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Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists
www.mprnews.org

... When Judy Levy got a message on Tuesday from a member of her book club telling her that ICE agents appeared to be staging in a nearby parking lot, she and her husband Noah jumped into their car and drove over. They were the first observers on the scene.

The St. Paul couple followed when eight SUVs filled with masked and armed men peeled out of the parking lot. After failing to shake the observers, the frustrated agents halted their caravan in the middle of traffic and surrounded observers' cars, threatening them with arrest for impeding law enforcement.

Agents took photos of Levy and other observers' license plates. Then a masked agent walked up to Judy Levy's passenger side window.

The agent said: "Hello Judith. How are you today?'"

Judy Levy was shaken, but the couple followed when the federal agents' caravan started up again. That's when ICE vehicles turned onto Levy's street. They almost couldn't believe it.

"Our street is off the beaten path, you don't go down our street to get to anywhere." Noah Levy said. "I'd be lying if I said it wasn't intimidating." ...


"Go save a drowning swastika."

You want to talk about swastikas? Okay, thanks for bringing that up! "Swastika" is a common name for women in India and among Indian populations abroad, as the term means "good fortune" or "well-being" in Sanskrit and is an important symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.

Notable individuals and recent news stories featuring Indian women named Swastika include:

Swastika Ghosh: An Indian professional table tennis player who is currently the India number three and has a world ranking in the top 110. She has represented U Mumba TT in the Ultimate Table Tennis league and has been recognized with the Shiv Chhatrapati Award.
Swastika Chandra: A woman from Sydney, Australia (who grew up in Fiji where the name is common) who made global headlines in 2024 after her Uber account was banned due to the app's global policy on "potentially offensive words". She refused to change her name, stating pride in her identity, and her account was eventually reinstated with an apology from Uber after intervention from the Hindu Council of Australia and the NSW Attorney-General.
Swastika Mukherjee: A prominent Indian actress who commented on the controversy surrounding the use of the name and symbol, stating her pride in her name and hoping that governments would understand the distinction between the political and personal uses of the word.
Swastika Budhathoki: A young woman who called into a local radio station in New York to discuss her name when a town called Swastika was considering a name change.

I would gladly save any of these Swastikas if they were drowning, and also defend them from bigots such as yourself.

Another network that underwent an ownership change, sees different results ...

MS WOW: Rebranded Network Sees Double-Digit Growth Since Shedding The MSNBC Name (December 2025)
www.forbes.com

... Whether viewers like MSNBC's new name or not, it seems they're sticking with the cable news network now known as MS NOW, for My Source: News, Opinion, World.

As media divorces go, this one has been surprisingly smooth and uneventful. NBC, by spinning off its cable properties, walked away from its nearly 30-year relationship with MSNBC. The settlement gave NBC full custody of the peacock, the NBC name and news legacy dating to the earliest days of television, and it kept the house"the network's headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, where MSNBC moved its studio operations about 20 years ago. ...

In the news business, change carries enormous risk, as viewers tend to fall into habits and don't often like being forced to adjust to new anchors, new programming lineups, or having to search for their favorite programs on new channels. So, it's noteworthy that MSNBC's highest-rated show, The Rachel Maddow Show, has gained viewers on MS NOW.

According to ratings data compiled by Nielsen, Maddow has gained on Fox News Channel's Hannity and won the 9 p.m. ET hour (Maddow airs weekly on Monday nights) among viewers 25-54, the key demographic valued by advertisers"for five consecutive weeks since the launch of MS NOW. Among total viewers, Maddow ended 2025 with an average audience of 1.9 million viewers, trailing Fox but tripling the viewership of CNN's The Source with Kaitlan Collins (600,000 viewers). ...


From the sub-summary ...

... Joseph H. Thompson, the second in command at the U.S. attorney's office and oversaw the fraud investigation in Minnesota, joined his colleagues in quitting over the Justice Department's push to investigate Renee Good's widow and its reluctance to investigate Ross. ...

Gov Walz's comment on this ...

Governor Walz Statement on Six Prosecutors, Including Joe Thompson, Resigning from U.S. Attorney's Office
mn.gov

... Governor Tim Walz today released the following statement following the resignation of at least six prosecutors, including former acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota.

"Joe Thompson is a principled public servant who spent more than a decade achieving justice for Minnesotans. This is a huge loss for our state," said Governor Walz. "This is the latest sign that President Trump is pushing nonpartisan career professionals out of the Department of Justice and replacing them with his sycophants."

Thompson has worked extensively with state regulators and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to bring federal prosecutions against fraud involving public programs. His work supported oversight, enforcement, and program integrity. ...



@#8 ... Collosal

Why is this underlined? Anyone? ...

If your comment is referring to the use of the word in #1...

The word Collosal (and the words "waste of money" after it) are underlined in this instance because they represent a http link.

In the cited instance, the link winds up at an X post that says...

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... Hegseth took Laura Loomer and a bunch of right wing podcasters on a $380,000 an hour joyride on the Doomsday Plane for 6 hours at a cost of $ 2,290,000 each way from DC to LAX , just so they could film Hegseth working out at UCLA. This is a major security breach



www.nbcnews.com

Ballwasher the dumbass.

#3 I guess bell boi thinks that all of this is due to SCOTUS decisions:

- 19th Amendment | Women's right to vote

- Apollo 11 | First manned moon mission (and all of the value-added innovations)

- Social Security | Social insurance program

- Medicare | Health insurance for seniors

- NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization - the political and military alliance between the US, Canada and Europe

- Medicaid | Health care program for low income people

- Securities and Exchange Act Law | Oversee the trading of securities and protect investors

- Rural Electrification Act | Federal loans for the installation of electricity to serve rural areas

- Peace Corps | American volunteers promoting friendship, goodwill and peace around the world

- Unemployment Benefits | Temporary payments to the unemployed

- Fair Labor Standards Act | Ending the cruel practice of child labor

- Servicemen's Readjustment Act | The GI Bill, which has benefited millions of returning soldiers

- Federal Home Loan Program | Guaranteed loans that allowed millions of Americans to become homeowners

- National Industrial Recovery Act | 8 hour workday, minimum wage, paid overtime, and the right to collective bargaining

- National School Lunch Act | Free or low-cost meals for children who might otherwise go hungry

- 1965 Voting Rights Act | Prohibits discrimination in voting

- National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis | Forerunner of the March of Dimes

- Head Start Program | Comprehensive services for low income families

- 1964 Civil Rights Act | Prohibits discrimination and protects civil rights

- Marshall Plan European Recovery Act | Rebuilt a secure and peaceful Europe after World War II

- Financial Aid for Higher Education Loans | Guaranteed student loans that enabled over 50 million Americans to receive a college education

- Family and Medical Leave Act | Temporary unpaid leave and job protection to employees " for qualified medical and family reasons

- Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act | Protect workers against pay discrimination

- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Health care reform: Preventive care screening, lower prescription drug costs, protection for pre-existing conditions among many other benefits

- American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 | Pandemic recovery, economic stimulus payments, free vaccines, funeral expense assistance, expanded child tax credits, block grants for schools, funds for small business and many other benefits

To be fair, let's see what the GOPyers have given us:
- a $37.000,000,000,000.00 debt

- free taxpayer money to the uber wealthy

So there is that.

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