riversedge
riversedge's JournalLRADs are targeted beams of sound, so you want to move perpendicular to the target area to get out of the range.
Love the images---it helps to understand the message.
Ari
@arixanxim
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LRADs are targeted beams of sound, so you want to move perpendicular to the target area to get out of the range.
Moving forward or backward will not protect you, you need to move quickly to the left or right to get out of the targeted sound beam.
https://x.com/arixanxim/status/2016304363418091675?s=20
Norway's prime minister responds to Trump's so-called "events speech" by giving it a D+ adding that it's closer to an F
I assume this is a true event, but one never knows these days.
SilencedSirs◼️@SilentlySirs
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Norway’s prime minister responds to Trump’s so-called “events speech” by giving it a D+
adding that it’s closer to an F.
A blunt assessment that speaks for itself.
https://x.com/SilentlySirs/status/2016200827107479940?s=20
https://x.com/Lydia_MarieM/status/2016360750676377680?s=20
https://x.com/nerdinand/status/2016345549398540557?s=20
WOW! An ICE agent in Minneapolis tells an American citizen "If you raise your voice, I will erase your voice."
The ICE man has a difficult accent-hard to understand. I had to play it a few times, but
he does say it. whow.
I wish it was a longer video so we would have some context.
Ed Krassenstein
@EdKrassen
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WOW! An ICE agent in Minneapolis tells an American citizen "If you raise your voice, I will erase your voice."
Stop telling me that the Trump administration isn't Fascist. They are threatening people for "raising their voice," and how exactly will ICE "erase our voice?"
Kill us?
https://x.com/EdKrassen/status/2016239206163742862?s=20
https://x.com/Mollyploofkins/status/2016234676705276335?s=20
Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this
Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/us-masked-thugs-sneering-elites-terrified-citizens-ice-donald-trump
Marina Hyde Tue 27 Jan 2026 08.43 EST
Truly, I am the country’s biggest fan. But in the spirit of free speech its leaders apparently love, here’s a few things the rest of the world needs them to know
We in the rest of the world have had to hear a lot – such a lot – about what this US government and its hardcore fanbase thinks about us. So you know they’ll be super-relaxed and free-speechy about hearing some thoughts about how they look from the outside. Let’s use last Saturday as a single snapshot. In Minneapolis, they had the shooting by ICE agents of a protesting nurse who posed no threat – an event promptly, provably and blatantly lied about at the highest level by Donald Trump’s politburo. Then that evening in Washington, a lot of those same politburocrats turned out for the White House premiere of a ridiculous propaganda film about the president’s wife, also attended fawningly by bloodless Apple oligarch Tim Cook. And he’s not even the oligarch who paid an insane amount for the film. Top line, guys: all this makes you look like what your president likes to call a “shithole country”. Sorry! I assume it’s fine to use officially licensed vocabulary?
Obviously, it’s not a proper shithole country until the soft-skinned puppetmasters in the presidential palace cut some grizzled local warlord off at the knees for following orders, so it’s good to learn overnight that border patrol “commander at large” Gregory Bovino has been pulled out of Minneapolis, possibly locked out of his social media accounts, and may soon “retire”, presumably a fall guy for the likes of stage 4 homeland security tumour Stephen Miller. Bovino’s the guy who’s literally got the same haircut and outfit as the Sean Penn character in One Battle After Another. But hey, at least he wears a uniform. Again, what are international outsiders to make of the spectacle of ICE’s federal officers coming masked and frequently dressed in civilian clothes, while images from protests across the States show resisting civilians increasingly drawn to military-style clothing? Can Trump’s storm detachment not at least be issued with matching shirts? They don’t have to be brown, but Maga chic desperately needs to make even a first step to getting itself together. In the entire history of the movement, only one follower – the QAnon shaman – has ever had true style.
With death threats being the sign of a deeply articulate and sophisticated political culture, I have cleared my inbox to make space for them. But I should say I have always truly loved America. I’ve visited 38 of its great states in my time, and always dreamed of completing the set, but … not currently, let’s be honest. I note US tourism is currently experiencing a downturn in visitors from previously enthusiastic markets. Who among us can imagine why? Still, no doubt numbers from Nato countries in Europe will rally if Trump (a five-time draft dodger) continues to piss on their military graves. Reminder: Nato has activated its collective defence clause precisely once since its inception – at the request of the United States, in the wake of 9/11. Our troops fought and died in all their stoopid wars – but now, apparently, we have to listen to Trump’s whiny little rants about how nobody really put themselves on the line.
Anyway, back to the events of Saturday and their fallout. Hard to pick the most mindboggling reaction to the shooting of Alex Pretti, who never produced the gun he was carrying, for which he had a licence, before it was taken off him. But there’s a strong argument for going for the statement from the National Rifle Association, which reacted to all the Maga zealots saying Pretti was always likely to have been shot for legally carrying a gun he had a licence for by thundering back that carrying a licensed gun is famously constitutionally allowed, and calling for a full investigation into the killing. Maybe Trump’s base are now more rightwing than the NRA? Or more leftwing, I can’t tell. Are Maga now too woke on gun control for the NRA? Such are the sentences one can end up typing when we’re this far through the looking-glass.
