Why aren’t you urging your followers to support Scott Galloway’s boycott tech initiative? This should be part of every Dem strategist’s equation of how to fight back.
Boycotting big tech is a potent tool for our side, though. In particular, the tech billionaires who were on the podium at trump's inauguration, controlling Apple, Google, Amazon, and of course Musk's empire, plus some others named in the article.
I suspect boycotts and strikes are going to be an increasingly used and potent strategy in the coming weeks and months to bring the Trumpys to their knees... It worked for Kimmel, and people will remember that.
Netflix is a tough one for me. We've been binge watching the West Wing since the beginning of the year. Still have a couple seasons to go...
If you listen to Galloway's 5-minute video (posted by Hank yesterday) the boycott need not be permanent. He makes the point that 1 month is long enough to effectively scare the tech giants straight. This is one area where we really do have leverage. Let's use it.
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I stopped using Amazon quite some time ago. Apple I feel like I'm stuck with but I cut back. Google I've mostly stopped using wherever I can, even for browsing. And of course, fuck anything Musk does. I won't touch it.
I've learned from several people something obvious, that the way to think about many of these businesses is that they are "toll booths". That is a productive way to think about them. There is a former Greek finance/economic minister, Yanis Varoufakis, who wrote a book "Technofeudalism" that I think would be a good read. I haven't yet read it in part because I keep waiting for it to come to my library.
These business exist in part to be a singular point of entry into the market, and they scrape money wherever they can.
Ohio here. It's shocking and chilling how Sen Moreno and Sen Husted still parrot Trump's every word. They totally ignore their constituents and only respond to corporate donors. Social media has turned against them, I hope this is an early signal on how the people will vote.
Adam Serwer had a great fact-filled piece in The Atlantic this morning worth sharing with anyone (like my MAGA friends) trying to justify letting ICE agents continue to wear masks (gift link):
It includes a strong quote from Garrett Graff (of course)--thanks for that testimony link, Simon--have been using that on the digital battlefield as well...
Wow Minnesotans you are Heroes. Wow and Thank You for your service to our country. You are truly citizen soldiers and I pray for your safety and success in this fight. GO Caucus and again You are all Amazing.
It's unbelievably EVIL how Trump wants to steal our vote. We STAND against that and with YOU.
YES, Minnesota! Hope attendance at the caucuses blows the doors off all the venues. This is a tough time to caucus, but as Dickens said, it may be "the best of times" to do just that. Put all the anger and energy into electoral work. Thanks, Minnesota--a thousand times--for all you're doing to save democracy.
Just called my Senators(Murphy & Blumenthal) with 2 points. ICE clearly needs a mission statement, not just quotas! And to use the money meant for detention centers to hire more immigration judges and eliminate the backlog for folks. Thanks, Simon, for all your hard work & hope.
I still remember that Dems negotiated a bipartisan immigration bill that included hiring more immigration judges and Trump ordered Rs to not even give it a vote.
1000% sen dems should put in the bill that the old immigration bill be brought up for a vote in the senate and house!!! that would make ice passe. the house has a version called dignity act. this is how govt should work!!!
Reporting in: A handful of citizens of Carver County, Minnesota defeated a potential contract to rent our local jail cells to ICE to hold their abductees pending deportation. Here's the blow-by-blow of how we did it: https://www.swcrier.com/p/ice-contract-defeated-carver-county
Well done, and thanks for posting! Maddow had a whole block of her show just on folks like us blocking purchase of empty warehouses all over the country, red & blue states. People are not having it--a good sign for the future.
This show was important. I was pleased to see the mayor of Kansas City talk about how they blocked one of these efforts. But imagine housing 10,000 people in something like an Amazon warehouse. I would like to see organized response on this from Democrats in Congress—at least in terms of calling out Miller for this.
Simon, thank you for the information on the 3:00 ICE hearing; I'll definitely try to listen in.
The story about measles makes me so angry. Convicted sex offender Ghislane Maxwell is in a cushy ClubFed, doing yoga and playing with her therapy puppy, while American citizens, legal immigrants, and even children are in horrible concentration camps.
I called Congressman Raskin and Senators Alsobrooks and Van Hollen to say that: (1) ICE must be prevented from operating near polling places; (2) Congress must stop Trump from building a ballroom, a WH wrestling stadium, a race course on the streets of DC, and an arch, from desecrating the Kennedy Center, and from taking over DC's public golf courses; and (3) Democrats should begin to regularly bring up the fact that Trump is insane and out-of-touch with reality and must be removed. I'm writing more postcards to NC voters today.
