Excerpt: One hurdle that local organizers had to overcome was the hesitancy of some residents who felt unqualified to take action. Some community members were reluctant to so much as blow a whistle, to alert their neighbors to the presence of ICE agents, unless they had attended a training. Responders described the need for outreach that allowed residents to embrace their own agency — a process that sometimes had messy results, but often resulted in essential, creative interventions. “You don’t need to wait for nonprofit directors, leaders, or block captains, or a more organized neighborhood to give you permission,” Melvin explained. “Just get out there and do it.”

Excerpt: Zello was previously criticized for allowing at least two January 6 insurrectionists who broke into the Capitol to coordinate on the app that day, and for hosting hundreds of far-right channels.

Excerpt: “My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers’ authority…”

Excerpt: … The largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world’s richest man in Washington D.C.’s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

Excerpt: The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

Truth is truth: Charlie Kirk was a racist, and he wasn’t ‘closeted’ about it.

Women’s Olympic hockey team rejects Trump after he insults them

Excerpt: In videos of the celebration [FBI Director Kash Patel] — whose office spent days insisting he was in Milan on official business and not to party at the Olympics — chugged beers, banged on tables, and tried on players’ gold medals. At one point, he held out his phone so the president could deliver a message to the team. Trump congratulated them, and offered to coordinate military aircraft to transport the team from Miami (where they will be flying to in order to avoid winter storms battering the northeast) to Washington, D.C., for his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

“We’ll do the White House,” Trump told players. “We’ll just have some fun, we have medals for you guys. And we have to — I must tell you — we’re going to have to bring the women’s team, you do know that,” the president said, chuckling. The players laughed. “I do believe I probably would be impeached [if I didn’t],” Trump continued.

Flavor Flav invites women’s Olympic hockey team to Vegas

Fuck the Olympics, fuck Kash Patel and Donald Trump, fuck the men’s team, and fuck their gold medal. Kinda cool about the women’s team, though, and I hope they’ll accept Flav’s invitation! Vegas with Flavor Flav sounds like a lot more fun than Big Macs with Diaper Donnie.

Greenland has universal health care, no need for outside doctoring, and Trump has cut Medicaid for Americans. Also, the US has exactly two hospital ships, the USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort, and they’re (stupidly) both in dry dock undergoing repairs for at least months.

Good.

Show biz news doesn’t often hold my attention, but this one’s worth a chuckle. Gee, what might happen if we invite a guy with Tourette’s to attends this live telecast?