During the agentsā violent attack on a delivery worker Saturday morning in DC, bystanders repeatedly demanded the agents share their badge numbers. One of themāhis face fully obscured by a black balaklavaāeventually shot back, āDo I have to answer to you?ā
āYou guys are ruining this country. You know that, right?ā one bystander said to the agents at one point during the incident. An agent, ironically clad in a rainbow face mask, replied āLiberals already ruined it.ā
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Last week on stage at the Netroots conference in New Orleans, I spoke with Congresswoman Delia Ramirez (D-IL) about ICE: specifically that she believes it should be abolished. Itās a stance thatās considered far left, but after witnessing ICE and other federal agents in DC this week, abolishing ICE should be the baseline Democratic position.
āICE is a terrorist organization,ā Ramirez told me. āIt needs to be defunded and needs to be abolished.ā
Unfortunately, a large percentage of the voting population seems to support them, which is part of how we got here in the first place. The best argument for a free and open democracy is what happens with any of the alternatives, but people have a tendency to forget, and opportunists are great at using difficult times to garner support.
Go the fuck outside.
Everyone hates ice. The people who donāt are afraid of outside.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/ice-unpopularity-trump-analysis