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And here I am, an American, staring at the border again . . . and slowly coming to realize the paradox of it. Borders don’t actually exist. They’re invisible lies. They’re also virtually everywhere.
Consider the border Alex Pretti crossed on Jan. 24, on a street in Minneapolis, as he stepped between some U.S. Border Patrol agents and the woman they had just pushed down. He crossed the border that separates ordinary people from the federal Proud Boys (or whoever they are), the masked invaders who were occupying the city to enforce The Law. Pretti interfered with them! He dared to try to protect the fallen woman, who herself had just crossed the same border. In so doing, they both went from being ordinary citizens to “domestic terrorists.”
“Yet our greatest threat isn’t the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within.”
Calls for U.S. military intervention to bring democracy to Iran rest on a dangerous illusion: that democracy is something foreign powers can install from the outside. History suggests the opposite. When democracy is imposed through force, it rarely produces freedom—and often strengthens authoritarianism.
Democracy is not just a set of institutions like elections or constitutions. At its core, it is about collective self-rule. A people is free only when it participates in shaping the laws and institutions that govern it. When political systems are imposed by foreign powers, even in the name of liberation, that basic principle is violated.
President Trump has a long history of inflammatory rhetoric targeting Muslims. Ever since he won the presidential election in in 2016, his first Executive Order was a total Muslim ban to America, which struck the car as illegal. For the last three months, Trump has been targeting US Rep. Ilhan Omar and the entire Somali American community and using them as punching bags. Yesterday, he called Somali Americans very low. Really? Trump should be the last person to talk shit about Somali Americans. I explain why.
Trump has a four-year degree from the University of Pennsylvania. His grades and transcripts are secret. Reason is, he graduated with half-ass grades from college.
Michael Cohen, once Trump's personal attorney, gave a testimony to Congress where he revealed that, under the direction of President Trump, he had sent letters to Trump’s high schools, colleges, and the College Board (creator of the SAT), threatening them with legal action and jail time if they ever released Trump’s academic records. Ever wonder why? If he got straight As, he does not keep it secret. Think about it for a minute. All what he is doing is trying to save face and avoid being ridiculed.
This video, from Substack "Kathy" should be required viewing. Please log onto Substack to view. https://substack.com/@parislychee/note/c-204980477
Jesus Christ. This is Israel to the fucking ‘T’. Palestine is the laboratory. Now it's home in the good ol’ fucking USofA.
A leaked video from an ICE detention site shows fifty human beings jammed into a single cell with no beds, no bathrooms, nothing. Some of them are U.S. citizens.
"They hit his face. They beat him until he can no longer stand."
"They have been here more than ten days without bathing and enduring hunger."
"Look how they have us here. Look at what kind of immigration they have us under, people who are legal, people who are not legal, people who are losing their families, they are kidnapping us."
ICE is only supposed to use cells like this for short-term processing, not to run secret long-term holding sites in the shadows.
The footage was recorded inside the ICE Baltimore Field Office at 31 Hopkins Plaza in Baltimore, Maryland.
The recent demonstrations in Iran that may have killed more than 5,000 civilians and security officers changed from largely peaceful to violent when a number of “agitators” got involved and sought to turn the gatherings focused on the poor economy into a drive to bring about regime change. It has been suggested that the sometimes-armed outsiders who stirred the pot were organized and trained by foreign intelligence services, most specifically the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli Mossad. In the event, the apparent plan to bring down the Iranian government failed when Tehran’s own intelligence and security services were able to intercept and decode the Starlink communications that the plotters were using after the phones and internet were turned off. Armed with information on who, what when and where the authorities were able to make mass arrests and shut down the planned insurgency.