Police declared the demonstration an unlawful assembly, with one officer explaining it was unlawful “because it was declared unlawful!”

Paulo Kirk

Jan 28, 2026

ICE will be breaking into dorms soon:

But then, fascist Educador . . . .

On Wednesday, former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said the Prosecutor’s Office raided the home of Luisa Gonzalez, the former presidential candidate of the Citizen Revolution movement.

Yale University is eliminating tuition and other costs for all new undergraduates from families earning less than $100,000 a year, joining a growing number of elite campuses that are slashing costs for middle- and lower-income families.

The Ivy League school announced the change Tuesday and said it will take effect for students entering this fall.

Yale previously waived all expected costs for students from families earning less than $75,000 a year. By raising the limit to $100,000, the university said nearly half of American households with children ages 6 to 17 will qualify. The new policy also promises to waive tuition — but not all costs — for those with annual incomes under $200,000.

“This strategic investment is central to our mission to educate exceptional students from all backgrounds,” Provost Scott Strobel said. “The benefits are evident as these talented students enrich the Yale campus and go on to serve their communities after graduation.”

Again, Israeli Occupation Forces, and this ICE thug is ready for some Mitzvah buggering:

Deadly Exchange, run by Jewish Voice for Peace, has chronicled the imperial nexus between the two bodies. ICE, which has the budget of a military itself, has a vested interest in the IDF, as the two are interlinked in ideology and function.

U.S. and Israeli officials have made comparisons between their respective walls, Israeli companies provide the same radar and surveillance services used by Israel to the U.S., or law enforcement exchange programs between the U.S. police and Israeli police continue to share suppression tactics. Groups like the Anti-Defamation League have encouraged several exchanges wherein law enforcement officials, including those from ICE, have exchanged “best practices.”

Moreover, ICE and the IDF have similar modalities—operating through the use of militarized checkpoints, constant surveillance, and sometimes arbitrary detentions and arrests—making the connection between the two entities exceedingly clear. Bolstered by private contractors, ICE and the IDF maintain ideological connections. They seek to punish those who oppose the imperial and ethnonationalistic tendencies that both ICE and the IDF espouse.

Back to green porn — Sustainable Murder Jet Fuel: Boeing and the Technion are moving their joint sustainable aviation fuel initiative from feasibility work into hands-on development of cost-competitive electrofuels

Money Murder Money Murder MONEY MONEY MONEY. Businesses face pressure to respond to immigration enforcement while also becoming a target of it

DISCHARGE? Is that the language of Orwell, or just plain Semen Drip Trump=Glosser=Miller=Noem?

A Department of Homeland Security report sent to Congress and obtained by ABC News says that two federal officers discharged their firearms during the shooting of Alex Pretti on Saturday in Minneapolis. At no point in the report does DHS say Pretti attempted to reach for his weapon.

The report says DHS conducted a preliminary review of body-worn camera footage and Customs and Border Protection documentation from the scene and is notifying lawmakers of what they say are key details from before and after Pretti was shot and killed.

MAHA — that’s right, heroin addict RFK is making america’s health absent.

Getting a doctor’s appointment will become even harder as a perfect storm hits the U.S. healthcare system

I never anticipated that the American healthcare system would become a frightening exception to classic supply-and-demand principles.

Healthcare access is usually not elective. Rather, it is mandated by disease, either in urgent-care settings or emergency rooms. Medical care is paid for not only by consumers, but also by employers and the government. Costs are not set by individuals or organizations but by public and private insurance companies. Good health is such an important priority that everyone wants the best medicine, no matter how much it costs.

Palestinian News — expect this to be dual use on steroids: Oppen-Monster-Heimers a la Mitzvah.

Civilisations name their ages after materials. In school, we learn about the Stone Age, the Bronze Age – and we are currently in a silicon age characterised by computers and phones. What might define the next age? Omar Yaghi at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks a family of materials he helped pioneer in the 1990s has a good shot. They are metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and working out how to make them earned him a share of the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry.

MOFs, and their cousins covalent organic frameworks (COFs), are crystalline materials, but what sets them apart is their incredible porosity. In 1999, Yaghi and his colleagues made a splash when they synthesised a zinc-based material called MOF-5 that was so riddled with pores that a couple of grams of it had an internal surface area comparable to a football field (see diagram below). The inside of the material was effectively an awful lot larger than its outside.

For decades, Yaghi has been at the forefront of making new MOFs and COFs, a discipline known as reticular chemistry, and working out just how useful they can be. Because other molecules can be sucked into these materials’ abundant pores, they turn out to be great at harvesting water from arid desert air, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and much more. Yaghi spoke to New Scientist about why he is optimistic about this work, the past, present and future of reticular chemistry – and why he thinks the age of these materials is dawning.

Old Conquistadors: Spain is granting legal status to immigrants lacking authorization — potentially 500,000 people. FUCKING quite spending money on war machines.

Jew news, ALWAYS: Jew on Jew verbal violence, and cancelling: AGO trustee Judy Schulich, executive vice president of the Schulich Foundation, was among the committee members who voted against the acquisition of Goldin’s “Stendhal Syndrome.” The video artwork juxtaposes 20 years of the artist’s photos of Classical, Baroque, and Renaissance masterpieces with photos of her friends, family, and lovers.

Artist Nan Goldin accuses the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) of censorship following the revelation that the museum reneged on a joint acquisition of her video artwork “Stendhal Syndrome” (2024) over her public support of Gaza. An internal memo of the 11-9 committee vote during a May 2025 meeting, first reported by the Globe and Mail, indicated that certain members of the acquisitions committee, including AGO trustee Judy Schulich, characterized Goldin’s 2024 speech in Berlin in solidarity with Gaza as “offensive” and “antisemitic.”

“It’s chilling that this censorship plays out especially regarding Palestine, the great exception to free speech,” Goldin said in a statement to Hyperallergic.

The acquisitions committee was referring to Goldin’s address at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in November 2o24, during the opening reception of the artist’s traveling retrospective This Will Not End Well. Goldin, who is Jewish, took to the podium to “amplify [her] position of moral outrage at the genocide in Gaza, in Lebanon,” and to criticize Germany’s conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism.

Jew News: The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Penn alleging that the University failed to provide documents requested for an investigation into its handling of antisemitism complaints from Jewish faculty and staff on Tuesday.

The Nov. 18 complaint — which was filed in a Pennsylvania federal court — claimed that Penn “refused to comply” with a July subpoena seeking discrimination complaints filed by Jewish employees, membership lists of Jewish-related campus groups, and Jewish Studies Program employee names. In a response to the suit, Penn wrote that it has “cooperated extensively with the EEOC, providing over 100 documents, totaling nearly 900 pages.”

Fucking Semen Drip Trump’s little dick boyhood rising to the top of his room temperature IQ. Iraq’s al-Maliki rejects ‘violation of sovereignty’ after Trump’s threats

Al-Maliki rejects Trump’s threat as a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty, suggesting that he will not withdraw his candidacy.

New census data showed that the U.S. population grew to roughly 342 million by midway through 2025, an increase of about 1.8 million people compared with the previous year.

That is one of the slowest growth rates in American history. Only once has the U.S. population increased by less than 0.5 percent — in 2021, when the pandemic caused deaths to soar and borders to close.

The biggest reason for the slowdown is a sharp drop in immigration. The census estimates, which measured the changes in the population from July 2024 through June 2025, found that the U.S. added about 1.3 million people through immigration. In the last full year of the Biden administration, by contrast, net immigration was just over 2.7 million.

Population growth in Florida slowed markedly last year, according to new census estimates.

More Tech Facism, look at his language.

The first thing is that megacaps would finally crush all competition, and tech would become a commodity like oil, controlled by an elite few. This is where the term “oligarchs,” – which I’ve never been on board with as a label for corporate tech leadership – starts to be a real thing.

I spent the last few weeks of 2025 documenting how the crack in the tectonic plates caused by AI was finally doing what massive world-altering tech changes always do. Namely, the techies pushed out or otherwise turned off by the rise to AI ubiquity were now starting to form clusters amongst themselves and play their own game by their own rules.

This is not revolution, it’s capitulation, but in a good way. Rather than fighting to stay relevant in World A – a slice of the tech industry dominated by shortsighted growth, OKRs over innovation, and productivity as a metric based on butts-in-seats and number of features released – these folks are using these AI advancements as tools to wield tech as a solution to problems in overlooked sectors filled with hungry-for-results customers.

The tech giants would literally have to take them out, one by one, like an infinite game of Whack-a-Mole. But let’s say they do that, carve out lanes that only they control, usurp the public internet and collude to control all the data and the banks and the devices and the code.

Oh, we knew this decades ago:

Across some of the most productive farmland in the United States, a nutrient called phosphorus has been accumulating in the soil for decades, at levels far beyond what crops actually require. While this element is essential for life-supporting root development and cellular chemistry to grow food, too much of it in the wrong places has become a growing environmental liability.

I’m part of a research effort to figure out how much phosphorus is already in the soil, to then determine how much more, if any, to add to particular fields.

Phosphorus is one of the three primary nutrients plants require for growth, along with nitrogen and potassium. Without enough phosphorus, crops struggle and production suffers.

For decades, applying phosphorus fertilizer has been a kind of insurance policy in American agriculture. If farmers weren’t sure how much was already in the soil, adding a little extra seemed safer than risking a shortfall. Fertilizer was relatively inexpensive, and the long-term consequences were poorly understood.

