Meanwhile, in Venezuela: “Days later, the local governor, José Alejandro Terán, posted a video on his Facebook page of him touring the damaged warehouses. He said they had been used to store medicine for kidney patients.”

“The footage also showed the burned-out remains of a Buk missile launcher, along with what appeared to be missile or missile debris scattered between two warehouses.”

Coño! who knew the best “medicine for kidney patients” would turn out to be the Buk-M2E medium-range surface-to-air missile system? 😂 These people must have graduated from the Gaza Medical School of Nephrology! 😆

@2 Your bootlicking and attempted loopholery game really leveled up over the weekend.

"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that he hasn't ruled out impeaching Noem—if Democrats win the House in the 2026 midterms, as if protecting citizens is a treat we only get if we do what he wants."

So you don't know what the House minority is and isn't capable of doing on their own then.

vic·tim
/ˈviktəm/
noun
a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action.

@2: Let's see. Flood victim ... suicide victim ... HIV victim ... bullying victim ... victim of war ... victim of circumstance ... victim of an error ... victim of his own success ... victim of a changing market ... victim of bureaucracy.

Why, it's almost like the word "victim" need not have any connection whatsoever to crime! 😁 Where'd you get such a misguided definition, anyway? RCW 7.69.020? OK, let's see what that says...

Oh look at that! "Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter." So if the injured people in Portland are not seeking recognition as victims of a crime for purposes of exercising the rights in Chapter 7.69 RCW, then the definition you cited wouldn't apply to them at all.

Wouldn't ... apply ... to them ... at all. 😘

Thanks for that Cate Le Bon recommendation, she's goddamn delightful.

I-5 was absolutely fucked this morning. GETTING to I-5 was absolutely fucked.

WSDOT's plan is a bad plan.

OVERTON ALERT! OVERTON ALERT!
Christopher Mathias at the Nation has officially declared that Antifa is indeed real, that progressives should stop dismissing it, and in fact, need to adopt the Way of Antifa.

Liberals Think Antifa Isn’t Real. But It Is—and It Knows How to Win. - Christopher Mathias
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/antifa-solidarity/

Who here at Slog am wants their own memorial boulevard? Step right up! Chickantifas, make way for the martyrs!

@2:

Only a complete and utter moron would cite the Revised Code of WASHINGTON when referring to a shooting that occurred in the State of OREGON.

@8: Bad or painful? Any plan to fix a major bridge in a metropolis is going to be painful.

I-5 is always congested - this isn't news.

Ricky Gervais deserves a Golden Globe for the Mel Gibson joke he told, back when he was hosting the show.

@3, Nope. It's rule-of-law-ery. It's applying democratically enacted laws to the letter, thus supporting the majorities right to have their policies. It's anti-fascist in that it does not support another group or individuals standard for the democratically adopted one.

@3, Are you anti-democracy?

Don't like what Trump is doing? Who does? Not me. Change the fucking law, via democratic means. Enforce to the letter (i.e. rule of law) until you do.

No idea how Hannah failed to include this delightful footage of an ICE agent absolutely eating shit on a patch of non-fascist ice.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Un7bXMXITk0

@3, TLDR: Don't like what the law permits, then change the fucking law. Respect democratic outcome of the last elected legislature, until a subsequently elected legislature goes in a different direction.

@9: And antifa, ironically and predictably, will evolve into its own flavor of fascism as diversity of thought among the plebeians will not be tolerated!

@5, When a legislature adopts a different definition, the Legislature's definition is what is used in court, not the dictionary. The story is being discussed in a legal context by Hannah of justifying the ICE agents actions.

@6, Your examples are all in a non-legal context.

In questions of legality or non-legality, the Legislature's definition, if they have supplied one, is the only one that matters. Then legal definitions from law texts and court rulings apply. Then and only then does the dictionary definition apply.

Civics 101 people.

@4 I was going to point out the same thing - the minority party is unlikely to succeed with articles of impeachment (see MTG when the R’s were the minority party).

For a blog that complains about others not living in reality, that post seems to show TS is in the same boat.

You all are pro-democracy frauds and hypocrites. You only support rule of (democratically enacted) law when it gets outcomes you like.

When democratically adopted laws don't get the outcome you want, you all quickly substitute some other definition or standard instead of the democratic one.

