What they can potentially do is have the Senate shut down other parts of the government in protest.
ICE is already funded for years to come; it will take an affirmative vote to remove that money, and you can’t do that when in the minority.
It doesn’t matter how loudly they yell if the press doesn’t cover them. They’re yelling. You just aren’t where you can see it.
I see a lot of Democrats openly talking about how mad they are. There’s a pretty extensive discussion about not voting for funding for ICE in Congress, and an active effort to get enough votes to impeach Kristi Noem.
There are also a bunch of Democrats calling for nonviolent resistance because they recognize that making the Insurrection Act invocation look ridiculous when it comes will be strategically useful.
A few are also just out of it — they’re depending on the New York Times to tell them what’s going on, and that doesn’t work.
Yeah, they’re uniquely empowered to sue on behalf of the constituents they represent, so they can do a lot more than most other elected officials.
The problem is that the US is still place where people who advocate violence for leftist reasons can be tossed in prison. So, no, it’s not a good idea to allow people to post explicit, realistic, actionable calls for violence in public places.
Talk about it in your 4-person Signal chat with people you trust.
There’s a difference between being right-wing and using actual Nazi content on a routine basis. They crossed that line.
The same phenomenon persists when you look at things like murder, which tends not to have that problem
Yes, though the drop happened before that
I suspect a third or more of the US military will refuse to carry out massacres of light-skinned citizens.
I don’t expect the same of ICE
The US military is a fair bit less Nazi than ICE, which has increased greatly in size over the last few months while using Nazi materials as part of their recruitment pitch
Yeah, they’re doing some serious sanewashing of today’s speech — no mention of confusing Iceland for Greenland several times, and treating the speech as a promise to not invade Greenland
It happened because of mass protests which emboldened legislators to make it happen, and the press was willing to cover them that way.
Congressmembers have managed to inspect some. They don’t provide medical care:
“The most frequent feedback we got was the inadequacy of the medical care they are receiving,” said Schiff. He described meeting a diabetic detainee who he said has not received treatment for her condition in two months. “That’s frightening,” he said.
A fair number of people do seem to be deported to other countries rather than die in the camps.. Officially, the number who died in ICE custody is 32 during 2025, but it’s entirely possible that this number is an undercount. I will also note that ICE tends to deport people who are experiencing medical emergencies so that they die outside the US
That requires an extra contract with Palantir, so it hasn’t happened yet that I am aware of. They’re mainly beating US citizens to get them to point out which houses nonwhite neighbors live in.
The problem is not background checks or training; its that ICE and the Border Patrol see their mission as being to brutalize minorities. The whole agencies can’t be fixed, and need to go.
Its Minnesota Public Radio, running an Associated Press report. Fairly reliable as things go
Yeah, they apparently get a bonus for each kidnapping, irrespective of whether they have to subsequently release the person
The risk that you blow up a neighbor knocking on your front door, or a firefighter trying to get in and rescue you makes this not worthwhile.
Juries are refusing to convict for more minor things right now, so you stand a decent chance at a not guilty verdict.
Problem is that ICE wildly outnumbers the typical household when they show up, so you are not likely to survive
The problem Green and other representatives have is that they’re in the minority. This means they can’t do much more than make noise.