Unlike nitrogen, which easily escapes from soil into the air or groundwater, phosphorus sticks to soil particles. Once it’s added, it tends to remain in place. That trait made phosphorus seem environmentally benign.

However, phosphorus can still be carried off fields when rain or irrigation water erodes phosphorus-rich soil, or some of the built-up phosphorus dissolves into runoff.

Years of application have led to something no one initially planned for: accumulation.

ACAB all the fucking way:

Anti-ICE activists and community members gathered Monday night outside a SpringHill Suites in Minneapolis after reports emerged that Customs and Border Protection commander Greg Bovino was preparing to leave Minnesota. Multiple law enforcement agencies—including Minnesota State Troopers, county sheriffs, and local police—used pepper balls, threatened the use of chemical agents, and activated a long-range acoustic device before charging the crowd and making several arrests. Police declared the demonstration an unlawful assembly, with one officer explaining it was unlawful “because it was declared unlawful,” according to video from the scene showing an escalating police response as demonstrators were forced to disperse

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Sure, that Black Wall Street — Imagine if that was a Jewish Tulsa Murder and Arson Deal: Billions and Billions of Shekels woulda been thrown at them!

Paulo Kirk

Jan 27, 2026

• Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street (2021): A CNN Films documentary exploring the rise of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the 1921 massacre.
• Black Wall Street Burning (2020): A drama portraying the events of the 1921 Tulsa pogrom, featuring actors Dan Belcher, Rhonda Blake, and Faith Bloomer.
• Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre (2021): A documentary focusing on the 100th anniversary of the event.
• The Legacy of Black Wall Street (2021): A documentary detailing the history and impact of the thriving community.
• Rebuilding Black Wall Street (2023): A series (often viewed in segments) documenting the efforts to restore the community.
• Harold M. Anderson Black Wall Street Film Collection: Historical footage taken between 1948 and 1952 showcasing the rebuilding of the district.

On April 28, 1970, after half a decade of U.S. military action in Vietnam, Nixon authorized the military to expand the war into neighboring Cambodia in cooperation with South Vietnamese troops. They aimed to fight against communist troop sanctuaries in the country.

The decision sparked a number of resignations among National Security Council members and aides to then-National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. It also led to a wave of anti-war demonstrations at colleges and universities across the country — including one at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guard members shot and killed four student protesters.

On April 28, 1970, after half a decade of U.S. military action in Vietnam, Nixon authorized the military to expand the war into neighboring Cambodia in cooperation with South Vietnamese troops. They aimed to fight against communist troop sanctuaries in the country.

The decision sparked a number of resignations among National Security Council members and aides to then-National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. It also led to a wave of anti-war demonstrations at colleges and universities across the country — including one at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guard members shot and killed four student protesters. — UI alum talks campus protests against Vietnam War expansion

Moving onto the dirty Pedophile and Rapist Grifter Not So Much In Chief: President Donald Trump decided to abandon regulations protecting elderly residents, after nursing home executives poured millions into a pro-Trump super PAC, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

In early December, the Department of Health and Human Services repealed a federal provision requiring nursing homes to increase staffing levels in order to reduce the rates of resident neglect. In a statement, HHS claimed that new staffing rules “disproportionately burdened facilities.”

Never EVER trust a cunt of the MAGA or Reagan or Conservative.

Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis, as responsible for his own death because he lawfully possessed a weapon.

Cuntology, motherfucking psychotic white piece of shit: Incoming Target CEO Michael Fiddelke weighed in with a video to employees on Monday “as a leader of this hometown company” to acknowledge how the activity was affecting Target and the city. Neither the video nor the CEO letter, which he also signed, mentioned Trump, ICE, Pretti, opens new tab or Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother who was fatally shot by an immigration agent in Minneapolis on January 7.

“The violence and loss of life in our community is incredibly painful. What’s happening affects us not just as a company, but as people, as neighbors, friends and family members within Target,” Fiddelke said in the video, the transcript of which was shared with Reuters.

• Executives call for de-escalation after protestor shooting
• Target CEO addresses impact on company and community
• Business leaders cautious of conflict with Trump administration
• Widespread disapproval of ICE actions in Minneapolis, poll says

This is what a fucking coconut in a fucking queer jacket looks like: FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday that he had opened an investigation into the Signal group text chats that Minnesota residents are using to share information about federal immigration agents’ movements, launching a new front in the Trump administration’s conflict there with potential free speech implications.

Jew News — How the Chabatz Broadcasting System will deliver the news like feces from a rabbi’s fucking mouth: CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss said she will make the news division “fit for purpose in the 21st Century” at an all-staff meeting Tuesday, in which she outlined her strategy.

Weiss announced the hiring of 18 paid commentators — on subjects ranging from national security to health and wellness — as part of an effort to “widen the aperture of the stories we tell and the voices we listen to.” They include HR McMaster, who served as national security advisor during the first Trump administration; Reihan Salam, the president of the conservative Manhattan Institute; and the historian Niall Ferguson.

Noodles and squid for spines, Higher Fucking Education: Education Secretary Linda McMahon backed up the Times report in an interview with The Daily Signal published Wednesday. She told the conservative outlet that the administration is “working on developing the right kind of compact with some input that we’re already getting.”

“So I expect that once that’s done, we’ll see a lot more people signing up, a lot more universities signing up for that,” said McMahon, adding that she expected the universities that gave input will be “even more pleased with” the final version. She didn’t give a timeline for when a second version would be released.

You don’t need reminding, but this is a Jew York City House Nigger, aka Shabbat Goy. Bald cunt bending over to the Mitzvah WITHOUT K-Y Jelly!

Here you go, ice at the Winter Olympics, well, make that Gestapo ICE at the Winter Games in Italy.

The mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, spoke out Tuesday amid reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would have a security role during the upcoming Winter Olympic Games, which are set to begin in Milan on Feb. 6.

“This is a militia that kills,” Sala said in an interview with Italian media. “It’s a militia that enters people’s homes by signing permits for themselves. … It’s clear that they’re not welcome in Milan, there’s no doubt about that.”

“The State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service is leading the U.S. security effort at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement shared on Tuesday with CBS News, and also shared by the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service. “As in previous Olympic events, multiple federal agencies are supporting the Diplomatic Security Service, including Homeland Security Investigations [HSI], ICE’s investigative component.”

Americans born in the 1960s and early 1970s report higher loneliness and depressive symptoms and show poorer memory and physical strength than earlier generations. Such declines are largely absent in peer countries, particularly in Nordic Europe, where outcomes have improved over time.

Cultural factors could also contribute to cross-national differences, the researchers reported. Americans, for example, are more likely to live far from family and move frequently, making long-term social connections and caregiving support harder to sustain.

Later-born cohorts of U.S. middle-aged adults have accumulated less wealth and more financial vulnerabilities, compared to earlier-born cohorts, due to wage stagnation and the Great Recession. Stronger social safety nets in European nations appear to have helped buffer middle-aged adults from negative health effects.

Strikingly, U.S. middle-aged adults showed declines in episodic memory despite rising educational attainment—a pattern not observed in most peer nations.

“Education is becoming less protective against loneliness, memory decline, and depressive symptoms,” Infurna said.

Chronic stress, financial insecurity and higher rates of cardiovascular risk factors may undermine the cognitive benefits of education, the researchers found.

More Jew News:

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal to revise the Clean Water Act, specifically a section of the law that regulates water quality and limits states’ and tribes’ authority over federal projects, as well as how tribes can gain the authority to conduct those reviews. Experts say the move would dissolve one of the few tools tribes have to enforce treaty rights and hamper their ability to protect tribal citizens.

“What the Trump administration is proposing to modify here is a really important tool for states and tribes, because it gets at their ability to put conditions on or, in extreme cases, block projects that are either proposed by the federal government or under the jurisdiction of the federal government,” said Miles Johnson, legal director at Columbia Riverkeeper, an organization that works on issues affecting the Columbia River.

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‘Nobody with a functioning conscience and a working empathy center in their brain is interested in becoming a billionaire. We are ruled by the most dysfunctional members of our species.’- C. Johnstone

Paulo Kirk

Jan 26, 2026

Amazon’s next CEO Andy Jassy is Jewish – Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jassy grew up in a Jewish family in suburban Scarsdale, New York. He married his wife, Elena Caplan, in a Jewish ceremony in California in 1997. At the time, her father was president of what was then called the Jewish Television Network.

Amazon is cutting roughly 14,000 corporate roles, with CEO Andy Jassy attributing the decision not to cost-cutting or AI, but to a “cultural” initiative to reduce management layers and speed up decision-making. Jassy intends to flatten the organization to operate like a “startup,” aiming to enhance ownership and increase agility.

Amazon has suspended an employee for criticizing its relationship with the Israeli government.

First shared on newsletter platform BeeHiiv, the employee shared his views with senior executives via email, and posted to multiple internal Slack channels.

Ahmed Shahrour, an Amazon software engineer based in Seattle but with family in Palestine, wrote that his belief that the company was “driving innovation” had been “shattered.”

Shahrour wrote that, following the October 7 attack on Israel, CEO Andy Jassy “sent an email expressing sympathy for Israeli hostages without a single acknowledgment of Palestinian life,” which he described as “a blatant act of white supremacy signaling that brown lives are worth less. My family is less. I am less.”

According to Shahrour, he has seen “Zionist Amazon employees spew racist vitriol in public Slack channels with impunity. I saw Palestinians referred to as ‘human animals who deserve nothing but death’ and jokes cracked about the terrorist pager attacks in Lebanon,” while Palestinian support posted on the same channels was censored.

