That’s why it’s not just a counter messaging effort to reclaim those core patriotic symbols of America. The Statue of Liberty is an icon of immigrants. The Pledge of Allegiance, while weird in many ways, has the line “liberty and justice for all”. The original revolutionary articles talk about unaccountable agents of the king. People have many of these ideas forged into their core during their childhood, even if in adulthood they’re covered over with layers of cynicism because normal times America still didn’t really live up to them. And because of that they’re a valuable appeal to a more patriotic self that believed those things were good and were important and that violating them so egregiously is extreme and obscene and worthy of attention and action.

I feel pretty confident more than one of these assholes has perpetrated domestic violence. Maybe it didn’t get to court, but they definitely did it.

I doubt this was just an innocent mistake by dedicated law enforcement trying to do their job. These assholes are all awash in right-wing propaganda and happy to stir up fear to support their chosen political outcomes.

If they’re putting out a description, someone with an X market is probably better visually described as “gender non-conforming” than a gender they’re not really presenting as. They may even present as one gender for the flight and then another when out in public, so being described with one gender could actively disrupt visual identification.

How helpful is that discriminator going to be for someone who chooses to put X as their gender? Not to mention just being actively misleading for butch women of feminine men.

Better to put up barriers and add another option to convince a fence sitter than just preemptively surrender.

Yeah, isn’t this “aren’t afraid to [die]”? People don’t usually ask “are you afraid to kill?”. Like, the later isn’t a totally invalid question, but it’s a weird way to approach it, while “not afraid to die” is a pretty straightforward sort of statement.

The catch is it just won’t pass.

Last week, Kaine and Schiff forced a Senate vote to limit Trump’s war powers in the Caribbean. While that vote failed 48-51, two Republicans, Paul and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, joined Democrats in support.

It’s when foreigners come to America to bask in our Freedom. We don’t need it because we’re already here and awash in so much Freedom already.

Old people and others who rely on social security are not uniformly Republicans.

And I’m sure if not for that they’d be kind and professional. /s

US cops don’t need foreign training to murder dogs and scoff at any possibility of legal consequences. They didn’t just start being violent unaccountable assholes because Israel. The rot is home grown from at least the time of the Klan.

Why bring Israel into this? US cops do this exact thing all the time and then declare they did nothing wrong.

Because the hierarchy of society that most politicians support demands employees who are terrified of leaving their exploitative jobs. Money is a powerful motivator, but even more powerful is the health of you and your family.

And at the same time, a very sick citizen does not generate economic benefits to them, so there’s no reason to make serious care available and/or not crushingly expensive. Better to drain as much as possible from them before the dead weight succumbs to those pressures than direct any revenue that could given back to “job creators” as tax breaks of subsidies.

It’s also why political and media personalities will brag about how quickly the county recovered from COVID. It wasn’t an economic miracle, it was sacrificing lives at the altar of capitalism. It went hand in hand with our absurdly disproportionate number of deaths.

Why we don’t storm their houses and string them up from lamp posts (or, I suppose, vote them out), I don’t know.

No one got him. He called 911, confessed to the crime, and turned himself in.

He reportedly had mental health issues and had stopped taking his medication.

I think Shapiro is a shitty liberal Zionist, but there were politicians who actually had a role in the genocide if this was a sober minded political attack.

As someone already mentioned, federal takes precedence when there’s a conflict between the laws. Federal agents don’t just have immunity from local law. They still get arrested when driving drunk, even if they’re on the job at the time.

This article talked about how what ICE was doing was illegal, but didn’t ask anyone on the police force if they’d enforce the law against them.

They really shouldn’t, and it’s been a problem for a lot longer than Trump. BLM didn’t come about because there was a functioning justice system willing to cast a critical eye to its operatives. The idea that certain individuals are just trustworthy by default is what breeds a culture of unaccountability.

If ICE was a legal organization simply pushed to extreme action by the legions of antifa supersoldiers continually attacking them (10000000% assaults!!!), you’d think priority #1 would be recording everything that happens to them. That would be a good tool to get the general public on their side and show that they aren’t just roid-raging Nazi incels. But somehow that’s just slipped through the cracks. It’s almost like having reliable footage of their activities would be a bad thing for what they want to do. Like a criminal organization.

What I appreciate most here is not that they told them to stop, which may be challenged and rejected by fascists in the judiciary, but that they stated that ICE and the government in general aren’t credible. They’ve just been making things up and being given a default of assuming good faith. It’s like the courts that just take “I feared for my life” at face value, despite the fact that saying that magic phrase regardless of the situation is taught in courses and their fears are based on fantasies. A court that’s unwilling to judge the credibility and rationality of a defendant isn’t a functioning court.