hadn't
'our' Senators
best First check in
with AIPAC? they pretty
much Run the Show in Congress

https://www.trackaipac.com/

and, btw, how many of our ICEStapo've
been Thoroughly Schooled by
Israel's IOF (aka I'D'F)

with their nonchalance
in 'observing' Human
Rights edicts and a
nasty Penchant
for Brutality?

Cadet Bonespurs in his
big bad Grotesque
Bill handed over
SEVENTY FIVE
BILLIONS To
his thugs at
ICEStapo

at least 'our'
Congress can
help somewhat
in slightly defunding
an Agency gone full-on Rogue

but
then
Again
the 'democratic'
party is Not Beholden
to Democrats -- perhaps
Some of the Corps that're
now Finally saying NO to ICEStapo

may help to Redirect America's Brownshirts.

About bloody time. Shut it down. We have other federal agencies which can remove the actual criminals, without engaging in abusive tactics towards everyone.

“hadn't
'our' Senators
best First check in
with AIPAC? they pretty
much Run the Show in Congress”

It wouldn’t be a day without kristofarian referencing the protocols.

@3

Hopefully the caucus sticks together long enough for Rand to get enough Republican Senators onboard to separate the DHS funding from the rest of the bill.

@5: According to the Wall St. Journal, after a weekend of getting stuck inside, watching actual video show the administration's victim-blaming lies for what they were, and getting earfuls from Republican senators and the NRA about how bad this looked, Trump decided to change course in MN. We'll see if it sticks, but at least drawing down the tension there might prevent additional fatalities. Meanwhile, Congress should still delete ICE's funding. Oversight, bitches!

Having Pretti legally carrying his weapon, and it not deterring assault upon him in the least (and may even have contributed to his death!) must feel like a dagger in the heart of the NRA. The imaginary empowerment of gun ownership is the single largest fable they peddle, and having it revealed as a lie for all to see, over and over and over across a long, snowbound weekend for most Americans, must've really frightened that powerful lobbyist.

@4: Thanks for quoting kristo'. I just scroll past his posts, and while I could've guessed he'd still be focused on AIPAC, your quote really brings it home (without my having to slog -- ha! -- through the rest of his dreck). That imaginary bogeyman he built in his head really took over that narrow, dank, cramped space, hasn't it? Poor guy, he never got the memo about GAZA GAZA GAZA. Once demanding peace in Gaza went from "disarm Israel," to "disarm Hamas," the Stranger, and all other supportive commenters, fled the topic completely. Only kristo' keeps mouthing the once-sacred words, even while his former comrades now obsess over ICE, a far more relatable villain to most Americans than our democratic ally in the Middle East.

"our democratic ally in the Middle East"?
the one who's committing genocide?
in our name on our tax dollars?
the one that cost the Dems
the Election? and gave us
Cadet Bonespurs? That
one, Wormtongue?

with 'allies' like that,
whom tf needs
enemies?

go, AIPAC!

@7 for someone who claims they aren’t antisemitic you sure use a lot of their talking points…

Anywho, although I appreciate the focus on ICE, reminder that Alex was executed by boarder patrol. Defunding one shit federal agency won’t stop this nightmare - we need congress to reel in this out of control executive branch. So good with defunding ICE but don’t stop there - and for gods sake pass some legislation that won’t allow these federal clowns to trample our rights behind their masks / anonymity.

bibi's psychopathic
government is not Israel
tho he's doing he's doing his
damnedest to make it so; that we
allowed ourselves to be drawn into his
Mess, set the template for ICEStapo, right here

and with 'Citizens United'
we're nothing ~ can Be
Nothing but another
shithole country

till It's no longer
the rule of this
Land, better
get Used
to it.

@8: Hey, he can’t help it if The Protocols just so happen to be the most honest document on Zionism he’s ever read!

(Uh, ok, in those last few words, I guess it really is his fault. My apologies; please carry on as you were…)

@10

see
@9
Dip-
shite.

sorry --
Wormtongue.

@9 in that vein, AIPAC is also not “bibi's psychopathic government” but hasn’t stopped you from trying to insinuate they are.

Aside, Saudi Arabia and China spend more on lobbying than AIPAC - if the rant is money in politics, broaden your understanding (if not it comes across as the problem is Jewish money in politics).

Honesty you sound like Pedo stating only blacks commit crime - truly repulsive.

@12: "... it comes across as the problem is Jewish money in politics." Well-stated.

