Open letter to our Senators:
Gentlemen, Ladies, we don't really care about ICE not getting even more funding. We don't care about more "training" and more rules they won't follow.
We want ICE de-funded. Dismantled. Gone. Driven out of our cities.
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
Footage from the immediate aftermath of the Alex Pretti murder shows a Trump regime thug searching through Pretti's body, yelling: "Where is the fucking gun? where is the gun?!" Other regime thugs point behind him, showing the gun far away from the scene. #3E#GoodvsEvil
The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."
People want to have their basic needs met.
They want to be paid a living wage.
They want to stop being nickle and dimed by powerful corporations who control so much of our lives.
They do not want Venezuela.
They do not want Greenland.
They do not want masked thugs terrorizing our communities.
This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home!
Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
JD Vance: "Nobody is talking about doing immigration enforcement without a warrant. We're talking about different types of warrants that exist in our system. Typically in the immigration system, those are handled by administrative law judges. So we're talking about getting warrants from them."
So one of the things you have to do when running for office is fill out questionnaires for organizations you’re trying to earn support from.
Quite pleased to report that one of my answers from the one I filled out tonight was, verbatim, “Fuck ICE.”
Newsom: "He's an invasive species, Donald Trump. He took over the Republican Party. Lindsey Graham -- I mean, speaking of the kneepads. I'm sorry. This is tough stuff. I don't recognize these people any longer. You think what I'm saying about Trump is tough? How about what Graham said about Trump."
Newsom: "I'm not naive about the corruption & graft at a scale we've never seen in history. I'm not naive about folks writing billion dollars checks to Witkoff & Kushner. I'm not naive about the fact Trump made $1.5b+ in the last 12 months personally. How in the hell are we putting up with this?
AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed?
CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer
AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
There’s no way I could vote to give ICE more money.
Let’s be clear: ICE is now one of the wealthiest law enforcement agencies in this country, and they continue to prove they are ineffective and unqualified.
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I talked to the principal at my kids' middle school yesterday, and he said about 30% of kids have not been showing up. Hard to fathom the academic and mental health impact this is having on kids, parents and teachers.
Anyways, if you want someone in office who cares about other people and has the track record to prove it, and is ALSO an inveterate shitposter committed to using his powers for good, I’m, uh, running for CA State Assembly District 72 against a MAGA diehard.
Aww man, the Engagement Guy blocked me after I told him I looked forward to seeing his inevitable selfie in a trenchcoat and sunglasses holding a sephiroth sword, I thought I could’ve got at least another two manifestos out of him :/
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
Politicians & some media outlets have latched onto a narrative that recent immigrants, especially undocumented, are causing spikes in crime.
Research does not support the view. In fact, immigrants might have less law enforcement contact compared to native-born Americans.
This is why Democrats simply cannot work with Republicans in Congress on appropriations or anything else in good faith. Trump will illegally seize money appropriated to Democratic states, refuse them disaster aid, threaten them with Fed invasion, threaten their governors, etc.
A strong majority of the American people and members of the US Congress stand with the people of Greenland and Denmark against the deranged madman who occasionally wanders into the WH from Palm Beach.
An ICE agent saying "I don't care" and preventing an innocent woman who's been shot from receiving medical care are not the words or actions of officers lawfully protecting themselves and the community. These are the words of sociopaths happy with murder.
1) Noem obstructed Congressional oversight & withheld Congressionally appropriated funds.
2) Noem compromised public safety, violated citizzen's due process, & directed unconstitutional actions.
3) Noem abused her office for personal benefit and steered federal dollars to associates.
This is the Portland Police Chief and he breaks down during a Press Conference regarding the shooting of two people yesterday in Portland by Federal Agents. If you’ve forgotten what it was like to have a member of law enforcement with integrity and compassion — let this man be a reminder.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand