Oh for pete's sake, the Dems have TRIED to get the GOP to come to the table on immigration since Obama became known as the "Deporter in Chief" among Latinos and Biden actually put together a package with Republicans that Trump promptly killed. TODAY we need to agitate and insist that Trump be REMOVED pronto. He is a mentally incompetent person who is endangering the nation and individual Americans while grabbing all the loot he can get his grubby fingers on. 25th Amendment would be the easiest way to get the nation back on track. Tell Republicans no discussions on a new budget until they get Trump out.
Bingo. Came here to say the same thing. The Republicans don’t want a better immigration system. They want to keep its base in a state of permanent terror so they can finish the job of making Trump as 21st Century reboot of Henry VIII — . both king and head of the American Church.
I'd go further and say they used border control as a justification to fund their brown shirts who can easily go beyond "immigration enforcement" to terrorizing anyone who is an opponent of the regime. The FBI is no longer trusted and I can see operating in concert as the secret police.
It's all about voter suppression and messing with the vote tabulation, reporting, and certification. If they have their way you'll have to pass a gauntlet of armed and masked thugs to cast your ballot, and theyll stand over you while you vote.
Thank you!!! You and I are on the same page with this I’ve been screaming for weeks that the bloated demented lying criminal stinking up the White House needs to go now. He knows we don’t want a king, we’ve told him twice already. What we do want him to know is that we want his stinking ass gone, out of our lives forever. No more nibbling around at the edges, we demand he be removed. Demand it, before he blows up the world. This should be an easy one, he’s the only one we’ve ever had in the Oval Office who could be taken out via impeachment/conviction OR the 25th Amendment.
From Common Cause to me yesterday. The vote is today.
"Daniel, we just learned that the U.S. Senate could vote as soon as TOMORROW on reining in Trump’s unconstitutional and reckless military actions in Venezuela.
"I’m writing to you because your senators urgently need to hear from you today. Take action to tell Senator Rick Scott and Senator Ashley Moody – vote YES on S.J. Res. 98 to defend our lives, our Constitution, and our national interests."
And so I did.
+++++++++++++++++++++
S.J. Res. 98 is a joint resolution from the 119th Congress (2025-2026) that proposes to direct the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela unless explicitly authorized by Congress.
Status and Details
Sponsor: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
Introduced: December 3, 2025
Latest Action: The resolution was read twice in the Senate and referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on December 3, 2025.
Status: It currently has the status of "Introduced". It has not been passed into law.
Key Provisions
S.J. Res. 98 would require the President to end the use of U.S. Armed Forces in hostilities in Venezuela unless authorized by Congress through a declaration of war or specific authorization. The resolution notes this does not affect the U.S. ability to defend itself from attack. More details are available in the full text of the resolution and on Congress.gov. It's important to note that a different S.J. Res. 98 from the 118th Congress dealt with a different matter.
Houston, we have a problem. The MAGA-loaded Congress will not impeach, and the hand-picked loyal lackeys in the cabinet won't invoke the 25th Amendment to rid us of this dangeous demented individual. The U.S. Marshalls could arrest him, but as they are under the control of the corrupted Department of Justice, that isn't going to happen either. What will it take?
So much drama, so little joy… and it’s winter! I’m hoping that Spring will bring courage & new determination to the USA to “Give me your tired & your poor, your teeming masses yearning to breathe free”.
These immigrants, in my observation, are seeking an improved life for their families. Like my Irish Catholic & German Jewish ancestors did…
Not just bloated and sick in the head, but profoundly, deeply physically REPULSIVE. A small point, perhaps, but like a reverse Dorian Grey portrait, his face betrays the cruel, swaggering, incoherent, incontinent rage that keeps filling his rotten heart. It's all so obvious.
I continue to be floored by the fact that a sizeable cult in this country still thinks this despicable man has anything to say that doesn't come straight out of his clear fronto-temporal dementia. Mid- to late stages of this disease often include bizarre, wild, delusional examples of paranoia.
Republicans who continue to sail to hell with this man will soon, God willing, get to experience the worst year of their cowardly lives and careers.
"In a presidential memorandum issued on Wednesday, Trump withdrew from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), along with 65 other organizations, agencies and commissions, calling them 'contrary to the interests of the United States.' "
What doesn't originate in his empty frontal-temporal lobe, comes from the Fuhrer's playbook.
Somebody told him about the Monroe Doctrine, and he's all excited now to implement his "Donroe" doctrine to take over the entire western hemisphere. If this isn't delusional, then I'm a giant rabbit.
