What ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November.
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@JoeAce967
Unfortunately, that's not the case. I saw several news vids of travelers being interviewed at various US airports where ICE was sent. There was several MAGA interviewed & almost all of them said that they don't have a problem with ICE in airports, that ICE is helping make the airports safer & that ICE aren't a threat because they're just standing around & talking to each other.You can't cure some MAGA loyalists.
@PhoenixSerenity @JoeAce967 @ben
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#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
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This is totally a practice run
@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.
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@ben precisely. My sister said ice with their military vehicles are a common site where she lives in the greater boston area. I said they’re prepping you for martial law and to accept the lie that it’s normal and that they’re keeping you safe.
@skoombidoombis @ben and being a barrier between her and voting
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@freyjfreyj @ben It might not "be good,' but that could be a good side effect.
I think the goal was for people to feel *safer* -- these folks will protect them from those foreigners at the airport!!!
but honestly I don't think they know the posture to do that.@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. -
@freyjfreyj @ben It might not "be good,' but that could be a good side effect.
I think the goal was for people to feel *safer* -- these folks will protect them from those foreigners at the airport!!!
but honestly I don't think they know the posture to do that.@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.
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@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.
@alice Yes, all of this!
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@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 @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
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What ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November. These photos aren’t funny or incongruous; they should be giving us nightmares. This has to end now.
@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. -
@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?
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@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.
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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.
@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...
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@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.
@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.
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@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...
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...
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What ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November. These photos aren’t funny or incongruous; they should be giving us nightmares. This has to end now.
@ben it's not going to end as Americans simply can't be bothered to do so. They'll gladly take themselves and the world with them rather than do anything to stop this.
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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...
@kitkat_blue @ben Agreed, but their methods are... I don't want to say the word "sneaky" but incremental and just barely slow enough that people apparently have time to integrate them into their lives first before realizing that they just gave away another fundamental right that should have been a final line in the sand.
It won't be just all of a sudden Trump announcing tomorrow there will be no vote. They'll work their way up a bit at a time until November and then somehow make it "ok."
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What ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November. These photos aren’t funny or incongruous; they should be giving us nightmares. This has to end now.
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@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.
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@dougiec3 @freyjfreyj @ben
Isn't it interesting how much better behaved they are in the airports without their masks than they've been on the streets? (At least according to the recorded images/videos - it's easier to delete the ones that paint them in a bad light too)@Cassandra_Complex @freyjfreyj @ben
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@Cassandra_Complex @freyjfreyj @ben
They apparently have to work solo in airports where they are used to working as armed gangs in the streets.@dougiec3 @freyjfreyj @ben
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@stonykark what are you doing to help?
I've voted against this administration at every step, I'm a member of multiple activist groups, I host community events, hand out defense whistles and active reporter instructions, shut down fascist websites, admin/moderate two Fedi communities, do suicide-prevention outreach, teach folx about security and data privacy, and still drag myself out of bed to toot about cats and post my nudes for yall's entertainment.
Saying "you need to do more" to folx suffering under a dictatorship is even less useful than standing by watching it.
