Please understand, ‘rubber bullets’ are made of metal, then covered with rubber. It’s not like being hit with a rubber ball. Rubberized bullets can blind, maim, disable, or kill a target. And this woman, clearly a reporter, was targeted.

We had a pretty good protest here in Seattle this afternoon, blocking the exit driveway from the Federal Building for a few hours, to keep ICE from driving vans full of immigrants arrested at immigration court to the airport, for deportation to wherever the fuck they’re sending immigrants this week.

Waymo driverless taxis are police surveillance vehicles

Excerpt: The fact that Waymos need to use video cameras that are constantly recording their surroundings in order to function means that police have begun to look at them as sources of surveillance footage. In April, we reported that the Los Angeles Police Department had obtained footage from a Waymo while investigating another driver who hit a pedestrian and fled the scene.

Excerpt: According to President Donald Trump’s lawyers, the administration can simply wait until after an immigration judge has conducted the proceeding that ordinarily would determine whether a particular non-citizen may be deported to a particular country, and then, if that non-citizen is allowed to be deported, announce that the immigrant will be deported to some previously unmentioned country — even if that immigrant reasonably fears they will be tortured in that nation.

I wouldn’t say it’s a ‘concern’, so much as cause for optimism.

It’s hard to imagine the Trump regime putting up a stern legal fight over this. Much easier to envision the lawsuit as a planned cash infusion for his buddies.

That’s an amusing read, but “struggling” is itself misinformation. It’s the opposite of a ‘struggle’ — facts don’t matter to these people.

Excerpt: Both leaders demanded not competence but loyalty. Both painted themselves as victims of elite conspiracies. Both harnessed the rage of a public primed to believe that someone, somewhere, had stolen their country from them. And both, through that twisted narrative, built regimes dependent on constant crisis, perpetual grievance, and the belief that only they could restore order by first burning everything down.

Both Mao and Trump achieved something few modern leaders have, a personality cult so complete it displaced ideology itself.