One of my all-time favorite sources for pithy uplifting or devastating data has always been the Harper's Index. So I've been creating some HI homages re: immigration for sharing. Here's the first (with sources):
Number of undocumented immigrants who were deported in 2025: 600,000 (230K by ICE inside the country)
Percentage of undocumented immigrants that ICE has arrested in Minnesota: 10%
Percentage of undocumented immigrants that ICE has arrested in Florida: 0.7%
Odds of being arrested as undocumented in Minnesota vs Florida: 14 to 1
States with sanctuary cities & counties where Trump has NOT staged major surges at all (or, in one case, has only done so in one of nine such locales, for three days total): Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina
States with sanctuary cities & counties whose federal funding Trump has NOT threatened to cut off unless they revoke sanctuary status throughout their states; Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina:
Post DHS made on its official X and Instagram accounts on 12/31/24, and has not removed since: An image of a serene beach captioned: "America after 100 million deportations."
Total foreign-born population in the US: 51.8 million
Number of US citizens born in the United States who would have to be deported to reach 100 million deportations: 42.8 million
Conclusion: This is not about politics; it's about our founding, our foundation, our ideals, our system of government, our way of life.
Conclusion: If we're going to "mass-deport," the first to go should be the *real* "birthright citizens," those who claim Americans are defined by blood and soil, not ideas and ideals, have no idea who or what an American really is, and almost certainly would flunk the test immigrants take to become citizens of this country; those who call themselves "heritage Americans," even though they've been here 10,000 years less than those who have the most right to call themselves Americans at all, or call this country whatever they want.
Thanks for this, that took a lot of work and it’s very illuminating to see these numbers all in one place. The FL comparison really hits home. I haven’t thought about the Harper’s index in a while but am also a fan
I called my Senators and Representatives with two messages this morning:
Take back the money for ICE and immigration detention centers that was included in the BBB. ICE and CBP are making our communities unsafe by:
murdering and assaulting citizens
terrorizing our communities and trampling our civil rights
kidnapping and jailing citizens and immigrants with no due process and then ignoring court orders to set people free (see Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz on ICE defying nearly 100 court orders particularly regarding the release of detained immigrants)
destroying property
diverting police resources
Get to the bottom of the whistleblower complaint about Tulsi Gabbard who I have always suspected of being a Kremlin asset.
Thank you, from a Minnesotan ready to caucus in my St Paul suburb tonight. ICE is everywhere here but we will not be deterred and will try to represent all our dear neighbors who cannot leave their homes out of fear. We WILL represent.
People need to understand that measles can be deadly. It’s not just a couple of weeks of itchy bumps. Babies under 1 year cannot get vaccinated, yet can be infected- with terrible results. This LA Times article from last fall describes the outcome for a child who contracted measles as an infant and then died later as a child from known and unpreventable complications.
I posted about it on my FB page today. I was born in the late 60s, so got a booster last summer. Measles causes something called immune amnesia -- it basically wipes the immune system's memory, meaning patients are susceptible to pretty much every germ they encounter for months and years to come. It can cause deafness, even decades after infection. I am hoping that by posting in a factual way, some of my lefty MAHA friends will take note and get vaccinated. And that others in my age cohort will get boosted, since our initial immunity has worn off since the vaccines weren't as effective back then.
Yes, Donald is unwell. He's circling the drain and he's also sociopathic. He's been that way for years, but the media is not allowed to cover that because they are afraid of him.
So, they take it out on people like Joe Biden, and other Democratic leaders because they don't use the power of their office to threaten and intimidate reporters. It’s why Jake Tapper is quiet as a snail through all of this.
If you want to have fun, go to ChatGPT and ask it to use a book blurb from Tapper’s book about Biden and replace Biden’s name with Trump. Wow! It's shocking and it’s still going on.
Why aren't we fighting to disband ICE. I don't want them reformed. I want them OUT! They don't have any purpose in our government. They are Felon 34's private army.
I completely sympathize with your rage. I feel it too. I have been thinking about that a lot and have four reasons why I don’t support trying to abolish ICE entirely.
