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rgio

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Posted: May 15, 2025 - 6:29am

 islander wrote:
weird, because most of the time when you open your mouth Karoline Leavitt's words come out.

Don't blame her...she's only repeating what Stephen Miller tells her to say.
islander

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 11:00pm

 kurtster wrote:

So the tribe has spoken !

It is now ok to start putting words in others mouths as if those people said it and meant it.

We'll see how this plays out ...


weird, because most of the time when you open your mouth Karoline Leavitt's words come out.
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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 10:23pm

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

Kurtster: we have to close the border to illegal immigration because it is burdening our legal system and leading to chaos.
Trump:  I'll close the border and piss all over our legal institutions and create chaos.
Kurtster: That's my man!
 
So the tribe has spoken !

It is now ok to start putting words in others mouths as if those people said it and meant it.

We'll see how this plays out ...
islander

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 8:51pm

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:


Kurtster: we have to close the border to illegal immigration because it is burdening our legal system and leading to chaos.
Trump:  I'll close the border and piss all over our legal institutions and create chaos.
Kurtster: That's my man!


But what if we opened the border, for a select few criminals?



MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration.

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 5:34pm

 Red_Dragon wrote:

After rising through the ranks of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Ahmed al-Sharaa was arrested in 2006 by American forces while planting explosives intended for American troops. He was imprisoned for more than five years. Trump just praised the terrorist leader as a “young, attractive guy. Tough guy. Strong past. Very strong past.” During recent talks between Syria and the U.S., Al-Sharaa, the Syrian leader, proposed building a Trump Tower in Damascus if U.S. sanctions were lifted. Trump lifted the sanctions.



I need someone to tell me what to think about this because I can't stop thinking that as corrupt as this is on its face, there's still an upside: This guy is grown up, maybe, and trying to make Syria dictator-proof, maybe? As long as they continue to move toward a better Syria for all, that should be rewarded. And if TrumpCo gets someone to invest and it all goes to shit later, well who cares about that?

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 4:40pm


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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 4:22pm


After rising through the ranks of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Ahmed al-Sharaa was arrested in 2006 by American forces while planting explosives intended for American troops. He was imprisoned for more than five years. Trump just praised the terrorist leader as a “young, attractive guy. Tough guy. Strong past. Very strong past.” During recent talks between Syria and the U.S., Al-Sharaa, the Syrian leader, proposed building a Trump Tower in Damascus if U.S. sanctions were lifted. Trump lifted the sanctions.

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 4:12pm


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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 2:34pm

 VV wrote:


17 family members of notorious cartel leader enter U.S. in deal with Trump administration, Mexico says


So Trump... who has railed against Mexico shipping the worst people into the United States... is openly rolling out the red carpet to accept the worst of the worst? 

You can't make this stuff up folks... It's almost as if the whole border closing thing was an elaborate farce to pump up his ego.
 
I got an idea... maybe they can crash at Kurt's place and macrodose some psychedelics?









VV

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 2:21pm



17 family members of notorious cartel leader enter U.S. in deal with Trump administration, Mexico says


So Trump... who has railed against Mexico shipping the worst people into the United States... is openly rolling out the red carpet to accept the worst of the worst? 

You can't make this stuff up folks... It's almost as if the whole border closing thing was an elaborate farce to pump up his ego.
 
I got an idea... maybe they can crash at Kurt's place and macrodose some psychedelics?





Steely_D

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 2:16pm

 VV wrote:
To be fair... let's sit on our collective asses and wait to see how this plays out.


I give it two weeks.
VV

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 2:14pm

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:


Kurtster: we have to close the border to illegal immigration because it is burdening our legal system and leading to chaos.
Trump:  I'll close the border and piss all over our legal institutions and create chaos.
Kurtster: That's my man!



To be fair... let's sit on our collective asses and wait to see how this plays out.
NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 2:09pm

 VV wrote:


Right, and as long as Trump closed the borders kurt and his ilk could give a f*ck about anything else. Constitution and rights be damned!



Kurtster: we have to close the border to illegal immigration because it is burdening our legal system and leading to chaos.
Trump:  I'll close the border and piss all over our legal institutions and create chaos.
Kurtster: That's my man!
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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 2:04pm

 Red_Dragon wrote:

"Who Are These Men in Masks?"

By Tony Pentimalli

They wear masks. They show no badges. They storm homes without warrants. They drag people away without cause. Sometimes they take neighbors. Sometimes parents. Sometimes U.S. citizens.

Who are they?

They call themselves ICE agents. But in Donald Trump’s second term, they no longer enforce immigration law. They enforce fear.

In March 2025, masked men raided homes in El Paso. No names. No warrants. No explanation. “They kicked the door in and told me to shut up,” said Karina Velasquez, a 32-year-old mother whose husband was taken. “My kids watched him get dragged away. No one has told us where he is.”

