When SP and I bought this Little House In The Gulch, the idea was to fix things up and redo it in our image of a home we wanted to share. She was exceptionally handy with painting, electrical, and carpentry and could guide me through assisting her. Obviously, that didn’t happen. But enough years have passed for me to go back to our plan, but with contractors rather than a sturdy and self-reliant Appalachian woman with a belt full of cordless tools. So given that this is not a large house, everything is chaos as I stage things from room to room with the contractors one room behind me, literal musical chairs. A big complication is the, ohhhh, maybe 5000 books we accumulated, so they’re stuffed wherever I can find niches. And due to the vicissitudes of owning two large and energetic dogs, I have to be very selective of what I stash where, and determining how to limit their access.
Through all of this, my dogs as usual spend every conscious hour chasing, body-slamming, kangaroo boxing, and wrestling each other. With the construction, they have to do it outside in the bitter cold and snow instead of continually knocking around the furniture (and now ladders) in their struggles. And after I let them out and saw the wrestling commence, I came back in, shut the door, and muttered, “What of Lazarus?”
So many great birthdays today, it’s hard to know where to start. Maybe with a guy who may have even outdone Jefferson for range of brilliance; a pioneer of comedy films; an entrepreneur and champion of free markets; one of my favorite economists– and yours, too, I hope; everyone’s favorite senior; the best Catwoman; the star of the most hilariously bad baseball movie ever made and the voice of the worst news channel ever created; a cross between a baseball player and a gerbil; the unquestioned master of both puppetry and ventriloquism; simply The Greatest; an actual genius of comedy; the exact opposite; and a guy who makes me want to yell, “BANG! BANG!” just for the LOLZ.
And of course there are many LOLZ to be found in the morning’s Links.
Exactly as I predicted. Boot on face, forever.
“We can’t get union kickbacks from robots.”
Well, fuck them Danish anyway.
“Hey, there’s a rotary electric cheese grater! I know, let’s stick our dick in there!”
This is so spot-on insightful that it’s painful to read. And read it everyone should. If you only read one link this morning, this should be it.
Lots of noise, nothing’s going to happen.
I remember getting stopped by Customs in Luxembourg who panicked over a jar of diatomaceous earth in my luggage. Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
If you cross woke with weird anti-Chinese populism, what you get is this boondoggle. Or moondoggle.
When academic grift is challenged, expect screaming.
OK, what could be more fun than this? The Old Guy is pleased on several levels. Did I say fun? Yes. Yes, I did.
Who ever heard of a Jewish carpenter?
Trained for that but didn’t make a career of it.
Ive come a-cross one or two.
They keep their tools under lox.
Jesus is from Zacatecas, he’s good with electrical stuff too.
Maybe rent a storage space for the books?
Or get rid of them. We got rid of most of our books in a couple of phases over the last 5 years. There’s just not a good argument to keep most books. You’re not going to read them again.
Anything public domain is now fair game around here.
We keep bringing them home.
Likely never to read them.
My wife’s Goodwill score from yesterday.
https://ibb.co/rRZKzCxC
https://ibb.co/TBZSLHv0
“Trump did not clarify who he spoke to in Iran to confirm the state of any planned executions.”
Never change, NPR.
That whole article was a bag of crap. Iran didn’t hang a bunch of protesters but some other guy was mad…
People are starting to figure out Trump’s neo-con lite proclivities. He wants regime changes with cheap victories. Grabbing Maduro or dropping a few bombs somewhere without American troops permanently deployed. Even if it’s just a propaganda victory he can brag about for a week.
Now that the government has regained control in Iran and regime change didn’t work there twice in the past year, he’ll go away for a while. Until Bibi orders him back.
Not every military action is neo-con. Swooping in and grabbing Maduro, then conspicuously not occupying Venezuela, has nothing to do with the Trotskyite idea of exporting
the revolutiondemocracy. You can certainly object to it on isolationist grounds, and it is completely legitimate to question whether it will produce positive results, but it lacks the hallmarks of neo-con fantasies.I agree – that’s why I call it neo-con lite. It’s all about quick wins.
