Summary
Stephen Miller’s legal group, America First Legal Foundation, sent letters warning officials in sanctuary jurisdictions of potential “serious consequences,” including civil racketeering charges and prison time, for defying federal immigration laws.
The letters target 249 officials in areas restricting cooperation with ICE, such as San Diego County.
While courts have previously rejected similar anti-sanctuary efforts, the move signals aggressive immigration enforcement plans under Trump’s incoming administration.
Critics argue the threats highlight a broader strategy to intimidate and enforce mass deportation policies.
Hey, anyone who was pushing people to not vote for Harris before the election want to weigh in? Still confident in your decision?
They all disappeared immediately after the election because they got what they wanted, a Trump win.
keep telling yourself that so you can be likewise flabbergasted the next time you lose; but have hope: the republicans are likely to fuck it up enough to galvanize your fellow democrats to vote in 2026 or 2028 so you’ll have at least one more win before we fully descend into fascism (assuming that we’re still allowed to vote and that the next democrat candidate isn’t also a genocide-enabling, oligarchical boot licker, unmasked fascist themself)
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Salud.
No wonder you guys lost to trump … Again. Lol
I voted for the Dems in 2024. And honestly, I wish I hadn’t. I was disgusted by their stance on Palestine, but I figured at least they would support trans people against conservative extermination efforts.
For my vote and vocal support, how did Dems reward me? Democrats rewarded me by voting for the first anti-LGBT federal law in 30 years, willingly sentencing several hundred trans children to death for cheap political points. All Republicans had to do was attach their persecution bill to a “must pass” defense spending bill, and Democrats folded like a house of cards. And they also refused to stand to defend the first trans person elected to the House. I have no doubt that this pattern will continue. To laws that must pass to fund the government, Republicans will just attach one rider after another that strips my civil rights away one at a time. And Democrats will tit tit and say, “well, I really wish we could prevent Republicans from murdering innocent people, but this bill simply has to pass, so our hands are tied.”
Even AOC, who was one of the few people to say anything in defense of the new trans representative, didn’t have the courage to actually stand up for trans people directly. She said bathrooms bans were bad because cis women might get caught up in them. And they demonstrated this complete surrender to fascism before Trump even came into office.
In the end, I did not get the satisfaction of a clean conscience. I held my nose and voted for a pro-genocide party, because I hoped they would at least stand up for my rights. But I didn’t get even that. Instead I got a party that is perfectly willing to throw people like me to the wolves, as long as Republicans give them a fig leaf excuse to use. Honestly, I wish I hadn’t voted for Kamala. Democrats aren’t going to stand up for my rights, and I still have the guilt of voting pro-genocide on my conscience.
I suppose it should have been pretty obvious. Dems were willing to throw one minority group to the wolves for political expediency, why wouldn’t they do it to another?
i was in your shoes back in the 90’s when clinton said he was gay positive and wanted to end the violence in palestine; so we voted for him. instead we got dont ask, don’t tell (aka gay military ban); defense of marriage act (aka anti-gay marriage law); and he forced arafat to resign from control of the plo.
the democrats have been doing this for atleast 50 years and will continue to do this and they rely on people who aren’t paying attention or are too young to have the memory of them ditching vulnerable communities at the first instance it became politically costly.
biden himself used to be a very proud anti-gay bigot when he ran for president back in the 80’s and people back then though that he was too much of a wacko conservative because of it; but young democrats called him the most pro-gay president we’ve ever had back during the 2020 campaign (as they said of clinton in 2016). so you can expect the next democratic candidate to be treated the same way during the next election.
Fuck, that’s depressing.
only if you refuse to recognize the game for what it is: 2 parties both controlled by oligarchy.
the democrats will do better if they were by themselves; but they’ll always acquiesce to the republicans “for the greater good”
Yeah we’re all disappointed with the Democratic party… But I think you’re in for a rude awakening because there is a very big difference between being indifferent towards trans people, and actively wanting to eradicate them.
Is there really a difference? If Democrats are willing to vote for anti-trans bills, then on that issue, they’re no different than Republicans. At that point, they’re just saying, “well, we support extermination, but we have pronouns in our bios, so it’s OK!”
