Correct. It's about trying to intimidate the resistance and provoke a reason to invoke the Insurrection Act. Period. And they're targeting Minnesota because it's a crucial swing state.
Portland, Oregon is still occupied, more the suburbs where working class immigrants live (ironically those suburbs voted for Trump) and there are protests every day.
Minnesota has gone for the Democrats in every presidential election since 1960 but one, 1972. And was the only state that voted for Mondale in 1984. Trump got within ONE percentage point of winning Minnesota. By flaming prejudice against Somalians.
Then in 2018, Minnesota elected a Somali congressperson, Ilhan Omar who became Trump’s congressional bete noire.
Just like JD Vance came for the Haitians in Ohio, Trump is coming for the Somalians in Minnesota. A small, not well known community he can safely demonize and torture.
The building Alex Pretti and his compatriots were outside of was the New American Development Center, a place for immigrants (mainly from East Africa) to help settle, forge lives, build businesses and build community and extend outreach to the community at large.
THAT’S WHAT TRUMP HATES AND WANTS TO DESTROY. The notion of new people of a different community integrating into America and making it better like so many other immigrant communities have in our history.
“It’s never hopeless. And it’s pointless and absurd to be scared of Trump when he’s scared of teenagers. Why do you think he got his pals to buy TikTok this week? The social media platform whose dumb dances and funny skits helped a generation get through a global pandemic? It’s because he’s the loneliest, most desperate man in the world.” Great statement. Thank you. 🙏🏼
Putin is also the loneliest, most desperate man in the world. If Trump had not been helping him at every turn, Ukraine would have won the war by now. The UK needs to sever all ties to the Russian oligarchs whom they have allowed to infest their country and its finances for decades. Trump has been doing that for decades here. It's a disgrace brought to us by rampant, unmitigated greed.
If it weren't for Putin and his oligarchs laundering their money with DT's help, our Orange Tyrant would have gone bankrupt permanently a long time ago.
Brainwashed tripe. Open your eyes. The USA extended NATO to undermine Russia. What ICE is doing in Minnesota, Ukrainian Nazi thugs did for a decade in the Donbas on a MUCH greater scale than is happening now in the USA.
You need to open YOUR eyes. Did you even bother to listen to Putin's speech to his underlings immediately after he invaded Ukraine a second time in Feb? Listen to it, because he said he intended to reconstruct the USSR, which he has been trying to do since Yeltsin agreed to let him rule Russia in exchange for not prosecuting him for rampant corruption.
Putin is our Hitler and ICE is breaking the law every day they're invading our cities. I respect the rule of law, democracy, and our Constitution. The lawless, corrupt criminals running this country clearly do not, and if you don't see that, you must not want the US to remain a democracy. You have no idea what life would be like under a corrupt thug like Putin if you support what is going on now.
The pandemic is ancient history. Buying TikToc is all about control of peoples attention and sadly too much of our younger population is obsessed with stupid videos and not paying attention to the shit that is going down
Our younger population is following their elders in attention hijacking behavior. Same Play, Different Actors. I know too many seniors who are obsessed with stupid videos and other nonsense to criticize the young people for following that great American tradition of checking out because saving democracy is just too tough.
They're not buying TikTok because he's scared of teenagers or lonely. It's part of their campaign to flood social media with lies. Between that and the AI garbage, you don't know what's real and what isn't. Although with The Regime, it's kinda easy: everything they say is a lie. Our challenge is finding sources of information that have not been corrupted, and it's a real poser.
No it isn’t a poser. Independent media is expanding daily. It isn’t at all difficult to find journalists who are telling the objective truth and exposing the current realities in the USA. Female journalists of great worth, like Carole, are increasingly vocal, their audiences are growing. The historian @Heather Cox Richardson is one to definitely follow. As is @Anthony Davis. @Allison Gill, @Dina Doll, @Loren Piretra, @JoJo @Tara Palmieri also. And Status Coup, Meidas and Zeteo.
This murder and the others perpetrated by ICE should be the touchstone for nationwide fulmination. The fascist antics, increasingly violent, randomly directed and sanctioned by the morally bankrupt at highest and lowest levels must be stopped. Then the perpetrators, from the top down, must be brought to the same justice that befell the Nazi criminals at the end of World War Two. I remember the details of the Nuremberg trials and thoroughly dismayed by the terrible irony that the United States was amongst the group that instigated those trials. So two was the Soviet Union and behold the USA and Russia are treating their citizens and countries in the same totalitarian and oligarchic manner.
As a dual citizen of Canada and the UK, I thank Prime Minister Mark Carney for having the backbone to speak truth to power (and even possibly to shame Prime Minister Starmer into a somewhat feeble attempt to emulate).
I am sad that our friends south of our border are ultimately the victims of a decompensating psychopath. I do hope that the spirit of a country that set the standard for what a free country should be like, will be reinvigorated, refocused and awoken again in united defence of that legacy.