First, if ICE were a small force that had proper oversight and accountability and followed the laws, there *could* be a legitimate role for them. Removing convicted violent criminals who immigrated is overwhelmingly popular in polls, so that would work for a majority of Americans.
Second, abolishing ICE seems like a fight we would not win, to me at least. But we might win a fight to make them into a smaller force that follows more of the laws and has oversight and accountability.
Third, saying “abolish ICE” will probably turn off a lot of independent voters who currently hate what they are seeing ICE do. When the right started putting the words “defund police” into our mouths, it was a turnoff to a lot of voters. (We also didn’t say “completely open borders” or “critical race theory in K-12” but they put those words in our mouths, too. So I guess what we say is only tangentially related to what they say we said.)
Fourth, that would be a distraction. It would let the Rs change the subject to completely open borders (yes I know that would be dishonest but they would do it), instead of whether we still have a Constitution that protects journalism, protesting, due process, court orders, etc. I don’t want to give them control of the narrative again, or give them the fight that they want. We are the ones fighting for America and justice and we have momentum right now.
Thank you for visiting the concentration camp this week and your efforts to defund ICE.
My question is how does the House compel ICE to follow the Constitution? There are many lists of things we should advocate for (ban masking to judicial warrant requirements), and I’m sure you are considering them all. But without holding both their leaders (Noem, Miller, Bondi) and the thugs on the ground accountable in court, what makes another law saying they need to follow the law enough to stop their terrorizing communities and individuals?
Aye... there's the rub. Just as there is a growing list of congressional sponsors for Bondi to face impeachment for dereliction of Epstein, Noem must also be impeached for Dereliction of DHS. And Miller should just be subject to immediate indictment by free state AGs as soon as possible. Being a special appointment to administrative staff does not provide legal protection.
The 10th amendment is our friend here too. Paraphrasing: What is not spelled out by the feds is left to the states (i.e governors, AGs, state and local police enforcement.)
There is no federal law saying ICE agents can be masked and anonymous, arrest or detain anyone regardless of a warrant, or have immunity as a federal actor just because Vance says so. Our free state governors and AGs need to coordinate a response based on 10th amendment rights and kick ICE out of their states.
The governors should consider law enforcement... to enforce the laws against ICE.
Lest we forget Hopium's Proclamation Project, we can also petition our local governments to stand against ICE with non-cooperation and potentially interference in their activities..
Why aren’t you urging your followers to support Scott Galloway’s boycott tech initiative? This should be part of every Dem strategist’s equation of how to fight back.
Cassie, how about you inform us, rather than haranguing us? If you have an idea for the community sell us on it. Thank you.
Boycotting big tech is a potent tool for our side, though. In particular, the tech billionaires who were on the podium at trump's inauguration, controlling Apple, Google, Amazon, and of course Musk's empire, plus some others named in the article.
https://gizmodo.com/anti-ice-protesters-have-started-a-month-long-tech-and-ai-boycott-heres-how-it-works-2000716458
thanks for the link, Susan.
I suspect boycotts and strikes are going to be an increasingly used and potent strategy in the coming weeks and months to bring the Trumpys to their knees... It worked for Kimmel, and people will remember that.
Netflix is a tough one for me. We've been binge watching the West Wing since the beginning of the year. Still have a couple seasons to go...
The need to start boycotting Netflix is an excuse for a massive all-day West Wing binge!
If you listen to Galloway's 5-minute video (posted by Hank yesterday) the boycott need not be permanent. He makes the point that 1 month is long enough to effectively scare the tech giants straight. This is one area where we really do have leverage. Let's use it.
Hopium members Hank and Stu posted about Scott Galloway’s link yesterday. Women’s March and other groups had a call on Sunday about a general strike and shared the link to Galloway’s resist and unsubscribe. Also see www.generalstrike2026.com and generalstrikeus.com
I stopped using Amazon quite some time ago. Apple I feel like I'm stuck with but I cut back. Google I've mostly stopped using wherever I can, even for browsing. And of course, fuck anything Musk does. I won't touch it.
I've learned from several people something obvious, that the way to think about many of these businesses is that they are "toll booths". That is a productive way to think about them. There is a former Greek finance/economic minister, Yanis Varoufakis, who wrote a book "Technofeudalism" that I think would be a good read. I haven't yet read it in part because I keep waiting for it to come to my library.
