ICE's budget could fund the ACA (healthcare) extension and expand Medicaid to millions. Instead, it funds home invasions, family separation, and killing protesters. Republicans made this choice for you. Remember in November... #FundHealthcareOverICE

Again Trump says the quiet part out loud. "Republicans should run the election" "Nationalize" the election. We gotta win big at the mid terms. Trump and MAGA are gonna try to steal it away from Dem candidates. ICE watch should become election watch at the mid terms

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The street art post was taken today. The location is on 5th street yards east of Hill street in downtown Los Angeles. Sorry I did not include all that in the original post.

Street art protest

Don Lemon arrested. Do we call this Trumped up charges?

I truly hope the Dem leadership finds all Trumps de escalation of ICE the b s it is. Too little too damn late.Play hardball for once. Force ICE to obey the law, chase felons only or shut it all down until then. After the mid terms, same thing for Trump. Stay within the law or see it all stop.

Where are the murder charges against the ICE troopers that shot Alex Pretti? Or is this gonna be more ICE skating?

JUST NOW… rep. Omar attacked and sprayed with a liquid…

Wrt gold, silver prices, the fall of the dollar, ICE violence and the Greenland debacle... Every circus has clowns. No circus puts the clowns in charge. Something to consider in the mid terms.

It seems to me we put up with way too much lawlessness from ICE long before they killed two people. Had we made them keep to due process, adhere to sensible use of force rules, 2 good people would be alive and few if any citizens would be in ICE custody. The lesson for us is enforce the law on ICE.

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

Upon our founding, we had great ideals about all men being created equal and equal protection under the law. Because we failed to fully recognize these ideas, we had a civil war, MLK riots, King riots. We passed the Civil Rights act, but blew it again. Now we have to fight for these ideals again.

Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun. Any second now, I'm sure. He was a white guy, if that helps? Hello? NRA?

It seems we have found the one place on the planet the MAGA crowd says is a bad place to have a gun. Near where ICE troopers are on an agenda that tramples all over our rights. Observe how they seek to exploit, not fairly embrace the Second A, while wrecking the First and Fourth.

Protests aimed at police are the worst place to bring a gun. Even permitted. It brings no advantage to you. Not even with a permit. I say this as a man who believes in defensive rights, even with a gun. Stopping these guys is gonna take us, en masse. Us flooding streets and the socials.

Please note the behavioral demands made by MAGA upon the protesters around ICE. Now contrast that with the Jan 6 insurrection. Which resulted in mass pardons for the offenders. That's a damn big stretch there boys.

You cannot create a white ethnostate without genocide. Mass deportation was always going to lead to mass killing; this is just beginning.

Every year certain people bitch about MLK day, what with bank and business closures etc. I'd like to point out that had we always treated dark skinned people like everyone else there would be no MLK day at all. Funny these people never complain about other holidays... Hmmm

There was once a Roman Senate. Do better Republican Senators. Stop your mad king.

NATO Now A Trump Opponent

What does real estate in Moscow have in common with Donald Trump? All Russian assets.

My cat Habibi is pretty smart. A dedicated proponent of String Theory.

How does one get used to authoritarian government when you grew up with a democracy? You don't. Resist. Insist. Dissent. Observe and advocate for a return to sanity.

the insanity jesus fucking christ the absolute insanity

No Mad King. He has gotta go. Taking Greenland and Venezuela is thievery. Let's admit the Venezuela government seized American equipment. That just makes us the next thief, stealing from the Venezuelan people.

Just contemplating taking Greenland from Denmark is madness. Acting on this would be the international equivalent of beating down a lifelong friend and raping his daughter or wife. Its madness. Its time to put an end to it. Republican Senators, this means you.

Back in the day, I thought it pretty crazy we were invading Iraq again, courtesy Bush Jr. That seems sane and stately compared to taking Greenland from Denmark. A NATO ally and friend to the US. Feels like a bad Twilight Zone knock off.

Habibi is asking why we insist on getting all wet every day in this strange little thing called a shower.

By the time we can even try to return to normal, will we even know what that is anymore? Might a future Dem President willingly cut themselves out of these extraordinary powers? Powers that would be illegal if not for the complicit SCOTUS.

She was trying to go to a doctor’s appointment. They smashed her window and cut her seatbelt off with knives, then brutally dragged her out onto the ground.

Jerome Powell and Renee Good are 2 examples of truly malignant prosecution and or accusations. No American President has ever taken it to this level. Not Nixon, not even Wilson. Protected dissent is now terrorism, sedition etc. In peacetime no less.

Viewing footage of rioters violently attacking law enforcement on January 6, Noem couldn’t explain why she felt deadly force was justified in certain situations and not in others. “Would any of those officers have been justified in shooting?” CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed. trib.al/BHkUpu8

FWIW, those of us at a certain age remember how anti Vietnam war feelings and protests went. To start, it was support US policy. In the middle, some of us loudly protested. Then we got to riots and Kent State. In the end? We stopped Kissinger/the military industrial complex. Here we go again.

Cops Are Taught Not to Shoot Into Cars. ICE Keeps Doing It Anyway. Immigration agents have shot at least nine people since September. All of them have been in cars. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... We need to understand how ICE agents are so different, so unmanageable compared to the police.

So Trump threatens Iran over how it treats protesters while his ICE troops kill and arrest American dissenters. Astonishing hypocrisy.

Trump administration enforces a jarring double standard: assaulting police is "peaceful” for loyalists, yet fleeing them constitutes “terrorism” for critics. This erases objective law, making safety hinge on fealty. Policing is no longer a public service; it is a weapon against political enemies.

Having a bad day? This is one solution we have at my home. Its not for everyone, but it is super effective and quite rewarding.

I posted a little something over at LGF. All about a great piece at Gizmodo. littlegreenfootballs.com/page/329786_...

Downtown Los Angeles has its problems. Dirty, sometimes dangerous. But sometimes wonderful. Love what they did with that big blank wall.

Great hearing. Someone opened up a can clear at the other end of the house. Habibi woke, sat up and took notice.

Caturday fun. New tree for the cats. Of course young Habibi was first at it.

I love Christmas for one simple but powerful reason. "Goodwill toward all men". Its a reminder how simple it is to set aside anti immigration and racist impulses.

Has anyone at all explained why problems Venezuela has are something America needs to solve? Why us, why now?

1st A alarm bell Man sues cops who jailed him for 37 days for trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil arstechnica.com This is precisely why the 1st Amendment is the most important part of our Constitution. The part worth fighting for, impeaching for. If you vote GOP, you are voting against this amendment.

CNN - "People briefed on the September ‘double-tap’ strike said they were concerned that it could violate the law of armed conflict" Going back to kill the wounded is illegal. Immoral. Horrific by every humane measure. I'm ashamed of this by my elected government. Let the alarm bells ring.

Happy Thanksgiving my friends!

On a more cheerful note, my formerly feral kitten is growing into a happy and healthy cat.