Thomas, I'm glad that you reminded us that a bipartisan immigration bill had been worked out during the Biden administration only to be nixed (aided and abetted by compliant MAGAt sycophants) by the loser of the 2020 election. It was more important for the bastard to have immigration as a cudgel to use during the 2024 presidential campaign. That and other tactics seem to have worked for him although not for the greater good of America.
Right NOW, Dems must begin to dump truckloads of sand in the gears of the cruel regime/junta at every turn. Make some noise. Get pissed off. Get fired up. Stop the insanity.
Do people really think *Trump* is doing this?? He can't orchestrate his way out of a paper bag. It's the Stephen Millers, the Russell Voughts, the (gods forbid) Pete Hegseths, et al. who are doing it. And they'll still be doing it under President (gag) JD Vance.
And don't forget that while DJT is following orders from Vought (who wrote most of the Project 2025), JD Vance's fascist puppet master is Thiel, and he's also very, very dangerous.
Vance doesn't have the threat power of Trump. The only way he will sit behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is if Trump doesn't serve out his four years. By 2028, MAGA will be like Benjamin Franklin's comment about house guests.
I wouldn’t bet the farm on that. The connection from Hungary to the Heritage Foundation to Project 2025 has been in development for some time. Heritage even brought over some of the same people who put Orban in power to help them design the putative take over of the US. That linkage is strong and very well funded. Trump was simply the vehicle they used to gain power. He’s probably dispensable now. I suspect they’d rather have Vance anyway—much easier to control.
In addition, the right wing has been working toward this for many, many decades. There were plenty of Nazi sympathizers and far-right extremists in the interwar period and into World War II. Rachel Maddow's ULTRA podcast covers this. The backlash has been building since the passage of civil rights and voting rights legislation in the mid-1960s. The Reagan administration played a crucial role in unleashing corporate money and hamstringing unions. The election of Obama in 2008 freaked them out. Jane Mayer's DARK MONEY is indispensable on this. Etc.
The 25th amendment requires a majority of the Trump handpicked cabinet, and the Trump handpicked vice president, to agree that he is incompetent and remove him. I do not see that happening.
Neera Tanden is good at stating the obvious. The fact is that Biden had control of the border at the end of his administration. Too late, but using incremental measures was reasonable. ICE is now a domestic militia that threatens everyone, and Trump, Miller and Noem are fine with that.
I was in Cairo and Alexandria during the Arab Spring and the revolution, and I saw first hand that governmental bodies as feckless as the US Congress will never remove Trump. It's up to the people to do it, either peacefully or otherwise. The 25th Amendment will merely install Vance, who is a lying sack of shit and totally incompetent. And you can bet that Trump would be ordering him around unless the people hold him and the whole rotten Trump family incommunicado.
Untrained insurrectionist ice-thugs killed another person. HCR reminds us We the People have ONLY until ~ May 2026 to save our Democracy & the ship is sinking fast with still only a handful of Congressional Democrats doing something/anything. Thank you Jennifer for your ongoing tireless efforts.
Congressional Democrats must do everything they can in the upcoming budget negotiations to make those about ICE and refuse to pass anything until this (and perhaps the border) is addressed. Preferably by abolishing ICE or at least reigning in its budget and demanding a change to how it operates.
I’m so thankful for the private citizens taking cell phone videos. Think about how much worse it would be if that wasn’t happening. That is the only check on this illegal crap, when it’s happening.
We have horrifically reached another Kent State moment in American history. Different fascists same gig.
The AG of Minnesota should indict ICE and charge them with domestic terrorism and violations of the Federal Civil Rights act.
No honest explanation can justify a lethal attack on a US citizens in the exercise of their 1st Amendment rights by a federal police force. Let's all send a message to ICE's Nazi leaders Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem and the Orange bobblehead president. We, The American People are the strongest force in America. You may think you and your surrogates can kick, beat or shoot Americans at will. You are wrong. Your fascist power grab is coming to an end. We're coming for you. You will be brought to justice by the laws you ruthlessly ignore.
Great parallel. This ICE shooting video must be played over and over, whenever Noem or the president or Leavitt or any other presidential parrott tries to spin the shooting.
The AG of Minnesota can't indict anybody under the Federal Civil Rights Act. They have to invoke state law. Of which there is plenty, to nail at least the specific thug who pulled the trigger.
