but they could care less about our schooling, our certificates, our myriad work experience, extra credit, volunteering, and life, man, fucking LIFE
Jul 25, 2026
Interpol? Sure . . . .
Try going to the local grocery store, at $16.55 an hour, applying for a deli job, and see how they anally probe you. And, will the Internet PROBE find this Substack?
Yes, The Kroger Co. is the largest traditional (or pure-play) supermarket chain in the United States, though Walmart sells a larger total volume of groceries overall. Kroger operates nearly 2,800 stores across 35 states with annual revenue exceeding $148 billion.
Zhǎnshāxiàn
The term “kill line” has three distinct meanings depending on the context: it is most famously a viral socio-economic slang term, a video game mechanic, or a heavy industrial tool.
On Chinese social media and in global economic discourse, the “kill line” (simplified Chinese: 斩杀线; pinyin: Zhǎnshāxiàn) describes a precarious economic threshold where a single financial shock triggers an irreversible descent into poverty and homelessness.
斩杀线
- The Core Concept: It refers to having a dangerously low “margin for error”. Under this concept, an average or lower-income individual is considered “one hit away from collapse”. A single emergency—such as a sudden job loss, a major medical bill, or a car accident—can completely wipe out their savings, destroy their credit score, and cause them to default on their housing.
- Origin and Context: The phrase went viral on Chinese platforms like Bilibili and Xiaohongshu following trending videos documenting working-class hardships and homelessness.
- The Political Debate: Chinese state media often uses the term to critique the gaps in the U.S. social safety net. Conversely, international analysts note that the trend is heavily promoted by Chinese media to offer “psychological comfort” and deflect attention from economic stagnation and youth unemployment within China itself.
Kill Line in AMerica:
Workers and volunteers hand out food to people at La Colaborativa’s food pantry in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on Nov 15. The pantry assists thousands in need every week in the area.
Yang said that while Chinese policies seek to defuse risks facing individuals through institutional efforts, the US system often frames success or failure as matters of personal effort or talent, treating social welfare as a potential burden on market efficiency.
“By doing this, it turns broader social and economic problems into questions of personal responsibility,” he said, “thereby relieving governments and society as a whole from having to address these deeper structural issues.”
NO VACATION NATION!!!
The United States remains the only country in the OECD that does not legally require employers to provide paid annual leave. Although many employers in the United States grant some – or even all — of their employees paid vacations and paid holidays, there is no law that establishes a legal minimum for either benefit.
Shit . . . My travel, too, US Passport?
“Understanding and pre-empting crime trends is an absolute bedrock of policing, and INTERPOL’s Global Crime Trend report offers an unparalleled picture of the global crime landscape as seen by police officers around the world.”Jürgen Stock, INTERPOL Secretary General
Jew-Internet-Pol:
Shabbat Shalom and welcome back to the Rabbi Khozi Show. In this live stream, we are taking a deep dive into the recent footage from OU Israel detailing the real-world, physical preparations currently underway for the Third Temple (Beit HaMikdash).
From the Texas Red Heifers to the training of the Priests (Kohanim), carved stones, and hand-woven curtains, we are explaining the prophetic, biblical, and practical significance of these events so that our Gentile viewers can fully understand what is happening on the ground in Israel.
Ahh, Mississippi, Goddamn . . .
Hundreds of thousands of these cockroach protesters had been assembling for over a month at Jantar Mantar, which is less than half a mile south of Connaught Place, the central market in the heart of Delhi. They were demanding the resignation of Pradhan, who is also a senior leader in India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, the party of Modi. The protesters at Jantar Mantar consider Pradhan to be responsible for failing to prevent “paper leaks”—the unauthorized release of highly competitive national college entrance examinations, often hours and sometimes minutes before the exam is due.
The Jantar Mantar movement emerged in May in response to a leak of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), the countrywide medical entrance exam. Reports suggest at least a dozen students across the country died by suicide after the tests were canceled. Protesters claim the number is over 20. The protestor’s demand that the families of each of these students be paid ten million Indian rupees was accepted by the government on Saturday.
