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Dave & Confused Observations from Dave

I don’t understand how we’re letting this happen.
Famine in Gaza. People—children—starving, trapped in a place they can’t leave. This isn’t about politics or sides right now. This is about basic humanity. Why can’t we get them food? Why is this okay? It’s not.

Dave & Confused Observations

reading this like kinda knocked the wind out of me. full body shiver kinda stuff

Another ICE "assault" case unravels. Border Patrol and ICE are arresting US citizens and then after they find out that they are US citizens, they are charging them with "assault" to justify their actions. This is clearly DHS policy at this point. We've seen it repeatedly now.

Moldy food, dirty towels: Critics warn of inhumane conditions at California's largest detention center In less than two months, the number of detainees at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center has surged from around 300 near the end of April to more than 1,200.

why they won't let Dems in: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Why is ICE arresting employees but not employers? DOJ policy is to charge the most culpable people. The employers would seem to qualify.

Gina Ortiz Jones, a Progressive, Is Elected San Antonio’s Mayor Ms. Jones, a former under secretary of the Air Force under the Biden administration, prevailed over Rolando Pablos, a conservative with ties with to Gov. Greg Abbott.

Gina Ortiz Jones, a Filipino American who served as under secretary of the Air Force during the Biden administration, won a runoff election on Saturday to become the mayor of San Antonio, making her the first openly gay leader of the seventh-largest city in the country.

ICE Detains Family of Suspect in Colorado Attack

If they had probable cause, they could detain them criminally. If necessary to obtain info they could get GJ subpoenas or material witness warrants. But this is just hate. Will they do this to the family of every white supremacist who commits a terror attack too? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Dr. Badar Khan Suri officially freed from ICE detention.

Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity (Gift Article) When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House.

TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7

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They don't want to release him because it shows that they can.

Autistic teen shot by Idaho police dies after being removed from life support | CNN An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain-link fence while he was holding a knife died Saturday after being removed from life support, h...

An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain-link fence while he was holding a knife died after being removed from life support, his family said.

The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

Felon Freed by Trump Is Sent Back to Prison After Child Assault Charge Jonathan Braun, a drug smuggler, on Friday made an obscene gesture toward people in the courtroom and complained about his legal representation.

A drug smuggler whose prison sentence was commuted by President Trump was arrested Friday and charged with violating the terms of his supervised release after he was accused of a string of crimes that included assaulting a 3-year-old child.

Attorney for the Maryland father the Trump admin accidentally deported to an El Salvador prison:


"He was 16-years-old at the time he came [to the U.S.] He came fleeing harassment, bullying, and attempts at forced-recruitment from the very gangs that they're now accusing him of being a member of."

a man is covering his face with his hands while sitting in a dark room . ALT: a man is covering his face with his hands while sitting in a dark room .

Wisconsin out here looking for Trump's mandate like...

@smerconish.bsky.social
I honestly don't think he will allow midterm elections. There will be a crisis of his making and elections will be suspended.

All the pundits spending time on Dems’ message on trans sports could maybe use a little of their power and platform to talk about how vile this is.

Fact check: 33 times Zelensky thanked Americans and US leaders | CNN Politics Zelensky has thanked the United States on numerous occasions since Russian launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022 – expressing gratitude to Trump and President Joe Biden, to members of Cong...

Zelensky has thanked the United States on numerous occasions since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022 – expressing gratitude to Trump and Biden, to members of Congress from both parties, to US defense companies and their employees, and to the American people.

It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation.

I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, adding evidence to the idea that asteroids likely delivered the building blocks of life to our planet early in its history. cnn.it/4hk44qw

Serious question: can the president just spend all his time in office suing people and then use the litigation as a "legal" way of accepting bribes via "settlements"?

CNN's Jim Acosta signing off:

"I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too."

I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too.

Pass it on.

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."