These business exist in part to be a singular point of entry into the market, and they scrape money wherever they can.
Ohio here. It's shocking and chilling how Sen Moreno and Sen Husted still parrot Trump's every word. They totally ignore their constituents and only respond to corporate donors. Social media has turned against them, I hope this is an early signal on how the people will vote.
$100 to the Ohio Fund
Adam Serwer had a great fact-filled piece in The Atlantic this morning worth sharing with anyone (like my MAGA friends) trying to justify letting ICE agents continue to wear masks (gift link):
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/masks-ice-immigration/685834/?gift=FgeEACUw4iJoER4ZiZvsnGIiVzCZhTwVdv9oUiQar7U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
It includes a strong quote from Garrett Graff (of course)--thanks for that testimony link, Simon--have been using that on the digital battlefield as well...
Thank you, Simon. Good news, and very helpful formulation for making calls re:ICE
Wow Minnesotans you are Heroes. Wow and Thank You for your service to our country. You are truly citizen soldiers and I pray for your safety and success in this fight. GO Caucus and again You are all Amazing.
It's unbelievably EVIL how Trump wants to steal our vote. We STAND against that and with YOU.
YES, Minnesota! Hope attendance at the caucuses blows the doors off all the venues. This is a tough time to caucus, but as Dickens said, it may be "the best of times" to do just that. Put all the anger and energy into electoral work. Thanks, Minnesota--a thousand times--for all you're doing to save democracy.
Just called my Senators(Murphy & Blumenthal) with 2 points. ICE clearly needs a mission statement, not just quotas! And to use the money meant for detention centers to hire more immigration judges and eliminate the backlog for folks. Thanks, Simon, for all your hard work & hope.
I still remember that Dems negotiated a bipartisan immigration bill that included hiring more immigration judges and Trump ordered Rs to not even give it a vote.
That should be the starting point for negotiations, that bipartisan bill wrangled before the 2024 election.
1000% sen dems should put in the bill that the old immigration bill be brought up for a vote in the senate and house!!! that would make ice passe. the house has a version called dignity act. this is how govt should work!!!
Reporting in: A handful of citizens of Carver County, Minnesota defeated a potential contract to rent our local jail cells to ICE to hold their abductees pending deportation. Here's the blow-by-blow of how we did it: https://www.swcrier.com/p/ice-contract-defeated-carver-county
Much respect to you from Ramsey County!!
Thank you! Ramsey Country was my former stomping grounds. ❤️
Wow! Thank you for your service!
Well done, and thanks for posting! Maddow had a whole block of her show just on folks like us blocking purchase of empty warehouses all over the country, red & blue states. People are not having it--a good sign for the future.
This show was important. I was pleased to see the mayor of Kansas City talk about how they blocked one of these efforts. But imagine housing 10,000 people in something like an Amazon warehouse. I would like to see organized response on this from Democrats in Congress—at least in terms of calling out Miller for this.
YES, agree 100%
And thanks to the Canadians for rescinding the sale of a warehouse ICE intended to use for their inhumane gulags.
Way to go, citizens of Carvery County! Thanks for standing up for all of us.
Well done!!
Thank you!
Simon, thank you for the information on the 3:00 ICE hearing; I'll definitely try to listen in.
The story about measles makes me so angry. Convicted sex offender Ghislane Maxwell is in a cushy ClubFed, doing yoga and playing with her therapy puppy, while American citizens, legal immigrants, and even children are in horrible concentration camps.
I called Congressman Raskin and Senators Alsobrooks and Van Hollen to say that: (1) ICE must be prevented from operating near polling places; (2) Congress must stop Trump from building a ballroom, a WH wrestling stadium, a race course on the streets of DC, and an arch, from desecrating the Kennedy Center, and from taking over DC's public golf courses; and (3) Democrats should begin to regularly bring up the fact that Trump is insane and out-of-touch with reality and must be removed. I'm writing more postcards to NC voters today.
