Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:
When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
People really need to be shouting from the rooftops that you can’t trust video, _today_ because there is going to be an absolute torrent of this stuff soon.
I have been playing around with Sora for a few days and it is scary what it can come up with with a few sentences of prompting. If anybody ever publishes a no-guardrails version we are cooked.
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
I love that you seem to be able to think more than two steps ahead unlike some of your colleagues. Don’t make any deal at all, IMO. Just keep the government shutdown until trump is ready to negotiate seriously.
the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them
we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world
That said, if this norm exists, people will exploit it and there is a point where people have to be prosecuted and that is when their crimes are incredibly egregious or are a threat to the democratic process itself.
Another reason is that politicians represent people and even if they are crooks, their voters are not and will be greatly displeased if their candidate is removed as an option and will act out accordingly, in sometimes destabilizing ways /3
Once this is a tool that politicians feel they can use, they will use it. And once it’s expected that people will be charged after leaving office, politicians will start getting desperate to hold on to power, including using that same toolbox to target their future opponents while they have power /2
There are few reasons why a norm of not charging the previous administration with crimes _even if they committed crimes_ is a good thing to maintain. One is that it is pretty easy to find a charge to lay on someone. There are a lot of laws and everyone breaks some of them from time to time. 1/