As a Minnesotan, this story broke me. Viewing the video of the shooting and the subsequent one where a bystander who identifies himself as a physician and is refused to render care to the woman is just beyond my comprehension. What was further appalling were the comments by what I assume are other Minnesotans that are beyond cruel. I didn't realize how morally bankrupt our society has become. We are truly lost as a nation.
Don’t give up, ever. MAGAT scum is not our society. At best they are 25% of the population. And they’ve always been around since the founding of the country, just out from under their rocks now because the demented criminal has given them permission.
As you know we are paying for them with our taxes. We pay for our own repression and the destruction of our system of government. I suppose I'm just pointing out the irony. Regardless, I still have to pay my taxes.
Absolutely!! Those people that responded w/hate are not in the majority!!!!! And they certainly are not just from MN!! They could be spewing their hate from anyway around the globe!! Do not give in, do not give up!! Today is a new day and we need to respond w/ unity and the strength of our numbers!!
My Rep. Pete Stauber is nowhere to be found. His local office in Chisholm does not even have his name or phone number on the door. I have repeatedly tried to contact him by phone, mail, in person and email. I have yet to receive a response. He does not seem to be open to conversations with his constituents.
I also have Stauber too as my representative. He's about as MAGA and slimy as they come and refuses to face constituents unless it's a programmed phone in town hall. He's all about mining even though it could endanger the Boundary Waters and creates few jobs all the interest of a foreign owned mining company. He's a former police officer but has said nothing about the January 6th pardons.
We're in a mostly a Republican district with a few Democratic areas like Duluth. Democrats have run good candidates but haven't come close to beating him. I've been blessed over the years with Stauber, Emmer, and Bachmann.
I used to think it was a political division based on political views. I now realize it's deeper than that. There's a moral divide here prevents us from viewing the same reality from common ground. I know there are people trying to breach the divide, but I don't know how you start if we can't agree on basic facts. (And ouch, I was never subjected to Emmer or Bachmann!)
The facts are the facts and one side does not use facts. They make stuff up or lie. I really get annoyed by the kumbaya efforts to bring all the people together and understand each other and everything will be ok. How can you have a rational discussion with people who repeat lies all the time? These are the same people who will believe the shooting yesterday was stopping an "act of domestic terrorism" and saved lives.
What I have found, in trying to contact ANY member of the House of Reps, is that their websites will not accept contacts from anyone outside of their districts, basically isolating them from non-district opinion. (This, by the way, is not true of Senators, although I doubt they actually pay attention to out-of-state contacts.) Haven't tried phoning, but I've heard that phone calls get screened out, also (have no idea if this is true). So you basically have to live close enough to their districts to be able to be a physical presence. Finding out who their donors are and contacting them might indeed be a viable alternative. Also, they have Facebook pages, which anyone can post on. Maybe the same is true for their X pages (I'm not on X).
Mittens -- I'm sorry to hear about your experience with Stauber. He used to be one of the more reasonable ones.
The Trump criminal cabal has been conducting an on-going attack on the US republic since Jan 6th, 2021. How many of these horrible -- entirely un-American -- tragedies will it take to invoke a watershed moment? Our nation sinks deeper into the quagmire of this toxic, autocratic dystopia day-by-day.
Robert Reich writes about it and we read about it.
Heather Cox Richardson writes about it and we read about it.
Everybody’s writing and reading.
BUT NOBODY CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!!
The fascists running the country now control all the mechanisms that have the power to stop them.
All we can do is write and read, huff and puff, hold up signs, and stomp our feet.
And every now and then, vote.
If they let us have elections.
If they honor the results.
This nearly 250 year old experiment in government has ended in failure.
It failed because of a perfect storm.
It failed because the founders never imagined that breathtakingly stupid voters would elect a psycopath TWICE, and that an army of fascists would be assembled to destroy what they created.
The fascist administration will simply ignore Congress. The administration controls all the mechanisms of law enforcement and enforcement of the Constitution.
It’s not bullshit. They control the DOJ which includes FBI and Federal Marshals, the “supreme” court, which granted trump immunity so he won’t even be held in contempt for ignoring court rulings, and the military leaders who were loyal to the Constitution have been replaced by ass kissers.
Then we the People will not reward bad behavior with acquiescence. 50501 (https://www.fiftyfifty.one/) is organizing a national walkout on January 20. Find your friends, make a plan, check out what 50501 is doing in your area and JOIN THEM! I’d love to see double number of citizens that were out for the last national protest.
Trump has hinted recently that there will be no midterms, especially when going to war will enable him to declare martial law. He loves "national emergencies."
