By launching this illegal war of aggression against Iran, Donald Trump has betrayed the American people and his own base, none of whom wanted this.
He has sided with Lindsay Graham, Mark Levin and Benjamin Netanyahu, the most despised laughingstocks on the planet.
By announcing that this is indeed a regime change war (as anyone paying attention and being honest has known all along) he has tied his entire legacy to this action.
If he isn’t able to achieve a regime change, he will have killed a bunch of people for no reason.
If the regime does fall, we have already admitted that we have no one to install and without boots on the ground, it is difficult to install a regime even if you had someone. Trump will be responsible for what comes next- the thing war hawks never consider.
BREAKING: AFGE calls for resignation or termination of both Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller for abhorrent rhetoric following killing of AFGE member Alex Pretti.
https://t.co/tuN0RAVL3n
Matt Walsh and these other right-wing empty men who think they're avatars of über-masculinity particularly hate Alex Pretti because he exemplified the virtues they love to extol but are too cowardly to actually embody.
They cosplay as trad men by dressing up in campy plaid shirts and sitting in podcast studios with a log cabin aesthetic.
Alex Pretti went to the street to fight for causes he believed in, protected and helped others in both how he protested (he was helping two women when ICE grabbed him) and in his work as an ICU nurse. He lived the values they pretend defines them, all while they lack the courage to ever do or risk anything. He's a reminder to them of what they're not: a mirror showing their own fragility.
That's why they feel vicariously strong watching ICE agents shoot him in the back and killed him.
Another angle of federal agents killing a Minnesota legal observer, which appears to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk.
Obtained by Drop Site News
Cops in Portland, Maine are livid at the “bush league policing” on display from ICE, already speaking out. What is a right wing coalition that doesn’t include the police?
This is incredible, an Army doctor who treated survivors of 9/11, was the doctor who saved Tammy Duckworth’s life in Iraq, then went to Gaza on multiple medical missions and refused to be evacuated amid siege and assault — is now running for Congress in New Jersey.
He doesn’t even mention the Duckworth story in his launch video, which tracks with what I’ve come to know about his extreme humility:
Abolish ICE.
What we’ve seen recently isn’t immigration enforcement; it’s state-sponsored terrorism.
They refuse to comply with the Constitution.
They assault Americans with impunity.
They hide behind masks, knowing their actions are shameful.
They should not exist.
Immigration enforcement can be done lawfully and accountably—upholding the rights of the people—but the administration has no interest in that.
They’re using the context of immigration as a pretext to sidestep constitutional limits—warrants, due process, and transparency—that protect us all from government abuses.
We need immigration enforcement that respects the Constitution, not an agency that evades it.
George Retes is an American citizen who was born and raised in California. He is also an Army veteran who deployed to Iraq.
While driving to work, ICE agents shattered his car window, pepper sprayed him, and took him to a detention center where he was held for 3 days.
I am learning how many of you hate half of the country so desperately that you're willing to rip up everything this country is supposed to stand for if it can bring misery to people you see as your internal enemies.
Don't tread on me. Tread on her!