…and so, which fucking moment is the TRUE inflection point? Enemy of the People? MAGA and the other side of the manure pond. Machetes? Molotovs? Grenades?
Saadi Youssef (1934–2021) wrote a miraculous poem called ‘America, America’. Here is the last stanza:
We are not hostages, America,
and your soldiers are not God’s soldiers…
We are the poor ones, ours is the earth of the drowned gods,
the gods of bulls,
the gods of fires,
the gods of sorrows that intertwine clay and blood in a song…
We are the poor, ours is the god of the poor,
who emerges out of farmers’ ribs,
hungry
and bright,
and raises heads up high…America, we are the dead.
Let your soldiers come.
Whoever kills a man, let him resurrect him.
We are the drowned ones, dear lady.
We are the drowned.
Let the water come.
Until now, researchers have sought to understand the human toll of sanctions on a case-by-case basis. This is difficult work and can only ever give us a partial picture. But that has changed with new research published this year in The Lancet Global Health, which gives us a global view for the first time. Led by the economist Francisco Rodriguez at the University of Denver, the study calculates the total number of excess deaths associated with international sanctions from 1970 to 2021.
The results are staggering. In their central estimate, the authors find that unilateral sanctions imposed by the US and EU since 1970 are associated with 38 million deaths. In some years, during the 1990s, more than a million people were killed. In 2021, the most recent year of data, sanctions caused more than 800,000 deaths.
According to these results, several times more people are killed by sanctions each year than are killed as direct casualties of war (on average, about 100,000 people per year). More than half of the victims are children and the elderly, people who are most vulnerable to malnutrition. The study finds that, since 2012 alone, sanctions have killed more than one million children.
Since then, the US and Europe have dramatically increased their use of sanctions. During the 1990s and 2000s, an average of 30 countries were under Western unilateral sanctions in any given year. And now, as of the 2020s, it is more than 60 – a strikingly high proportion of the countries of the Global South.
Oh, so Wiki-CIA-Pedia has a list? List of assassinated human rights activists
Those are not inflection points? Or is it this euthanized Kirk’s demise?
On Dec. 4, 1969, Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton, 21, and Mark Clark, 22, were shot to death by 14 police officers as they lay sleeping in their Chicago apartment.
FRED HAMPTON: So we say—we always say in the Black Panther Party that they can do anything they want to to us. We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you’ll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you’re going to have to keep on saying that. You’re going to have to say that I am a proletariat, I am the people.
A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals. A lot of people don’t even understand the words that Eldridge uses a lot. But what we’re saying is that there are white people in the mother country that are for the same types of things that we are for stimulating revolution in the mother country. And we say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind. We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just—it’s a byproduct of capitalism. Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we’re going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.
With no education, the people will take the local foundation and start stealing money, because they won’t be really educated to why it’s the people’s thing anyway. You understand what I’m saying? With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you’ve got in Africa now and like you’ve got in Haiti. So what we’re talking about is there has to be an educational program. That’s very important. As a matter of fact, reading is so important for us that a person has to go through six weeks of our political education before we can consider himself a member of the party able to even run down ideology for the party. Why? Because if they don’t have an education, then they’re nowhere. You dig what I’m saying? They’re nowhere, because they don’t even know why they’re doing what they’re doing. You might get caught up in the emotion of this movement. You understand me? You might be able to get them caught up because they’re poor and they want something. And then, if they’re not educated, they’ll want more, and before you know it, they’ll be capitalists, and before you know it, we’ll have Negro imperialists.
We don’t think you fight fire with fire; we think you fight fire with water. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. We’re still here to say we’re not going to fight reactionary pigs and reactionary state’s attorneys like this and reactionary state’s attorneys like Hanrahan with any other reactions on our part. We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution.
Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We’re going to have to struggle. We’re going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we’re asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don’t even understand what peace means. And we’ve got to fight them. We’ve got to struggle with them to make them understand what peace means.
Bobby Seale is going through all types of physical and mental torture. But that’s alright, because we said even before this happened, and we’re going to say it after this and after I’m locked up and after everybody’s locked up, that you can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country. You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting, and if you do, you’ll come up with answers that don’t answer, explanations that don’t explain, you’ll come up with conclusions that don’t conclude, and you’ll come up with people that you thought should be acting like pigs that’s acting like people and moving on pigs. And that’s what we’ve got to do. So we’re going to see about Bobby regardless of what these people think we should do, because school is not important and work is not important. Nothing’s more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.