@16: ha ha, no. The legislature itself told you not to use this definition outside the context of Chapter 7.69, the chapter on victims' rights in court proceedings. And then what did you do? You went and used the definition outside the context of the chapter on victims' rights in court proceedings. 😆

@10,

(17) “Victim” means:

(a) A person:
(A) Killed or injured in this state as a result of a compensable crime perpetrated or attempted against that person;

ORS 147.005.

We are discussing this in Washington State of course, so while we can't tell Oregon what to do, it is certainly permitted to discuss what we wish Oregon's standard was based on the one we have democratically adopted here.

You are so transparently anti-democracy and rule of law, because you only apply that principle when it gets outcomes or narratives you like.

@17, Articles of Impeachment adopted by the House are going nowhere in the Senate, so its purely performative.

Represenatives and Senators are not looking at constitutional or unconstitutional, legal and illegal, but which way popular opinion in their state or district is trending when they take these votes. Democracy in action. Who says democracy is moral or just?

@13: To be so easily amused, I don't get it. Who hasn't slipped on ice before?

@20 you cannot force anyone to agree with your tortured understanding of the english language no matter how much of your life you waste typing out all this hot garbage over and over again

@23: It's not just that he's obsessed with these "lawful killing" cases, it's that he so consistently gets the law wrong whenever he talks about them! 😆 Find a new hobby, dude, you're not good at this one! 😅

@20 You really are that dumb. I always forget that you really are that dumb.

Reporters are not lawyers. They sometimes use words like "victim" in the colloquial sense that everyone understands and not always in the strictest legal constructs.

And even all of that ignores that it's entirely plausible that the victims of the ICE shooting were, in fact, injured, and that depending on the circumstances of that injury may also be a compensable crime. So it's entirely plausible that they are victims under the meaning of the law that you're citing.

You, on the other hand, are not a victim. Your sheer dumbassery isn't the result of a compensable crime, it's prolonged effort on your part. The rest of us aren't even victims for reading your bleats. They may be a (figurative) crime against logic, language, and common sense, but definitely not compensable.

@NotMyopic: see @10a

Are you also an utter and complete moron X the number of times you posted about this?

@22,

Of course we've all slipped on ice. But the vast and overwhelming majority of us do so while out performing benign activities in our everyday lives. That buffoon is out there actively trying to ruin vulnerable people's lives and fell on his ass instead. And now he's a national laughingstock.

Leo was ordering two bottles of champagne and "party favors" to be delivered to his room after the show.

@21 I've had that argument before. Articles of impeachment, even if they do not result in conviction, are better than nothing. They establish a record for the future. Do I wish more could be done, sure. But ignoring the situation is not the answer.

Here's a nice story from this week: the number of people needing treatment for trachoma, the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, has fallen below 100 million for the first time since global records began. See, it's not all bad news.

@24, So far, the Heneppin County Attorney agres with me.

If she caves to the pressure to charge under state law, we will have the Kyle Rittenhouse fiasco all over again, where all the media representations of the facts and law get debunked over the course of the trial.

Is what happened in Ohio a tragedy? Yes. Is it law enforcement incompetence, negligent tactics, resulting in an unnecessary killing and an unnecessary injury? Yes. Is it a crime under Ohio Law? Nope.

Let the lawsuit commence and prevail. Let the investigation of policy and training by the Feds commence. (Ain't gonna bappen, but it should). Let the OSHA investigation of failure to make a worker follow workplace safety commence. (Ain't ....)

Let the 1a protests continue.

Observe rule of law and don't make something a crime that isn't, just because you think it ought to be. Don't call someone a crime victim that a democratically elected legislature doesn't define as a crime victim.

"....reported that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said....impeaching Noem—if Democrats win the House in the 2026 midterms, as if protecting citizens is a treat we only get if we do what he wants."
If what dearest Hannah means is that she thinks Jeffries is saying he will only protect citizens if they support him, that sounds like more of the ignorant drivel that comes out of SLOG. What he means is, unless Dems take the House, they won't have the votes to impeach rendering them UNABLE to protect the citizens. Please Hannah, stick to urging people to vote in EVERY election rather than running nonsense at the mouth. We have enough damage with stuff like Pramila Jayapal throwing elections to Trump by criticizing Hillary......IN THE MIDST OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Tnks @4, @17)

"Plus, whatever this was:" And much thanks for that excellent reporting. It's always in the best traditions of journalism to report unknown events about unknown things for unknown reasons. I give thanks every Sunday for all the moments in my life like that: 5 more minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

@10, Amen. Would they rather just let the road rot until it collapsed? Another Trump like sphincter who's never held elective office yet thinks they know how to govern.