We get it, believe me. But it’s not hopeless. The problem is we all want to stop this, and we can’t. Frustrating as all hell. What we can do is continue to resist, which is not a waste of time. It took me a while to accept that. I’ve not lost one ounce of fury since November 2024, and I will never let these fascist bastards just take the whole thing over without a fight. If there really is a god, we’ll gain control of Congress this November and with real political power, we can put this regime in the trash can where it belongs.
Believe me, I haven’t given up. I just recognize that fascists have taken control of the federal government, including the DOJ and military, which until now had both been impartial to the occupant of the White House.
Kristi Noem's and Trump's comments on the tragedy only make her and Trump look like fools. I just wrote to. my representatives asking what they are going to do. The blame rests entirely on this administration and our Congress that refuses to do anything about the abuse of power!
I agree. What I saw on the video was an ICE agent who waited until the car was passing, and then fired through the thinnest glass possible, the drivers side window. He did not fire as soon as humanly possible through the windshield of what he thought was an oncoming car. BIG difference.
Jordan & Comer. These two guys who were so determined to tie Biden and Garland to the stake for weaponizing the government against their political rivals really now have an opportunity to see how it's done. Noem, BONDI, Patel, and Trump have weaponized the government against their political rivals to a degree unseen before in our country. Turkey? sure. Hungary? sure. Maduro? sure. But the constant banging-on about Biden and his team is pure unadulterated Bulls**t.
Not gonna lie, any scenario that doesn’t end with the ICE agent who shot her - as he easily stepped out of the way of vehicle, and proceeded to shoot through the driver’s side window - going to prison for several decades is completely unacceptable.
Horrifying. The Trump regime is murdering people daily - citizens, fishermen, Venezuelan civilians. This is what a plurality voted for.
Concerning immigration. It's hard to keep up, but wasn't there a good, bi-partisan immigration reform bill in Congress last year that Trump ordered the Rs to kill? To keep the hate alive? For him, not the country. And of course the Rs did.
In answer to your questjion, there was indeed a bipartisan bill that Trump had Speaker Johnson quash, and yes, the MAGA-Republicans went along with it.
ICE is populated by nothing more than armed thugs who share a Rambo complex.
I was not a fan of the progressive cry to "abolish ICE" -- not because I disagreed, but rather that I thought the issue was a loser. But their proposal is looking better by the minute.
They need to give the toilet a good flush so that the pieces of s*** are gone if they want that agency to continue.
Ivan, having worked with the immigration regulations my entire career, I have always hated ICE. We had no need for it EVER; its legitimate functions were already handled by CBP. And now it's been set free to do what was always possible: to become our secret police and to terrorize our citizens and all residents. I will always say #AbolishICE.
ICE and DHS need to be destroyed. All the functions they acquired after 9/11 can go back to where they were. There is absolutely no need for the Gestapo here.
Oh for pete's sake, the Dems have TRIED to get the GOP to come to the table on immigration since Obama became known as the "Deporter in Chief" among Latinos and Biden actually put together a package with Republicans that Trump promptly killed. TODAY we need to agitate and insist that Trump be REMOVED pronto. He is a mentally incompetent person who is endangering the nation and individual Americans while grabbing all the loot he can get his grubby fingers on. 25th Amendment would be the easiest way to get the nation back on track. Tell Republicans no discussions on a new budget until they get Trump out.
Bingo. Came here to say the same thing. The Republicans don’t want a better immigration system. They want to keep its base in a state of permanent terror so they can finish the job of making Trump as 21st Century reboot of Henry VIII — . both king and head of the American Church.
I'd go further and say they used border control as a justification to fund their brown shirts who can easily go beyond "immigration enforcement" to terrorizing anyone who is an opponent of the regime. The FBI is no longer trusted and I can see operating in concert as the secret police.
It's all about voter suppression and messing with the vote tabulation, reporting, and certification. If they have their way you'll have to pass a gauntlet of armed and masked thugs to cast your ballot, and theyll stand over you while you vote.
But if you don't vote for them, they will not allow it to be tallied.
Thank you!!! You and I are on the same page with this I’ve been screaming for weeks that the bloated demented lying criminal stinking up the White House needs to go now. He knows we don’t want a king, we’ve told him twice already. What we do want him to know is that we want his stinking ass gone, out of our lives forever. No more nibbling around at the edges, we demand he be removed. Demand it, before he blows up the world. This should be an easy one, he’s the only one we’ve ever had in the Oval Office who could be taken out via impeachment/conviction OR the 25th Amendment.
From Common Cause to me yesterday. The vote is today.
