Originally published at: New Video of ICE Shooting Undermines Agents’ Account
Charges Were Eventually Dropped The NYT has obtained fleeting video footage of the Jan. 14 incident in Minneapolis during which an ICE agent shot a fleeing Venezuelan immigrant and then claimed he had been attacked. The newly surfaced video, acquired via a public records request for a city-owned camera at a intersection half a block…
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- El Paso Times: ICE inspectors have found 49 standards violations at Camp East Montana, the largest detention center in the country.
Anyone taking bets on how long they’ll be given to correct the violations, or if they do it at all?
The preposterous Office of Legal Counsel memo that declared the half-century-old Presidential Records Act unconstitutional
Anything that stands in the way of the First Felon’s ability to do whatever he wants is unconstitutional.
Funny thing is, the PRA has stood for something like 50 years and no one ever challenged the constitutionality of the law. But wait for it, when SCOTUS gets the challenge, the PRA will be gone with the wind.
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In other news, the trump DOJ has convinced the SupCt to allow them to drop the contempt of Congress charges against human pustule Steve Bannon. Don’t expect anyone to ever respond to a Congressional subpoena ever again.
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They’ve got a cash cow there they won’t give up easily.
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“Newly discovered evidence”. The only reason the public is hearing about this now is the NYT did an FOIA request for the video.
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Only if they’re not Democrats. Sure, now there’s precedent but that only counts when they want it to.
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Blondi will no doubt act accordingly and blow off her sobpoena. Lawyer criminals, the new standard for MAGA.
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Pretty sure the Hegseth military will follow grossly illegal orders.
ETA up to and including striking Nuclear Generating Stations.
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“The arrest of pro-Palestinian mosque leader in Wisconsin came after Secretary of State Marco Rubio found him to be a threat to the U.S. foreign policy interest of combating antisemitism.”
Show me the part of the criminal code, any criminal code, federal state or local, that makes it a crime to be a threat to a U.S. foreign policy interest.
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Israel hits Iran’s South Pars petrochemical plant
Israel attacked a key petrochemical plant at Iran’s massive South Pars natural gas field, according to several news agencies.
Israel’s defence minister Israel Katz confirmed what he called “a powerful strike on the largest petrochemical facility in Iran” that’s responsible for half of the country’s petrochemical production. Israel’s military spokesperson, Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, said there would be “no immunity” for Iran as talks progress.
Katz’s statement on an Israeli attack on a petrochemical facility follows an earlier report from the Fars news agency that “several explosions” had been heard from the South Pars petrochemical plant in Asaluyeh.
It puts into question the negotiations aimed at getting the US and Tehran to reach a ceasefire. The gas field shared with Qatar is the world’s largest and sits under the waters of the Persian Gulf. The strikes come weeks after international outcry over Israel’s attack on Iran’s South Pars gas field on 18 March.
**The White House did not immediately respond when asked about the strike.**After Israel’s attack in March on South Pars, Trump said Israel would not attack it again but warned that if Iran continued striking Qatar’s energy infrastructure, the United States would retaliate and “massively blow up the entirety” of the field.
Trump’s deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz looms while mediators scramble to get the US and Iran to agree to a new ceasefire proposal.
Explosions rang out in Tehran and low-flying jets could be heard for hours as the capital was pounded. Thick black smoke rose near the city’s Azadi Square after one airstrike hit the grounds of the Sharif University of Technology.
Among those killed in one of the attacks on Tehran was the head of intelligence for Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards, Maj Gen Majid Khademi, according to Iranian state media and Israel’s defense minister.
Israel’s military said it also killed the leader of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s undercover unit in its expeditionary Quds Force, Asghar Bakeri.
Iranian missiles hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa, where four people were found dead in the rubble of a residential building.
Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia all activated their air defenses to intercept incoming Iranian missiles and drones, as Tehran kept up the pressure on its Gulf neighbors. Iran’s regular attacks on regional energy infrastructure and its stranglehold on the strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil is shipped in peacetime, has sent global energy prices soaring .
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I had a busy morning reading stuff that made me swear at my screen. Let’s start with one of the most offensive and move on from there.
I’m ready to call Zuckerburg “Epstein for the hoi polloi”. It’s funny shareholders go after CEOs when they loose money, but having to pay out billions for selling kids or harminging them? That’s just the cost of doing business.
Crooks and Liars has a good morning blog roundup. Today’s offended me pretty soundly. Speaking of the cost of doing business Burr Demming reminded me of what that libertarian nirvana really looks like.
Need a yardstick to keep track of how much winning we’re doing? Try this one, it even quotes Clauswitz.
And lastly, a commentary I’ve been making for literally years now, but never mind. Instead of sending the synopsis from the blog page at Alas, a Blog I’ll send the comic.
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Years ago, I knew people who were part of the HNP. Too bad they can’t influence TFG or his henchpeople.
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Iranian embassies around the world spent the weekend responding to and commenting on TFG’s tirade. One of the best -
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This cat is very disappointed in all of us.
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In a very technical sense Iran did open the strait. I’d break out the popcorn, but I’m sure there’s a legal term for “Do what I mean, not what I say.”
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