The first sign of what was to come from Trump 2.0 may have been in the North Idaho town of Coeur d’Alene, where barely a month after the inauguration, black-clad private security officers violently dragged protestor Teresa Borrenpohl from a Republican town hall. For
@motherjonesmag, Michael Edison Hayden writes about how extremists conquered the area, and the growing group in Coeur d’Alene that have become fed up with being seen as a hub of hate.
U.S. late-night TV host Stephen Colbert isn’t backing down from public dispute with CBS bosses.
From
@AssociatedPress: Colbert claims the network's "lawyers told him he couldn’t show an interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico." CBS now denies that.
Sorry, but if a bunch of Jewish billionaire paedophiles decide they're going to live their lives by embodying all the worst aspects of the Protocols, that doesn't make pointing out their horrendous crimes "antisemitic".
"The scourge of rising antisemitism in recent years has found its latest manifestation in the government's release of millions of files about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,"
Matthew Schmitz writes.
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Republican pollster forced to admit American public believes Biden was better than Trump.
Just 27% of respondents said we are in “the Golden Age of America". That’s a HUGE drop from January 2025, when 52% believed the golden age was beginning with the start of Trump’s second term.
Biden was viewed as the better president by an 8-point margin, with 48% saying he did a better job than Trump with only 40% think the current president is better. #uspol#uspolitics#trump
Other than tattooing “We Are A Death Cult” on their foreheads, I don’t see any other way for Trump and the Republican deplorables to make that more clear.
Sticker stuck to a bus stop pole reading:
Neighborhood ICE watch
You have rights as a person in the USA
You do not have to open the door.
You have the right to remain silent
If stopped on the street ask "am I free to leave?"
It is legal to record ICE.
Refuse search without probable cause or warrant.
Ask for a lawyer.
RESIST FASCISM
Update: a 14-year-old U.S. citizen who was attending the Idaho horse race federal agents raided has described being zip-tied there. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal civil rights lawsuit today highlighting the mistreatment of families at the community event. Here's more from
@CBSNews.
According to
@WSJ, the Trump administration plans to reverse the finding that says greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. This would remove regulatory requirements around emission standards for vehicles and reporting obligations for some industries. Here's the full story [gift link].
An ICE field office means an active kidnapping operation taking people on a daily basis.
This article has a list of newly-opening ICE field offices that have been leased, but you can't access it via archive sites. List will follow in posts below.
I got a letter from our bank that my youngest's savings account was in inactive status and was going to the unclaimed property department if I didn't reply.
We've been in limbo with his SSA claim for over 2 years so there's been no activity on his account for that reason.
I called customer service to reactivate the account. They had to do some verification questions that the computer had the answers to. One of them was "what organization, if any, have you had contact with"? And a list of stores and hotels and Occupy Oakland.
How does the bank know I'm associated with Occupy Oakland? How did it get on the account verification computer? It struck me as so surreal and unexpected I'm having trouble processing it, tbh.
The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
The town of Wilder, Idaho, may have thought its deep-red politics could insulate it from the Trump administration's immigration raids. It was wrong. Federal agents swarmed a horse track last October, rounding up more than 100 people and later deporting 75. The town has a population of just 1,725. “We rely on Hispanic labor,” said farmer Chris Gross. She added: “Nobody thought something like this could happen here.” Here's more from @. [gift link]
Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has lived in the U.S. for more than 20 years, is married to a U.S. citizen, has no criminal record, owns a business and holds a valid work permit as part of an application for a green card. Yet he's been in detention in Texas for nearly five months. The Irish Times spoke to him about what's happening.