But like the hardcore neo-cons, there is still zero thought about “what happened next?”. In Venezuela, Maduro’s Socialist party VP took over and cracked down hard on any opposition.
It can still be a Wilsonian abomination without being a neo-con wet dream.
It can still be a Wilsonian abomination without being a neo-con wet dream.
I’m stealing that.
That story might not be over yet Jarflax. Let Venezuela go to (worse) shit with various power players there competing for advantage in the vacuum and the pressure to intervene directly will be immense because we broke a stable, albeit miserable, status quo. That move potentially set us up for way more involvement down the road. Even if it works out to our advantage it wasn’t worth the risk. Unintended consequences and whatnot.
All of that may well be the case, but the kneejerk attribution of every evil, mistake, or merely policy choice we don’t like to Neo-cons, communists, The Left, or the oldest favorite (((Us))) is overly simplistic. I share the hatred and distrust of:
Neo-cons
Wilsonian technocracy
Federal overreach
Adventurism
etc.
But the idea that this was anything more than Maduro thumbed his nose at Trump and Trump decided to send the message that you have to be a lot more powerful than Maduro to get away with that sounds conspiratorial to me.
And while I am a firm believer in the law of unintended consequences, I am rolling my eyes pretty hard at the idea that this broke a stable status quo. Venezuela was already a broken State and the hostile powers were already competing for advantage. That seems a pretty good reason for a quick saber rattle from where I am sitting, and this was close to my ideal saber rattle. It was quick, did not commit troops to endless occupation of a foreign land, did not get bogged down in fantasies of installing a perfect government, but did send the message do not annoy the US too much or we will bite.
This is why Dave Smith has been hard to listen to for the last several months.
I was never clear on what he even could do if/when the mullahs started stacking bodies. I guess his “red lines” are as ephemeral as Obama’s or Biden’s.
He could bomb them. Trump is against losing American lives, and long wars, but seems somewhat willing to take surgical strikes — Maduro, Fordow, etc.
True. Performative bombing is always an option. I guess I was more wondering what he could do that might actually make a difference.
He could bomb their port and let the economic chaos trigger a civil war.
I think, reading and listening to different sources, this started out as a somewhat organic protest against Iran’s bad economy. Similar to those kinds of protests in France which can get spicy. Then got highjacked into an attempt at revolution. If they had kept growing, the Air Force, Mossad, whoever, pops a few top men and hopes for a successful revolution.
But it went off the rails when they started burning mosques, including some very historical ones. Using the French analogy, most of the protesters saw a mob burning cathedrals and decided that it wasn’t for them.
I think every protest in Iran is, at some level, up for a revolution. In other words, there is enough discontent that there is always a chance things move past spicy and go into full Thai chili sauce right quick.
Them talking up Shah Jr. was counterproductive and smacked of outside agitation. Outside of the fairly small intellectual and secular middle class there we’re just not that popular and doubly so for Pahlavi. We should’ve kept our nose clean and let them sort it out and we’ll screw it up next time too.
I guess the authoritarianism, zero freedom, shit economy, and thousands dead already aren’t really all that bad after all if the people are unwilling to continue protesting and “shopping and street life have returned to outward normality”. What’s all the hub-bub about?
It’s a Wilsonian abomination, just with about 5 million fewer troops deployed and zero casualties.
American intervention in WWI helped set the conditions for WWII, so you’re a few million casualties short.
We also don’t have a solution in play in Venezuela, we’ve only removed one player. That isn’t going to stabilize a country that managed to commit suicide by electing Hugo Chavez in the first place. We’ve got a long way to go before we can crow about how wise and successful this intervention was.
So really it is nowhere near a Wilsonian abomination nor a neocon Iraq/Afganistan multi decade fiasco and much closer to a Jeffersonian action to remove Barbary pirates.
