A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of a Mexican man from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Minnesota after he suffered "life-threatening" head injuries after his arrest. A man identified in court documents as Alberto C.M., who entered the country legally on a temporary worker visa in 2022, was hospitalized with skull fractures and brain hemorrhages shortly after his arrest in St. Paul during Donald Trump's surge of immigration enforcement officers in the state. The cause of his injuries is still unknown. According to the lawsuit, officers told hospital staff that he was "laying down in handcuffs when he attempted to flee, and then, for unknown reasons, purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall." ICE has "largely refused to provide information" about what happened, except to say that he "he got his s*** rocked," according to the judge.
A lot of us are simply pining for that day when Donald Trump will simply say, "I've had enough." And walk away to never bother us again.
Unfortunately, Trump is not going to give up being the center of attention in every single major event in the world. His ego simply demands that that continue.
However, we will have a brief reprieve on Super Bowl Sunday. Read more
A conservative strategist on why Trump's support is sinking among key groups and what it means for the future of his coalition.
Peggy Flanagan, the progressive pick in the race for Minnesota senator, says the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is beyond fixing. Her opponent in the Democratic primary, centrist Angie Craig, isn't so sure. "We need a system to enforce immigration laws in this country, but ICE has completely lost the trust of the American people, and they continue to act in ways that are illegal and unconstitutional," Flanagan, the state's lieutenant governor, said in an interview. "We need to completely overhaul this agency and start over." Craig, a Minnesota congresswoman who represents a swing district, said she's opposed to Trump's "version of ICE," but warned that Democrats risk going too far in their response and could alienate independent voters
There's been a lot of speculation about whether Rcade still runs this site and only checks in every few months, or if he's sold it to someone else, possibly even someone linked to the government. What do you all think?
U.S. Department of Justice has slashed funding and training resources for law enforcement working on investigations and prosecutions of sex crimes against children. Worse, prosecutors and official are terrified of discussing the cuts, which limit their ability to carry out this work, for fear of losing their jobs. "You don't want to speak too loudly, because you just fear retaliation, and that's a heavy hand to be dealt when you're just trying to do your job," one prosecutor told the Guardian. "The sweeping cuts, enacted soon after Donald Trump began his second term as US president, are putting vulnerable children at risk and impeding efforts to bring child predators to justice, according to four prosecutors and law enforcement officers specializing in cases of child sexual exploitation, speaking on the condition of anonymity," the Guardian reports.
Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist recently appointed as chair of a highly influential federal vaccine committee, questioned the need for immunizing against illnesses like polio in a podcast interview released Thursday. Last month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed Milhoan to be chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last month. As you look at polio, we need to not be afraid to consider that we are in a different time now than we were then," he said. "Our sanitation is different, our risk of disease is different and so that those all play into the evaluation of whether this is worthwhile of taking a risk for a vaccine or not."
Fuck this shit. Read more
Since Ruby Ridge and Waco in the 1990s, a faction of right-wing populists had excoriated federal law enforcement. Now those agents are being deployed by their allies
Rational self-interest motivates autocratic regimes to employ idiots. Read more
A greatcoat worn by the senior US border patrol official Gregory Bovino, who has spearheaded aggressive immigration operations across the country, has raised eyebrows in German media with some commentators saying it resembled a fascist aesthetic. Bovino has been an increasingly recognisable figure during the raids in Minneapolis for the brass-buttoned, calf-length olive green coat, which is unlike the fatigues and body armor worn by many of the federal agents. Along with his close-shorn haircut, the media organization Der Spiegel suggested in a video feature that Bovino's look recalled that of a Nazi officer. Read more
The video speaks for itself. I will leave it at that.
China is no longer the top security priority for the US, according to the Pentagon's new National Defense Strategy. The document, published once every four years, instead says that the security of the US homeland and Western Hemisphere is the department's chief concern, adding that Washington has long neglected the "concrete interests" of Americans. The Pentagon also says it will offer "more limited" support to US allies. Read more
The Who's live sound in the late 1960s may have sounded metallic, but their studio work was definitely more comparable to that of emerging prog-rock artists.
In 1969, many professionals and music fans began to compare The Who to Robert Fripp's formative band, King Crimson.
Like The Who, King Crimson valued complex composition and evocative themes and also had a huge influence on the heavy metal wave, especially with the enduring classic '21st Century Schizoid Man'. Read more
According to the President the Civil Rights Movement - that modest attempt to stop lynching, segregation, and legally enforced white supremacy - was actually very hard on white people. Apparently the real victims of Jim Crow were the people doing Jim Crow. Read more
"The files on ztrk, some of which previously were not available to the public, indicate further that the government relied solely on the inferences made from an op-ed she wrote for the student newspaper to carry out the revocation of her visa, her arrest, and her detention," the Globe reported. ... Among the newly unsealed documents is a DHS summary of findings on ztrk, with ex-DHS official Andre Watson writing that the student's actions may have constituted "violations of President Trump's executive orders on anti-Semitism," and that her continued presence in the United States could "have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences." Read more