One of my all-time favorite sources for pithy uplifting or devastating data has always been the Harper's Index. So I've been creating some HI homages re: immigration for sharing. Here's the first (with sources):
Number of undocumented immigrants who were deported in 2025: 600,000 (230K by ICE inside the country)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/18/us/trump-deportation-numbers-immigration-crackdown.html
Number of *legal* immigrants who had their status *taken away* from them for purposes of deportation in 2025: 1,600,000.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/nx-s1-5641022/limiting-migration-led-to-1-6-million-losing-legal-status-in-2025
Number of deported immigrants in 2025 who had been convicted of any crime: 90,000 (150K if those with charges pending are included)
https://www.cato.org/blog/5-ice-detainees-have-violent-convictions-73-no-convictions
Conclusion: Not only is this not about "the worst of the worst," it's not about "illegals," it's about *immigration, period, legal or illegal.*
Or is it? (Harpers 2 follows)
Harpers 2
Number of undocumented immigrants ICE has arrested in Minnesota: 10,000 (self-report)
https://www.startribune.com/10000-undocumented-people-arrested-minnesota/601568003
Number of undocumented immigrants ICE has arrested in Florida: 10,400 (self-report from de Santis)
https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2026/governor-ron-desantis-highlights-success-florida-federal-immigration-partnership
Number of undocumented immigrants in Minnesota: 100,000
https://immresearch.org/publications/50-states-immigrants-by-number-and-share/
Number of undocumented immigrants in Florida: 1,600,000
https://immresearch.org/publications/50-states-immigrants-by-number-and-share/
Percentage of undocumented immigrants that ICE has arrested in Minnesota: 10%
Percentage of undocumented immigrants that ICE has arrested in Florida: 0.7%
Odds of being arrested as undocumented in Minnesota vs Florida: 14 to 1
States with sanctuary cities & counties where Trump has NOT staged major surges at all (or, in one case, has only done so in one of nine such locales, for three days total): Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina
States with sanctuary cities & counties whose federal funding Trump has NOT threatened to cut off unless they revoke sanctuary status throughout their states; Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/22/democratic-states-federal-funding-review/
Four closest states in the 2024 election: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina
Conclusion: So no, this is not about immigration, it's about *politics.*
Or is it? (Harpers 3 follows)
Harpers 3
Post DHS made on its official X and Instagram accounts on 12/31/24, and has not removed since: An image of a serene beach captioned: "America after 100 million deportations."
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS8Tx3XCRLQ/?igsh=MWpibTlzemx2YjFwbw==
Number of undocumented immigrants in the US: 14 million
https://cis.org/Report/Overall-ForeignBorn-Population-Down-22-Million-January-July
Number of *legal* immigrant non‐citizens in the US: 14 million
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/08/21/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-population-reached-a-record-14-million-in-2023/#:~:text=The%20overall%20U.S.%20immigrant%20population,level%20of%20about%204.3%20million.
Number of naturalized US citizens in the US: 23.8 million
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/08/21/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-population-reached-a-record-14-million-in-2023/#:~:text=The%20overall%20U.S.%20immigrant%20population,level%20of%20about%204.3%20million
Total foreign-born population in the US: 51.8 million
Number of US citizens born in the United States who would have to be deported to reach 100 million deportations: 42.8 million
Conclusion: This is not about politics; it's about our founding, our foundation, our ideals, our system of government, our way of life.
Conclusion: If we're going to "mass-deport," the first to go should be the *real* "birthright citizens," those who claim Americans are defined by blood and soil, not ideas and ideals, have no idea who or what an American really is, and almost certainly would flunk the test immigrants take to become citizens of this country; those who call themselves "heritage Americans," even though they've been here 10,000 years less than those who have the most right to call themselves Americans at all, or call this country whatever they want.
Thanks for this, that took a lot of work and it’s very illuminating to see these numbers all in one place. The FL comparison really hits home. I haven’t thought about the Harper’s index in a while but am also a fan
I called my Senators and Representatives with two messages this morning:
Take back the money for ICE and immigration detention centers that was included in the BBB. ICE and CBP are making our communities unsafe by:
murdering and assaulting citizens
terrorizing our communities and trampling our civil rights
kidnapping and jailing citizens and immigrants with no due process and then ignoring court orders to set people free (see Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz on ICE defying nearly 100 court orders particularly regarding the release of detained immigrants)
destroying property
diverting police resources
Get to the bottom of the whistleblower complaint about Tulsi Gabbard who I have always suspected of being a Kremlin asset.
Thank you, from a Minnesotan ready to caucus in my St Paul suburb tonight. ICE is everywhere here but we will not be deterred and will try to represent all our dear neighbors who cannot leave their homes out of fear. We WILL represent.
stay toasty!!