I hope you're OK with kristo' calling you my sock-puppet! ;-)

let me be
crystal-clear:
AIPAC is NOT
ISREAL -- but it
/they represent Israel's
POV overwhelmingly to OUR
Congress -- if any candidate so much
as shows a Hint of separation 'twixt them-
selves and Israel -- or AIPAC -- AIPAC WILL Pri-
mary them into Oblivion -- in 95% of All Cases.

and Yes, AIPAC
is NOT an attached-
at-the-hip part of bibi's
genocidal Far right wing ruling party

and
No Worm-
tongue, budda's
not one of your sock-
puppets -- I'd include
only ai thumpfnsorna and
Cressona in your medley of marionettes

tho the jury's some-
what out on
the latter

but the Point IS
aiding and abetting
Israel's fucking Genocide
paved the way for Cadet Bonespurs'
lawless occupation of OUR streets and cities

once you treat Palestinans
as Less than human
the doors're
Open wide

and speaking
of the Efficacy of
protests & general strikes:

Minnesota is the Beginning of an American Color Revolution

Ordinary people are ready to save democracy:

In October, just after the second No Kings Day demonstrations, I interviewed Erica Chenoweth, author of Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know, a survey of nonviolent resistance movements across many nations. Chenoweth and other scholars have shown that civil resistance to authoritarian regimes can, under the right conditions, be extraordinarily effective.

But would it be capable of stopping Donald Trump and his MAGA regime? I will admit that, in October, I had my doubts. Granted, the No Kings Day marches were huge, spanning large and small cities, blue and red areas, young and old. But did this amount to a serious resistance, with a breadth and depth sufficient to counter Trump’s authoritarian putsch? In the course of my conversation with Chenoweth I aired my skepticism:

[The] question is about impact on the regime, whatever you want to call it. We’re somewhere in between where normal democratic elections are going to take place and this might move the votes a few points and color revolution against an autocrat.

--by Paul Krugman; 1/28/26

oodles
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/minnesota-is-the-beginning-of-an

cont'd

It’s important to understand that there is still much more work to be done and pain to endure. Running the loathsome Gregory Bovino out of town won’t end the siege of Minneapolis, let alone the ongoing attack on American democracy.

Tom Homan, the “border czar” replacing Bovino, brings menace rather than conciliation. Earlier this month he told Fox News that he was pushing to create a database of protestors, which would be used for retribution:

"We’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are."

But given what has been happening in Minnesota, such intimidation would surely backfire. Imagine being a Minneapolis business owner who fired employees for joining peaceful protests. How well do you think that would sit with your customers?

In short, the news from Minnesota is horrifying but also hugely encouraging. Ordinary Americans are showing more strength, more resolve in defending our fundamental values, than almost anyone expected.

--Paul Krugman

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/minnesota-is-the-beginning-of-an

3, #10: Calling out AIPAC has nothing in common with endorsing "The Protocols". Most of the American Jewish community are now deeply critical of what the Israeli government does to Palestinians, and utterly reject the idea that unquestioningly defending the Israeli government- which will be effectively Likudnik and committed to making the creation of a viable Palestinian state impossible for the rest of eternity- must be the center of their identity.

Israel is useless to the world's Jewish communities now, so why SHOULD anyone buy into the discredited myth that supporting that permanently anti-peace, permanently right-wing state has anything to do with speaking out against or opposing antisemitism, especially since everyone on the Left DOES speak out against and work for the defeat of antisemitism anyway?

It's as pointless to defend Israel now as it was to support the continued nominal existence of the already-imaginary country of "South Vietnam" after 1967 or so.

"And the Washington Delegation Is Key"

And not just in the Senate, either. The House is not in session, and would have to re-convene to ratify the changes the Senate makes to the DHS funding bill. To avoid a partial government shutdown, they would have to re-convene quickly. We should all now contact our Congressional Representatives, tell them we understand the hardship we're asking of them, and politely ask for them to go back into session early to pass DHS reform. Please, everyone, get to it!

@18 -- bravo.

@3 are you sure "Defund ICE" isn't a terrible slogan that will alienate moderates and make incremental reforms impossible, and by supporting it you aren't effectively working to elect Republicans?

Looks like ICE will be getting lots of oversight by Democrats in Congress. They're close to a deal with Trump to avoid a government shutdown. And reductions by ICE have already begun:

"[Senator] Collins secured a personal win on Thursday, announcing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had ceased its heightened operations in her state of Maine at her urging."

Wow, it's like Democrats in Congress can actually place restrictions upon ICE. And no word on whether AIPAC said OK. How can that possibly be?!?

(https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-and-democrats-pursue-deal-to-avert-shutdown-f2690cee?mod=hp_lead_pos5)

@21 you argue Democrats in Congress are effectively reining in ICE by providing evidence a Senate Republican reined in ICE? Is this Horseshoe Theory?

@21

and
in even
More Incredible
"news," the Wormtongue
credits Late-to-the-Party, Democrats

"Wow, it's like Democrats in Congress can actually place restrictions upon ICE."

"LOOK!" Shouts an Incr-
edulous Wormtongue!

