If masking is approved as an official policy, then the liability for the actions of any masked ICE agent should be assigned jointly to every ICE agent.

The only way to prevent this is to have the legal liability for any individual's action assigned jointly to every officer the department. You shouldn't be able to use masking as a way to avoid liability.

Widespread trials. This isn't just an issue of a few top officials. Everyone participating from leadership down to the people placing equipment purchase orders and processing timesheets need to end up behind bars.

I get what you're saying, but please don't refer to the Atlantic as the flagship publication for any kind of liberalism. It is at best a dogshit centrist rag. In reality it's a right wing propaganda outlet that runs occasional lefty academic pieces as cover.

I had this same thought. As well as the kid gloves Amon Bundy received in 2016.

Obviously, retroactively deciding a previous administration actions were invalid is bullshit. But if those are the rules, the next administration had better retroactively decide DOGE had no authority and charge them all with hacking SSI records, etc.

It's only a bizarre editorial choice if you ignore the past 40 years of NYT editorial choices.

Putin cannot defeat or destroy NATO.

But Republicans can tear it apart for him.

And they will.

This is precisely why Putin is ordering Republicans to behave this way. At this point the entire Republican party has been corrupted and co-opted by Russia.

"... for the Washington Post..." I think I see the problem.

Twitter/X is doing CSAM the right way.

By Ezra Klein.

Alexander Van Hook is confirmed 53-40 to be a District Judge of Western Louisiana. According to @senatepress.bsky.social, the Dems yeas are Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), and Peter Welch (VT). Angus King (I-ME) was also a yea.

Guess we can mark down MPR News as untrustworthy and not worth reading.

Look, there's no way to fully prevent a toddler with a gun from randomly shooting someone. But, what are we supposed to do, NOT arm every toddler with a 9mm?