Its actually having a rather significant effect of greatly limiting ICE and — in the past few days — convincing the bulk of Democrats that they no longer want to fund ICE and even getting a couple dozen to support impeaching Noem.

We wont win tomorrow, but we will win over a period of years

Unfortunately, that’s hard to do at scale — a small group will be outgunned by the federal government, and a large one infiltrated. People are using nonviolent civil resistance instead for now

People are very deliberately not doing that. The idea (for the moment) is to use civil resistance to limit what ICE can accomplish while not provoking a gun battle where the federal government can outgun any local group

People are not doing that because any group small enough to be trusted will be outgunned by the federal government

They did a complicated fold of it into a new enterprise of which Carney is still a major shareholder

What he is scared of is billionaires deciding to not fund his presidential campaign

It’s a gift link, so almost nobody will need that.

Possession of caltrops is banned in many states, making the roofing nail comment a really interesting idea

Exactly. The only thing that matters is the profit, not human life, or health, or the natural world upon which we depend

Thats a broken URL

He is literally a Trump appointee. I don’t expect him to be a liberal champion, but he does substantially represent big business. Fed independence is about whether any of the classic Republican constituencies will have any level of power outside of Trump’s whim.

I’m not sure he gets any of that; a big chunk of the Greenland desire might simply be because he doesn’t understand how the Mercator projection distorts area.

The people who paid the billion dollar bribe are the ones running the show.

Its a local NPR station that airs jazz and some news https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJZZ_(FM)

I expect Gary Kasparov, who wrote the article, to have tried

Far easier said than done when its full of heavily armed Men who support the management and have the support of most police

That would mean owning up to a bit of history

Yeah, this is how Putin rose to power — he used selective prosecution of rivals to clear his way to the top

This lets them make the decision about who gets prosecuted, so they can better protect their buddies and have those who don’t cut them in jailed

When you start talking about specifics, or advocating that people do it, yes, that gets a short term ban. Don’t incriminate yourself in public.

Generic unlikely to be acted on, not so much.