Deeper and deeper we are plunged into this nightmare. The relentless assaults on our morality and ideals are staggering. My fundamental belief in America is shaken with each new outrage. We cannot tune out from exhaustion, our children and future generations need our resistance and fight until we end this scourge named Trump. ✊
The Trump Administration's intentions for Greenland and NATO are far too remeniscent of the Soviet era Warsaw Pact - one strong country dominating all its so-called "allies" and using military force to impose its political will. One hopes that NATO will be strong enough to unite against these tactics - I don't think anyone has thought ahead far enough to call it strategy.
Having the orange chimp at the table for Greenland is essentially giving it to Russia. I watched the two Foreign Ministers at their own press conference. Sadly, they were presenting their case like they were dealing with a rational adult open to reasonable negotiation and hoping that rest of the country was listening the same way.
It's truly difficult to "like" this one, Mary. Sadly I cannot physically attend the protests here in Mpls but I have tried to donate to causes that can help our immigrant community get help.
Regarding "crushing ICE for good" I saw an interesting suggestion from the Bulwark:
“Unless you truly believe that the United States should not have an agency that enforces immigration and customs laws within our borders, and you want to increase illegal immigration, you should not say you want to abolish ICE.” Instead, the memo encourages Democrats to adopt an alternative approach toward ICE, one it calls “Reform and Retrain.”
I'm curious whether that would have the desired effect.
Much of what the Trump cabal and its billionaire backers and Putin-sponsored trolls and bots do is orchestrated to exploit our innate psychological vulnerabilities.
Repetitive lies in the immediate wake of an event such as the murder of Renee Good plant confusion as to what’s real no matter the ensuing evidence. Gaslighting is a KGB specialty. Flooding the zone, too. None of this is random. They are proven techniques of manipulation and intimidation.
I therefore like to think there’s small but important power in asking the Universe to intercede in the madness consuming America and the world at the behest of men and women who practice knowing deception with malicious intent while perpetrating cruelty and chaos - signatures of “evil” in religion, myth and literature.
Instincts and feelings matter, and rituals that focus them help create momentum that influences actions and choices; this seems especially evident in the “vibes” surrounding elections and growing social movements.
All to say: Mary’s and Marz’s nightly ritual is inspiring, motivating and adds to the stream of effective resistance!
I am going out yet again this afternoon to protest the murder of Renee Nicole Good with my sign to 'ABOLISH ICE'. This marks one week since Johnathan Ross shot her three times in the face. She can't fade away from our memory...this Nazi Gestapo is being funded by taxpayer monies...we are paying for our own maiming and murder. We are prey to these thugs, these J6ers...Defund and Abolish ICE...Schumer and Jeffries don't want to cut funding to DHS. If they let the CR expire at the end of this month and there is another government shutdown then we will have more power...tell them to fight with us, please.
I can't shake the idea that the reason he's so focused on aquiring Greenland is to allow Putin more access. The iDJT is a Putin Puppet. NATO must continue it's protection, the US is no longer a reliable ally.
Now T.J. Sabula is suspended from work until further notice, no income coming in because he stands up to the bully in the playground. T.J.‘a fundraiser is now up to close to &415,000.
Fundraiser for TJ after he was suspended from his job:
There’s nothing like having the person known throughout history as the leader of the free world “flipping off” an auto union worker, and who’s now suspended on expressing free speech. You know that First Amendment.
How many ICE Agents are needed to pull out a disabled woman on her way to the doctor? Sure, sure give “immunity” to masked federal goons. They gave “immunity” to the Gestapo also. After shooting Renee Good three times two definite shots from the side of the car into the drivers side window a “Fu^cking Bitch” after rendering the kill shot.
Now Harmeet Dhillon the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the DOJ informs staff not even a week later after the shooting of Good that she would not open a criminal civil rights investigation into the shooting. Reports indicate she told the division's criminal section they would not be involved in the probe, a sharp departure from typical protocol for law enforcement-related shootings. Which results in at least Four senior leaders in the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division resigning in DC. They were reportedly frustrated with the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights for not opening a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting. The Civil Rights Division typically investigates potential civil rights violations by law enforcement. Then in the U.S. Attorney's Office Prosecutors (Minnesota), Six prosecutors, including the second-in-command and the chief of the violent and major crimes unit, resigned from the U.S. Attorney's office in Minnesota. Their decision was linked to senior Justice Department officials overriding their judgment regarding the investigation.
Just add onto the dystopian-draconian world that the same leader of the free world says has is around $1.99 and he’s making everything proved cheaper, not going to say the word “affordability” because apparently that word is now a Democrat “hoax” word. Telling Iran leaders that dispatch a similar regime like ICE on their citizens that they need to back off or he’ll attack with weapons to bomb that country because those citizens are demonstrating about a collapse of the economy. Threatening Greenland, that is under Denmark sovereignty that they need to make a deal for him as the commander ‘n chief of the USA to buy that country. As like a mob boss right out of the Godfather — “We’re going to make them a deal they can’t refuse.” Anytime his mouth moves it’s either a lie, or threat or a series of words that can’t be understood and he refers to it as “a weave” — a weave of what? So many ask this question.
All this is less than .5% of what happens on a daily basis.
Yep in 2030 and try to read what has been going on for a year and even prior when he was on the campaign trail and as the former 45th President who was an insurrectionist it would be like a dystopian daily brief from an alternate universe. Unfortunately it’s not.
Crush ICE for good.
