What ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November.

[bebadefabo@mastodon.social]

@ben document the ice agents without their masks now so we can cross reference their atrocities when they put the masks back on

[sharoncrockett@toot.community]

@ben@werd.socialhttps://toot.community/@SharonCrockett/116280953733978402

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@stonykark I agree, but that's a lot easier to say than to do.

And folx *are* doing something. Millions of us are protesting, aiding the communities that ICE is attacking, posting to keep the stories alive, donating to causes that are fighting our government, doing mutual aid, filming and tracking ICE, voting, and a million other ways of resisting.

Everyone has a different threshold for "well, I guess this is worth dying for now". Usually that threshold is when they have no other option left.

@ben @msbw

[starlily@mastodon.social]

@ben Congress, who has the literal power to end it now, arent doing anything at all, because they are complicit.
Dems are controlled opposition, doing just enough to provide the illusion of resistance.

So what do you suggest?

[kitkat_blue@mastodon.social]

@ben

November, December, and January next year will be the most historic months this nation has ever seen, including the civil war era.

Why? Because the republic will either be preserved --or it will fall.

Gonna be a eventful, historic year anyway it goes.

[effariwhy@theforkiverse.com]

@ben we've had so many elections in the past 10 years which could have prevented this had people shown up to vote AND used their vote strategically. People couldn't be bothered to do that. This is the police state their idiocy brought down on us. I don't expect them to save us now and the people who have been doing the right thing are exhausted. We could end this if voters would get their heads out of their asses and make a plan to show up in November. History tells us how that will go.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@freyjfreyj @ben I hate to break it to you, but your friend is an idiot.

[six_grandfathers_mountain@mastodon.social]

@PhoenixSerenity @JoeAce967 @ben
RE
#MAGA folks say...#ICE is helping make the #airports safer...just standing around & talking to each other

#WOKE folks say #Trump is making a distraction because he stopped pay for the #TSA

Stuart Stevens of the Lincoln Project says, (45sec point) ...

"an incoherent mind at work..."

@Isnotgood
Thx 4 orig Ben boost

#MSNOW Tue Mar 24 2026

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@rightsprung @ben I think you're wrong, but we'll see.

My guess is they disband the TSA and put CBP/ICE in charge of all airports.

We're going whole hog Nazi here. This isn't "practice".

That's my assessment anyway. I hope you're right, but I think you're wrong.

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@skoombidoombis @ben and being a barrier between her and voting

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@freyjfreyj @ben
I *hope* that people have seen other sources of truth and copaganda just doesn't work as well, so being in the presence of a whole bunch of heavily armed people doesn't make them feel safe.

[courtcan@mastodon.social]

@geonz @freyjfreyj @ben I'm flying to Europe this summer, and the thought of L'ICE in my hair at the airport is nothing less than terrifying.

[courtcan@mastodon.social]

@alice Yes, all of this! ️

@stonykark @ben @msbw

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@courtcan @freyjfreyj @ben yea.... I feel that. They're sayin' anybody who has to fly should be taking pictures of unmasked agents but I don't think I could be that brave

[heathen_cat@furs.social]

@ben
They don't even have to get inside the perimeter of the polling place, they can sit outside that with LRADs pointed, turn them on/up if the line of people waiting to vote isn't white enough for their liking.

[heathen_cat@furs.social]

@starlily @ben
90 day general strike.

[duckwhistle@mastodon.org.uk]

@PattyHanson @ben
I don't get the impression that tge people organising the No Kings protests think they will be enough. The function of these protests is to let everyone who thinks something needs to be done, but doesn't know what to do, know they're not alone.
The more people attending protests now, the more courage people will have for other acts of resistance.

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@kitkat_blue @ben I'm wondering if we'll even be allowed to have that. They're doing every single thing they can ramping up more and more to try to stop the vote. I'm expecting them to try to come up with some way to actually cancel it somehow. Yes that's completely unconstitutional, but a man who committed treason against the United States of America by leading a violent coup against Congress itself running for president is unconstitutional, so... Yeah...

[heathen_cat@furs.social]

@effariwhy @ben
When districts are so gerrymandered that black and Latino voters have to walk walk miles to get to the nearest polling place, people get an hour off to vote but could wait 8 hours in line to cast their ballots, and voter rolls are purged routinely by Republican governors...

There are major structural hurdles put in place to keep people from voting, and I think calling people stupid and acting as if it's an individual choice ignores that.

If you want to make sure people vote, help them get there. Offer to drive people, or watch their kids so they can wait in line. Volunteer to be a poll worker. Do something constructive instead of calling people stupid.

[kitkat_blue@mastodon.social]

@nazokiyoubinbou @ben

I feel it's pretty clear by now that none of these people are planning to go anywhere or allow their present power to be reduced, IF they can help it.

"If". That's where the rest of us come in...