The Minnesota protester was also right to call out the administration’s assault on the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees that no state shall “deprive any person”—not citizen, but person—“of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” It is this principle that is at the heart of the challenges to the administration’s rendering of immigrants to foreign countries without due process.
Also, Thom brought out another excellent point about our Demo representatives who voted to fund ICE, “Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Jared Golden (D-ME), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), Don Davis (D-NC), Tom Souzzi (D-NY), and Vincente Gonzalez of Texas”. These are people that need to be voted out of office and are a disgrace.
Regarding "Board of Peace", no, Trump has the mentality of a 5 year old, with a box of matches. Actually the name makes sense; you have a Department of War, so having a Ministry of Peace is something Orwell would understand.
However...there's an inside joke to its logo. I'm not sure if the designer was sending a warning or a threat, but take a look at it:
North America is grossly inflated in size (hello Greenland) and besides the gold color (naturally) the rest of the world has disappeared. Gaza? Nope, on the nonexistent backside.
But that's not the joke! Looking at it I said that I'd seen this before. It was from a Star Trek Original Series episode, "Mirror, Mirror" in which in an alternate universe an evil Terran empire tries to conquer everything:
According to MSM, Middle East countries such as Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar and Egypt. NATO members Turkey and Hungary, whose nationalist leaders have cultivated good personal ties with Trump, have also agreed to take part, as have Morocco, Pakistan, Indonesia, Kosovo, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, and Vietnam.
Others which have accepted include Armenia and Azerbaijan, which reached a U.S.-brokered peace agreement last August after meeting Trump at the White House.
More controversially, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, long shunned by the West over his country's poor human rights record and backing for Russia's war in Ukraine, has accepted Trump's invitation, which comes amid a broader rapprochement between Washington and Minsk.
I wonder whether they get shares in the golf resort formerly known as Gaza?
In one year, Trump has managed to turn our Democracy into a fascist empire.
"I pledge allegiance to the Fuhrer of the Empire of America, and to the Billionaire oligarchy for whom his family rules, a godless dictatorship, intolerant of ideological or racial diversity, without liberty or justice for anybody."
It is hard to see how one more year of this will not permanently turn America into a fascist dictatorship that will be impossible to restore in 3 more years. Our government is an ever-growing police force replacing services we depend upon. The militia Thom describes are the least competent people in our communities who are filled with resentment created by seeing women and minorities enjoying a higher standard of living because they knuckled down in school and traded hookey for a diploma. They have to blame somebody for their bad judgment.
I marched for civil rights in my teens and spent summers doing volunteer work in Chicago's ghettos - even spent a year working with the rurl poor in Southern Mississippi. However, I never fully experienced the sense of disempowerment that Black Americans lived - until 2026. Now I get it, just like a kick in the head. I see the path to restoring democracy as a fading option in my future. I feel like when my aging body stops breathing, I will be leaving behind a nation of Eloi whose sole purpose is to provide comfort and nutrition to visionless, and soulless Morlocks (today's billionaires?).
I left the government in 2018 and they were about a third of the way at that time.
Once upon a time I represented groups of judges, so in some circles I was a lighning rod for attempts to undermine the rule of law. the rise of MAGA coincided with the demise of my subject, administrative law.
Many of our positions were emaculated during the Trump #45 regime.
Trump and Musk pulled Humpty off the wall, Dashed into a thousand pieces. There is little left that can be restored.. There was in fact, a lot of dysfunction, careerism, beauracratic obstacles and worse, regulatory capture, and if by a miracle, power can be yanked back from the hands of the regime, time can be spent not restoring things they way they were, but building back better, but first an Executive order, cleaning out the Aegean Stable of all the manure left by Trump, virtually everyone in the DEA, FBI, DOJ, NSA,HSI, GSA. and more importantly the Office of Management and Budget,headed by Russell Vought. has to go and the top echelons of the Pentagon.
We can't have any fifth columnists, embedded and hanging on. Biden failed to do that, and look what it wrought. Karma came back to bite him, when a Trump schedule F employee, David Weiss, begged Merrick Garland to investigate Hunter Biden
Watching Velshi, a news break, ICE has murdered another person in Minneapolis. Walz is pissed, tells Trump to pull out now, however he hasn't, neither has the County of Hennepen, or the mayor of Minneapolis ordered the police to arrest any Ice agent that breaks the law, it is legally possible for state or local authorities to arrest federal agents if they violate state law, though it is complex due to federal immunity and the Supremacy Clause. While agents are generally protected when acting within the scope of their duties, they are not immune from prosecution if they break laws, act beyond their authority, or engage in misconduct.
