"This isn’t about immigration enforcement. This is straight-out fascism. ... They are using the mechanism of armed officers with masks who are beating up and killing citizens to create disruption, so they can use more force to eliminate the possibility they could be removed from office."
NEW: In a court hearing for a TRO against the feds in Minneapolis, the plaintiffs just said one of their exhibits contains a recording of a federal agent saying "Well, this person is gonna have a hard time traveling from now on" after taking a photo of an ICE observer's license plate. 1/
How many years have we been watching gun nuts open carry semiautomatic rifles into, like, a Dunkin' Donuts as a statement against government control? And they're now silent over a citizen being murdered by federal agents and then blamed for legally carrying a firearm?
BREAKING: DHS says federal agents had body cameras on during the shooting of Alex Pretti.
RELEASE THEM NOW ALONG WITH THE AGENTS NAMES.
Who agrees?
Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly
Where's his ever present orange hue? Hope that's a sign he's giving up.
🚨BREAKING: State election leaders and voting rights advocates across the country are blasting U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for exploiting the killing of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis by a federal immigration officer to “blackmail” Minnesota into handing over access to its unredacted voter rolls.
Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS.
Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.
AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.
Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.
Abolish ICE is not enough.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
Do it now and make an example of him!
Good Morning
Happy New Year’s Eve!
If you think Trump's march to authoritarian power is unstoppable - or already a fait accompli - just note how panicked and weak he was tonight and he wheedled and whined about nothing is his fault.
That's not a man who thinks he's winning.
It wasn’t even close.
Liz knows 👇🏻
Low energy dementia Trump slept all through his cabinet meeting, even when Rubio was talking to him directly. How embarrassing.
Gupta: Nobody takes a Montreal Cognitive Assessment with this type of frequency. Doing it as frequently as he’s doing makes no sense. I don’t know any neurologist who would recommend doing a MoCA with that type of frequency. It’s not the flex that I think he believes it is.
Release the unedited and unredacted Epstein Files.
Hillary was right about everything.
Kamala was right about everything.
Elizabeth (Warren) was right about everything.
These 3 women warned us. Maybe we should pay better attention to what intelligent women say.
Every outlet worth a damn should be calling this out.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan: "We're all for protecting innocent victims, we're all for exposing the bad guys who did bad things, but— "
Real rich coming from Jordan who knew about, & failed to report, the sexual abuse of athletes by OSU team doctor Richard Strauss when he was an assistant wrestling coach
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Community note for the win.
The GOAT Award goes to Mary Bruce of ABC NEWS! What she did today was totally and unequivocally awesome and amazing! I saw it live. ABC should give her a goddamn raise for this.
(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Epstein Brother Alleges Trump and Bondi Conspiring to Destroy Federal Evidence and Defraud Voters to Protect Trump and Other Accused MAGA Pedophiles
You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
Holy shit!
The Senate told Mike Johnson to pound sand and just passed the Epstein Transparency Act unanimously without the amendments Johnson wanted to help Trump with his cover-up
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Swalwell: Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, you should familiarize yourselves with this room. Get to know that witness chair — you’re going to be parked in it for a long time. Accountability is coming.
REP. @rokhanna.bsky.social : “This is one of the most horrific & disgusting corruption scandals in our country's history... Because survivors spoke up, the truth is finally going to come out and this country is really going to have a moral reckoning. How did we allow this to happen?”