“The racist double standard is not an oversight; it is policy. It protects the perpetrators and silences the victims.”

Beyond this, Shahrour noted Amazon’s role in the Project Nimbus contract, in which it offers cloud computing services to the Israeli military and government. “Our technology subsidizes this genocide. The contract guarantees uninterrupted service — even amid ongoing war crimes — ensuring the IDF has the low-latency infrastructure needed for its genocidal assault.”

In 2024, an investigation found that the Israel Defense Forces were using AWS to power their efforts in the ongoing war in Gaza, Palestine.

Regarding previous efforts to protest this, Shahrour wrote: “We, the workers, have tried the appropriate channels. We circulated a petition that gathered 1,700 Amazonian signatures, calling on Andy Jassy to rescind all contracts with the Israeli military and demand an immediate, durable ceasefire. It was ignored. We have submitted shareholder proposals, like the 2024 call for an independent investigation of AWS customers committing human rights abuses. It was rejected.”

He calls on Amazon executives to drop Project Nimbus, and for fellow colleagues to either leave the company, or “organize to dismantle Nimbus.”

According to BeeHiiv, the employee was suspended with pay “until further notice” for the posts.

Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser said: “We don’t tolerate discrimination, harassment, or threatening behavior or language of any kind in our workplace, and when any conduct of that nature is reported, we investigate it and take appropriate action based on our findings.”

BlackRock Says Europe Draws a ‘Decade in a Year’ of Stock Flows –

They come out of the womb neurotic, neuroperverse, sociopathic, and of course, ready for Freud’s couch at age 5.

More Israelis reported experiencing depression or stress in 2024 than they reported the year before, as the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught and ensuing war frayed nerves, especially among people living in communities near the Gaza border, new data released Monday showed.

The socio-economic snapshot published by the Central Bureau of Statistics also showed that life expectancies dropped slightly in 2024, and while births were up overall, a steep decline in births was recorded nine months after the devastating attack.

While overall life satisfaction among those aged 20 and older remained high and largely unchanged in 2024 over 2023, fewer Israelis believed their lives would improve in the future. The share estimating their lives would not improve or would worsen rose from 30.7% in 2023 to 33.8% in 2024.

DO WE GIVE A FUCKING DAMN ABOUT A GENOCIDE PERPETRATING CULTURE becoming even more fucked up in the head?

A big time WHORE on parade!

“I’d be amazed if box office gets reported on this title,” added the pundit, who wished to remain anonymous. The Guardian has contacted Comscore, the body that tracks UK box office performance, for confirmation.

Amazon MGM Studios bought the rights to the film for $40m (£30m) – which reportedly included a considerable sum to the subject of the film – and is spending $35m on a global marketing push. This spend has so far been mostly in the US, with TV spots, billboards and a takeover of Las Vegas’s immersive events venue The Sphere.

The film, which documents the 20 days preceding Donald Trump’s return to power in January 2025, was screened at the White House on Saturday and will have its official premiere at Washington’s Kennedy Center – which the president has renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center in a legally disputed move – on Thursday, before its release in 27 countries.

I’ll take Heidi any day:

Oh, that Shabbat Goy: US Treasury Department ends contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton after Trump tax leak.

Bessent on Carney: ‘I don’t think he’s doing the best job for Canadian people’

“And we can’t let Canada become an opening that the Chinese pour their cheap goods into the U.S. We have a USMCA agreement, but based off — based on that, which is going to be renegotiated this summer, and I’m not sure what Prime Minister Carney is doing here, other than trying to virtue-signal to his globalist friends at Davos,” he added, referencing the prime minister’s appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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Yep, watch whose toilets they share and which fucking wealth managers they deploy: The Seattle region “faces a housing emergency that threatens our state’s quality of life, health and economic competitiveness,” write Brad Smith, Microsoft’s vice chair and president, and David Zapolsky, Amazon’s chief global affairs and legal officer.

Their collaborative push focuses on several key policy areas:

• Unlocking Land: Support for legislation like SB 6026, which would allow residential development on commercial land such as strip malls and big-box stores.
• Streamlining Permitting: Calling for a reduction in regulatory friction and faster project approvals to lower construction costs.
• Financial Incentives: Advocating for public incentives to attract private investment and backing Governor Bob Ferguson’s proposal for $225 million in housing trust fund bonds.
• Avoiding New Taxes: Microsoft leadership specifically rejected raising taxes on large corporations as a solution, framing the crisis instead as a supply and regulatory issue

On Friday (9February 8, 2025), backers of Proposition 1A, the initiative creating a dedicated funding source for Seattle’s social housing developer, took to the streets of Denny Triangle in an attempt to highlight a flood of cash pouring in to support a competing measure. Standing in front of the Amazon Spheres, members of House Our Neighbors, the MLK Labor Council, and the 37th District Democrats decried an attempt to sway special-election voters with a last-minute wave of campaign cash.

The recipient of all that cash is pro-Initiative 1B political action committee called “People for Responsible Social Housing.” The Seattle City Council established Initiative 1B as an alternative to stand alongside 1A and its 5% payroll tax paid by companies within Seattle on the portion of payroll that goes toward compensating individual employees in excess of $1 million. It is largely companies with very high paid executives that are pumping money into the effort to derail Prop 1A.

A pair of $100,000 donations by both Amazon and Microsoft in late January joined contributions from an array of business moguls and corporations, including Puget Sound Energy, Alaska Airlines, and Russell Investments. Glassblowing artists Dale and Leslie Chihuly chipped in $1,000 each. The late donations have pushed total pro-1B political spending past $500,000 — more than doubling the amount that Prop 1A backers have raised. Guy Oron at Real Change has a full breakdown of the campaign cash.

Fucking RUSSIA? CHINA? Satellites? The move to “Ghost Mode” is a psychological tool in Trump’s coercive diplomacy. As of January 26, 2026, the Lincoln is expected to be somewhere between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Oman, but its exact distance from the Iranian coast remains a mystery.

[The dream would be to see the entire fleet sunk and thousands of flotsam Yanks face down in the salt chuck.] Fucking more war criminals weighing in with their noodle spineless mush: Two Democratic former presidents on Sunday condemned the scenes in Minnesota after Alex Pretti was killed this weekend, framing the tragedy as a pivotal moment that calls Americans to “speak up” and take action.

Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama called Pretti’s death a “heartbreaking tragedy” in a statement.

“It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault,” the Obamas wrote.

The Obamas criticized the “unprecedented tactics” the Department of Homeland Security has employed, saying “people across the country have been rightly outraged by the spectacle of masked ICE recruits and other federal agents acting with impunity and engaging in tactics that seem designed to intimidate, harass, provoke and endanger the residents of a major American city.”

The Obamas said that “rather than trying to impose some semblance of discipline and accountability over the agents they’ve deployed, the President and current administration officials seem eager to escalate the situation, while offering public explanations for the shootings of Mr. Pretti and Renee Good that aren’t informed by any serious investigation — and that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence.”

An ICE officer shot and killed Good this month in a residential area of Minneapolis.

The Obamas called on every American to “draw inspiration from the wave of peaceful protests in Minneapolis and other parts of the country” and said they hope administration officials change their approach and work with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey “to avert more chaos and achieve legitimate law enforcement goals.”

Oh shit, the fucking overpaid jocks now?

The National Basketball Players Association voiced support on Sunday for protesters in Minneapolis rallying against a crackdown by U.S. federal immigration authorities.

There have been ongoing clashes in Minneapolis between demonstrators and those officers, sent by U.S. President Donald Trump to various Democrat-run cities, which has resulted in fatal shootings of two people — the most recent being the death of 37-year-old Alex Pretti on Saturday.

In a statement on Sunday, the NBPA, the union which represents the league’s basketball players, said “NBA players can no longer remain silent.”

“Now more than ever, we must defend the right to freedom of speech and stand in solidarity with the people in Minnesota protesting and risking their lives to demand justice,” the statement read.

“The fraternity of NBA players, like the United States itself, is a community enriched by its global citizens, and we refuse to let the flames of division threaten the civil liberties that are meant to protect us all.”

After the game, Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards acknowledged the heaviness of the situation.

“I just love Minnesota, all the love and support that they show me,” Edwards said. “Me and my family are definitely praying for everybody.”

Teammate Julius Randle echoed a similar sentiment.

“Somebody loses their life, you never want to see that,” Randle said, adding: “Been nothing but a joy living here, so things like this happening in the community, it’s tough.”

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has shown support for Israel in specific instances, notably in 2017 when the NBA apologized and altered its website to remove the word “occupied” in reference to Palestine following complaints from Israeli officials. While often addressing political issues, these actions highlight a responsiveness to Israeli concerns regarding terminology.

“Less than 10 minutes after I tweet that, I get a call from the commissioner of the NBA,” Howard said on Monday’s episode of “The GAUDs Show” podcast. “Agents, people working with my foundation at the time, Texas. ‘You’ve got to erase this tweet. You’ve got to take this down.’ I’m like, ‘What did I do that was so bad?’ ”

In 2014, Howard deleted the tweet shortly after he published it, then apologized in subsequent posts for commenting on “international politics,” according to The Atlantic’s coverage at the time. Howard’s tweet came amid conflict between Israel and Hamas.

On this week’s podcast episode, Howard said he felt compelled to share the tweet after meeting Palestinian fans while attending a movie in Houston.