Smiling PIGS.
Rachel, was that the inflection point? Israeli court rejects appeal in Rachel Corrie case
Aaron, was that the inflection point?
So, Sub-Par, Subterranean, Substack, now the “creators” or “gatekeepers” of Substack have collated these fucking freaks yammering on about the Charley Kirk euthanization?
In dialogue: A rising tide of political violence
Fucking Newt Gingrich weighs in: On the Sub-Par Substack above. But remember?
Gingrich told the Jewish Channel that Palestinians are “invented” because there has been no state of Palestine.
“I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab community,” said Gingrich. “And they had a chance to go many places, and for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940s, and it’s tragic.”
The land of Israel and the Palestinian territories was part of the Ottoman Empire before being taken over by Great Britain. Mandated Palestine, as it was known, was then partitioned by the United Nations in 1947.
Gingrich went on to call the Israeli-Palestinian peace process “delusional” and that President Barack Obama’s treatment of Palestinians is “favoring the terrorists.”
Gingrich’s argument is regularly made and far from new.
In 1969, former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir said
“There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.”
Gingrich recently visited an African-American church in South Carolina, where he was bombarded with questions about his racist rhetoric. In a Sunday sermon honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, the pastor of King’s former church accused Gingrich of “scapegoating and race-baiting.” Dr. Raphael Warnock stated, “He is playing an old game that’s part of the Southern strategy.” After finally hearing about Gingrich’s racist statements in the news media, I have one question: In this post-racial America, why did no one call Gingrich out for being a racist before now?
Newt’s language offers not-so-subtle clues to those who already hold racist views. Newt has faced criticism for repeatedly calling Obama “the food stamp president.” Gingrich is not using the phrase because he wants to highlight growing poverty; rather, he is subtly suggesting that Obama is doling out government benefits to his black constituents. Gingrich also thinks federal courts should not have ordered Southern schools to desegregate in the 1950′s. He has referred to Spanish as “the language of living in a ghetto.” Gingrich, a former history professor, once warned white people that you can only understand President Obama if you understand his “Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior.”
The most offensive idea to come out of Gingrich’s mouth: he claimed that poor children have no role models to teach them about hard work, so he advocates relaxing child labor laws to allow them to work as janitors in their own schools. For someone who once touted his bipartisan education ideas with Al Sharpton, this idea is ridiculous. When would these students/janitors do their homework? If these kids truly lack role models, the solution is to give them role models, not to have them cleaning up shit in their spare time.
Here it is, some fucker named Continetti: The Abyss, uh?
Matthew Continetti: The murder of Charlie Kirk could yet serve as a turning point. It could be an occasion for Americans to step away from the abyss and recover the moral clarity and habits of heart that sustain a republic. But if we fail—if the moment passes, if the tit for tat escalates, if we retreat from the public square into our private redoubts—then the abyss won’t recede. It will widen. And America will be one step closer to the edge.
Another one of millions who should be euthanized: Bolsonaro’s son says the US should send F-35s and warships to carry out regime change in Brazil.
Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to prison yesterday for coup plotting; Trump tried to stop this with sanctions and threats, but was ignored.
Written by the moron who wrote that it was “legally” possible to kill Palestinian children: By Graeme Wood
The controversial sentence appeared in an article titled “The UN’s Gaza Statistics Make No Sense”. In the piece, Wood challenged the UN’s reported casualty figures from the Gaza conflict.
The full quote was:
“Even when conducted legally, war is ugly. It is possible to kill children legally, if for example one is being attacked by an enemy who hides behind them. But the sight of a legally killed child is no less disturbing than the sight of a murdered one”.
Inflection points:
On March 12, 2020, a Jefferson County Circuit Court judge approved five search warrants for locations linked to Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, a convicted felon suspected of supplying a local drug house. One of those locations was Taylor’s residence.
In the early hours of March 13, Hankison and other officers executed a warrant at Taylor’s apartment. Taylor was in bed with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker III, when the officers announced their presence and then battered down the front door.
Taylor and Walker yelled to ask who was at the door but got no response, Walker said afterward. Thinking they were intruders, Walker grabbed a gun he legally owned and fired a shot when the officers broke through the door.
