Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) does not accept money from AIPAC; however she votes consistently to arm and fund the IDF.

Texans can better address how she does locally, as in this case in her race against James Talarico, but the antiwar bloc and peace Samaritans won't vote for Jasmine Crockett in national elections.

Don't believe me?

Don't care.

@26 Thanks for the lead, A Friend, I'll check it out after playing bridge tonight.

BTW I: As a New Yorker, do you recall any mass INS raids against the Irish in the Bronx or Queens before 9/11?

Some of the Irish overstays before 9/11 became NYPD cops and they still had their native brough. I drank with one last century. I was told another became an FDNY firefighter (but this qualifies as hearsay as I didn't meet him).

This was all before Ireland's economic boom after they joined the EU, so America was still the land of opportunity for the Irish before 2000.

I also knew a Canadian "overstay" who had a good job in NYC for years (I won't say where). He paid his taxes, kept out of trouble, but was finally caught up in the post 9/11 dragnet. And the poor guy wasn't a Muslim, Arab, Hindu etc. He was a regular looking guy and a NY Giants fan like me.

BTW II: Australian federal immigration officers are unarmed. When they conduct a raid or inspection of a farm or factory for illegal alien workers, they are accompanied by local police officers to deal with Australian citizens or the threat of violence.

There is no "fixing" ICE other than dismantling it.

This is a federal agency empowered to enforce administrative laws over immigrants, aliens, migrants, i.e. non-US citizens.

Previous to 2002, Immigration Agents (GS-1810) enforced this administrative law.

They apprehended illegal aliens, overstays, etc and brought the suspects before Immigration Judges for hearings.

These aliens caught by INS Immigration Agents were either paroled until their hearing date with an IJ or incarcerated at INS facilities.

There were no instant deportations and US citizens were left alone.

After the panic of 9/11, ICE was created to instantly deport aliens without a judicial or immigration hearing: "Get the Muslims out!"

Allowing INS Agents to enforce laws against US citizens, "Customs Enforcement" was added to their writ, like we see at the borders. No longer are there two separate checkpoints for Immigration and one for Customs.

Previous INS Immigration Agents with a writ to apprehend aliens became Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents with a writ to target non-aliens.

Anchor baby!

Yup, drunk misogynist racist faux Christian Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hellsbreath will double-talk and slander the Archbishop.

*** VPOTUS Hillbilly Hypocrite Announces Usha Vance Pregnant ***

Brahmin Hindu Usha will have better maternity care than 99% of us, (both in India and the US).

Gosh, the Second Couple took a lot of trips last year while most Americans toiled and couldn't afford a vacation.

Thanks hardworking American taxpayers!

*^^* Dummkopf Trumpf on One-Year Anniversary of His Regime: "I like the Hell's Angels. They voted for me. They protected me." ****

US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY): "My job is to keep the Left pro-Israel."

He's got to go.

#6 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-20 04:38 AM

FTA: 'At a press conference on Tuesday, Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said "he opposed abolishing ICE" but disagreed with how federal officers were carrying out immigration enforcement.'

That's why we are so jammed up now as a country.

Hammerheads still bleat about "fixing" ICE when this 23-year-old experiment should be scrapped, not "fixed."

"Oh, when the Democrats get back in power, they'll kick out the migrants in a kindler, gentler fashion, the way we used to do it, real quiet-like. We'll keep some for the carwashes, farms, restaurants, and slaughterhouses, see? But for now, leave my cops alone."

How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world's longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man's dementia?

#73 | Posted by morris at 2026-01-20 01:15 PM | Reply | Flag - Answer: Treachery, Perfidy, Deceit, Quislings

Putin invited to join US-led Gaza 'Board of Peace', Trumpf bleats
23 minutes ago
www.bbc.com

#17 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-20 12:25 PM | Reply | Flag: Why, are Mephistopheles or Pol Pot unavailable?

This new law may help Minnesotans fight against unwarranted ICE surveillance of their cell phones.

Pedo 47 got a hand-me-down Nobel from Machado and a hand-me-down Melanoma from Epstein.

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-20 10:49 AM | Reply | Flag: "Oof!"

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

And like a carpetbagger, good-for-nothing Madison Cawthorn moved south to Florida to attempt a political comeback by running for the 19th CD.

Not to worry, the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) pocketed a tidy $3.1bn for themselves during Trumpf's two Reigns of Terror.

Who cares if the rest of lose our investments, right?

This was a completely unprofessional and over-the-top raid with agents mounting suppressors on their assault rifles.

Any decent Agent-in-Charge (AIC) or Site Commander in normal times would have been mortified that his SWAT team came up empty-handed after all the expenditure of manpower and money, and worse, that they detained an innocent person and made him suffer with humiliation and freezing temperatures.

ICE is spreading terror and PTSD throughout the population of Amerikkka.

FTA:

"And, where the hell is Congress? Instead of acting like a co-equal branch, it has become a protection racket for Dummkopf Trumpf -- cheering what it should be stopping and excusing what it should be condemning. This is not oversight. It is surrender...A Congress that refuses to check a president's power becomes his accomplice."

~snip~

This is bipartisan complicity. In June 2025 after Dummkopf Trumpf ordered the unlawful bombing of Iran, 128 House Democrats joined Republicans to kill an impeachment measure by a fellow House Democrat, effectively stifling the effort to hold Trumpf accountable for the attack.

Vote against impeachment: 344-79

Three of the prominent Democrats who stymied the impeachment measure: House Minority Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). The excuses and rationale went on like Elaine Benes would say "Yada-yada-yada...."

Democrats and Sen. Angus King (I-ME), pressed Lt General Francis Donovan for details on how he would oversee USSOUTHCOM and for the broad outline of the Trumpf junta's long-term plans for the region. The Marine, however, replied that he didn't know.
"So, you don't know what the plan is now? You don't know why all those ships and aircraft and soldiers are there?" King asked.

"Senator, I do not," Donovan said, explaining that he isn't involved in military plans for the region in his current role as vice commander of USSOCOM.

If confirmed by the Senate, Lt. Gen. Francis Donovan will take over USSOUTHCOM, replacing USN Adm. Alvin Holsey who abruptly retired last year.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), a former CIA analyst, expressed concern that the sinister Trumpf junta could order the NSA to spy on Americans because of their political views or speech, something which is strictly forbidden by federal law.

"Will you reject that?" asked Slotkin, who is one of several Democratic lawmakers who face criminal investigation by the nefarious Trumpf junta after appearing in a video urging service members to resist illegal orders.

"Senator, if confirmed, I will execute my responsibilities in accordance with the Constitution and all applicable laws," General Joshua Rudd answered.

The NSA has been without a permanent director since Dummkopf Trumpf fired Gen. Tim Haugh last year. The NSA director also runs the Pentagon's Cyber Command, giving it a critical role in the nation's defensive and offensive cyber capabilities.

French President Emmanuel Macron declined to join and Canada PM Mark Carney expressed "conditional interest" in joining Dummkopf Trumpf's pay-to-play alternative to the UN Security Council.

I doubt hardworking Canadian taxpayers will want to contribute one billion dollars to Dummkopf Trumpf's coffers, hence the PM used the term "conditional."