Only time will tell how good an idea it was. I would bet it will range from somewhat successful to fairly successful in the next few years. It most certainly out China, Iran and Russia on notice not to fuck around in our backyard.
““No, Dr. Oz. It is not ‘cool’ that we don’t have OBGYN’s in many rural counties in America. It is an international embarrassment,” Sanders wrote in a post on the social platform X. “In the richest country on earth, we need more doctors, nurses, dentists and mental health counselors, not more robots.””
What about sexy nurse robots?
I’m listening.
That’s what we’ll need for that. Very few people slog through medical school so they can set up shop in East Bumblefuck.
I’ve seen several documentaries on TV that prove that doctors don’t work for money, but for the desire to heal. And as for East Bumblefuck, we all know there’s a beautiful country sweetheart with a heart of gold that would melt that big city doctor’s heart once he gets settled in to the quirky little town and gets to know it’s interesting inhabitants.
Doc Martin fan?
Northern Exposure fan?
Our OB did a few ultrasounds but most of the time it wasent even a nurse, just a tech.
The war on drugs was our worst export.
The Global War on Terror was pretty shitty too.
“Speaking collectively as individuals”
SCIENCE!!
I taught chemical thermodynamics, so I can assure you that collectively is warmth.
Jointly and severally?
“I remain hopeful that the forgotten and nearly unbelievable level of violence of the early 1970s will not come to pass again. But I wouldn’t count on it.”
The only thing that makes think it might not is that the most rabid of our erstwhile revolutionaries are women. What we are seeing from them so far is basically weapons grade nagging, and I don’t know that they will make the leap from passive-aggressive to aggressive.
“Weapons grade nagging.”
Awesome.
FtM toxic masculinity?
The lefty wimminfolk could be pretty aggressive about 55 years ago. Have the Anarchist Cookbook recipes been lost?
Cut off their wine and this shit stops overnight.
They are drunk on privilege.
Common Tater gets it.
These women have never had to face any accountability for anything. They’re drunk on their own prerogative.
What I’m worried about is enough young men getting sick enough of the shit to start treating these women the way they think they’re already being treated by men.
Pretty sure younger men have turned WOMEN off in their brains.
Yes, and it’s unhealthy for everyone.
Unless they get behind the wheel of and SUV and decide to cosplay revolutionary.
ICE Boston
@EROBoston
On Jan. 11, ICE Boston arrested Iounut Andrei Stamatin, a criminal alien from Romania. Stamatin’s criminal charges include felony pay for sexual conduct with a child under 18, felony enticement of a child under 16, and attempt to commit a crime.
https://x.com/EROBoston/status/2011405471908078057
Look just focus on mexicans and leave romanians alone
You aren’t welcoming your countryman back home?
Renee Good died to protect people like him.
The unasked question is why the hell was this fine fellow not deported already?
The vast majority of internal immigration enforcement used to happen in jails and prisons (back when it was INS). The Dems didn’t like that and so they brought the idea of sanctuary cities. It was sold to people as “we won’t ask people reporting crimes or those getting a ticket for jaywalking or 10 mph over about their immigration status.” Totally reasonable and myself and most here would be fine with that. That slowly morphed into “no human is illegal” and active protection of illegal criminals from the Feds. And so now we are here.
It really is about time that mayors of “sanctuary cities” be brought to court. You can’t have mayors openly disregarding longstanding federal law. A city is not some fucking fiefdom.
Quite literally all of the hubbub could have been bypassed if mayors (and governors) of these places would simply hand over illegals in jail, as is commonplace everywhere else.
I have no problem with having a pretty fine filter for potential illegals in the legal system, even for minor offenses. I probably wouldn’t be quite so strict if we didn’t have such a major problem on our hands, but we do.
It seems that for the past decades compliance with deportation orders has been voluntary.
I read that as “lolnut” lol
Jazz Hot (1938) The Rare Short Film With Jazz Legend Django Reinhardt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxQxajcOyCI
Not bad for two fingers.
