Heroes
Does ICEstapo shit in the woods? In Broadview, Illinois, it does. "My team and I were just blocked from accessing the Village of Broadview Municipal Building in Illinois," the puppy killer whined on Xitter. "We were stopping for a quick bathroom break. This is how J.B. Pritzker and his cronies treat our law enforcement. This is what we have to put up with every single day." Maybe the Secretary of Homeland Security should stay in Washington and do her job instead of prancing around playing Wonder Woman, as all DHS secretaries have done since this dubious agency was created. When the Bush administration decided America needed to be designated "the homeland," some of us who read history already had a bad feeling and here we are. Madame Secretary, I suggest you and your "team" follow your Leader's practice of wearing diapers.
New York was the site of the worst terrorist attack in our history and makes the largest effort to prevent another one, so it made no sense to cut $187 million in anti-terrorist funding unless it was an act of vengeful stupidity. Governor Kathy Hochul protested, and so did Republican officials. In another TACO reversal Trump rescinded the cut and took a bow on his cheesy platform ("It was my Honor to do so. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"). He will deprive "war ravaged Portland" of funding instead.
It's battered and patched, but "Best Friends Forever" is back on the National Mall, if only until 8 pm Sunday, October 5. CNN asked the Interior Department for an explanation and got some party-line propaganda about Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries being "the only people holding hands" after they "shut down the government to push their radical agenda," which is not remotely an answer. I suspect they heard from the lawyer for The Secret Handshake, the guerrilla sculptors responsible for this and other acts of artistic defiance.
General Thomas Bussiere, head of US Air Force Strike Command and Trump's nominee for Air Force Chief of Staff, has had enough. He was the first to take up Greasy Pete's invitation ("If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign"). He cited "personal and family reasons," presumably to avoid using terms like "bugfuck insane" and "demented deferment clown," or perhaps to protect his family from MAGA rage.
James Comey has been charged with making false statements and obstructing a Congressional investigation, things Trump does on an hourly basis (RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!), but the bullshit charges weren't enough to appease the deferment clown. He wanted a perp walk for all the cameras, with "large, beefy" FBI agents "in full kit" including Kevlar vests and presumably shackles for Comey. The agent in charge refused to put on the Soviet-style show and was fired. Also fired was a man who had worked in a non-agent capacity for over ten years before becoming an agent-trainee in Quantico. His offense was displaying a Pride flag at his desk in Los Angeles. Depopulate the FBI!
Corrupted language is the hallmark of dictatorships (see Viktor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich), and so the Trump attempt to MAGAfy the universities is called "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Gavin Newsom responded, "CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM." He was just getting warmed up.
Unlike the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern Poverty Law Center continues to publish its Hatewatch and has not removed Turning Point USA in an effort to evade MAGA revenge, which didn't work anyway. The FBI has therefore cut ties with SPLC, leaving no doubt as to its new mission. If you'd care to send some words of encouragement or a few bucks, here they are.
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