Let's Talk About Trump's...Er...Obama's
ICE Raids
Posted By: Mercedes44, 7/10/2025 7:46:57 AM
I watched a documentary about the American Apparel clothing line over the weekend (I feel dumber for having watched it), and whadaya know. The company's former owner, Dov Charney, recalled Barack Obama's 2009 ICE raids in LA that forced him to fire 1,600 employees. And Obama's raids didn't just go after American Apparel. Here are some of the headlines from 2016: Politico: Obama Kicks Off Family Deportation Raids National Immigration Law Center: Obama Ramps Up Family Separations The Conversation: Immigrants Under Obama Share Stories of Terror American Immigration Council: Central American Mothers Targeted in Immigration Raid Rolling Stone: Barack Obama Defends DACA Amid Mass Deportations
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I watched a documentary about the American Apparel clothing line over the weekend (I feel dumber for having watched it), and whadaya know. The company's former owner, Dov Charney, recalled Barack Obama's 2009 ICE raids in LA that forced him to fire 1,600 employees. And Obama's raids didn't just go after American Apparel. Here are some of the headlines from 2016:
Politico: Obama Kicks Off Family Deportation Raids
National Immigration Law Center: Obama Ramps Up Family Separations
The Conversation: Immigrants Under Obama Share Stories of Terror
American Immigration Council: Central American Mothers Targeted in Immigration Raid
Rolling Stone: Barack Obama Defends DACA Amid Mass Deportations
The four saboteurs, including one Trantifa man, are accused of using homemade spikes to vandalize the vehicles and obstruct federal border and ICE agents from conducting a raid at a Home Depot in Van Nuys.
Obstructing a federal officer or investigation is a felony. The Border Patrol says the U.S. Attorneys office of the Central District of California is considering charges. These particular spikes were found in a bag one of the men was carrying. Hey, wait a minute, what does it say on that bag? CHIRLA?
Donald Trump calls her the “Ice Maiden.” But in person, the very private White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is warm and hospitable — as long as you don’t cross her. She didn’t become the most powerful woman in the world without a determined glint in her eye that can silence the most spirited Cabinet minister.
Wiles, 68, has brought a sense of order and calm to Trump’s second presidency, which has given him the space to notch up wins at breakneck speed.
In a rare interview on our new podcast “Pod Force One” she explained how she does it.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will travel to North Korea for a three-day visit beginning Friday in the latest sign of the countries’ deepening ties during Russia’s war in Ukraine, state media reported.
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Lavrov was invited by the country’s Foreign Ministry but did not immediately provide further details, including whether he would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Lavrov’s visit follows a June trip by Russia’s top security official, Sergei Shoigu, who met Kim in Pyongyang before saying the North had decided to send thousands of military construction workers and deminers to Russia’s Kursk region to help rebuild the war-torn area.
Russia pounded Ukraine’s capital with another major missile and drone attack overnight into Thursday, causing fires in areas across the city and killing two people a day after the heaviest aerial attack of the three-year war so far, according to Ukrainian officials.
“These people were killed by the Russians. This is a terrible loss. My condolences to their families and loved ones,” said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv Regional Administration.
He said at least 13 people were injured, and there were fires in at least five other districts at residential buildings, cars, warehouses, office and other non-residential structures.
Florida cannot enforce a new law that would bar illegal immigrants from entering the Sunshine State, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.
“The application for stay presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied,” read the order rejecting Florida’s emergency appeal to the high court.
No justices dissented, and the court did not provide a written opinion explaining the order. US District Judge Kathleen Williams, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, blocked Florida from enforcing the new law in April.
Border Patrol agents arrested four anti-ICE violent lunatics on Tuesday, hours after they allegedly used improvised tire spikes to attempt to disable federal law enforcement vehicles and obstruct immigration law enforcement operations occurring in Van Nuys, California. One of the men arrested, Ernesto Ayala, is the current vice chairman and former chair of Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida (PNLRU), the political party better known a La Raza. As shown in photographs from Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino, at least one device found its way to the tire of a van being used by Border Patrol agents.