Holy shit.
/Filing away for future use when some Euro asshole bitches about how oh-so superior they are to the US.
Yeah, forced sterilization is no question slow-motion genocide.
Just wait until someone claims they found anomalies in the subsoil near the schools they attended, a la Canada. GENOCIDE! GENOCIDE! KILL THE DANES! KILL THE DANES!
FAFO
“It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye”
We try to teach and protect our kids but there’s only so much we can do. Then they make their own decisions.
My favorite part is all of the deflection.
“I was just there peacefully protesting.”
The Overton Window has been shifted on everything, including what “protest” means. What I can say is that assaulting cops isn’t in the traditional definition if the word,
Powerline’s weekly meme roundup has several pics of the Iranian woman lighting a cigarette with a burning picture of a mullah.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/01/the-week-in-pictures-swap-market-edition.php
I hope she is out of the country,* because if not she is going to come to a very bad end.
*highly unlikely
Reuters but:
https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/woman-who-lit-cigarette-with-burning-khamenei-photo-was-canada-not-iran-2026-01-14/
She’s already out of the country. Then again, considering the state of Canadian speech your statement might still stand.
Yeah, I was going to say. The most popular meme image appears to be a Canadian, but there are other women who have taken it up in Iran.
She’s hot. Good for the photographer and the image’s popularity. Half good for her. Too much attention for someone many folk wanna find, for good and ill.
Mornin’!
@Three door: I’m not sure how Walmarts point system works, but yes, I was late 2, maybe three times? I never did a “No show, no call.” I put in the system I wouldn’t be there at least the day before the couple times I knew I wouldn’t be there (also, maybe 3 times over 10mo). Once for an MRI and I left early a couple weeks ago for a dentist appt.
I thought telling them (not on the phone but on the app) in advance was a “call.” I’m also a bit confused.
Perhaps management would have liked as much notice as possible. Obviously I don’t know the official policy.
You’ll find something better and less tiring.
I’ll certainly find something better. The job itself wasn’t tiring other than the 3:48am alarm I set to clock in at 5. I usually walked 10-12 miles a day there, usually pushing or lifting something, welcome chance to simply make workout decisions based on how I lifted things. If I made ~$40/hr there, uh. Kinda a dream job. (I made 35% of that.)
This was gonna happen soon, regardless. I was gonna take next Monday ‘off’ (as best I could on the app) cuz I have an interview with Lt. Morris with the Indy Metro PD as a transcriptionist in the child and sex crime unit. Huh! That’d certainly be interesting.
And Tox! Your ? from the other day re weather: Away from the US for ~12yrs, with visits Stateside in between, I’m not shocked by Midwestern weather, but the cold was fairly exceptional considering the previous warmth it snapped. Had been upper 50s for a few days. But 15 down to -3 with strong wind’ll get your attention.
Possible quick writing topic: The weather in Singapore was what busted our balls. Yes, it’s always hot and occasionally monsoonish downpours were shocking there on the equator. But the lack of seasons is what got us, the three couples ‘from’ Daejeon, Korea who made the switch together. Every day was the same weather, though gotta check the rain, but every day was 12hrs of light. 7:15am-7:15pm … every single day. We lost track of when things happened cuz there was no seasonal change to ‘remind’ us of where the year ‘was.’
Interesting. I’ve never worked at a place that tracked or had a point system.
A stern word or don’t do that is all I ever got. Got away with sleeping through PT once in the army because my team leader thought I had a Drs appointment. That and he was a solid guy and I was one of the only non fuckupsnin my squad.
I likely would get fired in the modern workplace.
“Lefty TikTokkers are orchestrating groups of women to chase “d–k pics” and “selfies” of ICE agents in a twisted scheme to dox them, as attacks on immigration officers surge to historic levels.
A Massachusetts woman claimed to have coordinated a group to go on the dating app Tinder to dupe unsuspecting ICE agents into dates with the purpose of broadcasting their personal info online.