Speaking of the political upside-down, Saturday’s other notable event was the Melania premiere at the White House, which, though flowing with champagne, was in some ways as grotesquely down and dirty as the scenes in Minneapolis. Consider the guests, which included the usual regime stalwarts but also, intriguingly, Tim Cook. Days before, Cook had been posting on one of the other oligarchs’ platforms about Martin Luther King’s “commitment to justice”, only to watch videos of Pretti’s execution proliferate across that same platform, but still pop on his bow tie and toddle off to clink glasses at the premiere. Melania is the forthcoming “documentary” about the president’s wife, for which she serves as executive producer and has been paid an unspecified sum, while the entire thing has been bought by Jeff Bezos’s Amazon for $40m (£30m) – a sum so staggeringly beyond what such a film should cost, by so many orders of magnitude, that it can only be read as a naked gift to the regime. A further $35m has been spent on marketing for its preposterous theatrical release....................................................
Walz: I think Kristi Noem probably should go back to South Dakota, not have any dogs, and just kind of ride things out
No love lost there!!--I am glad he mentioned the having no dogs!
Walz: I think Kristi Noem probably should go back to South Dakota, not have any dogs, and just kind of ride things out
Walz: I think Kristi Noem probably should go back to South Dakota, not have any dogs, and just kind of ride things out
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-01-27T20:20:55.420Z
"Also something I noticed in a vestibule area that connects the West Wing to the residence that I hadn't see before: a f
Trump bows his head and says good night to his pal Putin before
he goes to his residence for nighty night.
Also something I noticed in a vestibule area that connects the West Wing to the residence that I hadn’t see before: a framed photo of Presidents Trump and Putin at their summer summit in Alaska. Lower photo is President Trump with one of his grandchildren.
https://x.com/ElizLanders/status/2016233925329191423?s=20
Trump Sparks Fresh Outrage With Secret Bid to Send ICE to the Olympics
Day by day, we--the USA is losing friends the world over.
The Italian newspaper report has led to anger, confusion, petitions, and demands that Trump’s “thugs†not be allowed to set foot in Italy.
— (@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2026-01-27T20:35:51.795Z
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Trump Sparks Fresh Outrage With Secret Bid to Send ICE to the Olympics
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-sparks-fresh-outrage-secret-184418621.html
Janna Brancolini Mon, January 26, 2026 at 12:44 PM CST
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President Donald Trump’s administration has sparked outrage over a secret plot to send ICE agents to provide security to the U.S. delegation at the Winter Olympics next month.
Italian government officials originally denied, then confirmed, then denied again a Saturday report from the left-leaning Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano that ICE would support local law enforcement at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics from Feb. 6 to March 15.
The plan comes after an ICE agent shot and killed Minneapolis mother of three Renee Nicole Good and a Border Patrol officer shot and killed Veterans Affairs nurse Alex Pretti, both 37. ICE has instructed its agents to break into homes without warrants, stopped off-duty police officers of color, and arrested a 5-year-old boy.
In a statement to the Daily Beast, Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin confirmed that ICE would be assisting Italy during the Olympic Games
Yesterday I had posted a picture of Alex Pretti that said was on a billboard in Times Square but
just now I saw that this huge picture is not true. Readers of the post added comments have said it is not present in Times
Square. So I deleted it.
It would have been a grand idea--expensive I am sure. Darn, wish it was true--and as one response to the post said--add Renee Good's picture.
Patricia and Mark McCloskey brought weapons to a protest-They were honored as keynote speakers at the 2020 RNC.
https://x.com/ClimateDefiance/status/2015551608440889837?s=20
Federal appeals court declines to reconsider Alina Habba disqualification case
Source: msn.com
Misty Severi 3h • 2 min read
A federal appeals court Monday declined to reconsider a three-judge panel's decision to uphold Alina Habba's disqualification as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, paving the way for the case to be heard before the Supreme Court.
The three judges issued the ruling last month, finding that Habba, who previously served as President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, was unconstitutionally appointed after her interim appointment expired without Senate confirmation.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit said in a short order that the judges who gave the ruling last month did not ask to rehear the case, and that the majority of judges in the 3rd Circuit voted against putting the matter in front of the full court.
Three of the court's judges did rule in favor of hearing Habba's case, but it needed a majority of the 11 judges to hear the case. One judge is expected to issue a dissent, according to The Hill.
The Justice Department has attempted to keep Habba in her interim role after the appointment expired, but the former attorney stepped down in December. ...............
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/federal-appeals-court-declines-to-reconsider-alina-habba-disqualification-case/ar-AA1V1Yh9
Here is another article---much longer with good details.
Appeals court won’t reconsider Habba disqualification, paving way to Supreme Court
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5706899-federal-appeals-court-declines-rehear/
A federal appeals court has declined to reconsider a three-judge panel’s decision to uphold Alina Habba’s disqualification as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, paving the way for the Justice Department to take President Trump’s fight to retain loyalist U.S. attorneys to the Supreme Court........................
Judge Emil Bove, another of Trump’s former attorneys who was appointed by the president to the bench, did not take part in the vote.
The decision keeps intact the panel’s ruling that Habba’s tenure became unlawful when she remained in the role after her 120-day interim term expired, despite the “novel series of legal and personnel moves” the administration took to keep her in the job.
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The Virginia prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, is reportedly no longer with the Justice Department after resigning last week. A judge barred her from “representing herself as the United States Attorney in any pleading or otherwise before this Court until such time as she may lawfully hold the office either by Senate confirmation or appointment by this Court … should either occur.”..................
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