Yes, there is a big difference.
I think even Chomsky said a “dime’s worth of difference”…is still a difference. And he said that long before donvict’s fascist cult started its rise to power.
All of this to say “democrats bad because republicans”.
You can argue on whether or not the bill was “must pass” but let’s be honest here, there weren’t many other options.
Unless you have a solution? I’m not just defending democrats blindly here, I’m very open to hearing of an alternative way to have handled this.
You refuse to vote for the bill that targets a minority group. Even if that means shutting down the government or delaying a crucial defense funding bill. Ultimately it would be the Republicans’ fault for attaching extraneous shit to the must pass defense bill.
If Democrats will vote with Republicans and not fight against them, then there is no difference between the two.
So your solution is to essentially sit on people’s paychecks for over a month, to then have the same if not worse bill passed after millions of people’s lives have been turned upside down?
Like, kudos to your gumption I suppose, but how is that anything more than virtue signaling and giving republicans ammo for the future?
Ah yes, fighting for people’s civil rights is “virtue signalling.” And they wouldn’t be able to automatically pass something the next session, as the filibuster still exists. Nothing is getting passed without some cooperation from the Democrats. They have the ability to hold the line, they’re just choosing not to.
Just how many people are you willing to let die in order to get some paychecks through? They literally voted to let several hundred children die. Just how many people are you willing to sacrifice in the name of political expediency?
For historical comparison, do you realize how Jewish people there were in pre-Nazi Germany? They were about 1% of the population, right around the figure for the percentage of the population in the US that are trans. Centrists then made the exact same calculus you’re using. “Oh, there aren’t that many of them. We can compromise on their rights, they don’t really matter anyway.”
Yes. The role of the Democratic Party is to offer an alternative which is slightly less objectionable than the Republican party, to give people the illusion of choice. Both parties are bought and paid for by the elites. Harris would not have changed the status quo. You will never have decent health care or education or public transportation, the country remains an oligarchy.
We need 2/3 majority Democrats in the House and Senate before you can claim that.
Or just some random low level bureaucrat who has more power than both the presidency or congress whenever things like the minimum wage or the equal right amendment comes up.
If not; then 1 or 2 Democrats to do the same thing with affordable healthcare … Twice
…still better than someone stoking stochastic terrorism from the very top, a party that has some members seeking an actual shooting civil war, putting people like Brainworms in charge of our health, and so on.
I get it, the choices are not great. But I’d take sound stewardship, even if it’s suboptimal, over the complete chaos-stoking and outright plunder the qons plan.
Seems like a lot of the tankies and “leftists” and Enlightened Centrists ™ have faded into the woodwork.
No, the bots and foreign psyops working to get Trump elected aren’t going to weigh in now. They were never real or serious people.
Sounds like something a CEO would do.
Well that’s infuriating. So these people wanna lock up our elected representatives, then complain when we don’t wanna serve them at restaurants.
The solution to this is to organize state militias and ask the agents sent to arrest if they want to leave walking or in body bags.
How very brave of you to post this.
to me, a non American, it reads just how America is was and will be.
Americans love guns and extra judicial killings. Their top cultural hits are about cops who break laws, or good men who are driven to kill. Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Sopranos, Westerns, cyberpunk, buddy cop movies, Die Hard…
As we like to say here in Ummerica: All hat no cattle.
People love violence and extra judicial killings “in the name of justice” as long as it’s on TV or the internet and they are nice and safe at home. Guns? Yeah, fun to go pew pew in the backyard or parade around with. But actually get involved or do something like stand up to an authoritarian government? “Ha ha no thanks you first.”
How very brave of y’all to downvote. Undoubtedly you are all organizing your state militias as we speak.
Hey dipshit the term state militias implies that they are organized by the states themselves rather than being organized by random folks, I wouldve used the term civil militia or maybe free militia if I meant the latter.
Hey dipshit? That’s your response? ARE YOU 12?
No doubt you will be first to sign up for said militia. Being so brave 'n all.
I’m sure they have zero worries about going to prison.
I’m not sure they have zero worries about being adjusted.
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Remember the time when this asshole painted on a fake hairline for a TV interview?
There will probably be “investigations” into anyone involved in filming that.