“I’m part of a group of about 20 or so women from MA doing this,” posted user pretty lilthang on TikTok, according to a Wednesday X post by LibsofTikTok. “We have a private FB group of around 1K ppl, some of us go on dates & others help on the back end w/background checks, finding info, etc.””
https://nypost.com/2026/01/17/us-news/tiktokkers-urge-users-on-dating-apps-like-grindr-to-expose-dox-ice-agents/
OFFS!!
Sounds like another SF story ripped from the future.
“I’ll trick those burly men to thinking I want to sleep with them and all of their muscles.” “ But I really want you my soy latte lover”
I’m doing it for the Somalians.
“Police have been banned from using a powerful, non-lethal weapon to control protests in an extraordinary federal court decision.
Judge Consuelo B. Marshall ruled on Thursday the Los Angeles Police Department violated a standing court injunction by deploying the 40mm and 37mm projectile launchers against protesters who did not pose an immediate threat of physical harm.
The ruling arose from protests in Los Angeles during the summer of 2025 following immigration enforcement raids carried out by the U.S Department of Homeland Security.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/16/us-news/lapd-is-banned-from-using-non-lethal-weapons-to-control-violent-protests-against-ice-agents/
I can’t wait until Summer.
I guess they’d prefer things to get out of hand so the rioters, pardon me-protesters, can have 9mm projectile launchers deployed against them. At least they’ll get more martyrs.
Let’s put the judge in front of the police line at one of these mostly peaceful protests, and see when he pulls the trigger on “immediate threat of physical harm”.
“She” and senior judge, appointed by Carter.
Wait. If words are violence, than isn’t yelling at ICE agents physical harm?
/limbers CS grenade launcher
Who was it here the other day who said, “Your speech is violence. My violence is speech”?
Carter? Was she 12 when she graduated law school?
Yeah, that’s bug-fuck nuts. I can’t imagine being stupid enough to fall for this.
And deliberately. These groups are using gullible, dumb AWFLs as cannon fodder.
They’re cosplaying as revolutionaries because there have been low level or no consequences thus far. Once that changes that White Savior complex will dry up pretty quick, among the women, who seem to be predominant, especially.
Well, we have seen one incidence of that recently, and it doesn’t seem to be putting the kibosh on things.
Special case, she pushed it too far and they know it although they pretend not to. Once these middle class gals start getting serious warnings and arrests for boxing ICE in and similar that’ll change.
The part that’s chapping me is thinking that stepping in between a government agent and their target is a risk free action. If I’m stepping between a cop and someone they’re planning on arresting, I’m expecting a quick escalation to violence of some kind. Hell, if I step between a bouncer and someone they’re trying to bounce, I expect a quick escalation to violence of some kind.
stepping in between a government agent and their target
[insert “you’re a special kind of stupid” meme]
“Yeah, that’s bug-fuck nuts. I can’t imagine being stupid enough to fall for this.”
Have you met any of them? It is the least surprising thing I will read today.
I thought martyrs loved their jobs.
“A new mural of slain Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska that was funded in part by Elon Musk has popped up on a Brooklyn building — and furious local lefties claim it’s part of a right-wing plot.
The three-story painting of Zarutska— who made national headlines when she was stabbed to death by a homeless ex-con on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina in August — was installed on an apartment building in a trendy section of Bushwick a few weeks ago.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/16/us-news/elon-musk-funded-mural-of-murdered-ukrainian-refugee-iryna-zarutska-went-up-in-brooklyn-and-local-lefties-are-furious/
meh
Poor girl, damn shame she was the wrong color.
It wasn’t that she was the wrong color, the person who killed her was the right color.
When escalating horrific crime to intolerable levels is your goal the murder of someone like her is something to celebrate.
These people are pure evil.
lol
I guess “sanctuary” laws banning cooperation with the Feds and outbursts like “Get the fuck out” are “alleged” too.
or “We’re at war with the Federal Government”.