Looked like they disarmed him---an agent kicks something away, I think it was the guy's gun. Some idiot had a finger on their trigger AFTER that and probably accidentally shot him.
You can carry open or concealed (no distinction) in Minnesota if you have a gun permit. It's a good bet this guy had a permit and had his gun where they could see it.
DHS says that he was armed. I don't believe it, he was on the ground face down with agents piled on top of him. I am disappointed in Velshi though. DHS claimed he was armed, and Velshi was accepting their word.
One of the ICE thugs, appeared to be a teenage kid, issued nothing but a rifle and gas mask, in his back pocket, from appearances, was a can of Skoal or Copenhagen.
That item that was kicked was a canister. 10 shots?
Alex Pretti was a 37 yr old nurse coming to the aid of a woman ICE had pushed down. Nothing in his hands. They peppered sprayed him, dog piled him, beat him in the head, found his gun, and shot him 10 times. He did not threaten them. His weapon was holstered under a jacket.
Bulwark just showed up close crystal clear side-view footage of this murder.
AI: The governor of Minnesota does not have the personal power of arrest. The power of arrest belongs to law enforcement officers, such as police and sheriffs.
The governor's primary role in law enforcement is executive in nature:
The governor is the commander-in-chief of the state's military and naval forces and can call them out to execute laws, suppress insurrection, and repel invasion.
The governor has a constitutional duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed". This is achieved by overseeing state agencies and working with law enforcement, not by making arrests personally.
In extradition matters, the governor signs a warrant for an agent (a law enforcement official) to receive and transport a person charged with a crime from another state back to the proper county in Minnesota, but the governor does not perform the arrest themselves.
The governor can issue executive orders, and individuals who violate these orders may be charged and arrested by law enforcement, but the governor does not personally conduct these arrests.
Arrest powers are explicitly granted to public officers assisting under the public officer's direction or peace officers under Minnesota law.
Yes they do have the power to order the police to protect their citizens.
Doing so would put them in conflict with Trump, DHS, but it is going to happen eventually, unless they are confronted and restrained now.
I understand, you have a case of ass against me, and can't help yourself, just because I don't bow down to your self proclaimed authority and expertise. That's life Daniel.
So when a person commits a crime, cops wait until the prosecutor issues a warrant, is that how it works?
So cops don't arrest perps when they commit a crime, is that how it works?
Cops don't protect citizens from masked and armed thugs, is that how it works?
Somebody can break down your door, throw you to the ground, pummel and choke you and shoot you, but unless the prosecutor gets evidence, nothing can be done,is that how it works?
Shall I continue?
Let's say that I bust down a door, invade a home, drag someone out, beat them or kill them, can I roam free until the prosecutor gets evidence.
And in the case of ICE, DHS is not cooperating and will not provide them evidence, in fact ICE has scrubbed the crime scene.
What I am saying Daniel, is that everyone from Walz on down, State, City, County, police and sheriff's, prosecutors have to get aggressive and stand up to DHS with more than words,if not they will grind us under their heel.
That;s your favorite word, Daniel? Defame? I am not talking of probable cause, I am talking of standing as a bulwark, in front of ICE/CBP and arresting them when they commit a crime, not waiting on some prosecutor and probable cause, because that is not what they do to us citizens,is it.
I don't put up with excuses Daniel, and you provide a litany of excuses.
Isay arrest the perps, just like the do, those that aren't supposed Federal agents.
And what evidence is there that they are Federal Agents? None, masked, no identifying marks, vests with police on it and they are not police, at least they can be arrested for posing as police.
Why don't you do some thinking, especially outside the box, rather than reflexively defending a non existent justice system, and yes, it is dead,or damn near, outside of some lower court temporary injunctions.
You never answer that, but go on to claim that I am defaming, or an idiot, or some Trump agent.
Here's the thing Daniel, you don't have an answer on turning this ship around, you default to the only tool in your tool box. You're the hammer that only sees nails.
