“Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general, told me (Michelle Goldberg, NTY Opinion Columnist) that since ICE ramped up its operations in Minneapolis, it’s felt “like we are being inundated with a hostile paramilitary group that is mistreating, insulting, terrorizing our neighbors.”
Many of these people probably believed that even in Trump’s America, citizens still have inviolable liberties that allow them to stand up to the jacked-up irregulars who’ve descended on their communities. The civil rights of immigrants have been profoundly curtailed; even green card holders are on notice that this government may detain and deport them simply for protesting. But Americans — particularly, let’s be honest, white Americans — might have thought themselves immune from ICE abuses.
The killing of Renee Nicole Good, a mother of three and widow of a military veteran, tests that assumption. ICE, said Ellison, is all but telling people, “‘You want to defend your neighbors, you’re going to do it at the risk of your own life.’ I think that’s the unmistakable message. Just looking at the tape, they could have said, ‘You get out of here,’ right? And then she gets out of there. They didn’t want her to get out of there. They wanted to either drag her out of that car or do what they did. And it was all about teaching lessons.”
The lesson didn’t end with Good’s killing — the administration had to smear her afterward. As The New York Times reported, bystander footage filmed from several different angles shows that the agent who shot Good wasn’t in the path of her S.U.V. when he fired on her. That did not stop Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from accusing Good of trying to run agents over in “an act of domestic terrorism.” Vice President JD Vance called her a “deranged leftist.”
Re designer grocery bags, the first I ever had I bought in Rochester, NY at Wegman’s. They were beautiful and I carried them in and used them proudly. My regular grocery(Ingles, Darrell)store finally caught up with plain ones at first but then they got fancier. Where I am now, reusable bags are ubiquitous and cheap to buy because the country wants to encourage their use. Plastic costs more to use.
As for what Musk via GROK is doing, why hasn’t he been indicted already for pushing underage porn? He should be especially since the Supreme Court said that corporations are people and any people doing the same thing would have been arrested and charged. Like everything else, it’s only going to get worse because the lawless are in charge of the house.
Why would someone be stupid enough to spend $50,000 on a bag when you could fly to the States and get your own for far less? Some rich people are just stupid.
Old houses can teach you lessons but you need to have the money to learn them. Bringing up to today’s standards is not a cheap endeavour.
How do I unsubscribe to all the stuff in Substack except your posts. Somehow I got subscribed to a bunch of stuff I don’t have time to read in the Substack app. Thanks. I thought I was subscribing to only your posts when I got the paid subscription.
“Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general, told me (Michelle Goldberg, NTY Opinion Columnist) that since ICE ramped up its operations in Minneapolis, it’s felt “like we are being inundated with a hostile paramilitary group that is mistreating, insulting, terrorizing our neighbors.”
Many of these people probably believed that even in Trump’s America, citizens still have inviolable liberties that allow them to stand up to the jacked-up irregulars who’ve descended on their communities. The civil rights of immigrants have been profoundly curtailed; even green card holders are on notice that this government may detain and deport them simply for protesting. But Americans — particularly, let’s be honest, white Americans — might have thought themselves immune from ICE abuses.
The killing of Renee Nicole Good, a mother of three and widow of a military veteran, tests that assumption. ICE, said Ellison, is all but telling people, “‘You want to defend your neighbors, you’re going to do it at the risk of your own life.’ I think that’s the unmistakable message. Just looking at the tape, they could have said, ‘You get out of here,’ right? And then she gets out of there. They didn’t want her to get out of there. They wanted to either drag her out of that car or do what they did. And it was all about teaching lessons.”
The lesson didn’t end with Good’s killing — the administration had to smear her afterward. As The New York Times reported, bystander footage filmed from several different angles shows that the agent who shot Good wasn’t in the path of her S.U.V. when he fired on her. That did not stop Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from accusing Good of trying to run agents over in “an act of domestic terrorism.” Vice President JD Vance called her a “deranged leftist.”
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
- George Orwell, 1984
Re designer grocery bags, the first I ever had I bought in Rochester, NY at Wegman’s. They were beautiful and I carried them in and used them proudly. My regular grocery(Ingles, Darrell)store finally caught up with plain ones at first but then they got fancier. Where I am now, reusable bags are ubiquitous and cheap to buy because the country wants to encourage their use. Plastic costs more to use.
As for what Musk via GROK is doing, why hasn’t he been indicted already for pushing underage porn? He should be especially since the Supreme Court said that corporations are people and any people doing the same thing would have been arrested and charged. Like everything else, it’s only going to get worse because the lawless are in charge of the house.
With the new requirement for landlord provided appliances I foresee the rents trending still higher.
Why would someone be stupid enough to spend $50,000 on a bag when you could fly to the States and get your own for far less? Some rich people are just stupid.
Old houses can teach you lessons but you need to have the money to learn them. Bringing up to today’s standards is not a cheap endeavour.
How do I unsubscribe to all the stuff in Substack except your posts. Somehow I got subscribed to a bunch of stuff I don’t have time to read in the Substack app. Thanks. I thought I was subscribing to only your posts when I got the paid subscription.
You have to go to each one and unsubscribe.