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fwiw ...

What is CSAM?
rainn.org

... Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is not "child pornography."

It's evidence of child sexual abuse -- and it's a crime to create, distribute, or possess. CSAM includes both real and synthetic content, such as images created with artificial intelligence tools. ...


@#13 ... Donald Trump intends to kill people who live in Minnesota. ...

Considering that the great people of Minnesota have not voted in favor of Pres trump in 2016, 2020,or 2024, he seems to have a grudge against the state.

A retribution-style grudge.

To wit ...

Minnesota
www.270towin.com

... Minnesota, cobbled together from land that was part of the original United States, land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase and land acquired from Great Britain in 1818, joined the Union in May, 1858.

Minnesota voted exclusively Republican from 1860 through the onset of the Great Depression, except for 1912 when it sided with Progressive candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt. From 1932 onward, the state has primarily voted Democratic, last voting Republican during Nixon's landslide victory in 1972.

Outside of Washington, D.C., it is the longest Democratic streak in the country. In 1984, Minnesotans gave homegrown Senator Mondale his only state in the lopsided loss to Ronald Reagan. In 2024, Kamala Harris won by 4% over Donald Trump.

Minnesota has had 10 electoral votes since the 1964 election. It was projected to lose one after the 2020 Census, but edged out New York for the 435th congressional district.

Recent Presidential Elections

Year Dem% Rep%
2024 50.9% 46.7%
2020 52.4% 45.3%
2016 46.4% 44.9%
...


Yet Pres trump said in a recent press conference that he won Minnesota those three years.

Go figure.


... The founder of ICE List said the website was overwhelmed by malicious web traffic originating in Russia after the Beast reported that a huge cache of personal IDs had been leaked to the site by an alleged Department of Homeland Security whistleblower.

What is Pres Trump going to do about this egregious attack upon an American website?

There's this ...

Kristi Noem pledged to boost the nation's cybersecurity. She gutted it instead. (October 2025)
www.politico.com

... Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem promised to prioritize a "comprehensive, whole-of-government approach to cybersecurity."

But over the last nine months, a key cybersecurity agency under Noem's command has had its staffing slashed by more than a third, axed funding for election security programs and scaled back its support to state and local governments to protect against cyber threats. ...



Where Were You Born?' ICE Conducting Show-Me-Your-Papers Stops in Minnesota Neighborhoods
www.commondreams.org

... "I was scared. I was devastated," said a Somali-American citizen who was accosted by ICE as part of what the agent called a "citizen check." No such thing exists in American law. ...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents deployed to Minnesota are pulling many nonwhite residents aside and asking them to prove their citizenship, according to several reports and multiple videos posted to social media this week amid the Trump administration's surge of immigration agents to Minneapolis.

There is no federal law requiring US citizens to carry proof of their citizenship, and immigration agents are barred from carrying out indiscriminate searches unless they have reasonable suspicion to believe that someone is in the country without authorization. ...


More from the article ...

... The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is fighting to unmask the owner of Facebook and Instagram accounts of a community watch group monitoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in Pennsylvania.

Defending the right to post about ICE sightings anonymously is a Meta account holder for MontCo Community Watch, John Doe.

Doe has alleged that when the DHS sent a "summons" to Meta asking for subscriber information, it infringed on core First Amendment-protected activity, i.e., the right to publish content critical of government agencies and officials without fear of government retaliation. He also accused DHS of ignoring federal rules and seeking to vastly expand its authority to subpoena information to unmask ICE's biggest critics online.

"I believe that my anonymity is the only thing standing between me and unfair and unjust persecution by the government of the United States," Doe said in his complaint.

In response, DHS alleged that the community watch group that posted "pictures and videos of agents' faces, license plates, and weapons, among other things," was akin to "threatening ICE agents to impede the performance of their duties." Claiming that the subpoena had nothing to do with silencing government critics, they argued that a statute regulating imports and exports empowered DHS to investigate the group's alleged threats to "assault, kidnap, or murder" ICE agents.

DHS claims that Meta must comply with the subpoena because the government needs to investigate a "serious" threat "to the safety of its agents and the performance of their duties." ...


Trump reiterates desire for Greenland following high-stakes meeting
www.reuters.com

... President Donald Trump reiterated on Wednesday that the U.S. needs Greenland and that Denmark cannot be relied upon to protect the island, even as he said that "something will work out" with respect to the future governance of the Danish overseas territory.

The remarks, which came after a high-stakes meeting between U.S., Danish and Greenlandic officials, indicate that there are still fundamental, if not intractable, differences between how Washington, Copenhagen and Nuuk see the political future of the island. ...


Trump would want military action in Iran to be swift and decisive, sources say
www.nbcnews.com

... The president has told his advisers he would want any action to deliver a decisive blow to the Iranian regime, but so far he hasn't gotten that guarantee from them, sources say. ...

@#80 ... Jeff reminds me of Donald Trump. ...

You left one off your list ...

He may use multiple aliases.


Trump: Yes, I've used aliases (2016)
nypost.com

... "You know, over the years I've used aliases," Trump said in an interview on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" that capped a day of campaigning across the Los Angeles area. ...

Pres Trump's destruction of USAID has given China the opportunity to obtain a major foothold in Africa.

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths (November 2025)
hsph.harvard.edu

... The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, "has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children," Gawande wrote. He noted that the toll will continue to grow and may go unseen because it can take months or years for people to die from lack of treatments or vaccine-preventable illnesses"and because deaths are scattered. ...

Then there's Pres Trump's apparent acquiescence to China regarding rare-earth minerals.

Then there's Pres Trump's attempts (and some successes) in killing scientific and medical research in the US, allowing China to continue pulloing forward in those areas.

... and I'm not even touching upon AI or Big Tech. ...



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