@31: "So far, the Heneppin County Attorney agres with me."

So far, the Hannepin County prosecutor has withheld judgment while she conducts her investigation. The video evidence the public has already seen supports a charge of second-degree manslaughter. Further evidence may very lead to murder charges. 😃

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/crowd-yells-cowards-after-federal-agents-crash-into-a-car-and-fire-tear-gas-in-minneapolis/

Good luck with that. The Feds have Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution on their side.

77 million voters (not me) found Trump's neofascism and views on immigration less bad than the increasingly socialist positions of his Democrat opponent. That is the cause of the Feds actions on Minneapolis and elsewhere.

@31,

"Don't call someone a crime victim that a democratically elected legislature doesn't define..."

She absolutely did NOT call anyone a crime victim you obnoxious idiot. She called them a "victim" which any number of us have already pointed out to you is objectively, demonstratively, and inarguably correct in this context.

Words matter, Neale. Now apologize to Hannah for misquoting her.

@33, And.yet with that public evidence in hand, no charges have been brought. If it is as legally compelling as you assert, there should be no problem with having filed charges and get past a Show Cause hearing.

She would be showing huge confidence in the ecodence in the public domain as unompeachable and something that can't be legally overcome, while having time befire trial to continue to investigate. Why be cautious, if the evidence you already have is insurmountable by the defense?

@36: Cause she’s conducting a criminal investigation of a homicide, dude! 😛 Manslaughter is where we’re at already just with the videos. This could well go to second-degree murder. Even first-degree is not outside the realm of possibility. It all depends on the evidence, which the prosecutor is gathering, because that is her job. 😂

There’s no hurry. Homicide crimes have no limitation period. I’d rather see a murderous scumbag get fairly charged than undercharged, wouldn’t you? 😉

I’ve been noticing that this whole Minneapolis saga has not cast you in the best light. 😄 Maybe it’s time to find something else to get into other than homicide cases. They are not your forte. Maybe you could get super into birdwatching or tournament chess or jogging or something. 🤣

@4: "...as if protecting citizens is a treat we only get if we do what he wants."

The Stranger constantly supports fringe primary candidates agains Democratic officeholders, rails at how Democrats are too corporate and always sell out, even accuses them of supporting "genocide," -- then demands the remaining Democrats do every last thing the Stranger wants, with no reciprocity of any kind whatsoever. It's therefore little wonder writers at the Stranger also explicitly exhibit a complete lack of knowledge as to how politics actually works.

@32: Too bad the democrats don't have better Congressional leaders than Jeffries and Shumer. Everyone in the lefty podcast land hates them: The Bulwark, Jennifer Welch, Young Turks, David Pakman, Brian Tyler Cohen, and others I'm sure. The only deference they get these days is from Morning Joe, Rachel Maddow, The View, and CNN.

re Minnesota:

can You Say
Tipping Point?

Were
there EVER
a Time for a
GENERAL STRIKE,
MINNESOTANS, This

is Fucking IT.

And just Say
NO to the
Fascists.

@40: A general strike huh, oh wow. Pairs well with candles, Joan Baez, and tears. Group hug everyone!

@40: Leave it to kristo' to advocate for something not merely pointless, but intentionally targeting for additional harm the very persons who are already unjustly hurting the most. MN going out on strike would not adversely affect ICE, Noem, or Trump in the slightest, but it would make life even more difficult for MN's most recent victims of those very entities.

kristo' always delivers the distilled essence of modern progressivism. No idea could ever be so risibly stupid he won't instantly and loudly advocate it, an obviously failed ideology constantly censors all those many contrary facts, and a persistently wrong upside-down-ism rules absolutely everything, e.g. tirelessly demanding an arms embargo on Israel whilst bitterly decrying the real path to peace in Gaza: disarming Hamas.

He's so perfectly awful that if he didn't already exist, unscrupulous opponents of progressivism might have invented him.

@42: I’ve been trying to bait him and the other progressive wingnuts into defending the Maduro regime on the merits (see @1 for an example) but so far they haven’t bitten. 😂 I know they want to, though! 😆 Just a matter of time! 😆

No one is talking about the recent retirement in Congress, steny hoyer.