“They asked me to just bring some awareness to what’s going on in their country,” Howard said. “Me having a big heart, I’m like, ‘You know what? I want people to know the struggles y’all [are] having.’ ”

Gestapo a la Israel, Gazafication, from this fucked up Blonde Shabbat Goy. Again, who do they shit together with, and who are their Wealth Management Usury Cunts.

End on a fucking White Psychosis Note:

Aside from a property, what’s the most expensive thing you’ve bought?
An apocalypse escape vessel – a steel hull ice-capable sailing boat for all the family that has almost zero electronics and is manual operation throughout – armed with an array of weaponry.

What is your most treasured possession?
My old SAS beret that I keep on my shelf for when I need some of that “Who Dares Wins” spirit.

Sure, back to that false dichotomy — Zionist or Jew, that is the question!

Paulo Kirk

Jan 25, 2026

With Trump admitting that a major motivation for taking out Maduro was to benefit oil companies, it’s important to ask which companies are involved and who holds shares in them.

Chevron, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips were involved in Venezuela’s oil sector before the nationalization under Hugo Chávez and during the subsequent US sanctions era. BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street are the majority institutional shareholders of all three companies, typically controlling around 20-25% of the shares in each (with Vanguard and BlackRock often holding the largest stakes among institutions).

Larry Fink is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock. He’s also the current Interim Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum. Fink also maintains a close relationship with Donald Trump, having known him for over 40 years due to both men having been involved in the Manhattan financial scene. In fact, in March 2025 it was announced that Larry Fink had consulted with Trump before he secured the purchase of two ports in the Panama Canal for BlackRock.

Given Trump’s close relationship with Larry Fink, combined with BlackRock’s significant investments in major U.S. oil companies such as Chevron, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips, these are more than likely influencing factors in the U.S. policy toward Venezuela’s oil sector.

Fink is not the only billionaire benefiting handsomely from the capture of Maduro and the US occupation of the Venezuelan oil industry. Among the billionaires celebrating the US aggression is Paul Singer, a billionaire hedge fund manager whose firm, Elliot Investment Management, has long sought to acquire CITGO Petroleum, the US-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA.

In November 2025, a U.S. judge approved a $5.9 billion bid by an Elliott affiliate (Amber Energy) to purchase shares in CITGO’s parent company (PDV Holding) through a court-organized auction aimed at satisfying creditors’ claims against Venezuela. The sale still requires final approval from the U.S. Treasury Department and other regulators. CITGO’s assets include three major oil refineries (in Louisiana, Texas, and Illinois), pipelines, terminals, and more than 4,000 CITGO-branded gas stations across the United States.

With Trump relaxing sanctions on Venezuelan oil following the removal of Maduro, Singer stands to benefit to the tune of billions if the CITGO sale is eventually approved. Coincidentally, Singer was a major donor to Trump’s presidential campaigns, as well as to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

• Support for Jewish Refugees: He served as chairman of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born and other organizations that advocated for the rescue of Jewish and anti-fascist refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe.
• Public Advocacy: Rautenstrauch frequently appeared in Jewish publications such as the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) and the Ohio Jewish Chronicle to urge the U.S. government to establish refugee offices and support those persecuted by Hitler.
• Technocracy Movement: He co-founded the Technocracy movement with Howard Scott in 1932, which proposed replacing the capitalist price system with an energy-based economy—a movement that gained significant attention during the Great Depression.
• Political Activism: Due to his involvement in numerous progressive and anti-fascist organizations, he was later targeted during the Red Scare and accused of being affiliated with multiple “Communist front” groups.

Read more here: The Venezuela Technocracy Connection

One of the most influential proponents of Technocracy was a man named Howard Scott, a writer and engineer who founded the Technical Alliance in New York City in 1919. Scott believed that business owners lacked the necessary skills and data to reform their industries, and thus control should be handed over to engineers and scientists. In 1932, Scott and fellow technocrat Walter Rautenstrauch established the “Committee on Technocracy” at Columbia University. The group would eventually splinter, with Scott leading Technocracy Incorporated, while technocrat Harold Loeb headed the rival Continental Committee on Technocracy.

[Jesus Munoz Gutierrez, a Mexican migrant deported months ago to South Sudan by the United States under an immigration crackdown, is repatriated to his home country at Juba Airport in South Sudan, Sept. 6, 2025.]

You fucking house niggers: After accepting US deportees, South Sudan wanted sanctions relief for top official, documents show

Trump privately frustrated that he risks losing control of immigration message amid Minnesota chaos | MESSAGE? You mean Gestapo in our LAND message, Make America Gestapo A-Okay!

VD warning: VD Vance addresses criticism that Trump admin has not done enough to move anti-abortion rights agenda forward

“I must address an elephant in the room,” Vance said at the rally.

[Central Washington rancher Wade King rides on the King Ranch with wife Teresa and daughters. The Environmental Protection Agency says the ranch has been unfairly accused of an environmental crime by the state Department of Ecology]

Fucking EPA? What the fuck is that Jewish Led Outfit all about?

The Environmental Protection Agency’s regional director criticized state regulators for fining rancher Wade King for digging watering holes for cattle in arid Central Washington. Ecology alleges King damaged wetlands, but EPA Region 10 Administrator Emma Pokon defended King in a letter to Washington Department of Ecology Director Casey Sixkiller and state Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove. Pokon said she was concerned the state was targeting cattle ranchers. “The EPA recognizes that stock watering ponds are important for supporting livestock operations,” Poken stated.

Ecology fined the King Ranch $267,540 in 2023 for digging into 23 landlocked wetlands in Grant and Douglas counties. Ecology said the rare alkali wetlands provided habitat for migrating birds.  The department also ordered King to restore 18 wetlands on state land leased by the ranch. A consultant estimates restoration will cost $3.7 million. Helicopters will have to airlift heavy equipment, irrigation equipment and water to remote ponds.

That fucking NFL!!

Former Philadelphia Eagles defensive lineman Kevin Johnson died from “blunt head trauma and stab wounds” at a homeless encampment, according to the medical examiner.

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner said Johnson, 55, was pronounced dead Wednesday morning after being found unconscious. His death was ruled a homicide and is being investigated.

A fourth-round draft pick by New England in 1993, Johnson spent time with the Patriots, Minnesota and Oakland before landing with the Eagles. He had 43 tackles, including seven sacks, and returned a fumble for a touchdown in two years with Philadelphia. He played 15 games for the Raiders in 1997.

Johnson later played in the Arena Football League for Orlando and Los Angeles. The L.A. native played collegiately at Texas Southern.

Investigators believe Johnson had been living at the encampment at the time of his death. Friends said Johnson had health issues later in life that contributed to his situation.

Jews everywhere:

$30 million gift from Bloomberg co-founder Tom Secunda (Jew) to build a national center for responsible AI

What the fuck? Pope Leo XIV’s first Urbi et Orbi blessing urged everyone to build bridges through dialogue and encounter, and called everyone to work together as a people towards peace. As a result, a synodal meeting took place on the morning of January 24 at the Vatican with a small group of business leaders from the energy and critical minerals sectors operating in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This was the seventh meeting in a series that began in 2022 under the Building Bridges Initiative, coordinated by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America (PCAL) as part of the mission entrusted by Pope Francis, and in collaboration with then-Cardinal Robert Prevost, President of the PCAL.

MAGA — Make America Gastly Angry?

Public health groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its approval of a Pfas “forever chemical” insecticide that industry research found likely reduces testicle size, lowers sperm count and harms the liver in rats.

The pesticide, isocycloseram, is used on food crops and could especially threaten children and developing fetuses, but the EPA did not factor those risks into its safety assessment, said Nathan Donley, environmental health science director with the Center for Biological Diversity, a plaintiff in the suit.

The lawsuit marks the latest flare-up in an ongoing controversy over the use of forever chemicals in pesticides, which public health advocates discovered under the Biden administration, and has accelerated under Trump.

The pesticide program has also caused friction between the Robert F Kennedy Jr.-aligned Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement, which broadly opposes pesticide use, and Maga elements atop the Trump administration aligned with pesticide and chemical industries.

Environmental groups pin blame for the decision to greenlight the pesticide on leadership in the EPA’s chemical safety office, which is now includes former industry lobbyists. Donley said the groups are “going to fight like hell to make sure these forever pesticides aren’t allowed to poison our grandchildren’s grandchildren”.

The legacy of the White Man House’s Minyan:

Lately, 88-year-old Nireayo Wubet spends many of his days burying friends and family members. As he grieves, he worries about whether there will be anyone left to offer him a decent burial when the time comes, as severe hunger ravages a large swath of his village in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region.

‘Like pouring a glass of water in a lake’

“We have little humanitarian support,” laments the octogenarian whose frail appearance is mirrored by many others in his village of Hitsats, near the Eritrean border. “It’s not conflicts that will ultimately kill us, but famine,” he says.

[The Colorado River wends through Marble Canyon, Arizona, north of Phoenix—one of three western U.S. cities in a study published in the journal Water Resources Research. The cities are connected by the Colorado River. Credit: Laura Durning/U.S. Geological Survey.]

The legacy of the Semen Drip Trump and his room temperature IQ: As temperatures rise and water supplies drop, public policy could bolster municipal water provisions under pressure. But one policy prescription—pushing conservation—will likely be insufficient as a standalone fix to sustain some reservoirs, according to research led by scientists at Penn State.

Fucking eat Soylent Green, and live in a van down by the river, err, down by the bone-dry gully” — Coastal and Sun Belt cities are ramping up construction on housing—but not the kind of housing that most people can afford, with supply dominated by larger homes and tiny apartments priced for high-income earners.

