On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to use racial profiling in its militarized immigration raids across Los Angeles, halting an injunction that had barred officers from targeting Latinos based on ethnicity. The court did not explain the reason for its shadow docket order, which appeared to split 6–3 along ideological lines. In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the decision was “unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation’s constitutional guarantees,” opening the door to violent persecution of Latinos—including American citizens—by “masked agents with guns.” The majority did not respond to this extraordinary charge, perhaps because it is so obviously true.
To think the USA only just got rid of Jim Crow.
I saw this coming. The SCOTUS is already compromised.
Absolutely zero sympathy for the Latinos who drank the fucking Orange Kool-Aid and support Krasnov. None and I hope those dip shits get a taste of ICE.
The court did not explain the reason for its shadow docket order
Cool that they can just do this.
yeah, it turns out unelected, lifetime appointees with the power to interpret the law with no oversight was a bad idea.
Kavanaugh did, in a concurrence. I strongly disagree with his Opinion but at least he put words to paper. the others didn’t, so I assume the conservatives are fighting about the legal basis for their ruling.
they will have to eventually explain themselves at least, once this case makes it to the regular docket.
If they don’t have to explain themselves, then they shouldn’t expect one when the angry mob shows up at their door 🤷
It starts with Latinos, it won’t end there.
Thanks there Latino’s for Trump.
It’s up to armed communities to now protect ourselves from the federal government.
Buy guns before they start blocking access.
Become ungovernable
Sound like Americans need to start detaining the supreme court
At least no Latinos voted for Trump, right? Right?
As a brown person. Yeah this is not new, America’s mask is just off now.
What, you think people weren’t just bidding on George Zimmerman’s paintings for his artistic capacity? Incidentally, someone who would have been prime illegal ICE detainment material had he not signaled as he did to the MAGA crowd. I imagine he’s their “one good Hispanic”.
If this shitcircus was only affecting the US i wouldn’t care, but it’s not.
As an outsider I’m genuinely shocked. So much for the melting pot. :(
The fact that the conservatives didn’t bother to explain their reasoning is entirely damning.
Nazis gonna nazi.
“Because we can.”
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It’s time to purge the Supreme Court. It’s clear that they don’t give a shIt about the law or the constitution. They are the activist judges the Republicans always whined about.
I mean I think it’s time to purge the whole govt and try again. The system is clearly broken beyond repair
Yes. When the wealthy and powerful have everything and the rest have nothing the rest burn the system down and start again.
Establishment dems are not up to it even if they could win now and they cannot. We need muscular populists that can build and run a political machine, new leadership across the board.
The problem is, I believe, that a large portion of the US population likes the current cruelty and revenge based regime. They are seething with resentment at being made to feel stupid by the “intellectual elites”, backwards by the “progressives”, ignorant by the “woke”, etc and eat up the “you are right to hate those people who make you feel bad” message the christofascists are feeding them.
No one actually feels this way naturally, this is all propaganda made up by the conservatives. False grievances combined with forty years of hate radio has taught a large part of the population to hate everyone but their supposed “in” group.
You don’t think that the red hats are seeting with resentment at being made to feel stupid by the “intellectual elites”? Why do they complain about the “intellectual elites” then? Why do they complain about the “woke” or the “progressive”? They are seething with resentment about being told that their intolerant, backwards, racist beliefs are bad. That’s why they love the cruelty. They love Trump because he’s spiteful and cruel. I watched a video where Jennie Gage, a former Mormon, white supremacist, Trumper said, “I loved Trump because he was mean.”
Let’s be clear, I am not going to blame a large portion of the population for being lied to. I listened to years of Rush Limbaugh (not willingly) so I know where their made-up grievances come from. I have watched countless hours of Fox News, I see how they spin information.
Simply put, propaganda works. They are using the best of psychological to manipulate people. Do I hate it? Yes I do.
They have indoctrinated so many people I know and loved and turned them into haters who parrot their garbage without any critical thought.
Let’s be clear, I am not going to blame a large portion of the population for being lied to.
I’m not blaming them for being lied to. I’m blaming them for not doing the absolute minimum critical thinking to realize that they are being lied to. We’ve all heard the lies. Tens of millions of people listened to those lies, thought about them critically, and came to the conculsion that they were weapons grade bullshit.
Completely agree. There was a reason conservatives threw a shit fit two decades ago when high schoolers were going to be taught critical thinking skills. They fought tooth and nail to prevent it from happening.
Critical thinking skills and the skills of forming your own opinion and defending it with facts and logic should be taught in grade school. Instead most students are not introduced this until college.
Now you know why the right hates colleges so much and are so desperate to have their ideology taught as factual. They can’t have anyone using critical thinking skills otherwise their house of cards will fall down.
