[K-Dog]

Do you think those highly educated folks like Dr Ehrlich were just slack jawed stupid by pulling the trigger half a century too early?

Not slack jaw stupid, and Ehrlich is an expert on teeth.  Knows about jaws he does.  He wrote an article about teeth.

But humanly stupid yes.

The curse of the capable is to forever expect from others that which only they themselves can see or do.

[RE]

There are a few events I found significant.

The Berlin Wall, 911, Katrina, AIG, Argentina, Egypt, Greece, Somalia, Cuba, Chernobyl, Fukushima, COVID, Homelessness, Global Migration, Trump...among others.

Frogs take a while to boil.



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[RE]

In the immediate wake of reports of an ICE-involved shooting on Minneapolis' north side, agents fire multiple rounds of tear gas, pepper balls, and flash bangs to keep the public at a distance.Dave Decker/ZUMA

Can U spell G-E-S-T-A-P-O?


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/radley-balko-trump-ice-paramilitary-immigration-militarization-police/

How ICE Became Trump's Very Own Paramilitary Force

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[TDoS]

some of our favorite bloggers like Kunstler, Orlov and Mr. Wizard

I'm hardly a fan of a theater major pretending he knows anything about my professional specialty either. But creating a theater like message to pitch nonsense? He can certainly do that, I still love "The End of Suburbia" and what passed for the opinion of anyone in that little video.
 

Kunstler is not one of our favorite authors.

I thought he was just another doomer opportunist.

[TDoS]

The curse of the capable is to forever expect from others that which only they themselves can see or do.

So he got his butt kicked on a bet with an economist because only he could see? And the dieoff by the end of the 1970's he was pitching.....did all of us somehow miss that as well? Or should we just change his meaning slightly and apply it to the global peak oil that happened that year instead?

[K-Dog]

UNICORNRIOT.NINJA • 2026-01-21

Right-Wing Influencers Desperate to Find an Insurrection in Minneapolis


Far-right provocateurs search for the right moment to pick a fight with protesters.

MARXIST.COM • 2026-01-21

United States: anti-ICE rage surges in Minnesota — prepare for a general strike!

Minnesotans are remarkable for their defiance and for the utter contempt shown towards ICE by ordinary Minnesotans. Even after these federal thugs showed their willingness to harass, detain, and murder foreign- and native-born workers alike, people in Minneapolis–St Paul have continued to alert their neighbors of the presence of ICE, track and tail their vehicles, throw snowballs, and curse at ICE agents while they attempt to round up their coworkers.

[K-Dog]

MIRROR.CO.UK • 2026-01-22

ICE agents 'detain five-year-old boy' and 'use him as bait to snare relatives'

The Columbia Heights Public School district has said four of its students have been detained by federal agents in four separate immigration raids over the past two weeks.

[K-Dog]

PBS.ORG • 2026-01-22

Cuban immigrant in ICE custody died of homicide due to asphyxia, autopsy finds

A Cuban migrant held in solitary confinement at an immigration detention facility in Texas died after guards held him down and he stopped breathing, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday that ruled the death a homicide.

[K-Dog]

PBS.ORG • 2026-01-22

Immigration officers claim sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says

Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people's homes without a judge's warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.

Writs of Assistance were broad search warrants that allowed British customs officials to search property without a court order and force law enforcement officials to help them. In 1761, James Otis challenged the Writs in court, leading John Adams to say, "American Independence was then and there born."

James Otis and the Birth of the American Revolution

The most significant event associated with American resistance to British policies is the 1761 Massachusetts court case of Paxton v. Gray. Following the death of King George II, new Writs of Assistance — search warrants — needed to be issued to British customs officials under the name of King George III.

A group of merchants in Boston believed Writs of Assistance were illegal and filed a lawsuit. They were represented in court by James Otis and Oxenbridge Thacher, who argued the Writs were illegal and infringed on the rights of the merchants.

During the proceedings, Otis delivered a fiery speech that lasted anywhere from four to five hours. One of the key points he made was that homes should be protected from being searched by British customs officials on a whim. He said, "...one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle..."

[K-Dog]

BRINGMETHENEWS.COM • 2026-01-24

BREAKING: Man dies after being shot by federal agents in south Minneapolis

A man has reportedly died after being shot by federal agents in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis on Saturday morning.

STUFF.CO.NZ • 2026-01-24

Man shot and killed by ICE agents in another Minneapolis shooting

The intersection where the shooting has been blocked off, and Border Patrol agents are on the scene wielding batons.

DAWN.COM • 2026-01-24

Federal agents fatally shoot second person in Minneapolis amid immigration crackdown

The man, was armed with a handgun, the Department of Homeland Security said.  The man was a city resident and citizen. A lawful gun owner with no criminal record.

KREM.COM • 2026-01-24

What we know about the 37-year-old man shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis

A 37-year-old man was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.

INDEPENDENT.CO.UK • 2026-01-24

ICE shooting latest: Victim of Minneapolis shooting named as ICU nurse as White House calls him 'would-be assassin'

The man shot and killed by federal agents Saturday morning in Minneapolis has been named as Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse.

[RE]

Inching closer to Civil War.

No way we're making it to free elections in November.

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[K-Dog]

WEGOTTHISCOVERED.COM • 2026-01-24

FBI agent quits after Trump officials try to blame the victim, Renee Good, in fatal ICE shooting

After the Trump administration decided that investigating the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good had less to do with the guy who pulled the trigger and more to do with why the victim had the audacity to be in the bullet's trajectory, an FBI agent from the Minneapolis field office decided his moral compass was incompatible with federal employment.

Unless you want to go along with the narrative you got to do what you got to do.  In this case quit.  I wish him luck finding a new position.  Perhaps when the time is right he can put some of the trump regime behind bars.

[K-Dog]

OPENDEMOCRACY.NET • 2026-01-22

Renee Good's killing reveals how far the state will go

 No one is safe. ICE expansion exposes the long deadly history of state violence against Black bodies at home and abroad

[K-Dog]

Serious Nazi shit.

It is about choices.  You make a choice and I give you consequences.  I follow the law and you don't.  I am the law and you are my bitch.

This is the operating system of Gregory Bovino.

KRQE.COM • 2026-01-25

Federal and state officials both claim moral high ground after Alex Pretti shooting

The moral highground of Gregory Bovino presented in a video inside the article.  He is Mr. Choice.  You make a choice - I give you consequences.  Henceforth Bovino shall be known by me as Mr. Choice.  This is a both sides article, but really ICE has nothing to say.  You make a choice, they shoot you.  No law involved.

[K-Dog]

DAILYMAIL.CO.UK • 2025-11-17

How a tragic family secret turned Greg Bovino from a quiet country boy into the force of Trump's unflinching border patrol crackdown

A family tragedy shaped Greg Bovino, the tough-as-nails face of Trump's aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration, when he was just a little 11-year-old country boy.  Now we all suffer from his daddy issues.  And we know who his daddy is.

More about Mr.Choice

TIMESNOWNEWS.COM • 2026-01-19
Who Is Gregory Bovino? ICE Commander's 'SS-Style' Uniform Sparks Nazi Comparison Online

A DHS promo video of Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino in a black trench coat and star pins drew Nazi SS comparisons.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom calling it overt fascism.

METRO.CO.UK • 2026-01-18

ICE commander with Italian immigrant grandparents Gregory Bovino made posterboy of raids

US Border Patrol Commander at large Gregory Bovino has been at the centre of several controversies recently, but who is he?