Aaron Bosley

@SBakerMD @SenMikeLee The law already requires that only citizens vote. Really?

Do I understand correctly that the only obstacle to passing a no brainer law that requires US voters to be lawful citizens is the reluctance of the senate majority leader to ask for formal debate about the legislation? @SenMikeLee

@elonmusk One day what?

One day ♥️

I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.

@CalltoActivism Wow...bad optics for our military standing behind that goon.

🚨UN-F*CKING BELIEVABLE. All the DEATHS. All the protests. All the chaos will literally stop in 2 seconds if Trump gets ICE the f*ck out of Minnesota. So what does he do? He is sending Tom Homan and more goons. The chaos is the point.

Minneapolis resident: “This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane!… I’ve never protested in my life before…ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!"

Shared today by Bev Perry in the Expand Dem Values in the House and Senate Facebook group. I need to say something that's been bothering me for a while, and I'm saying it as a Marine Corps veteran who leans center-right. This isn't partisan. This is observation. We've slow-faded into accepting militarized police as normal, and nobody seems to notice or care. Even as a USMC pilot, I went through six months of infantry training as an officer before flight school. I've worn the gear. The helmet, the tactical vest, the whole kit. And I can tell you from experience, it changes you. There's a psychological shift that happens when you strap that stuff on. You feel different. You carry yourself different. You start seeing the environment differently. In the Marine Corps, that shift was appropriate because it's a combat culture and organization. But these are American streets. American citizens. And we've got law enforcement dressed like they're kicking down doors in Fallujah to serve warrants in suburbia. What happend to high standards and real policing tactics? Think Adam-12...Officers Reed and Malloy. Crisp uniforms. A revolver. A baton. High standards and professionalism. They looked like public servants because they were public servants. They de-escalated. They talked to people. They were part of the community. Now? Tactical gear, beards, ball caps, Oakley sunglasses, sleeve tattoos, and a tactical kit that would make special operators jealous. And we've turned it into a fetish. We celebrate it. We assume that because someone looks hard, they must be a professional. They're not. I loved the Marine Corps. But I'll be honest, I was also blinded by it for a while. Mission first. Unit over everything. And that mentality made sense in that context. But law enforcement doesn't get that critical examination. "Back the Blue" has become a shield against accountability. A blanket assumption that a badge plus gun equals hero. That tactical gear equals competence. It doesn't. Most people who join law enforcement aren't special operators. They're average people who desperately want to belong to something bigger than themselves. I understand that impulse deeply, it's why I joined the Marines. But wanting to belong doesn't make you qualified. Looking the part doesn't mean you can perform under pressure. And wrapping yourself in warrior aesthetics doesn't make you a warrior. Old school law enforcement represented something. Standards. Bearing. Discipline. Professionalism that was demonstrated, not costumed. A revolver and a baton meant you had to rely on your training, your words, your judgment, not overwhelming firepower. What I see now in law enforcement is the costume without the culture. The gear without the training. The authority without the accountability. Are there good people in law enforcement? Of course. I know some personally. But this reflexive "law enforcement can do no wrong" mentality is lazy, dangerous, and intellectually dishonest. A woman is dead. And before we sort ourselves into teams and start assigning blame, maybe we should ask harder questions: Why do we accept a militarized police force as normal? Why do we assume tactical gear equals tactical competence? Why have we let "Back the Blue" become a substitute for actual standards? I wore the uniform. I went through the training. I know what that gear does to your head. It shouldn't be normalized on American streets against American citizens. And we shouldn't pretend everyone wearing it is qualified to carry it. The fact that he called her a “fucking bitch” after he shot her three times should be a huge red flag for all of us.

Two unpopular opinions on the Minneapolis shooting: 1. The woman who died was at fault. She was acting erratically, inserted herself into a dangerous situation, and behaved in a way that put both herself and others at serious risk. 2. The ICE agent acted on instinct and fired too quickly. He should not have escalated to lethal force in that moment. We need full body cam footage to understand exactly what he perceived, but based on the video available, it does not appear his life was in immediate danger as the vehicle was moving away. The left is already calling this blatant murder. The right is already claiming the woman was trying to kill the agent. Neither narrative is accurate. The woman who died acted dangerously and recklessly, and the ICE agent drew and fired his weapon too fast. If both sides don’t pause the political posturing and focus on de-escalation, Minneapolis is headed toward another night of chaos just like George Floyd. ICE should temporarily pull back from the community, and leaders on the left need to clearly and forcefully call for calm and nonviolence. There’s almost no chance both of those things happen, which means this situation will likely get ugly and Minneapolis could burn again. I know this take won’t make me popular with either side but it’s just my initial thoughts on situation.

"We can do whatever we want and anyone who says we can't is a wimp!" Tell me you don't understand the balance of power principle in international relations & that you don't understand how nukes have altered pre-1945 statecraft without telling me that.This thinking leads to hell.

In 1988 Hunter S. Thompson coined the phrase "The New Dumb" (look it up). It's the thing he was most right about in his whole career. That's the world in which we live today. Which is why it makes no sense.

@Borderlands Hey @Borderlands - sad to see that the 12 days golden keys are expired already? I would have thought they would go *through* Dec 31?

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I guess he didn't want the Nobel that badly.

@DouglasKMurray doing god's work this week #mench

@elonmusk Where are the arrests?

At this point, I am 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, etc) exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you’ve ever heard by FAR. It’s not even close.

@elonmusk Extraordinary claims require actual evidence. Not sound bites.

@SBakerMD Leaner. Stronger. Better.

A Harvard university scientist recently claimed that red meat makes you fat! For those of you that have eaten a carnivore or near carnivore diet, what has been the result of you eating lots of red meat? Did you get fatter or leaner?

The bar presidents remind the nation’s 1.3 million lawyers that “the courtroom is not a theater for unsubstantiated claims.”

Happy @factoriogame expansion day. I made my kids sign contracts before they could start our run

This one is going to be difficult for Republicans who slam blue states to hear…THE FACTS 🔥

Can we get this added?

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