J Fifield

Opinion | If Only More Americans Could See This Place

If Only More Americans Could See This Place www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.

And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?

Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.

A Reagan-appointed judge has quit the bench so he can speak out against assaults on the rule of law (he is a senior judge so it doesn’t create a vacancy):
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Among items included in this agreement are an extortion payment of $30M & the requirement of admissions data restricted to race, GPAs, test scores, & school/college of students for what will likely be misconstrued analyses of admissions processes & student academic capabilities & achievement.

So the terms we had Bukele agree to were basically “no lawyers, no abortions.”

No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.

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Live: Travelers’ tensions running high at MSP this morning Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport sees air traffic reductions Friday amid Washington stalemate that halted air traffic controllers’ pay.

So far, canceled destinations are heavy in the Midwest: Rochester and Duluth in Minnesota, Aberdeen and Sioux Falls in South Dakota, Madison in Wisconsin and Minot in North Dakota. Flights to Delta hubs such as Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York-JFK are being spared so far.

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

“The destruction of U.S.A.I.D. [caused] public man-made death. And the cruelty and lethality will only grow as the Administration expands its rollback of public-health advances to the homeland.”
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

MSP targeted for flight reductions amid federal government shutdown Delta is starting to scale back operations at the airport, but uncertainty lingers about who will be affected and how

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is among the 40 airports nationally slated to see air traffic reductions because of the ongoing federal government shutdown, a move analysts predict will cause massive disruptions.

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An Englewood, CO cop, put a driver in an illegal chokehold for 12 seconds because he spoke Spanish.
Bodycam footage shows the man never resisted. He begged, “I don’t know what you say… translator, please. My neck… water for me, please.”
The cop shouted only in English: “We’re not gonna play this!”

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”

@reuters.com #Chicago
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“My Community Is Under Invasion from Our Own Federal Gov’t”: Evanston Mayor Decries ICE Raids in Illinois Amid federal immigration raids in the Chicagoland area, the mayor of one Chicago suburb is on the frontlines of the anti-ICE protest movement. Mayor Daniel Biss says what he has seen of federal immigr...

“They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason.”

That’s the second reported and sourced story on US soldiers not being fed today

Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...

NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year.

The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices.

But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low.
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Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley. The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startup...

Since Trump took office, virtually all CFPB investigations have ground to a halt, including three probes into Andreessen-backed companies, according to the records and the people familiar with the cases. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Child care worker detained by ICE inside a Chicago day care as children watched Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.

This is Trump’s America. Arresting someone here with papers to be here legally in front of preschool children. Trauma, Chaos, unfettered aggression and cruelty.

This week, WaPo published a “profile” re: Chris Buskirk—who co-founded the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network w/ JD Vance. Curiously, the profile omitted Buskirk’s ties to “Christian Nationalism” via American Reformer (where he is a director), which supports William Wolfe’s organization. This guy ⬇️ 1/

Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation.

They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

American Nazis in DC are shouting what they previously were merely saying out loud. (The "quiet part" has not been the quiet part for years, by the way.)

Supreme Court has expanded presidential powers under Trump. How far will it go? The justices will hear arguments Wednesday on the legality of most of the president’s tariffs — the first in a series of tests of sweeping claims of authority.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the legality of most of President Trump's tariffs — the first case to reach the justices in a series of high-stakes tests of Trump’s sweeping claims of authority.

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It. Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

An EPA report found that the forever chemical PFNA interferes with human development and likely causes damage to the liver and male reproductive systems.

The agency has sat on the report for months. “Scientifically, it was done,” said one scientist.

The plan is the latest step in an unprecedented Trump administration initiative to pool confidential data from varied sources that it claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls, tighten immigration enforcement and expose public benefit fraud.

DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks It’s the latest step in an unprecedented initiative to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.

JUST IN: The Department of Homeland Security says it intends to add state driver’s license information to a swiftly expanding federal system envisioned as a one-stop shop for checking citizenship, raising concerns about privacy and accuracy. www.propublica.org/article/dhs-...

"tone-deaf" is the key in which they play all their greatest hits

Oregon National Guard troops were at Portland’s ICE facility hours after a judge on Oct. 4 barred their deployment in the city, a USDOJ lawyer admitted in court Monday.

Crt. Exhibit below shows ONG at ICE facility on 10/5

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Story to come on start of trial.

2. I was provided and reviewed discovery in this matter which included multiple videos taken by an undercover officer planted on the sidewalk outside the gate to the Ambience apparel factory on June 6, 2025. It is apparent from the perspective of the videos that the undercover officer was walking around on the sidewalk amongst the civilians who had been gathering outside the gate to the Ambience apparel factory. His videos begin hours before and include the arrest of David Huerta. The videos show that someone standing on the sidewalk could easily see through the driveway gate which gate is made of vertical metal bars several inches apart, and could see officers inside the gates detaining and transporting people of color. It appears from the videos that David Huerta was outside the gate for about 30-45 minutes before his arrest. One of the videos shows the gate opening as an unmarked white van turns off the street entering the driveway to the factory 3. Amongst the dozens of protestors at that location, on information and belief, only Mr. Huerta was arrested and charged that day. The video shows that during his arrest, without apparent cause, agents flung Mr. Huerta to the ground and pepper sprayed eyes. 4. I also reviewed reports of the events that were provided in discovery. Those reports include that David Huerta told an agent interviewing him after his arrest while still on the Ambience premises that that he was the president of SEIU USWW, a local service workers union. A search warrant directed to SEIU USWW for his phone and provided to me the night of June 6, 2025 corroborated that the government knew of his employment at the union

Note the conspiracy to obstruct charge against @katmabu.bsky.social is the same charge with which DOJ attempted to charge SEIU CA President David Huerta. (DOJ recently charged him instead w/a misdemeanor.) Here's what his attorney said in moving to dismiss the complaint with prejudice.

Breaking on MSNBC:

Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

Brian Krassenstein

“New video shows the catastrophic damage from Category 5 Hurricane Melissa in Black River, Jamaica.

So sad.”

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