Maybe that’s why they usually have the detention center in the same building as the training center. Human shields.

Yeah but the owner already got the message from protestors and the fact that the City passed an ordinance to prohibit non-municipal detention facilities the very same day they found out ICE was looking at buying it. The owner succumbed to the pressure and withdrew from the sale, saying they weren’t aware who the buyer was (and there’s a decent chance they didn’t know until it became news since DHS has been sneaky about covering their tracks). A realtor in the area that had been helping them look for properties has also gotten huge backlash, but I haven’t heard whether they dropped them as client. (I live not far from KC so I’ve been aware of the news on this)

She did it for nothing, the warehouse owner had already backed out of the deal by then.

edit after watching video: not the sharpest tool in the shed, lighter fluid squirted on concrete, metal, and glass. Then squirting a stream fluid from the bottle in her hand to the flames, not too bright. But the usual and well-known effective technique would probably also be futile. From what I’ve read the place is completely empty, probably nothing but concrete floors in there.

Let’s go!

Save the Oxford Comma!

Wyden “wants answers”? Here’s your answer: Are you still sailing down De river Nial? Look into the Don’s pig-like eyes. He is the captain now, in control of the government and supported by the majority political party, his own private army, and the corrupt SCOTUS majority he set up in his first term.

Haven’t you noticed, Wyden? Anyone who ever opposed him, ever made fun of him, or isn’t going along with him is either being “investigated” or arrested and charged with made up crimes (if a lib) or ousted from their positions of power and threatened with worse (if a repub), not to mention getting mentioned in mean tweets that mobilize his minions to go after them. It’s Pay to Play now (in gold is always a nice touch).

The last shreds of the Constitution were thrown out on January 20th, 2025. There are no rules, laws are decreed by the Boss, subject to change at a whim, and only the rest of us are required to follow them.

Choose your Side. Whining is not a strategy. If that’s all you can do, get out and make room for someone with a spine.

“We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous,” Homan said.

Wow. That is a direct threat to kill protesters. That’s when we hear their names is when ICE kills them.

They love it, it’s the best job they ever had. They get to do what they’ve always wanted–have power over people, order them around, and beat the shit out of them as much as they want, knowing they won’t be held accountable.

Anyone that statement doesn’t apply to, has either quit already or never considered taking a job like that in the first place.

Record them everywhere they go, record everything they do, report everything they do, everything they say, every lie they tell. It’s all evidence. Let everyone see it and hear it and know about it. That’s important not only for right now so everyone knows, but also in case we can ever have trials.

There’s nothing about Meet the Press or Graham in this article so I don’t why you’re talking about them. The article is reporting on the lies and slander the regime’s government officials are standing behind a podium and stating as official facts. People need to know they can’t trust them or believe what they say.

So you think we should shut up about it, ignore it? No, we need to call it out every time. It is news every time.

Agree, and I made that point already. The only thing worse than a Daily Mail story is an AI interpretive dance of a Daily Mail story.

The ones this article links to appear to be non-AI, though that doesn’t mean Daily Mail is a good place to get news. I read similar info on some major media news site in the US, again them not being AI is not necessarily a guarantee of unbiased info. Let me look in my history for a link. - (edit: I’m not finding anything in my history from a major US media source, so I guess what I read was probably also the Daily Mall.)

This sounds exactly an AI generated slopicle, with all the typical phrasing and re-wording you expect. It basically takes lines straight from the refenced articles and slightly rewords and/or adds little interpretative phrases to them.

Folks, we need to start learning to recognize this kind of crap and not be fooled by it. For example:

Hindustan Times simple statement: “A neighbor further told the Daily Mail that she spotted Jonathan Ross’s wife Patrixia pacing around the driveway on Wednesday afternoon.”

This: “She was spotted looking frantic as she walked back and forth in the driveway, according to the Hindustan Times, suggesting a woman suddenly grappling with the reality that her husband had been involved in a lethal force incident during his shift.” <-- (oh please! no reporter writes shit like that, “… suggesting a woman suddenly grappling with the reality that…”)

Daily Mall simple statement: > “She also shared photos of baking recipes from a Spanish-language cookbook.”

This: > She appears to enjoy cooking, having previously shared photos of baking recipes from a Spanish-language cookbook on social media.

And what is this?: “Shortly after the shooting, Patrixia and the children were never seen at home again.” That doesn’t even make sense! No human would say that.

I’ve just watched the first third of this (original source linked by squirrel) video.

tl;dw This is a great idea: Cory Doctorow explains how

1. all the countries the US trades with were forced, in their trade agreements with the US under threat of losing the US market, to pass their own digital copyright anti-circumvention laws so that US big tech companies can seek rent and collect the personal data of citizens of those countries with impunity, and

2. Now that trump has imposed all these tariffs on them and violated the agreements anyway, there is no longer any reason for them to to keep those laws on the books, laws which only hurt their own people and help US tech companies. He explains retaliatory tariffs only hurt their own people, that the best response is for other countries to stop protecting US oligarch and repeal those laws, which will help their own entrepreneurs and citizens, and withhold billions in rent to the US oligarchs.

And that’s just the first third of the video, but I stopped to post this before watching the rest. edit update: yeah the whole video is worth watching.

They would just blame this one on the protestors and leave it that. Never thinking a moment beyond that, that there was no reason whatsoever for ICE to deliberately throw a flash bang or tear gas under a random car. “If those protesters hadn’t been disrupting traffic, the car wouldn’t have had to stop. End of story.” It’s called a thought-terminating cliché.

They’ve already come out and said the Real ID isn’t proof of citizenship, just your identity.

… they can track every phone at a protest and see where it goes home

That’s why you only ever have the burner phone turned on with the SIM in it while you are at an event and always turn it off/remove the SIM before you leave. Wrap it in foil also makes sure a signal can’t be sent or received.

Another option is just a stand-alone video camera (I have one that’s about half the size of a phone), or using a phone with no SIM and wifi off.

I don’t know what the arguments against this idea would be, but seems to me like the first thing Denmark needs to do, probably with the help of some allies, is expel the US from Greenland, take over the US military base there and strongly fortify it. Then the US can’t use it for the invasion. I’m sure their plans heavily depend on having and using that base. Don’t say anything beforehand, just show up with enough force that the existing US contingent there can’t win if they fight back, present the eviction notice, and get them moving out before US can send reinforcements.