After Delhi’s police and other armed forces cracked down heavily against protesters on Monday, the market became a pale shadow of its usual self. Traffic was redirected. And at least half a dozen metro stations around it were shut. Instead it was full with a young, Gen Z crowd who were there to register their dissent against the Modi government in growing numbers and spirit unseen in recent years.
Betu Yadav, a 26-year-old post-graduate student from Uttar Pradesh was hit on the back of her head with batons by male police officers on Monday, leading to intense bleeding that required seven stitches. As news of the government agreeing to the demands emerged, Yadav, still wearing a bandage over her head, said that she can finally celebrate the fruit of her month-long struggle.
“The fight that we fought has transformed into a big success. And today, on the 25th of July, Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned. Along with the resignation of Pradhan, the struggle to overthrow the BJP government will also be achieved by the same youth and the same crowd,” she said.
Jew Jew JEW Bean.
For 21-year-old Tubassum, a Master’s student at Delhi University, the movement symbolizes solidarity with other struggles. Although she has two cousins who had to re-appear for the medical tests and were depressed through the entire ordeal, showing up for a protest means a lot more for Tubassum, who came sporting a keffiyeh over her burqa. She was in ninth grade when her mother and aunts joined the Muslim women’s protest at Shaheen Bagh, Delhi, in 2019-20, against a citizenship bill that discriminated against Muslims.
“I remember how people showed up for each other in 2019 at Shaheen Bagh against the Modi government. I want to extend the same solidarity to my peers. And while we raise our voice for our education, I also stand with the students of Gaza who suffered a genocide. Whose education has been ripped due to the genocide” she said.
The Modi government, which has systemically targeted Indian Muslims through immigration laws, regulating food habits, and revising voter rolls, is one of Israel’s staunchest allies.
OH, all the killing and damage to infrastructure- what a joke? Will Trump Escalate Bigly or Serve Another TACO Ceasefire in the Middle East? My latest geopolitical soapbox rant with Danny Haiphong 25/07/26.
“PROF. MARANDI:16 U.S Marines Walk Blindly into IRGC Trap in Iran as War enters Dangerous New Phase”
Okay. If this is TRUE? So, Iran is NOT treating these fuckers as terrorists? As illegal aliens? Service members? Mercenaries.
“PROF. MARANDI:16 U.S Marines Walk Blindly into IRGC Trap in Iran as War enters Dangerous New Phase”
My fucking old Stomping Grounds:
- The Incident: June 2025 protest attempting to block a bus transporting two detained asylum seekers from Spokane to Tacoma.
- The Charges: Conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer.
- The Defendants: Jac Archer, Justice Forral, and Bajun Mavalwalla II (an Afghanistan war veteran).
- Co-Defendants: Former Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart and five others took plea deals.
- Legal Status: Awaiting sentencing and seeking an acquittal via a Rule 29 motion.
Three Spokane protesters were convicted of federal conspiracy charges Thursday and now await their sentencing.The protestors face up to six years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines.Jac Archer, Justice Forral and Bajun Mavalwalla II were arrested for trying to prevent federal officers from transporting two detained immigrants from Spokane to Tacoma in June 2025.
The trio, dubbed the “Spokane 3,” were among hundreds who responded to a Facebook post by former City Council President Ben Stuckart last summer that called for people to join him in blocking the transfer bus.Stuckart was a sponsor for one of the two detained immigrants. Both were in the United States seeking asylum.
Nine of the protesters, including Stuckart, were arrested on conspiracy charges. Stuckart was among six who took guilty pleas for reduced sentences.Thursday’s verdictAfter a jury handed down the verdict Thursday, Washington State Representative Natasha Hill, D-Spokane, thanked people who supported the defendants through the nearly two-week trial — but called out Stuckart for not showing up.“You started this and you couldn’t even show up to finish it,” she said. “So I call on you, and I call on others to do what you said you were going to do, and stand up for your community because the fight is not over with this conviction.”Stuckart posted on Facebook Thursday night that he was told attending the trial could violate the terms of his parole.“I feel awful about the guilty verdict. I feel awful for Jac, Bajun and Justice and their families. I support those that took plea deals, and I support those that went to trial,” Stuckart wrote.‘Making an example’Bajun Mavalwalla, Sr., the father of one of the protesters and a congressional candidate, said federal attorneys wanted to make an example of his son.He said he believed the federal government is trying to deter people around the country from speaking out against immigration enforcement policy.“The right to protest, the right to dissent, the right to assemble—all of those things are now in question because of this case,” he said. “In other cases across the country, the juries were not tainted and the cases have been thrown out.”Mavalwalla, Sr., said he hopes that will happen in this case as well.The Spokesman Review reported that in her closing statement, U.S. Attorney Lisa Cartier-Giroux said that the protesters had planned to block federal agents from leaving and that agents felt afraid as the protest grew in size.Defense attorneys said they expect to appeal the conviction.