Thanks for your courage and commitment. You're standing up for all of us and we are with you!
Simon, you are so right about the measles threat.
People need to understand that measles can be deadly. It’s not just a couple of weeks of itchy bumps. Babies under 1 year cannot get vaccinated, yet can be infected- with terrible results. This LA Times article from last fall describes the outcome for a child who contracted measles as an infant and then died later as a child from known and unpreventable complications.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2025-09-11/l-a-child-died-from-complication-of-measles-contracted-in-infancy
I posted about it on my FB page today. I was born in the late 60s, so got a booster last summer. Measles causes something called immune amnesia -- it basically wipes the immune system's memory, meaning patients are susceptible to pretty much every germ they encounter for months and years to come. It can cause deafness, even decades after infection. I am hoping that by posting in a factual way, some of my lefty MAHA friends will take note and get vaccinated. And that others in my age cohort will get boosted, since our initial immunity has worn off since the vaccines weren't as effective back then.
Yes, Donald is unwell. He's circling the drain and he's also sociopathic. He's been that way for years, but the media is not allowed to cover that because they are afraid of him.
So, they take it out on people like Joe Biden, and other Democratic leaders because they don't use the power of their office to threaten and intimidate reporters. It’s why Jake Tapper is quiet as a snail through all of this.
If you want to have fun, go to ChatGPT and ask it to use a book blurb from Tapper’s book about Biden and replace Biden’s name with Trump. Wow! It's shocking and it’s still going on.
Why aren't we fighting to disband ICE. I don't want them reformed. I want them OUT! They don't have any purpose in our government. They are Felon 34's private army.
I completely sympathize with your rage. I feel it too. I have been thinking about that a lot and have four reasons why I don’t support trying to abolish ICE entirely.
First, if ICE were a small force that had proper oversight and accountability and followed the laws, there *could* be a legitimate role for them. Removing convicted violent criminals who immigrated is overwhelmingly popular in polls, so that would work for a majority of Americans.
Second, abolishing ICE seems like a fight we would not win, to me at least. But we might win a fight to make them into a smaller force that follows more of the laws and has oversight and accountability.
Third, saying “abolish ICE” will probably turn off a lot of independent voters who currently hate what they are seeing ICE do. When the right started putting the words “defund police” into our mouths, it was a turnoff to a lot of voters. (We also didn’t say “completely open borders” or “critical race theory in K-12” but they put those words in our mouths, too. So I guess what we say is only tangentially related to what they say we said.)
Fourth, that would be a distraction. It would let the Rs change the subject to completely open borders (yes I know that would be dishonest but they would do it), instead of whether we still have a Constitution that protects journalism, protesting, due process, court orders, etc. I don’t want to give them control of the narrative again, or give them the fight that they want. We are the ones fighting for America and justice and we have momentum right now.
Shouldn't we add "improving conditions in the ICE detention centers and independent oversight of them" to our list of demands?
I thought that was included in the demands from Senate and House Democrats.
To my blue Rep on Judiciary committee today:
Thank you for visiting the concentration camp this week and your efforts to defund ICE.
My question is how does the House compel ICE to follow the Constitution? There are many lists of things we should advocate for (ban masking to judicial warrant requirements), and I’m sure you are considering them all. But without holding both their leaders (Noem, Miller, Bondi) and the thugs on the ground accountable in court, what makes another law saying they need to follow the law enough to stop their terrorizing communities and individuals?
Aye... there's the rub. Just as there is a growing list of congressional sponsors for Bondi to face impeachment for dereliction of Epstein, Noem must also be impeached for Dereliction of DHS. And Miller should just be subject to immediate indictment by free state AGs as soon as possible. Being a special appointment to administrative staff does not provide legal protection.
The 10th amendment is our friend here too. Paraphrasing: What is not spelled out by the feds is left to the states (i.e governors, AGs, state and local police enforcement.)
There is no federal law saying ICE agents can be masked and anonymous, arrest or detain anyone regardless of a warrant, or have immunity as a federal actor just because Vance says so. Our free state governors and AGs need to coordinate a response based on 10th amendment rights and kick ICE out of their states.
The governors should consider law enforcement... to enforce the laws against ICE.
Lest we forget Hopium's Proclamation Project, we can also petition our local governments to stand against ICE with non-cooperation and potentially interference in their activities..