"And he has long acted as the unofficial leader of the annual junket that first-term lawmakers take with AIPAC, the hard-line pro-Israel lobbying organization, to visit Israel."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/politics/hoyer-house-democrat-retire-congress.html?searchResultPosition=1

What other country are new senators obligated to visit? And who pays for that ?

Guess if the gray lady says it's a hard line Israeli lobby, that would indicate there is an undue Israeli influence on US politics. Based only on their success, of course.

Hopefully a new dem senator can have a more nuanced view on the middle east. Liberal democracies, yes, religious apartheid, no.

@42

My "tirelessly demanding an arms embargo on Israel," wormmy?

Your Unconditional $upport for your Favorite
Genocide wears thin after the killing and
severely injuring 200,000 Palestinians

in the name of Vengeance, and
Retribution, for Hamas' kil-
ling of 1,300 Israelis
on October 7th,
2023.

leave it to
The Wormtongue
to dismiss Out Of Hand
what may perhaps be Our Last
Best Option -- but then Again, wormmy
tS's AIPAC Mouthpiece, and'd Lose some of his
Hard-earned Status Quo atop the "Democratic" Food Chain

not to Mention
his artificial intelligent
Sidekick, 😆~thumpfsorna
T Wormtongue~😆 here to Assist
wormmy in his hastening the Demise

of Progressivism
the New Deal, 'the Great
Society and the Middle Class.

try not to be Fooled
by his 'centrist'
Activism.

@41

not to worry, KkKoolie
like 'Brown People for
trumpf,' they'll soon
be coming for you

although
Charming
as you Are

perhaps you'll be
on one of The Very
Last trains to the Gulag?

good luck!

ICESTAPO
Now OUTNUMBERS
the Police in Minnesota

this Shit
is Nearly
Over. believe
Wromtongue/
thumpfnsorna, jr
At Your Own Peril.

@40, 45 & 46

check out my
comments @20
a, b, c, & d & @21

for illustration/illumination/explanation

https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01/08/80410418/seattle-joins-national-anti-ice-protest-for-woman-killed-by-ice-in-minneapolis/comments

@47 -- inelegant!

here's the best path to
the Chris Hedges Report's:

The Machinery of Terror

The Trump administration is consolidating
the familiar machinery of terror
of all authoritarian states.

We must resist now.

If we wait, it will be too late.

--by Chris Hedges; January 11, 2026

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-machinery-of-terror

it's a Chilling fucking Read
Check it out, anyway.

@44: Just keep talking about international money conspiracies and Jews. (Don't worry, such talk won't make you sound like a raging anti-Semite, no sir!) But you'll keep building AIPAC up into your needed bogeyman, no matter their expensive and lackluster results at actual campaigning. Without a sinister Other to blame for your many defeats, you'd have to look at your failed ideas and/or your failure to sell the rest of us on your ideas, and you're just not ever going there, now are you?

Enjoy your rants. I know I do!

@41:.....said the hopeless MAGA bot with his head so far up his ass he'll be the last brownshirt on the cattle train to Trumpfschwitz. Ignorance is bliss, huh, KKKoolie?

@48 kristofarian: I find what's going on chilling, indeed! I really do want to attend ICE OUT protests, at least local ones where I am, despite Parkinson's challenges exacerbated by winter's cold and damp. I don't usually find out about them locally until after they've happened though. Felon Mu$k's Mein Trumpf and its goon squad need to go, and the sooner the better.
Kris, I feel like we're all frozen and trapped in a horrifyingly dystopian Twilight Zone episode.

@49: Wow, tensy. Upstate New York must be pretty boring if you're still trolling from 2,833 miles away.
Did you blow your PNW techie job riches already? Ah, well, I guess there's always Mega Millions....

JEEZUS!---like I need any more valid reasons to avoid I-5......

@43, that is how you bait someone (44), just look at @49.
One quote from the newspaper and all of a sudden someone is spewing. Easy peasy.

@50: "Ignorance is bliss, huh"

Well, you're quite ignorant and hardly blissful, so I would say no.

@52: But darling, you can still use I-5 in Bellingham as the ship canal bridge is in Seattle.

@51: Life is very boring without being amused by your commentary, you should be flattered.