The Trial of the Spokane 3: ‘The entire weight of the United States government’
The guilty verdict for three Spokane protesters and what’s next in their case.
By Erin Sellers
Every day we’ve covered the federal trial of the Spokane 3, local protesters charged with conspiracy for protesting ICE detainments on June 11, 2025. Read our primer on the case here. Read all our coverage of the protests and subsequent prosecutions here.
As they walked into the courtroom for the reading of the verdict, Justice Forral cradled their copy of To Kill a Mockingbird. Bajun Mavalwalla II, smiling, gave his father Bajun Mavalwalla I a long hug at the threshold of the gate separating the gallery of the courtroom from the well. Jac Archer, the last to arrive, hurried in to take their place at the defense table, taking just a brief pause to connect with their loved ones in the front row.
Minutes later, a predominantly white jury made up mostly of people who don’t live in Spokane would find all three protesters guilty of federal conspiracy charges — a felony that could result in potential sentences of up to six years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Archer was found guilty of conspiring to prevent an officer from doing their duty, conspiring to injure the property of an officer to impede them in their duty and aiding and abetting another to conspire to impede or injure officers. Forral was found guilty of conspiring to prevent an officer from doing their duty, conspiring to injure the property of an officer because they were doing their duty, conspiring to injure the property of an officer in order to impede them in their duty and aiding and abetting another to conspire to impede or injure officers. Mavalwalla was found guilty solely of aiding and abetting the conspiracy for their roles in the June 11 protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Before the verdict reading, the judge had warned the packed gallery that there were to be no outbursts. The audience in the courtroom largely obeyed: the verdicts were initially met with a shocked stillness in the air. Then, quiet weeping, muffled as people tried to choke back their sobs.
The federal prosecutors cleared out quickly, as the defendants and their legal teams packed up their paperwork and their belongings. The defendants, their friends, family, legal teams and supporters were slower to leave the courtroom. One of Forral’s lawyers was crying silently. A half-used roll of toilet paper was passed back and forth as people tried, in vain, to dry their eyes.
When the court finally cleared, the toilet paper roll was left behind, sitting alone on the short barrier that divides the gallery from the well.
“I was shocked by the verdict,” said Aine Ahmed, one of Mavalwalla’s attorneys, who was not in the courtroom on Thursday. “ I was on the plane when [co-counsel] Matt Duggan texted me and said ‘Guilty,’ and I thought he was lying. I’ve had some unexpected verdicts in my life, but nothing like this.”
Andrew Wagley, one of the attorneys representing Archer, said their team was “floored” by the jury’s decision. “ We were feeling fairly confident that it was gonna be an acquittal,” he said.
Ahmed, Wagley and Andrea George, Forral’s lawyer, all told RANGE that this was not the end of the road, though George could not be reached for additional comment today. All three will be filing Rule 29 motions, asking Judge Rebecca Pennell to acquit their clients.
A political prosecution
The indictment of the original nine protesters — six of whom took plea deals — has been criticized as politically motivated. While dozens of protesters were arrested on local charges on June 11, the federal arrests didn’t come until July 15. This was roughly a month after the Justice Department sent a June 12 memo to federal prosecutors across the country directing them to prioritize and publicize prosecutions of anti-ICE protesters.
Former acting US attorney for eastern Washington Richard Barker resigned rather than sign the indictment, telling the Guardian, “I didn’t feel in this case that a conspiracy charge that would carry a six-year term of incarceration was true to who I was or wanted to be as a federal prosecutor.”