Two weeks later in Chicago, a high school teacher—Laura Peña—was detained for filming ICE agents near a train station. She’s a U.S. citizen. They took her phone. They held her for hours. No charges. In Portland, Oregon, ICE teams began conducting raids out of rented U-Haul trucks. They detained people with valid visas—and in one case, a U.S. passport. This isn’t enforcement. It’s state terror.

ICE has outsourced its war on immigrants to private security firms. Triple Canopy. CoreCivic. MVM Inc. The same companies once paid to detain migrants now operate in the field—raiding homes, interrogating families, and disappearing people. They wear no insignia. They answer to no agency. They operate in the shadows—with the blessing of the White House.
In Phoenix, a contractor involved in a 2025 ICE raid had previously been fired for abuse at a detention facility. That didn’t stop Trump’s ICE from rehiring him. A leaked memo from a DHS regional supervisor, dated March 3, warned that “operational opacity”—masks, secret teams, no court review—would trigger lawsuits and public backlash. Trump’s team ignored it. Because secrecy isn’t the problem. It’s the strategy.

The Fourth Amendment bars unlawful searches. The Fifth guarantees due process. The Fourteenth protects equality under the law. Trump’s ICE disregards all three. Agents now use administrative warrants—documents signed internally, not by judges—as a pretext for entering homes and detaining residents. These hold no legal weight in court, but ICE presents them as law.

In 2020, the Supreme Court ruling in DHS v. Thuraissigiam stripped due process rights from asylum seekers. That crack in the dam has become a flood—used now to justify raids and detentions across the interior, not just at the border. In March 2025, a federal judge in Massachusetts ordered ICE to release two Brazilian nationals with green cards. ICE deported them anyway.

“This isn’t law enforcement—it’s terror,” said former federal judge Marilyn Torres. “ICE is operating outside the Constitution. And that should terrify every American.”

ICE has also detained dozens of U.S. citizens—held them for days, sometimes weeks. They were Brown. Poor. Accented. In 2019, Francisco Galicia, a Dallas-born teenager, was held for 26 days in ICE custody. Now under Trump’s second term, such cases have multiplied. ICE refuses to release data on how many detainees were citizens. Why? Because that would admit the truth: they no longer check.

In April 2025, 13-year-old Mateo Jiménez, a U.S. citizen, was separated from his father during a pre-dawn raid. Mateo was held for six hours. No guardian. No social worker. Just a locked room, a crying child, and armed men in masks. Under Trump, the burden of proof isn’t on the state. It’s on the accused—to prove they’re human.

Where is Congress? Where are the hearings? Where are the Democrats who once said “Abolish ICE”? Gone. Judges issue orders. ICE ignores them. City councils pass sanctuary laws. Local police share data anyway. The federal government isn’t just failing. It’s participating.

And this isn’t new. It’s repetition. In 1919, the Palmer Raids swept up thousands of suspected radicals without cause. In 1942, Executive Order 9066 interned 120,000 Japanese Americans—most of them citizens. From the 1950s through the 1970s, COINTELPRO targeted civil rights leaders with state surveillance and sabotage. Every time, it started with fear. Every time, we looked away. Every time, we later called it a national shame.

We are repeating the cycle—with more technology, fewer legal checks, and far more apathy. The lesson of history is not that secret police start regimes. It’s that democracies end when no one stops them.

So who are these men in masks?

They don’t wear name tags. They don’t show badges. They don’t read rights. They are paid by your taxes. They are shielded by your silence. And they are loyal to only one thing: Donald Trump.

He declared immigrants an invasion. Now he’s treating American soil like a war zone. And ICE—once a law enforcement agency—is now his foot soldier.

They’re not enforcing immigration law. They’re enforcing fear. And the longer we tolerate it, the closer we come to becoming the country Trump already believes we are.

*Tony Pentimalli is a political analyst and commentator fighting for democracy, economic justice, and social equity. Follow him for sharp analysis and hard-hitting critiques on Facebook and BlueSky
@tonywriteshere.bsky.social



Right, and as long as Trump closed the borders kurt and his ilk could give a f*ck about anything else. Constitution and rights be damned!

R_P

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 1:58pm

The US is asking Sharaa to normalize with Israel and crack down on Palestinian resistance groups

Red_Dragon

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 9:47am

"Who Are These Men in Masks?"

By Tony Pentimalli

They wear masks. They show no badges. They storm homes without warrants. They drag people away without cause. Sometimes they take neighbors. Sometimes parents. Sometimes U.S. citizens.

Who are they?

They call themselves ICE agents. But in Donald Trump’s second term, they no longer enforce immigration law. They enforce fear.

In March 2025, masked men raided homes in El Paso. No names. No warrants. No explanation. “They kicked the door in and told me to shut up,” said Karina Velasquez, a 32-year-old mother whose husband was taken. “My kids watched him get dragged away. No one has told us where he is.”

