This is more empty talk from Pelosi, who’s made a career of empty talk. Police are enemies of freedom and allies of the rich, the powerful, the authoritarians, so there’s simply no chance of local cops turning good guys to arrest Trump’s Secret Police. It’s much more likely they’ll arrest Pelosi.

Believing that Trump & fascism will be defeated by appeals to law and order, the Constitution, or by calling 9-1-1, is unfathomably naïve.

• Trump’s military murders three more Caribbean boaters

Excerpt: This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don’t, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

This, please note, is after a federal judge had ordered a stop to the tear-gassings.

This is a “Spanish-language immersion preschool” in a Seattle suburb, where the school’s director says ICE intrusions were “not something that we thought that we had to deal with.” I am flabbergasted by the naïvety. ICE doesn’t like people who aren’t white. Glad the school is developing a protocol for dealing with 2025, but what happened shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone Hispanic, or dealing with Hispanics.

“Law enforcement” is a fluid concept, depending on who’s breaking the laws.

I’m skeptical of the implication that they’re not already using AI to monitor social media.

Even in a mostly accurate mainstream news report, there’s this:

“Prosecutors detailed the findings to the previous U.S. attorney, Erik Siebert, in an internal Department of Justice memo summarizing the status of the case early last month, according to sources familiar with its contents. Siebert was ousted by President Donald Trump last month after refusing to seek charges against James amid what critics call Trump’s campaign of retribution against his perceived political foes.”

Did you spot the bullshit? Trump has a government-wide Interagency Weaponization Working Group , so it’s not what “what critics call” Trump’s campaign of retribution against his perceived political foes. It’s Trump’s campaign of retribution against his perceived political foes.

Translation: The US military is being underwritten by a secret oligarch friend of Trump. What will the donor get in return? That’s a secret, too.

• Timothy Mellon — reclusive billionaire, anti-tax crusader and major financial backer of Donald Trump — is ID’d as illegal donor of $130-million for troop pay

Excerpt: “Dr. Lau decided to move her medical practice to Oregon and saw no reason to continue to maintain her Texas license,” according to a statement provided by her attorney Craig Smyser. “Dr. Lau continues to deny the Texas Attorney General’s politically- and ideologically-driven allegations.”

I will not vote again for Kamala Harris, nor for any other ordinary, boring Democrat. “Vote blue no matter who” brought us to this point, where Democrats are so spineless and compromised, only a handful of elected Dems are willing to oppose fascism. There’s no point to having such ‘leaders’, so — never again, for me. Give me a candidate worth voting for; that’s the only way to get my vote.