Please do not waste your time listening to, reading, or analyzing what Tom Homan actually said this morning.

AnnieBuddy

This is not a retreat, it is a regrouping.

So glad to see that you know this.

We can not let our guard down. Not now, not for the next 80 years.

Solitha

@retech You've missed all the videos of agents retreating and even giving up trying to arrest someone because of the crowds confronting them?

It is almost a certainty that observers have raised the alarm that gives targeted people time to find safety.

And it is people standing toe to toe with them that have brought multiple legal judgments down on them, making it absolutely clear the regime is breaking the law with impunity.

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@inthehands

AnnieBuddy

@retech @inthehands

Standing in the streets has certainly awakened many people around the world, sends encouragement to those are being targeted and did actually result in a rebuke of the government's actions by ICE by some on the right. It has served an invaluable purpose.

But this is an attack on many fronts and the frontline will soon be everywhere. We need to adopt every tactic we can, so yes, stop feeding their machine. Stop supporting the people who are enabling him. Don't wait until they are at your door,

Solitha

@retech Not to mention that morale among DHS agents is absolutely in the shitter, and that is 100% because they have been made crystal clear on how poor their image is to the public.

They get evicted from hotels. Barred from renting vehicles. Good old Bovino got tossed out of a Vegas bar.

It all adds up. Money isn't everything. 2/2

@inthehands

f*cking b*tch club

@geonz @inthehands That’s….actually genius.

The ICE watch I belong to got a good tip from a hotel’s cleaning crew (not a roomba) about certain guests at the hotel. Very helpful when tracking vehicles!

I’m thinking too that if detention centers have deliveries of things like laundry and cleaning supplies, those lists (or even just the number of deliveries) could give insight as to how well detainees are being cared for.

RowinSpeez

@inthehands I think they're going to sit back and plan how to assault the election. They consider all this civil violence a "theatre of combat", so all these people are considered to have training/experience now.

I have no doubt they're going to put a couple guys a lot of polling stations as a powder keg and just start throwing lit matches.

CaliCarol

@inthehands

No doubt when we get our democracy back the people of Minneapolis will be seen as national heros. Their stories will be in our history books like Harriet Tubman, MLK and others. What they've (you've) done is incredible.

Solitha

@retech Yes, we are in an arms race. They've changed tactics.

And guess what? We found out. Because they're being watched. Because people are out there and being alert. And because that open outrage actually makes the media pay attention.

People are rallying against those warehouses, forcing their local gov'ts to refuse approvals. The new offices? Building management can decide the risk is not worth the rent.

@inthehands

Solitha

@retech I think the important thing to remember is that *we* are forcing *them* to change tactics.

Which means yes, standing in the streets is most definitely hurting them. They can't bring in the numbers being demanded of them. We're slowing them and costing them money.

@inthehands

Nazani

@inthehands Probably redirecting effort toward rigging the midterms.

Jason Bowen 🇺🇦

@inthehands
It definitely feels like they're past the "in the making" stage. They're an authoritarian secret police which commits thefts, destroys property, harasses, spies, kidnaps, and murders innocent people.

Jason Bowen 🇺🇦

@inthehands
> Maybe they were hoping for an ICE officer to be shot in retaliation so they could go for martial law...

Yes, they desperately want to invoke the Insurrection Act, declare martial law, and suspend elections and civil rights.

Nicole Parsons

@inthehands @retech

Like the last time, fascism has funding from the richest people on the planet.

In addition to street protests & ditching Nazi platforms, go after the money of the Epstein Class.

Taxation. RICO investigations. Antitrust. Think tanks.
Government contracts. Sanctions. Divestment. Ditch fossil fuels.
Corporate breakups like Standard Oil. Pop the AI bubble. Renewables

Project 2025 is funded by:
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein

https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/

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Nazani

@Npars01 @inthehands @retech The hyper-rich should be so reviled that they have to spend most of their time in their armed compounds, support a small army of food tasters & bodyguards, & only travel in armored vehicles.