Carole, thank you for your 2 extremely important posts this week. You are so right that each day is a significant WTF news day and it’s crucial to keep up. Interesting to note that so much happens on Friday-Sundays and holidays.
Americans and their allies are intentionally being provoked. The ultra wealthy will do nothing. It’s up to the free folk who value morality and human dignity to stop this.
Thanks for mentioning Trump's parallels to the mass public slaughterer, president Duarte of the Philippines, who also boasted about participating in gang rape.
If memory serves me from his 2016 election, Trump's first call to a foreign leader was to...Duarte.
And apart from these blatant murders I wonder how many more dying in the ‘ concentration camps’ they calling detention centres. I really hate to think. So much trump & his co-horts need to go on trial for. All this immigration pretence, it’s just bullshit.
While this killing is abhorrent what may be worse big picture is the complete distortion of reality happening among republicans and their propoganda machine at Fox news etc. How many innocent citizens and immigrants have to be killed, kidnapped or brutalized before enough people wake up and demand this stop. Ultimately about 500 people are allowing America to dismantled (Trump and his cabinet / advisors, Republicans in DC, and SCOTUS). God help us all.
IMHO, the USA are no longer a democracy. After playing at overthrowing legitimate regimes to maintain their influence in South America, the time has come to face their own dictator. Sad.
I had an immediate aversion to your use of the word dissident. It doesn’t hit the way you intended it to. Why? Because it’s reductive to the point of meaninglessness. You could also call opponents of Joe Biden dissidents, so it distinguishes nothing.
The point is, and what is felt by Americans, that paramilitary goons executed two American citizens who were exercizing their constitutional and human rights to protest, defend their neighbors, and bear witness to their government’s violent, unlawful and inhumane practices.
America is long in the act of being a shit hole country at this point. I know because I live here in this fucktangle of an excuse of a fairytale of a "great" nation.
As a reminder, NONE OF THIS is about immigration enforcement. As reported by Pew Research ...
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
Correct. It's about trying to intimidate the resistance and provoke a reason to invoke the Insurrection Act. Period. And they're targeting Minnesota because it's a crucial swing state.
And your observations about Texas and Florida being left alone by ICE has everything to do with money and nothing to do with Immigration enforcement.
Also ICE will never be sent to Las Vegas for the same reason.
Portland, Oregon is still occupied, more the suburbs where working class immigrants live (ironically those suburbs voted for Trump) and there are protests every day.
He's butt hurt because he lost Minnesota 3 times.
Minnesota has gone for the Democrats in every presidential election since 1960 but one, 1972. And was the only state that voted for Mondale in 1984. Trump got within ONE percentage point of winning Minnesota. By flaming prejudice against Somalians.
Then in 2018, Minnesota elected a Somali congressperson, Ilhan Omar who became Trump’s congressional bete noire.
Just like JD Vance came for the Haitians in Ohio, Trump is coming for the Somalians in Minnesota. A small, not well known community he can safely demonize and torture.
The building Alex Pretti and his compatriots were outside of was the New American Development Center, a place for immigrants (mainly from East Africa) to help settle, forge lives, build businesses and build community and extend outreach to the community at large.
THAT’S WHAT TRUMP HATES AND WANTS TO DESTROY. The notion of new people of a different community integrating into America and making it better like so many other immigrant communities have in our history.
Bondi sent a letter to state officials demanding (amongst other things) voter data. It’s about election manipulation.
They’ve executed a lot more. He and Renee were white.
Yes. Now that they've come for the white people, who will be next?
Exactly, these are just the ones fortunate enough to be captured on multiple cameras. Imagine what isn't caught on film.
“It’s never hopeless. And it’s pointless and absurd to be scared of Trump when he’s scared of teenagers. Why do you think he got his pals to buy TikTok this week? The social media platform whose dumb dances and funny skits helped a generation get through a global pandemic? It’s because he’s the loneliest, most desperate man in the world.” Great statement. Thank you. 🙏🏼
Putin is also the loneliest, most desperate man in the world. If Trump had not been helping him at every turn, Ukraine would have won the war by now. The UK needs to sever all ties to the Russian oligarchs whom they have allowed to infest their country and its finances for decades. Trump has been doing that for decades here. It's a disgrace brought to us by rampant, unmitigated greed.
I wonder how much Putin is paying to have the US destroy itself from the inside out?
If it weren't for Putin and his oligarchs laundering their money with DT's help, our Orange Tyrant would have gone bankrupt permanently a long time ago.
Wonder whether Putin and Netanyahu (remember him?) compete or work hand in glove on destroying US democracy
Brainwashed tripe. Open your eyes. The USA extended NATO to undermine Russia. What ICE is doing in Minnesota, Ukrainian Nazi thugs did for a decade in the Donbas on a MUCH greater scale than is happening now in the USA.
You need to open YOUR eyes. Did you even bother to listen to Putin's speech to his underlings immediately after he invaded Ukraine a second time in Feb? Listen to it, because he said he intended to reconstruct the USSR, which he has been trying to do since Yeltsin agreed to let him rule Russia in exchange for not prosecuting him for rampant corruption.
