That description is such a sanitization. He was an armed Jan. 6er and called for “a future for white Americans”. That such a person could also be a “conservative influencer” is an indictment of conservatism.

If their weak sauce bullshit is going to be considered impeding, the next pair of Democratic leaders should do something worthy of the accusation.

It had some sort of surge in New Orleans, but the Republicans in Louisiana are overjoyed to see city folk get stomped on. Almost all cities are blue, so deploying to a red state just means the governor will cheer them on rather than talk tough and do nothing.

“Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin’s justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources”

That’s Bari Weiss’s signature move!

Looks like $4-5M out of their $178M expenses goes to execs. $300-400k salaries with no stock doesn’t seem that egregious for an exec. Jimmy Wales is not paid.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703

Isn’t Wikipedia a nonprofit?

A snow shovel is an unwieldy piece of plastic on the end of a stick, not a deadly weapon. The only useful technique I can think of is as a shoving bar. And you think the Delta-force cosplayers should naturally escalate to gunfire.

Which was definitely not applied to the leg during a melee by an expert marksman like a video game. The leg is just what happened to be hit, and since the reports were of multiple shots, who knows where the other ones went in this residential neighborhood.

Weird how that’s literally the only direction the people at the top ever ask for. And they, at the top, just stay there and don’t seek to help or support those bottom up tactics.

And even though there are more out Nazis than cops, even just gumming up the works by pulling over a van full of them because they’re breaking the law is actually doing something useful. Tying up Nazis on the street and in court by pretending the law still exists is more than this learned helplessness by the most powerful people on our side. They don’t even need to look for them, just post a guy outside the federal building running plates that leave. Even if they just end up ignoring the citation, the propaganda value of police telling ICE they’re not above the law would be extremely valuable. But instead they throw up their hands and try to tell the people there’s nothing they can do. Every. Single. Time.

Ah yes, the domestic violence excuse. He could be beating you more.

He’s the head of the state, with resources beyond just gently asking his people to turn the other cheek. He’s got the bully pulpit to call for strikes, he’s got the police to enforce plate laws and intervene when ICE breaks the law, he’s got the instruments of state to rewrite laws. All he does is chide the people.

This is “a campaign of organized brutality” and all he can think of is take your phone out and turn the other cheek. Which is conveniently a thing other people will carry the burden for and for which he has to make zero hard decisions.

“A person was shot”. Gotta twist things into the passive voice when performing state stenography.

Walz added that “accountability” will be coming through the courts.

Ah, sweet liberal fantasies. When the system fails you just need to trust it harder.

“This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement,” Walz said. “Instead, it is a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.”

And in response, as the leader of the state being brutalized, I am doing nothing and asking you to peacefully accept your abuse.

Almost perfect, just needs more passive voice. “Police engaged” sounds like they might even be the cause of the death.

Depends on what you expect to happen. If you think you could be arrested, leave it at home. If you just don’t want to be caught in a mass surveillance event, airplane mode is fine. You might not even care if you’re identified at something large and public like No Kings type events.

People need to be aware of their threat profile, but having a mobile video recording device and using it as part of an influence campaign is a valuable tool. Going to a candle lit vigil and recording a video of a bunch of somber people to make your MAGA mom feel something is a different event and risk than going with some bloc comrades to sabotage ICE vehicles.

Body cam footage is hard to tamper with. Cellphones and GoPro videos however can be easily deleted. I wouldn’t be surprised if, despite policy, DHS agents are being unofficially discouraged from using body cams. Just like the administration is using Signal rather than their oversight-friendly official apps.

They want to chip away at the support bit by bit, targeting different messages to try to overcome the natural sympathy people that center right people might have for a pretty white mother with toys stuffed in her glovebox. So they show her wife a lowly lesbian “feeemale” being uppity to a white male authority figure, “justifying” his response.

I’ve also seen attacks on her fitness as a mother (“her responsibility was keeping herself safe for her children” as if simply being at a protest is not a place for anyone with a family) and deliberately using less attractive photos or photos that emphasize her queerness to cut away at those biases.

They already took our tax dollars in the form of added tariffs and in no case is it coming back to us. The money certainly isn’t going to do more good in Trump’s hands. He’s already been trying to frame it as a presidential slush fund.

They can call it a ballet, it doesn’t make it one, and the human soldiers who will be on the hook for following illegal orders won’t be protected because of it.

The enforcement of the executive comes almost exclusively from people in the executive refusing to follow their orders. If the Supreme Court says “the War Powers Act applies, duh” it still won’t mean anything unless the military refuses to do the wars. Congress saying it or the SC ruling it is just an effort to get them to do that.

It does kind of seem like despite the concerns for poor training of the new recruits, it’s longtime agents who have been itching to openly hunt immigrants that have been involved in the most egregious acts. I remember another long-term agent involved in a shooting. It’s not just the newbies, anyone drawn to that job has something wrong with them.