That triggered a volley of fire from the officers. Taylor, who was standing in a hallway with Walker, was shot multiple times. Walker was not injured.
“Somebody kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend,” Walker said in a 911 call.
Hankison had been standing outside the apartment and is accused of blindly firing through a door and a window. His bullets entered a neighboring apartment, where a pregnant woman, a man and a child were home, according to the state attorney general.
Walker was at first charged with attempted murder of a police officer and first-degree assault – Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly was shot in the leg – but prosecutors later decided to drop the charges.
None of the police officers at the raid were wearing body cameras, and there is no video of the night Taylor bled to death in her hallway.
Hankison was fired from the police department in late June 2020.
Is this now game on for open season on fascists? Sam Altman Says AI Will Speed up Job Turnover, Hit Service Roles First – Business Insider
Yeah, I got fired too, but as an adjunct speaking out in favor of the Vagina Monologues and Planned Parenthood coming to campus:
When Andrea Brower was hired two years ago as the lead instructor for Gonzaga University’s solidarity and social justice program, she thought she had landed a dream job. Brower was tasked with “mentoring students in their social justice pursuits” at the private, liberal arts university in eastern Washington state. The school’s Jesuit mission highlighted a commitment to diversity, global engagement and “solidarity with the poor and vulnerable” – a perfect fit for Brower, who had come to academia by way of grassroots, environmental activism in her native Hawaii.
Brower felt at first that her activist credentials were welcome, but when she started organizing around issues on campus – criticizing the treatment of adjuncts and rising administrator salaries and speaking out against the university’s investments in fossil fuels – she began to run into opposition from university administrators.
But it was after she began to protest against Israel’s war in Gaza and criticize Gonzaga’s investments in weapons manufacturers that her troubles really started. Last year, a colleague Brower had never met filed a formal complaint accusing her of antisemitism. It took eight months for the university to conclude that the allegations were unsubstantiated.
The months-long ordeal ultimately led Brower to resign from her position rather than work for an institution increasingly willing to “repress critical thought and dissent”, she wrote in her resignation letter, which she made public on Thursday. “I can bear the harassment, the bullying, the character slander, but what I will not tolerate is being constricted from doing honest, rigorous teaching,” she said in an exclusive interview before she resigned. “I don’t know how I’m going to teach in an environment where I know I am being so closely watched and surveilled by administrators.”
A spokesperson for Gonzaga did not answer a detailed list of questions, saying the university “does not discuss or disclose details about any person’s employment”.
Brower’s case is hardly isolated. As the Trump administration has turned civil rights legislation into a cudgel to root out progressive politics on US campuses, with billions of dollars in federal funding on the line, pro-Palestinian professors have increasingly been caught in the crossfire. But while the government’s crackdown on universities has drawn widespread condemnation, a parallel campaign targeting specific faculty members has received far less attention. Often initiated by actors seizing on the political climate and the vulnerability of universities, accusations against professors of antisemitism have come at a great professional and personal cost for many.
Gonzaga’s ROTC program named top unit in West again: Badge of Honor: Celebrating the ROTC Bulldog Battalion’s 75 years
Antisemitism?
Jews in Israel Rape
Jews in Israel Murder
Jews in Israel Starve
Jews in Israel Gun down
Jews in Israel are for the mowing of the lawn
Jews in Israel are stealing land, therefore, are thieves
Jews in Israel are supremacist, elitest, racists and want to control the global narrative
Jews are committing genocide in Palestine
Jews in Israel are shooting down Christians and Muslims
Jews in Israel are Breaking All Human Rights Laws
Jews outside of Israel who demand all free speech around BDS movements are racists and fascists.
Adopted by the IHRA in 2016, this definition is widely used by governments and institutions to identify and address antisemitism. The core text defines antisemitism as a “certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews”. To help illustrate this, the IHRA included 11 examples of how antisemitism can manifest, both in traditional forms and in relation to the State of Israel.
These examples explicitly condemn:
- Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing of Jews.
- Accusing Jews of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
- Promoting stereotypes about Jews, such as controlling the media or global finance.
- Using symbols of classic antisemitism, like blood libel, to characterize Israel.
Criticisms of the IHRA definition
Here’s me putting it to Jewish Google’s AI: “The source of the ‘antisemitism doesn’t exist’ claim likely comes from confusion and controversy surrounding the IHRA’s examples regarding Israel. Critics argue that these examples can be used to silence or chill legitimate criticism of Israeli policies by branding it as antisemitism.
