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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social

ICE agents view themselves as an expressly political goon squad in service of an expressly political project. When Dems get into power they need to understand this and treat ICE like a political opposition group in need of reconstruction, because that's what it is.

aug 16, 2025, 5:21 pm • 1,084 308

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Enyalois @enyalois.bsky.social

Sadly we know how the story goes. They'll depart a record number of people while being called weak on the border.

aug 16, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social

I’m for abolishing ICE, not reconstituting it.

aug 16, 2025, 6:36 pm • 6 0 • view
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ofpope.bsky.social @ofpope.bsky.social

*destruction. ICE is only 22 years old, the whole thing can be abolished, everyone in it blacklisted and prosecuted when possible.

aug 16, 2025, 6:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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Joanne Walsh @rareamphibean.bsky.social

All this robocop cosplay is “DEI” for guys too psychotic to wear a real badge. Are they the the same ones who are terrified of cities? Seems like they can’t go anywhere with a thick tactical layer and plenty of buddies.

aug 16, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
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Joanne Walsh @rareamphibean.bsky.social

*without

aug 16, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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pkw2.bsky.social @pkw2.bsky.social

A very ugly "American".

aug 16, 2025, 11:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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Oshka @oshkamaloshka.bsky.social

Baby fascists always blame the liberals

aug 28, 2025, 4:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social

We can send them all to get deprogrammed on farms, take the cultural revolution they so want and give it to them good and hard.

aug 16, 2025, 6:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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Head Engineer - Blinky Light Dept. @cppilgram.bsky.social

ICE must be demolished, nothing short of that will make immigrants safe. You can't reform an agency that was created with the goal of enacting partisan violence against minorities. They put up zero resistance to becoming a private army for fascists, in fact they assumed the job enthusiastically.

aug 17, 2025, 12:27 am • 2 0 • view
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Deb @deblamb.bsky.social

😡😡😡😡😡😡

aug 16, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Stankvicious @stankvicious.bsky.social

Disband them. Transfer their budget to universal healthcare.

aug 16, 2025, 6:27 pm • 29 0 • view
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drsmutt.bsky.social @drsmutt.bsky.social

Dismantle and punish bad actors.

aug 16, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dock Ellis @dockellis10.bsky.social

“Defund the police” was such a winner last time. How about “Stop the Gestapo” this time round?

aug 16, 2025, 6:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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Leo Smith @leosmith.bsky.social

This time we need to do reconstruction right.

aug 16, 2025, 5:59 pm • 5 1 • view
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Kurt Bassuener @kurtbassuener.bsky.social

True that

aug 17, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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DrMindFullofIsItDeadYet @soulscompanion.bsky.social

It needs another name, like Rebirth or Transformation, and everybody gets to take responsibility for it.

aug 17, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Tiny Rebel @jwilsontcsc.bsky.social

Abolishing ICE is the moderate position. cc: @gregdoucette.bsky.social

aug 16, 2025, 6:29 pm • 11 0 • view
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ofpope.bsky.social @ofpope.bsky.social

probably a bunch of people have said it by now: the radical position involves a wall and a ditch.

aug 16, 2025, 6:58 pm • 3 0 • view
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sundevil.1984 @sundevil-1984.bsky.social

Nuremberg trials are the moderate position. The extreme position is to treat them just how they treat us. Nazis have no rights other than due process, they forfeit the rest by being nazis.

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aug 17, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
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grizzo 🦦 @grizzo13.bsky.social

in need of *destruction

aug 16, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Suzanner @susersuzanner.bsky.social

They need to defund ICE on day 1

aug 16, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
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cowboybanjobiker.bsky.social @cowboybanjobiker.bsky.social

The Gestapo.

aug 16, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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Canadian Bacon 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @canadianbacon66.bsky.social

2A

aug 16, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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DEI Shaniqua @mediocrecoder.bsky.social

They didn’t do it with cops, why do it with ice?

aug 16, 2025, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bier Bua @litigator53.bsky.social

Do they have anyone working for them that weighs less than 300 pounds? Where do they find these a—holes?

aug 16, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social

They will need to investigate and prosecute any ICE agent who has violated the law. No more of the Obama fuckery that allowed the CIA to skate for torture under Bush. If they can't act like grownups, the Dems will become the enemy.

aug 17, 2025, 10:40 am • 0 0 • view
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Jim @jimc5.bsky.social

Fire them all and start over

aug 16, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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jasonwoods.bsky.social @jasonwoods.bsky.social

If/when the current regime is toppled (by whatever means) ICE agents need to be publicly outted and barred from any public service jobs in perpetuity.

aug 16, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mary @maryhruth.bsky.social