Two weeks later in Chicago, a high school teacher—Laura Peña—was detained for filming ICE agents near a train station. She’s a U.S. citizen. They took her phone. They held her for hours. No charges. In Portland, Oregon, ICE teams began conducting raids out of rented U-Haul trucks. They detained people with valid visas—and in one case, a U.S. passport. This isn’t enforcement. It’s state terror.

ICE has outsourced its war on immigrants to private security firms. Triple Canopy. CoreCivic. MVM Inc. The same companies once paid to detain migrants now operate in the field—raiding homes, interrogating families, and disappearing people. They wear no insignia. They answer to no agency. They operate in the shadows—with the blessing of the White House.
In Phoenix, a contractor involved in a 2025 ICE raid had previously been fired for abuse at a detention facility. That didn’t stop Trump’s ICE from rehiring him. A leaked memo from a DHS regional supervisor, dated March 3, warned that “operational opacity”—masks, secret teams, no court review—would trigger lawsuits and public backlash. Trump’s team ignored it. Because secrecy isn’t the problem. It’s the strategy.

The Fourth Amendment bars unlawful searches. The Fifth guarantees due process. The Fourteenth protects equality under the law. Trump’s ICE disregards all three. Agents now use administrative warrants—documents signed internally, not by judges—as a pretext for entering homes and detaining residents. These hold no legal weight in court, but ICE presents them as law.

In 2020, the Supreme Court ruling in DHS v. Thuraissigiam stripped due process rights from asylum seekers. That crack in the dam has become a flood—used now to justify raids and detentions across the interior, not just at the border. In March 2025, a federal judge in Massachusetts ordered ICE to release two Brazilian nationals with green cards. ICE deported them anyway.

“This isn’t law enforcement—it’s terror,” said former federal judge Marilyn Torres. “ICE is operating outside the Constitution. And that should terrify every American.”

ICE has also detained dozens of U.S. citizens—held them for days, sometimes weeks. They were Brown. Poor. Accented. In 2019, Francisco Galicia, a Dallas-born teenager, was held for 26 days in ICE custody. Now under Trump’s second term, such cases have multiplied. ICE refuses to release data on how many detainees were citizens. Why? Because that would admit the truth: they no longer check.

In April 2025, 13-year-old Mateo Jiménez, a U.S. citizen, was separated from his father during a pre-dawn raid. Mateo was held for six hours. No guardian. No social worker. Just a locked room, a crying child, and armed men in masks. Under Trump, the burden of proof isn’t on the state. It’s on the accused—to prove they’re human.

Where is Congress? Where are the hearings? Where are the Democrats who once said “Abolish ICE”? Gone. Judges issue orders. ICE ignores them. City councils pass sanctuary laws. Local police share data anyway. The federal government isn’t just failing. It’s participating.

And this isn’t new. It’s repetition. In 1919, the Palmer Raids swept up thousands of suspected radicals without cause. In 1942, Executive Order 9066 interned 120,000 Japanese Americans—most of them citizens. From the 1950s through the 1970s, COINTELPRO targeted civil rights leaders with state surveillance and sabotage. Every time, it started with fear. Every time, we looked away. Every time, we later called it a national shame.

We are repeating the cycle—with more technology, fewer legal checks, and far more apathy. The lesson of history is not that secret police start regimes. It’s that democracies end when no one stops them.

So who are these men in masks?

They don’t wear name tags. They don’t show badges. They don’t read rights. They are paid by your taxes. They are shielded by your silence. And they are loyal to only one thing: Donald Trump.

He declared immigrants an invasion. Now he’s treating American soil like a war zone. And ICE—once a law enforcement agency—is now his foot soldier.

They’re not enforcing immigration law. They’re enforcing fear. And the longer we tolerate it, the closer we come to becoming the country Trump already believes we are.

*Tony Pentimalli is a political analyst and commentator fighting for democracy, economic justice, and social equity. Follow him for sharp analysis and hard-hitting critiques on Facebook and BlueSky
@tonywriteshere.bsky.social
Red_Dragon

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 9:14am


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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 8:52am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


I can relate, honestly.

The thing that caught my eye was his defender's tweet, that said "in just 5 months, he’s already accomplished more than Biden did in 4 years." But I thought Joe did so much damage it will take years to undo. Did nothing in 4 years but is responsible for Everything Wrong Everywhere. Like the lazy immigrants who are taking our jobs.



Seems legit.
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 8:50am

 Steely_D wrote:

I can relate, honestly.

The thing that caught my eye was his defender's tweet, that said "in just 5 months, he’s already accomplished more than Biden did in 4 years." But I thought Joe did so much damage it will take years to undo. Did nothing in 4 years but is responsible for Everything Wrong Everywhere. Like the lazy immigrants who are taking our jobs.

Steely_D

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Posted: May 14, 2025 - 8:29am

Did Donald Trump Fall Asleep During Saudi Arabia Meeting?


Yes, #SleepyDonald

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