The Influencer-Administration Complex

Originally published at: The Influencer-Administration Complex - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Hello, it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender :hot_beverage: It’s a natural fit. On the one hand, DHS spent the past year advertising its own brutality. That’s partly happened through dog whistles and outright shouted references to white nationalism; it’s taken place as well through actions like the CECOT removals or widely broadcast videos of rough and militarized detention…

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Surely I can’t be the first.

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Think the responses were not turned on. It got reported and now people can post.

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Cat au naturale:

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DHS leaves a trail of death and disability:

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Not that it was needed, but just confirmation that the policy with ICE and all DHS agents is “aim for the head, the closer the better”. Which goes against their training, their “rules” as well as the manufacturers’ instructions on the weaponry.

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ICE follows no set of “rules” of conduct. They are hired thugs whos purpose is intimidation via brutality. They seek confrontation thereby confirming how bad protesters are.

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More like The Hells Angels than the Praetorian Guard.

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abolishing ICE

They’re catching immigrants in the courthouse. So, who needs ICE?

We need more judges, people who didn’t try to overthrow the government.

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I do wish the EdBlog would address or even acknowledge all these outages of the Comments section.

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Seems like good news.

https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/house/house-overview/eighteen-house-ratings-shift-toward-democrats

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Local authorities should pursue assault, attempted murder and murder charges against orange fuckface, peewee German, and the secretary for hair extensions.

These egregious acts are the result of policy, approved, devised, and implemented, in that order, by the aforementioned Three Douches.

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(@dermotncosgrove.bsky.social on Bluesky )

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Gonna repost this.

Some folks over here may not take Trump seriously, but Europe is and attempts by American pols like Tom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski and Chris Coons to convince the Danes that there’s no risk to Greenland are likely to fall on deaf ears, particularly considering the Venezuela fiasco. Bear in mind, America exists in the world and it’s not just how we see it, but how the rest of the world sees it.

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They did mention yesterday they were working on it. It’s in the Ed Blog. And it seemed to work for awhile. Turning the comments on for the post may be set to manually and was missed perhaps?

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This is a nice reminder, and for no particular reason, I’m leaving it here.

…existing law. It doesn’t change what the law is.

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Congress can freeze out funding for ICE in two weeks — but only if Democrats are a unified opposition.
To make that happen, we must flood our elected officials with calls to demand
ICE Out For Good.

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This guy thinks the Trump regime has already lost.

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