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According to footage from CNBC, it is no longer just a proposition out of the mouth of JD Vance. ICE agents are going door to door, kicking in doors, and breaking into peoples homes in Minneapolis. This is a direct violation of the U.S. constitution and something needs to happen about this NOW. If you are seeing this, call ALL of your congressperson now even if you don’t think it’ll do anything. And if you are nearby, help the community who is standing up against this BLATANT fascism.

See video on her substack page:  https://substack.com/@dissentinbloom/note/c-198551422

I have spent most of my adult life working at the intersection of food, health, and public policy. I did not come to this work through ideology. I came to it through lived experience, long before I ever held a policy title.

My mother reversed severe, debilitating Crohn’s disease decades ago after being advised to undergo radical intestinal surgery. Doctors told her there were no other options. She refused to accept that verdict and changed what she ate. Through a whole food, plant-based approach, she regained her health. That decision reshaped our family’s relationship to food and planted the seed for my life’s work.

My mother’s healing journey is also rooted in land and farming history. Her family were pasture raised cattle farmers. They raised animals on grass, with care for land, animals, and food quality long before industrial confinement systems existed. I grew up understanding that animals, soil, and human health are inseparable, and that how food is produced matters as much as what is eaten.

It is interesting to observe how United States foreign policy, such as it is, often appears to have an Israeli back story that explains at least in part how Donald Trump’s mindless aggression against much of the world is driven by Zionist imperatives rather than actual American interests. Ukraine is supported by Israel and the US Israel Lobby in part because the roots of many diaspora and Israeli Jews are “Kazarian,” i.e. they derive from that part of Eastern Europe. Plus, Ukraine’s acting head of state Volodymyr Zelensky is a Jew whose mother and father reportedly live in Israel in a posh residence paid for by the money stolen by their son from US and European donations to Kiev to fight Russia. Also, the Jewish antipathy towards Moscow in large part derives from the belief that Imperial Russia was the source of many pogroms in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. That narrative fails, however, to mention how Russian Jews turned Bolshevik and, becoming enforcers of the Communist Revolution, subsequently got their revenge a hundred-fold on Russian and other Eastern European Christians.

Trump has a serious problem. He wants to be the `stupor mundi’ i.e. the master of the world, but he is running out of things to conquer.

Alexander the Great ran into a similar problem when his vanguard reached today’s Afghanistan: ‘oh Zeus! Not another damned desert. Will they never end?’

Trump has won the US presidency twice despite scandals and impeachment. Now, he speaks of an illegal third ‘term’ to be engineered by his battalions of lawyers and louche political advisors. He just overthrew Venezuela’s Maduro regime, long a target of US machinations. In doing so, Trump pulled off a highly competent coup and military operation that surgically decapitated the Maduro regime.

The much reviled and derided Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, formerly of Fox TV, deserves kudos for this complex military-political operation. Ditto CIA which prepared the groundwork for this successful operation. The late President Jimmy Carter had no such good luck when trying to free American hostages held in Iran after its revolution.

Look at the life of Renee Nicole Good. She was a mother who loved her children. She was a daughter who was cherished. She was a wife, a dog mom, and a vibrant soul who for 37 years occupied a space in this world that can never be filled again.

Twelve hours ago, Renee woke up in her home. Tonight, her wife goes to bed alone. Her child will never see her again. Not because of a “tragedy,” but because of an execution. This week the Trump administration sent 2,000 ICE agents to Minnesota. And because of that?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded his visit to the United States, returning home after reportedly securing yet another round of political backing from Donald Trump. As with previous encounters, the meeting provided Netanyahu with diplomatic cover and strategic reassurance, reinforcing Israel’s ability to sustain its military posture in Gaza and across the region with limited external constraint.

History and Hubris

Over a century ago RMS Titanic vanished into the North Atlantic ocean, sunk by an iceberg indifferent to its passengers’ wealth, the vessel’s speed, or its ambitious ocean crossing schedule. The sinking was due to hubris, really—its captain’s pursuit of a record-fast crossing time despite ample warning that night of iceberg risk. He was overconfident that his ship was "unsinkable."

Today the stakes have become absurdly higher. Humanity is not crashing into an iceberg, rather we are on course for melting them all. 

The Unheeded Physics of Earth’s Worsening Fever

The science confirming our global warming trajectory isn't hidden away in arcane climate models; it's measured precisely by satellites orbiting the planet. The instruments deliver a stark warning: Earth is warming because it is absorbing more energy from the sun than it radiates back into space. This measurable discrepancy is called Earth's "radiative imbalance".

Wy did the US president pardon a known drug trafficker while kidnapping a
legitimately elected sitting president of Venezuela right after meeting
with a fellow criminal Netanyahu? Why does a Nobel Peace commitee give a
peace prize to a women who supports the Israeli genocide and called for the
US to invade her own country of Venezuela? The connections to petrodollar,
oil, and Israel are now clearer than ever despite western mainstream media
and western leaders trying very hard to throw smoke in people's faces.....
but first.....

Here in Palestine, Israeli colonialists continue their genocide with
impunity. Just in the past 24 hours killing a fisherman at sea, bombing a
family killing children, abducting a journalist, torturing prisoners,
ethnically cleansing an area in Masafer Yatta, bombing a refugee tent,
taking over a house in Silwan, and two other people in Gaza died when their
home collapsed on them (bombed by Israel earlier). A few days ago, the
apartheid Israeli regime banned the work of 37 International organizations
that alleviate the suffering of our people, suffering caused by these