator--who is the chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship & Border Safety--makes her goons' thuggery even more disgraceful.

Now feels like a good time to reshare this.

Senator Padilla pledged to help us answer some questions on why California’s workers are being hunted down like prey. He’s doing his best to get some answers.

Openly and fully embracing neo-Nazism and ethnic cleansing when it comes to immigration

Yeah it's really something to see a U.S. senator being hit with the same impossible compliance demands that the cops scream at people before shooting them during a stop

These 11 Democrats just joined the GOP to vote to force DC police to cooperate with ICE, against the city's own laws. Ed Case Henry Cuellar Don Davis Laura Gillen Jared Golden Vicente Gonzalez Adam Gray Kristen McDonald Rivet Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Tom Suozzi George Whitesides

A great way for Senate Democrats to protest what’s going on is to not have almost 40% of the caucus keep voting to advance a money laundering bill.

Reminder that seven Democratic senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem and six Dem senators declined to vote either way. She was confirmed, 59-34. The good faith experiment is clearly over, and we need the Democratic senators who didn't stand against her nomination to be loud as hell right now.

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil submits a letter to Judge Farbiarz asking the court to order his release. The letter says he has posted bond, and the government has not filed a notice of appeal for the court's preliminary injunction (which went into effect at 9:30am this morning).

The FBI does not have rights. It has responsibilities and duties.

Is THAT what happened with ICE?

Exactly right. The assault on a senator was a crime but Noem’s “liberation” comments were actually even worse.

The caption here doesn't even begin to cover how unhinged, paranoid, and just scenery-chewing this tirade composed entirely of threats is. Holy shit.

Okay so that's GATTACA now added to the list of dystopian bullshit they copped ideas from, now? Did they feed an LLM every grimdark spec-fic piece as training data or something?

It’s not illegal for a United States Senator to go to a public press conference and ask questions about your constituents safety. It's our job.

They’ll say they haven’t seen the video

To say nothing of what he'll endorse being done to someone he's in a foreign prison he pays for using taxpayer dollars.

Just want to raise the point that Secretary Noem certainly knows that Alex Padilla is a U.S. senator. She could have easily instructed security to knock it off. (Also did the Secret Service not know he was a Senator, either??)

This is Kristi Noem admitting that Homeland Security is currently occupying Los Angeles, not to protect citizens, but for purely *political* reasons. Yes, she really is that stupid.

What Padilla was doing was far better than what he would have been doing if he were on the Senate floor (voting to advance the crypto industry's legislative priority). That any Dem is doing the bidding of the crypto industry is shameful. They should not be collaborating with the regime's funders.

Lawfare: Come for high quality analysis. Stay for the epic Easter egg hunting.

Cite sources, with links, you cowards.

IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country." Don't let that slide by.

“Unpermitted ICE facility” should be setting off warning sirens across the entire country