"Daniel, we just learned that the U.S. Senate could vote as soon as TOMORROW on reining in Trump’s unconstitutional and reckless military actions in Venezuela.
"I’m writing to you because your senators urgently need to hear from you today. Take action to tell Senator Rick Scott and Senator Ashley Moody – vote YES on S.J. Res. 98 to defend our lives, our Constitution, and our national interests."
And so I did.
+++++++++++++++++++++
S.J. Res. 98 is a joint resolution from the 119th Congress (2025-2026) that proposes to direct the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela unless explicitly authorized by Congress.
Status and Details
Sponsor: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
Introduced: December 3, 2025
Latest Action: The resolution was read twice in the Senate and referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on December 3, 2025.
Status: It currently has the status of "Introduced". It has not been passed into law.
Key Provisions
S.J. Res. 98 would require the President to end the use of U.S. Armed Forces in hostilities in Venezuela unless authorized by Congress through a declaration of war or specific authorization. The resolution notes this does not affect the U.S. ability to defend itself from attack. More details are available in the full text of the resolution and on Congress.gov. It's important to note that a different S.J. Res. 98 from the 118th Congress dealt with a different matter.
THANK YOU! for this info, Daniel. I will absolutely be asking my senators to vote YES on SJ Res. 98 !!! :-)
Done!
Houston, we have a problem. The MAGA-loaded Congress will not impeach, and the hand-picked loyal lackeys in the cabinet won't invoke the 25th Amendment to rid us of this dangeous demented individual. The U.S. Marshalls could arrest him, but as they are under the control of the corrupted Department of Justice, that isn't going to happen either. What will it take?
I hear you, but we never thought we’d get all but one w/the passage of the law regarding the Epstein PedoFiles!
The Dems have to get the republicans on record as supporting the evil orange one and his band of incompetent misfits!!
Beat me to it, Kathleen. They caved on Epstein. Put the same pressure on them for removal.
So much drama, so little joy… and it’s winter! I’m hoping that Spring will bring courage & new determination to the USA to “Give me your tired & your poor, your teeming masses yearning to breathe free”.
These immigrants, in my observation, are seeking an improved life for their families. Like my Irish Catholic & German Jewish ancestors did…
Not just bloated and sick in the head, but profoundly, deeply physically REPULSIVE. A small point, perhaps, but like a reverse Dorian Grey portrait, his face betrays the cruel, swaggering, incoherent, incontinent rage that keeps filling his rotten heart. It's all so obvious.
I continue to be floored by the fact that a sizeable cult in this country still thinks this despicable man has anything to say that doesn't come straight out of his clear fronto-temporal dementia. Mid- to late stages of this disease often include bizarre, wild, delusional examples of paranoia.
Republicans who continue to sail to hell with this man will soon, God willing, get to experience the worst year of their cowardly lives and careers.
"In a presidential memorandum issued on Wednesday, Trump withdrew from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), along with 65 other organizations, agencies and commissions, calling them 'contrary to the interests of the United States.' "
What doesn't originate in his empty frontal-temporal lobe, comes from the Fuhrer's playbook.
Stupid bigoted mouth-breathing slack-jawed sheep willing to be led to the slaughter have always been with us. Who knew there were so many?
Somebody told him about the Monroe Doctrine, and he's all excited now to implement his "Donroe" doctrine to take over the entire western hemisphere. If this isn't delusional, then I'm a giant rabbit.
After today’s press conference lies, Vance is disgusting. He would be worse than Trump..
If he didn’t feel the need to appease Trump in order to keep his position he *might be more reasonable. They’re all dancing to the Trump looney-tunes!
Thomas, I'm glad that you reminded us that a bipartisan immigration bill had been worked out during the Biden administration only to be nixed (aided and abetted by compliant MAGAt sycophants) by the loser of the 2020 election. It was more important for the bastard to have immigration as a cudgel to use during the 2024 presidential campaign. That and other tactics seem to have worked for him although not for the greater good of America.
Right NOW, Dems must begin to dump truckloads of sand in the gears of the cruel regime/junta at every turn. Make some noise. Get pissed off. Get fired up. Stop the insanity.
Do people really think *Trump* is doing this?? He can't orchestrate his way out of a paper bag. It's the Stephen Millers, the Russell Voughts, the (gods forbid) Pete Hegseths, et al. who are doing it. And they'll still be doing it under President (gag) JD Vance.