That’s according to a new study from the Georgetown University Center on Poverty and Inequality, which studied housing data for Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, Atlanta, Seattle, and Washington, DC.

Those six metros beat national averages for homebuilding, Georgetown found, based on the share of new housing units as a share of the overall housing inventory.

Watch your tone and watch out for their fucking Murderous, Raping, Thieving, Poisoning, Maiming fucking Jewish FEELLINGS?

A US entertainment company apologizes for canceling a show by Israeli comedian Guy Hochman.

Hochman’s show at the Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills, California, was canceled yesterday.

The theater had posted a statement on social media announcing the cancellation, saying it had received complaints about Hochman, and could not “find any proof of the accusations,” but asked Hochman to make public statements saying that he “did not support the genocide, rape, starvation and torture of Palestinian civilians.”

Jews: In the closing remarks, Larry Fink, Interim Co-Chair, World Economic Forum, and CEO, BlackRock, quoted Tesla CEO Elon Musk. “It’s better for your quality of life to be an optimist who’s wrong than a pessimist who’s right,” said Fink, quoting Musk. Elon Musk marked his debut at WEF 2026 with a critique of US solar tariffs and aggressive targets for Tesla, including humanoid robot sales next year, as well as flagging European approval for self-driving tech within weeks. After years of describing the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting as elitist, unaccountable and disconnected from ordinary people, the world’s richest man was interviewed by Larry Fink. The BlackRock CEO expressed his admiration for Musk at the start of the wide-ranging discussion, which covered the future of robots and AI, the economic benefits of reusable rockets and Musk’s childhood fascination with science fiction.

The British crown and the navy expanded and protected the trade in enslaved African people for hundreds of years, unprecedented research into the monarchy’s historical ties to slavery has found.

The Crown’s Silence, a book by the historian Brooke Newman, follows the Guardian’s 2023 Cost of the crown report, which explored the British monarchy’s hidden ties to transatlantic slavery.

The book reveals that by 1807, when Britain abolished the slave trade in its empire, the British crown had become the world’s largest buyer of enslaved people, buying 13,000 men for the army for £900,000.

Buckingham Palace does not comment on books, but a source said King Charles, who has previously spoken of “personal sorrow” at the suffering caused by slavery, took the matter “profoundly seriously”.

In this book, Craig Perry mines a remarkable cache of fragmentary documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue to write a new history of slavery and the slave trade in the medieval Middle East. These documents—which range from the everyday correspondence of traveling merchants to legal queries sent to Jewish jurists—provide the richest surviving archive for the social history of slavery during the centuries when Cairo was an imperial and commercial capital at the intersection of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds. Perry draws on this archive, known as the Cairo Geniza, to shed new light on such crucial topics as the slave trade in state diplomacy, the entanglements of gender and household slavery, and the lives of the enslaved.

Perry chronicles a protean slave trade that trafficked enslaved people from Europe, Africa, and India to the Egyptian market. His account cuts across different scales of analysis, from the macro-level of imperial rule to the micro-level of the family kitchen. Along the way, he upends the traditional story of Passover; medieval Jews, he writes, could explain slavery to their children by pointing to the enslaved people who served the holiday meal. When freed, some former slaves converted to Judaism and became the parents of Jewish children. Perry’s narrative reveals a world, long hidden from historians, in which enslaved people made their way through the alleys of Cairo, toiled in the workshops of apothecaries, and found ways to evade the surveillance of their owners. With this book, Perry writes enslaved people into the social and economic life of medieval Islamic society.

Newman said she had started working on the book 10 years ago, having found “secret correspondence” detailing George IV’s fears of an uprising like the Haitian Revolution happening in Jamaica. She made the discovery while researching an earlier work about the Caribbean island, which was a British colony for more than 300 years.

Newman, who is an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in the US, researched royal archives and manuscripts relating to the Royal Navy, colonial officers, government officials, the Royal African Company and the South Sea Company for The Crown’s Silence.

She said: “The crown used to trumpet their connections to the transatlantic slave trade. They put the royal brand on this practice and literally on people’s bodies.”

LIES by this CUNT. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday announced that “over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens” have been arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota as part of the administration’s ongoing crackdown on immigration.

Miller and Kristi Noem dancing to ‘Ice Ice Baby’ at Trump’s New Year’s Eve Party

There’s growing concern over how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents handled a situation involving a preschool student in Columbia Heights, Minnesota.

It’s an image that’s struck a chord across the country. The picture of 5-year-old Liam Ramos flanked by ICE agents shortly after they arrested his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo-Arrias. The federal agency said he abandoned his son in the car outside their home. Conejo-Arrias had just picked up his son from preschool.

The pair is now being held in Texas at what ICE calls its least restrictive holding facility for families.

School officials have a different view of what happened, claiming Ramos was being used as bait so agents could enter the home to find more family members.

AND WHO THE FUCK VOTED FOR THIS?

The satellites in Amazon’s new internet-beaming megaconstellation in low Earth orbit (LEO) are bright enough to disrupt astronomical research, a study has found.

The study — which was posted on the online repository Arxiv on Jan. 12 but has not yet been peer-reviewed — analyzed nearly 2,000 observations of Amazon Leo satellites. It concluded that the spacecraft exceed the brightness limit recommended by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) that aims to ensure harmless coexistence of satellite megaconstellation with astronomical research.

Trump drops appeal of ‘Dear Colleague’ letter on schools and race, DEI –

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Heidi Lambert was voted in to Waldport, Oregon’s volunteer mayorship but was fired and then had to file state ethics complaint and now those fifth graders are running a recall petition.

Listen to the Interview here by clicking this LINK.

Not surprisingly, the recall is full of bullshit and lies, but one doozy is:

….In the last nine months, she has abused staff, gone on a radio show which attacked law enforcement and veterans, sued the city, filed ethics complaints against a meeting that she ran, and finally, not only called the sheriff’s office and Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on the city …

Shit dawg, my radio show, where in a brief sound bite, for a 60 minute venue, I disagreed lightly with Heidi about being respectful of men and women in blue and in camo. We did not talk about community policing, or policing watchdogs, or citizen oversight, or de-militarizing the cops, or forcing police to have trained crisis experts on the calls, and so much more.

I can ACAB or call for defunding the police any fucking time. It had nothing to do with my guests or guests who may come onto the show, but leave it to the recall swindler to mention that. THAT.

Key Books on the “Defund the Police” Movement

• Defund: Black Lives, Policing, and Safety for All by Sandy Hudson (2025): Examines the origins of police, argues that current safety models are based on sensationalism rather than data, and advocates for investing in community infrastructure.
• Defund the Police: An International Insurrection by Chris Cunneen et al. (2023): Provides a comprehensive overview of police divestment, using international case studies to explore alternatives to criminalization and imprisonment.
• Becoming Abolitionists: Essays on Police, Resistance, and the Future by Derecka Purnell (2021): A mix of memoir and analysis arguing that police cannot be reformed to eliminate racism and that resources should be shifted to social services.
• No More Police: A Case for Abolition by Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie (2022): Offers a foundational argument for the complete abolition of policing.
• Defund the Police: 12 Questions and Answers by Peter Temes (2020): Explores the debate, arguing that while deep reform is necessary, total defunding may cause more harm than good, focusing on transitioning from a “warrior” to “guardian” model.
• Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment by Zach Norris (2021): Focuses on creating a culture of care and community investment to produce genuine safety.

A New York City college professor who wrote about ending policing, was appointed by mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to work on community safety issues.

“I’m excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues,” Alex Vitale wrote on the social media platform, X.

“A New Era for NYC.”

But we also talked about her first amendment rights to be on my who and other shows, and how the City Manager and the five council members have attacked her while she was on medical leave in an open city council meeting.

It seems like every city has a city manager who holds the real power and voters don’t get to decide on that person. What’s the point of having a mayor if you have a city manager anyway?

 The council-manager form gives too much power to one person – the city manager

 A professional manager, often chosen from outside the city, does not know the community and is too far from the voters

 Councils may leave too much decision. making to the manager, who is not directly accountable to the public

 Without an elected chief executive, the community lacks political leadership

 The council-manager form is too much like a business corporation which is not suitable for managing community needs

 City managers cost too much, local people could handle the job for less cost

 Citizens may be confused about who is in charge. Most expect the mayor to respond to their problems. The mayor has no direct control over the delivery of services and can only change policy through the city council

 City managers may leave a city when offered higher salaries and greater responsibilities in other cities

Here’s the Portland KOIN-TV news’ take a year ago:

After consulting their attorney in a closed executive session, Waldport City Council passed a resolution on Tuesday, reinstating Mayor Heide Lambert after she was expelled amid complaints she created a hostile work environment.

The resolution comes after Mayor Lambert challenged the decision, leading Lincoln County Circuit Court Judge Sheryl Bachart to order the mayor’s reinstatement.

The mayor’s removal and reinstatement stems from letters sent by two City of Waldport employees on March 27, alerting City Council of “unacceptable and aggressive behavior” from the mayor two days earlier when the mayor visited City Hall to get her mail.

“Mayor Lambert was clutching a small stack of envelopes, demanding to know why the letters had not been scanned to her and council,” one employee wrote. “I greeted Mayor Lambert, asking how I might help. She, obviously frustrated and with an accusatory tone, commanded to know why the letter scans had not been sent to her, as they were addressed to her. I let her know that the letters had, in fact, been scanned and sent to (City Manager Dann Cutter) and that their delivery would come from either Dann or (another City Hall staffer). As that is their role.”

