TGI Tabs
- Via USAT: Army base used for WWII Japanese internment will be nation’s largest ICE detention center.
- Via the Washington Examiner: Chris Pratt rebukes idea of being ‘allergic’ to Trump administration’s success.
- Via Le Monde: Paris summons US ambassador after he accuses France of ‘lack of sufficient action’ on antisemitism. (Which was also a reminder that Ivana’s father-in-law, you know the one who hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and then sent the videotape to his sister, among other things, is our ambassador to France).
- Via the Sun-Sentinel: DOT repaints Pulse crosswalk for a second time. FHP and OPD watching site.
- Via WaPo: Over 6,000 student visas revoked for crimes and overstays, U.S. says.
- By Paul Waldman at Public Notice: Don’t listen to centrist Democrats about crime.
- A minor, but still not insignificant, example of the continued cracks in the wall of the separation of church and state, and a very Evangelical signalling to boot. This is inappropriate for the official communication arm of a federal department. It is also a rather anemic response by the government of yet another school shooting.
- And some good news. The notion that throwing a wrapped Subway sandwich was felony assault was absurd and an attempt at intimidation, not justice.
The grand jury’s rejection of the felony charge was a remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington and the second time in recent days that a majority of grand jurors refused to vote to indict a person accused of felony assault on a federal agent. It also amounted to a sharp rebuke by a panel of ordinary citizens against the prosecutors assigned to bring charges against people arrested after President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents to fight crime and patrol the city’s streets.
About the frenzied effort to erase a rainbow crosswalk:
I was listening to the Behind The Bastards episode about Pete Hegseth’s book, American Crusade. It’s typical MAGA stuff, but the important aspect of that MAGA-ness is the proud public proclamation of their eliminationist goals. They don’t want to compromise with anyone on anything. They simply and starkly want the targets of their hate — liberals, LGBTQ+ people, RINOs, women and minorities in positions of power and influence, scientists, immigrants who are not whiter than white, etc. etc. — to be gone, never to be seen or heard from again. They will be aggressive and relentless in removing them.
That’s their top priority. Every other consequence or priority is just a pothole on the way to that destination.
So much this. It not only makes you look weak, but it can make you seem faithless and inauthentic.
I’m “praying without ceasing” that this administration ties itself in knots and implodes.
@Jay L. Gischer: Repubs call Dems/libs “weak” and then demand that they be so!
My hat is off to Robby Dodd. I love that you are doing this. Blessings. Keep drawing rainbows.
How dare you respond to tragedy with love and joy! You must be a Communist!
@Jay L. Gischer:
A week after Paul Waldman’s piece on responding to federal takeover such as is happening in DC, Mayor Bowser held a press conference where she said that the federal surge has helped with fewer crimes, saying “this surge has been important to us.” She did go on to say that the surge was responsible for a “break in trust between, police and community, especially with new federal partners,” but the credit given was too much for people including D.C. Council member Zachary Parker, who responded on twitter, “As I feared, our Mayor’s words are now being used to justify harmful federal overreach in cities nationwide. This is bigger than DC—or partisan politics. It’s about resisting creeping authoritarianism.”
And maybe not the point of the column, but the photo provides a preview of military takeover–a prominently positioned mine-resistant vehicle with a remote weapons station on top, because… maybe their Humvee was in the shop?
@Eusebio: I wonder if we should take that at face value. Trump could easily turn off a bunch of payments that would bankrupt the city government in a few weeks. It would be highly illegal for him to do it, of course, but he could do it. There is nobody gonna stop him.
So it’s conceivable that Mayor Bowser was coerced into making that statement. And yeah, you could still call that “weak” but you could also call it “unselfish”.
@Eusebio: Mercifully, Waldman is not the only observer to notice our erstwhile “liberal media” laundering fascist propaganda.
Trump’s military occupation of American cities is unpopular. The media is trying to manufacture consent for it. (Anne Caprara)
Trump/Biden-era press and institutions continue to beclown themselves. Epstein’s best friend and his media enablers assume that because half of the electorate is stupid, we’re all stupid.
Under the heading of YCMTSU:
ICE harassing fire fighters trying to get to a forest fire.
https://x.com/1zzyzyx1/status/1961203030784639471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1961203030784639471%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=
Just to split hairs on the division between church and state… for a statement an agency, I would agree with you. If an individual in the government made that same statement via their official twitter, I would be fine with it.
Aside from the uselessness and the weird wording, of course.
“Pray without ceasing” is just weird. It’s not 14 letters, at least, but that just leaves me wondering what I’m missing.
Anyway, we have a secular government, made of people who can be religious, for one Sky Daddy or Another. If Kristy Noem has tweeted it, aside from her being a horrible human being , it would have been fine.