The 2 party system killed Article I, just as it is the process of killing all other institutional checks on unaccountable power built into the original constitutional system. A 2-legged chair is inherently unstable. It’s only a matter of time before it crashes to the floor.
21st century concentration camps are repurposed e-commerce warehouses. The oligarchs decided long ago that your labor value was nil, now they’ve lost interest in your consumption value. You’re just surplus population to be warehoused and ultimately disposed of.
Poor headline. AG “advice” is bill “not clearly unconstitutional” but that courts may toss enforcement attempts against fed agents on constitutional grounds. Or they might not, depending on the circumstances. You can’t win unless you play the game. Pass the bill!
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He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
Reminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.
I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth:
“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.
This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”
It is not enough for elected officials to issue encyclical-like statements. We need those in executive offices to use their institutional power to force action. We need those in legislators to ensure full and unfettered legal authority to take action, and appropriate the money needed.
“Exerts accountability” is too vague. Federal forces must be physically prevented, or deterred, from this lawless behavior. If armed agencies of state/local gov are not made to do this, the people will be forced to do it themselves. We are running out of time for governors & mayors to do their job.
Perhaps trump thinks better “messaging” can drown out the parade of horrors his criminal acts have and will continue to unleash. Never forget he has always been a checkout aisle tabloid version of man, as cheap and disposable as the Weekly World News. A turgid gasbag stuffed with rank horseshit
They’re weak. They’re losing. The people of Minneapolis are showing us the way. We must fight them relentlessly across the entire front, but esp where they’ve clearly overstepped their limits. And we must be as relentless with dems who would give an inch to this madness. www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
Governors and mayors need to step up and face the unavoidable reality of having to direct state and local police forces to protect their people against federal agents who are deliberately and flagrantly violating the constitution on a daily basis. www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immi...
The idea that crossing such a line would give trump an excuse for whatever version of “martial law” people theorize is idle thinking. We are headed as far down that path as he can take it and get away with. There’s no chess to be played, just a ticking clock counting down the seconds we have left.
This situation was entirely predictable the minute trump was reelected. Refusing to grapple with the ways armed forces under their control could be used to thwart dictatorship de facto leaves the people to figure it out for them. That is not leadership. At best naïveté, at worst cowardice
Dem governors and mayors who haven’t spent the last year thinking about what it would actually mean to use state and local police against armed federal agents are guilty of a dereliction of duty, regardless of how little attention the matter has received.
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Grade A stupid is confusing parliamentary systems with proportional representation.
Agreed 100%! We advocate for PR as shock treatment to the life-threatening maladies we face NOW, not whatever awaits us on the other side. Ossified bodies need a hard thwack…
The machine has a logic, but that doesn’t mean it was intentionally, let alone intelligently, designed. Maybe ask why we insist on continuing to throw bodies on its gears when the thing’s plugged into the wall right over there. Moloch isn’t moved by our sacrifice, maybe turn him off?
This is anti-systems thinking. The rotten system is not the creation of rotten politicians, but rather the inverse. Just like big city policing molds doe eyed recruits gaming to “make a difference” into brutal knockers, the cynical pol is a product of a machine far more powerful than any person.
There is a no-longer charming naïveté in the belief that politicians fail because bad people somehow became politicians, and if we just replace them with good (or GREAT) people it’ll all get fixed. Americans of all ages love superheroes, but, ALAS, “childishness is sinister in adults”
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This is antique logic from a political environment that no longer exists. A silly attempt to play chess during an earthquake.
The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
Wanna see a pathetic geezer grovel for *the promise of* breadcrumbs? Nah, me neither.
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Do @alsobrooks.senate.gov & @vanhollen.senate.gov support the removal of Schumer from leadership? If not, we must assume they too are part of this corrupt bargain. ‘No’ means nothing without action to back it up.
Do you demand Schumer's removal as leader? If not, we'll have to assume you're on board with the deal
This is the litmus test
The arrogance of a Senator who is not even running again to take the lead in undermining the Caucus and the voters.