ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Just FYI, lots of folks in different parts of the Internet, in my case Reddit, immediately blamed this on Zionists purposely targeting kids.
Also, this is a mentally unstable president who could not locate Iran on a map. I mean, again, he keeps getting treated as a rational person making rational decisions. He himself said he just had a "feeling."
... recommendation to stave off fatigue from one drug in particular, and it's working, but the result is also threads like this.
Some of these got out of order somehow. I might even make another pot of coffee. Like I said yesterday (?), I currently have to abstain from my dear Old Style and other alcohols due to some prescription meds I'm on, so this is all I've got, and I've upped my coffee intake recently on doc's ...
... want my mom to be able to sleep at night knowing all of that. And it's not just Trump. Half of America, at least, are really bad people. We don't have to pretend otherwise. This is Earth. Humans are terrible. Can we just play the jukebox, have some beers and get along? No, we can't. We suck.
... criticizes Israel more than Israelis, and Jews, none of us think that constitutes antisemitism, that's just hogwash. Anyway, that's my overcaffeinated story of the morning. I know there are many who are worse off, and of course there are many dead, dying and in war zones. I get it. I still ...
... in his Cabinet, and also understand that Hamas et al are not liberation movements but religious movements bent on killing every Jew on Earth. Reform (atheist, really) Jews like me want everyone to be free, at least everyone who wants to be, to live their life in peace, and btw nobody ...
... has been targeted by vandalism and the security my parents had to go through at a Jewish Cultural Center screening of a film about a legendary Minneapolis deli was unreal. I also think the Iran war is absolutely nuts and again, one can be a Zionist and still loathe Netanyahu and the crazies ...
... whose government I've loathed for years including Netanyahu ... has a right to exist, and Jews have the right to a homeland. A "Jewish democracy" is tricky, but it's not theological dictatorship like the countries surrounding it, but a democracy, however dysfunctional. My family's synagogue ...
... but we grew traumautized from a distance (one distant relative only died in the Holocaust) from the specter of the Holocaust. My grandmother always told my mom it could happen in America. Because on smaller scales, it's happened everywhere. That's why I'm a Zionist - I believe Israel ...
... though my dad loved seeing my name in the Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, etc. and on TV. I don't have any retirement money to speak of and there will be no inheritance. I just felt like telling this story this morning. My mom is so upset about ICE and Trump. I've said this many times here ...
... in my family worked in journalism. I am an outlier. In many ways I am an outlier in my family. I love them all, extended family has some interesting people, but I'm really not like any of them. I'm not sure my parents even understand to this day why and what I do (or did) as a journalist ...
... with the post office because of the benefits. We were an immigrant family and this is probably a very typical American story. Those grandparents had a modest house in a Jewish suburb and vacationed in Florida once a year. My mom has even told me to get a job with the post office! ... No one ...
... done well for himself both financially and otherwise. My grandfather on one side owned a rug store that maybe also sold other things. On the other side, he did a lot of things but in the end spent years on the night shift sorting mail for USPS. My grandmother always wanted my dad to get a job...
... taxi cab industry. And if you know anything particularly about the cab industry back then, let's just say he too was associated, though really just providing services, nothing illegal even. My only sibling, my brother, struggled with school a bit but it came super easy to me. But he's ...
... had early chances to buy into things like a 7UP distributorship or beer or Control Data, which became a big company, whatever. We really could've been rich. We really just had one rich person in our family growing up - a great uncle who lived in Chicago, married well twice, and was in the ...
... something at the local historical society. My family is interesting because just like I think I missed out on opportunities that cost me my career (though sometimes it was because I stood up for ethics and, um, not lying as a journalist as I was asked to more than once) one great uncle (to me)..
... a hotel under my uncle's name. Oh, I've said this before but when my people first came to the US to escape pogroms in Ukraine and Romania, one side of the family ended up in North Dakota literally living in a sod hut. I have a photo of it somewhere because I think there was an article or ...
... somewhat confusing jobs; we always joked he must really be with the Company or something. That uncle was not a mobster but associated because of his work, so when Bugsy Siegel or Meyer Lansky or one of them came I keep forgetting came to town - there was a Jewish mob there - they signed into...
... My dad was 21 and my mom 19 when they got married (maybe the 89 and 85 don't quite add up, I get confused) and at first traveled all over the country with my dad's uncle, living in various places for months as a time, selling real estate for some guy. My dad has always had a series of ...
... a few years ago, and my mom is still traumatized by it. Now they live in a very nice 50+ independent apartment building quite close to the old neighborhood and love it, but they can only afford the smallest unit because rent is so high and keeps rising, and that part is pretty tough going ...
... - neither had a college education - did a series of jobs over his lifetime. In the end, he was liquidating office furniture for companies selling their old stuff when buying new stuff. COVID ended that, but he was still working into his 80s. They ran out of money and had to sell their house...
.... turning into a nice middle- to upper-middle class suburb, though we were lower middle-class. With great schools. The mergers and acquisitions of the 1980s eventually cost my mom her department store job despite every company involved being profitable and my dad ...
They did nothing but grow up poor in Minneapolis and work hard their whole lives to provide for their two sons. We never had a lot of money, but we had enough to get by and after being shut out of one suburb for being Jewish bought the first or second house in a new subdivision that ended up ....
Those weren't her words exactly, but I'd never heard my parents swear my entire life until this administration, not even in the first Trump administration. My dad is 89 and my mom is 85. I've now heard them say all the words. My mom is so upset she can't sleep at night. Thanks, Trump.
My mom wants everyone to know that ICE still has a shit-ton of people in Minneapolis - and doing shitty things - in case anyone has missed that.
Who’s the Ayatollah now
Lionel Messi and Donald Trump meet at the White House as Trump hosts Inter Miami for their MLS championship.
BREAKING: Moments ago at the White House this took place.
A bunch of old people praying for a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, who appears to have just blown up 100+ Iranian schoolchildren, while he hides the Epstein files, in which he appears in thousands of times.
We are a joke.
