As of August 2025, “RNS has identified at least 10 instances of apparent immigration enforcement activity conducted by ICE or other federal agents on or immediately near church grounds since Trump’s inauguration.” (archived)

Getting blown up by a missile fired for stupid reasons is pretty hard to come back from in a literal sense

Extremely NYC moment tbh

Surprising that the military can be forced to do anything

History books are gonna stick people and movements into categories whether they actively espouse the labels themselves or not, but tbf not reading history books because “we’re not like those other countries” is about as American as it gets, so rock on

“I think it would help both sides to appreciate the fact that that’s a human being across from you who may or may not want to do the things they’ve been ordered to do. In my long history being in and out of the Department [of Homeland Security], it is very often what makes the news are the terrible things that happen but what doesn’t get reported are the … stories about agents bringing toys into the border patrol station,” he said.

“We aren’t bad guys, sometimes we bring toys to the children we are imprisoning” I couldn’t fucking satirize how stupidly evil you dipshits are any better if I tried holy fuck

“I no longer [sound of US missile destroying boat off the coast of Venezuela,] feel an obligation to think purely [sound of US guns murdering survivors] of Peace”

In a statement, a spokesperson for DHS denied the attorneys’ claims, adding that all detainees “have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers.”

“The facts are illegal aliens in detention have access to phones they can use to contact their families and lawyers. …

…

“If ICE is trying to say, ‘Oh, it’s fine, you can just have your client call you and you can talk and discuss their case over the phone,’ that’s absolutely unacceptable from an attorney-client standpoint. [Federal authorities] can and likely are listening in to those phone calls.”

They already drop the jury and make the “judge” an executive branch employee for immigration “trials,” spying on defense counsel is like kneecapping the Washington Generals point guard

For legal reasons I find the depicted scene relatable only in a metaphorical sense

Thank you for symbolically resonant content!

At least then you know it’s not a “you” problem

https://archive.ph/bphiD

In the link you sent

His net approval rating in our average dropped from -12.0 on Monday to -12.9 today.

RCP is actually showing a higher approval rating than my linked one from Nate Silver.

I think the important part is that the RCP one is also headed down

In RealClearPolitics’ straightforward polling averages, Trump’s net job approval dropped from minus-8.6 percent on January 9 to minus-13.2 percent a week later.

Also

The freshest polling is unusually negative, with CNN showing minus-19 percent net approval (40 percent approval, 59 percent disapproval).

Public opinion might change in a week when we get distracted with the next thing, and I think either way it’s going to have to get a lot more intensely negative to have any kind of impact, but I think at least there is good reason to believe that most Americans are upset by the murder of Renee Good specifically and ICE brutalizing the country generally

Come to the realization this whole country should have come to back in the 1960s when they were actively recruiting KKK members and accept that there is no reforming the Republican party and that their organization must be shoved into the dustbin of history

Good news is fewer people self identify as Republican than basically ever before, so things are actually headed in the right direction with public opinion

Except there are fewer people identifying as Republican than ever before so that statistic doesn’t mean all that much. When people go from approving to disapproving of Trump they just leave the GOP because it’s a cult that is extremely hostile to dissent, so the ratio of Republicans who approve of him stays high while his popularity with the general public continues to go down.

That page is still showing his average dropping a whole point in less than a week, and it seems like almost everyone else is showing an even more pronounced slide (arc)

In RealClearPolitics’ straightforward polling averages, Trump’s net job approval dropped from minus-8.6 percent on January 9 to minus-13.2 percent a week later. Silver Bulletin’s more nuanced averages place his net approval at pretty much the same place: minus-13.1 percent. At the relatively new FiftyPlusOne site, Trump’s net approval is all the way down to minus-16 percent. The freshest polling is unusually negative, with CNN showing minus-19 percent net approval (40 percent approval, 59 percent disapproval). Marist is showing minus-18 percent net approval (39 percent approval, 57 percent disapproval), and Reuters-Ipsos is showing minus-17 percent net approval (41 percent approval, 58 percent disapproval). For a while now, even Trump’s favorite polling outlet, Rasmussen Reports, has placed his job approval well underwater (net approval is minus-8 percent now).

Actually, Gallup says we’re 27% Republican, 27% Democratic, and 45% independent (arc. What’s driving these numbers is the fact that the Republican party is a cult -

9 in 10 Republicans back Trump.

Because our elected officials refuse to talk like this and many constantly stress how bipartisan they try to be with everything. Saying “about 35% of this country are raving psychopaths who can not be compromised with and must be disempowered” is not an easy feel good campaign message but it’s what people need to hear.

I mean, I was already pretty amazed by the notion that convicting Ross of murder just based on the videos everyone’s already seen could be anything other than easy, but that’s the American legal system for you

I’m pretty sure they were going to do that anyway just because it will be a huge windfall for businesses who were able to pass tariff costs along to consumers but will be the only ones getting refunded anyway, but, yeah, Trump’s aggressive idiocy is really making it easy for them