Did you know that ICE pepper sprayed a sitting US Senator yesterday?
Not if you get your news from the New York Times, you don't.
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Thanks.
Sadly, this is not surprising.
@mastodonmigration I do get some news from the New York Times, and I would draw your attention to the fourth paragraph of this story: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/nyregion/sherrill-ice-delaney-hunger-strike.html
Talk about burying the lede!
@mastodonmigration Did they, though? Isn't the bigger story the one in the headline and the subhead: the protest itself and the classic overreaction by authorities? He was in the crowd, evidently not singled out by the goons the way Alex "Jose" Padilla famously was.
@mastodonmigration I’m no apologist for the New York Times, but the narrative of “BUT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA” is tiring, and inaccurate. Support the media who report this stuff. Including - yes - the New York Times.
Nonsense. The complicity of the New York Times in this catastrophe is a major issue, and the fact that they buried what is a huge story in the middle of another story a day later does not win them any points. In fact, it is even worse, because they effectively normalize these actions by giving them such light treatment. If Lindsay Graham had been pepper sprayed during a Biden administration it would be front page news for a month.
@mastodonmigration You’re clearly reading a different “failing” New York Times to me.
I wasn’t there; but my reading of that matter is that a senator was directly inserting himself in the way between ICE and protestors; and I don’t see a suggestion that “he was sprayed”, rather that he was affected by the pepper spray being sprayed, which is a rather different thing. I don’t know. Nor do you.
Anyway - once more, journalists and media people who are reporting this, in any fashion, deserve your support. It’s lazy to claim they didn’t cover it when what you really mean is “they didn’t cover it in a way that I would have liked”.
@mastodonmigration do leopards still eat faces?!
@mastodonmigration
USA Today had more coverage than the NYT (looking at the NYT article cited by @vivo):
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/25/andy-kim-pepper-sprayed-after-visiting-new-jersey-ice-detention-center/90255993007/
@mastodonmigration Nihil novi hic est. Caligula nec ipse senatoribus pepercit
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"fascism
noun
A system of government marked by:
*centralization of authority under a dictator,
*a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls,
*violent suppression of the opposition,
*and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. "
Lookit that dirty lonely cross-armed Nazi pod on the side of his warm milk truck, posturing like he's any kind of man. Sees a camera and puffs up. What a chump, who went back to his solo Hilton hotel room after beating-up citizens for money, and painted the bedspread with his lonely tears and a lot of 'loneliness epidemic' issues.
Your mom hates you, 'roid baby. And no woman will ever touch you, without being a doctor while trying to save you bleeding-out on her table.
@mastodonmigration what comes around goes around
@mastodonmigration Makes it pretty clear ICE ain’t loyal to the US government, if a senator is just cannon fodder. Don’t you think?
Oh, and did you hear Senate Minority Leader, and neighboring state senator, Chuck Schumer's, outraged response and rallying cry in support for his collegue? (/sarcasm)
No? Not yet?
What's up Chuck?
Isn't Andy the same Senator that cleaned up all the insurrectionist's shit after J6?
Fucking fascists.
