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Patel is lying about the law as it is traditionally understood, as it is written. He’s telling the truth about law under Trumpism: you only have a right if they deign to acknowledge it; you have no right to do anything they don’t want you to do.
Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)
January 25, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Patel is lying about the law as it is traditionally understood, as it is written. He’s telling the truth about law under Trumpism: you only have a right if they deign to acknowledge it; you have no right to do anything they don’t want you to do.
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls.
January 25, 2026 at 1:37 AM
That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls.
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January 22, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
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This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 AM
This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
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Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "Our country was founded on law enforcement"
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.
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January 25, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
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As @kenwhite.bsky.social has said before: "A government that deliberately abandons the rule of law is not morally entitled to its protections."
We have eclipsed that tipping point.
We have eclipsed that tipping point.
January 25, 2026 at 12:25 AM
As @kenwhite.bsky.social has said before: "A government that deliberately abandons the rule of law is not morally entitled to its protections."
We have eclipsed that tipping point.
We have eclipsed that tipping point.
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Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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The term “law enforcement” should not be used by media, except perhaps in quotations. It has sadly become an Orwellian term that is used to magically sanctify violence. Language matters. Be specific. Describe individuals with names and ranks. Say exactly what they did. Don’t repeat fascist hocum.
January 24, 2026 at 10:59 PM
The term “law enforcement” should not be used by media, except perhaps in quotations. It has sadly become an Orwellian term that is used to magically sanctify violence. Language matters. Be specific. Describe individuals with names and ranks. Say exactly what they did. Don’t repeat fascist hocum.
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Abolish ICE, abolish DHS, redistribute the other agencies, prosecute actual criminals, such as people who commit execution-style murders of Americans in broad daylight.
January 24, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Abolish ICE, abolish DHS, redistribute the other agencies, prosecute actual criminals, such as people who commit execution-style murders of Americans in broad daylight.
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The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for ICE agents to kill a 37-year-old nurse, who was only there because another ICE agent killed a 37-year-old mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
January 24, 2026 at 7:43 PM
The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for ICE agents to kill a 37-year-old nurse, who was only there because another ICE agent killed a 37-year-old mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
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The federal government is gunning people down in the streets, lying about what happened and then preventing any independent investigation of the killings
January 24, 2026 at 9:36 PM
The federal government is gunning people down in the streets, lying about what happened and then preventing any independent investigation of the killings
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Thinking today of this one from @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
January 24, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Thinking today of this one from @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
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/6 Watch, as this unfolds, two key things: (1) how blatantly the Gestapo will lie, and demand that you ignore what you can see plainly, and (2) how uselessly, how pathetically, how impotently the media will treat those lies and dither at this murder, craven publicists to evil.
January 24, 2026 at 7:36 PM
/6 Watch, as this unfolds, two key things: (1) how blatantly the Gestapo will lie, and demand that you ignore what you can see plainly, and (2) how uselessly, how pathetically, how impotently the media will treat those lies and dither at this murder, craven publicists to evil.
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/5 This will not be the last death. The people of MN are unbowed, and that will further enrage the Gestapo. The administration will escalate. They want violence. They WANT to murder people who disagree with them. They are empty without it.
January 24, 2026 at 7:33 PM
/5 This will not be the last death. The people of MN are unbowed, and that will further enrage the Gestapo. The administration will escalate. They want violence. They WANT to murder people who disagree with them. They are empty without it.
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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/4 Usually they are standing up for people who don’t even know - but people who are their neighbors, as defined by the Jesus whose words the cruel Trump supporters cynically profane. They are Americans. If they don’t give up, how can we? Be more like them.
January 24, 2026 at 7:28 PM
/4 Usually they are standing up for people who don’t even know - but people who are their neighbors, as defined by the Jesus whose words the cruel Trump supporters cynically profane. They are Americans. If they don’t give up, how can we? Be more like them.
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It is an act of incredible bravery to record ICE’s abuses - and an increasingly dangerous one
If you or a friend volunteer as an observer on the ground and you are worried about your device being confiscated & your videos destroyed, here’s an idea for streaming so they can’t stop the signal:
If you or a friend volunteer as an observer on the ground and you are worried about your device being confiscated & your videos destroyed, here’s an idea for streaming so they can’t stop the signal:
Resistance idea for folks at protests worried their videos will be lost when their devices are taken:
Have a friend at home set up a Streamyard account
While you (possibly others) are in the field, they send you a link to the stream
Video goes live on multiple platforms & is stored w/ Streamyard
Have a friend at home set up a Streamyard account
While you (possibly others) are in the field, they send you a link to the stream
Video goes live on multiple platforms & is stored w/ Streamyard
January 24, 2026 at 7:08 PM
It is an act of incredible bravery to record ICE’s abuses - and an increasingly dangerous one
If you or a friend volunteer as an observer on the ground and you are worried about your device being confiscated & your videos destroyed, here’s an idea for streaming so they can’t stop the signal:
If you or a friend volunteer as an observer on the ground and you are worried about your device being confiscated & your videos destroyed, here’s an idea for streaming so they can’t stop the signal:
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Resistance idea for folks at protests worried their videos will be lost when their devices are taken:
Have a friend at home set up a Streamyard account
While you (possibly others) are in the field, they send you a link to the stream
Video goes live on multiple platforms & is stored w/ Streamyard
Have a friend at home set up a Streamyard account
While you (possibly others) are in the field, they send you a link to the stream
Video goes live on multiple platforms & is stored w/ Streamyard
January 19, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Resistance idea for folks at protests worried their videos will be lost when their devices are taken:
Have a friend at home set up a Streamyard account
While you (possibly others) are in the field, they send you a link to the stream
Video goes live on multiple platforms & is stored w/ Streamyard
Have a friend at home set up a Streamyard account
While you (possibly others) are in the field, they send you a link to the stream
Video goes live on multiple platforms & is stored w/ Streamyard