Tyrangle

All my Republican coworkers who were having second thoughts about Trump are suddenly worried about communism. It must be the midterms.

I can’t even remember what it feels like to see our country do something for the common good.

Doesn’t matriarchy mean that women are in charge? I thought that was the one defining characteristic of matriarchy, but there’s a whole crowd on instagram saying that it means everything but that.

I think this is biggest difference between the two parties. We consider this disqualifying.

I think I’d rather lose an election than win by keeping my mouth shut.

Home solar systems are just the Cold War bomb shelters of the 21st century.

I have a feeling that Barron is going to spend some time in fatigues on some military base far from Iran.

Trump is the reason why I insist that my local committee vote on every dollar spent. The fact that we can do something without consequences does not make it right.

When people ask where I stand on foreign policy issues I’m just going to show them this. Really well articulated.

It’s happening. The same conservative radio hosts that last year were saying “this looks bad” are now calling the entire thing a hoax. They’re calling it the new Steele dossier. At which point does willful ignorance become criminal?

I feel like there’s no fair way to refund the tariffs at this point. Cutting everyone a check for the same amount might be the best we can do.

Cable news has been covering exactly one story for the past week and it’s not the Epstein files. Trump is taking notes.

Abolishing ICE doesn’t mean that we suddenly have open borders - it just means that people can show up to their immigration hearings without fear of abduction.

Jermaine?

You know those bot accounts that post AI videos as engagement bait? I used to report them but now I think they’re doing a valuable service by inoculating the public ahead of the midterms. When I see elderly people saying “this looks like AI” it gives me hope for the future.

Okay here’s the actual existential threat to democracy. For months there’s been a lot of doom-mongering over the idea that voting is pointless. We need to shut this idea down now or those people will be right.

Buttigieg on Fox News: "When you see an American woman opening the door to her home and on her doorstep finds half a dozen federal agents in tactical gear that is more tricked out than what I would take outside the wire in Afghanistan -- I think most people get that that is wrong."

I think dems made the right move by getting the DHS bill singled out. With the rest of the government funded, there’s no urgency to compromise - we can drag our feet indefinitely. Feels like leverage.

Proud of my wife today. She knows her customers will just go to Wegmans if she closes her small business tomorrow, so she’s staying open, telling her followers to stay home, and donating every dollar she makes to immigration groups in Minnesota. That’s meaningful solidarity.

What’s more likely? (A) Alex Pretti brought a gun to a protest to shoot ICE agents but was too preoccupied with his phone to draw it before being subdued and killed. (B) Alex Pretti brought a gun to a protest because a majority of mass shootings in the US are perpetrated by right-wing extremists.

I agree that actions have consequences.

The NBA saved us from COVID. Maybe they will save us from ICE.

I’m ready for the general strike if someone wants to go ahead and organize that.

For anyone remotely interested in geopolitics, this is worth a listen. Carney suggests that the dominoes have been falling for decades, but we all know that Greenland was the point of no return. This will be Trump’s most enduring legacy.

My local GOP put out a press release standing with ICE and calling on protesters to “respect the rule of law.” Meanwhile ICE is barging into homes without warrants in blatant violation of the law. All year I’ve been saying that local politics and national politics are not the same, but I was wrong.

If you can’t hold your nose and vote against Trump in November, do something about it now.

I’m starting to think that the Greenland thing is a distraction. We already have a military base there. If we wanted more, all we had to do was ask. If we wanted to buy their minerals, that was always an option. None of this makes any sense. Abolish ICE and impeach DHS/DOJ leadership.

Did Bluesky change the discover feed or are we getting astroturfed by some huge coordinated “sit out the midterms” campaign? I’m on here every day and I’ve never seen anything like this.

At this point we should assume that every statement from DHS is a lie. When they say domestic terrorist, assume peaceful protestor. When they say protestor, assume random people driving home from work. When they say ”worst of the worst,” assume naturalized citizen with no criminal record.

If Jonathan Ross had a bruise we would have seen a picture of it. You can’t get hit by a car and suffer internal bleeding without having a bruise. More lies.

Just want to go on record saying I’m fine with America (preferably through the UN) doing what they can to help Iranian protestors. France came to our aid when we had our revolution, and we should pay that forward. Fuck ICE.

I’m gonna learn Spanish just to fuck with ICE.

If Trump really believes that all these protesters are being paid by billionaire activists then why doesn’t he just tax them?

RICO ICE

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

They could have said “we are waiting for the facts and putting this agent on administrative leave pending the results of a full and complete investigation” but instead they called her a domestic terrorist.

“and others”

Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

Do people usually turn to avoid hitting someone if their intent is to run them over? Why is her wheel facing the other way? Is there some other video that Trump and Noem were shown by mistake?

the thing about that “first they came for” poem is that we’re at least halfway through it, and it’s not a very long poem

“Hard to believe he is alive” This is it. This is the worst of his lies I’ve ever had to read. We all saw the video. Shooter McGavin is fine.

ICE is a domestic terrorist organization. We need to be more direct about this. Agents involved with ICE need to understand that Trump won’t be around to shield them from consequences forever.

Miller plans to “invite” Greenland to become a US territory.

It's not about oil, it's about *stealing* oil. It's not about installing a compliant regime, it's about removing a non-compliant one. It's about the aesthetic of imperial domination more than it is about the economics or geopolitics.

some identify publicly with the left because they hate oppression, others because they hate being oppressed. things will make more sense when you keep in mind that these are not the same - or even similar