- Seven of the IHRA’s 11 examples involve the State of Israel.
- Examples like “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor” have been particularly contentious, with critics stating they are used to shut down debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Kenneth Stern, one of the drafters of the IHRA definition, has voiced concern that it is being “weaponized” to suppress free speech on college campuses.
THese people are monsters: Israel’s next strategic bet is Deep Tech, not just AI
Deep Tech creates technologies that form the backbone of national defense and industrial sovereignty
1. Advanced Energy Systems; 2. Advanced Materials and Electronics; 3. Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology; 4. Small-Satellite Systems
Mitt Romney’s brood, Tyler?
• In custody: The suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk has been identified as Tyler Robinson and is being held without bail in a Utah jail on several charges, according to officials.
• Widow’s vow: Two days after conservative activist’s stunning assassination, his wife vowed tonight to continue his movement, including the fall campus tour. “It will be greater than ever,” Erika Kirk said in her first public remarks.
• The investigation: Authorities have pointed to what they described as anti-fascist messages engraved on bullet casings in a rifle found near the scene as potential evidence of a political motive. Read more about the engravings.
[Shot Heard Around the World – by Mr. Fish (clowncrack.com)]
And so the fascists are out in numbers. Of course, this fucker is dead, and of course, he is a meaningless fucking celebrity of the hate progeny of this fucking country. He deserved to be shut up. And, if we can’t say that, then, the Nazis have risen to the top of the scum pile:
[A Facebook post from Naples Central School District teacher Patrick Freivald mocked the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk]
Indeed, raw feelings about the killing have ignited a campaign to shame — and more. Several conservative activists sought to identify social media users whose posts about Kirk they viewed as offensive or celebratory. Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer said she would try to ruin the professional aspirations of anyone who celebrated Kirk’s death.
MSNBC said Dowd is no longer with the network after his comments, shortly after the shooting, about “hateful words” leading to “hateful actions.” Both MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler and Dowd apologized for the remarks, which Kutler called “inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable.”
Dowd said he didn’t intend for his comments to blame Kirk for the attack. Still, it brought an abrupt interruption to his work as a television commentator, which the former aide to President George W. Bush has done for nearly two decades.
Actions spread across country, from Mississippi to Arizona
A Florida reporter was suspended for a question posed to a congressman. A comic book writer lost her job because of social media posts, as did educators in Mississippi and Tennessee. “CBS Mornings” host Nate Burleson was attacked for a question. An Arizona sports reporter and a Carolina Panthers public relations official both lost jobs.
An anonymously registered website pledged to “Expose Charlie’s Murderers” and asked people to offer tips about people who were “supporting political violence online.”
The site published a running list Thursday of targeted posts, along with the names, locations and employers of people who posted them. While some posts contained incendiary language, others didn’t appear to celebrate the shooting or glorify violence. There were several similar efforts, including one by activist Scott Presler, who asked his followers about teachers who supposedly celebrated Kirk’s assassination, and posted findings on X.
A staff member at the University of Mississippi was fired after sharing “insensitive comments” about Kirk’s death, according to the school’s chancellor, Glenn Boyce. The university did not identify the employee or immediately respond to questions from The Associated Press.
The president of Middle Tennessee State University said he’d fired a staffer who offered “callous and inappropriate comments on social media” about the assassination. President Sidney A. McPhee did not identify the staff member but said the person “worked in a position of trust with our students.”
It wasn’t clear if it was the same person, but an X post by Tennessee GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn identified an assistant dean of students at MTSU who posted online that she had “ZERO sympathy” following the shooting. Blackburn said the person should be ashamed and fired.
A warning to teachers in Florida
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ education commissioner warned the state’s teachers that making “disgusting” statements about Kirk’s assassination could draw sanctions, including the suspension or revocation of their teaching licenses. Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas said in a memo to school district superintendents that he’d been made aware of “despicable” comments on social media.
“I will be conducting an investigation of every educator who engages in this vile, sanctionable behavior,” Kamoutsas said in the memo, which he also posted on X on Thursday. “Govern yourselves accordingly.”
The rush to police commentary appeared to have little precedent in other recent examples of political violence, such as the 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, or the shooting deaths earlier this year former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and her husband Mark.
