.@PeteButtigieg: "We have an ICE agent who should have been trained not to be in front of a vehicle and never to shoot into a moving vehicle, and yet this happened on [Kristi Noem's] watch. The whole POINT of Homeland Security is to make this country more stable and safe. And it is very clear on this administration's watch that the opposite is what's happened."
American conservatives will look you right in the eye with a straight face and tell you that complete and utter subservience to masked federal police is patriotism, anything else deserves being executed in the street, and tax dollars for healthcare is tyranny.
Lets keep this simple.
If masked civilians violently jumped out of a car and ripped open Renee Nicole Good’s door, the law would recognize her right to self-defense.
If civilians did the same thing to a law enforcement officer or ICE agent, it would be classified as a credible threat and the officer would be legally justified in responding with force.
That tells you everything you need to know.
This is not a moral distinction.
It is a legal asymmetry.
Political conditioning, tribalism and confirmation bias blur this reality, but the fact remains: Badges do not grant extra rights.
Uniforms do not grant ethical immunity.
They do not justify double standards.
"Following orders" is a legal defense, not a moral one.
You don't get to create the danger, escalate the danger, be the danger and then claim self‑defense.
That logic is not rational. It is not consistent.
And it certainly isn’t legal for civilians.
When law enforcement is given extra rights, extra protections, and extra moral allowances, the outcome is inevitable:
More conflict.
More division.
Erosion of public trust.
The slow death of the American dream.
The government’s stated purpose is public service, not the normalization of fear, sanctioned violence, or unequal application of the law.
meryl belting out 'the winner takes it all' to pierce brosnan, on a greek clifftop at sunset in mamma mia, with a scarf that seems to be a paid actor. gets me every single time.
Literally none of this is true and this woman needs to get help. We have to stop allowing members who are experiencing mental breakdown to continue to work without getting them the help they need. This is an emergency, let’s help her before she hurts herself or one of us.
After 47 years, Jerry has made the difficult decision to step down from the company we built together. I’m sharing his words as he resigns from Ben & Jerry’s. His legacy deserves to be true to our values, not silenced by @MagnumGlobal#FreeBenAndJerrys
In George Orwell's 1984, all human art has been abolished but machines churn out automated novels and pop music. Big Brother keeps the population in check by preventing potentially dangerous creative expression. Boycott AI music. Support human artists.
everyday that goes by, more people realize the truth, & the very same institutions that spent countless hours defending & contextualizing Israel’s genocide will now change their tune.
try and deplatform me all you’d like, you can’t change what people have seen.
In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings.
War is never inevitable. Weapons can and must fall silent, for they never solve problems but only intensify them. Those who sow peace will endure throughout history, not those who reap victims. Others are not enemies to hate but human beings with whom to speak.
Nicola Coughlan on her support for Palestine:
“There is a factor of ‘it’s better if you say nothing’ because our job is to entertain you. My dad was in the Irish Army, which is a peacekeeping force. My family lived in Jerusalem and Syria in the 70s, so it’s something that is in my bones. We are talking about right or wrong, about children being bombed in their beds. I wouldn’t accept that anywhere in the world. Any country in the world that was facing this, I would talk about it. It’s not difficult. For me, the killing of innocent people is never right.”
(https://t.co/QN850fxedk)