“She continued, in a confrontational manner, by insisting the letters be scanned to her and stated that ‘all these letters are complaints against Dann,’ as she clasped the letters, shaking them at us in emphasis. How she could possibly be aware of the contents of the letters without having read them is beyond me,” the letter continued.

“During a pause in her relentless onslaught, I let Mayor Lambert know that since none of our answers would satisfy her, we should end this conversation, and she should speak with Dann. She, of course, had the last word saying, ‘I won’t be speaking with Dann. I will be speaking with legal counsel,’” the letter claimed.

“I’m not easily intimidated,” the letter continues, “but Mayor Lambert’s behavior was not only out of line but was also in violation of city charter.”

In response to the complaints, the mayor sent a letter to City Council, explaining,

“I have read both letters and feel concerned that my statements and demeanor, though
misinterpreted, might have contributed to feelings of unease, and I apologize for not
realizing this at the time. While I want to be accountable for anything I may have said or done that caused either of these employees to feel ‘uncomfortable’ or ‘Intimidated,’ I am baffled by the allegations and do not believe I was ‘aggressive.’ Nor do I think I violated the city charter.”

Lambert explained that a community member had previously approached her at a supermarket and informed her that he submitted a complaint about Cutter. Before the City Hall incident, the mayor said she was advised to speak to CityCounty Insurance Services — claiming she was advised by “CIS Attorney Ross (Davis)” to pick up her mail and ask the county clerk to scan the letters and send them to council and the city attorney.

However, Davis claimed, “I have read Ms. Lambert’s 4/1 email. First, I am not an attorney and never claimed to be. Second, I did not advise her in anyway as she describes. She brought up the complaint and I advised to follow whatever City protocols there are for complaints against any employee by a citizen.”

In a unanimous vote on April 3, City Council expelled the mayor, citing a violation of the city charter, which states no member of the council shall directly or indirectly attempt to direct a city officer or employee in the performance of their duties.

One week later, the then-former mayor appeared at an April 10 City Council meeting where she was asked several times by council members to leave, but officials said she refused and hindered the meeting.

Members from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office attempted to remove Lambert peacefully, explaining the legal consequences. Officials said she continued to refuse.

Eventually, Lambert was escorted outside and cited for disorderly conduct before being released, where she was able to return to the meeting and sit in the public seating area. In a memo, Lincoln County District Attorney Jenna Wallace later announced she would not be pursuing charges against Lambert.

“We have never had an elected city official treat staff this way. What may seem like a minor incident is actually a serious legal concern,” Waldport City Council previously said. “Hostile work environment complaints lead to staff leaving positions, to costly lawsuits against the city, and to a near stop in city operations. In January, each of us, including Mayor Lambert, swore to uphold the Waldport City Charter and the Oregon and United States Constitutions. We take that pledge seriously.”

Lambert previously said this is a complicated situation, because community members had written formal complaints to her about the city manager that were labeled confidential.

“I went in to pick it up, and it had already been opened, and it had already been sent to the person that the complaints were about. And that was where I was confused,” she said. “So, I asked the city clerk to email the council those complaints, and I was told that was not what they were directed to do.”

Lambert hired a lawyer, previously telling KOIN 6 News that she had no interest in suing the city she was elected to lead but was prepared to take this issue to court if it’s not resolved.

“I’m fighting for my seat. I have to stick with my voters, and I have to keep running, keep fighting for my seat,” Lambert said. “I guess if it’s decided that I can be removed, then I’ll have to be reelected.”

‘Defeat for democracy’

In response to Mayor Lambert’s reinstatement, Waldport City Manager Dann Cutter raised concerns, telling KOIN 6 News this marks a “defeat for democracy.”

“The mayor is claiming this is a victory for democracy. Sadly, I think it’s the exact opposite. It showed that the threat of an expensive lawsuit can be used to silence elected officials from preventing abuse of power and corruption,” Cutter said.

The city manager then pointed to an ongoing lawsuit filed in 2023, which names Lambert. The lawsuit was filed by two staffers for the City of Yachats against the City — alleging they experienced discrimination and workplace harassment under several city managers, including Lambert, who was hired as the Yachats city manager in 2022. A spokesperson for the city told KOIN 6 News the city has no comment on the pending litigation.

“Two years ago, Ms. Lambert was named in a lawsuit with the city of Yachats, alleging discrimination and the creation of a hostile environment. Yachats is still fighting that lawsuit. Instead, the Waldport Council attempted to stand up for their staff when the same hostile environment was created here. Technicalities of the law were used to threaten the city with hundreds of thousands of taxpayers’ dollars to fight over what boils down to an unlawful direction of city staff by an elected official – the very definition of abuse of power. The Council absolutely acted in the city’s best interest then, and bravely, did the same last night – knowing that a small town cannot afford the fight, even when right. So, they put it back in the citizens hands to do the right thing,” Cutter furthered.

“The question is, will they? Will citizens stand up for the staff who work hard to build the city up? Or will they instead support a continuation of the behaviors for which their neighboring city is still paying. Because, after all is said and done, the Mayor never apologized to the employees,” Cutter said. “She claims she is supporting women’s rights – but they are women too who have been subject to harassment and ridicule for daring to stand up against those unlawful actions. Instead, the mayor wants to make this about the City Charter, attempting to hide behind technicalities of process.”

“So, no, this is a defeat for democracy and the protections against abuse by those in power – a theme we are seeing playing out nationally as well,” Cutter concluded.

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Lambert has lived in Waldport for 17 years, is raising three children, and she and her husband set down roots here. All are members of the community. She walked into a hornet’s nest of small-minded folk, a clique that is all about cronism and two staff making a mountain out of a molehill. The City MANAGER has too much power, and he was once the Mayor of Waldport. These people have to move on, gotta go.

Lambert was voted in as the Mayor, two year term, and that ends Jan. 2027. The recall is insane, having to gather 200 signatures, and then put into a special ballot for voters to vote on. We are talking May or June. If she loses, then one of the councilmembers, another City Manager bootlicker, gets the role of leading the council.

I asked Lambert to read this statement she made which was published in something called the Free Press. Follow along by listening to the entire interview above.

Hanging on by a Thread of Hope

By Heide Lambert, Mayor of Waldport, Oregon

In a small coastal town of 2,000 people, you wouldn’t expect to see the forces tearing apart our democracy so clearly. And yet, Waldport, Oregon, has become a case study in how power, fear, and disinformation corrode civic life—at the local level and far beyond.

Since being elected to a two-year volunteer term as mayor, our town has made national news more than once. First, when the city manager and council unconstitutionally expelled me less than three months into my term. Then, when residents united to stop ICE from housing agents in a rundown hotel. Most recently, we mourned the loss of County Commissioner Claire Hall, whose body succumbed after enduring relentless bullying tied to a recall effort.

I write because the misdirected hate in my county mirrors a much larger crisis—and it has shaken my faith in the systems meant to protect us.

Since becoming an elected official, I have encountered hostility I never imagined would accompany public service. A smear campaign, driven by city leadership, made me question whether running for office was worth the cost. What I have learned is this: it doesn’t take a mob to undermine democracy. It takes a few people with power and no accountability.

As I watch national news of war initiated by the directive of a single man, I recognize the same pattern playing out locally and across the country. Corruption is no longer treated as a crime. Norms once considered foundational—truth, restraint, decency—are dismissed as inconveniences. This is not what freedom looks like, nor what our Constitution was written to allow.

Because I was not the mayor city staff and council wanted, my leadership has faced ongoing resistance. For over a year, they have refused to recognize my role and have used their authority to undermine my credibility, promoting narratives presented as truth regardless of fact.

The democracy I was raised to believe in depended on checks and balances, due process, and ethical leadership. Those values feel eroded. The worst behavior is no longer condemned—it is rewarded. We openly shame one another over politics, religion, race, gender, and sexuality, while the influence of money tightens its grip from the smallest towns to the highest offices.

I never expected this level of scrutiny for volunteering to serve my community. I ran to contribute years of experience managing complex projects with limited resources and collaborating across differences. I currently work with specialists in trauma and neurobiology, helping train justice system professionals across Oregon to recognize trauma so they do not cause further harm. The irony is painful: my civic role has placed me in a constant state of being targeted.

I use every coping skill I have ever taught to stay steady while city leadership uses my existence as a distraction from their own misconduct. Appeals for oversight have gone nowhere. Those with authority prefer the status quo—and in doing so, allow harm to continue.

I once believed my candidacy could show others that anyone could step into leadership. Now I am less certain. Fear of losing power and money has silenced residents and intimidated those who ask questions. We live in a media desert, without local journalism to verify facts, leaving social media distortions to fill the void.

Each month I wait for clarity, yet things continue to worsen. It feels like a witch hunt, as my brown, queer, and trans community lives in fear. The strain of never knowing if you are safe seeps into bodies, minds, and relationships. Sitting with loved ones in that space takes quiet strength.

I was elected not because I sought power, but because a majority of voters asked me to serve. Although a recall effort is underway, I refuse to let a small, disgruntled group dictate how I show up. I will continue to serve with integrity, transparency, and a commitment to the whole community.

Democracy does not collapse all at once. It erodes through silence, intimidation, and our willingness to accept what we know is wrong. We are being harmed together—and only together will we overcome it.

We are all hanging on by a thread of hope. And the more we keep showing up for one another, the stronger that thread becomes.

