The Greased Palm, a Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
Trump decrees that they can pay to play.
Signs of the Times 0
When you don’t want to face factual reality, you can always remove any signs of the truth.
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
Iced by ICE 0
Sam and the crew find themselves–er–somewhat taken aback by the brutality of Donald Trump’s secret police ICE agents.
One Think Is Not Like the Other Thing 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice debunks (some of) de bunk spreading on “social” media about the Trump maladministration’s decision that Jimmy Kimmel’s freedom of speech shall be abridged.
QUTD 0
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach:
We are so vain that we value the opinion even of those whose opinions we find worthless.
Suffer the Children, Vaccine Nation Dept. 0
One more time, “suffer the children” is not scripture. It’s a Republican family value.
Facebook Frolics 0
The Crypto Con 0
Seth takes a closer look at a major investigation by The New York Times revealing that Trump secured billions in crypto investments from a foreign country while simultaneously giving that country access to valuable computer chips. The relevant portion of the video starts at about the six-minute mark.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Mike Littwin hears a rhyme–a rhyme he did not expect.
What I didn’t know was that JD Vance, Stephen Miller and the rest of the Trump team would go full McCarthy on us.
Follow the link for his parsing of the poesy.
And, in related news . . . .
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
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).
A Notion of Immigrants 0
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.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
- 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.