After the verdict, Barker wrote in a statement to media:
“Although I respect the judicial process and jury’s verdict, I question whether justice truly was served. This was the first conspiracy prosecution in Eastern Washington history under 18 U.S.C. Section 372 — a Civil War-era law dusted off to punish members of the Spokane community who stood up for two young men who were unlawfully detained by ICE. I hope that moving forward [the] DOJ will focus on the crimes that matter most to keep our families safe and to build trust with the communities that most need and deserve law enforcement protection.”
As the protesters and their supporters left the courtroom, Mavalwalla’s father, who is currently a congressional candidate running in a crowded primary to unseat Rep. Michael Baumgartner, spoke passionately to the distraught crowd.
“The prosecution suppressed the most important salient facts in this case. Number one: that the first US attorney, Richard Barker, resigned rather than to prosecute this case, and that information was suppressed from the jury.” Mavalwalla senior said. “People in Spokane, people in Eastern Washington need to understand that we were guinea pigs, that they brought the swamp of Washington, DC into our area to stop American citizens from exercising our rights that are guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.”
Pete Serrano, who identified himself as First Assistant United States Attorney in his press release (but whose actual title is prefaced with Special Attorney to the Attorney General of The United States because he was never confirmed by Senate) wrote in a Friday press release:
“Our office’s sole motivation for the charging and prosecution of these individuals was to hold them accountable to the law as each attorney in this office has sworn an oath to support and defend the United States Constitution. This case was brought by my office, was agreed upon by the grand jury, and concluded with a multi-day trial by jury because the alleged crimes were committed. Statements made by current or former public officials who never set foot in the courtroom during the trial bear no relevance to these facts or the outcome of this case.”
Serrano was present one day in the courtroom, sitting between two US Marshals in the back of the room on Wednesday, the day many thought the verdict would be returned.
Mavalwalla’s attorney Ahmed, a former assistant US attorney of Eastern Washington himself, called Stephanie van Marter — the former Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington who initially signed the indictment before Serrano took over — “ethically challenged.”
He told RANGE that he had tried to negotiate a plea deal with the government for his client, but they refused to offer any deal that would not require Mavalwalla to say before a judge that he’d used force against an officer. Ahmed asked his client to consider taking a misdemeanor deal.
“And Bajun, ethically, he’s so strong, he said, ‘you’re asking me to lie to a federal judge, and I’m not going to do that,’” Ahmed said.
At the end of the trial, after all of the evidence had been presented, Ahmed thought there was no way there would be a guilty verdict, and that the charges themselves were extreme.
”I didn’t think the government proved any sort of conspiracy, and I don’t think joining arms is a conspiracy, and I couldn’t believe the government was relying on that during their closes,” Ahmed said. “ I thought the whole verdict against Mavalwalla was surreal and frankly, I thought it was surreal against the other two as well. If not a single police officer got hurt and none of them were involved in damaging property, I just don’t even know how you charge this case.”
Across the country, protesters arrested on similar charges in Illinois had their case thrown out amid accusations of prosecutor misconduct and the Trump administration recently created a slush fund to pay people like January 6th insurrectionists who say they were victims of government weaponization (though that was quickly paused by a judge.)
In his press release, Serrano pointed to the jury decision as evidence that the conviction wasn’t political:
“For 250 years in this country, we have turned to juries to resolve those disagreements. Here, twelve individuals from across our community heard 8 days of evidence and concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that these three defendants committed the crime as charged, that they agreed to impede law enforcement officers and injure their property as they did their jobs … Just because the jury did not find in a way that some people wanted, does not negate the fact that a crime occurred.”
Still, community activists pointed to the jury selection process, which pulled jurors from across Eastern Washington — an area politically more conservative than the city of Spokane, where the protest occurred — as being unfair to the defendants.
This is a quirk of the sheer size of the district, which spans 20 Washington counties.
“ If you’re in Spokane County Superior Court, then you have jurors just from Spokane County,” Archer’s lawyer Wagley said. “When you’re in federal court, you have jurors anywhere east of the Cascades because it’s all the Eastern District of Washington.”
The jury was also predominantly white in a case where all the defendants were people of color. Two of the defendants identify as nonbinary and at least one juror had written on their jury questionnaire that he had concern about people who use nonbinary pronouns.