Putin is our Hitler and ICE is breaking the law every day they're invading our cities. I respect the rule of law, democracy, and our Constitution. The lawless, corrupt criminals running this country clearly do not, and if you don't see that, you must not want the US to remain a democracy. You have no idea what life would be like under a corrupt thug like Putin if you support what is going on now.
Agreed. They both are out-of-control megalomaniacs who must be removed!
The pandemic is ancient history. Buying TikToc is all about control of peoples attention and sadly too much of our younger population is obsessed with stupid videos and not paying attention to the shit that is going down
TikTok is filled with unfiltered political commentary and real time reporting. That's why they have bought it.
Our younger population is following their elders in attention hijacking behavior. Same Play, Different Actors. I know too many seniors who are obsessed with stupid videos and other nonsense to criticize the young people for following that great American tradition of checking out because saving democracy is just too tough.
They're not buying TikTok because he's scared of teenagers or lonely. It's part of their campaign to flood social media with lies. Between that and the AI garbage, you don't know what's real and what isn't. Although with The Regime, it's kinda easy: everything they say is a lie. Our challenge is finding sources of information that have not been corrupted, and it's a real poser.
No it isn’t a poser. Independent media is expanding daily. It isn’t at all difficult to find journalists who are telling the objective truth and exposing the current realities in the USA. Female journalists of great worth, like Carole, are increasingly vocal, their audiences are growing. The historian @Heather Cox Richardson is one to definitely follow. As is @Anthony Davis. @Allison Gill, @Dina Doll, @Loren Piretra, @JoJo @Tara Palmieri also. And Status Coup, Meidas and Zeteo.
It is fucking horrifying to be here right now. But, we must fight the fight of our time, and this regime will not win. Period.
This murder and the others perpetrated by ICE should be the touchstone for nationwide fulmination. The fascist antics, increasingly violent, randomly directed and sanctioned by the morally bankrupt at highest and lowest levels must be stopped. Then the perpetrators, from the top down, must be brought to the same justice that befell the Nazi criminals at the end of World War Two. I remember the details of the Nuremberg trials and thoroughly dismayed by the terrible irony that the United States was amongst the group that instigated those trials. So two was the Soviet Union and behold the USA and Russia are treating their citizens and countries in the same totalitarian and oligarchic manner.
As a dual citizen of Canada and the UK, I thank Prime Minister Mark Carney for having the backbone to speak truth to power (and even possibly to shame Prime Minister Starmer into a somewhat feeble attempt to emulate).
I am sad that our friends south of our border are ultimately the victims of a decompensating psychopath. I do hope that the spirit of a country that set the standard for what a free country should be like, will be reinvigorated, refocused and awoken again in united defence of that legacy.
Ron
"And it’s why the mass cowardice of America’s rich and entitled and powerful is the real problem America is facing right now."
Carole, thank you for your 2 extremely important posts this week. You are so right that each day is a significant WTF news day and it’s crucial to keep up. Interesting to note that so much happens on Friday-Sundays and holidays.
Americans and their allies are intentionally being provoked. The ultra wealthy will do nothing. It’s up to the free folk who value morality and human dignity to stop this.
Thanks for mentioning Trump's parallels to the mass public slaughterer, president Duarte of the Philippines, who also boasted about participating in gang rape.
If memory serves me from his 2016 election, Trump's first call to a foreign leader was to...Duarte.
His name is Duterte
And apart from these blatant murders I wonder how many more dying in the ‘ concentration camps’ they calling detention centres. I really hate to think. So much trump & his co-horts need to go on trial for. All this immigration pretence, it’s just bullshit.
While this killing is abhorrent what may be worse big picture is the complete distortion of reality happening among republicans and their propoganda machine at Fox news etc. How many innocent citizens and immigrants have to be killed, kidnapped or brutalized before enough people wake up and demand this stop. Ultimately about 500 people are allowing America to dismantled (Trump and his cabinet / advisors, Republicans in DC, and SCOTUS). God help us all.
IMHO, the USA are no longer a democracy. After playing at overthrowing legitimate regimes to maintain their influence in South America, the time has come to face their own dictator. Sad.
I had an immediate aversion to your use of the word dissident. It doesn’t hit the way you intended it to. Why? Because it’s reductive to the point of meaninglessness. You could also call opponents of Joe Biden dissidents, so it distinguishes nothing.
The point is, and what is felt by Americans, that paramilitary goons executed two American citizens who were exercizing their constitutional and human rights to protest, defend their neighbors, and bear witness to their government’s violent, unlawful and inhumane practices.
How does one even defend themselves against these people?
Forget about ICE... this is Gestapo
America is long in the act of being a shit hole country at this point. I know because I live here in this fucktangle of an excuse of a fairytale of a "great" nation.
I’ve never been as much of a Vikings fan as I am now.