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"Public frustration with the limitations of our offices will continue to invite provocateurs and opportunists," Wilson wrote, in part. "They'll insist that local police can impede or arrest federal officers at will, or that wielding civil land use laws and implementing fines can effectively remove ICE from our communities. "There is something quintessentially American about these demands," he added. "Like my fellow mayors, I, too, have wished that we could find a loophole or dust off a forgotten law. Portland's attorneys have certainly looked. That said, we don't need to pull a legal rabbit out of a hat to win. We only need to stay the course."

Portland, OR mayor Keith Wilson responding to public demands that ICE's land use permit be rescinded after they gassed thousands of peaceful men women and children.

Kinda curious what "the course" we should stay is here, Keith? Watching ICE gas, abduct and sometimes shoot our neighbors?

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

"Decency"

Believe his ass

It's a bit disturbing to think that Jeffrey Epstein may have been in touch with the head of the Secret Service Dallas Field Office as late as 2009, after Epstein had already been convicted in 2008.

If you knew that a racist who wanted mass deportations was coming into power, why wouldn't you end every single program that would be used against the people of your country? This is a question that should be asked.

The model (287g) had been killed by the Obama administration ...

It is simply not true that the Obama administration "killed" 287g task for models. They were always there, but were not implemented. In fact, community advocates were DEMANDING Obama and Biden end 287g altogether, but he did not.

Biden pre-pardoned his family and friends. Don't tell me people "didn't know." They absolutely knew. They protected themselves. They had two months after the election.

Annoyingly, this doesn’t specify what exactly is happening. But it sure seems like DHS filed a “motion to pretermit” the asylum application. Which it is doing in countless cases around the country.

There’s been a little reporting on this; there needs to be a bunch more. I’m working a piece myself.

Like clockwork, people like Yglesias are more focused on yelling at people who say "abolish ICE" than they are at little kids in prison.

Dem Overseeing 'Digital Assets' to Hold Luxury Retreat With Crypto Kingpin Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego, who’s overseeing a “digital assets” committee, is set to hold a luxury weekend donor retreat with a crypto kingpin.

"Democratic U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego will be holding a fundraiser in Sedona that features one of the biggest names in tech, billionaire Marc Andreessen, a booster of cryptocurrency and supporter of Donald Trump."

From AZ Daily Star
Also:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> to Michael Wolff Nov 5, 2017 7:14 PM the paradise paperrs show the kremlin funneling mone= to kushner by using uri milner. whoops Source link: https://www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA02571184?email=EFTA02571184-0

In 2017, it was revealed Yuri Milner—a Russian Israeli investor—used hundreds of millions of $$$ from the Kremlin to invest in Facebook, Twitter, and a Jared Kushner venture.

Epstein phrased it this way:

“the paradise paperrs show the kremlin funneling mone= to kushner by using uri milner. whoops”

I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.

it is so hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that Israel now accepts numbers that SO MANY journalists smeared for being propaganda and they still won't miss a beat in their genocide denial

the number of academics who were in touch with Epstein really puts the (elite) backlash to Title IX's enforcement against sexual violence into perspective.

oh.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak: Hi Jeff, are you going to be in London on Thursday?
Jeffrey Epstein: unfortunately, not. You should make clear that I don’t work for Mossad.
EB: You or I?
JB: that I don’t :)
EB: 👍😜⚡️🇮🇱

The Right has spent years trying to push a return to child labor and attacking age of consent laws. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they’re exposing us to mountains of the most horrendous stuff imaginable while also normalizing it.

So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.

Survey data shows that most Americans do not want to rein in ICE. They want to abolish it.

Hasbarists feeling nervous, as they should.

Americans are most definitely thieves who built on stolen land.

City Hall steps and balconies covered in students

Seattle City Hall right now, where students from around the city have gathered after a mass walk-out to protest ICE:

I cannot stand the "this is a good start" discourse. The Democrats in Congress do not want to abolish ICE. They have proposed a series of bog-standard reforms regurgitated by a think tank. Everyone knows they do not work. The Democrats supporting this do not care. They just want to move on.

It's not a moral panic. Delusions about satanic sex abuse rings in daycares, that was a moral panic. Salem witch trials also fit the bill.

Epstein is about specific known people who are either directly implicated or at least suspiciously in his orbit for one guy who really was raping kids en masse.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

That USA patch trash

From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.

The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago

The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

The SAVE act is bad.

#OtD 5 Feb 1885 King Leopold of Belgium declared his new colony the Congo Free State. What followed was one of the most horrific examples of European colonialism, with 8 to 10 million killed. More on colonialism in the Congo here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

My latest investigation, and first in a series for @towcenter.bsky.social
: How ‘Pink Slime’ Publishers Are Weaponizing FOIA

In the past year, we found a news-appearing network called Metric Media filed more than nine thousand Freedom of Information Act requests across all fifty states.