Would have guessed Rod Stewart is a lover not a fighter.....
Not so, because he is righteously angry that draft-dodging TRump disrespected the role that NATO troops played in our Mid-East wars. Rod is demanding PM Starmer defend the honor of the troops that were lost and maimed as they bravely fought alongside Americans.
Nothing new there with TRump pissing on the graves and families of the "suckers and losers". Being a sadistic psychopath, he loves to torture and taunt.
The Attorneys General and Governors of the Blue states are working together and will fight back where and when they can. We must do the same. One word for Minneapolis and Minnesota: RESPECT. See you in the streets.
Alex Pretti was a 37 yr old nurse coming to the aid of a woman ICE had pushed down. Nothing in his hands. They peppered sprayed him, dog piled him, beat him in the head, found his gun, and shot him 10 times. He did not threaten them. His weapon was holstered under a jacket.
Bulwark just showed up-close, crystal clear, side-view footage of this murder.
I just watched a full video of the takedown and shooting of nurse Alex Pretti by the Schutzstaffel. UNBELIEVEABLE!! He went to help a woman who had been pushed down by one of them and they took him down and opened fire from about 10 feet away. What cowardly bastards they truly are.
Seattle. The Dems could have defunded ICE with the vote of 220 to 207 by 7 turncoats which would have been 213 to 214 by a Dem party that wanted to end ICE funding. This as I posted before is declaring war against the American people. Dems always betray meaningful change. They could have ended ICE raids at the end of Jan. But now the people will have to LOSE their lives because of stupid Dems. The whole system will have to be taken down along with corporate parties.
1. Yesterday, Labor unions and progressive religious leaders In Minnesota held a statewide general strike — to protest the killing of Renee Good by an immigration agent and daily abuse of immigrants including the recent detention of a 5-year-old boy in the Twin Cities.
They had a daylong “pause” of all economic activity — “no work, no school, no shopping” — making room for reflection and protest.
2. Yesterday Democracy Defender proved in court that the Bondi/DOJ are surreptitiously adding redactions and hiding information on some of the files after they were initially released to the public. We need to pressure Congressional Republicans, many who say they will support us.
3. NYT: The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people!
"Mainstream geneticists have rejected their work as biased and unscientific. Yet by relying on genetic and other personal data from the prominent project, known as the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, the researchers gave their theories an air of analytical rigor."
4. In a scorched-earth rebuke after Trump returned to Washington from the World Economic Forum, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer hit out at the president for minimizing the role allied nations played in helping U.S. forces in years-long wars. Yahoo.
5. .Trump is suing Jamie Dimon/JP Morgan in Florida state court in Baghdsad By the Sea for closing his account after Jan. 6. .JPMorgan could try to move the case to federal court, which is often the preferred venue for corporate defendants. Unlike Florida trial court judges, who are generally elected, federal judges are appointed for life. Capital One is defending a similar case by Trump businesses, which it had moved to federal court.
The way I look at it, Trump may be putting his head in a noose, literally asking the court to hear relitigation of the same stuff he was charged by DOJ in the DC case.
7. Susie Wiles may have to terstify Iin an upcoming federal trial in Miami that focuses on criminal charges against former Miami-Dade Republican Congressman David Rivera and political consultant Esther Nuhfer, who are accused of secretly lobbying for the Venezuelan government in 2017 and 2018.
8. And in grift not otherwise disclosed by MSM, PSQ Impact announced Thursday the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation — the nonprofit arm running the president’s legacy project — would use its platform for digital fundraising. The company’s pricing page lists a 3.5% processing fee for payments. A client like Trump’s foundation could mean a profit boon for the fledgling company. The main beneficiary: Donald Trump Jr?
For some reason, most of this stuff goes unreported.
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It is so disconcerting that the Republicans are fine with the violations of the Bill of Rights of the citizens. Why? I fear that the generation whose parents did not fight in WWII don't understand the evils of fascism and how important those rights are. Heather Cox Richardson quotes a speech by Abraham Lincoln about the Southern racists trying to subvert those rights and how important they are to our republic. The Board of Peace, oops, I mean Autocrats is an insult to anyone who cares about our democracy or the rights of free nations and peoples in general. No country who cares about them would consider that grift. Imagine inviting not only all those autocrats like Orban and Lukashenko but Vlad himself. Come on. Board of Pieces of S...you fill in the rest.
"Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Jared Golden (D-ME), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), Don Davis (D-NC), Tom Souzzi (D-NY), and Vincente Gonzalez of Texas all broke ranks with the American people and their constituents to give ICE even more money and absolutely no constraints."
Which Democrats in the Senate and House have the gumption to take a big swing at the DHS funding bill, for those agencies now in major disrepute for their brazenly criminal and anti-constitutional processes. Can you tie the funding to a sensible immigration reform bill with fair enforcement practices, which I suspect the Democrats already have ready on the shelf. This would further galvanize public opinion favorably for the Democrats and remove the Trumpian underpinnings for his gestapo ICE enforcement army. Recall Trump blocked the Biden/GOP senate effort to pass even a bad reform bill because he wanted the racist issues to campaign on, and to have a void in the law as an excuse to militarize his gestapo partisan tactics all over the country. An effort like this by the Democrats should be heard loud and clear by all media and all people through the bull horn of the outrageous daily news and imagery tearing up all our media outlets.
Excellent report Thom.
I have to quote:
The Minnesota protester was also right to call out the administration’s assault on the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees that no state shall “deprive any person”—not citizen, but person—“of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” It is this principle that is at the heart of the challenges to the administration’s rendering of immigrants to foreign countries without due process.
Gordon, Absolutely!
Also, Thom brought out another excellent point about our Demo representatives who voted to fund ICE, “Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Jared Golden (D-ME), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), Don Davis (D-NC), Tom Souzzi (D-NY), and Vincente Gonzalez of Texas”. These are people that need to be voted out of office and are a disgrace.
Another shooting this morning.
We should be pressuring the four (4) Republican House members, their donors and Fox.
Flash, victim died.
Regarding "Board of Peace", no, Trump has the mentality of a 5 year old, with a box of matches. Actually the name makes sense; you have a Department of War, so having a Ministry of Peace is something Orwell would understand.
However...there's an inside joke to its logo. I'm not sure if the designer was sending a warning or a threat, but take a look at it:
https://www.creativebloq.com/design/logos-icons/everyones-saying-the-same-thing-about-trumps-board-of-peace-logo
North America is grossly inflated in size (hello Greenland) and besides the gold color (naturally) the rest of the world has disappeared. Gaza? Nope, on the nonexistent backside.
But that's not the joke! Looking at it I said that I'd seen this before. It was from a Star Trek Original Series episode, "Mirror, Mirror" in which in an alternate universe an evil Terran empire tries to conquer everything:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Terran_Empire?file=Terran_Empire_insignia%2C_2260s.svg
According to MSM, Middle East countries such as Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar and Egypt. NATO members Turkey and Hungary, whose nationalist leaders have cultivated good personal ties with Trump, have also agreed to take part, as have Morocco, Pakistan, Indonesia, Kosovo, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, and Vietnam.
Others which have accepted include Armenia and Azerbaijan, which reached a U.S.-brokered peace agreement last August after meeting Trump at the White House.
More controversially, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, long shunned by the West over his country's poor human rights record and backing for Russia's war in Ukraine, has accepted Trump's invitation, which comes amid a broader rapprochement between Washington and Minsk.
I wonder whether they get shares in the golf resort formerly known as Gaza?
If so, there will be a market for them.
In one year, Trump has managed to turn our Democracy into a fascist empire.
"I pledge allegiance to the Fuhrer of the Empire of America, and to the Billionaire oligarchy for whom his family rules, a godless dictatorship, intolerant of ideological or racial diversity, without liberty or justice for anybody."
It is hard to see how one more year of this will not permanently turn America into a fascist dictatorship that will be impossible to restore in 3 more years. Our government is an ever-growing police force replacing services we depend upon. The militia Thom describes are the least competent people in our communities who are filled with resentment created by seeing women and minorities enjoying a higher standard of living because they knuckled down in school and traded hookey for a diploma. They have to blame somebody for their bad judgment.
I marched for civil rights in my teens and spent summers doing volunteer work in Chicago's ghettos - even spent a year working with the rurl poor in Southern Mississippi. However, I never fully experienced the sense of disempowerment that Black Americans lived - until 2026. Now I get it, just like a kick in the head. I see the path to restoring democracy as a fading option in my future. I feel like when my aging body stops breathing, I will be leaving behind a nation of Eloi whose sole purpose is to provide comfort and nutrition to visionless, and soulless Morlocks (today's billionaires?).
