"Judd Legum had a piece today and he pointed out that in the last 12 months, ICE has spent 600 times more money on arms and guns, anything having to do with shooting, killing people than they had in the entire period before that."
~ Diana Butler Bass
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/25
"They're in, many of them, in cars or trucks or SUVs that are unmarked. Now, this is, you know, I've been around for many, many years. This has never happened to my knowledge before in America. In America, in the United States, that you have all of these, an entire armed guard system out there under the authority of the president of the United States, in the states, in our cities."
~ Robert Reich
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/16
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-deadly-forces-the-coffee-klatch
"With guns…. Where military law enforcement is being used to police American citizens under the pretense that something so dangerous is happening that this has to happen even though they are creating the danger."
"The case is yet another illustration of a point that is crucial to understand about the rise of fascism in this country: misogyny is not an incidental feature or an optional add-on or comorbidity. Misogyny is the beating heart of a fascism that violently safeguards and shores up white male authority—by punishing any social subordinate who questions the designated authority figures."
~ Kate Manne
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/18
https://katemanne.substack.com/p/renee-goods-murder-was-misogyny
"The rationalization of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis is that she was using her vehicle to try to kill ICE agents, a claim belied by available video footage and by analysis from Bellingcat and others.
But there's probably a reason that, according to analysis from the New York Times, all nine of the ICE agents who fired their weapons from September through Wednesday were firing at people in vehicles:"
~ Philip Bump
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/19
https://www.howtoreadthisch.art/unlocking-the-mundane-mysteries-of-the-world/
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"those were the only weapons — 'weapons' — protesters had. If the use of deadly force requires an imminent threat, the threat requires a rationalization."
"This is not the first time that the administration has used this defense for killing someone amid its immigration crackdown. In an incident in September, ICE agents shot and killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, claiming that he had hit an agent with his car and dragged him 'a significant distance,' but videos show otherwise."
~ Ross Rosenfield
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/21
https://newrepublic.com/article/205061/renee-good-kristi-noem-domestic-terrorists-minneapolis
