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[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Mussolini ordered everyone to refer to him as Him, as though he was some kind of infallible God. Then he entered Italy into a losing war and his incompetence was revealed.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

However it came to pass—childhood trauma, genetics, dementia—this US president is now functionally a psychopath. He lives in his own reality. He converses only with himself. All America is now downstream from a madman who's not listening to anyone or anything but his own madness.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship.

She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

HOLY CRAP!

The documents Trump just released following his speech show that Russians worked with American officials to advance stories about Burisma and Joe Biden being corrupt.

Someone is going to get fired tonight for accidentally allowing this one to be declassified.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

13 workers left Palantir and issued this statement.

"Palantir is increasingly complicit, normalizing authoritarianism under the guise of a 'revolution' led by oligarchs. We must resist this trend."

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This a flat-out, pants-on-fire lie to cover up for the fact that the Pentagon was warned that they had old data, and still allowed fucking Grok to choose 2,000 targets from it. There’s video. There is zero doubt.

It was negligent homicide at best—a war crime—and Trump knows it.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

These 50 GOP Senators just voted to merge the U.S. military with Israel’s military. Every single one of them should be tried for treason.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

It shouldn't be remotely controversial that the death of a man with his 3-year old daughter in the back seat who wasn't even the target of the mission is heartbreaking and must be investigated thoroughly. They dragged his lifeless body out of the car and still handcuffed him. ICE has lost any semblance of trust or respect. We must demand immediate change from top to bottom before more die unnecessarily. This is a moral imperative.

[Warren @swd2]

If I'm driving my car with my kids in the backseat and masked thugs with guns start screaming at me with guns drawn you can bet your ass I'm trying to get the hell out of there. I'm not sure why this is hard for some of you all to understand.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

For the record: cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people either.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

The reason ICE was able to shoot and kill another unarmed person in broad daylight was because the last two times they shot innocent unarmed people this country did nothing about it...and didn't even properly investigate it.

Outrage is good.
But without action it's NOTHING.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨This is exactly how ICE agents create the very situations they later use to justify murdering citizens.

In the video, they box in the vehicle of a U.S. citizen. They approach with guns already drawn, and try to open her car door… while repeatedly ordering her to unlock it, and ignoring anything she says.

And notice how they don’t identify themselves. They don’t explain why she’s being detained. They don’t tell her what crime they suspect her of committing.

To the person inside the car, it’s just a group of masked, armed men surrounding her vehicle and trying to force their way in.

That’s how panic starts.

And when people panic, move their car, or try to get away from what they reasonably perceive as a violent threat, ICE agents open fire, and later claim the vehicle was “used as a weapon.”

Law enforcement cannot detain people without legal justification. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures, and officers are expected to clearly communicate their authority, and the basis for their actions.

They are supposed to de-escalate situations.

Instead, they use tactics to create fear and confusion… making it more likely someone will panic, and easier for agents to claim deadly force was necessary, while they violate the person’s constitutional rights.

When these tactics become standard practice, accountability becomes nonexistent.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

ICE has shot and killed 10 people since Trump came back into office. 2 more in the last week. In addition, 50 people have died in ICE detention.

ICE has become a killing machine. We cannot let this feel normal. It isn't.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

When it happens, please remember that those of us who published lengthy books about January 6 explicitly said that month—and every month after—that the Insurrection never ended and Trump would eventually move to end our democracy permanently.

We've been saying it for five years.

[Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ @0liviajulianna]

He had a social security number and was authorized to work in the U.S.

They’re just fucking killing people.

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

The USA has no universal healthcare, but it does have 49 billionaires who made their wealth from private healthcare.
Connect the dots, folks.

[Chris Alvino @ChrisAlvino]

The worst part about this outbreak is that, bc every news agency is owned by corporate billionaires, not a SINGLE ONE has the courage to link this outbreak to Trump and his dismantling of our food safety protections. So the general public just assumes this is business as usual.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

This tweet from a year ago has been deleted by its author. I'm posting here now as a reminder and as a public service, for anyone, should they ever need it.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Senator Mazie Hirono @maziehirono]

Trump on billionaires: "I want them to be successful"

But when asked about struggling Americans, he said: "I don't think about Americans' financial situation..."

It's so cut and dry. Trump wants billionaires to be successful, and he wants the American people to pay for it.

[Rep. Becca Balint @RepBeccaB]

ICE killed a man without wearing body cameras all because someone in his van “resembled the target” though it wasn’t them.

Now we’ve learned that the agents lied about what happened, mocked the man they shot as he was dying, and stripped his ID from him when they brought him to the hospital.