Danny P

You are here. Otherwise, inconclusive. he/him

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Historian of fascism here. This is an escalation of an attempt to normalize extreme violence, ritualize violence, militarize the country, and make violence entertaining so when they ask you to commit violence in their name, you will be ready.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

the third-worldism is coming from inside the house

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

One day we will look back on this period in American history not just in severe embarrassment but with complete incomprehension. How did this happen? How did Idiocracy become real life in the richest, and one of the most educated, societies in human history?

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I am angry tonight.

Because today ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.

ICE makes this city less safe.

We want them out. Now.

[State Rep. Angie Nixon @AngieNixon]

Pete Hegseth is clearly coked out and thinks this is a video game.

Democracy in this country has fallen. They are returning us back to the worst chapters of our history.

Nidal Hasan should be held accountable, but his execution should not be entertainment at watch parties.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

This idea that ICE agents have a right to shoot people in their cars b/c those people might have a criminal record so long as they are here "illegally" is an article of faith in the modern Republican Party and gets precisely ZERO pushback in the press.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

This is the key point: Collins ONLY breaks with Trump when she knows it won’t change the outcome.

It’s cowardice.

[Frank Conniff @FrankConniff]

It would be great if everyone in the Trump administration weren’t the worst fucking people on the face of the earth. Also would be great if mainstream media treated them as such, and not as just normal conservatives that you might happen to disagree with.

[Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]

Women who resist rape are punished so disproportionately because men understand that rape is the lynchpin of their social power, and they will go to any lengths to defend it.

[Ken Dilanian @KDilanianMSNOW]

Rob D’Amico, a former FBI Hostage Rescue Team member and instructor on defensive tactics, tells me this is “Patel trying to give his friend Dana White a lucrative contract.” The idea that UFC is the only, or even the best, entity to train FBI agents is ridiculous, he says.

[Ned Price @nedprice]

You can take it from those of us who’ve spent years working on terrorism: the surest way to spawn more radicalized zealots is to glorify violence, embrace a cult of death, and create a martyr for the cause. Or take it from AQ and ISIS, whose tactics offer the closest modern-day approximation of Hegseth’s proposal.

Either way, it’s hard to conjure a more vivid example of his trademark performative bravado, which routinely damages America’s image and, in this case, so ghoulishly leaves us more vulnerable.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Fact check: Mike Rogers is one of the chief architects of the modern surveillance state.

In Congress, he opposed every substantive effort to protect Americans’ privacy and worked hand in hand with the NSA, FBI, and intelligence agencies to bypass and erode the Fourth Amendment.

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Once again, an independent watchdog found the Trump admin illegally withheld funds, including ~$80 million intended for the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality here in MD.

Congress must re-appropriate these funds & make clear we will not tolerate these illegal cuts.

https://t.co/lzgnF9F7s2

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

I oppose the death penalty, but I didn't always feel that way. I understand the people who support it - because I once was one of them.

But either way, the death penalty staged as a public spectacle is an abomination and stains us all.

[Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta]

For the record, this is fascism.

[Zito @_Zeets]

Look at the responses from these American Christians and their bloodlust. Truly revealing about everything these people are.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There is no explanation for these tactics. There is no explanation for federal officers firing this many rounds into a car that has a five year old in the car. Look at how many people live right here. This is a residential neighborhood. We are right here by a subway. 

And the pretext of ICE is, in their words, to keep this country safe. How is it keeping everyone safe to have, as you just heard from the police commissioner, individuals wearing construction vests in masks with long guns? Residents have no idea if these are law enforcement agents, or if they are simply attacking someone on the street. And when it comes to ICE, it begs the question, what's the difference? There is no explanation for this.

[Hasan Kwame Jeffries @ProfJeffries]

This is state sponsored terrorism.