I had someone argue with me that it should be OK for cities to set their own community standards for immigration, and that this is totally morally OK. So I said “then you must be cool with southern states and slavery” Man did that piss him off. He couldn’t say anything other than I must think immigration and slavery are the same morally, he couldn’t rap his head around that I was pointing out his situational ethics and how the morals are in the eye of the beholder.
The problem, however, is that part of why the left wants to keep them is for the cheap labor. They aren’t slaves, but definitely a permanent underclass.*
*Unless you run a Somali daycare.
Cool. So segregated neighborhoods, no gay marriage, bible reading in public schools, mandatory gun ownership, jail time for citizens who traveled for an abortion, banning of dancing and naughty books, prohibition of electric vehicles, dogs and cats not allowed to live together, etc. are all o.k. if that’s what the majority wants in that community?
Ugh. 🙄
I hate that totalitarian, criminal gang as much as the next red-blooded American but I’d really rather not blow tax dollars on this waste.
Potential for more dead DEI hires.
Speaking collectively as individuals, these elected members cautioned that ‘the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated’.
I tapped out of the academic grift article here. Too much stupid.
Because “science” can only be funded by the state.
Jesus, they didn’t see THAT coming? So they are true believers in their own bullshit.
Shit. That was supposed to be a reply to JI below.
Hey, Suthen. Haven’t seen you around in awhile.
Depends on who you mean by “they”. The people up the food chain have been hoping for exactly what happened. The useful idiots, well, they’re idiots.
“…speaking collectively as individuals….”
*facepalm*
Not the result they expected!
Least surprising news of the day….
Needs more “hands up, don’t shoot” training.
Yeah, in the past, me being a mostly stable person and all, it was hard to believe that so many people were acting so out of their gourds in the presence of the fuzz (or anywhere really). I’m still not the biggest fan but it’s definately given me an appreciation for the lunacy they have to deal with.
Yeah, in the past, me being a mostly stable person and all
Assumes facts not in evidence…. :-p
As an avid watcher of police use of force videos over the years I would say that article is spot on. There is odd exception, but for the most part cops have to deal with some exceptionally shitty and non compliant people and it normally gets dealt with fairly well under the circumstances. Daniel Shaver comes to mind as an exception, and there are others, but for the most part there doesn’t seem to be out of control police brutality. Some of that may of course be due to cops knowing they are being recorded of course.
Yeah those camera requirements are a huge positive for all sides. The only cops opposing them must be dirty.
It’s still a good idea.
TOS-style libertarians could benefit from that lesson too.
‘”Iran canceled the hanging of over 800 people,” Trump told reporters in Washington, adding that “I greatly respect the fact that they canceled.”‘
Talk about setting a low bar. “We’re so proud them for opting for lifelong torture and solitary confinement instead of the sweet release of death.”
I’m very much *not* supportive of US involvement in that shitshow, but I would be lying if I didn’t say that the world would be a better place without that Islamofascist regime.
You can’t possibly expect the President of These United States to not speak about any and every thing in every corner of the world because His Opinion is paramount. [Regardless of who the particular asshole in the White House is.]
The American people demand this!
I wish we would not either but they are at a choke point in international commerce…and they know it.
“We can’t get union kickbacks from robots.”
Sexbot brothels have arrived?
Friday Funbags is getting too old for this shit.
https://archive.is/XQVMZ
Friday Funbags aged out once the calendar turned to Saturday.
Today can identify however it wants bigot!
Morning all.
Diatomaceous earth?
I had a fun experience brining gumbo file into England. Heh. They had no idea what it was even after I explained it. They finally called the ambassador in New Orleans. He laughed at them and they let me go.
Why would the ambassador have been in New Orleans?
To give away his beads.
At the time they had an embassy there.
Well, Jesus is there, so why not the ambassador?
Probably a Consulate, and not an embassy.
File > okra.
Agreed…in most cases.
Sometimes I get a craving for a small pot of slimy fingerling okra cooked with lots of bacon.
