Rob Valente

Erstwhile medievalist. Sometime lawyer. The justice system was constructed to protect the powerful. Time for change. She/her
@[email protected]

[Rob Valente @robvalentedvpa]

A veteran who believes in the Constitution and begs us to defend it.

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

When Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis, he says he was detained and shackled for hours.

“We're turning into something that I can't even begin to respect, and something that I literally went to war—or they told me I went to war—to fight against,” he says.

Since he was arrested, he’s continued protesting. Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie spoke to Austin outside the Whipple Federal Building, where ICE is based.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

[Anung Un Drama @spaceghost]

A former 25 year career federal agent whose entire job was dealing with gun incidents involving federal agents details all the ways Ross messed up on CBS.

It didn’t air on the actual show tonight.

CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already

[Elliott Payne @ElliottForWard1]

If you’re wondering the impact of community patrol, ICE just tried to take one of our residents on 23rd and Central and because so many community members responded, we stopped them and ICE left.

Sign up to join patrols and protect your neighbors https://t.co/4jaYhTeRDJ

[Hennepin Sheriff @HennepinSheriff]

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has received hundreds of calls and emails demanding us to open an independent investigation into the federal agent-involved shooting this week.

[(((Jew))) @JoshMalina]

The reporter’s name is Catherine Lucey.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

"It's not greedy to need food," cribbed from @LastWeekTonight, should be a rallying cry.

Tax free private jets is greed. Public tax levies on private sports stadiums is greed. Paying bribes to build a gold plated ballroom is greed.

Needing to eat to stay alive is not greed.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

While Trump is choosing to starve SNAP recipients….Americans are stepping up to help those in need….this is Roman Gourmet in Maplewood, New Jersey �

[Brandon Wolf @bjoewolf]

The Wall Street Journal’s amplifying of unconfirmed reports that falsely tied the shooter to trans people was utterly reckless. They owe people an apology for fanning the flames & feeding the right wing rage bait machine.

You can send them a note here: https://t.co/SBDXYHA1NN

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Langston Hughes

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

South Korean president Lee Jae Myung vowed “all out necessary measures“ to support the more than 300 Korean nationals ICE detained at a manufacturing plant in Georgia on Thursday‼️

They were at WORK!! Not criminals, AT WORK‼️
What the eff are we doing?

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

Another shooting. This time in a Catholic school in Minneapolis.

It shouldn’t be normal to see 5th graders give TV interviews describing seeing their friends shot.

None of this is normal. This is not inevitable. This is a policy choice. Enough.

[Rob Valente @robvalentedvpa]

Michael Steele tells the truth.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Michael Steele: "The thoughts and prayers. I'm so beyond that nonsense. The lie of that"

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

The party that says they ended slavery is mad the Smithsonian says slavery was bad.

Let that sink in.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Nationalist Christians (Nat-Cs) want to repeal the 19th Amendment.

MAGA pod bros demand women "owe" men sex as "marital debt."

MAGA politicians are banning repro health, Mifepristone, & Medicaid.

All men must step up to stop these violent attacks.
https://t.co/92Jzvli19J

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

See how this works?

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

@NickKristof I tried to warn everyone starting in 2016

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Trump sounds increasingly like Putin.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

Look, the simple fact it that DOGE accounting is wholly inaccurate. This is NOT the way you forensically audit to establish savings.

This is just reality TV accountancy.

🎥 TikTok - @nytimes

[Governor Katie Hobbs @GovernorHobbs]

The federal funding freeze threatens services for victims of domestic violence, health care and housing for Veterans, and funding for local law enforcement.

I sent a letter to our congressional delegation asking them to join me in standing up for working people in our state.