Secret Police lie again.

Excerpt: In a motion filed Wednesday, Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen urged the court to dismiss with prejudice the complaint against Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis and Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna, saying that newly discovered evidence wasn’t consistent with the allegations.

Believe it if and when you see it. Until then, no letting up.

Excerpt: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

Excerpt: On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

Excerpt: One deployed a flash-bang grenade — which federal officers have used repeatedly at protests — and it exploded, shattering Virden’s face. Now he sits at home, popping Tylenol and trying not to aggravate his surgically reconstructed jaw.

America did OK without DHS for 200+ years, and we can do it again. And of course, this “shutdown” will have no impact on ICE, CBP, or the ongoing round-up of brown people.

First they came for the teenagers…

Public pressure can impact profits, and profits are all that matter to these people.

It’s a reminder that privacy is imaginary, these days. If for any reason The Powers That Be want to see ‘security’ footage, they’ll find a way.

Excerpt: “If we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those 3m files,” Khanna said during his floor speech.

Two of the “powerful” Epstein accomplices named by Congressmen appear to be ordinary New Yorkers

Well, they appear to be ordinary New Yorkers who were mentioned in the Trump-Epstein files, then had their names redacted by the Justice Department, then had their names unredacted for the Congressmen to see. Smells like a planned gotcha, and Khanna should’ve researched the names before releasing them, but facts is facts: They’re in the files, their names were redacted, their names were restored. Why?

There is no separation of government and the Republican Party.

So it’s a lie when Republicans say they’re ripping out the rainbows for safety’s sake.

The CDC is funding a Danish study run by wingnuts, and the wingnuts need to conduct this experiment by withholding vaccines from some newborns — in Africa, of course.

Excerpt: During a panel to launch the festival on Thursday, a journalist asked the jury members for their views on the German government’s “support of the genocide in Gaza” and the “selective treatment of human rights” issues.

German filmmaker Wim Wenders, who is the chair of the festival’s seven-member jury, responded, saying that filmmakers “have to stay out of politics”.

“If we made movies that are dedicatedly political, we enter the field of politics. But we are the counterweight to politics. We are the opposite of politics. We have to do the work of people and not the work of politicians,” Wenders said.

Me again: Well, that’s an eyebrow-raiser.

Remembering the dead is ‘political’.