And don't forget that while DJT is following orders from Vought (who wrote most of the Project 2025), JD Vance's fascist puppet master is Thiel, and he's also very, very dangerous.
thanks for saying that dethroning the orange one wouldn't change anything because then we'd get stuck with ... as you said ... (gag) JD vance.
Vance doesn't have the threat power of Trump. The only way he will sit behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is if Trump doesn't serve out his four years. By 2028, MAGA will be like Benjamin Franklin's comment about house guests.
I wouldn’t bet the farm on that. The connection from Hungary to the Heritage Foundation to Project 2025 has been in development for some time. Heritage even brought over some of the same people who put Orban in power to help them design the putative take over of the US. That linkage is strong and very well funded. Trump was simply the vehicle they used to gain power. He’s probably dispensable now. I suspect they’d rather have Vance anyway—much easier to control.
In addition, the right wing has been working toward this for many, many decades. There were plenty of Nazi sympathizers and far-right extremists in the interwar period and into World War II. Rachel Maddow's ULTRA podcast covers this. The backlash has been building since the passage of civil rights and voting rights legislation in the mid-1960s. The Reagan administration played a crucial role in unleashing corporate money and hamstringing unions. The election of Obama in 2008 freaked them out. Jane Mayer's DARK MONEY is indispensable on this. Etc.
The 25th amendment requires a majority of the Trump handpicked cabinet, and the Trump handpicked vice president, to agree that he is incompetent and remove him. I do not see that happening.
Yeah, the drafters of the 25th never imagined a scenario like this one.
Neera Tanden is good at stating the obvious. The fact is that Biden had control of the border at the end of his administration. Too late, but using incremental measures was reasonable. ICE is now a domestic militia that threatens everyone, and Trump, Miller and Noem are fine with that.
There is no bi-partisan consensus on anything anymore. The GOP has gone full fascist.
I was in Cairo and Alexandria during the Arab Spring and the revolution, and I saw first hand that governmental bodies as feckless as the US Congress will never remove Trump. It's up to the people to do it, either peacefully or otherwise. The 25th Amendment will merely install Vance, who is a lying sack of shit and totally incompetent. And you can bet that Trump would be ordering him around unless the people hold him and the whole rotten Trump family incommunicado.
Untrained insurrectionist ice-thugs killed another person. HCR reminds us We the People have ONLY until ~ May 2026 to save our Democracy & the ship is sinking fast with still only a handful of Congressional Democrats doing something/anything. Thank you Jennifer for your ongoing tireless efforts.
They didn’t kill her. They murdered her in cold blood.
It's a semantic differnce. Either way, it was a warrantless execution.
Congressional Democrats must do everything they can in the upcoming budget negotiations to make those about ICE and refuse to pass anything until this (and perhaps the border) is addressed. Preferably by abolishing ICE or at least reigning in its budget and demanding a change to how it operates.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell
I’m so thankful for the private citizens taking cell phone videos. Think about how much worse it would be if that wasn’t happening. That is the only check on this illegal crap, when it’s happening.
We all need to be ready to video!! Do not interfere…do not obey in advance. You have the right to video!!
We have horrifically reached another Kent State moment in American history. Different fascists same gig.
The AG of Minnesota should indict ICE and charge them with domestic terrorism and violations of the Federal Civil Rights act.
No honest explanation can justify a lethal attack on a US citizens in the exercise of their 1st Amendment rights by a federal police force. Let's all send a message to ICE's Nazi leaders Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem and the Orange bobblehead president. We, The American People are the strongest force in America. You may think you and your surrogates can kick, beat or shoot Americans at will. You are wrong. Your fascist power grab is coming to an end. We're coming for you. You will be brought to justice by the laws you ruthlessly ignore.
Great parallel. This ICE shooting video must be played over and over, whenever Noem or the president or Leavitt or any other presidential parrott tries to spin the shooting.
The AG of Minnesota can't indict anybody under the Federal Civil Rights Act. They have to invoke state law. Of which there is plenty, to nail at least the specific thug who pulled the trigger.
I assume there is at least one federal district court in Minnesota.
As a Minnesotan, this story broke me. Viewing the video of the shooting and the subsequent one where a bystander who identifies himself as a physician and is refused to render care to the woman is just beyond my comprehension. What was further appalling were the comments by what I assume are other Minnesotans that are beyond cruel. I didn't realize how morally bankrupt our society has become. We are truly lost as a nation.
Don’t give up, ever. MAGAT scum is not our society. At best they are 25% of the population. And they’ve always been around since the founding of the country, just out from under their rocks now because the demented criminal has given them permission.