I left the government in 2018 and they were about a third of the way at that time.
Once upon a time I represented groups of judges, so in some circles I was a lighning rod for attempts to undermine the rule of law. the rise of MAGA coincided with the demise of my subject, administrative law.
Many of our positions were emaculated during the Trump #45 regime.
Trump and Musk pulled Humpty off the wall, Dashed into a thousand pieces. There is little left that can be restored.. There was in fact, a lot of dysfunction, careerism, beauracratic obstacles and worse, regulatory capture, and if by a miracle, power can be yanked back from the hands of the regime, time can be spent not restoring things they way they were, but building back better, but first an Executive order, cleaning out the Aegean Stable of all the manure left by Trump, virtually everyone in the DEA, FBI, DOJ, NSA,HSI, GSA. and more importantly the Office of Management and Budget,headed by Russell Vought. has to go and the top echelons of the Pentagon.
We can't have any fifth columnists, embedded and hanging on. Biden failed to do that, and look what it wrought. Karma came back to bite him, when a Trump schedule F employee, David Weiss, begged Merrick Garland to investigate Hunter Biden
Watching Velshi, a news break, ICE has murdered another person in Minneapolis. Walz is pissed, tells Trump to pull out now, however he hasn't, neither has the County of Hennepen, or the mayor of Minneapolis ordered the police to arrest any Ice agent that breaks the law, it is legally possible for state or local authorities to arrest federal agents if they violate state law, though it is complex due to federal immunity and the Supremacy Clause. While agents are generally protected when acting within the scope of their duties, they are not immune from prosecution if they break laws, act beyond their authority, or engage in misconduct.
Looked like they disarmed him---an agent kicks something away, I think it was the guy's gun. Some idiot had a finger on their trigger AFTER that and probably accidentally shot him.
You can carry open or concealed (no distinction) in Minnesota if you have a gun permit. It's a good bet this guy had a permit and had his gun where they could see it.
What a bunch of f*ckups, killers and abusers!
DHS says that he was armed. I don't believe it, he was on the ground face down with agents piled on top of him. I am disappointed in Velshi though. DHS claimed he was armed, and Velshi was accepting their word.
One of the ICE thugs, appeared to be a teenage kid, issued nothing but a rifle and gas mask, in his back pocket, from appearances, was a can of Skoal or Copenhagen.
That item that was kicked was a canister. 10 shots?
Alex Pretti was a 37 yr old nurse coming to the aid of a woman ICE had pushed down. Nothing in his hands. They peppered sprayed him, dog piled him, beat him in the head, found his gun, and shot him 10 times. He did not threaten them. His weapon was holstered under a jacket.
Bulwark just showed up close crystal clear side-view footage of this murder.
Alex Pretti, hero, nurse, say his name.
Status Coup is live at the scene and protest and streaming through Meidas Touch Network.
Need witnesses.
AI: The governor of Minnesota does not have the personal power of arrest. The power of arrest belongs to law enforcement officers, such as police and sheriffs.
The governor's primary role in law enforcement is executive in nature:
The governor is the commander-in-chief of the state's military and naval forces and can call them out to execute laws, suppress insurrection, and repel invasion.
The governor has a constitutional duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed". This is achieved by overseeing state agencies and working with law enforcement, not by making arrests personally.
In extradition matters, the governor signs a warrant for an agent (a law enforcement official) to receive and transport a person charged with a crime from another state back to the proper county in Minnesota, but the governor does not perform the arrest themselves.
The governor can issue executive orders, and individuals who violate these orders may be charged and arrested by law enforcement, but the governor does not personally conduct these arrests.
Arrest powers are explicitly granted to public officers assisting under the public officer's direction or peace officers under Minnesota law.
The mayor cannot order arrests either.
What local "DA" ( they use the term County Attorney) is doing:
Message from Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on ...
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/2026/January/community-questions
Walz and the mayor do not have that kind of power. There you go again.
This time the local authorities did not let ICE have control of the crime scene. Progress.
Yes they do have the power to order the police to protect their citizens.
