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THE PREVIOUS POST IS A VALUABLE RESOURCE. Tumblr user @leebrontide has organized many articles into a masterpost. It will arm you to:

Have receipts in your pocket — To respond to anyone who spreads bullshit about supporting ICE

Contact your senator — Tell them not to support the $10 billion funding bill for ICE, even if it means a govt shutdown on Jan 30, no matter how long the shutdown lasts.

The masterpost is organized by receipts to:

Refute “there must be a good reason for ICE’s actions”

Appeal to people who value child welfare (the “think of the children” crowd)

Make the Second Amendment/NRA fans think twice

Appeal to folks who are scared and want safety (the “law and order” crowd)

Debunk the YouTube bullshit abt how this is all due to child daycare fraud

Clearly show the MN resistance is not “fringe terrorists” who are resisting “legal law enforcement.”

So please reblog this and @leebrontide 's post (right above this one).

And then contact your senator, R or D and tell them to NOT PASS HR 7147 funding ICE. The Senate is already resisting this bill; your voice will stiffen their spines.

You wanna know how to stop the Cheeto? This is how it begins: His overreaching, your support against it.

"Liberalism begins with a simple but revolutionary recognition: human beings are fallible, disagreement is inevitable, and yet we must somehow organize society together. Every other political philosophy tries to solve this problem by eliminating it."

"Liberalism does something different—it builds systems that work because people disagree, not despite their disagreement."

"It's fundamentally about how we know things and how we organize knowledge in societies. The political arrangements—democracy, constitutional government, individual rights—flow from deeper commitments about truth and reasoning."

"Liberalism is not progressivism... conservatism... libertarianism... socialism... it provides the framework within which all these other philosophies must operate."

The Anti-Liberal Assault "The danger isn't that they disagree with particular policies. The danger is that they reject entire framework of makes peaceful disagreement possible."

The Stakes "Here’s what we stand to lose: not just particular political arrangements, but the capacity for democratic reasoning itself. The ability to organize societies where people can disagree productively rather than destructively."

The Defense "Defending liberalism requires more than voting for particular candidates or supporting particular policies. It requires recognizing that the framework is more important than any particular outcome the framework might produce. The test isn’t whether you support the right policies—it’s whether you support the conditions that make democratic reasoning about policies possible."

The Choice "We face a choice that will determine not just what kind of policies we have, but what kind of beings we remain. Do we preserve the framework that allows conscious creatures to reason together across difference? Or do we surrender to forces that promise more efficient solutions through the elimination of democratic accountability?"