Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Wednesday Stuff


Sam and Emma of The Majority Report discuss people in a San Diego neighborhood who are fed up with getting terrorized by ICE goons, looking to give these jackbooted thugs the treatment they deserve, including getting in their faces...it didn’t occur to me at first about how the post-9/11 environment put us on a glide path to an authoritarian fascist takeover, but yeah, I think that makes sense unfortunately...normally I wouldn’t advocate shaming law enforcement, but for something like this, yeah, I’m down with it...a related item is here (slightly NSFW/H)...



Update: More here.

...and Belle gives us more on “Russia’s Pearl Harbor,” with well-orchestrated drone attacks taking out Russia’s bombers...and apparently, Zelenskyy very wisely didn’t tell Our Treasonous Orange Pustule that it was coming...lots of “fog of war” stuff going on here, but it looks like this was a wide-ranging and significant attack, and yes, the fallout from this may likely have a strategic impact affecting every country, though don’t expect the U.S., with its gaggle of clueless sycophants in charge, to know exactly how to respond (love to be wrong)...



...and Farron Cousins tells us that Wired reported that TV producers are sucking up to Cantaloupe Capone by coming up with more wingnut TV shows...one day, the book on this whole sorry era will be written, so to speak, and it will duly note those who utterly caved to Bronzer Beelzebub, as well as those who resisted #47 and his same-party playmates...Cousins is absolutely right of course about people having more diverse choices for whatever content they choose to view, which goes WAAY beyond the traditional channels which I guess you would call “basic cable” at this point, beyond to subscription or streaming services, as well as YouTube and social media (hopefully some people are using that time to read my dumb little musings too...I can dream, can’t I?)...



...and Yasmin Khan and Jayar Jackson discuss the recent violence against those protesting to free Israelis held hostage by Hamas from the 10/7 attacks (8 were injured in Boulder, CO)...no excuse for violence against anyone peacefully protesting no matter what the cause...sooo, it appears the “perp” here got a temporary visa that expired a few months ago, so of course here comes Baby Goebbels to blame Biden somehow (leave it to a wingnut to take an exceptional case like this and try and turn it into a rule)...Jayar is right about “home grown,” if you will, violence being more frequent than attacks such as this, bad as this attack is...



...and speaking of pointless violence, Kyle Kulinski tells us about an LGBTQ woman beaten for using a bathroom...anyone convicted of a crime like that should face 20 years in prison...and OF COOURRSE Texas is trying to pass a bill making it a crime to identify as transgender, punishable by jail time...I wish I could agree with the sentiment that the moral arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice, but if these dark days have proven anything IMO, it is that that noble sentiment doesn’t apply any more, tragically (I mean, I’m not giving up, I hasten to add, but I’m only saying that a just society isn’t inevitable unless we fight for it, as Kyle says – NSFW/H also)...



...and the weather in these parts is just too nice to not include something upbeat for the season, so here it is.

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