May 15, 2026

ICE violently arrested a US citizen and filmed it 'like a documentary', videos reveal

Christian Cerna, 28, was driving with his partner and their two young children through Los Angeles, when two vehicles rammed his car and a group of men jumped out and trained their guns on them.

It was 11 June 2025, and as Cerna exited his vehicle with his hands raised, he realized the masked men weren’t street criminals as he initially feared. They were Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Cerna, a carpenter, is a US citizen and southern California native. But ICE was targeting him after a border agent reported that Cerna had “assaulted” him during a rowdy anti-ICE protest days earlier. The officers arresting Cerna detonated flash-bang grenades and pointed assault rifles at his car, with his infant and toddler inside.

The agents, court records show, were also filming high-quality footage of the arrest operation, which they would later post to social media.

The tactics, a federal judge later said, were part of ICE’s “vindictive effort” to “impose extrajudicial punishment”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/ice-us-citizen-violent-arrest-documentary

Typical.

May 15, 2026

Why I'm giving up on the BBC

Apparently now you have to subscribe to it to read most articles. I'm sorry, but I'll go broke subscribing to everything! So, regretfully, it's bye-bye to the BBC. I already subscribe to the Guardian, among others.

May 14, 2026

Israeli nationalists chant 'death to Arabs' in violent Jerusalem Day march

Israeli nationalists chanted “death to the Arabs”, “may your villages burn” and “Gaza is a graveyard” in a state-sponsored march through Jerusalem to mark the anniversary of the city’s capture and annexation.

The annual assertion of Jewish control over Palestinian East Jerusalem has grown more extreme in recent years, and Thursday’s event culminated with the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, unfurling an Israeli flag in front of the al-Aqsa mosque, the holiest Islamic site in the city.

Most Palestinians in the Muslim quarter of the Old City had shuttered their shops and gone home before the march began, but members of far-right radical Jewish groups who had entered scuffled with Palestinian residents still there, with both sides throwing chairs at each other, until separated by police who entered the city that afternoon in force.

“I’ve come to show all the world that this is our city. This is the Holy Land. God gave us this country and this city,” a 19-year-old marcher, Ariel Amichai, said.

Asked what the intended message of the march was to Palestinians in Jerusalem, he replied: “That they must leave. This is our country. And they can’t just be here and try to stab us or kill us.”

Amichai, who is from Modi’in, 43km from Jerusalem, said he believed that Jerusalem Day, marking the capture of the east side of the city in 1967, was the only day when Jews could enter the Muslim quarter through the Damascus Gate, though Israeli Jews and Palestinians use the gate on a daily basis.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/israel-nationalists-jerusalem-day-march-anniversary-protest

Some of them appear to be about as ignorant as MAGAts

May 14, 2026

US Border Patrol chief announces his resignation in a Fox News interview

The head of U.S. Border Patrol, the agency tasked with securing the nation’s frontiers and increasingly tapped by the Trump administration for immigration operations in American cities, announced his resignation Thursday.

Michael Banks’ decision, announced in a Fox News interview and later confirmed by the Department of Homeland Security, is the latest leadership shake-up of officials implementing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and comes as the Republican administration appears to be recalibrating its approach.

“It’s just time,” Banks was quoted as saying in a report on the Fox News website. “I feel like I got the ship back on course from the least secure disastrous chaotic border to the most secure border this country has ever seen,” he said.

In a statement, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner, Rodney Scott, thanked Banks for his service “during one of the most challenging periods for border security.”

https://apnews.com/article/border-patrol-chief-michael-banks-immigration-846fb883c40bb4643a81e73139249482

Had enough, or potential corruption charges waiting?

May 14, 2026

Man arrested, accused of hurling rock at endangered monk seal's head

Federal authorities have arrested and criminally charged a man they say was caught on video hurling a rock at an endangered monk seal named "Lani" in Hawaii.

Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk, 38, of Covington, Washington, was seen and filmed on May 5 at the shoreline in Lahaina, Maui, "tracking the movements" of Lani as she playfully pushed a floating log, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Hawaii said in a news release on May 13. Lytvynchuk then picked up a large rock, aimed and threw it at Lani's head, according to the release.

"The rock narrowly missed her nose, startling her, and causing her to rear up out of the water," the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Witnesses told investigators that Lani appeared immobile for some time after the rock-throwing incident, causing concern for her well being.

When confronted by nearby witnesses and told they were calling authorities, Lytvynchuk allegedly replied that he was "rich enough to pay the fines," according to prosecutors.

A man identified as 38-year-old Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk of Washington state was arrested and charged after allegedly hurling a large rock at an endangered monk seal named "Lani" in Hawaii, authorities announced on May 13, 2026.
Video of the rock being thrown at Lani was widely shared online, drawing alarm and outrage on the animal's behalf. State and federal authorities soon said they were launching investigations and would hold the beach visitor accountable. Lytvynchuk was briefly detained and questioned but declined to make a statement last week, investigators previously said, without identifying him as the suspect.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/2026/05/14/monk-seal-endangered-rock-throw-arrest/90074594007/?tbref=hp

However, one of the local guys beat the snot out of him before he was arrested and held him for the cops. He's being hailed as a hero. There isn't a picture of the perp on this page, but I've seen one, and he has an eminently punchable face!

