@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-26 10:55:49
Bari Weiss says she wants CBS News to redraw "the lines of what falls in the 40 yard lines of acceptable debate", such as elevating voices like Alan Dershowitz (@dropsitenews)
https://x.com/dropsitenews/status/1993154653941362892
@steve@s.yelvington.com2026-01-24 23:28:47
Who's paying the attendees?
From: @…
https://assortedflotsam.com/@politicsbot/115951193821755824
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-20 18:05:59
What @… says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:
- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)
- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?
- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.
- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)
- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.
So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-11-25 14:25:02
But did he and his staff learn anything, given the Wannong “Tiffany” Deng example? "My bad" is not a measure of improvement or competence
Daniel Lurie gets props, faces doubt in Beya Alcaraz fallout | Politics | sfexaminer.com
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@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-11-25 14:25:02
But did he and his staff learn anything, given the Wannong “Tiffany” Deng example? "My bad" is not a measure of improvement or competence
Daniel Lurie gets props, faces doubt in Beya Alcaraz fallout | Politics | sfexaminer.com
https:/…
@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc2026-01-22 20:08:23
„Immigration and Customs Enforcement agentsdetained a 5-year-old on his way home from school on Tuesday and used him as ‚bait‘ to knock on his front door to see if anyone was home, according to school officials in Minnesota.“
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-14 18:52:50
Politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass invasive laws.
Their solution?
Entirely ban the use of VPNs.
Yes, really.
As of this writing, Wisconsin lawmakers are escalating their war on privacy
by targeting VPNs in the name of “protecting children”
in A.B. 105/S.B. 130.
It’s an age verification bill
that requires all websites distributing material that could conceivabl…
@girahh@mastodon.social2025-12-14 20:20:30
Support Indigenous Land Defender Marcos Aguilar’s Family
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On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his anc
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-11-11 00:30:01
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-01-23 20:05:46
Not a good look RCMP. But it sounds like in the main, they handled the situation ok even if they ran cover for a horrendous elected racist in Dallas Brodie.
Bravo to the people at UBC for making it clear that the agent-provocateur and hate-speech politician has no place, has no voice for her hateful rhetoric.
Residential school denialism *should* be a hate crime. The RCMP should be arresting Brodie, not protecting her hate propaganda tour.
Our Universities must be places of truth. Truths can be debated in context, but Brodie, like Charlie Kirk, isn't actually debating. No minds are going to be changed. No resolution found.
Dallas Brodie is only there to grab a headline and advance an extremist, regressive, and openly white supremacist agenda by advancing denialist views that dismiss truth and facts and calling it “anti-woke”.
#Canada #BC #CharlieKirk #OneBC #BCPoli #DallasBrodie #ResidentialSchools #Denialism #Rightwing #CultureWar
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/onebc-ubc-event-truth-reconciliation-9.7057376
