it reached an absurd level in austin texas well before trump became a thing; they show up to gay bars to entrap men into breaking the law with the intention of citing enough legal violations to justify shutting down the bar permanently. it’s so bad that the bars have responded by hiring off duty police because they have a chance of recognizing officers in plainclothes.

Is there a term for this kind of “our brave soldiers, their barbaric hordes” terminology? Because I’m increasingly feeling like most liberal politics can be boiled down to it

One little fact not known by non-Americans is that In the United States, immigration officers are granted full authority to operate without any warrant within a 100-mile zone from any U.S. border… they can enter in the homes of 2/3 of Americans (200 million) without any explanation!! And now in masks and without visible IDs… It is going to be fun!

The funny thing about “plainclothes officers” is that they never wear plain clothes. There is a spot that the cops like to stop and search people fairly near me and they are always painfully obvious. I had one flash his badge at me when he was wearing a giant north face jacket over a very visible stab vest the other week.