DC Comics announced that it was ditching a new “Red Hood” series, a Batman spinoff, after one issue had been published and two more were in the works. The comics’ writer, Gretchen Felker-Martin, had published comments about Kirk’s shooting online that DC called offensive.
“Posts or public comments that can be viewed as promoting hostility or violence are inconsistent with DC’s standards of conduct,” the comics publisher said.
Loomer, whose pressure campaigns have resulted in several Trump administration firings, attacked the entertainment website TMZ for what she called a “disgusting” livestream where employees could be heard laughing and cheering seconds before Kirk’s death was announced. TMZ said the noise had nothing to do with the Kirk story — the staff members were crowded around a computer watching a car chase — but apologized for the bad timing and how it looked to viewers.
A writer for the Arizona media company PHNX Sports was fired after conservative activists called attention to a series of online posts that attacked Kirk’s positions on guns and Gaza and called him evil.
The NFL’s Panthers distanced themselves from an employee who posted comments about Kirk and a photo referencing Wu-Tang Clan’s song “Protect Ya Neck.” Kirk was shot in the neck. Football communications coordinator Charlie Rock was fired, according to a person with knowledge of the situation who spoke under condition of anonymity because the team typically doesn’t announce firings.
Rock’s name has been removed from the team’s website. He did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
Football star turned CBS News anchor under attack
Burleson, a former football star turned anchor for CBS News’ morning show, was attacked online for asking former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on the air Thursday whether this was a moment for the Republican party to reflect on political violence. His co-anchor, Gayle King, immediately tried to soften the question by interjecting, “I’d say both parties.”
[Fucking Berlin: Memorials honoring Charlie Kirk have been held across the country and overseas, including in Berlin. Kirk was assassinated on Sept. 10, 2025.]
Donald Trump’s infamous Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday ignited a firestorm of criticism and has been repeatedly denounced as racist, most notably due to the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s reference to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”.
But the bigoted statements from the rally did not stop there. Here is a list of the people and groups who were attacked at Trump’s campaign rally by speakers who spewed hateful vitriol throughout the night.
1. Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio
Hinchcliffe repeated false claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. “You know, you used to be able to tell people to Google stuff. My mom’s a boomer in the state of Ohio, and there’s no convincing her of anything,” he said. Hinchcliffe continued: “She’s eating the cats, she’s eating the dogs. They’re eating the pets up there.” Disinformation about Haitian immigrants has led to threats and harassment against community members. Schools in Springfield faced more than 30 bomb threats after Trump and other Republicans continued to repeat false claims.
2. Black Americans
In a bit involving an audience member whom Hinchcliffe identified as Black, Hinchcliffe said that the man was “one of [his] buddies” with whom he had attended a Halloween party at which they “carved watermelon together”. The association of Black people with watermelon is a longstanding anti-Black trope dating back to the 19th century.
3. Jewish and Palestinian people
“When it comes to Israel and Palestine, we’re all thinking the same thing. Settle your stuff already. Best out of three,” Hinchcliffe said about Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza. “The Palestinians are gonna throw rock every time,” he continued, alluding to Palestinians throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers during demonstrations. Hinchcliffe ended the joke with an antisemitic trope about Jewish people and money, saying: “Jews have a hard time throwing that paper.”
4. Vice-President Kamala Harris
During his appearance, Tucker Carlson, the Trump loyalist and former Fox News host, sarcastically referred to Harris, who is Black and Indian, as a “Samoan-Malaysian” with a “low IQ”, joining other Republicans who have purposely misidentified Harris’s background throughout the campaign cycle. Carson’s claims about Harris’s intellectual capacity have also been parroted by Trump, and have no basis. The businessman Grant Cardone also insulted Harris during his remarks, suggesting that she was a sex worker and her advisers were “pimp handlers”, a misogynistic, racist and entirely false accusation.
5. Transgender people
Carlson went on to attack trans people, claiming that the ability to transition genders was a “lie” perpetuated by Democrats. “They force us to lie about everything at gunpoint,” he said. “And not just the obvious lies that men can become women or Vladimir Putin blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.” It was another example of harmful transphobic rhetoric from Republicans, who have spent millions on anti-trans television ads throughout the election cycle.
