Barbarity

What's going to be the counter-play, I wonder, next Nov when ICE is out waving guns around & harassing people at the polls in every vulnerable district? That's coming. Their budget was beefed up for a reason & it wasn't for deporting Somalians in Minnesota.

There’s truly something deeply wrong with these people: all of them.

The Georgia dismissal is the latest salvo in the profound corruption of the American justice system wrought by Trump and his political allies. trib.al/abulEE0

NEW: Indiana Republicans are trying to make sure no judge can stop their new gerrymander, adding provisions in their bill to ban temporary blocks, bypass lower courts and force every challenge straight to the conservative-majority state Supreme Court.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Rubio sure looks like an idiot here, talking to another idiot who is sleeping. Maybe they are doing a "Weekend at Bernie's".

They contribute a lot more to this country than he does

First of all, one of the reporters on that story was in the Army infantry in Iraq

KEILAR: Can you square for us the president pardoning the former Honduran president who was convicted of helping traffic drugs toward the US with Trump's objective of fighting the scourge of drugs? VAN ORDEN: Honestly, I don't know the specific details of this case and what happened. No I can't

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Kirkland >>>Trumpland

JUST IN: Pop star Sabrina Carpenter has fired back at the Trump administration after the official White House account used her song over footage of federal agents chasing down immigrants. "this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda."

This is insane, but a fun side note: former Overstock CEO and Maria Butina honeypot victim Patrick Byrne as been MIA (after his lawyer was arrested) in a defamation suit brought against him by Hunter Biden. A judge found him in default and Biden has filed a $33.3M default judgement request.

"In 2015, GPB disclosed to investors the possibility of using investor capital to pay some of these distributions rather than funding them from current operations. Even though this was disclosed to investors, the Biden Department of Justice claimed it was a Ponzi scheme."

The White House said Monday that President Donald Trump's signed his latest commutation in reaction to a "weaponization of justice" by the Biden administration.

The Trump administration is shifting blame for the “kill everybody” order behind a second strike order on an alleged drug boat, killing all survivors, from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to Commander Frank “Mitch” Bradley. trib.al/B5WruvV

The bomb threats directed at Senator Schumer’s offices are reprehensible. Disagreement is part of democracy. Violence and intimidation are not. This is not a Republican or Democratic problem. It is everyone’s problem and both parties must stop it.

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Texas’ massive new abortion law taking effect this week could escalate the national fight over mailing abortion pills. The law creates civil penalties for medical providers who make abortion pills available in Texas, allowing any private citizen to sue providers for a minimum penalty of $100,000.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

The drunken rapist war criminal sure is a psycho.

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Everyone saw this coming. Trump stiffed his contractors, then fell out w/his architect because he refused to back his demand for a ballroom bigger than the WH. And those corporate donations he keeps bragging about are pledges, not real money. Taxpayers will end up on the hook one way or another.

“It’s a mockery of due process. It’s a mockery of our constitutional rights.”

including complaints of medical-neglect, forced-drugging, abuse, due-process violations, and other civil-rights complaints in immigration detention in limbo or effectively abandoned.

DHS’s internal watchdog system has been “gutted” the staff of Office for Civil Rights & Civil Liberties (CRCL) was cut from about 150 down to only 9 people. The cuts leave around 550 active investigations

Translation: Pete may well go down for this. But I’m not going with him.

Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

Bookmark this for the investigations to come: the Trump team’s boat bombings trace back to at least 2018. That’s when White House officials asked me & others about whether they could do something like this. We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.

Louisiana’s justices of the peace oversee evictions, but they aren’t sworn judges and they typically hold hearings in informal venues. One attorney has attended hearings at a kitchen table or at a cell phone shop—it can be “like the Wild West,” she said.

“If this happened as described in the Post report, it was, at best, a war crime under federal law."

Narrator: so, it was the brain.

The Gangster State strikes again, with a full-blown presidential pardon for a convicted cocaine trafficker and conspirator who corrupted the Honduran government with his crimes as president. The people must defend freedom and the rule of law against mobster politicians.

The Gaza Health Ministry says more than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, with attacks continuing despite the ceasefire deal that came into effect last month. 🔗: aje.io/kunho7 | #Infograph

And notice: 11 stars—the number of states in the Confederacy. “Americanism” is the new fascism, as predicted.

KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue? KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.

Honestly can't tell if she meant "prosecute" or she's just embraced the full fascist experience.

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MARKWAYNE MULLIN: We know the Navy or Coast Guard picked up survivors and sent them back to their countries. So now we're saying that they did it once and they didn't do it again? BASH: Could that be because a lawyer in the Pentagon said you can't do that again? MULLIN: No, absolutely not

Kyiv, 29.11.25 The subway is used as a shelter during Russian attacks 📹cherrybombfields/instagram

“Home and abroad.” A notable sentiment given that the administration has labeled not just the people it is killing on these boats as “terrorists” but also domestic political opponents.

An official government account using the word “remigration” is not normal. It’s an imported term from European far-right movements that refers to mass expulsion. Democracies do not use population-purification language. #holdfast #SteadyState