When Dems get into power, they need to completely defund ICE. Period.

aug 16, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
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dustin @dustinheron.bsky.social

Abolish the police includes ICE

aug 16, 2025, 6:30 pm • 7 0 • view
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Into thin air @inbaudwetrust.com

Starts with ICE at this point

aug 16, 2025, 6:38 pm • 9 0 • view
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Mister Dingers @misterdingers.bsky.social

I say we abolish ICE and hand these lawbreakers over to the ICC for crimes against humanity.

aug 16, 2025, 7:45 pm • 1 0 • view
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ch5555-z.bsky.social @ch5555-z.bsky.social

ICE agents are a bunch of uneducated mooks trying to feel important. Petty tyrants and losers.

aug 16, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jack Pondit @jackpondit.bsky.social

Close ICE, investigate everyone involved, and prosecute everyone who broke laws.

aug 16, 2025, 5:45 pm • 54 2 • view
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sundevil.1984 @sundevil-1984.bsky.social

We the People cannot wait, we need to do that right now. We need popular revolutionary tribunals for these crimes, and we will have them.

aug 17, 2025, 12:32 am • 0 0 • view
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Oak @oakelm.bsky.social

There may be explicit threats against people they know are American in their communications.

aug 16, 2025, 6:39 pm • 8 0 • view
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sundevil.1984 @sundevil-1984.bsky.social

There almost certainly are. This is war, beyond a reasonable doubt, and California and aligned States and Nations should use the full power of their cyber forensics capabilities to spy on the fascists to collect and document evidence of their crimes.

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aug 17, 2025, 12:34 am • 2 0 • view
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Oak @oakelm.bsky.social

Too far. Wouldn’t encourage that stuff in your shoes or put it on social media.

aug 17, 2025, 1:46 am • 0 0 • view
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sundevil.1984 @sundevil-1984.bsky.social

They shouldn't do what they are doing. We should stop them now. bsky.app/profile/jeff...

aug 17, 2025, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view
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Oak @oakelm.bsky.social

Would stand a better chance getting the board of Fox to convince Trump to deescalate by appealing to their interests. They may present certain things as fundamental beliefs but it seems more like an image they project for the brand. Wouldn’t need to sacrifice anything or one that way.

aug 17, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
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sundevil.1984 @sundevil-1984.bsky.social

All the people pulling the strings must be held to account. The board of Fox is criminally complicit in the conspiracy, as are many more. There will be popular tribunals. There is no other option now.

aug 17, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
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Oak @oakelm.bsky.social

Keep this stuff in mind. bsky.app/profile/acce...

aug 17, 2025, 2:02 am • 1 0 • view
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sundevil.1984 @sundevil-1984.bsky.social

Who said what now?

aug 17, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
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sundevil.1984 @sundevil-1984.bsky.social

I am not afraid. I can defend myself in court, or in the streets, whatever they want to do. 🥊

aug 17, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
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RandomActPG🇨🇦 @randomactpg.bsky.social

Might as well just all wear brown shirts and get it over with

aug 16, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Polly Andrée @exmemoriam.bsky.social

I see no indication that Dems will ever be in power again.

aug 16, 2025, 6:38 pm • 1 0 • view
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hquain @hquain.bsky.social

They are behaving like "unlawful combatants" and should be treated as such.

aug 18, 2025, 2:09 am • 0 0 • view
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Neuroics @neuroics.bsky.social

When this nightmare is over, I don't want any Mandela-esque reconciliation trials, nor Obama-esque bank forgiveness. Those were good, but in the end they didn't change much the behaviors of the perpetrators. I want the Nuremberg trials for ICE. They were effective in the short *and* long run.

aug 18, 2025, 4:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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loves2write.bsky.social @loves2write.bsky.social

ICE needs to be abolished, the majority of its agents terminated, & the rest appointed to CBP & put behind desks helping immigrants with their paperwork.

aug 16, 2025, 6:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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ofpope.bsky.social @ofpope.bsky.social

And the definition of "terminated" is on the table.

aug 16, 2025, 6:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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loves2write.bsky.social @loves2write.bsky.social

“Terminated” is just a more professional term than “fired,” nothing more.

aug 16, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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ofpope.bsky.social @ofpope.bsky.social

😉

aug 16, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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NorCalDawg @norcaldawg.bsky.social

Not good enough. These people shouldn’t be walking our streets.

aug 16, 2025, 8:02 pm • 1 0 • view
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Double Mustache @benderatl.bsky.social

If/when demand get power; ice should be disbanded and every member should be put on a terrorist watch list and no fly lists.

aug 16, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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exposurejb.bsky.social @exposurejb.bsky.social

