Miguelito Loveless
Miguelito Loveless's Journal'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
Source: KFOR News, Oklahoma
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were not the suspects the agents were looking for.
The agents had a search warrant for the home, but the suspects listed on the warrant do not live in the house.
The woman who actually lives in the house had just moved to Oklahoma City from Maryland with her family about two weeks earlier.
But any comfort they had disappeared Thursday morning when about 20 men, armed with guns, busted through the door.
“I keep asking them, ‘who are you? What are you doing here? What’s happening,’” she said. “And they said, ‘we have a warrant for the house, a search warrant.’”
She said they ordered her and her daughters outside into the rain before they could even put on clothes.
Read more: https://kfor.com/news/local/were-citizens-oklahoma-city-family-traumatized-after-ice-raids-home-but-they-werent-suspects/
The FBI is admitting they "assisted" DHS, but nobody knows anything. I find it hard to believe anyone will be held to account or that this isn't soon to be a common occurrence.
Amazon says tariff cost displays never considered for main site, 'nothing has been implemented'
Source: ABC News
An Amazon spokesperson, in a new statement, pushed back on a report that the company was planning to show consumers how much a product's cost comes from tariffs. The report prompted pushback from the White House, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt calling such a move a "hostile and political act."
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates-border-czar-brief-securing/?id=121230740
That's all there is, Amazon apparently caving to Trump.
The Corporate Media weighs in on Trump's slurred speech and Musk's toadying obsequiousness.
I went to Google News for a list of headlines about last night’s “interview” with Trump on Twitter. With the exception of an OpEd in USA Today (Trump sounded like “a disoriented, racist Daffy Duck”), the mainstream news just ignored the disaster that unfolded, only noting “technical difficulties”. Yes, some new sources did characterize it correctly, but I was interested in the Big Names who have spent the last year hammering Biden’s mental acuity.
This goes beyond journalistic malpractice, and into the realm of things Julius Streicher would be proud of.
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Can someone explain the point of an "unindicted co-conspirator"
Why not just indict him?
Richard Moll, "Bull Shannon" of Night Court has died at 80
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/richard-moll-dead-night-court-1235771133/Just John Laroquette and Marsha Warfield left from that brilliantly funny show.
How about we start referring to him online as "The First Predator"
You know how he loves titles.
Famed Japanese Toy Company Good Smile Has Reportedly Propped Up 4chan for Years
Source: Gizmodo
Good Smile, one of the world’s most popular toy companies, reportedly acted as the brace for one of the internet’s worst cesspools, financially backing 4chan. The site has gone on to facilitate harassment campaigns, racism, misogyny, and homophobia while being a vortex for internet conspiracy theories.
Wired reported on Wednesday that, based on partnership agreement documents, Japanese toy company Good Smile has financially backed 4chan for nearly eight years. The merch provider is known for its Nendoroid series and other scale figurines and action figures based on multiple major IPs, especially anime, but also Warner Bros. and Walt Disney properties. The documents reportedly show Good Smile put up $2.4 million to keep the site going when it was changing hands back in 2015.
Good Smile has been connected to 4chan in past reports. Last year, based on nondisclosure documents, Wired reported that Good Smile had played a part in the site’s 2015 acquisition. Former VPs for Good Smile in the U.S. have accused the company in legal documents of trafficking in “sexually explicit” figures of underage girls, committing tax evasion, defrauding the U.S., and being involved with 4chan. According to The Hollywood Reporter, top brass at the subsidiary went to Good Smile’s offices in the U.S. back in 2019 and were told by Enna Hozumi, the VP at Good Smile US, that Good Smile Japan had “acquired” 4chan and that it was being “managed” at the company’s Tokyo, Japan headquarters. A company rep told the Reporter that Good Smile made a “passive investment” into 4chan.
The fine folks at the anonymous imageboard site 4chan have been involved in numerous harassment campaigns, such as recent attacks targeting LGBT suicide hotline workers. It’s been labeled as the seedbed for the QAnon conspiracy movement and for the incel community. The online board was cited specifically by the perpetrator of the deadly 2018 Toronto van attack who specifically targeted women. It’s otherwise continued to be a haven for far-right radicals and trolls of all shapes and sizes.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/japanese-toy-company-good-smile-support-4chan-for-years-1850279267
There are only two reasons to back something like 4chan: For the money, which can’t be the case since 4chan is not a money machine, or to promote fascist ideology at all costs.
A Clandestine Trip and a Four-Decade Secret: An Untold Story Behind Jimmy Carter's Defeat
Source: NYT
His longtime political mentor invited him on a mission to the Middle East. What Mr. Barnes said he did not realize until later was the real purpose of the mission: to sabotage the re-election campaign of the president of the United States.
It was 1980 and Jimmy Carter was in the White House, bedeviled by a hostage crisis in Iran that had paralyzed his presidency and hampered his effort to win a second term. Mr. Carter’s best chance for victory was to free the 52 Americans held captive before Election Day. That was something that Mr. Barnes said his mentor was determined to prevent.
His mentor was John B. Connally Jr., a titan of American politics and former Texas governor who had served three presidents and just lost his own bid for the White House. A former Democrat, Mr. Connally had sought the Republican nomination in 1980 only to be swamped by former Gov. Ronald Reagan of California. Now Mr. Connally resolved to help Mr. Reagan beat Mr. Carter and in the process, Mr. Barnes said, make his own case for becoming secretary of state or defense in a new administration.
What happened next Mr. Barnes has largely kept secret for nearly 43 years. Mr. Connally, he said, took him to one Middle Eastern capital after another that summer, meeting with a host of regional leaders to deliver a blunt message to be passed to Iran: Don’t release the hostages before the election. Mr. Reagan will win and give you a better deal.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise-iran-hostages.html
This has been stated and restated many times since 1980. Barnes had the sheer gall to say this about his betrayal and silence:
Mr. Barnes said he did not reveal the real story at the time to avoid blowback from his own party. “I don’t want to look like Benedict Arnold to the Democratic Party by participating in this,” he recalled explaining to a friend. The headlines at the time, he imagined, would have been scandalous. “I did not want that to be on my obituary at all.”
But as the years have passed, he said, he has often thought an injustice had been done to Mr. Carter. Discussing the trip now, he indicated, was his way of making amends. “I just want history to reflect that Carter got a little bit of a bad deal about the hostages,” he said. “He didn’t have a fighting chance with those hostages still in the embassy in Iran.”
If I were planning to arrest Trump
I would make sure it leaked that the arrest was going down Tuesday, then arrest him on Monday.
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