I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
The message from ICE is clear: You don't get to question masked agents who aren't wearing a uniform or badge while they try to detain someone.
This is what authoritarianism looks like.
"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
Apparently the NYT is about to publish a story that suggests Planned Parenthood might stop providing abortions in order to preserve federal funding.
President Alexis McGill Johnson says that’s never going to happen and “any claims to the contrary are an outright lie.”
Have you ever cited or come across a mention of the 'human shield hypothesis' and wondered: what is the evidence for this hypothesis, and what is the quality of that evidence? Wonder no more!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“Just because the person identifies themselves as an ICE agent doesn’t mean you’re under arrest."
An unfortunately possibly helpful primer on what to do if ICE approaches: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Holy shit
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Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races.
And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards.
I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.
The sleepwalk into authoritarianism continues
Good morning. It is now 12:01 AM, which means a 25% tariff on all $114B in non-USCMA-compliant auto part imports has now gone into effect, alongside a hideously complex system allowing carmakers to rebate tariffs on 15% of the content in a US-made car this year & 10% next year
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Remember my free idea that there should be a website where you can enter a disease/condition/procedure and see the NIH grants that saved your/your loved ones’ lives? @nihildev.bsky.social picked it up and ran with it and now IT EXISTS! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Not sure why the other site won’t let me share this, but here’s a quick thread debunking the Veep’s fearmongering this morning—with citations.
The undocumented population isn’t 20M. Due process is the law. ICE can’t just deport millions overnight. And fentanyl? Mostly smuggled by U.S. citizens.
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Among other things in this insane wsj article, Elon hits up women on DMs to have his babies, of which he seems to have dozens. He sets them up with money partly structured as loans. He has a compound in TX where he wants each mom/kids to live in separate residences. Kids are called his “legion”.
let’s go
The cop was indicted (and eventually pleaded guilty). pgpolice.blogspot.com/2020/06/gran...
A German businessman was charged with drug trafficking in Australia after 200kg of cocaine was found in a hotel last December. Bellingcat and the Sunday Times used a running app and Google reviews to investigate the alleged link between him and the Kinahan cartel. www.youtube.com/shorts/aqZQf...
Cheers to the ICE social media staffer who just created an excellent Plaintiff's Exhibit A for all the people detained or removed for their "ideas."
This is eugenics
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
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