Giving up is not in my vocabulary. Thank you for your words of encouragement.
Thanks for pointing out that, John. It's hard to remember when it goes beyond giving them permission and funding to actually celebrating these thugs.
BTW, where are they stealing the $50,000 signing bonus from?
As you know we are paying for them with our taxes. We pay for our own repression and the destruction of our system of government. I suppose I'm just pointing out the irony. Regardless, I still have to pay my taxes.
Absolutely!! Those people that responded w/hate are not in the majority!!!!! And they certainly are not just from MN!! They could be spewing their hate from anyway around the globe!! Do not give in, do not give up!! Today is a new day and we need to respond w/ unity and the strength of our numbers!!
Exactly.
As the title of Joyce Vance's book says "Giving Up is Unforgiveable"
They ARE our society. They voted or Trump, some of them 3 times.
@Mittens. In Minnesota you have Republican House members. Contact them. Sit in their offices. Contact their donors.
My Rep. Pete Stauber is nowhere to be found. His local office in Chisholm does not even have his name or phone number on the door. I have repeatedly tried to contact him by phone, mail, in person and email. I have yet to receive a response. He does not seem to be open to conversations with his constituents.
When is he up for re-election? Vote in someone who will pay attention to the constituaents. It is not only a need, it is a right.
I also have Stauber too as my representative. He's about as MAGA and slimy as they come and refuses to face constituents unless it's a programmed phone in town hall. He's all about mining even though it could endanger the Boundary Waters and creates few jobs all the interest of a foreign owned mining company. He's a former police officer but has said nothing about the January 6th pardons.
We're in a mostly a Republican district with a few Democratic areas like Duluth. Democrats have run good candidates but haven't come close to beating him. I've been blessed over the years with Stauber, Emmer, and Bachmann.
I used to think it was a political division based on political views. I now realize it's deeper than that. There's a moral divide here prevents us from viewing the same reality from common ground. I know there are people trying to breach the divide, but I don't know how you start if we can't agree on basic facts. (And ouch, I was never subjected to Emmer or Bachmann!)
The facts are the facts and one side does not use facts. They make stuff up or lie. I really get annoyed by the kumbaya efforts to bring all the people together and understand each other and everything will be ok. How can you have a rational discussion with people who repeat lies all the time? These are the same people who will believe the shooting yesterday was stopping an "act of domestic terrorism" and saved lives.
I highly recommend subscribing to the Rational League here on Substack. Great analyses to MAGA, authoritarianism and fascism.
What I have found, in trying to contact ANY member of the House of Reps, is that their websites will not accept contacts from anyone outside of their districts, basically isolating them from non-district opinion. (This, by the way, is not true of Senators, although I doubt they actually pay attention to out-of-state contacts.) Haven't tried phoning, but I've heard that phone calls get screened out, also (have no idea if this is true). So you basically have to live close enough to their districts to be able to be a physical presence. Finding out who their donors are and contacting them might indeed be a viable alternative. Also, they have Facebook pages, which anyone can post on. Maybe the same is true for their X pages (I'm not on X).
Mittens -- I'm sorry to hear about your experience with Stauber. He used to be one of the more reasonable ones.
The Trump criminal cabal has been conducting an on-going attack on the US republic since Jan 6th, 2021. How many of these horrible -- entirely un-American -- tragedies will it take to invoke a watershed moment? Our nation sinks deeper into the quagmire of this toxic, autocratic dystopia day-by-day.
We know. We know.
You write about it. We read about it.
Robert Reich writes about it and we read about it.
Heather Cox Richardson writes about it and we read about it.
Everybody’s writing and reading.
BUT NOBODY CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!!
The fascists running the country now control all the mechanisms that have the power to stop them.
All we can do is write and read, huff and puff, hold up signs, and stomp our feet.
And every now and then, vote.
If they let us have elections.
If they honor the results.
This nearly 250 year old experiment in government has ended in failure.
It failed because of a perfect storm.
It failed because the founders never imagined that breathtakingly stupid voters would elect a psycopath TWICE, and that an army of fascists would be assembled to destroy what they created.
You are wrong. Resistance is NOT futile.
Seems to be futile so far. Our stomping our feet hasn’t slowed them down one bit.
Some of us have been using the Jerry Weiss scenario. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/
With three (3) votes we can flip the House this week.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/republican-rep-doug-lamalfa-of-california-dies-reducing-gops-narrow-control-of-the-house-to-218-213
The fascist administration will simply ignore Congress. The administration controls all the mechanisms of law enforcement and enforcement of the Constitution.
