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Blow back time …

Yikes … Last April, at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons told attendees: “We need to get better at treating this like a business.” He called for a deportation process “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.”

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Minnesota in ‘uncharted territory’ as state, feds clash over shooting of Alex Pretti — The Minnesota Star Tribune State leaders successfully sued the Trump administration to force it to preserve evidence in the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.

Justice > Secretary Hegseth

“State investigators obtained a warrant, but were still denied access, according to Drew Evans, the head of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. ”

Minnesota in ‘uncharted territory’ as state, feds clash over shooting of Alex Pretti”
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This dictator wannabe administration picking off the Constitutional Amendments as GOP lawmaker Thomas Massie said "Carrying a firearm is not a death sentence, it’s a Constitutionally protected God-given right, and if you don’t understand this you have no business in law enforcement or government."

LOL ...

Great pertinent photo from Wired magazine article

White House releases vague new “big” health bill. The administration released no legislative text nor timeline for related congressional action and did not indicate whether Republican leaders support the proposal. Hand waving in other words…

I will reiterate that Melania Trump’s “genius” visa and working when her visa stated she could not constitute fraud and her citizenship should be revoked and she should be sent back to Slovenia with the rest of her family who got their citizenship on her fraudulent actions.

We are stuck Loud mouth idiot “border czar” fascist Tom Holman because as a White House advisor serving at the president’s discretion, Homan can be removed only by the president himself, not through congressional action

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I am finding solace in this magnificent motet www.composerofthemonth.com/spem-in-alium

In the authoritarian frenzy of this administration more ICE agents than Minneapolis police. ICE agents there have detained four members of the Oglala Lakota Nation, a federally recognized tribal nation of the Indigenous peoples who were in North America long before European settlers arrived.

“A number of those who practiced magic collected their books and burned them publicly; when the value of these books was calculated, it was found to come to fifty thousand silver coins.”
— ‭‭Acts‬ ‭19‬:‭19‬‬ ???

If I know this, others do as well Every major AI system depends on one GPU architecture (NVIDIA),manufactured at one foundry (TSMC), located in one place (Taiwan), using machines from one supplier (ASML), with precision optics from one manufacturer (Zeiss). Four single points of failure in sequence.

Because of the drug cartels and everything “In his news conference, Trump said the U.S. would be taking control of Venezuela’s oil production” umm … huh?

Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...

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A problem must be acknowledged in order to be solved.

Between March 17 and March 22 alone, the FBI paid $851,344 in overtime. From January to July, staff logged 4,737 overtime hours, more than 70 percent of which occurred in March, as agents worked nights and weekends ON THE EPSTEIN FILES REDACTION PROJECT before this release

Title 18 of the U.S. Code defines a war crime, among other illegal acts, as “the act of a person who intentionally kills [...] one or more persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including those placed out of combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause.”

It is significant that a number of high-engagement MAGA accounts on X (Twitter) that claim to be those of patriotic Americans are in fact from Russia, Eastern Europe, India, Nigeria, Thailand, and Bangladesh. Waking up, does not mean you are “woke”

FYI sort of interesting intern rates in the USA over the last few decades

Legal and medical experts agree that truth drugs have not transcended the experimental stages and are neither trustworthy nor reliable. … this includes NLP programming from over the internet… experts are saying

Rene Chambellan beautiful art deco bas reliefs tragically demolished in 1980 to make way for Trump Tower, and the promised Art Deco sculptures and grillwork were destroyed rather than donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as originally agreed.

As as former Democrat Trump and the other reality TV hosts ramp up a National Guard rapid response force one should look at Sudan this week “Militia groups defending the city alongside the army alleged the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rebel group “committed heinous crimes against innocent civilians”

Man wearing political head gear at DEM convention 2016

Meme popper

Woman with binoculars with the caption Oh look! A brighter future

One can hope

Preparing for the big shift ...

A federal contracting database lists an ICE payment for $61,218 with the payment code for “guided missile warheads and explosive components.” But not to worry, it appears ICE simply entered the wrong code.