Deeper and deeper we are plunged into this nightmare. The relentless assaults on our morality and ideals are staggering. My fundamental belief in America is shaken with each new outrage. We cannot tune out from exhaustion, our children and future generations need our resistance and fight until we end this scourge named Trump. ✊
Thank you Mary! Your intellect, perspective and daily comments really are meaningful!
Most appalling: the number of people who cheer Good's murder and ICE's actions. "Get out of the car" will soon be replaced by "Get into the train."
I hope that the Danish officials are prepared to say no, never and then walk out of the meeting.
The Trump Administration's intentions for Greenland and NATO are far too remeniscent of the Soviet era Warsaw Pact - one strong country dominating all its so-called "allies" and using military force to impose its political will. One hopes that NATO will be strong enough to unite against these tactics - I don't think anyone has thought ahead far enough to call it strategy.
Having the orange chimp at the table for Greenland is essentially giving it to Russia. I watched the two Foreign Ministers at their own press conference. Sadly, they were presenting their case like they were dealing with a rational adult open to reasonable negotiation and hoping that rest of the country was listening the same way.
It's truly difficult to "like" this one, Mary. Sadly I cannot physically attend the protests here in Mpls but I have tried to donate to causes that can help our immigrant community get help.
Regarding "crushing ICE for good" I saw an interesting suggestion from the Bulwark:
“Unless you truly believe that the United States should not have an agency that enforces immigration and customs laws within our borders, and you want to increase illegal immigration, you should not say you want to abolish ICE.” Instead, the memo encourages Democrats to adopt an alternative approach toward ICE, one it calls “Reform and Retrain.”
I'm curious whether that would have the desired effect.
Much of what the Trump cabal and its billionaire backers and Putin-sponsored trolls and bots do is orchestrated to exploit our innate psychological vulnerabilities.
Repetitive lies in the immediate wake of an event such as the murder of Renee Good plant confusion as to what’s real no matter the ensuing evidence. Gaslighting is a KGB specialty. Flooding the zone, too. None of this is random. They are proven techniques of manipulation and intimidation.
I therefore like to think there’s small but important power in asking the Universe to intercede in the madness consuming America and the world at the behest of men and women who practice knowing deception with malicious intent while perpetrating cruelty and chaos - signatures of “evil” in religion, myth and literature.
Instincts and feelings matter, and rituals that focus them help create momentum that influences actions and choices; this seems especially evident in the “vibes” surrounding elections and growing social movements.
All to say: Mary’s and Marz’s nightly ritual is inspiring, motivating and adds to the stream of effective resistance!
I am going out yet again this afternoon to protest the murder of Renee Nicole Good with my sign to 'ABOLISH ICE'. This marks one week since Johnathan Ross shot her three times in the face. She can't fade away from our memory...this Nazi Gestapo is being funded by taxpayer monies...we are paying for our own maiming and murder. We are prey to these thugs, these J6ers...Defund and Abolish ICE...Schumer and Jeffries don't want to cut funding to DHS. If they let the CR expire at the end of this month and there is another government shutdown then we will have more power...tell them to fight with us, please.
I can't shake the idea that the reason he's so focused on aquiring Greenland is to allow Putin more access. The iDJT is a Putin Puppet. NATO must continue it's protection, the US is no longer a reliable ally.
Thank you for a good article.
Now T.J. Sabula is suspended from work until further notice, no income coming in because he stands up to the bully in the playground. T.J.‘a fundraiser is now up to close to &415,000.
Fundraiser for TJ after he was suspended from his job:
https://gofund.me/8ad06aa91
There’s nothing like having the person known throughout history as the leader of the free world “flipping off” an auto union worker, and who’s now suspended on expressing free speech. You know that First Amendment.
How many ICE Agents are needed to pull out a disabled woman on her way to the doctor? Sure, sure give “immunity” to masked federal goons. They gave “immunity” to the Gestapo also. After shooting Renee Good three times two definite shots from the side of the car into the drivers side window a “Fu^cking Bitch” after rendering the kill shot.
Now Harmeet Dhillon the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the DOJ informs staff not even a week later after the shooting of Good that she would not open a criminal civil rights investigation into the shooting. Reports indicate she told the division's criminal section they would not be involved in the probe, a sharp departure from typical protocol for law enforcement-related shootings. Which results in at least Four senior leaders in the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division resigning in DC. They were reportedly frustrated with the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights for not opening a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting. The Civil Rights Division typically investigates potential civil rights violations by law enforcement. Then in the U.S. Attorney's Office Prosecutors (Minnesota), Six prosecutors, including the second-in-command and the chief of the violent and major crimes unit, resigned from the U.S. Attorney's office in Minnesota. Their decision was linked to senior Justice Department officials overriding their judgment regarding the investigation.
Just add onto the dystopian-draconian world that the same leader of the free world says has is around $1.99 and he’s making everything proved cheaper, not going to say the word “affordability” because apparently that word is now a Democrat “hoax” word. Telling Iran leaders that dispatch a similar regime like ICE on their citizens that they need to back off or he’ll attack with weapons to bomb that country because those citizens are demonstrating about a collapse of the economy. Threatening Greenland, that is under Denmark sovereignty that they need to make a deal for him as the commander ‘n chief of the USA to buy that country. As like a mob boss right out of the Godfather — “We’re going to make them a deal they can’t refuse.” Anytime his mouth moves it’s either a lie, or threat or a series of words that can’t be understood and he refers to it as “a weave” — a weave of what? So many ask this question.
All this is less than .5% of what happens on a daily basis.
Yep in 2030 and try to read what has been going on for a year and even prior when he was on the campaign trail and as the former 45th President who was an insurrectionist it would be like a dystopian daily brief from an alternate universe. Unfortunately it’s not.