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(DIR) Post #B2gDKI26nPL7QdaqBs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-26T14:44:23Z
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Kristi Noem, US Secretary of Homeland Security, and Gregory Bovino long time "senior official" in the US Border Patrol, who seems to have no further formal title despite being a high profile spokesman have both said that "politicians and media" have confused, us, the public about what ICE is really doing. When they aren't calling protestors "paid agitators" they insist that we have been mislead by "democrats" to think that ICE is out of control.1/
(DIR) Post #B2gDROSZIdwfO7MBWK by burnoutqueen@todon.nl
2026-01-26T14:45:37Z
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@futurebirdThat's a ridiculous assertion. A pathetic attempt to deflect from the documentary evidence showing ICE stormtroopers invade American cities and shoot people in the streets
(DIR) Post #B2gDcGHC49KFC1DcMi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-26T14:47:38Z
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I really wish that were the case as it would imply leadership from some of the more powerful Democrats that has been far too absent. Of course it has worked in exactly the opposite way. People see what ICE is doing and we have pressured and twisted the arms of Democrats until they have started to take it seriously. But I find it interesting that this is their line of defense. "The protestors are confused, and this gets them killed"As if ICE were the weather. 2/
(DIR) Post #B2gE1e84WDGwPX3Yfo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-26T14:52:13Z
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The public backlash is so vast no one is buys "it's paid agitators" anymore. Noem and Bovino are desperate that the people who have supported and trusted them and Trump do not look more closely at what ICE is really doing.At the same time they continue to kill, to scare us into stopping.I'm hopeful that this will fail. This is a big crack. This "they are well meaning people who have been fooled" line. 3/3
(DIR) Post #B2gEQlHp2rDJqeapXM by jmelesky@tinylad.social
2026-01-26T14:55:39.279178Z
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@futurebird As if ICE were the weatherI think that’s part of the point. They want to position this as inevitable, the same way technocrats have been saying cryptocurrency, NFTs, the metaverse, and AI everywhere is inevitable.It’s PR, and it’s moral handwashing. If you can convince opponents it’s inevitable, they’ll crumble. If you can convince yourself, then the deaths and other harms aren’t your fault.
(DIR) Post #B2gEuSeUtKF2k6MQyW by davidvedvick@fosstodon.org
2026-01-26T15:02:05Z
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@futurebird I am sure that much of that is reflecting back the accusations made of Trump and his supporters on January 6th. This tends to be the MAGA/Trump/bully pattern: accuse your opponents of doing what you were doing, even if the facts are completely different.
(DIR) Post #B2gFbM03V4PwYxthEu by johnzajac@dice.camp
2026-01-26T15:09:49Z
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@futurebird The are losing, the quislings are more scared of the people than of the fash, and the people of the US didn't just hide in their houses and draw the curtains when they started to shoot people.Thing about speedrunning the rise of Naziism is you've gotta make sure you're in post-monarchy Germany in 1930, not the longest-running self-regarded democracy in the world during a time when everyone has a camera and a TV station in their pocket.
(DIR) Post #B2gFibkhKdVzReAmmG by jztusk@mastodon.social
2026-01-26T15:05:25Z
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@jmelesky @futurebird The thing I spent (wasted?) the most time on Twitter was continually replying "Stop treating Republicans like the weather". Major media did it all the time, and noticing that was what started me down the road to just not even bothering with NYTimes, WaPo, etc., etc., etc..
(DIR) Post #B2gFidDnruOI0CnXma by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-26T15:11:10Z
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@jztusk @jmelesky If you try to help the wrong person. If you are in the wrong place. If you have the wrong opinions?You might get shot shot dead. Ms. Noem thinks that's all on you. This we are told is the price of... of freedom? That can't be right, can it?Maybe it is the price of ... safety? Safety from what? ICE is the most terrifying things on the streets of our cities. If you see them beating a woman you better not help. So they say.
(DIR) Post #B2gFwwWEuzB5uFFIAK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-26T15:13:46Z
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@jztusk @jmelesky This is a lesson. We are supposed to learn to walk by and not take a video or ask a question when we see a bunch of guys pile out of a van and grab someone. If only these horrible agitators and politicians and media would stop confusing the public. We might realize that although it might "look bad" that they have snatched a crying child, in reality it's all for our own good. How simple do they think we are?
(DIR) Post #B2gGah47nELfYs394S by johnzajac@dice.camp
2026-01-26T15:14:08Z
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@futurebird Now we gotta make sure when we finally run them out of town that the Democrats don't sit on their hands and coo "what's past is past; let's look to the future!" Probably a harder fight than crushing the fash, tbh.
(DIR) Post #B2gGaiZMCavSE1fbOK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-26T15:20:56Z
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@johnzajac "Probably a harder fight than crushing the fash, tbh."We know this and go in ready for the BS this time.
(DIR) Post #B2gGxIzfSRpLZ2kNlo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-26T15:25:04Z
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@johnzajac "Do we really need to keep rehashing the past?"Yes. Or it will never become "the past."
(DIR) Post #B2gHGiOPFVPvq8Zcqe by johnzajac@dice.camp
2026-01-26T15:28:32Z
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@futurebird I glad we agree. I'm just flummoxed by *how* we can strongarm a party that has their half of our electoral system stitched up tight. Angry calls to extremist neoliberals and centrists can only do so much, if the imminent threat of being deposed is not on the table.I'm not trying to be difficult. I'm honestly without ideas on how to resolve this situation within the auspices of our system as it stands.
(DIR) Post #B2gHaeMhvsT58nHing by JamesWidman@mastodon.social
2026-01-26T15:32:07Z
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@futurebird @johnzajac > "Do we really need to keep rehashing the past?"> Yes. Or it will never become "the past."that's a T-shirt right there.
(DIR) Post #B2gHcIfLa5z6Q8n30y by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-26T15:32:25Z
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@johnzajac I think talking now about what will be required to clean things up is helpful. Setting expectations. This won't be easy, powerful and wealthy people have way of closing ranks that I didn't really appreciate until recently. This is part of why I think the Epstein files remain important. There is a broad understanding of what that represents. Only 15 percent of the public are "happy" with how the files have been released.
(DIR) Post #B2gKQCvROjKl0LF916 by StephanieMoore@mastodon.online
2026-01-26T16:03:49Z
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@futurebird @jztusk @jmelesky We’ve been trained for much longer “if you see something, say something”
(DIR) Post #B2gO6EHZ2jzLEnJvhw by ricosuave@mastodon.online
2026-01-26T16:45:03Z
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@futurebird @jztusk @jmelesky A van with either no license plate or a swapped one, and guys in tactical gear with masks and no ID other than a dime store "police" patch, all packing weapons. Nothing to see here.
(DIR) Post #B2gPL1VgubBvvJXwDg by kristen_d@mastodon.social
2026-01-26T16:58:56Z
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@futurebird They're #LIARS
(DIR) Post #B2gPU7Eqz0qGIQ0SHI by kristen_d@mastodon.social
2026-01-26T17:00:33Z
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@futurebird Because they are sociopaths and none of this bothers them. Not the blood, the cruelty, the carnage, the violence. Just the opposite: it arouses them. It inspires them. This whole gig is a glamour gig for that rancid cunt #KristiNoem and her stupid costumes. I personally hope her end is particularly grisly and permanent. #theonlyGoodNaziIsADeadNazi