Of course Federal Agents should wear masks... sometimes.

A group of FBI HRT agents takes down a Drug Kingpin in Miami... a man responsible for a dozen murders...

Who supports the agents being maskless and easily ID'd to the cartels? That'd put their families at risk.

That's nuts.

But in everyday policing? I'll draw the line there. Maybe there needs to be a special permission request when they want or NEED to wear masks. Terrible visuals for a free and democratic nation.

Census Bureau claims 3 million undocumented folks have left the country...

I don't believe the numbers, not a bit

https://www.aol.com/articles/census-bureau-announces-negative-net-202921285.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAI14ToVRJLKQQ5tyme8sM_PugiUQNK9S4z6_YCsbJqz_5q7AFnQHnnCj7aiOd7frRohsaRvSr8H--R3ipfwpDZGtQYjs02d00FTL38tlQMZjIucqn7vbXrmevH3Gaq35VN6PHWBPJr9_kPMqM0WDh7NoWN0B0ziIxdGodb1m8BZU

The Department of Homeland Security jumped on the news, saying in a statement that its mass deportation efforts had helped achieve that apparent administration goal.

"In just one year, nearly 3 million illegal aliens have left the U.S. under the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration," the agency said in a statement.

The Census Bureau reported that population growth slowed significantly over the past fiscal year, increasing by 0.5% or 1.8 million people between July 2024 and July 2025.

100 threads about arresting the ICE shooter in MN... here's the actual answer

But state law is still limited in that ability so long as the alleged malfeasance is within the agent’s federal duties, says Green. Federal courts would have to agree that the use of force may not have been legally justified in order for state prosecution to proceed, Slate reported. This has happened before, including in the 1990s when a county prosecutor brought charges against an FBI sniper who shot and accidentally killed an unarmed woman in Idaho during an operation. A federal appeals court permitted the state prosecution to proceed, although charges were eventually dropped when the county prosecutor left office.

If local prosecutors were to bring state charges against a federal officer, the officer could also try to claim federal immunity from state prosecution and thereby move the case to federal court, Timothy Sini, a former federal prosecutor in New York, told CNN.

At that point, the federal judge would have to determine whether the federal officer is protected by immunity. That would depend on the Supremacy Clause, which asks whether the officer subjectively believed the conduct was necessary to carry out federal duties, and whether the officer’s conduct was objectively reasonable under the circumstances.

America "fuck yeah" v2025 and v2007

Think drilling a couple survivors of an air strike is new?

How soon some forget.

Remember "Collateral Murder"?

Baghdad 2007... TWO Reuters journalists were inadvertently killed and then almost a dozen rescuers killed/injured including children...

I'd say this is Americana, through and through...

But the victor writes the history, right?

Sad.

https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007,_Baghdad_airstrike

Gerrymandering is about to become the new 50 State norm.

Do you think ANY State is going to go back if 40+ States do it?

Might as well assign all House seats to the Party with the majority in the State house.

First Texas, then California... then Virginia then North Carolina... then GA and KS and IL and MD... etc etc...

The problem is... you can't have one state that does it the right way... with Independent Commissions... and another that stacks the deck.

So it's all going to be gerrymandered... and SCOTUS is going to be giving permission for Red States to disregard minorities in drawing lines...

Random thoughts about the SS Totenkopf "Death Head" symbol and tattoo...

First... any soldier in the last 25 years has played video games like the call of Duty series portraying WW2...

The "Totenkopf" symbol didn't start in WW2, it was an Imperial German symbol back into the 1800's... but was adopted as the direct representative of the SS... both the military and civilian side.

Remember this?

A group of "Scout Snipers" of the USMC thought an SS flag would be kinda cool...



So re: the Democratic candidate in ME... it's highly unlikely he really knew the social stigma surrounding the symbol... or even much about the history.

The ADL has commented on the topic acknowledging the possibility of a mistake and how it's important to show regret and understanding later.

So... it's a logo that was 100% related to the last image millions of people had in their eyes before death... it was the image that Russian civilians would peek out their windows to see if the soldiers in the streets had the standard Wehrmacht uniform or the SS Deaths Head logo...



And then it's also the symbol of the best tanks of 'World of Tanks" video game...

So... total condemnation... or will he be given a chance to talk about it?

I'm not a Mainer, so not my business...

Anyone who idolizes Hitler is historically illiterate.

I always laugh when I see these folks who put Hitler on some sort of pedestal.

To be honest... he fails on pretty much every line.

He was a little dude... not an Aryan marvel, possibly Jewish ancestors... not athletic, not particularly smart.
Was an acceptable foot soldier but not a hero or even an officer...

As a war strategist, he was awful... I mean truly terrible. Just about every decision was flawed and then he started overruling the Generals who were smart... replacing his own idiocy for their experience.

Oh but a great author right? Not really... Hess probably wrote or corrected large sections of Mein Kampf...

A great proponent of Aryan faith too? Not really. He got swept up in the pseudo science and rantings of Himmler and others...

Even the Nazis who love the Holocaust angle of Hitler... it wasn't even his idea. He was cool with settling them in Madagascar.

It was the Nazi bean counters who said it was cheaper to kill them...

He spent the last year of his life drugged out of his skull, as a madman overruling his Generals, moving phantom armies and demanding attacks from forces that didn't exist.

And then surrounded on all sides, put a gun to his head.

There is/was nothing to idolize about Hitler... he was a clownish little dwarf with a double digit IQ and an overbearing sense of self.

Those morons walking around with nazi paraphernalia are repping for one of the biggest clowns in history.

Democratic Party hits lowest polling numbers since Q'Pac started polling Party Approval.

Don't shoot the messenger!

IMHO... we need to go BACK to the future, take back the populist badge from MAGA.

Thirty percent of voters have a favorable opinion of the Democratic party, while 54 percent have an unfavorable opinion, and 10 percent haven't heard enough about it.

This is the lowest favorability rating for the Democratic party since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking voters this question in 2008. The previous low was in January of this year when 31 percent of voters had a favorable opinion, 57 percent had an unfavorable opinion, and 9 percent hadn't heard enough about it.

In today's poll, 38 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of the Republican party, while 51 percent have an unfavorable opinion, and 7 percent haven't heard enough about it.

The case against Comey revolves around... Andrew McCabe

Frankly I don't care what happens to Comey... I doubt if Hillary Clinton does either.

Ironically... the Trump DoJ wants to prosecute Comey for screwing over Clinton!

Details:

The initial leak: In 2016, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe authorized an FBI official to share information with a reporter for The Wall Street Journal regarding a probe into the Clinton Foundation.

Comey's testimony: During a September 2020 hearing, Senator Ted Cruz asked Comey if he had authorized the leak. Comey stated that he stood by his prior 2017 congressional testimony, in which he had denied authorizing any leaks to the media.

McCabe's account: In a December 2020 letter to the Justice Department, Sen. Cruz wrote that McCabe had told investigators he informed Comey of the leak, and Comey approved the action after the fact. This directly contradicted Comey's testimony.

A historical story about the origins of Right v Left.

It all goes back to the French Revolution.

After the storming of the Bastille the National Assembly was established to make a new Constitution.

To the RIGHT of the President's Chair... were the supporters of the King and the "Old Order" along with clergy and monarchy.

To the LEFT of the President's Chair... was the revolutionaries and reformers including Jacobins. They sought to take power away from the King, Church and State.

VOILA!!! And it stuck.