Doing so would put them in conflict with Trump, DHS, but it is going to happen eventually, unless they are confronted and restrained now.
I understand, you have a case of ass against me, and can't help yourself, just because I don't bow down to your self proclaimed authority and expertise. That's life Daniel.
They aren't cops. The prosecutors are on the case, but need evide3nce.
So when a person commits a crime, cops wait until the prosecutor issues a warrant, is that how it works?
So cops don't arrest perps when they commit a crime, is that how it works?
Cops don't protect citizens from masked and armed thugs, is that how it works?
Somebody can break down your door, throw you to the ground, pummel and choke you and shoot you, but unless the prosecutor gets evidence, nothing can be done,is that how it works?
Shall I continue?
Let's say that I bust down a door, invade a home, drag someone out, beat them or kill them, can I roam free until the prosecutor gets evidence.
And in the case of ICE, DHS is not cooperating and will not provide them evidence, in fact ICE has scrubbed the crime scene.
What I am saying Daniel, is that everyone from Walz on down, State, City, County, police and sheriff's, prosecutors have to get aggressive and stand up to DHS with more than words,if not they will grind us under their heel.
You've been defaming everyone involved. Some of us have experience. Need probable cause.
That;s your favorite word, Daniel? Defame? I am not talking of probable cause, I am talking of standing as a bulwark, in front of ICE/CBP and arresting them when they commit a crime, not waiting on some prosecutor and probable cause, because that is not what they do to us citizens,is it.
I don't put up with excuses Daniel, and you provide a litany of excuses.
Isay arrest the perps, just like the do, those that aren't supposed Federal agents.
And what evidence is there that they are Federal Agents? None, masked, no identifying marks, vests with police on it and they are not police, at least they can be arrested for posing as police.
Why don't you do some thinking, especially outside the box, rather than reflexively defending a non existent justice system, and yes, it is dead,or damn near, outside of some lower court temporary injunctions.
You never answer that, but go on to claim that I am defaming, or an idiot, or some Trump agent.
Here's the thing Daniel, you don't have an answer on turning this ship around, you default to the only tool in your tool box. You're the hammer that only sees nails.
Would have guessed Rod Stewart is a lover not a fighter.....
Not so, because he is righteously angry that draft-dodging TRump disrespected the role that NATO troops played in our Mid-East wars. Rod is demanding PM Starmer defend the honor of the troops that were lost and maimed as they bravely fought alongside Americans.
Nothing new there with TRump pissing on the graves and families of the "suckers and losers". Being a sadistic psychopath, he loves to torture and taunt.
The Attorneys General and Governors of the Blue states are working together and will fight back where and when they can. We must do the same. One word for Minneapolis and Minnesota: RESPECT. See you in the streets.
Another ICE murder.....
Alex Pretti was a 37 yr old nurse coming to the aid of a woman ICE had pushed down. Nothing in his hands. They peppered sprayed him, dog piled him, beat him in the head, found his gun, and shot him 10 times. He did not threaten them. His weapon was holstered under a jacket.
Bulwark just showed up-close, crystal clear, side-view footage of this murder.
Alex Pretti, hero, nurse, say his name.
I just watched a full video of the takedown and shooting of nurse Alex Pretti by the Schutzstaffel. UNBELIEVEABLE!! He went to help a woman who had been pushed down by one of them and they took him down and opened fire from about 10 feet away. What cowardly bastards they truly are.
Why is a mental patient being allowed to occupy the office of President of the United States? The world wants to know.
R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N-S
Democrats gave them the opportunity to convict him the first time, they chose power and money over people.
None of this had to happen!
The world already knows, to our indelible shame.
Seattle. The Dems could have defunded ICE with the vote of 220 to 207 by 7 turncoats which would have been 213 to 214 by a Dem party that wanted to end ICE funding. This as I posted before is declaring war against the American people. Dems always betray meaningful change. They could have ended ICE raids at the end of Jan. But now the people will have to LOSE their lives because of stupid Dems. The whole system will have to be taken down along with corporate parties.
Nearly all elected representatives are “in it” for their own personal benefit.
1. Yesterday, Labor unions and progressive religious leaders In Minnesota held a statewide general strike — to protest the killing of Renee Good by an immigration agent and daily abuse of immigrants including the recent detention of a 5-year-old boy in the Twin Cities.