People are mad and know they are being screwed if not by whom. The right is misdirecting their anger, while the Democrats do not even try to direct it playing the currents the right set.
With real leadership, it would make public opinion. It would Channel the anger towards its actual sources.
By allowing these Democrats to be the opposition we have surrendered the field and waste our efforts on doomed strategies.
People want reform, if we do not give it to them, the right will.
They give them the illusion of change. They tell them that they are changing things but they’re actually taking things to their absurd extreme. We’re going to publish the democrats by selecting a theocratic autocrat is the same mistake that Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan made. How did that turn out for them? That’s the future of the US.
We already knew continually selling the party as we are better than the other guys while constantly ratcheting to the right was not enough to win elections.
The right is offering Solutions and we know the voters do not know any better. We are not, that we is everybody not supporting the right wing.
It is not a new phenomena that voters have been seduced to the dark side and led into alternate realities. Not just the right wing either. The Democratic sheep are just as responsible for what is happening due to my effort mentioned arguments.
They knew what we were facing and they refused to change. Now the political monster they declined to stop will destroy them, if Democrats were stealing elections for decades systematically, they would have to be punished.
Any assurances they have gotten from Republican power Brokers that that is just performative mean nothing.
I predict indictments will come down this time of the year in 2027 on the Democrats for bogus election rigging charges.
It isn’t the people who refuse to change. Given understanding and choice most people would choose socialism (not the bullshit socialist boogieman sold by the rich and powerful but actual socialism) over 0.1% of people owning everything and everyone else barely surviving. The people need to tear down the system, to take back all the money that has been stolen by the 0.1% and to rebuild the society to benefit the workers, not the wealthy. I read that if wealth were distributed evenly in the US that every person would have half a million dollars of personal wealth.
Anyway to do this legally?
Being legal doesn’t make something right. The fascists have so stacked the system with Supreme Court and Circuit Court justices who don’t have a damn about the constitution that it would take a generation of concerted effort to correct IF they weren’t fighting tooth and nail to protect the advantage and obstruct change. The only way to really solve this problem is to burn the system down and rebuild it as what it was intended to be. Unrestricted capitalism has failed the people. It’s time for the people to tear it down and rebuildd to their advantage.
Sounds like you’re on board for the revolution right away, but it is legitimate to ask if we can fix the problems of this Supreme Court within the system we currently exist in.
I’m not sure whether some of these powers are executive or congressional, but past presidents have talked about adding more justices to the court, and I’ve also heard mention of removing lifetime appointments. I think the first is an executive power and the second is congressional? I’m also not sure how this specific situation can be dealt with now that the ruling has been made, but it sure seems like this court is disregarding precedence left and right… Sorry, I’m not a legal scholar, but I’m also interested in the answer to this question.
It will be VERY difficult to fix the Supreme Court without burning it to the ground. Trump appointed young, right wing extremists who will likely serve for 40 or 50 years. If one or more of the old conservatives retired over the next few months he will do the same thing again, likely someone who is even worse. Impeaching a Supreme Court Justice requires a 2/3 majority vote in the Senate which is stacked to favour the Republicans by the ridiculous electoral college. The chances of reforming the Supreme Court in the next lifetime are approaching zero.
Reform, true reform, will involve fixing the Supreme Court, elections, and education but also regulation, banking, and wealth inequality. The Republicans have for years obstructed when the Democrats were in power and lied and cheated and stretched the law while they were in power. It’s a one way valve. The democrats can’t do anything because of Republican obstructionism and they don’t seem to be able to stop the back sliding when they are in opposition.
I would love to see a government made up of AOCs, and Kat Abughazalehs, Zohran Mamdanis, and Jasmine Crocketts but even if you end up with a government of those people the Republicans who are left and the Republican governors will obstruct change for a generation at least.
In order to effect real change you would need at least 3/4 of the states to be solidly in Democratic hands with 2/3 of Congress in Democratic hands.
People put out these ideas, but I rarely see who or how they’d like them to be implemented. Who would you want to initiate the purge? Any democrat president fine?
I’d be fine with that. After all, as per SCOTUS it’s currently legal for presidents to do just about anything they want and be legally immune from prosecution. I assume this includes dropping traitor judges into black sites. Maybe the new SCOTUS won’t make stupid rulings like giving presidents the power of monarchs, and some reasonable laws can be (re-)enacted.
Expanding the court is the generally anticipated way to do that
There are several examples from antiquity that show that the people will solve the problem of the government doesn’t.
The vast majority of the time, the replacement ends up being worse. It’s tricky business overthrowing a government, and the ones that end up on top are usually the most bloodthirsty and least ethical.
Found george orwell’s alt account!
Joking, but with organization we could wrest control from these clowns if we got real strong leadership.
