In today’s “this is an actual headline not a joke” i present:

I study authoritarianism for a living, so I do not say this lightly: America isn't facing an authoritarian future. America is living an authoritarian present. (A long 🧵) /1

The impulse to express this kind of sentiment publicly is one of the things religious faith exists to contain.

Obama deported more people than Trump is deporting even right now. By a lot. But you don’t know that bcuz Obama did it without all the very public cruelty, terror, & violence. For Trump, the cruelty & the spectacle is all that matters. Today’s show.👇

Trump is claiming that he wants to make Venezuelans rich and send Greenlanders $100K each while he's cutting health care for Americans and telling them their kids have too many toys. Check my math, y’all, but that ain’t adding up to America First.

Neighbors just released a new angle of the ICE shooting and it settles any debate on what actually happened. This was a mother doing something completely ordinary: Dropping somebody off, then trying to leave. She goes to pull out, stops for one car to pass, then waves the agents

The most dangerous thing about yesterday's ICE shooting isn't the shooting itself: It's the response from Trump, Vance, and Noem that signals to ICE that they can do this again, with impunity. No investigation. No suspension. No talk of training or policies. Just impunity.

Read this.

@Kasparov63 I'm old enough to remember Republicans going on and on about Ruby Ridge and an overzealous ATF and FBI. Now the Trump regime's masked secret police is snatching people off the streets when they aren't doing public executions.

MAGA on January 6 — people who fight with cops don't deserve to be punished if they feel like what the cops are doing is wrong. MAGA on January 7 — people who fight with cops for any reason deserve to die. I'm just saying, pick a lane, folks.

What we’re witnessing is people accepting murder as a reasonable reaction to fellow citizens exercising their First Amendment rights. This woman drove around an ICE agent. That’s it. She didn’t attack him. She didn’t threaten him. She got away, and he was angry about it, so he

"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot."

Trump, JD Vance, and Kristi Noem are lying. Renee Nicole Good’s car was driving away from the ICE officer when he opened fire, not toward him. Must-watch NYT analysis of footage from three camera angles.

Pro Tip: If you're a full armored ICE agent with an AR-15, a pistol, taser, pepper spray & 20 agents backing you up, and you STILL need to shoot an unarmed woman driving away, you're a pathetic weakling who deserves only a dingy prison cell to rot in for life.

The Trump administration spent the first half of the week constructing an alternate reality about Jan 6th, which with all saw with our own eyes. It will spend the back half of the week making up an alternate reality about the ICE shooting, which we all saw with our own eyes.

The reporting just keeps getting worse for ICE. Renee Good's ex-husband told reporters this morning that: 1) Renee was not an activist 2) She was in the vicinity because she had just dropped off her 6 year-old off at school 3) She was a devoted Christian and stay-at-home mom

Spoke on background with two attorneys who have defended officer involved shootings. Both have always taken their cases to trial. After reviewing the events today, both said if it were their client they’d advise: -Seek a plea deal -Be willing to plead guilty to a lesser crime

As someone who was trained as a police officer everyone needs to know today that attempting to stop someone fleeing IS NOT JUSTIFICATION FOR DEADLY FORCE. Also you cannot leave the scene of a shooting. That applies to everyone, everywhere.

call me a lib but maybe we shouldn’t have roaming gangs of masked men arresting people without charges and shooting innocent people in the face

In retrospect, probably a mistake to put the safety of the American people in the charge of a woman who would personally kill her own dog, boast about it, then lie about it.