If you think this list of demands equals capitulation I'm left with no choice but to believe you would rather Chuck Schumer just stand on the Senate floor screaming "ABOLISH ICE! ABOLISH ICE! ABOLISH ICE!" until magically Trump isn't President anymore.
SENATE AND HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE UNITED ON REINING IN THE ABUSES OF ICE
Americans have watched in horror as ICE has terrorized communities across the country
Federal agents can’t continue to cause chaos in our cities while more Americans are killed
We must rein in ICE
Here’s what we're demanding:
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Okay, "Measure Of A Man" is quality TNG, with the exception that the time to hash out Data's legal status is probably *before* he becomes a watch standing line officer aboard a prestigious vessel and earns numerous commendations
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There's a weird amount of Newsom glazing that comes from people who are unfamiliar with California politics and I can assure you that a hypothetical President Newsom would be the American Keir Starmer
Gavin Newsom is enough of a charmless dolt without the righteous hatred in his heart that he doesn't have much hope of surviving a primary. He'll eat shit in a debate with some mealy-mouthed bullshit that misreads the public hatred of the right and that's how we get someone better.
My read is that American leftism specifically has been unwilling to reckon directly with its unpopularity and instead falls into a cargo cult form of Leninism, preoccupied with building a “pure” vanguard to lead the inevitable awakening of the proletariat.
I find the
@whstancil.bsky.social backlash strangely fascinating.
At its core it seems to be a desperate effort by folks further to the left to avoid having a liberal (with communication skills) become the face of their movement.
But, to be honest, winning was always going to require that.
The war on work from home is in large part a war on women having a career btw
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I don't want to quote dunk but I saw another "body cams don't do anything" post and I just want to say that I, a criminal defense attorney, very much like having body cams.
I find the
@whstancil.bsky.social backlash strangely fascinating.
At its core it seems to be a desperate effort by folks further to the left to avoid having a liberal (with communication skills) become the face of their movement.
But, to be honest, winning was always going to require that.
"caring if I start an uncontrolled fire in your neighborhood is cop behavior" hmmm I wonder why your abolish police rhetoric runs into obstacles
this is fucking deranged, embarrassing and disqualifying
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Yeah, like these nitwits still haven’t figured out the way to avoid being here is not to spend 18 months poisoning the well against the one option to prevent fascism.
Now that we are here, yes, maybe start listening to us since that was too much to ask before, and you fucked up.
"None of us figured out how to avoid being here."
IT WAS CALLED "FILL IN A LITTLE OVAL NEXT TO THE BLACK LADY'S NAME IN NOVEMBER 2024."
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that there are tactical actions to protect vulnerable people and mitigate CBP abuses, and there are strategic actions to document and broadcast CBP abuses to the rest of the country. I don't see where dumpster fires fit into this picture
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People following ICE around are braver than the troops and importantly totally unable to be anonymous.
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"It's good that people are harmed" what the fuck are you talking about, the point is that being a dispatcher for rapid response carries some minimal risk of theoretical future prosecution and you gotta be OK with taking the bullshit charge if it comes to that. Same as anyone patrolling.
Like if they charge you for engaging in constitutionally protected speech—informing others about the presence and location of law enforcement in open channels—your job is to litigate that, everyone else's job is to make sure you have a good lawyer.
Love how the goalposts keep shifting here and invariably in the direction of cowardice, a desire to use normies to conceal black bloc bullshit, or both.
then your job is to take the charge
The people on the front lines are just protesting, which is constitutionally protected 1st amendment stuff. The ‘decision makers’ (ie receiving and passing on locations of ice agents etc) could be indicted, rightly or wrongly, for obstruction and seditious conspiracy. FBI has already come to
The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences into the platform’s algorithms & their alleged complicity in the spread of CSAM, sexually explicit deepfakes, & other offenses
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Reminder: No Democrats voted for it. Don't let this app gaslight you.
They just flipped two of the holdouts and passed the rule. Final passage vote for the funding bill coming up mid afternoon
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Also: the very normal, non-radical, everyday people who make up 95% of rapid response in MN will never, ever agree to some kind of code of omerta around random arson. Dads standing in front of schools do not want to turn their cameras off when someone lights the neighborhood on fire.
If random masked men are setting fires in your community, I think you should feel free to film them. Especially if dozens of other people and several national news crews are filming them. They are not "allies," they're arsonists. Grow up.
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once again these things boil down to “is your group a bohemian cultural identity” or “is your group actually trying to do things?” and the key tell is whether your activity centers on policing of in-group behavior or whether it centers on, again, tangible goals
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