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At SFGate, Paula Mejía writes of Angie ‘the ICE Chaser’ Vargas, a health care professional who has made an avocation of documenting the antics of Donald Trump’s secret police ICE agents in the Los Angeles area on her TikTok account.

In the course of the interview, she gets to the crux of what’s going on (emphasis added).

“I don’t think that it’s fair how [people are] getting preyed on. Honestly, let’s just say it for what it is: It’s racism, and they’re stereotyping us for being brown,” she says. “They don’t go up to white people and ask them for their documentation. You don’t see them in Seal Beach. You don’t see them in Newport Beach. You don’t see them in Laguna. They’re preying on our urban communities.”

Rick Strom discusses ICE’s detention of legal workers at a Hyundai plant in Georgia. (Warning: The first couple of minutes are a chilling vision of what this nation is becoming under the Trump maladministration.)

From the Youtube page (emphasis added):

By her own admission, MAGA supporter and Congressional candidate Tori Branum was supposedly responsible for calling ICE on the Hyundai plant in Georgia that saw hundreds of workers, including South Korean nationals there for business purposes, rounded up and held in ICE custody, effectively costing the country billions of dollars in investments in the process.

I know this you don’t want to hear,
But realize, please, it can happen here.
Indeed, some would even say
It’s already well under way.

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*Mark Twain.

At the Bangor Daily News, Donna M. Loring hears a rhyme that sounds like

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*Mark Twain

Farron reports on a voter who got what he voted for.

And now regrets it.

Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.

Yastreblyansky hears a rhyme goose-stepping down the path of history.

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*Mark Twain.

Aside:

Back when I was a road warrior, I spent a lot of time in Chicago. I loved my time in Chi Town.

Chicago is a toddling town that won’t let you down.

Maybe those folks who are disparaging it should stop listening to Fox News and give it a visit

Via Job’s Anger.

Chris talks with civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill abour recent rulings by the Supreme Supremacist Court.

The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun finds it distressing that the Trump maladministration is coming after an honorably-discharged veteran for having the unmitigated gall to peacefully stand up to Donald Trump’s not-so-secret police. Here’s a tiny bit from their editorial:

Yet now, the nation he nearly lost his life defending is trying to put him behind bars. His “crime”? Attending a protest in June in which he peacefully locked arms with fellow Americans and blocked a driveway to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

Take note that Mavalwalla is not accused of striking officers, vandalizing vehicles or destroying property. While some other participants were arrested at the time of the protest, Mavalwalla wasn’t among them. Nor is he accused of participating in any violence or property destruction. Instead, weeks later, on the day he was moving into a new home with his girlfriend and children, the FBI arrived at dawn, shackled him in front of his family and charged him with “conspiracy to impede or injure officers.” He now faces the possibility of a $250,000 fine, up to six years in prison and an additional three years of supervised release.

Writing at the Inky, Jenice Armstrong finds herself dismayed the Trump maladministration’s attempts to retaliate against Congresswoman LaMonica McIver for trying to do her job.

No summary of excerpt can capture the scope and nuance of Armstrong’s piece. Just go read it.