According to the Department of Homeland Security, the suspect opened fire at the entrance of the federal government building, and border patrol agents and local police “helped neutralize the shooter.”

I wonder if they’ll learn empathy, or just outrage.

My union-member partner is constantly horrified at the shenanigans my non-union employer pulls are not illegal. Starting with the whole “at will” employment contact setup.

Vice President JD Vance, during a visit to Los Angeles on Friday, said [sanctuary city] policies have given agents “a bit of a morale problem because they’ve had the local government in this community tell them that they’re not allowed to do their job.”

“When that Border Patrol agent goes out to do their job, they said within 15 minutes they have protesters, sometimes violent protesters who are in their face obstructing them,” he said.

Keep protesting!

From the ACLU, it sounds like having an attorney’s number and asking for a supervisor might have been helpful steps. Still seems like obvious free speech suppression by CBP though.

Refusal by non-citizen visa holders and visitors to answer questions may result in denial of entry.

If the officers’ questions become intrusive or improper, you should complain and ask to speak to a supervisor. (This goes for citizens, lawful permanent residents, or non-citizen visa holders and visitors.) Although CBP takes the position that you are not entitled to an attorney during primary and secondary inspection, we encourage you to have the telephone number of an attorney or legal services organization with you and ask to contact them if you feel your rights are being violated or if you have been detained for an unusually long period.

Sure, which served to help with cruelty and embarrassment, but there’s no clear connection to some legal condition for deportation being met by finding anything on his phone. Possibly the CBP agent’s bluff about drug use was easier to pull off with the phone in hand.

a couple hundred

Are electricians very cheap where you live? In the US Northeast, I was quoted several thousand for an EVSE install that was about 30’ from the breaker and had room in the panel. The hardware is only a couple hundred.

The Louvre’s spontaneous strike erupted during a routine internal meeting, as gallery attendants, ticket agents and security personnel refused to take up their posts in protest over unmanageable crowds, chronic understaffing and what one union called “untenable” working conditions.

It’s rare for the Louvre to close its doors. It has happened during war, during the pandemic, and in a handful of strikes — including spontaneous walkouts over overcrowding in 2019 and safety fears in 2013. But seldom has it happened so suddenly, without warning, and in full view of the crowds.

Depraved. Not one mention of de-escalation, nothing but celebration for the bad people killed. Not that I expected to find it.

“As Trump moves to expand military deployments, possibly using protests in L.A. as a pretext for more broadly silencing free speech or even imposing martial law, I’ll be reintroducing reforms to the Insurrection Act that check potential abuse or overreach,” Blumenthal posted to X, formerly Twitter, late Monday.

Birmingham AL, 1963

detain

seize as political hostages *

I’m sure money is only one small piece, but there’s u24.gov.ua if you want to help with the 2x-10x (I do!).

Like, wherever the latch(es) is/are?

They cut through a wall to reach the safe, sounds like some inside knowledge anyway.

— European countries: 54% — Asia-Pacific: 23% — Arab countries that have normalized ties with Israel under the Trump-brokered Abraham Accords: 12% — North America: 9% — Latin America: 1% — Africa: 1%

Nearly half the deals were for missiles, rockets and air defense systems, Israel’s defense ministry said.

Kinda shocked not to see the US higher up. Still, 9% should be 0% and sanctions / human rights abuse trials.

I’ll recommend “The Warmth of Other Suns” if you want a beautifully written history of racial history across the families / time periods in the US. Definitely helped me personalize & put together a lot of pieces left out of my education.

In regions where heating load (20⁰F up to 70⁰F = 50) is usually substantially more than cooling load (95 down to 70 = 25), does that negate the argument?

Vemuri wore a Keffiyeh during the speech, and called out MIT for having research ties with the Israel army and “aiding and abetting” the country with its “assault on the Palestinian people.”

“MIT supports free expression but stands by its decision, which was in response to the individual deliberately and repeatedly misleading Commencement organizers and leading a protest from the stage, disrupting an important Institute ceremony.”

I’ve definitely heard that line before: We are not retaliation for your criticism, just leveling major penalties for your minor infraction of an unwritten beaurocratic rule.

About Google:

The sackings followed a demonstration at Google’s San Francisco office on Friday, attended by more than 200 Google employees. Two of the four fired employees […] spoke at the protest. […] Google’s Security and Investigations team said the employees were routinely accessing information about other projects and employees inappropriately.

It was like overcrowded, literally maybe a dozen plus, 14, 15 people were lying on the floor and there was no space for me. That’s why they put me in a TV room. The TV would be on for 21 hours in a day. It will turn off between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.”

The cruelty is the point.

Also, we hear and Badar Khan Suri, about Rümeysa Öztürk, but there are dozens of people in these gulags who we’re not hearing about. They need (obviously) to be shut down entirely.

Sounds pretty in line with “Controversies” on Wikipedia.