US continues to go backward...

CONNOLLY: The gentlelady has used a phrase that is considered a slur in the LGBTQ community

NANCY MACE: Tranny tranny tranny, I don't really care, you want penises in women's bathrooms
I guess Nancy is more comfortable about people going to the women's room dressed and looking just like a man everywhere except between the legs.
 

ICE impersonations lead to arrests in at least 3 states​


Individuals in three states have been arrested for impersonating U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and threatening to deport immigrants.

Police apprehended two Temple University students wearing shirts with “Police” and “ICE” in white lettering on Sunday after they attempted to enter the institution’s Johnson and Hardwick residence halls earlier in the day.

“Impersonating law enforcement officers is a crime. This behavior and harassment of Temple community members will not be tolerated,” school officials wrote in a statement.

“The Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) and Temple University Police (TUPD) swiftly responded to the incidents and initiated a criminal investigation.”

Neither Temple’s Department of Public Safety nor the Philadelphia Police Department received any reports of federal ICE agents being on campus.

Similar cases of harassment have been reported in states across the nation. Sean Michael-Emmrich Johnson was jailed by the Sullivan’s Island Police Department in South Carolina on Friday for felony kidnapping, impersonating a law enforcement officer and two other misdemeanors.

Johnson turned himself in to officers following a viral video showing him berating a Hispanic individual while shouting, “You’re going back to Mexico.”


He took the driver’s car keys while shouting at the men in the vehicle, leading to widespread community backlash.

An individual identified as Carl Thomas Bennett Jr. was also arrested for sexually propositioning a woman at a local motel in Raleigh, N.C., after flashing a fake business card with a picture of a badge, according to WBTV.

Bennett allegedly threatened to deport her if she did not comply with his demands.

He is now facing charges for breaking and entering to terrorize or injure, kidnapping and two counts of second-degree forced sex offense, among other charges.

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FBI agents, prosecutors fear retribution from Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump NPR

(boy, didn´t see this coming, did you tRump?...) *dripping with sarcasm

Pardoned Jan. 6 rioters and their supporters have been whipping each other up online with increasingly dire threats against FBI agents and prosecutors who worked on investigations of the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol.

"All their prosecutors deserve a rope!!!" reads one post on X.

"These two slimy swamp creatures will face justice" reads another post.

"YOU ARE NEXT," reads another.

Since President Trump gave Jan. 6 rioters blanket clemency — regardless of whether they were convicted for assaulting police, or if they had prior convictions for crimes including forcible rape, manslaughter and domestic violence — threatening messages have proliferated against law enforcement officials.
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Morale among prosecutors and investigators who worked on Jan. 6 cases was already low. The Trump administration has dismissed more than two dozen prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases. Trump officials have also launched a wide-ranging inquiry into FBI employees' roles in Jan. 6 investigations, leading to fear of a political purge of thousands of agents.

Those moves have given law enforcement officials who investigated the Capitol attack little to no faith that the Trump administration would investigate the threats they are currently facing.
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FBI employees who sued the Department of Justice over a questionnaire asking about their involvement in Jan. 6 investigations, alleged that "their personal information has already been posted by Jan. 6 convicted felons on 'dark websites' (aka the 'dark web')."

"Social media posts are circulating that are calling for violence against FBI personnel," said Natalie Bara, the President of the nonprofit FBI Agents Association, at a press conference announcing another lawsuit seeking to block the dissemination of agents' identities. "This rhetoric is not just irresponsible—it is dangerous."

Some Jan. 6 defendants have called out FBI agents and prosecutors by name online.
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Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys, was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 attack.

Since receiving a full and unconditional pardon from Trump, he has called for retribution and the arrest and prosecution of an FBI agent, who investigated his case.

"The people who did this, they need to feel the heat, they need to be put behind bars, and they need to be prosecuted," Tarrio said in an interview with the far-right show Infowars shortly after his pardon.

"Success," Tarrio added, "is gonna be retribution."

Tarrio's rhetoric echoes the new leaders of the Department of Justice, as well as Trump himself.
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During the presidential campaign, Trump himself reposted a message on social media that "the cops should be charged and the protesters should be freed."

Current and former Department of Justice officials said the Trump administration's public support for the rioters seems to have inflamed the threats against police, FBI agents and prosecutors.
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"I'm not feeling any support from the department," the Justice Department official who spoke to NPR said. "We do not exist in their minds right now, beyond considerations about firing us."
 
 
I keep getting ads on social media about moving to Portugal (which we're seriously considering). I have to wonder if other countries will start making it easier for college educated / people in certain fields to move there. Create a massive brain drain in this country.
 