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MAGA is infecting EVERYTHING, and the leeches and rabid racists and conservative retrogrades are coming out of the woodwork and out from under their rocks:

In “Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America,” journalist Sasha Abramsky documents how two rural communities in the Pacific Northwest were overwhelmed by far-right radicals. It’s a sobering story, but also one that offers hope. Concerned citizens in Clallam County, Washington, beat back the MAGA menace, offering a model for others looking to protect their communities, whether their immediate town or the nation. Abramsky spoke with Salon about his work and why it matters for the future.

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Lambert and I talked about a small town that needs roads fixed, better economic development, more mitigation around extreme flooding and king tides, better recruitment of businesses and business partners, and just bringing down the costs of flushing your toilet and turning on the lights.

Pragmatism used to define local politics: getting roads built, filling in potholes, making sure kids had safe spaces on the way to school. All of that local pragmatic politics got swamped by the sheer rage of the national discourse. But it goes the other way, too. The more local politics came to be defined by these increasingly angry battles, the more it played into a national narrative. A local story would be picked up by someone like Tucker Carlson, who would use it to whip up rage. Not just nationally, but because of social media, it would be picked up internationally.

Discussion about this episode

We genocide, we launch massive prison concentration camps in Gaza, we kidnap presidents, we pollute the land, and we valorize Gestapo, but, nah, sports, flicks and meaningless mush prevail!

Paulo Kirk

Jan 24, 2026

This is just another single stupid example of how dead AmeriKKKa is:

The phone message from Bowdoin College security on September 14 caught Finley Rhys by surprise. He hadn’t expected the organizers of a Charlie Kirk vigil to be pleased with his flippant three-word email, but he hadn’t expected anyone to feel threatened by it, either.

“RIP to bro,” it read, followed by a sad-cat emoji.

Jackson Holl, a Bowdoin junior and one of three students who’d organized the planned vigil for the murdered conservative activist, was rattled by the response. He reported it to campus security and would later tell an officer that he interpreted the message “as a direct threat to my life, a deliberate and malicious attempt to intimidate and terrorize me for my beliefs.”

Euthanized? Shot by security detail? Hmm.

Killing Sitting Bull over and over and over again: The U.S. Department of the Interior has said it will revoke the grazing permits that have allowed American Prairie to run bison on roughly 63,000 acres of federal public land in Montana. This decision would affect seven parcels managed by the Bureau of Land Management in Phillips County, and it would hinder the organization’s larger goals of conserving large swaths of intact grasslands while restoring the native grazers to those landscapes.

The Interior’s rationale for yanking the permits, according to its Jan. 16 proposed decision, is that under the Taylor Grazing Act, the BLM can only issue grazing permits for livestock managed for “production-oriented” purposes. It claims that American Prairie’s emphasis on conservation runs counter to those purposes.

“A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people”

Conservatives who once railed against federal agents now applaud them

MAGA, RINO, Conservatives, Libertarians, and a whole lotta liberals — Nazis.

Since Ruby Ridge and Waco in the 1990s, a faction of right-wing populists had excoriated federal law enforcement. Now those agents are being deployed by their allies.

In case you haven’t been to Yosemite before, it’s virtually impossible to keep even the inside of a vehicle “free of dirt” while visiting the park. Harder still is keeping your home free of personal property while you’re living there.

According to the employee who spoke with SFGATE, workers at the park suspect that Aramark’s motives behind the new housing policy are a means of making it easier to replace longtime, permanent employees with temporary workers who are paid less and provided with less adequate, more crowded housing arrangements. In the new policy, third parties are granted permission to lease certain employee housing units from Aramark.

“They want temp employees, the ones that just come and go, that they can put in bunk housing with low pay,” the employee said. “They want people they can just cram in.”

Aramark has been heavily scrutinized since the company took over Yosemite’s concessions in 2015. In early 2020, the company faced a federal investigation after several visitors and employees were infected with norovirus at the park. A 2024 Bloomberg investigation found dangerous, run-down conditions at employee housing within Yosemite, including chemical spills, collapsed ceilings, bedbugs and a rodent infestation that caused one employee to contract hantavirus. Most recently, the company’s handling of the famous Ahwahnee Hotel came under fire after a report filed by the National Park Service cited rodent activity, improperly maintained facilities, food storage issues and a host of other problems at the iconic building.

The white ghouls of the Department of War Crimes. Your wife’s daddy, dudes. A face only a machete could love!

As the U.S. military continues its campaign targeting alleged drug cartel boats, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is convening a rare meeting of all of the top military leaders from the 34 countries in the Western Hemisphere.

This will be the first time that such a meeting has been convened and appears to be focused on improving cooperation against drug trafficking and criminal organizations.

The meeting is set for Feb. 11, according to a statement from the Joint Chiefs of Staff provided to ABC News.

This is the face of separatism? U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent weighs in on Alberta separatism, calls province ‘natural partner’. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday goaded Prime Minister Mark Carney and directly referenced Alberta’s potential independence referendum, calling the Western province “a natural partner for the U.S.”

Mr. Bessent’s comments, made in a Thursday interview with American right-wing media personality Jack Posobiec, make him the highest-profile member of the Trump administration to weigh in on Alberta’s potential independence vote – and adds to the steady drumbeat of allies of U.S. President Donald Trump who appear to be watching the campaign.

The faggotry of AI, Trump, Weiss, Miller-Glosser . . . . White House Posts Photo Altered to Show Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying

The New York Times ran the image through an A.I. detection system and concluded that it showed signs of manipulation.

Going after those blacks.

A Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused to sign a complaint charging independent journalist Don Lemon in connection with a protest inside a church in St. Paul on Sunday, multiple sources familiar with the proceedings told CBS News.

“The attorney general is enraged at the magistrate’s decision,” said a source familiar with the matter. Attorney General Pam Bondi has been in Minnesota for two days, as the Justice Department has sought to surge prosecutorial and law enforcement resources there.

A different source stressed that the process is not over, and the Justice Department could find other avenues to charge Lemon.

We need a motherfucking football stadium worth’s of whistelblowers and leakers.

A federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted a Pentagon contractor whose alleged leaking of classified documents sparked an “outrageous” FBI raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home.

According to the justice department, Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones illegally provided sensitive and secret information “related to national defense” to a reporter who it says then wrote and published at least five articles using it.

The indictment was not immediately available, and a press release announcing five charges against Perez-Lugones of mishandling classified information did not identify the journalist or their employer.

On 14 January, the FBI raided the Virginia home of the Post reporter Hannah Natanson in what the newspaper called a “highly unusual and aggressive” move, and seized items including two laptops, a hard drive and a recording device, her smart watch and a mobile phone.

In a subsequent development this week, a federal judge temporarily blocked prosecutors from reviewing material taken in the raid while the court reviews a request by the Post to return Natanson’s equipment.

Perez-Lugones, 61, of Laurel, Maryland, was arrested on 8 January and has remained in jail since. The navy veteran held a top secret security clearance as a systems engineer and information technology specialist for a defense department contractor.

Look at the smile on this fucking Sperm Receptacle Hand Maid cunt.

Usha Vance, wife of US Vice President JD Vance, is from San Diego, California, where she was born and raised by her Indian immigrant parents who are academics in science and engineering. She attended Mt. Carmel High School in San Diego before pursuing degrees at Yale University and the University of Cambridge.

• Vice President JD Vance called back to his past comments about parenting while addressing his wife’s pregnancy at the 2026 March for Life rally
• At the previous year’s rally, JD made the case that he wants to see “more babies” in the United States
• One year later, on Friday, Jan. 23, he called attention to how second lady Usha Vance is now expecting their fourth child, bragging that he “practices what he preaches”

Krish and Lakshmi both work in higher education at universities in San Diego. Krish is a lecturer in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at San Diego State University. He has also been published in many technical papers and received numerous patents, per his SDSU bio.

Meanwhile, Lakshmi is a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at UC San Diego as well as the coordinator of the Undergraduate Microbiology Teaching Laboratory, a role in which she designs “the microbiology teaching laboratory curriculum” and coordinates “Instructional Assistant training, and mentoring adjunct faculty.”

In 2018, she was also appointed as the provost of Sixth College. In a letter from Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla, he called Lakshmi a “creative and dynamic educator” and said he was “delighted” to have her in the role.

“Professor Chilukuri has a demonstrated record of commitment to undergraduate education, equity, and diversity. She is one of the founding members of the pilot course in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Biology and Medicine, exploring the practice and philosophy of science from a multicultural perspective, the historical use and misuse of science in biomedical research and social policies, and issues of race and medicine in a post-genomic age,” he wrote.

As a professor, Lakshmi has also been involved in activism and was one of over 2,300 California professors who signed an open letter to Donald Trump urging him not to withdraw from the Paris accords on climate change, per The New York Times. As of the newspaper’s July 2024 story, Krish and Lakshmi were registered Democrats.

Vance Announces Expansion of ‘Mexico City Rule’ to Cover D.E.I. and ‘Radical’ Gender Policies The change, which could affect more than $30 billion in foreign assistance, is the Trump administration’s latest move against what the president calls “woke ideology.”

Hillbilly fucking Hindus.

At Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, the Trump administration took down an exhibit on the contradiction between President George Washington’s ownership of enslaved people and the Declaration of Independence’s promise of liberty.

At Muir Woods National Monument in California, the administration dismantled a plaque about how the tallest trees on the planet could help store carbon dioxide and slow the Earth’s dangerous warming.

And at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts, Trump officials ordered the National Park Service to stop showing films about the women and immigrants who once toiled in the city’s textile mills.