@49

why, That's
classic gaslighting,
Wormtongue! yeah, AIPAC,
spending a Hundred Million Dollars to
sway Our Elections is Actually, according to wormmy

"... [an] expensive and lackluster results at actual campaigning."

and has, essentially, NO VALUE.
--@The Wormtongue, tS's
Chief of Gaslighting
Manipulations,
at his Finest!

lol!

@53: lol, the newspaper quote was fine. The parts you added about "undue Israeli influence on US politics" and "religious apartheid" kind of make you sound like a John Bircher! 😂😂😂 Tensorna @49 got your number! 🤣🤣🤣

@58 -- thanks, for the Set-up, thumpfnsorna!

speaking of "undue Israeli influence on US politics"

and "AFAIK AIPAC spends a lot of money for little result."
--@wormmy days ago, some-
where, from far
far away

and speaking of tracking AIPAC,
https://www.trackaipac.com/

what wormmy calls "the
Jewish Lobby":

Sen. Maria Cantwell
Wishes All the Best for Pales-
tinians She’s Approved Funding to Kill

. . . But I actually
totally wish the best
for the Palestinians and that
someone totally helps them out
before they are inevitably bombed to
death–no one should die on an empty stomach.

My latest check
from AIPAC cleared,
so it’s not going to be me,
but I certainly hope someone else does!”

When asked who she’s specifically hoping to see step up to help them instead of herself in any actionable way, Sen. Cantwell said she was really counting on President Donald Trump to do something instead.

“Look, I can’t do anything right now
because I’ve cashed more than $500,000 from AIPAC
and I’m still hoping to someday cash more than $6 million from
them like my California colleague, Sen. Adam Schiff,” Sen. Cantwell said.

“But maybe President Trump will do something for them! Or
NGOs could just figure something else out on their own?
Man, I dunno, I have a Lake Washington yacht to catch.

I just want to be clear, though:
I’m not against anything good happening
to the Palestinians – it’s just that my AIPAC rep
needs to know I’m not involved in it in anyway.

I’m just a U.S. Senator and
my hands are tied in
the finest velvet.”

[GO, AIPAC!]

At press time, Sen. Cantwell said she’s also not against someone helping out all her cash-strapped Washington constituents who could have really used all the billions in U.S. tax dollars sent to help Israel instead, but she really hopes someone does!

--from: The Needling
Seattle's Only Real
Fake News ~ (it's
Satire/Parody!)

[yeah. Right!]

[just don't tell
wormmy!]

oodleses:

https://theneedling.com/

https://bsky.app/profile/theneedling.com/post/3lvegxk3yj22c

"AFAIK AIPAC spends a lot of money for little result."
--@wormmy

Bingo, wormmy!
they're Famous, aF, for
just throwing Their Monies AWAY!

speaking of untold riches
buying our law makers
making genocide
palpable
again:

Rick Larson: $106,600 from AIPAC
Dan Newhose: $135,842 from AIPAC
Adam Smith: $499,000 from AIPAC & J Street
Kim Schrier: $273, 341 from AIPAC DMFI & J Street*
Suzan Delbene: $230,144 from AIPAC DMFI & J Street
Maria Cantwell: $568,623 from AIPAC NORPAC & J Street
Patty Murray: $506,636 from AIPAC DMFI NORPAC J Street, etc.
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: $286,210 from AIPAC DMFI & NORPAC

Pramila Jayapal: fucking Zero.

Track AIPAC:
https://www.trackaipac.com/

*NORPAC -- pro-Israel political action committee
DMFI -- Democratic Majority for Israel
J Street -- take a guess?

Yes, Jayapal is a fucking Zero!

'we demand
profits over
people'!

--@KkKoolie

@58: And the "religious apartheid" was a tell. As we all fondly recall, after the ICJ ruled that Israel had not committed apartheid, commenter averagebob wasted what would be his final time here in futile yelling about how the ruling really said Israel had committed apartheid. He did a really great job of demonstrating how mere reality can't alter his beliefs. (For one of many examples, https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2024/10/17/79743516/slog-am-jonathan-choe-films-andrea-suarezs-unhinged-campaign-ads-secret-service-gets-roasted-for-trump-assassination-attempt-one-direction/comments)

@53: Should you ever stop congratulating yourself for having "baited" me, consider what really riled me: your implication that when an actual court rules against your accusation, you will simply ignore that court, and continue right on making your now-refuted accusation -- whilst crowing about how much you loves yourself some justice. Want to get a rise out of me? Behavior like that will do it pretty consistently, yes.