Dont just watch the unfit cowards confession in this second portion of the video captured. Make sure you watch/witness the initial contact as progression into normalized unhinged brutality and violence is unleashed on another human being that was working now unable to walk/hold up his head RISE

aug 16, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Gordon Vincent He/Him @gordonvincent.bsky.social

No. They are explicitly a Terrorist Organization. They need arrest, indictment, and life in Gitmo. No excuses, no exceptions, no yeahbutts.

aug 16, 2025, 6:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social

Just fire them

aug 16, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mark @longmontlimey.bsky.social

Be shame if their car and van tires got spiked while they are violently accosting innocent people. Of course we don’t condone that at all….. a.co/d/28NakA2

aug 16, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
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DubbaEwwTeeEff @dubbaewwteeeff.bsky.social

Reconstruction is really underselling it. Denazification. Disbandment. Prosecution. Truth and Reconciliation. Constitutional amendments limiting POTUS and reforming SCOTUS, setting federal redistricting rules, and abolishing the electoral college so this shit can't happen so easily next time.

aug 16, 2025, 6:38 pm • 2 0 • view
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twitterrefugee63.bsky.social @twitterrefugee63.bsky.social

There is no reconstructing this. This organization needs to be eviscerated and every single one of these poorly educated fascists imprisoned

aug 16, 2025, 6:30 pm • 2 0 • view
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Eric Odinn @ericodinn.bsky.social

Every ice person “hired” during these years must be fired and prosecuted.

aug 16, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social

Do all these ICE goons have sex with children too, or do they just work for a guy who does?

aug 16, 2025, 6:34 pm • 1 0 • view
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Metro North @metronorthcapital.bsky.social

Going to have to clean slate immigration and customs after this clusterfuck is over

aug 16, 2025, 6:29 pm • 2 0 • view
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darthburkie.bsky.social @darthburkie.bsky.social

Abolish ICE and DHS. Clean out the border patrol root and stem. Direct the money to the immigration process. Burn down the camps and salt the earth.

aug 16, 2025, 7:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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HudsonRiverCroc @hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov they are right

aug 16, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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jeezusno.bsky.social @jeezusno.bsky.social

Pew pew to the dick

aug 16, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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dmtcyt.bsky.social @dmtcyt.bsky.social

fire them all. hire only those willing to serve the constitution. make penalties of breaking that oath severe.

aug 16, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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Nice Footpaws @ionotter.bsky.social

"Reconstruction" So long as that involves termination (at the very least) and prosecution (at best) of the existing criminal elements under current employment, then sure? Go through the agency with a manure shovel, then build it back up with decent humans.

aug 16, 2025, 7:58 pm • 1 0 • view
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Shawn "Smith" Peirce @silversmith1.bsky.social

And make sure to hold all those in ICE guilty of crimes fully & thoroughly accountable. Which means many of those ICE monsters may end up in cells they previously put others into.

aug 16, 2025, 6:34 pm • 4 0 • view
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4happypplonly.bsky.social @4happypplonly.bsky.social

Wait until your opportunity to play bad cop lands you in jail. In court without money to pay a lawyer. A family that shamefully avoids you after sharing in the benefits of the dirty money. That's what your future holds.

aug 16, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dennis Maxwell @dmax12345.bsky.social

Abolition, not reconstruction. ICE is, as an institution, unsalvageable. Everyone needs to go. We do need an agency that can enforce immigration laws and more importantly assist in legal immigration and naturalization (seems familiar — maybe rebuild INS?), but burn ICE to the fucking ground.

aug 16, 2025, 6:37 pm • 2 0 • view
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Dennis Maxwell @dmax12345.bsky.social

Furthermore, ICE delenda est.

aug 16, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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DwntwnT @dwntwnt.bsky.social

how does anyone think they will be in the majority again? insurrection was already attempted once, are we supposed to think now that after all of the avenues they had set up to cheat then, that it will be less than that now that they are in the majority??

aug 16, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dog Funeral @dog-funeral.bsky.social

Best they'll do is expand ICE funding.

aug 16, 2025, 6:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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Darby Shaw's Ghost @darbys-lament.bsky.social

Hoping the Anonymous crowd is utilizing face-recognition tech to build binders on these jackboot lickspittles. We need accountability and consequences.

aug 16, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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briancromulent.bsky.social @briancromulent.bsky.social

Then their candidates need to make that crystal clear in the election so there’s no backsliding or pussyfooting around

aug 16, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social

If people think it's something how the courts are empowering an executive over a pliant congress, wait till they endorse the executive over a Dem majority trying to fight back.

aug 16, 2025, 5:28 pm • 2 0 • view
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Smedley Darlington Butler Warned You @sdbwarnedyou.bsky.social