The First Amendment question
Key in courtroom proceedings was the prohibition on arguments or testimony invoking the First Amendment. As RANGE reported before the trial began, Pennell ruled that questions of the First Amendment were the court’s purview, not the jury’s.
“No witness should testify regarding the ultimate issue of whether Defendants’ actions were legal or constitutionally protected. Nevertheless, should Defendants elect to testify in this case, they must be given some leeway,” her pre-trial decision read, in part. “Defendants must be allowed to testify as to their mental state regarding the charged offense. This can be done without Defendants summarily explaining that they intended to obey the law or that they intended to exercise their First Amendment rights.”
Still, the defense had hoped that limited explanations of the First Amendment and protected speech Pennell included in the jury instructions would help the jury see their clients’ speech as Constitutionally protected.
”We are extremely disappointed in the verdict and what it means for the First Amendment. The verdict does not reflect the evidence presented at trial and Jac Archer’s non-violent, peaceful actions on June 11th, 2025,” Wagley said. “This outcome has a substantial chilling effect on an individual’s First Amendment right to free speech, including the right to protest. If Jac Archer can get convicted of a felony conspiracy for linking arms, the Constitution no longer applies.”
Because an intent to use “force, threat or intimidation,” is required to convict defendants of conspiracy, Archer’s defense team has consistently pointed to evidence showing that Archer’s intent was nonviolent protest. However, because Archer did come in with “an agreement,” to do acts of civil disobedience — though not an agreement to use force, threat or intimidation — Wagley thinks that could have been confusing for jurors. He pointed to videos and voice memos introduced by the federal government of Archer saying things like “for those willing to risk arrest.”
“ I could see how a jury could see that and think, ‘Well, that’s advocating for lawless action,’ but it’s not. It’s advocating for civil disobedience, which is clearly protected, and that’s what I think that’s got to come down to, is the court setting aside the verdict based upon the First Amendment,” Wagley said. “Because otherwise, if protesters can get prosecuted and convicted for civil disobedience for a federal felony conspiracy, there’s just – the First Amendment doesn’t mean anything anymore.”
Archer’s team, which also includes attorney Carl Oreskovich, had filed a preliminary Rule 29 motion — a rule that allows defendants to ask for summary acquittal on the grounds that the evidence presented isn’t sufficient for a jury to convict — after the federal government rested their case. This motion cites a 9th Circuit of Appeals ruling that states:
“Peaceful speech, even speech that urges civil disobedience, is fully protected by the First Amendment. Were this not the case, the right of Americans to speak out peacefully on issues and to petition their government would be sharply circumscribed.”
The motion also argued that the characterization of a protest as a conspiracy violates the right to the Freedom of Association.
After the verdict, Pennell gave defendants an additional two weeks to amend or file new Rule 29 motions, the government two weeks after that to respond, and the defense a final week to respond to the government’s response. The judge set July 2 as the deadline for the end of this process, after which she will schedule a hearing to rule on the motions to acquit.
For Archer, Forral and Mavalwalla, the Rule 29 hearings could be just the next step in a lengthy legal process that has already taken nearly a year of their lives. All legal teams have indicated that, should the judge rule against the motions to acquit, they will appeal the convictions — another expensive, labor-intensive step.
In a Facebook comment responding to a statement where City Council President Betsy Wilkerson wrote that the verdict “concludes an important chapter in case that has drawn significant attention and no doubt strong feelings throughout the community,” Archer wrote just six words:
“Respectfully, nothing about this is ‘concluded.’”
Mavalwalla’s father, too, said his family would continue to battle the charges.
“Now the fight has to begin in earnest,” the elder Mavalwalla said Thursday from the federal courthouse courtyard. “We have extraordinarily brave people here today. Jac and Justice and my son have taken the brunt of the entire weight of the United States government onto their shoulders on our behalf.”
Though they spoke at an informal community gathering later in the evening, Forral chose not to address the crowd directly after the verdict. Instead, they handed their friend and fellow activist David Brookbank the copy of To Kill a Mockingbird they’d carried throughout the trial, pointing out a passage they asked Brookbank to read.
