U.S. Border Enforcement - ICE will get you

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I'm fucking outraged.

I don't normally bug my congress critters, but I joined the throng flooding them with "DO SOMETHING LOUD AND MEANINGFUL ABOUT THIS NOW!!" messages.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

California Sen. Padilla removed from press conference, forced to ground and handcuffed

The U.S. senator representing California was seen being taken out of a room full of journalists by two men as Noem continued to speak.

www.kcra.com

I'm about to have an aneurism...

After CA Senator Alix PAdilla was forced out of the room and to the ground, that fucking fascist Noam said: “We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into this city.”

While I would expect nothing better from a puppy murderer, she, and those who sent her, belong on trial for high crimes against the United States.

I hope I live to see it.

What a fucking birthday.

It also says a lot that right wingers have to lie their heads off about stuff that we can clearly see in the video They are claiming he "charged" the podium and didn't identify himself, both obvious lies.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

US citizen blasts ICE after being detained as he drove to work

ICE and Homeland Security agents forced Elzon Lemus out of his car and detained him for between 20-25 minutes, apparently based solely on his appearance

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Innula Zenovka]

US immigration officials told to largely pause raids on farms, hotels, NYT reports

"Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels,” Tatum King, a senior official at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in guidance to regional leaders of the department, the Times added.

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the guidance to the Times and said: “We will follow the president’s direction and continue to work to get the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens off of America’s streets,”

Presumably Republican donors in the agriculture, meat packing and hospitality industries have been bending TACO's ear.

 

[Soen Eber]

No mention of "not using tear gas on babies and young children in enclosed spaces," however. $o the new dictate$ are probably not $ourced from a new focu$ on compa$$ion and public health.

 

[Mona Eberhardt]

Currently I have no inclination whatsoever to visit the US.

Or Greece, where thuggish Israeli tourists run rampant against the locals.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Authoritarian strongmen are torturers searching for pain points

Why they love to exploit illegal immigration

nickcohen.substack.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Reuters report that

Trump administration weighs adding 36 countries to travel ban, memo says

The countries that could face a full or a partial ban if they do not address these concerns within the next 60 days are: Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Ethiopia, Egypt, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, South Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

That would be a significant expansion of the ban that came into effect earlier this month. The countries affected were Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

 

[Free]

Nobody likes these guys. Who would have thought that?

Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social)

FIFA Club World Cup ticket sales tank dramatically after the Dept. of Homeland Security bragged that agents would be “suited and booted" at the stadium in a now-deleted social media post https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fifa-club-world-cup-ticket-prices-dhs_n_68505826e4b043333688af81

bsky.app

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

New York City mayoral hopeful Brad Lander arrested by ICE agents

The politician, who is running to become the Democratic mayoral candidate for the region, was detained while escorting a defendant out of an immigration court.

news.sky.com

 

[Soen Eber]

Or Greece, where thuggish Israeli tourists run rampant against the locals.

I've heard stories about Israeli tourists, but nothing I can repeat without research ... and I haven't time for that anymore.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I've heard stories about Israeli tourists, but nothing I can repeat without research ... and I haven't time for that anymore.

I googled "Greece Israeli tourists" and, apart from stories about Israeli tourists being stranded in Greece because Israeli airspace is currently closed because of the attacks on Iran, all I could find were stories like this

Israeli tourists attacked in Athens for speaking Hebrew, wearing Star of David

Man in 40s reportedly stabbed in the forehead; Foreign Ministry says one assailant fled while the other, 'Gazan known to have participated in pro-Palestinian protests,' detained

www.timesofisrael.com

and, more recently, this

'Nobody Helped Me': Israeli Tourist Attacked in Athens for Speaking Hebrew -- Then Handcuffed by Police | Combat Antisemitism Movement

An Israeli tourist was attacked in Athens, Greece, this week by a violent mob after he was heard speaking Hebrew in public -- and in a disturbing turn of

combatantisemitism.org

and this

Greece: Four charged with racial violence for confrontation with Israelis

Four Greek citizens have been charged with 'racially motivated violence' following an incident in Athens involving a group of Israeli tourists.

www.israelnationalnews.com

Maybe the reports about thuggish Israeli tourists appeared only in the Greek-language press?

 

[Free]

I googled "Greece Israeli tourists"

It's a little strange, but I tried googling "Grease Israeli tourists", and got this for a result:

Grease is the word | The Jerusalem Post

This Hanukka, you can find the perfect doughnut from classic jam to crazy combinations across Jerusalem.

www.jpost.com

 

[Soen Eber]

It may have been just stories of them being lousy tippers now that I remember it

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Further searches eventually took me to this.

«Live your Zionist myth in Greece»: Some (indicative) snapshots of Israeli provocations in tourist Greece | Defend Democracy Press

www.defenddemocracy.press

I don't know anything about the Delphi Initiative and couldn't find much online other than this,

Delphi Initiative - SourceWatch

www.sourcewatch.org

People will have to draw their own conclusions about the sources for the article and the various incidents it describes.

 

[Free]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Go Dodgers!

 

[Free]

Go Dodgers!

Sorry, life long Red Sox fan. But I feel it in spirit.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Link to Guardian article

On Wednesday morning, Ice’s detainee locator showed that Sotelo had been moved more than 1,500 miles south-west to the Akima-run Florence service processing center in the Arizona desert. Ice did not notify the family or their lawyers about the relocation.

In response to a Guardian inquiry about whether Ice had no obligation to inform families and attorneys of a detainees status, a spokesperson for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) replied, “that is correct”. Ice did not respond to other questions about the case, including whether officers had a warrant or any documentation of a criminal record for Sotelo.