Epstein ‘client list’ doesn’t exist,
Justice Department says, walking back
theory Bondi had promoted 30 replies
Justice Department says, walking back
theory Bondi had promoted 30 replies
Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a “client list,” the Justice Department acknowledged Monday as it said no more files related to the wealthy financier’s sex trafficking investigation would be made public despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi that had raised the expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists.The acknowledgment that the well-connected Epstein did not have a list of clients to whom underage girls were trafficked represents a public walk-back of a theory that the Trump administration had helped promote, with Bondi suggesting in a Fox News interview earlier this year that such a document was “sitting on my desk” for review.
'A Planned Ambush': Shooting of TX Police
Officer Was Part of Larger Plot to Kill
ICE Agents 6 replies
Officer Was Part of Larger Plot to Kill
ICE Agents 6 replies
When I reported on the shooting of a police officer near an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas on the Fourth of July, I wondered: “What were these violent activists planning? Why were they wearing body armor and masks?”Thankfully, despite being hit in the neck, the officer survived and was released from the hospital.I wondered what they were up to because it certainly appeared as if this armed group had more sinister plans than the lone shooting—as bad as that was—because they were heavily armed, with some wearing body armor and others covered in mud. They had goggles and masks and fliers reading: "Resist fascism," "fight oligarchy, and "fight ICE terror."
Boy, they love them the rules, eh?
Like neon lights in the fog, five words we've seen and heard everywhere, along with the self-righteous posts:
"Nobody is above the law!"We heard those five words more than we heard "Good morning" or "Have a nice day."
They echoed from tote bags, blared across chyrons, and rang out in chants from crowds cheering FBI raids on pro-life activists and conservative school board members—repeated so often that we began to believe they meant what they said.
However, when progressive Milwaukee Judge,
A Border Patrol official declared on Monday that agents will be sticking around Los Angeles until their “mission is accomplished” as Mayor Karen Bass lashed out at federal law enforcement conducting an apparent immigration sweep at a local park.
Heavily armed officer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and the military units deployed by President Trump arrived at MacArthur Park in force, with the agents seen carrying rifles and traveling across the grounds on foot, horseback and in armored vehicles.
So many brash and contradictory assertions have been hurled at the Democrats’ shiny new mayoral candidate for New York City, Zohran Mamdani, that his nickname should be “Notorious Z.”
Is Mamdani the youthful, charismatic face of the future for the Democratic Party?
Is he a gift to the Republicans?
Is he, as some conservatives insist, a Communist?
I am here to answer all questions.A pretty basic question concerns Mamdani’s qualifications for office. He’s 33, with a degree from Bowdoin on “Africana” — which, on the face of it, doesn’t bode well for the city.
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A new book on the end of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and the birth of Kamala Harris’ sheds light on the process behind the vice president choosing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, a decision widely panned by pundits in retrospect.
“2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,” released Tuesday by journalists Josh Dawsey of the Wall Street Journal, Tyler Pager of the New York Times and Isaac Arnsdor of the Washington Post, described a vetting process that came down to three finalists: Walz, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly.
All three candidates did a final interview
A pediatrician who is no longer working for a chain of clinics affiliated with a prominent Houston hospital system after a social media post that wished voters in a Donald Trump-supporting county of central Texas “get what they voted for” amid flash flooding that killed nearly 120 – including many children – has publicly apologized. “I speak to you as a mother, a neighbor, a pediatrician, and a human being who is deeply sorry,” Dr Christina Propst wrote after Blue Fish Pediatrics announced on Sunday she was no longer an employee there because of a social media post that the
Top House Democratic leaders condemned GOP Rep. Randy Fine and demanded that he apologize after the Florida lawmaker suggested in a post on X that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is a terrorist.
