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"People would be upset if public libraries were proposed today" is one of the most insightful quips about the mindset of a large swath of people today.
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The dissolution of USAID killed about 750,000 people.
Guys like Jason say "voting for harm reduction doesn't matter" because Jason knows he won't be harmed. He can watch kids get thrown in cages all day long and he won't care because he gets to feel good about his purity anyway.
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Just for anyone not keeping track, we are now in the "we actually love North Korea, and we shit on American soldiers on the USS Lincoln" phase of MAGA.
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The party screaming everyone they disagree with are "COMMUNISTS!” are dead silent when their leader says he loves Kim Jong Un.
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The same "Never Comply" crowd that won't change their thermostat, wear a mask, or use a paper straw turns into "comply or die" the second masked federal agents start gunning down people on American streets.
Don't let them gaslight you into thinking they stand for liberty.
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🚨BREAKING UPDATE OUT OF MAINE: The man killed in the Biddeford, Maine ICE shooting has been identified as a 26-year-old Colombian man who was authorized to work in the United States and had been issued a Social Security number.
This wasn’t a “violent criminal.” This wasn’t even an undocumented immigrant.
This was someone who had legal authorization to live and work here.
So why was ICE trying to pull him over?
A witness also says he saw a large white vehicle ram the smaller vehicle, followed by a second impact… And heard gunshots.
He says he then saw an officer open the vehicle door, pull a man out with blood covering his head, and heard him say: “I tried to stop.”
ICE agents do not have the authority to stop whoever they want, give conflicting orders, escalate an encounter, and then use deadly force when that situation becomes chaotic.
If the government gives agents the power to carry weapons and take someone’s life, those agents have a responsibility to make sure they are acting within the law before they create a situation where someone can be killed.
A person’s rights do not disappear because an ICE agent decides to stop them.
Which means the question that must be answer is this…
Was this man killed because ICE created a dangerous situation that never should have happened?
Because when the government can put someone in a life-or-death situation, the question cannot only be whether the final seconds justified pulling the trigger.
We have to ask why this encounter was allowed to escalate in the first place.
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He had a social security number and was authorized to work in the U.S.
They’re just fucking killing people.
Man killed in Biddeford ICE-involved shooting identified as 26-year-old from Colombia pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s…
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a better American than the people leading our country.
thebulwark.com/p/an-american…
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Kristol's framing here is worth sitting with directly because it inverts the argument this administration has spent a decade making. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the version of the American Dream Republicans claim to be defending. Thirty five years of work. A business that gave other men jobs. Three sons pushed through college specifically so they would not have to labor in the sun the way he did. He was in the process of legally regularizing his status, filling out paperwork, providing fingerprints, doing the thing every immigration hardliner insists people should do instead of staying undocumented.
He did the thing, and his own government shot him anyway, then went silent. More than six hundred open misconduct complaints are currently sitting with the DHS inspector general, a number large enough that this case is not an aberration inside that count, it is one more entry in a pattern the government's own watchdog office is already tracking. Kristol's line lands because it is not really about Lorenzo at all. It is about what it says when the people running the country cannot manage a fraction of the discipline, humility, or accountability that a construction worker who never wanted his own children to see him in pain managed for three decades without anyone asking him to.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a better American than the people leading our country.
thebulwark.com/p/an-american…
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They interviewed all the three witnesses separately, and they all say the same thing.
They did not ram the car; ICE agents fired at them, and then mocked Mr. Salgado as he lay there dying.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: The men arrested alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, including his brother, are contesting DHS account of the fatal shooting, say he didn’t ram any ICE officers.
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To be clear: ICE shot and killed a man who was not their target. He had no criminal record, was seeking legal status, & was pushed off the road by unmarked cars.
There’s “no body cam footage”, his family can’t recover his body, and the witnesses in his van have been detained.
Fallout after ICE officers in Houston shot and killed a Mexican national who had lived in the United States for more than 30 years. @JohnQABC reports.
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So not only did an ICE agent shoot an unarmed man in the back of a van and lie about it, they’ve detained three eyewitnesses and are pressuring them to self-deport so they don’t testify. This is horrifying shit.
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ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent.
There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's @JRogalskiKHOU found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off.
Renee Good all over again.
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ICE slam man's head against stone wall—send him to hospital with fractured skull.
Man's hands were already behind his back.
Agents then physically assault legal observers—soon as they realize they're caught on video.
Threaten to shoot witnesses with taser—even firing it up.
Agent holds taser sideways "gangster style"—is this proper training?
Man was taken to Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital.
Incident occurred outside the Kane County Judicial Center in the St. Charles suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
I spoke with my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior senator from Kentucky. He said that his heart is beating on its own. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes ... about how much he appreciates Governor Beshear and Thomas Massie.
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Rachel Ell retweeted
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He said he wishes men would stop wearing slim fit suits, adopt animals from their local animal shelter, and build affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods. I told him thank you.
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What I do think is a little lost in this conversation is that, historically speaking, it's often been common to not want your life to change at all in response to childbearing.
We called them "fathers" and they absolutely could stay on a roof all night and not engage in planning
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ICE AGENT: “I love my job. I only went to high school and I make $200,000.”
He probably does, too. Taxpayer dollars. Racist bounty hunters.
(H/T @BarbaraJSobel)