"Look Everyone! It's
Susan Fucking
COLLINS to
the Fawkin'
Rescue!"

yeah. yea.
go, Susan!

with solving ICEStapo
somehow with nary
a Nod to

"Ordinary Americans
are showing more strength,
more resolve in defending our
fundamental values, than almost anyone expected.

It has been clear for a long time, to anyone willing to see, that the people running the federal government — Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino and more — are monsters. It has been equally obvious that ICE and the Border Patrol are now filled with sadistic thugs. Yet many people — almost the entire GOP, everyone serving in the Trump administration, some Democrats, a significant part of the media — were too cowardly to admit the obvious.

At this point, however, there are no more excuses. In a way the cowards and opportunists enabling Trump are more to blame for where we are than Trump and company themselves: monsters are monsters and can’t help themselves, but the enablers have a choice. And they have chosen, again and again, to accommodate and facilitate evil.

[ah, yes:
those fucking
Enablers ~ and their
bootlickin' Psycophantics!]

What I do believe in is the courage and decency of millions of ordinary Americans, which have been so dramatically on display in Minneapolis. We can only hope that this courage and decency get us through this nightmare — and we must do all we can to make it happen."

--nyt's Paul Krugman, on Substack; January 25, 2026

wormmy don't want us in the Streets

cuz it might 'corrupt'
the Machiavellian
Machinations
of thee Most
CORRUPT

maladministration
in American
History

good one,
Wormtongue!
way to Distract US
with Susan Fucking Collins!

Schumer
EVER Wake
the Fuck Up yet?

he been Such a Godsend

to Cadet Bonespurs
and HIS MAGAtty
Psychopathic
band.

"And no word on whether AIPAC said OK."

--@tensorna on January 29, 2026 at 5:13 PM

when the Rich
with wormmy's delighted
acquiescence ~ declared that
Corporations are in fact Human
Fucking Beings and made Citizens
Fucking United the Fucking RULE of LAW

groups like AIPAC
schewept in with their
Hundred of Millions and
made Certain they'd Either
GET THEIR WAY with "our" law-
makers, or They'd Rapidly find them-
selves quickly the Fuck outta Employment

it's a Systemic Issue.
that AIPAC -- Israel's "Un-
official" Mouthpiece -- would
take Advantage -- and use That
in advancing their Genocidal "War"
on Palestinians -- should be no surprise

that the 'right' would use Citizens United
in their Takeover of America was
a no-brainer, and, in Fact,
the Lynchpin IN that
Takeover -- point
Being, feckless
Dems're fuck-
ing Feckless

and if WE
the fucking PEEPS
do Not get into the Streets

we're gonna get Steamrolled into
thedjt's and ICEStapo
concentration
camps.

"The way
to address any issues
with ICE is via our elected rep-
resentatives, not through street protests."

tensorna on January 18, 2026 at 2:12 PM

yeah.
we HEAR
you, wormmy.

Loud, af, and
Clear, as a
Fucking
Bell.

the
Streets
BELONG
to US. unless

"At this point, however, there are no more excuses. In a way the cowards and opportunists enabling Trump are more to blame for where we are than Trump and company themselves: monsters are monsters and can’t help themselves, but the enablers have a choice. And they have chosen, again and again, to accommodate and facilitate evil."

--Dan Fucking Rather

Oops!

speaking of Enablers:

"At this point, however, there are no more excuses. In a way the cowards and opportunists enabling Trump are more to blame for where we are than Trump and company themselves: monsters are monsters and can’t help themselves, but the enablers have a choice. And they have chosen, again and again, to accommodate and facilitate evil."

--Paul Fucking Krugman

apologies,
Paul!

@22: So, which annoys you more: the Democrats looking effective at stopping Trump and protecting civil liberties, or the Stranger’s ballyhooed general strike having nothing to do with any of this?

@25 -- hmmmm.

I suppose.
if I Had To pick
One, I'd likely go with:

"The way
to address any issues
with ICE is via our elected rep-
resentatives, not through street protests."

tensorna on January 18, 2026 at 2:12 PM

but,
Thanks,
for asking!

Well, the Senate Democrats got everything else funded for the year, ICE gets two weeks worth of funds whilst Congress debates how much to cut and how many restrictions to apply, and Trump will work to get the House to agree to the above.

(Oh, and there was allegedly a strike in protest somewhere, but who cares?)

@17: Thanks for the energetic goysplainin' what a diverse population of millions of American Jews think about Israel. (As far as you know of them, that population has no diversity of opinion, and never debates anything amongst themselves.) And, congratulations on finding a new way to say Israel has no right to exist! One might have thought that two years of severe anti-Israel bitterness here could have exhausted local creativity in that particular pursuit, but you were up for the challenge. Um, bravo?