Fine was replying to an X post from Omar on Tuesday, in which she said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “should be held accountable for his crimes,” and, “war criminals should not be welcomed by any president or Congress,” after Netanyahu met with House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Late on Tuesday, we had another missive from the mists of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket—an unsigned opinion that confirmed for the moment the president’s right to clear-cut the entire administrative structure of the executive branch’s agencies and departments. From The Guardian. Extending a winning streak for the US president, the justices on Tuesday lifted a lower court order that had frozen sweeping federal layoffs known as “reductions in force” while litigation in the case proceeds. The decision could result in hundreds of thousands of job losses at the departments of agriculture, commerce, health and human services, state, treasury, veterans
Florida cannot enforce a new law that would bar illegal immigrants from entering the Sunshine State, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.
“The application for stay presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied,” read the order rejecting Florida’s emergency appeal to the high court.
No justices dissented, and the court did not provide a written opinion explaining the order. US District Judge Kathleen Williams, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, blocked Florida from enforcing the new law in April.
Former CIA Director John Brennan claims he’s “clueless” as to why the FBI would open a criminal probe against him and says he’s had “no contact” with federal authorities related to an investigation.
“Quite frankly, I don’t know what is true, you know,” Brennan told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace Wednesday in his first public remarks since reports emerged that he’s under investigation for potential criminal conduct related to the 2016 Trump-Russia collusion probe.
“If it was a referral, if there is an investigation, presumably if there is an investigation, people will be questioned,” the former spy chief said.
Hang Them From the Yardarm!
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On Sunday, Yemenis, commonly referred to as Houthis, attacked a ship called the Magic Seas, a Greek-owned vessel, in the Red Sea. The pirates attacked and captured the Magic Seas:
It is thought the Yemen-based terror group initially attacked using a swarm of boats, small arms and rocket-propelled grenades. They then used kamikaze drones.
Having seized control of the bulk carrier, the gunmen simultaneously detonated multiple charges around the ship’s hull, causing it to sink. The crew abandoned ship after being accosted by the pirates and, I believe, were rescued.
The Yemenis released shocking, and highly sophisticated, drone-shot video of their attack. The sinking of the Magic Seas is stunning: (X)
Labor Unions Kill Jobs
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Progressives love unions.
Not only do unions protect workers, they say, unions gave us the weekend and the middle class.
I say, capitalism created the middle class. Employers, competing for better workers, gave us the weekend.
But whatever you think about capitalism, few people question the claim that unions help workers.
But I will. It's the focus of my new video.
A couple years ago, the Teamsters demanded more pay from UPS. Seemed like UPS could easily afford it. The company made almost $13 billion in 2021.
UPS used some of that money to hire more union workers. Then they offered them raises.
But Teamster boss Sean O'Brien wanted more. He threatened a strike.
Six Secret Service agents have been suspended for their conduct in connection with the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, against President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in 2024.
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New York - A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a New York public nuisance law exposing the gun industry to possible civil lawsuits when people use their products in shootings and other crimes.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected a challenge to the law by the National Shooting Sports Foundation trade group and 14 members including Beretta, Glock, Sig Sauer, Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger. Signed by Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo in July 2021, the law lets New York, local officials and the public sue manufacturers, wholesalers and dealers for endangering people's safety and health through sales of firearms and ammunition.
ISRAEL says some of Iran's highly-enriched near weapons-grade uranium stockpile survived US bombings during the 12-Day War last month. Doubts remained about whether Iran quietly removed 408.6 kgs of uranium from its most sensitive sites before the strikes - potentially hiding nuclear material elsewhere in the country. The uranium in question is enriched to 60 per cent - way above levels for civilian usage but slightly below weapons-grade.
That material, if further refined to 90 per cent, would theoretically be sufficient to produce more than nine nuclear bombs.An Israeli official told The New York Times some of the uranium stockpile survived the US and Israeli bombings last month
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has admitted that President Donald J. Trump was correct on border and immigration issues, stating, “Trump was right,” during an interview. He criticized Democrats for failing to address border security adequately, admitting the U.S.-Mexico border was “under siege” during Joe Biden’s presidency.
Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, remarked, “The first thing any President should say—or anybody in public life—is without a border protected, you don’t have a nation.” He added, “I wish President Biden had been heard more often saying, I’m going to enforce the law.”