They had a daylong “pause” of all economic activity — “no work, no school, no shopping” — making room for reflection and protest.
2. Yesterday Democracy Defender proved in court that the Bondi/DOJ are surreptitiously adding redactions and hiding information on some of the files after they were initially released to the public. We need to pressure Congressional Republicans, many who say they will support us.
3. NYT: The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people!
"Mainstream geneticists have rejected their work as biased and unscientific. Yet by relying on genetic and other personal data from the prominent project, known as the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, the researchers gave their theories an air of analytical rigor."
4. In a scorched-earth rebuke after Trump returned to Washington from the World Economic Forum, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer hit out at the president for minimizing the role allied nations played in helping U.S. forces in years-long wars. Yahoo.
5. .Trump is suing Jamie Dimon/JP Morgan in Florida state court in Baghdsad By the Sea for closing his account after Jan. 6. .JPMorgan could try to move the case to federal court, which is often the preferred venue for corporate defendants. Unlike Florida trial court judges, who are generally elected, federal judges are appointed for life. Capital One is defending a similar case by Trump businesses, which it had moved to federal court.
The way I look at it, Trump may be putting his head in a noose, literally asking the court to hear relitigation of the same stuff he was charged by DOJ in the DC case.
7. Susie Wiles may have to terstify Iin an upcoming federal trial in Miami that focuses on criminal charges against former Miami-Dade Republican Congressman David Rivera and political consultant Esther Nuhfer, who are accused of secretly lobbying for the Venezuelan government in 2017 and 2018.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article314412339.html#storylink=cpy
8. And in grift not otherwise disclosed by MSM, PSQ Impact announced Thursday the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation — the nonprofit arm running the president’s legacy project — would use its platform for digital fundraising. The company’s pricing page lists a 3.5% processing fee for payments. A client like Trump’s foundation could mean a profit boon for the fledgling company. The main beneficiary: Donald Trump Jr?
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article314428585.html#storylink=cpy
As a public service, attached is a link to Public Citizen. https://www.citizen.org/
For some reason, most of this stuff goes unreported.
One of Public Citizen’s strengths is as a convening organization — we help bring together and spearhead literally dozens of coalitions, with the understanding that we build power when we join together. This has never been more important than it is right now.
We are one of the co-founders of the Not Above the Law coalition with 150-plus organizations. And we co-founded and house staff for the Declaration for American Democracy (DFAD) coalition, which comprises over 260 organizations. The Not Above the Law coalition brings together not only advocacy organizations and grassroots activists, but policy experts, legal minds, faith organizations, and others from across the political landscape to lead the charge against authoritarianism. DFAD is helping lead efforts against Trump’s schemes to subvert elections and is one of the key groups laying plans to win transformative democracy legislation.
We have helped to bring groups together to stand in solidarity against the Trump regime’s efforts to attack nonprofits that oppose authoritarianism. Under the guise of attacking “domestic terrorism” and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), the White House has issued presidential proclamations signaling plans to strip away tax-exempt status, cancel government grants, and even criminally prosecute organizations opposing it. In response, with other leading organizations, we created a solidarity statement that over 3,700 discrete organizations joined — demonstrating that nonprofit groups will stand together against threats from the regime. It stands in notable contrast — unfortunately — to the responses from some law firms, universities, and others.
Other examples of our coalition work include wide-ranging efforts to educate and organize allies around deregulatory plans of the administration; to coordinate among multiple tables opposing the tax and budget reconciliation bill; and to challenge an administration proposal to enable churches to participate directly in electoral politics.
As Trump’s authoritarianism intensifies, our coalitions will be more important than ever. We will invest in and strengthen these diverse coalitional efforts across and connecting multiple sectors. At a time when no organization alone can hope to do enough and when isolation equals vulnerability, these permanent and ad hoc coalitions and networks build civil society power and enable coordination and solidarity.
EXPOSING AND CONFRONTING CORRUPTION
Impeccable investigative research is a Public Citizen calling card. And there has never been more to investigate than there is now. Our research team is laser focused on administration conflicts of interest and corruption, as well as the soft treatment given to corporate wrongdoers. Our intent is to pierce Trump’s populist facade.