Musk asks X if he should rehire DOGE staffer under fire for racist posts the hill

Tech billionaire Elon Musk took to his social media platform X to ask users if he should rehire one of his deputies who resigned Thursday after racist social media posts of his resurfaced.

“Bring back @DOGE staffer who made inappropriate statements via a now deleted pseudonym?” Musk wrote Friday morning on X , attached to a poll asking users to answer “Yes” or “No.”

As of 10:30 a.m. EST Friday, the post had nearly 2.9 million views and more than 232,000 votes. More than 80 percent of users who answered selected “yes.”

Marko Elez, 25, resigned Thursday after briefly serving on Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force. He previously worked for numerous companies run by Musk as well.

Elez came under fire earlier this week when The Wall Street Journal uncovered racist, now-deleted social media posts of his.

“Normalize Indian hate,” the account associated with Elez posted in September, regarding people of Indian ethnicity who work in the U.S. tech sector, the Journal reported.

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote on X, according to the Journal.

It is not clear whether Musk will reinstate Elez based on the outcome of the X poll, a method often used by the billionaire to gauge public opinion. Musk also called for the firing of the reporter who broke the story, who he called “a disgusting and cruel person.”

Vice President Vance said in a post late Friday morning that he “obviously” disagrees with some of Elez’s posts, “but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life.”

“We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever,” Vance added. “So I say bring him back. If he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that.”
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As thousands of FBI employees brace for possible political retribution from the Trump administration, one special agent penned an anonymous open letter circulating across the bureau in defense of colleagues who took part in the sprawling January 6 Capitol riot investigation.

This is the letter:

Uncommon Sense was a Common Vice
Those with knowledge of the United States Marine Corps will recognize the irony of this title. I wish its words were not true, but as I write this, I believe they are.
Currently, there is an effort to cull a significant number of career Special Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is an unthinkable action that will gravely undermine the security of the nation well beyond what many of our citizens are aware. For those seeking to raise their awareness, I offer this vignette, free of political bias or moral judgment. It is not about any one person, but an amalgamation of multiple FBI Special Agents.
I am the coach of your child’s soccer team. I sit next to you on occasion in religious devotion. I am a member of the PTA. With friends, you celebrated my birthday. I collected your mail and took out your trash while you were away from home. I played a round of golf with you. I am a veteran. I am the average neighbor in your community. This is who you see and know. However, there is a part of my life that is a mystery to you, and prompts a natural curiosity about my profession.
This is the quiet side of me that you do not know: I orchestrated a clandestine operation to secure the release of an allied soldier held captive by the Taliban. I prevented an ISIS terrorist from boarding a commercial aircraft. I spent 3 months listening to phone intercepts in real time to gather evidence needed to dismantle a violent drug gang. I recruited a source to provide critical intelligence on Russian military activities in Africa. I rescued a citizen being tortured to near death by members of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. I interceded and stopped a juvenile planning to conduct a school shooting. I spent multiple years monitoring the activities of deep cover foreign intelligence officers, leading to their arrest and deportation. I endured extensive hardship to infiltrate a global child trafficking organization. I have been shot in the line of duty.
Something else about me, I was assigned to investigate a potential crime. Like all previous cases I have investigated, this one met every legal standard of predication and procedure. Without bias, I upheld my oath to this country and the Constitution and collected the facts. I collected the facts in a manner to neither prove innocence nor guilt, but to arrive at resolution.
I am now sitting in my home, listening to my children play and laugh in the backyard, oblivious to the prospect that their father may be fired in a few days. Fired for conducting a legally authorized investigation. Fired for doing the job that he was hired to do. I have to wonder, when I am gone, who will do the quiet work that is behind the facade of your average neighbor?
 
Things just get keep getting better:

Regarding Cash Patel

"According to financial disclosure documents, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the role of FBI director was paid $25,000 for his participation in a documentary produced by Global Tree Pictures, a Los Angeles-based company run by Igor Lopatonok, a filmmaker with reported ties to the Kremlin."

The documentary was about the "corrupt FBI"
 
GOP Congressman Chalks Beyoncé’s Historic Grammy Win Up to ‘DEI’

Utah congressman Burgess Owens also believes that Beyoncé’s big Grammy win will cause the country to “suffer.”

 
GOP Congressman Chalks Beyoncé’s Historic Grammy Win Up to ‘DEI’

Utah congressman Burgess Owens also believes that Beyoncé’s big Grammy win will cause the country to “suffer.”

The only difference between Beyonce and the rest of the bubble gum pop country world is the color of her skin.
 
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