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In a dramatic incident captured on video, U.S. Department of Homeland Security police Wednesday handcuffed one of Rep. Jerry Nadler aides in the congressmember's Manhattan office, which is in the same federal office building as an immigration courthouse.

In the video, which was shared with Gothamist and filmed by a person who was monitoring activity in immigration court, DHS officers entered Nadler’s district office and accused staff members of “harboring rioters.” A Nadler staffer is seen crying and being handcuffed. Another officer is at a door trying to enter a private area of the office while a staffer asks for a warrant.

DHS later said in a statement that “one individual” — the woman seen being handcuffed — had blocked police from performing a security check they intended to do based on information there were protesters in the lawmaker’s office. Later that day, protesters gathered outside of the federal building, demonstrating against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

I don’t have a lot more to say about this other than the New York Democratic Party, other than AOC, Tish James and a couple of others, need to resign or be primaried. Just pathetic.

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Scott H1 year ago

Jeffries is basically saying "Who do we have working on this? Top men. Top...men."

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Paul W.1 year ago

This, x1000

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

Of note at Digby's place, trojan horses are popular:

"Let’s note that Ukraine does not have a monopoly on asymmetric tactics (Politico):

Who set fire to the Marywilska 44 shopping mall in Poland last year? In May, authorities in Warsaw announced they now know the answer, and that the perpetrators were ordinary civilians recruited by Russia.

The arrangement is very on trend. The Kremlin has been using freelancers to carry out dirty deeds across Europe with increasing frequency — and those freelancers can be anyone. The strategy is as sinister as it is effective. It’s also a law enforcement nightmare.

Sabotage in Germany against hundreds of private cars in 2024 appeared to be carried out by political activists. Police later found they were one-off, gig attacks “committed by various small-time criminals who were recruited by a Russian agent on the messaging app Viber. The agent had promised — and delivered — payment of €100 per car, one of the suspects told the police.”

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C P1 year ago

Used to be they had to go to all the trouble of finding, recruiting, training, sheltering, etc, a "revolutionary cell" of a couple dozen people in every country they wanted to target who had just the right ideological profile combined with the right personality. Red Army Faction, Italian Red Brigades, Japanese Red Army, Action Directe.

Nowdays, they practically just put out an ad on Linkedin.

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C P1 year ago

"Mr. Morris... WHAT IN HELL GOES ON IN NEW YORK??"

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Tam R1 year ago

I saw a blurb the other day that ICE is using 1099 contractors. Anyone else see anything about this?

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

Yes. It's like they're tossing out badges to any psycho who wants to be deputized.

I don't see how we're gonna vote or legislate our way out of this but I'll try harder to envision a peaceful resolution.

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

We should take a page from the Ukraine trojan horse playbook and infiltrate their ranks.

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Tam R1 year ago

I don’t know what to do. I think we have to put our bodies in between.

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

That's my point but have you seen my comment below about San Diego?

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Tam R1 year ago

I don’t think we get through this without injury

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

I agree 100% there will be injuries. I just hope they're offensive as well as defensive. The only way to deal with full grown adult bullies is to make 'em spit their Chiclets. I just hope we're not cowed into submission as a nation if/when shit gets real. It's not easy to stay brave and persistent in the face of masked, militant thug warlords.

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John S.1 year ago

I also loved how in that same appearance, Jeffries predicted that Trump’s shitty bill wouldn’t pass the Senate. Republicans will literally vote for that piece of shit just to spite Democrats.

Jeffries should stop gazing into his crystal ball and start dealing with the present.

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Kay W.1 year ago

I don't have any particular beef with Jeffries - I think he's more effective than Schumer, for example, but I do think it was a mistake to have both Dem congressional leaders come out of the NY Dem Party. Democrats are kind of in retreat in NY, the disaster that is Eric Adams, the fact that some of the most virulent far Right players come out of NY, Cuomo re-appearing like a bad penny.

Ugh. I just wish we weren't so skewed towards NY Dems. Weak.

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John S.1 year ago

Effective leadership requires some charisma. Our current leaders have as much charisma as a ball of lint.

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Scott H1 year ago

More effective that Schumer is damning with faint praise.

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

I can't say more in public but I'm not intimidated, I'm enraged - and that's when things can get crazy in my immediate vicinity. At a trip to Walmart the other day, I noticed a distinct surge in the number of POC in my neck of the woods. Are they fleeing to here in an effort to lay low? There are a lot of places to do so here, without internet or cell service.

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

This is why my avatar is Harley Quinn.