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Those require executive power. It can't come from congress

I'm expecting a cut to ICE funding do that they are not staffed to launch military occupations of cities

When they are now longer in the minority, yes

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You and two buddies with rifles won't either. It takes wining Congress. Right now animal costumes which causes pepper balls to fall to the ground instead of bursting are doing more for us than guns

Its actually having a rather significant effect of greatly limiting ICE and — in the past few days — convincing the bulk of Democrats that they no longer want to fund ICE and even getting a couple dozen to support impeaching Noem.

We wont win tomorrow, but we will win over a period of years

Unfortunately, that's hard to do at scale — a small group will be outgunned by the federal government, and a large one infiltrated. People are using nonviolent civil resistance instead for now

People are very deliberately not doing that. The idea (for the moment) is to use civil resistance to limit what ICE can accomplish while not provoking a gun battle where the federal government can outgun any local group

People are not doing that because any group small enough to be trusted will be outgunned by the federal government

He is literally a Trump appointee. I don't expect him to be a liberal champion, but he does substantially represent big business. Fed independence is about whether any of the classic Republican constituencies will have any level of power outside of Trump’s whim.

The people who paid the billion dollar bribe are the ones running the show.

I expect Gary Kasparov, who wrote the article, to have tried