Across the country, Park Service workers have started taking down plaques, films and other materials in connection with a directive from President Trump to remove or rewrite content that may “disparage Americans” or promote “corrosive ideology.”

In the not-too-distant future, every movie and TV show will be about the Trump administration. Or maybe it just feels that way: On Saturday, HBO premieres Fahrenheit 451, the latest adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s visionary 1953 novel about a dystopian society where books have been outlawed and artistic expression squashed. But the movie, which stars Michael B. Jordan as “fireman” Guy Montag and Michael Shannon as his commanding officer in a brigade that burns books, is also very much meant to speak to The Way Things Are Now, portraying a frightening America where the country’s history has been rewritten to serve the government’s agenda and the populace is subservient to social media and technology.

Pedophiles REJOICE. For months, the 2025 news cycle was dominated by the disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Public outrage over the continued secrecy surrounding Epstein investigative files – which Donald Trump failed to release fully early in his second term, despite campaign promises – was growing.

Federal lawmakers took matters into their own hands: they issued a spate of subpoenas related to the late child sex trafficker, releasing batches of files that renewed attention to his connections to high-profile individuals on both sides of the political spectrum. Congress ultimately passed legislation mandating that the Department of Justice release these files by 19 December, with Trump signing this bill into law.

But that deadline came and went, with Trump’s justice department making a mere fraction of the total disclosures required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). These scant releases have so far failed to lift the veil on how Epstein operated with impunity for years.

All American Amazon (NOT). Jewish run Amazon is gearing up to lay off as many as 14,000 white-collar workers, with cuts starting as soon as next Tuesday.

Reuters reports that jobs at cloud division Amazon Web Services are among those at risk, along with retail, Prime Video, and human resources units.

And so we get more fucking InBred UnUnited Queen-Dumb shit?

Bezos family backs UK’s WatchHouse coffee shops for US expansion

HighPost Capital, co-founded by Mark Bezos, invested over $6 million in the luxury drinks provider, which offers options including a $58 eugenioides coffee

His (Mark Bezos’) aim for the business was to “elevate” the local café experience, serving rare and single-origin coffee and high-quality food in spaces featuring Scandinavian-inspired interior designs. The idea stemmed from working in the luxury homes of celebrities.

Coffee, or real news?

Fiorella Isabel and I are back to assess the events, or some of them, that have accelerated in 2026. The Trump Technate is being ushered in at breakneck speed.

Venezuelan President Maduro kidnapped, US military build-up for war against Iran, CENTCOM in Israel today 24th January which usually heralds Zionist aggression.

ISIS transferred, with the help of Jolani’s Takfiri militia, to Iraq to combat the Iraqi anti-Imperialist/Zionist forces.

Aggression and economic pressure on the Lebanese Resistance has also escalated in the last week, again signalling a regional uptick in the Zionist attempt to eradicate resistance against their demonic project to secure resources, territory and supremacy.

Russia and China seem to be interested observers only – their western acolytes are pushing fake news like the landing of multiple Chinese planes in Tehran but Iranian analysts have dismissed these reports as disinformation.

Last spiel, I promise: I went down a rabbit hole, and lo and behold! Jews, man, everywhere in the Jew Yorker! Got this shit in my email, again, always a Jew telling the world what’s up. Tucker? Ahh, a Jew has to write the biography?

Jason Zengerle
A staff writer covering politics.

In April, 2023, I was deep in the weeds of writing a book about Tucker Carlson when he was abruptly fired by Fox News. I’m not sure which one of us was more shocked—and, if I’m being honest with myself, dismayed—by this development.

At the time, Carlson was the network’s most popular prime-time host and had achieved a level of cultural ubiquity that made him the most powerful person in conservative media. After his firing, many savvy press critics predicted that Carlson would suffer the same fate as previous Fox stars who had lost the news channel’s powerful megaphone: irrelevance. (To wit, when was the last time you thought about Bill O’Reilly, much less wanted to read a book about him?) But Carlson has staved off oblivion. Indeed, in the nearly three years since he left Fox, he has not only reëstablished himself as the most significant media voice on the American right; Carlson has become, in some ways, more influential than he was at the height of his Fox tenure.

Photo illustration by Joan Wong; Source photograph by Giorgio Viera / AFP / Getty

In this week’s issue, I examine how Carlson has managed to stay in the picture. Now deprived of Fox’s built-in audience, he’s grown his own for his video podcast by mastering the attention economy. He regularly generates outrage (and eyeballs) by hosting the likes of Vladimir Putin, Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, and, most recently, Nick Fuentes on his show. And he routinely crosses lines that his boundary-pushing Fox show was careful to avoid—particularly lines related to the United States’ relationship with Israel, which he criticizes in the most inflammatory and sometimes antisemitic terms. Just as crucially, he’s embraced Donald Trump in a way that he refused to do during Trump’s first Presidency. Back then, Carlson was perhaps the only Fox host who maintained a wary personal and professional distance from the President. Today, he luxuriates in his proximity to power. This month Carlson has had lunch with Trump on consecutive Fridays. Carlson’s business partner posted pictures of Carlson in the Oval Office on social media.

The rabbit hole . . . . Twenty fucking YEARS ago, these fucking Jewish neuroperverse fucks, man.

Of Death Threats and ‘Death Threats’. When I told Zengerle that while I found the letter to be “both insane and obscene,” I couldn’t find anything threatening in its contents, he found my conclusions disturbing.

By Eric Alterman, Contributor

I don’t know about you, but when I see the words “death threat” in my daily newspaper, I expect to read about an actual threat of death to someone somewhere. [Wikipedia agrees: “death threat is a threat (often made anonymously) against a person to kill him or her.” Here.] I got a threat once from an angry reader on the phone and I called the police and that was not even regarding my impending “death”; just a broken leg or two.

For reasons I cannot fully explain, I became briefly obsessed on Friday afternoon with the Boston Globe’s report of “death threats” against The New Republic’s Jason Zengerle by members of the Kos community who did not like his reporting on Jerome Armstrong and Moulitsas Zúniga. The article, which was written by Globe intern, Michael M. Grynbaum, here, struck me as playing to all the clichés the mainstream media offers about the liberal blogosphere, but nowhere more than in the reporting of alleged “death threats” against Zengerle, which when I read it, I knew simply could not be true. (Why the article made no mention of what struck me as a central fact of the drama–Zengerle’s employment of an accusatory e-mail that turned out to be a forgery–also piqued my curiosity/annoyance, but remains another story.)

Anyway, on Friday afternoon, I made a few calls and reached both Globe Washington bureau chief Peter Canellos and Jason Zengerle. (I could not reach the article’s author, Grynbaum, who was not in the office, and does not have voicemail on the system.) I spoke to Zengerle first and asked him to describe the threat. He read to me the contents of an e-mail that, in rather graphic, sick and disgusting terms–relating to concentration camps–explained to him that the writer wished he would one day die a similar death. It was clearly the product of a sick mind and no doubt disturbing to receive, but nothing in it could conceivably be labeled a “threat” of any kind. When I told Zengerle that while I found the letter to be “both insane and obscene,” I couldn’t find anything threatening in its contents, he found my conclusions disturbing. First he sent me an e-mail in which he said, “If you write about this, I expect you will print the attached e-mail in its entirety (with edits for the two instances of profanity in the last paragraph, if necessary) so that you can then explain to your readers how this note –which I received because Moulitsas put my personal e-mail address on his website at the end of a long screed attacking me and the magazine I work for– is not, in your definition of the term, a death threat.”

When I told him that I would characterize the note as best as I could but that for reasons of taste and space I could not imagine that my editors at MSNBC.com would want to print it, he sent me a second e-mail in which he insisted, “The fact that we’re even discussing whether it constitutes a “death threat” is insane and obscene.” He then went on to explain the fact that he had received hundreds of e-mails as a result of the fact that “Moulitsas printed my personal e-mail address on his website, and “a handful wishing me death and/or some sort of bodily harm. I deleted virtually all of them, but I did hang on to the one I forwarded to you, because I found it particularly unsettling. I assumed you would feel the same way. Look, if a note from an anonymous e-mailer wishing for me, a Jew, to be put in a concentration camp and then tortured by Nazi guards until I choke on human feces is not, in your mind, a death threat, well, that’s your opinion. But that’s not an opinion I share. It’s not as if this e-mailer was hoping that people defecate in my mouth as part of a fraternity prank. He was hoping for this to happen to me in Auschwitz! Do you think the Nazi guards, in the e-mailer’s scenario, ultimately perform the Heimlich on the choking Kapo and save his life? I don’t. If you want to have a debate about all this–in which you basically soft-pedal or in some sense defend this e-mail–then we can have it. But I’d really rather not. Therefore, I’d really rather you not write about this on your blog. To try to turn this difference of opinion into a “gotcha” item strikes me as unfair and unworthy of you.”

Now I’ve never spoken to Zengerle before and know nothing about him. And I’ve not waded too deeply into the waters of TNR’s fight with Kos and company. So I’m staying clear of those issues. But this is not a matter of “gotcha” journalism, nor for God’s sake an attempt by me to “soft-pedal or in some sense defend this e-mail” which after all, I characterized to Zengerle as “both insane and obscene.” It’s a matter of the meaning of words. I once heard Susan Sontag and Nadine Gordimer describe the purpose of intellectuals is to defend the language. I agree. There was no “death threat” here; just the kind of e-mails that are the price of putting strong opinions on the Internet--something that happens with unhappy frequency here at Altercation, and the main reason I pay somebody to screen them for me.

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