Okra breaded and fried to the edge of crispiness is pretty damn good.
I wonder if there was a cat turd in it?
@Mo: Dunham was entertainingly saucy last night. I enjoyed their dance around saying what they both wanted to. Tastefully entertaining.
*thumbs up* (My thumb is also hatless, but I’d doff it if I could.)
Painful to read, anyway. I don’t have the patience for posturing egghead philosophisers anymore.
Blah blah blah that poor stupid woman who grew up with no meaningful comprehension of consequences. I’m back to that thing I linked the other day about mentally ill people whose brains are physiologically incapable of self awareness.
Guess what, ladies, the joke’s on you.
It is akin to the Clemens quote “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
Anosognosia.
“What can they do to me? I’m an Amer–“
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/01/the-week-in-pictures-swap-market-edition.php
When I woke up this was in my head
Cutie Singer best look out, for she’s the Ice Queen. She risks gettin’ harangued (or worse) by the awful AWFLs.
Beware the AWFL waffles.
‘This is so spot-on insightful that it’s painful to read. And read it everyone should’
Didn’t read yet, but I think most women just really expect no one to lay a hand on them, no matter what they do.
Channeling Bill Burr from another time: “really, no reason to hit a woman?”
Sean Connery comes to mind . . .
https://x.com/MuhammadAKJ/status/1868329753020928228
Spot on
…and then one day the wolf really did come. The little boy shrieked in terror and begged for help, but no one came. The wolf tore the little boy to pieces and ate him as the villagers laughed.
And they all lived happily ever after.
The end.
Speaking of the guild of the pantomime dragonslayers
Federal officers in the Minneapolis-area participating in its largest recent U.S. immigration enforcement operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who aren’t obstructing authorities, including when these people are observing the agents, a judge in Minnesota ruled Friday.
U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez’s ruling addresses a case filed in December on behalf of six Minnesota activists. The six are among the thousands who have been observing the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers enforcing the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area since last month.
Federal agents and demonstrators have repeatedly clashed since the crackdown began. The confrontations escalated after an immigration agent fatally shot Renee Good in the head on Jan. 7 as she drove away from a scene in Minneapolis, an incident that was captured on video from several angles. Agents have arrested or briefly detained many people in the Twin Cities.
She was minding her own business, just like all the other innocent bystanders undeservedly assaulted and brutalized by the Migras. When she realized she had taken a wrong turn, she attempted to exit the area, at which time she was brutally murdered.
“peaceful protesters who aren’t obstructing authorities”
Peaceful and aren’t being the keywords here. This doesn’t really change much.
I thought the narrative was that she had just dropped her kids off at school and was just going home?
The activists in the case are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, which says government officers are violating the constitutional rights of Twin Cities residents.
They weren’t doin’ nuffin’.
It’s like the little kids’ “I’m not touching you” game. It’s all innocent hijinks until somebody’s finger gets dislocated.
Peaceful and aren’t being the keywords here. This doesn’t really change much.
Exactly. It’s today’s iteration of “illegal orders”.
The ruling prohibits the officers from detaining drivers and passengers in vehicles when there is no reasonable suspicion they are obstructing or interfering with the officers.
“We stopped sideways in the road right in front of that big black Suburban full of armed masked men to look at our map. We were lost.”
RC Dean: “ I have no problem with having a pretty fine filter for potential illegals in the legal system, even for minor offenses. I probably wouldn’t be quite so strict if we didn’t have such a major problem on our hands, but we do.“
At this point my filter would be all arrests and bookings should be auto run through an immigration check and handed over to ICE if they come back illegally present in the country. So a DUI or an assault would get you looked at, but a run stop sign wouldn’t. That would take care of the problem in a much better fashion I’d say.
Rubber stamp deportations.
All of them.
Strip the citizenship wrongly given to their anchor babies and send them back too.
Auction every penny of their assets to pay for the cost of arrest and deportation.