Voice strong as he stood before the community, Brookbank read:
”I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway, and you see it through, no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
THINK ABOUT IT. I ALWAYS protested in Spokane. Critical Mass and Trayvon and even MLK Day. So, Oct. 2025 is when I decided to go in and see if a stent could be rectify the lagging endurance. And then Dec. 31 2025 is when I fucking went in for a triple bypass.
NONE of this would have come to pass, no? Or, out on bond, I’d be going in for the fucking surgery, and then what? Leniency?
HEROES.
And will the Jew-oogle Interpol find this image of me, and notice the cut nose where a fucking counterprotester flung it at me? Six images down.
And this is from some fucker’s blog, and alas, painting me as very aggressive and obnoxious. Profanities too. Last post — 2020. These are some of the pacifist cunts I had to deal with in Spokane. Blog.
Protesting The Protest
This morning I received an invitation to attend an Earth Hour Rally for Mayor Verner and Climate Change Awareness. The rally was in answer to:
A group of Climate-Change-denying Tea Party and Patriot Party members are gathering at Spokane City Hall for Earth Hour, March 27th from 8:30pm to 9:30pm. They will be shining flashlights and holding banners to admonish Mayor Mary Verner for advocating for environmental sustainability in Spokane.
I thought this would be a great opportunity for Josh and Steph and asked them if they’d like to go. Josh thought about it for a while and decided he wanted to go but with a twist. He said that whenever there’s an unruly and uninformed mob of people on South Park they always say “Rabble, rabble, rabble.” He decided to make some signs and invite some friends to attend with him.
On one side of the entrance to City Hall, Mike Fagan and a few Spokane Patriots, most claiming to be well-versed in the necessary sciences, held up signs and proceeded to badmouth the United Nations, climate change, sustainability and Mayor Verner. Oops, they mopped the floor with the flag they venerate.
On the other side, an equal number of folks in support of sustainability and rational thought. Hey, Bart!
After a bit, Josh and his two buddies held up their RABBLE signs and started saying, “Rabble, rabble, rabble.” If anyone asked, they explained the South Park origin of their protest and said they were protesting the ridiculous nature of their [Spokane Patriots] protest.
They also waved their signs at cars passing by. Although Steph came along, she only did so because I made her go after she tried to bail at the last minute. Not only was she glad she came, but she was wishing she had made her own RABBLE sign.
The scene got really tense for a while. Paul Haeder (on the right) was very aggressive both physically and verbally. He was obnoxious and didn’t have a problem showing how well-versed he is in the use of profanities. Mike Fagan (on the left) was spouting nonsense, but I didn’t see him say or do anything to provoke anyone. A couple of people on both sides pointed bright lights and laser pointers at opposing faces. As you can see, Haeder got his nose scratched. I’m not sure what happened, but he made it sound like he was assaulted. The Spokane Police showed up, and everyone calmed down. The arguments that took place between people on each side were laughable in their futility to change the other’s mind.
Yes, federal prosecutors announced a 94-page indictment charging 15 members and associates of the Minneapolis group Direct Action Minnesota with conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers during immigration enforcement operations.
Federal prosecutors charge 15 people with impeding agents during Minn. illegal-immigration crackdown
Yep, if true, rejoice, but do it another fucking 100 times.
Marines say they hit recruiting goals and point to ‘unapologetic’ standards
“The Marines are probably the most inelastic of the services,” Lt. Gen. William Bowers told The Associated Press this month. “We appeal to a certain type of young man or woman — that really doesn’t change with the economic winds.”
“They want to be part of that mystique,” he added.
For 2026, Marines recruited 30,536 active duty and reserve enlisted Marines — just one person over its annual goal. It also recruited 1,792 active duty and reserve officers, beating its goal by two people.
Officials say the figures are not the result of a struggle to meet the numbers but a reflection of how careful the Corps has to be in not overrecruiting.
All uniformed mercenaries should be the REAL Bug Splat. So, is Rubio’s-Karp’s-Catz’s-Ellison’s-Page’s-Brin’s-Altman’s-Zuckerberg’s trawlers going to catch me?
[The artists who are giving a human face to the US’s ‘bug splat’ drone strikes]
Paul Haeder, Author 