6. Immigrants at large
Stephen Miller, a white nationalist and one of Trump’s former top advisers, said that “America is for Americans and Americans only”, which many have compared to remarks made at a 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, when a speaker promised to “restore America to the true Americans”. Miller continued: “Think about how corrupt and hateful and evil a system is that allows gangs to come into this country and rape and murder little girls,” repeating false claims about the US immigration system. “Who’s going to stand up for our daughters? Who’s going to stand up for the girls of America, the women of America, the families of America? Who’s going to stand up and say, the cartels are gone, the criminal migrants are gone, the gangs are gone.” Research has shown that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than people born in the US.
“He’s been taking Americans and his followers on a journey since really 2015 conditioning them … step by step instilling hatred in a group, and then escalating,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University who writes about authoritarianism and fascism and has been outspoken about the dangers of a second Trump administration.
“So immigrants are crime. Immigrants are anarchy. They’re taking their jobs, but now they’re also animals who are going to kill us or eat our pets or eat us,” she continued. “That’s how you get people to feel that whatever is done to them, as in mass deportation, rounding them up, putting them in camps, is OK.”
3 Massachusetts school staff placed on leave over Charlie Kirk social media posts, superintendents say
Ahh, talk about HATE:
Lacy-Powell panicked three weeks ago when she discovered a green notice stuck to the windshield of each vehicle on a street in Southeast Portland. The city had determined that her vehicles were “abandoned,” according to the note, and would be towing them within 10 days. Without enough money to pay for gas to move both, she quickly moved everything into her RV and drove it to another street.
Her van was towed, and she said she hasn’t had the time or transportation to retrieve it. She said she now lives in fear that her remaining vehicle could be towed any time.
“Living alone as a woman on the street, this isn’t the life I wanted,” she said. “But I have one place where I feel safe, my RV. And the city wants to take that away?”
Mayor Keith Wilson wants to make it easier to do so.
Months ago, Lacy-Powell would have been able to pick up her towed van for free, under a policy that waives towing costs for “lived-in” vehicles retrieved within 30 days. But Wilson reversed that policy last month. Soon, getting her van back would cost more than $300.
It’s part of a coordinated effort from the mayor’s office to crack down on cars and RVs that people are living in that appear inoperable or severely damaged, criteria that meet the city’s definition of a “derelict” vehicle.
A man tried to flee when ICE agents attempted to detain him in Chicago. According to reports, the man tried to drive away, pulling one of the agents with his car. It was then that an agent opened fire, shooting into the car and killing the man.
Mainstream media outlets are reporting on the injuries sustained by the ICE agent who was taken to a nearby hospital and is expected to recover.
Outlets are ignoring the fact that the officers pulled the man out of his car and put his lifeless body in handcuffs.
Some real violent hate incidents here:
“So right now, the community is a bit scared about Ice and the military operations here in Chicago,” he added. “Franklin Park is heavily Latino and Polish, so I didn’t know that they were going to come here one day. It’s just, once it happens, you’re in shock, like you can’t believe your eyes.”
He also provided reporters with security footage from outside the shop, which included audio of what sounds like gunshots.
Police taped off the area and behind patrol vehicles a grey sedan could be seen that the man had been driving. It had crashed into a parked truck, and it could be seen that the driver’s side window was open.
A video taken by a bystander and uploaded to Chitown Crimechasers on Facebook shows Ice agents trying to get into Villegas-Gonzalez’ car. Yanking the car handle and eventually breaking the glass and unlocking the car from the inside.
In a statement, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) denounced the fatal shooting, saying:
“We grieve for Silverio’s family and neighbors. His killing at the hands of ICE is a display of the extreme, aggressive tactics that ICE has been carrying out in its operations across Chicagoland this week … This killing is the latest in a mounting pile of evidence that Trump’s mass deportation machine is completely out of control.”
The activist group further called out Ice’s immigration crackdown:
“ICE’s operations, which today resulted in ICE killing Mr Villegas-Gonzalez, jeopardize the safety of everyone, citizens and non-citizens alike, and disrupt the very fabric of our communities … In a moment like this it is critical that we all exercise our rights and look out for our neighbors.”
“Lying.” “Disgusting.” “Scum.” “Slime.” “Corrupt.” “Enemy of the people.” Donald Trump has always made clear what he thinks of journalists.“Lying.” “Disgusting.” “Scum.” “Slime.” “Corrupt.” “Enemy of the people.” Donald Trump has always made clear what he thinks of journalists.
Utah — Blood Libel:
Paul Haeder, Author 