If we could organize, we wouldn’t need a violent revolution.
Have no fear, organizing to oppose the establishment is quite violent. The labor movement had a lot of fights. From beating the shit out of the police in Minneapolis in the 1920s to the coal miners of Appalachia to the UAW.
That is why I think Sean Fain would be a good presidential candidate. He is willing to fight and honestly.
I thought we were talking about violently overthrowing a government, not violent protest.
Also, violence in protests is only helpful when the common perception is that the violence was instigated by the state. That’s why states use agent provocateurs to incite violence. They know it works to their advantage.
Yes. Revolutions are almost always bloody and the result is almost always worse. The people, though, will have a taste for revolution and the second comes easier.
I assume you are pretty confident that you’ll survive the purge in-between. Too bad it won’t be true for everyone, but I’m sure that’s a sacrifice you are willing to make.
That was childish.
And these tough-guy calls for violent revolution aren’t? Please.
There’s a mechanism for impeaching Supreme Court justices, which would apply to the six criminals.
Or, just ignore them and start a parallel court. If they won’t do their job, why keep listening to them?
Every accusation is a confession
This is tyranny. Literal and explicit, without exaggeration.
Understand that and act accordingly.
The court did not address the worst rights violations: the ice agents refused to return the victims’ Real ID (driver’s license) and they probably copied his phone.
Meaning after taking his ID they can then indefinitely incarcerate him for not having ID. They can also prevent him from driving because he does not have a driver’s license.
And they added his data to a criminal database along with all of his social contacts and communication.
The Supreme Court is a joke but the clowns are not really funny, more like sad and pathetic.
As it does not really matter what happens as long as “our side” wins, republican voters won’t give a fuck. Also does not help that they are a bunch of stupid bigots that will cheer on this “decision”.
I bet all the latinos that voted for Trump are thrilled.
Man, the community can be incredibly dumb. I just had a coworker ask me yesterday for advice because one of her friends is being harassed by a ‘boss’ and can’t say anything because one of the threats he has on her is about her immigration status. Then during the rest of the day, she’s making pro trump comments.
The judges are owned by the federalist society, groomed and chosen from law school for siding with the party and the half century plans to end the republic in all but name for a one party plutocratic state.
Prez just hijacked the party, and whipped them into line again recently disparraging the very association that put them there.
The in crowd is rightfully worried about getting thrown out of the club. They also probably have some scandals on these judges the society holds to encourage their allegiance.
Much as the fitting historical parrallel, the borgia pope in the 16th century, the one machivelli based his prince on, the spanish pope nominated cardinals that he had compromised with prostitutes, and compromised existing ones.
We need focus on the federalist society, they are calling the shots or at least making the draft picks. They are also up to expanding the same secret society model to other areas, a federalist society for everything as Leonard Leo sold it, and got gifted I forget a billion or several from some chicago magnate dickhead in his old age, ul-something, ulrich maybe idk.
For us it begins at the grassroots. We don’t have billionaires willing to create a national organization. So form small liberal groups, and then network them together. I’m serious. I started a group for queer men last year, now I am taking over the entire progressive scene in my state by creating an overarching organization that connects over a dozen key players (ACLU, Prides, migrant and trans organizations). If we did this in every area, and then networked THEM… well shit we’d have a base of power and even fundraising capabilities. IDK what else to do.
That’s awesome.
Thank you.
That is exactly what we need. I live in Deep Red country and I can tell you most people agree on the problems Society faces. We have just been led into different causes and solutions to those problems. With people cooperating on what they agree on, the divisive culture War politics would hardly register with the majority.
First and foremost, people want to be able to make enough money to live a dignified life, and do not support allowing the rich to steal their lunch. They also will support equal rights by and large in an honest accounting of the problem.
We really need such a sort of citizens Union like we are speaking of sort of here, but also a Consumers Union to cooperate on the goods we are sold, and more than anything we need a sort of investors Union, where people can’t pull their money to create companies that are not run solely on the profit motive in areas where the private sector is unwilling and unable to provide for society’s needs. Investors could be offered a fair rate of return while still working towards other goals as well. Especially like Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare and internet cooperatives, alternative energy, etc.
I would like to see a university where people could invent new things while learning in conjunction with others where they could get a share of any innovations that resulted from it being developed by one of these benefit corps. on the investors union.
Instead of throwing obscene amounts of money down the drain to these bloated corrupted educational institutions, that money could be used to actually do things.
It is a little late in the game for all of these aspirational goals but it will never be easier than it is now despite 20 years ago being the right time for these.
When the alien anthropologists find the burnt out husk of our world in the (not so far) future and try to figure out what the hell happened, I hope they find Sotomayor’s writings and realize not everyone was batshit crazy.
I hope they find my memes
People will study the art of your memes.
