A snow shovel is an unwieldy piece of plastic on the end of a stick, not a deadly weapon. The only useful technique I can think of is as a shoving bar. And you think the Delta-force cosplayers should naturally escalate to gunfire.

Which was definitely not applied to the leg during a melee by an expert marksman like a video game. The leg is just what happened to be hit, and since the reports were of multiple shots, who knows where the other ones went in this residential neighborhood.

Weird how that’s literally the only direction the people at the top ever ask for. And they, at the top, just stay there and don’t seek to help or support those bottom up tactics.

And even though there are more out Nazis than cops, even just gumming up the works by pulling over a van full of them because they’re breaking the law is actually doing something useful. Tying up Nazis on the street and in court by pretending the law still exists is more than this learned helplessness by the most powerful people on our side. They don’t even need to look for them, just post a guy outside the federal building running plates that leave. Even if they just end up ignoring the citation, the propaganda value of police telling ICE they’re not above the law would be extremely valuable. But instead they throw up their hands and try to tell the people there’s nothing they can do. Every. Single. Time.

Ah yes, the domestic violence excuse. He could be beating you more.

He’s the head of the state, with resources beyond just gently asking his people to turn the other cheek. He’s got the bully pulpit to call for strikes, he’s got the police to enforce plate laws and intervene when ICE breaks the law, he’s got the instruments of state to rewrite laws. All he does is chide the people.

This is “a campaign of organized brutality” and all he can think of is take your phone out and turn the other cheek. Which is conveniently a thing other people will carry the burden for and for which he has to make zero hard decisions.

“A person was shot”. Gotta twist things into the passive voice when performing state stenography.

Walz added that “accountability” will be coming through the courts.

Ah, sweet liberal fantasies. When the system fails you just need to trust it harder.

The two people who came out of the apartment are in custody, it said.

If that’s the complete list, those two people saved a man today. Hopefully the court system will continue to treat “ICE says” as legally worthless and the heroes will be released.

“This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement,” Walz said. “Instead, it is a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.”

And in response, as the leader of the state being brutalized, I am doing nothing and asking you to peacefully accept your abuse.

Josh Hawley is such a fake piece of shit. He talks big and then folds every single time.

It’s one of those internal bleeds where you’re in and out of the hospital quickly and is only known about to people trying to hype your injuries days later.

When he wasn’t even willing to say whether there may have already been illegal military actions any slight interest I had evaporated. Even his “fight” is the meekest moderate pushback, in court, eventually, and with no specific accusations about his opponent. We need someone who actually seems to feel something other than bemusement that his mild opposition garnered a response.

FFS, Jerome Powell is putting up a more direct confrontation with the regime and he’s a Republican corporate tool whose whole persona is built on being respectful and unemotional.

Half the country wants to abolish ICE and you’re pretending only socialists care about whether their representative joined in on a modern day Willie Horton act that played right into their racist movement.

Really bending over backward to sanewash the fascism. Protectionism is pretty far afield from touting heritage and homeland. Lots of diverse immigrant union members on board with protectionism and almost never for nationalistic reasons.

Even if you’re a dumb shit conservative who can’t recognize obvious patterns, why is the Department of Labor posting nationalistic “patriotic” slogans? What does that have to do with labor?

Almost perfect, just needs more passive voice. “Police engaged” sounds like they might even be the cause of the death.

Just make it illegal to pee, duh!

When you see a breakdown like this it makes it clear that judges are just a different form of politician and the law is nearly entirely corrupted.

Depends on what you expect to happen. If you think you could be arrested, leave it at home. If you just don’t want to be caught in a mass surveillance event, airplane mode is fine. You might not even care if you’re identified at something large and public like No Kings type events.

People need to be aware of their threat profile, but having a mobile video recording device and using it as part of an influence campaign is a valuable tool. Going to a candle lit vigil and recording a video of a bunch of somber people to make your MAGA mom feel something is a different event and risk than going with some bloc comrades to sabotage ICE vehicles.

Body cam footage is hard to tamper with. Cellphones and GoPro videos however can be easily deleted. I wouldn’t be surprised if, despite policy, DHS agents are being unofficially discouraged from using body cams. Just like the administration is using Signal rather than their oversight-friendly official apps.

They want to chip away at the support bit by bit, targeting different messages to try to overcome the natural sympathy people that center right people might have for a pretty white mother with toys stuffed in her glovebox. So they show her wife a lowly lesbian “feeemale” being uppity to a white male authority figure, “justifying” his response.

I’ve also seen attacks on her fitness as a mother (“her responsibility was keeping herself safe for her children” as if simply being at a protest is not a place for anyone with a family) and deliberately using less attractive photos or photos that emphasize her queerness to cut away at those biases.

They already took our tax dollars in the form of added tariffs and in no case is it coming back to us. The money certainly isn’t going to do more good in Trump’s hands. He’s already been trying to frame it as a presidential slush fund.