May 13, 2026

What should Dems' top priorities be going forward in 2026-28?

What are your TOP FIVE?

Economy?
Inflation?
Civil Rights?
Immigration?
Gaza?
Israel?
Police?
Voting Rights?
LGBT rights?
Taxes?
Wages?
Public safety?
National Security?
Unemployment?
Health care?
Environment?
Something else? (please be specific)

I'd like to hear YOUR thoughts.

Mine are (in no particular order)
Health care
Civil rights
Inflation
Immigration
Environment

Now let's hear from YOU!

May 13, 2026

If Shitler thinks he's going to run for a third term

Why don't the Dems run Obama against him? Seems to me Obama would win hands down.

May 10, 2026

Trump Backs Claim He Has A 'Better Understanding' Of The Bible Than Pope Leo

Donald Trump on Saturday promoted a controversial Baptist pastor’s claim that he has a better grasp on the Bible than Pope Leo XIV just days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the pontiff to try and cool U.S.-Vatican tensions. (Watch the clip below.)

“The great irony is it looks like President Trump has a better understanding of what the Bible teaches about the role of government than the pope has,” said the evangelical Christian leader in a Fox News clip shared by the president on Truth Social. “And I’m glad the president hasn’t backed down at all.”

Jeffress, a Trump supporter who has referred to evangelicals that don’t back the president as “spineless morons,” began his Fox News appearance by describing the first U.S.-born pontiff as a “good man” that’s “sincere in his faith” before adding an asterisk.

“But he is sincerely wrong when it comes to Iran,” said Jeffries, a reference to the pope’s criticism of the Iran war, which has fueled the president’s attacks toward the pontiff in recent weeks.

Jeffress, who once claimed that Roman Catholicism is influenced by Satan, went on to preach that the pope “ought to know” that “the role of the church is to point people to faith in Jesus Christ but the role of government is to protect citizens from evildoers, according to Romans 13.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/baptist-pastor-robert-jeffress-trump-pope-better-understanding-bible_n_6a006d50e4b0cb033e521809?origin=home-latest-news-unit

I thought about posting this under Humor, but these idiots are serious.

May 10, 2026

My testimony before Congress was used as a dog whistle to incite anti-abortion hate

By Jessica Waters

I testified before Congress last week about safety. And then I became the target of extremist hatred.

I addressed a House Judiciary subcommittee for two hours about the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a federal law — that Republicans want to repeal — that prohibits violence and harassment against reproductive healthcare providers or patients seeking that care.

Less than an hour from when I walked out of Congress, my phone began lighting up with emails and social media alerts (and urgent messages from security teams tracking them). Scores of the messages and posts said: You are a bitch. A whore. Slurs that can’t be published. Some questioned whether I can still be “aborted” and then answered, “I think she can.” They said things like, “this is why firing squads are back.” They asked one another where I work. They hypothesized that I am infertile and that I hate children. They said they should “exact vengeance,” that I will burn in hell, that I am Satan, that I am evil.

In less than 24 hours, I saw from the alerts and my inbox tally that I had received or been mentioned in hundreds of thousands of ugly, abusive comments.

I quickly learned that a member of the subcommittee that held the hearing had posted a clip from the hearing on social media. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, didn’t attend most of the hearing but spent the few minutes he was there engaging in a designed-for-clickbait monologue about my “favorite” abortion methods (even though the point of the hearing was violence against abortion providers). Within minutes, dozens of conservative outlets and influencers began reposting and sharing the clip — and the storm of hate was unleashed. And Gill reposted and thus amplified the hate.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/face-act-testimony-congress-harassment

I guess we know what kind of person Brandon Gill is---a glory-seeking, hate-mongering butthole. Well, I take part of that back--buttholes serve a useful pupose.

May 10, 2026

St. Mary's Hospital nurses allege widespread union busting

Allegations of union busting have emerged at SSM Health’s St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, where nurses say some employees have been threatened with unpaid suspension for wearing union-related badge holders within days of filing for a union election.

Nurses say they have been forced to remove union buttons while at work, told they cannot talk about the union while at work and had union fliers taken down from spaces including breakrooms, all violations of federal labor laws, according to the National Labor Relations Board.

Breanna Rhinesmith, a nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital of two years, said she felt threatened by management during a meeting in which she said hospital administrators claimed she was violating the hospital’s “solicitation policy” by wearing a badge holder, often called a badge reel, that read “St. Mary’s Nurses United.”

Rhinesmith said SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital President Eric Thornton told her nurses would be suspended if they did not agree to remove the badge reel.

“We were told ‘You will be suspended without pay and sent home today until you agree to comply,’” Rhinesmith said in an interview with the Cap Times.

https://captimes.com/news/health/st-mary-s-hospital-nurses-allege-widespread-union-busting/article_ba37c239-9aaa-490c-9276-fa1966b460c7.html

This in a city that has always been heavily pro-union. SHAME, St Mary's!