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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 34m

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.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1h

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.

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Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 33m

Capitalism needs level caps.

Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 1h

We are a country resisting, not appeasing or acquiescing. We fight back. Maybe we'll win, and maybe not. But we are fighting. So the question on my mind, is: Will future Leftist historians writing about this American decade acknowledge us? Or will we be just a Maga substructure? Will we even exist?

Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 1h

most ICE agents are too stupid to know how an amendment even gets ratified, much less how difficult it is. Make them think it's possible.

The Jan6 pardons emboldened them. Undo that. Scare them. Remind them the Constitution gave the President his pardon power and the Constitution can take it away.

Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 1h

I admire the strength of your bubble

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Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 2h

Congressional Democrats can propose a constitutional amendment to retroactively revoke the president's power to pardon members of his own administration at any time. They can do it in a press release. It doesn't have to be official. Just put the idea out there. Make the criminals think twice.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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ICEBlock Official @iceblock.app · 7h

Today is National Coming Out Day and we want you to know that we see you, you are loved, and we are your allies.

The best thing you can be in this life is yourself.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 5h

We are seeing dozens of these videos every day. It's happening all over the ocuntry. I know many people are outraged but it's just continuing unabated.

This feeling of impotence is devastating. How does it end? With the country emptied of brown people and dissidents in jail?

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 6h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4h

This year, I've had so many productivity issues. Whole days lost, deadlines completely blown I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with me

Yeah, so for the last 48 hours I decided to tune out the news and concentrate on an article and surprise surprise: it was the fascism this whole time

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4h

Lots of reasons this kind of undercover work doesn’t happen in the U.S., but no good ones it shouldn’t

Adrian Polglase @adrianpolglase.com · 10d

We've been undercover in the UK's biggest police force revealing evidence of racism, misogyny and officers revelling in the use of force at Met Police's Charing Cross station. Here's my article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of racism and misogyny inside Met Police

Panorama undercover investigation captures evidence that

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 6h

could a more realistic goal be that a future administration publicly release the names of all ICE agents (maybe in response to a foia request) so that they could be socially shamed, instead? we should at least have the right to know who these people are

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 12h

Coalition for Spirituality & Public Life host a Eucharistic Procession from St. Eulalia in Maywood to the ICE Detention Center in Broadview where there will be prayer & Communion. The Coalition will also try to bring Holy Communion to those detained in the facility, which is a right by Illinois law.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians.

It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C.

But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.

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Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 6h

my take-away is that, just as an effective fire emblem team can alternate between swords, axes, and spears, and an effective jeanne d'arc team can use moon, sun, and star, so should an effective online activist be able to cycle between the 3 modes (shitposting, aura farming, and normality) as needed

Ben @benhixon.bsky.social · 6h

This is smart analysis, thanks @sarahjeong.bsky.social www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 7h

Also hires, oversees, etc. university counsel for all public universities!

Sam Shirazi @samshirazi.bsky.social · 7h

Reflection of current politics little discussion of what Virginia AG actually does

Increasingly important role in suing (or not suing) Presidential administration

Virginia has not joined lawsuits brought by Dem AGs

Also provides legal advice to state agencies and defends them

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