ICE needs to be pulled out by the roots, burnt to ashes and the ground salted to prevent them from ever rising again.

aug 16, 2025, 7:30 pm • 2 1 • view
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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social

Not reconstruction. Public excoriation and criminal prosecution for kidnapping and human trafficking.

aug 17, 2025, 12:04 am • 1 0 • view
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David in Spanish (Dahveed) @davitivan.bsky.social

Not reconstruction, elimination. Out of the job on the first day dems have the power to do it Confiscate their pensions and 401k’s, release everyone in ICE detention and us the money to pay them reparations

aug 16, 2025, 6:30 pm • 17 0 • view
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social

We've got the road map now. Feed ICE into the wood chipper, USAID style. It can be wiped out in days.

aug 16, 2025, 7:10 pm • 12 1 • view
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sundevil.1984 @sundevil-1984.bsky.social

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Tonya J @tlsjames.bsky.social

Absolutely this!

aug 16, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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napoleon-the-pig.bsky.social @napoleon-the-pig.bsky.social

Day one they need to fire everyone employed by ICE, disband it, and bar anyone who has worked for it since Jan 25 from any Fed job unless cleared in an investigation, then open a broad criminal investigation into the entire operation.

aug 16, 2025, 7:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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Tech Broligarch @techbroligarch.bsky.social

So, in other words, nothing will be done.

aug 16, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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BlueYankeeClifford @mdclifford.bsky.social

Uncover your faces, you fucking cowards! If you had legal warrants, you could knock on the immigrant’s door and hand it to him, arrest and take him to local jail to be booked and given a phone call. Cowardly POS!!💩💩💩💩

aug 16, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mark Buchanan @markabuchanan.bsky.social

Liberals ruined it? Is this dude a FOX News brainwashed fascist?

aug 16, 2025, 8:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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V @imthewalruz.bsky.social

USAID was eliminated by executive fiat, ICE can be too

aug 16, 2025, 7:01 pm • 5 0 • view
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Casper Key @casperkey.bsky.social

or deconstruction

aug 16, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mullins Here @mullinshere.bsky.social

ICE has no credibility now in immigration and Customs. Disband the entire thing; we need a new agency with a completely different structure, staff, hiring requirements, and strategies. The "culture" of ICE is toxic as it stands, and simply removing "bad apples" or changing parties won't fix it.

aug 16, 2025, 6:31 pm • 2 0 • view
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M/V Paul R. Tregurtha (Truck Fump) @themightygk.bsky.social

You seem to think there will be free elections in the future. Why?

aug 16, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social

There will be elections. They will be less free and fair than they have been. But they can still be won.

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M/V Paul R. Tregurtha (Truck Fump) @themightygk.bsky.social

Of course there will be elections. We need public officials. Again, why would you think they will ever be free or even approaching fair?

aug 16, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Audrey @audreygv.bsky.social

How are ruining America? By drinking a. Cup of coffee at a cafe? Doing our job as a delivery driver?

aug 16, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Crazy Hair Large Forehead @beneathacanopy.bsky.social

#NoGestapo

aug 16, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kauai Arts @kauaiarts.bsky.social

So….pigs.

aug 16, 2025, 7:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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segsig.bsky.social @segsig.bsky.social

No those gestapo agents need to be put on trial when this is over

aug 16, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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Adrienne Maxwell 🇺🇸🆘 @amaxwell.bsky.social

ICE now employs every loser who couldn’t pass the tests to get into the police academy or military. Lil boys from the 60’s who played with GI Joes and some from the 80’s who played “call of duty” in their basements. Are they even being trained or are they just handed a gun and a neck gator?

aug 16, 2025, 6:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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Paul Below @paulbelow.bsky.social

Best thing to do would be to just shut ICE down entirely. Let customs and border patrol deal with the border.

aug 16, 2025, 8:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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Brandon @goldensama.bsky.social

Fuck “reconstruction”. ICE must be completely dismantled and destroyed and the agents who participated in these atrocities must be fired and prosecuted.

aug 16, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social

And all those ICE employees must be forbidden from holding office or working as cops or with children.

aug 16, 2025, 9:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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sfineville.bsky.social @sfineville.bsky.social

Cowards with guns and zero oversight

aug 16, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social

DeMAGAfication will need to resemble the denazification effort in postwar Germany. And that will likely require a revision of the Bill of Rights, if not a new Constitution with antifascist protections built-in, much like the Allies required of both Germany and Japan.

aug 16, 2025, 7:41 pm • 2 0 • view
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Cory Tusar @corytusar.bsky.social

Burn ICE to the fucking ground.

aug 16, 2025, 5:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com

Melt them down…

aug 16, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view