That's bullshit.
Some of us are fighters.
It’s not bullshit. They control the DOJ which includes FBI and Federal Marshals, the “supreme” court, which granted trump immunity so he won’t even be held in contempt for ignoring court rulings, and the military leaders who were loyal to the Constitution have been replaced by ass kissers.
I’m a fighter too. I plan to.
Then we the People will not reward bad behavior with acquiescence. 50501 (https://www.fiftyfifty.one/) is organizing a national walkout on January 20. Find your friends, make a plan, check out what 50501 is doing in your area and JOIN THEM! I’d love to see double number of citizens that were out for the last national protest.
I’m aware of them. And Indivisible of course. And MoveOn. And PFAW and SPLC and PFLAG and the million BLUE THIS and BLUE THATs and on and on.
I do what I’m able.
Trump has hinted recently that there will be no midterms, especially when going to war will enable him to declare martial law. He loves "national emergencies."
We get it, believe me. But it’s not hopeless. The problem is we all want to stop this, and we can’t. Frustrating as all hell. What we can do is continue to resist, which is not a waste of time. It took me a while to accept that. I’ve not lost one ounce of fury since November 2024, and I will never let these fascist bastards just take the whole thing over without a fight. If there really is a god, we’ll gain control of Congress this November and with real political power, we can put this regime in the trash can where it belongs.
Believe me, I haven’t given up. I just recognize that fascists have taken control of the federal government, including the DOJ and military, which until now had both been impartial to the occupant of the White House.
The question is can we recover it?
I hope so, Donald, I really hope so.
You're assuming we are going to have elections. Trump has threatened to cancel them. If Musk gets involved, they most likely will be rigged.
States run elections.He’ll try, but it won’t stop them.
I feel exactly as you do. Enough with the America 250th celebration. It is like having a birthday party for someone who has already died.
Kristi Noem's and Trump's comments on the tragedy only make her and Trump look like fools. I just wrote to. my representatives asking what they are going to do. The blame rests entirely on this administration and our Congress that refuses to do anything about the abuse of power!
ICE killed Good
A factual headline.
They didn’t kill her. They murdered her in cold blood.
I agree. What I saw on the video was an ICE agent who waited until the car was passing, and then fired through the thinnest glass possible, the drivers side window. He did not fire as soon as humanly possible through the windshield of what he thought was an oncoming car. BIG difference.
Jordan & Comer. These two guys who were so determined to tie Biden and Garland to the stake for weaponizing the government against their political rivals really now have an opportunity to see how it's done. Noem, BONDI, Patel, and Trump have weaponized the government against their political rivals to a degree unseen before in our country. Turkey? sure. Hungary? sure. Maduro? sure. But the constant banging-on about Biden and his team is pure unadulterated Bulls**t.
“Yes, but you see, we’ve weaponized it against the people WE don’t like, *they* were pursuing the people we like.“
Not gonna lie, any scenario that doesn’t end with the ICE agent who shot her - as he easily stepped out of the way of vehicle, and proceeded to shoot through the driver’s side window - going to prison for several decades is completely unacceptable.
A LOT more needs to be done NOW.
Horrifying. The Trump regime is murdering people daily - citizens, fishermen, Venezuelan civilians. This is what a plurality voted for.
Concerning immigration. It's hard to keep up, but wasn't there a good, bi-partisan immigration reform bill in Congress last year that Trump ordered the Rs to kill? To keep the hate alive? For him, not the country. And of course the Rs did.
In answer to your questjion, there was indeed a bipartisan bill that Trump had Speaker Johnson quash, and yes, the MAGA-Republicans went along with it.
No woman n her right mind would open her car door to three approaching thugs in combat gear.
Ice is out of control.
No Kings protest MUST be weekly until something cracks - not waiting until Spring 2026!
ICE is populated by nothing more than armed thugs who share a Rambo complex.
I was not a fan of the progressive cry to "abolish ICE" -- not because I disagreed, but rather that I thought the issue was a loser. But their proposal is looking better by the minute.
They need to give the toilet a good flush so that the pieces of s*** are gone if they want that agency to continue.
Ivan, having worked with the immigration regulations my entire career, I have always hated ICE. We had no need for it EVER; its legitimate functions were already handled by CBP. And now it's been set free to do what was always possible: to become our secret police and to terrorize our citizens and all residents. I will always say #AbolishICE.
ICE and DHS need to be destroyed. All the functions they acquired after 9/11 can go back to where they were. There is absolutely no need for the Gestapo here.