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Desert Mage
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Avid reader, cat lover, Trump hater. Want to live long enough to piss on his grave.
An impotent old man beating his flabby chest to make himself feel strong. Anyone afraid of this 🤡 needs a spine transplant.
Look, if they do this, it's bad.

But also, the math doesn't entire math for me. Cook County alone has ~3,000 voting precincts, and some must have multiple polling stations.

There are ~4,000 armed ICE agents in US. More CBP (who are lumped in w this, prob). But even if we get to 20,000 armed ppl?
🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
February 4, 2026 at 9:11 PM
They were working on anti-cancer vaccines using the MRA technology that Frogvoice McGravelface has declared verboten.

It's a fucking death cult. They WANT US TO DIE.
February 4, 2026 at 8:05 PM
"Democracy dies in..."

"Hey, will you turn off the lights as you're leaving? Thanks."
February 4, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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Neither Trump nor the GOP in congress have this power, & the only way they do this is if we decline to stand up for our rights. He's had a string of electoral defeats & rightfully fears the midterms. His outbursts are real threats, but they come from weakness. Tough shit, he's going down. No Kings.
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
February 2, 2026 at 6:19 PM
If you haven't donated to ProPublica yet, do. They've broken more stories of significant public interest over the past few years than most mainstream media. While once-venerable outlets like CBS News and WaPo are being compromised and corrupted by cretinous oligarchs, ProPublica is the real deal.
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 2, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Thank god for district court judges with human instincts and a functioning conscience.
BREAKING: Federal judge orders Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R., released.

"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."

"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
January 31, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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The only people who have died have been people exercising their constitutional rights while masked, armed federal paramilitaries have violently invaded an entire state to do a wholesale ethnic cleansing campaign.
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Even under SCOTUS's dubious reasoning in Trump v. U.S., there is no scenario in which maneuvering billions of dollars to an offshore account to keep it out of reach from Congress and courts is an "official act." This is all criminal and impeachable.
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 2:16 AM
THIS is what domestic terrorism looks like. And Ihlan Omar is a badass—she went right at that deranged fuck. Stephen Miller would have curled up into a fetal ball and wept. I hope to God she is okay.
January 28, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Next comes the gravel pit.
Trump Holds 2-Hour Meeting With Noem Amid Backlash to Minneapolis Shooting
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:08 AM
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The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Couldn’t happen to a nazier guy.
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Concerted backlash against authoritarianism WORKS. Vigorous legal pushback WORKS. Peaceful resistance WORKS. Of course, it helps a lot when the regime's thug's straight-up murder people on camera.
They're squirming.
ABC: Noem said Pretti committed an act of domestic terrorism. Stephen Miller labeled him a domestic terrorist. Does the president agree?

LEAVITT: I have not heard the president characterize Mr Pretti in that way
January 26, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.
January 26, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I've been furious, sickened, and depressed all day. I don't know how we can take three more years of this shit.
January 26, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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Wolves have a moment of silence for Alex Pretti, after seven seconds of silence several fans yell "FUCK ICE"
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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strange to me that a lot of people on this website simultaneously agree that the administration is run by incompetents who struggle to carry out their agenda without major political blowback AND that they’ll pull off a complex and sophisticated effort to rig elections and prevent defeat in November
January 25, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Alex Pretti was a good man. He cared every day, deeply, for the people Trump called losers and suckers. We are ruled by demons now.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 2:17 AM
This 💯
Van Hollen: "The Trump admin has essentially said to folks at ICE, 'Anything goes. You have a license to kill. And by the way, we won't investigate you. We'll take care of this for you.' When they're calling these Americans 'domestic terrorists,' what they're saying to ICE is we got your back."
January 25, 2026 at 12:49 AM
What's with the weasel words, NY Times? "Videos Appear to Contradict Federal Account of Killing"? Unless you're saying the videos are inauthentic or were doctored, or that we can't trust the evidence of our own senses, there's no "appear to" about it, as YOUR OWN FUCKING ANALYSIS PROVES!
January 24, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times,
up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny

also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street
January 24, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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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.
January 24, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Translation: "We encountered a local resident who was lawfully carrying a licensed weapon, so we beat and murdered him."
January 24, 2026 at 6:12 PM
He’s going to rape that penguin.
First they tariffed the penguins, now they say embrace the penguins?

Mixed messaging tbh
January 24, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Minnesota, you are amazing.
January 23, 2026 at 11:08 PM