Originally published at: Everything Effed Up About the Don Lemon Case
Where to Even Start? The news of former CNN anchor Don Lemon’s arrest in connection with the St. Paul church protest he covered last month was just breaking Friday morning, so I want to circle back on the many new details that have emerged since the news first broke. Lemon wasn’t the only journalist arrested.…
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Last month, Trump declared that on February 1, he would cut all federal funding to Blue States that don’t support his immigration crackdown, a threat that could affect millions of Americans in ways that touch transportation, national security, healthcare, education, and beyond. Yesterday came and went without an announcement. But if Trump moves forward with the plan this week, it will be one of the most obvious impeachable offenses of his presidency.
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Today’s Heather and Paul:
Surprised the damned Groundhog even came out.
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Fascists getting all upset.
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https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/spy-sheikh-secret-stake-trump-crypto-tahnoon-ea4d97e8
Trump is on Sheiky ground.
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CBP commander Gregory Bovino mockedthe Orthodox Jewish faith of Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen to other lawyers in Rosen’s office, the NYT reports:
Wait. You’re going to tell me a guy who struts around in a Nazi era trenchcoat and traffics in Nazi era memes is an anti-Semite? I did see this coming.
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18 below zero F, clear and windless here this morning. Definitely 6 more weeks of winter. OTOH, if we only got 6 more weeks of winter, Vermonters would likely be dancing in the streets.
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That’s too cold for me.
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Trump’s use of chains in reference to African Americans is deliberate.
It’s a fog-horn-level dog whistle.
The antebellum/slave-master/plantation mentality IS his base.
Make no mistake: This is who they are.
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New York Times called box office for Melania strong despite its opening weekend’s earning of $7 million on a $75 million production and marketing budget and it not even earning as much as a documentary about a chimpanzee when for it’s opening weekend about 13 years ago. I would be interested to know what the real number of people who attended the movie is.
More importantly, someone should ask why the demise of the Kennedy Center occurred shortly after Melania premiered there. Are people afraid to go into the building now?
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Leopard, face, yada yada yada
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Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink.
In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective:
The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.
Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.
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DHS has confirmed a measles outbreak at the ICE detention center in Texas where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was held.
Everyone responsible for the series of events that ended here should spend 24 hours together in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
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…We should’ve been focusing on criminals and gang members, not grandmothers. That was a mistake, and it’s coming back to haunt us right now."
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