We’ve published cutting-edge investigative reports showing (just to list a few examples):
An unprecedented pullback of regulatory and criminal enforcement against Big Business. This includes more than 140 open investigations closed or suspended; the termination of enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; the announcement that anti-corruption laws will simply not be enforced; what may be the first-ever corporate pardon; and more.
More than 60 oil and gas executives, lobbyists, and lawyers with high official government positions are driving the administration’s energy policymaking.
The far-reaching conflicts of interest of Attorney General Pam Bondi — who worked previously at a lobby firm on behalf of gambling, private prison, technology, and other corporate interests — with key issues before the Department of Justice she now runs.
The quackery and conflicted business interests of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who now leads the Department of Health and Human Services, and other key health officials in the Trump administration.
The corporate giveaways in Trump’s tax and budget reconciliation bill, including major handouts to dirty energy companies and Pentagon contractors.
Many of the agencies slashed and burned by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had been taking actions to hold assorted companies owned by Musk accountable for violations of the law.
In November, we released a blockbuster report on the corporate and mega-wealthy “donors” to Trump’s ballroom bonanza. That report showed, among other things, that the 24 known corporate sponsors of the ballroom received a combined $279 billion in federal contracts in the previous five years. This was a front-page story in The Washington Post and reverberated nationwide.
The importance of these investigative efforts is that they illustrate the lie of the Trump administration (and authoritarians generally). Trump is not fighting for everyday Americans. He is advancing an agenda of cronyism and corruption, in service of himself and his super-rich donors.
AN AGENDA FOR EVERYDAY AMERICANS
Alongside our efforts to counter Trump’s authoritarianism, corruption, and cronyism, Public Citizen is zooming forward with our traditional, pre-Trump campaigns on issues like:
Making medicines more affordable.
*Protecting workers from excessive heat and other dangerous conditions.
*Challenging oil and gas exports that are supercharging corporate profits but skyrocketing consumers’ utility rates.
*Securing protections against creepy artificial intelligence technologies that put teens at risk.
*Advocating to make billionaires and Big Business pay their fair share of taxes.
*Ensuring that people injured by corporations can have their day in court.
*Keeping unsafe drugs off the market.
*Breaking up monopolistic corporations.
*Winning Medicare for All so that no American has to live without health coverage.
*And much, much more.
Doing the ground work for impeachment and prosecutions!
Thank you for reminding us about the Dems who voted to fund ICE and the responsibility of our House Leader Hakeem Jeffries to educate these people.
Thom, gotta get better in a little while. Crazy stuff. I didn’t vote for this. Thanks Thom.
It is so disconcerting that the Republicans are fine with the violations of the Bill of Rights of the citizens. Why? I fear that the generation whose parents did not fight in WWII don't understand the evils of fascism and how important those rights are. Heather Cox Richardson quotes a speech by Abraham Lincoln about the Southern racists trying to subvert those rights and how important they are to our republic. The Board of Peace, oops, I mean Autocrats is an insult to anyone who cares about our democracy or the rights of free nations and peoples in general. No country who cares about them would consider that grift. Imagine inviting not only all those autocrats like Orban and Lukashenko but Vlad himself. Come on. Board of Pieces of S...you fill in the rest.
We just need a few of them to stop this crap.
Important report. Thank you.
You ascribe too much maturity when you compare DJT to a 10-year-old. Try 2 year old.
"Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Jared Golden (D-ME), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), Don Davis (D-NC), Tom Souzzi (D-NY), and Vincente Gonzalez of Texas all broke ranks with the American people and their constituents to give ICE even more money and absolutely no constraints."
The message to these fuck faces is this:
You're done.
Which Democrats in the Senate and House have the gumption to take a big swing at the DHS funding bill, for those agencies now in major disrepute for their brazenly criminal and anti-constitutional processes. Can you tie the funding to a sensible immigration reform bill with fair enforcement practices, which I suspect the Democrats already have ready on the shelf. This would further galvanize public opinion favorably for the Democrats and remove the Trumpian underpinnings for his gestapo ICE enforcement army. Recall Trump blocked the Biden/GOP senate effort to pass even a bad reform bill because he wanted the racist issues to campaign on, and to have a void in the law as an excuse to militarize his gestapo partisan tactics all over the country. An effort like this by the Democrats should be heard loud and clear by all media and all people through the bull horn of the outrageous daily news and imagery tearing up all our media outlets.